After Salvatore urged Annan and asked him to show the four spells he had in turn, he sat in his seat without saying a word and stared at Annan blankly.
How... did he do it?
An uninitiated wizard apprentice spent two days learning four spells without anyone's guidance.
The teacher said that Don Juan was very talented, but Salvatore didn't believe it at that time...
Now it seems that this is a level of "very" talent?!
Teacher, what are you doing? Have you not taught him a single spell?
Salvatore could see that the traces of these four spells were very weak. This meant that after their lord learned these four spells, he almost never used them.
This can only be because Annan really just learned these four spells.
As a spell is repeatedly released, the corresponding curse will gradually become symbiotic with the body, and the spell will become more and more powerful. Until it becomes completely instinctive, it can be used without casting spells or consuming mana.
This is why in most cases, older wizards are always stronger.
Although this does not guarantee that the old wizard will be powerful - after all, he may not have learned his first spell until he was forty or fifty years old - but the young wizard must not be powerful enough.
...damn it.
Could this guy Don Juan be the illegitimate son of the mysterious lady?
Such blasphemous thoughts suddenly appeared in Salvatore's mind.
He almost doubted his previous thirty years of life.
He still remembered that when he learned his first spell and successfully became a wizard apprentice, it took him three weeks. When he solidified the flame on the candle into a red crystal, his teacher from the Transformation School praised his talent.
, and introduced him to Benjamin.
Under Benjamin's guidance, it took him ten days to learn the second spell - to detonate the crystal and break it into pieces of iron. After that, Benjamin kept watching him until he turned the large pieces of iron into pieces.
He was only allowed to learn the next spell when he had a large number of fine steel needles.
That is the guidance spell, [Magnetization]. It can control steel needles to fly in the air.
His next spell was the very difficult [Thunderstorm Field]. It took him two months to finally learn this spell.
It can use magnetized metal products in groups of two as materials to summon high-voltage lightning that links two steel needles. Using crystals prepared in advance as materials, he can summon steel needles, and then summon
Large swaths of current.
After holding a complete cycle of real-time tactics, Salvatore was allowed to advance to Bronze and become a wizard of the Transformation School.
Every bronze-level transcendent must possess a considerable degree of combat effectiveness. This is to prevent them from being easily killed by ordinary people.
This is a responsibility for one’s own life, but also for other people——
Because the body of the extraordinary must be disposed of as soon as possible.
The specific way to deal with it is to have another transcendent perform a ritual to absorb the former's curse and inherit the former's curse - this is one of the fastest shortcuts to gaining power, and is usually evidence of killing others.
And if no one absorbs the curse of a transcendent for a long time... nightmares will be born from it.
The nightmare of the birth of a bronze-level transcendent is enough to easily kill ordinary people - after all, before becoming a transcendent, human beings cannot maintain their conscious selves in dreams. If they continue to die in nightmares, they will gradually be invaded by the curse.
dye, gradually transforming into a twisted monster...or die a lucky death.
Even if he becomes a transcendent, he can only barely stay awake, knowing that he is only in a dream, and he may not even be able to recall his original identity.
Only people with magical talents can stay awake in dreams.
And even for those priests, the malice, despair, pain, and anger held by the nightmare master will infect them all the time, interfere with their decisions, and make them make choices that "they cannot make on their own."
It's not that you can be far better than ordinary people if you gain extraordinary power... but if you can't defeat ordinary people independently, no matter how talented you are, you won't be allowed to advance to an extraordinary person.
Every time you advance, you must share your curse with the world under the witness of another transcendent person. This person is your secret keeper, usually their mentor, parent, senior, or senior sister.
.
In other words, without the trust and affirmation of at least one extraordinary person, a mortal can never advance to become an extraordinary person.
"Can I advance now?"
Annan asked Salvatore seriously.
"Can……"
Salvatore felt his throat was dry and hoarse.
No, no, no, this must be because it was roasted by the fire outside...
He tried hard to suppress the jealousy and despair in his heart. As an extraordinary person, every negative emotion is a time bomb.
"Since Don Juan is willing to trust me and choose me instead of the teacher as his secret keeper, I can't do anything immoral to him."
Salvatore advised himself in his heart.
Because every extraordinary person needs a trustworthy secret keeper.
The reason why they must be trustworthy is that after the secret keeper obtains their spell, they can naturally kill them easily.
