A Sorcerer's Journey, 2

by Flying White Egrets

  Things had changed. Glenn initially wanted to spend his remaining ten years prior to the Holy Tower trials to rank up, but it seemed like he had to join the event.

  For the future plan, first, he needed to do something about the two unoccupied gift slots rendered possible by the Glenn Secret Tri-sorcery.

  The slots should be filled with practical and developable talents. Glenn already had something in his mind after the days he had spent with Lafite. The rare water sign talent of Bionna and Kyrie’s space-twisting talent were probably his best choice.

  The first reason why Glenn chose the two gifts was that he had easy access to Bionna and Kyrie since they were in the same school. Besides, their talents were helpful in various situations.

  Glenn had a high affinity with the fire element, so his affinity with the water element was extremely low. He doubted if he could successfully finish creating even the most simple water matrix on his soul. For that reason, Glenn might also be deterred to finish the Destructive Force of Fire Blast Sorcery. However, if given Bionna’s talent concerning water element, he could finish the Fire Blast sorcery before the Holy Tower Trails began.

  As for Kyrie’s space-twisting gift, it had special effects on human bodies. It could help Glenn shun away from threats or initiate ambushes. Also, it could be easily developed in the future and Glenn would be able to gain advantages if engaged in possible sorcerer invasions against other civilizations.

  Although the talent was weaker than Daughter of Sun's Body of Fire at the moment, it had not yet reached its limit and it would become much stronger in the future.

  The third option to fill Glenn’s remaining gift opening was Sam’s Immortal Body. It was a mysterious talent. Glenn had developed a better understanding of it as he had gained more knowledge, but the results would be unpredictable, and he had to give it up.

  And the immortal property was kind of misleading because it would only protect the practitioner from being killed against the sorcerers that had not yet mastered the enclosure sorcery.

  As the Daughter of Sun once said, if she was confronted by a sorcerer that had mastered the enclosure sorcery, she would be as weak as an ordinary student. Obviously, a student would not be able to learn it because apart from the high intelligence required, one must have a profound knowledge of time and space, and energy balance to cultivate it. Also, it would cost them hundreds, tens of hundreds or even tens of thousands of years to study and do research on such a sorcery that had such a great potential.

  Another thing worthy of Glenn’s focus was to avoid drawing the attention of the "guardians" from the 19th section.

  His priority was to join the Holy Tower trials that would be held more than ten years later, so he did not want to waste time in the school war that would last years or even over a decade; he could easily use that time to increase his strength. What was more, Glenn would be weak when enhancing his body constitution by exposing himself to the poisons, so he would have to rely on the team.

  A weak Glenn was still much stronger than an ordinary sorcerer student, though. As Lafite put it, he was on par with Bionna now.

  Sorcerer Norris had instructed Glenn to lay low while, at the same time, he couldn’t flinch from the war and had to fight for the badges. Thus, the best method that Glenn could come up with was to stay with Lafite.

  And Lafite had not recovered from her wound. Although the injury would not impact her ability to fight much, Glenn still felt guilty…

  Glenn had considered all the conditions and decided to stay low-key during the war. First, he had Lafite and other friends to take care of, and second, staying with a stable team would greatly raise the survival chances in a war, and he could use the free time to do effective experiments.

  All in all, everything Glenn was going to do was for the Holy Tower trials that would be held in 13 years and then become the greatest demon-hunting sorcerer in the sorcerer world.

  ...

  In the abandoned arena of the school.

  With the Ashen Mask on his face, Glenn followed the hint provided by Kris and walked towards the location where Bionna gave Lafite that wound in the fight.

  Leaving no trace behind, Glenn looked like a ghost advancing in the darkness. He kept using his hunting nose to detect any odor or something left by Bionna. The only thing Glenn needed was his target’s blood or other life information and he would be able to cast the secret Tri-sorcery to copy their talent.

  "Huh?!"

