Chapter 127: Visiting the Mentor

Chapter 128: Visiting the Mentor

But under the current circumstances, he must meet his mentor first.

So, on the way to Celes's alchemy room, Richard thought of two sets of rhetoric.

The first set of rhetoric was said when Celes believed that he was a second-level wizard apprentice when the concealment of breath was effective, and the other set of rhetoric was prepared when Celes recognized that he was a peak third-level wizard apprentice when the concealment of breath was discovered.

Just as Richard walked into Celes's two-story building, he deliberately stayed in several alchemy rooms on the first floor that could be rented for a while, but unfortunately, he did not see a familiar figure.

After going up to the second floor, Richard waited at the door of Celes's dedicated alchemy room as usual.

But as soon as Richard stood still, he heard a familiar voice coming from inside the door. It was the voice of mentor Celes.

"Richard?" This time, Celes did not call Richard in, but opened the door and walked out directly.

The surprise and excitement in the mentor's words made Richard feel the other party's joy clearly.

Suddenly, Richard felt a warm current in his heart!

"Teacher, I'm sorry to have worried you!" Richard looked at Ceres and bowed 90 degrees for a long time.

Ceres helped Richard up and looked at him, "Hey! Your mental power seems to have reached the peak of a second-level apprentice?"

Richard was stunned, pretending to be embarrassed, and touched his head, "Yes, mentor, in the past six months, I have some insights into Rodrigo's meditation method, so my mental power has improved faster!"

Richard was a little relieved in his heart. It seems that the special effect of Rodrigo's meditation method is very powerful. Even a formal wizard like the mentor could not distinguish his true strength.

If there is no special effect of breath-holding, once the mental power of the peak of the third-level wizard apprentice is exposed, even if mentor Ceres can accept his words, it will be very troublesome to pass the school.

Although he would not be taken to be sliced, the school's hearing and various tests would follow one after another, which would be extremely troublesome!

"Come in and sit down to talk." After a brief excitement, Celes quickly regained his composure.

This is the quality of a formal wizard, who can always stay calm quickly.

After the two entered the alchemy room and sat down, Richard briefly told his mentor what happened to him, hiding the teleportation array, hiding Fingat, and hiding the blind fishman tribe.

He just said that he was knocked into the underground river by the ancient dark fishman, and fainted immediately. Unknowingly, he drifted with the flow and came to an unfamiliar area.

When he woke up again, he found that there were many monsters in this area. After experiencing many battles, he was lucky to find an underground river and returned to the surface.

Richard also gave examples of battles with various monsters from time to time, such as brain-eating monsters, demon horned frogs, etc., but did not mention the mutant crab monsters and troll mantises, which were powerful monsters that even third-level wizard apprentices found difficult.

Because the strength Richard showed at this time was the top level of a second-level wizard apprentice, and the monsters that matched it were the most suitable, otherwise it might be counterproductive.

This kind of situation where a large part of the truth was mixed in with lies was the most difficult to distinguish.

It was not that Richard deliberately wanted to conceal something, but he felt that after saying some things, it might involve his inspiration panel, otherwise it would be impossible to explain.

And the inspiration panel was his biggest secret, so let's just treat it as a white lie!

Hearing Richard's battles with various monsters, Ceres nodded repeatedly, and was quite impressed with Richard's various combat responses, and he did not doubt it immediately.

Because in his early years, when Ceres himself had just become a formal wizard, he had also traveled to the dark area and encountered one or two of the monsters that Richard mentioned.

Moreover, he also knew that there were many interlayers and gaps between the surface and the dark area. It was rare for a wizard apprentice to survive in this situation after being washed to a certain interlayer along the underground dark river, but it was not impossible.

As far as he knows, there are no less than seven or eight recorded cases of this kind in the Ignis School alone. Of course, the most recent one was decades ago.

So, in Celes's opinion, Richard's luck is really good. He was lucky enough to survive in this situation. Moreover, the most important thing is that Richard's strength has been greatly improved.

While talking about his experiences, Richard took out more than ten kinds of special herbs from the Underdark from his package. To be precise, some of them are also found on the surface, but they are only produced in some extremely special places, and the output is very small, so they are extremely precious on the surface.

"Is this golden fern fruit? This is... Rosemary? This is..." Celes, who was obsessed with alchemy, was overjoyed and immediately stood up to carefully identify the herbs Richard took out.

Looking at the instructor who was so happy, Richard couldn't help but smile.

Although Celes was a master of pharmacy, there were still several rare herbs from the Underdark that even Celes couldn't name at once.

