Your journey is long and lonely

But you're used to it.

[After twenty days of stopping and starting, you successfully arrived at a small town. This town has walls that are not available in villages, and there are scattered wizards.]

[They are just the weakest wizard apprentices like you, not official wizards]

[But in this small town, the status of wizard apprentices is high enough, and they are admired and respected by countless ordinary people. You think for a moment and decide to stop in this small town temporarily.]

【This year, you are 18 years old】

[The intersection of life and death and the existence of soul collectors make your soul mutate rapidly. You concentrate on cultivation and refuse invitations to various banquets.]

[Only when the gathering of wizard apprentices is held, you will leave the training state and go to exchange and gain knowledge]

[You know the complete realm division]

[The realms of the wizarding world are divided based on rings]

[The wizard apprentice of Zero Ring only has stronger soul power, which is superior to ordinary people]

[Formal wizards, namely first-ring wizards, have already possessed obvious extraordinary qualities, have made in-depth research on the soul, and can engrave ritual structures in their own souls.]

[This stage means that the wizard has already ignored life and death]

[Blurring the boundaries between the living and the dead]

[One ring, two rings, three rings, four rings... until the seventh ring wizard, hailed as a legendary pinnacle existence by countless people, will step into true eternal immortality, and the soul will not be restricted by the underworld]

[You can even enter the underworld and become an immortal who controls a soul plane]

…

[Simulation Year 2, You Are 19 Years Old]

[Your cultivation speed is very fast. Without others knowing, your soul has successfully reached the apprentice limit.]

[You silently thank the countless skeleton soldiers for their efforts in your heart]

[You begin to choose the natal ritual to be used to engrave your soul. That is your foundation and the first brick to move towards a higher level in the future.]

[You thought about this for a long, long time]

[Simulation Year 3, You Are 20 Years Old]

[Your apprentice's soul has reached its limit. You no longer suppress it. In the surging tide of the soul, you engrave your destiny ritual.]

[One Ring Witchcraft: Life Exhaustion]

[This is the most suitable technique you can find for the intersection of life and death, which encompasses both the realms of life and death.]

[Breakthrough, promotion, and consolidation, your realm changes to a first-ring wizard]

[You clearly feel that your soul has become more sensitive, and you have a deeper understanding of the deathly aura that is lingering in the outside world.]

[That is a new perspective that has never been seen before, sharing the power of witches]

[You kept a low profile and did not announce the news of your promotion. You just left the small town where you had lived for two years alone in the dead of night.]

[You start your journey again]

[Prepare to go to a place with many undead spirits or a gathering place of real wizards]

[The former can strengthen your soul, and the latter can help you find the knowledge you need. For you, both are equally important.]

【Fortunately】

[As you are promoted to a formal wizard, you have more means and magic, which allows you to avoid the embarrassing situation of walking on your feet]

…

The simulation was smooth, but also tortuous.

In the previous simulations.

Many people stay in the same place for a long time.

But this time, the undead simulation is almost always moving, because the ruined world is too desolate and many areas are dead silent.

Ghosts, skeletons, and mutated corpses.

These together constitute the normal state of the world.

Even though he had gained a lot of soul fire, which greatly shortened the time for cultivation, Xu Xi still couldn't get used to the dead silence shrouded in dark clouds.

"In this simulation, physical advancement is optional."

"You just need to reach the minimum threshold and be able to study souls."

"My real self."

"As long as you have the knowledge of this, you can become stronger. In comparison, whether you can become a wizard of a higher level is just a bonus."

"Once we find a suitable place to live, we'll build a wizard tower and settle down."

Rides on a featherless bone bird.

Xu Xi closed his eyes slightly, thinking about the next plan.

soul.

die.

This is the theme of the fifth simulation and also the research goal of Xu's department.

Xu Xi believed that with the effect of the intertwined life and death entries, he would be able to work out something sooner or later.

"The soul fire has been consumed quite quickly recently. Let's replenish it."

Xu Xi's figure paused slightly.

Control the Bone Bird to fly downward.

Prepare to find the nearest village, replenish supplies, and kill some undead to obtain soul fire.

call out--

Xu Xi was lucky and found his target soon.

A small village being attacked by the undead.

There were not many undead, only about twenty of them. Perhaps they had landed early and were approaching to cast spells.

A rusty, armor-covered hand held him back.

"Stranger, back off."

"Let the brave man handle this."

Xu Xi:?

Is it true that there are still heroes in this world?

The heavy metal armor was covered in dark brown mud, and its surface was covered with rust marks.

Fully covered, fully dressed.

Strictly cover the figure inside.

Only a hollow sound came out of the armor, causing Xu Xi to stop moving forward.

The unknown hero stepped forward alone, wearing iron armor and holding a long sword. He quickly stepped forward to attack and rescued ordinary people from the undead's attack.

The iron boots stepped on the worn and rotten bones.

The long sword slashed swiftly, and the heavy blade extinguished the soul fire.

"Ah, it's the hero's holy sword!"

The villagers who were rescued shouted and pointed at the armored man excitedly. Xu Xi also saw the glimmer of soul glowing on the sword blade.

The light flickers and the long sword is dazzling.

In this gloomy world where the sun is obscured, the sword is so dazzling, like a seed of hope, lighting up people's desperate eyes.

"Look! It's the holy light of the brave!"

More villagers shouted excitedly.

The armored man strode forward, his fist clenched tightly with a milky white halo, and smashed the skeleton soldier's head with one punch.

"Brave man!"

"Brave man!"

The crisis of the village was resolved, and everyone was cheering and rejoicing. A little girl ran out from the crowd and presented a circle of grass wreaths to the armored man.

This……

Xu Xi watched from the side with a frown on his face.

Whether it was the holy sword or the holy light, he felt that there was something wrong with the "hero" in front of him.

"If I'm not mistaken, the holy light from before was just a false illusion."

"Whether it's a sword or light, their offensive power is very limited."

"so it is……"

"Is it pure brute force?"

Xu Xi's gaze moved downward to the hand covered with iron armor.

only--

With this power, he could have saved people openly, so why would he deliberately fake the identity of a "hero"?

It's totally unnecessary, isn't it?