  The smell… It belonged to Bionna!

  The hunting nose under Glenn’s mask never forgot this "evil" smell. It was Bionna’s! Glenn carefully walked towards a corner of the spacious arena, and Bionna’s smell was getting more intense as he passed through the trees and bushes.

  "BAM BAM..."

  Two sorcery waves ahead caught Glenn’s attention, coming from where Bionna’s smell was. Glenn’s expression changed. If the two destroyed the life information left by Bionna, he could not imagine how much extra time he would need to track Bionna down to get it.

  Glenn’s feet got off the ground and rose into the air as the formulas governing the Repulsive and Gravitational Forces flashed in his mind. Blazing flames spurted out of Glenn’s body; he looked like a sun in a smaller size hanging in the sky. The sun was coming off seemingly infinite light and heat which then turned into a meteor and rushed toward where the sorcery waves were coming from.

  The meteor left a trail of a heat wave in the sky.

  The two students only had about 60 to 80 degrees of magic waves. They stopped fighting right after they realized someone strong was present. One of the student’s eyes contracted and at the same time shouted, "It’s the one who ranks as the 7th among the top ten…"

  However, the man withdrew from finishing the sentence after catching sight of Glenn’s Ashen Mask, "No, it’s the Ashen Mask Glenn. He’s on the hunting list!"

  The hunting list was created by the top four students who were also the leaders of the school’s four major leagues. Its purpose was to force the elite students to join them. However, most of the other top ten students did not like what they did, and the Death Sail League had started to go against the list which they believed would bring negative impact to its development.

  Glenn was not concerned about the two. He passed through them with fire surrounding his body, and his line of sight fell upon something more important.

  There was an enormous tree that was cut in half ahead. Green walked towards it and sniffed at the dried blood stain carefully and collected a sample of it excitedly. He then left the abandoned arena and flew back to his dorm right.

  It was not until Glenn had disappeared from their sight when they regained the courage to breathe heavily, and cold sweat had dripped down the two students’ chins.

  They were convinced that the students on the hunting list would be invariably strong.

  And the man who had passed through them was not just a powerful student. He had overtaken them in terms of sorcery while they were several years ahead of him entering the school.

  The two students suddenly lost the motivation to duel, and they stared at each other for a second before they flew away to opposite directions.

  One day after, in the abandoned arena again.

  "Ashen Mask Glenn! You won this time! I’ll see you in 13 years on the trials!" Kyrie’s voice echoed in the air and he then disappeared as space was distorted.

  Glenn chuckled, and his three-or-four-meter-long arm slowly returned to its original shape, and it almost looked like there was no bone inside his arm. Also, he carefully collected the blood left on the blade of the End Sound dagger in his hand.

  Glenn had challenged Kyrie to a fight with him and Kyrie had accepted it without much thought. The result was obvious. Although Kyrie had made some improvements recently, yet essentially Glenn was on a higher level. He had not yet been considered as one of the top ten students, but it was already possible for him to win a fight with someone who ranked between No. 5 and No. 10.

 
...

  20 days later.

  Glenn had finished analyzing Bionna’s gift. The rare water element sign could stimulate evaporating from the target’s body, and because of it, the enemies being hit by Bionna’s golden eye would dry up and wither.

  After having absorbed the rare water sign, Glenn’s affinity and sensation with the water element had been greatly enhanced. Based on this, he could finally continue on the study on the fire blast sorcery.

  As for Kyrie’s talent, the space-twisting property was sort of similar to Body of Fire and could be explained using his body’s physical composition. Its effect was to buff the force in the space in different ways, such as twisting, pushing, direction changing, and folding. It was a strong application!

  In Glenn’s understanding, the length, width, and height in the three-dimensional world could be folded like a piece of paper. If the two points on the same paper met, space would be distorted, and then he could change his location immediately.

  What Glenn needed was practical experiences in large quantities, and when his control of space would become better as he got used to distortion. But to master it, he needed more knowledge about space.