If no one knows about your own curse, then the curse will not be bound, and every time you use extraordinary power, it will corrode you. On the other hand, the more secret keepers you have, the stronger the power of this oath will be.
This curse is not only a rope that binds the owner's behavior, but also an armor that protects the owner from being eroded by the curse.
Oath and curse, this is the duality of this world.
"So, when can we have the ceremony?"
Annan frowned slightly and asked with some urgency: "Viscount Rossburg is trying to do something against me. I must get enough strength to protect myself as soon as possible."
"Don't worry, since I choose to be your secret keeper, I can be regarded as half of your mentor. I will definitely settle all your problems before leaving."
Salvatore promised: "As long as I am alive, you will not suffer."
With that said, he explained to Annan what a secret keeper was, as well as the relationship and obligations between the secret keeper and the bound person.
One of the obligations is that the bound person has the obligation to collect the body of the secret keeper. Of course, there are many bound people under Salvatore's name, and it may not be Annan's turn. But as a successor, he still has to do this.
Said clearly.
After Annan listened, he nodded.
"Can."
Annan replied readily: "I can trust you."
I can't help but believe it.
Annan was also very helpless. At least before his identity was exposed, Salvatore must be trustworthy.
He has only seen one extraordinary being from the friendly camp... and he must possess sufficient strength and skill when the player arrives.
Otherwise it would be difficult for him to suppress them.
If the identity is exposed, the worst possible thing is to change the secret keeper... No, let's forget it.
Annan narrowed his eyes slightly, thought for a moment, and rejected the idea.
It's better to be simpler and choose a curse that is really difficult to break. The most important thing is not to contradict yourself. For example, Benjamin's first curse is actually quite difficult to break.
Of course, the most important thing is to see what kind of curse you will get.
According to Salvatore's previous introduction, the permanent curse he received when he advanced was not his own choice, nor was it forcibly granted by others. Rather, it was based on what he did in the advanced nightmare, and he received it from several people.
Choose one of the targeted spells.
The better the nightmare is completed, the stronger the power brought by the curse, and the broader the curse itself. On the contrary, if the nightmare is poorly completed, the curse will be very clear and the power brought will be very weak.
"Since you are eager to advance, I will stay up all night again tonight."
Salvatore sighed, reluctantly opened his sleepy eyes, and muttered in a low voice:
"Don Juan, bring me the cold-proof clothes. I'll go to the basement to analyze the black fire sample to see who sold this thing to Viscount Roseburg. This thing must be soundproofed and cooled when handled, otherwise it may explode.
sex……"
"Approximately how long will it take?"
"It's pretty fast, about seven or eight hours. Anyway, it's not even time for me to go to sleep when it's all done."
The young mayor, who had two dark circles under his eyes and looked like Gaara, took the cold-proof clothes, sighed again, and said angrily: "Don't disturb me! I'm going to work - don't disturb me after that.
I’ll talk about it tomorrow morning if I have anything to do!”
Soon, Salvatore entered the soundproof and temperature-proof basement.
Annan looked at his watch and saw that it was not yet seven o'clock. So he had dinner first and then came back to continue reading.
He planned to stay awake today and see what would happen at twelve o'clock in the morning.
It wasn't until eleven o'clock in the morning that some reminders suddenly flashed before his eyes.
[There are still 00:59:59 left before the start of the closed beta]
[Open player forum]
[Open NPC template]
[Turn on the favorability adjustment function]
[According to the current template "Rare Elite (Gold)", get the corresponding power]
[Enable the right to release side tasks]
[Enable personal task publishing rights]
[Fragment of Truth Detected—The Book of Heavenly Cars]
[Current holders of the Book of Heavenly Cars: 1]
[Acquire temporary powers: right to issue main tasks, player forum administrator status, creator's perspective (map function)]
[Please write the initial plot]
[Please confirm the character creation rules]
[Please confirm the player selection rules]
[Please specify the player’s landing location]
[Please confirm player system permissions]
[Please draw the player system usage interface]
Seeing such a series of prompts, Annan was completely confused.
...what does it mean?
I have traveled through time, do I still want to continue to be a game planner?
Could it be that I am the mastermind of destiny?
And you still have one hour left to launch the game... but the copywriting hasn't started yet? The UI hasn't even been finished yet?