"Teacher, these herbs are prepared for you." Richard said with a smile.

The surprise on Celes's face was beyond words, but after taking a deep look at Richard, he shook his head and said, "Although I like it very much, I can't violate the wizard's principle of equal exchange. Tell me, Richard, what do you want?"

Celes' meticulous attitude made Richard feel a headache.

"Teacher, don't be so strict. I am just out of gratitude to you. I really don't want to make a deal with you." Richard smiled bitterly and said.

"Oh~ Do you really have nothing to ask me?" Seles smiled slightly.

"Haha, I really have a few questions to ask you about this, but I can pay you to consult with you. It has nothing to do with these herbs." Richard said rather embarrassedly.

"Go on"

"Well, I just want to ask you about the origin of Rodrigo's meditation method. It would be great if you could tell me the details about that exploration of the ruins."

"Oh, it seems that you have already started preparing for promotion to the official wizard?" Seles looked at Richard with a smile.

"Hey, it's not a bad thing to get ready early." Richard scratched his head and said.

"Although you are my disciple, several of us who participated have promised not to disclose any information about the ruins to the outside world. Therefore, I can only give you the information about Rodrigo that I searched for, and the price is It’ll be offset by the price of your herbs.”

After listening, Richard's expression changed, and he was obviously a little disappointed, but after thinking about it, he nodded in agreement. It's better than nothing. "Okay, mentor."

"Actually, even if I can tell you the information about that ruin, it will be of little use to you. Moreover, you have to pay a large amount of magic stones in addition, because that ruin is no longer possible to open, at least for a second-level wizard or below. There is no possibility of forcing it open, so it’s a good thing that you don’t know.”

Hearing Seles's cryptic words, Richard immediately understood something.

What the instructor probably means is that the entrance to the ruins must have been destroyed for some reason, and other possible ways to enter must have been inaccessible.

If you want to enter, the only way is to break through violently, which requires the strength of at least a second-level wizard.

Obviously, Richard does not have this ability at this stage.

"Richard, don't have high expectations for the follow-up content of Rodrigo's Meditation Method. Even with the information I gave you, it will be very difficult for you to find some useful clues."

Richard nodded. It's true. Ancient wizards often left a lot of puzzle-solving words or patterns. If you can't understand or detect the key, even if you are given the specific location of the ruins, you still won't be able to enter.

What's more, Rodrigo was so long ago that many of the contents left behind by the other party are missing. It will be even more difficult to find any clues from the missing information.

"But, Richard, do you know why advanced meditation methods are so scarce?" Seles said, handing a thumb-sized recording crystal to Richard.

What is recorded in it is some information about Rodrigo collected by Seles.

After taking it respectfully, Richard shook his head and said, "I hope the instructor can give me some advice."

"This starts with the formal wizards. You know, the power of the formal wizards has far exceeded the boundaries of ordinary people and even knights. Even a hundred formal knights will be difficult to compete with a first-level wizard head-on.

But if you want to become an official wizard, you need a lot of resources, and after you become a wizard, you need even more resources."

As Seles's ups and downs voice told some secrets, a bright light seemed to flash in Richard's eyes, and he thought secretly: "It turns out that the lack of resources has led to the upper-level wizards in the wizarding world's lack of support for official wizards. Promotion is so tightly controlled.”

"So, even I can't reveal to you the knowledge about being promoted to a formal wizard obtained from the Ignis School, but I can give you some tips. There is a very big difference in being promoted to a formal wizard.

The first is that ordinary third-level wizard apprentices rely on the limit-breaking water to barely break into the first-level wizards. Of course, this is the bottom among the first-level wizards, but it is also the one with the largest number of people.

Most of the innate witchcraft he masters are zero-level witchcraft mastered during his apprenticeship, which are far less powerful than the first-level witchcraft, so his combat power is at the bottom, and the most important thing is that he has no way forward and cannot practice to a second-level wizard. .

At this time, it is already too late to practice advanced meditation methods, because advanced meditation methods require the first level of foundation to be laid during the apprenticeship period!

The second situation, which is much better than the first situation, refers to those situations where people successfully advance to the first level wizard by accidentally acquiring a certain first-level witchcraft plus the limit-breaking water.

Although the innate witchcraft he mastered was also a first-level witchcraft, most of the first-level witchcraft he acquired did not match the meditation method he practiced, which also led to the interruption of the way forward.

This kind of promotion situation is most common among ordinary wizard families, and their combat ability is considered to be in the middle.

But among some of the first-level wizards who were promoted in the second situation, there are some very good first-level wizards. This requires extra attention. "