  .....

  Seven days later, the last day before the war.

  In Glenn’s laboratory.

  "Haha…Finally…finally! This wand! This memorable wand! It’s finally completed! I’ll name it the Glenn Holy Fire Element Grand Wand! Well…umm…no, something is missing... It’s version 1.0. Yeah, it shall be called the Glenn Holy Fire Element Grand Wand Version 1.0!"

  However, the wand looked great though its property was a shame to Alchemy itself.

  Not considering Glenn’s elements’ effect, magical consumption would be reduced by 3.5% when fire element sorcery under 300 degrees was launched and the attack power would be increased by 1%. And it was also credited to the precious crystal stone, a gift to Glenn as a compensation by the Daughter of Sun’s mentor, the Inextinguishable Soul.

  If he learned that Glenn crafted such an item with it, he would not be pleased and something terrible might entail.

  Although Glenn had wasted a rare magical material on the wand, it was still a great landmark achievement to himself.

  Glenn had spent years before finally crafting his first magical tool after wasting a great number of alchemy materials.

  However, he was still much faster than those students studying alchemy.

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  Chapter74 Evil Eye Kasmira

  On the high tower was a solemn team of sorcerers numbering about 300, and below the tower, tens of thousands of students had been gathered.

  "I’m here to announce, in defiance of the insolent provocation imposed on us by people from the 19th section, we, the 12th section, have reached a consensus to make a tough response, and all of the six schools in our section will wage war against them! Let’s give those good-for-nothings a lesson!" A high-pitched sorcerer howled over the crowd of the students.

  Each and every student was aware that beneath the cover of this battle call, something was going on. Nothing was as simple as it looked. The students were not those young and rash fools any more. And they doubted if there had been any provocation at all.

  Despite this, no doubts were expressed vocally by any of the students.

  After seven or eight sorcerers had given long speeches, the three presidents of the Black Isotta stepped forward from the team of the sorcerers.

  The first president was said to be a legend — a sorcerer who existed on a higher levelthan that of sorcerer Norris. His body was fully wrapped in a cloak and the shadows. A giant sword in the shape of a cross was positioned behind his back which looked ancient and sturdy. It was the Green Stone sword.

  "I ask you that, during the war, more than 30 out of the 200 resource points must be taken by us, otherwise...the Black Isotta will renounce the right to take part in the Holy Tower trials." He murmured.

  Hiss…

  The students who had been in the school for decades gulped. "If so, what is the point of having waited all these years?" There was obvious anger in their faces, and Glenn grimaced too.

  The second president sorcerer Norris stood out, his stitched face showing. A gasp could be heard from those students who had never seen his scary face before.

  "The second thing about the war. There is this protector rule, I’m sure you all it? I’ll send the protectors when necessary to fight against the protectors sent to target you by our enemy." Norris grinned in an evil manner, which he was not used to doing. He might be doing it to make his tone more appropriate to the occasion.

  The last president came forward. This sorcerer was surrounded by some misty fog, revealing no features. From time to time, the sounds of trickling water could be heard when he spoke.

  "I’ll be watching to make sure the rules of war be fully honored by both sides. If anyone from the six schools in the 12th section runs beyond the limits of the war zone, I’ll take his or her life. And for the 19th section, if they send official sorcerers to the war or dispatch protectors for more times than allowed, the war will be then escalated," said a male sorcerer whose voice was gentle yet resolute.

  With the three speeches finished, students began dropping off and the sorcerers were made to stay to make arrangements about the war.

  "It seems the war is not only about the students. Some sorcerers are stakeholders, too. This will explain their enthusiasm to enroll students and plan for this war." Glenn wondered. "Something good will come to them if their students could get a chance in the trial? Otherwise would it be necessary to have a level two sorcerer rob the ship bounding for the Lilith School of Sorcerers for just Kyrie and Bionna years ago?"

