Chapter 89 The Daily Life of a Mage

Hearing the familiar barking of a dog, Joan opened the door and walked out. When he saw Jamie flying towards him, he quickly stretched out his arms to hug him.

The mixed-breed winter wolf wagged its tail and whined, its furry head arched wildly in Joan's arms, as if complaining that the little master didn't bring himself when he went out alone.

"Mott!" The gray bag beast also noticed Joan's return, dropped the prey and ran over cheeringly, picked up Joan, and turned around several times before reluctantly letting him go.

The painted-faced badger who was thrown by Gray woke up from the coma, looked around to confirm that the terrible gray giant hadn't noticed him, twisted his plump buttocks and quickly slid into the bushes, and escaped without a trace in a blink of an eye. A little life.

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Joan stayed in the cabin until late at night before saying goodbye to Jamie and Gray. After returning home, he looked at the calendar. Today is the seventh day of March. Excluding the travel time to Port Layton, he can still stay at home for about half a month. After washing, Joan lay on the bed, thinking about how to make the most of this free time, unknowingly getting tired, and sleeping until dawn.

Joan sat up from the bed, stretched comfortably, and sat on the bed to meditate according to the old habit, preparing for today's spell.

Under normal circumstances, a level 1 mage only has one level 1 spell slot. In addition, if the mage's intelligence attribute is high enough, he can get additional spell slots. Joan's original intelligence attribute was only 13. First, the "Tears of God" increased his intelligence by 4 points, and after taking the "Wisdom Spring Water", his intelligence increased by 5 points. Now his intelligence attribute has reached 22. At his age and The level can be called a spellcasting "genius"! Superman's intelligence attribute provided Joan with two additional 1-level spell slots. Counting the original 1-level spell slot, a total of 3 1-level spells could be prepared every day. Joan first prepares a "Hand of High Mage", followed by "Magic Missile", and the last spell slot corresponds to "Magical Equipment".

In addition to these prepared spells, Joan has mastered two other first-level spells, namely "Identification" and "Electric Claw". "Appraisal" is a "ritual spell", which does not require preparation in advance and does not need to occupy a spell slot. As for "Electric Claw", it stands to reason that it cannot be used without preparation in advance, and it takes a moment to temporarily modify a prepared spell slot. Concentrate on meditation for half an hour. It is precisely because it is too troublesome to re-match spells and spell slots, unable to adapt to the ever-changing forms on the battlefield or on the way to adventure, mages always have trouble preparing which spells to prepare every morning. The more spells they master, the more spells they are forced to give up. If the spells that are urgently needed at the critical moment are not prepared in advance, it will inevitably be regrettable, and may even pay the price of life. On this issue, the "warlock" class, which does not need to prepare spells in advance, is undoubtedly more flexible than the mage class, and is better at responding to emergencies. Even the most proud and conceited mage has to admit this fact.

Joan is an exception. In addition to the normal mage profession, he also has the special profession of "mythical master", who can use "mythical power" instead of spell slots to release any known spells without prior preparation, which means that Joan is both a mage and a warlock The strengths of the two major spell-casting professions are that they can learn new spells continuously like a mage, and they can adapt and cast spells flexibly like a warlock. It is precisely because he is fully aware of his spellcasting characteristics that Joan doesn't need to spend too much time preparing spells. Anyway, apart from the three strictly paired spell slots, he can also activate the "power of myth" five times a day. The power of myth can be used to unleash spells that were not prepared in advance.

After preparing for the spell, Joan got out of bed, dressed and washed, lit a fire to boil water, melted butter in a frying pan, cut a large slice of thick ham and threw it into the pan to fry until it squeaked, exuding an appetizing aroma.

Joan made a big cup of hot tea, cut two slices of rye bread and put fried ham on it to make a simple and delicious sandwich, and sat at the desk while reading.

After filling his stomach, Joan started a new day of work. Open the backpack first, and take out the spoils obtained from killing the Soul Stealer, including a "Burning Hand" scroll and two bottles of unidentified magic potions.

Joan first unfolded the spell scroll, laid it flat on the desk, placed his own spell book underneath, and turned to a blank page. Joan picked up the quill pen and dipped it in the ink specially prepared for mages and added deep-sea squid ink, and concentrated on writing "Burning Hand" into the spell book as the key topic of the next stage of spell research.

"Copying Spells" is a basic skill that all mages must master. It seems simple but it is very troublesome. You must keep your mind focused during the copying process, even if you copy a wrong letter, the entire spell will be invalidated, and you have to start copying from scratch, wasting energy and expensive spell pages and special ink-the latter is very difficult for the cash-strapped Joe. Ann is especially important, so he would rather slow down the copying speed and try to avoid clerical errors.

According to Joan's past experience, even if there were no mistakes during the copying process, it would take at least one morning to finish copying a 0-ring trick scroll. As for the more complex 1st-ring spell scrolls, they had to be copied from early morning until late at night in the best condition. However, today his transcription efficiency is surprisingly high, it only took less than two hours to transcribe the 1st ring "Burning Hand" from the scroll to his spell book.

Joan stared at the densely packed incantations and double-checked them twice, only to be assured that there were no spelling mistakes. Afterwards, I felt incredible, how could I copy so quickly? After thinking for a long time, Qiao An gradually realized that the efficiency of transcribing spells and incantations was closely related to the intelligence level of mages. Compared with before, his own intelligence attributes had improved a lot, and the efficiency of transcribing spells had also greatly improved.

Thinking of this, a relieved smile appeared on the corner of Joan's lips. Put away the "Burning Hand" scroll, and move the two bottles of magic potion to your eyes. If he wants to find out the mystery of these two bottles of magic potions, Joan now has two options: either follow the old method and use the "identification technique" to analyze the ingredients and efficacy of the potions, or, as Mimir said, use runes to analyze the potions The magic contained in it, and then infer the purpose of the potion.

If the "identification technique" was used, Joan would have to pay at least two pearls worth no less than 100 gold coins as materials for the identification of the two bottles of potion. Joan didn't have any pearls at hand, and he was reluctant to spend money on such expensive spell-casting materials, so he chose the second identification method as a matter of course. Although he still doesn't understand the mysteries of the runes thoroughly enough, he may not be able to identify them successfully, but it doesn't cost money to try, and it's useless to try.

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