  Moments later.

  Lafite took out a map, and said seriously. "Our team is tasked to go here, a frontline resource point. It’s a tungsten ore range."

  Glenn, Robinson, Robin, Chris, and Anna all directed their eyes to the map.

  "Frontline? What makes them think our team is able to do this? The 35 frontline ore points are the most dangerous, second only to the 15 places in the very center." Robinson complained.

  Chris laughed. "I’ve heard that the 19th students are all dorks. Let’s do this and see who the stronger ones are and what gave them the courage to declare war on us."

  Chris had no idea about the complexity of the relations among the schools.

  "Lafite, the interdictions you asked me to buy are in the dormitory. I bought them from the Death Sail League." With her half damaged face covered in a mask, Anna spoke timidly, sneaking looks at Lafite’s disfigured half face. Seeing Lafite was not bothered by her face, she admired her positive mentality while a hatred against the one who did this to Lafite—Bionna—rose.

  "Got it." Lafite tucked back her long, brown hair, and then grimaced. "We all take some interdictions with us when going to the war zone." She paused and then said. "Glenn, would you like me in a short haircut?"

  "Hmm, either style would work for me." Glenn replied, surprised.

  "Oh, that would be good then. Long hair is pretty but it would be a hindrance in war. I’m gonna make it shorter."

  Since the group was close to each other, Robinson took the opportunity and asked. "Robin, my wife, would do you like me wearing a beard? I think I would look more manly if I did that, what do you think?"

  "If you do that, then we won’t live under the same roof."

  Robinson sighed and made a change of subject. "Hope the schools will send us some good teammates, at least not some fools."

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  The team of six was traveling in the Bramble Forest, each of them with a sack of magical interdictions on them.

  They traversed nearly half of this irregular forest before arriving at the frontier with the Ivory Castle School of Sorcerers. Then they proceeded to climb overMount Daqipeng, and afterwards they arrived at the destination and looked down at an expansive valle
y.

  The valley was a bonanza with rich resources which were explored by schools from both sections. Over one thousand resources lay here and 200 out of those were fenced out for scramble in the coming war.

  "Halt."

  Lafite stopped suddenly, thoughtful. Then she said: "We need to make a little detour. Before us is the Hitura Crocodile swamp. It’s dangerous."

  Glenn stilled. He hadn’t heard of this Hitura crocodile. He lacked no magical stones and didn’t labour in this forest to earn them.

  "Look, Lafite." Anna yelled in surprise and pointed to a green dragonfly the size of an arm not far before them.

  "It’s a Green Hopper Dragonfly." Robinson shouted.

  Green Hopper Dragonfly looked just as normal as other dragonflies but what distinguished them, beside its size, was its proboscis, which this insect used to drink the sap of some trees. It was a rare species. Its use for students was the water of life in its body. Drink it and the meditation would work better.

  "Everybody, don’t make a move. Chris, us two go after it together." Lafite said calmly, and then slowly, she drew out her longbow.

  Energy swelled, an element arrow was loaded on the string and then fired.

  "You got it." Chris laughed. Then his cheekbone protruded, and body hair lengthened, just what it would look like when Hematology sorcery was activated. He then kicked off and dashed away.

  Seconds later, Chris had come back with the dead dragonfly with an arrow in it. Lafite took it, threw it to Glenn, and said lightly: "You are nearly an expert on pharmacology. Concoct us six vials of potions for meditation, and you can keep the spare material."

  Glenn had been following behind Lafite along the way. He murmured. "Leave it to me."

  After some thinking, Glenn pulled out a vial of potion and gave it to Chris. "You smell bad. It’s might be one of the side effects of cultivating Hematology. It attracts bugs. Try this, it might help."

  Chris smiled at Glenn excitedly. "Are you gonna be a pharmacist? I have many drug materials in the laboratory, and I was considering whether to sell them at a low price. I’ll give them to you when we’re back."