"Ms. Celia, is it true that your organization does not recruit male wizards?"
Levi stared at the sleeping dragon in front of him, unable to take his eyes off it.
He didn't expect that he would be able to see the real dragons so soon.
Not a hybrid, not a sub-dragon, but a true pure-blooded dragon!
"Um, Lord Levi, this is the rule set by the [First Generation Witch], and no one can change it." Celia said.
"Okay... I was just joking, don't take it seriously." Levi smiled. "I didn't expect that there is a giant dragon in your witch's house. I've learned something new."
"Actually, the six towers in the Starry Sea all have their own [Guardians]. These [Guardians] and the six towers have a symbiotic relationship. Lord Levi should be a newcomer and doesn't know much about the situation in the Starry Sea. You will know it later." Celia smiled.
Then she looked at the sleeping dragon over there and said, "This is Ms. Idrasera, the guardian of our Witch House. She is a growing fairy banyan dragon. Three thousand years ago, she signed a guardianship contract with the [Witches] of our time. We provide her with a salary, and she stays in the Witch House to protect our safety."
Celia said quite complacently.
It is indeed a matter of pride for the organization to have a pure-blooded dragon.
"Legend has it that the Fairy Banyan Dragon lives on the World Tree... Could it be that this thousand-foot-tall giant tree is the World Tree?" Levi asked.
“You could say so. This is a piece of the [Original Root] of the [Pandora Mother Tree] that our [First Generation Witch] borrowed from Lord Sauron. Later, the First Generation Witch and other powerful people from the ocean faction came to the Endless Sea and planted the tree roots here, using secret methods to cultivate them.
Millions of years have passed, and the tree roots have grown into towering trees. We call them "demon trees". The magic tree can only grow one centimeter a year, and one meter every hundred years. From the height of the magic tree, we can get a glimpse of the changes in the annual rings of time. "
Levi looked at the magic tree and roughly estimated that the magic tree was about three thousand meters tall, which means that it has been three hundred thousand years since the end of the ancient times!
"My goodness, the Emerald Kingdom is gone in just a thousand years. If we estimate that there is one kingdom every thousand years, during the growth of this magic tree, there may have been three hundred Emerald Kingdoms in the human world."
What does it mean that the world has changed so much? This is it!
"In my previous life, I should have developed advanced technology long ago. However, in this extraordinary world, we can only repeat the cycle continuously without any progress... We cannot say that there is no progress. At least the wizard civilization has made tremendous progress in these 300,000 years. It has developed faster than in the ancient times with a longer time span." Levi sighed inwardly.
"Come with me, Sir Levi, I will take you to report." Celia said.
"Thank you very much."
Levi stopped looking at the dragon.
Although it is only a sub-adult Fairy Banyan Dragon in its growth stage, its strength should be at the level of a high-level Yuanhun wizard.
Levi seemed insignificant in front of him.
Soon, Levi followed Celia to the roots of the magic tree.
Around the magic tree, there are wizard towers of various shapes surrounding it, like the moon surrounded by stars.
According to Celia, these wizard towers are all wizard towers of high-level soul wizards.
Most of the time, they practice in the tower, staying at home and rarely showing up in public. However, in recent years, some of them have gone outside to fight against dark wizards, and now only a few of them stay in the tower, sitting in the headquarters of the Witch's House.
"Such a rich elemental force."
Levi couldn't help but sigh.
"Of course. The mother tree of Pandora itself is a sacred tree. It can absorb the dissipated waste energy released by wizards and some extraordinary creatures during their practice, and transform it into pure elemental power that can be used for practice." Celia was proud.
"The world is not the same..."
Levi felt bitter.
If the concentration of elemental power in the outer ring sea area is 1 standard unit.
The inner sea area is 2, and the star sea area is 3.
In this witch's house, the number is above 5. If some high-level element-gathering arrays are added, the difference will be even higher.
"In the future, I will plant a section of Pandora's mother tree's roots in the plane where the Ancient Saint Empire is located... I want to plant trees too! I can even say that when I build a wizard tower, I will simply use this kind of sacred tree as the main body to construct a wizard tower."
Levi suddenly had a bold idea.
Of course, without the roots of Pandora's mother tree, it's all nonsense.
The potion hut.
This is where the pharmacist of the Witch House is managed.
Temporary pharmacists like Levi are also managed by the Potion Hut.
The decoration inside the cabin looks similar to that in the mortal world, very warm and simple, and even has a fireplace.
There were some books randomly placed on the table, and Levi took a quick look.
"Introduction to Advanced Pharmacy", "Ancient Magic Alchemy", "Comprehensive Mirror of Herbs"...
It is said that some wizards prefer to read paper books, and Levi guessed that the owner of the witch's hut was the same.
However, although it is a paper book, it is also protected and Levi cannot check it at will.
"Ms. Triss, I brought a new person." Celia said.
"Wait a moment." An elegant and charming female voice came from the attic.
"Okay, ma'am, you go ahead. Sir Levi, let's go for a walk outside first. I'll take this opportunity to tell you some things to pay attention to." Celia said.
"Okay." Levi was naturally happy to do so.
When we got outside, we walked and talked.
Celia said, "When you meet Ms. Triss later, don't address her as "senior". This will make her unhappy, even though she is one of the few high-level pharmacists in our Witch House and one of the vice presidents of the Endless Sea Pharmacist Association."
"I'm just here to work as a temporary worker, is there a need to be so grand..." Li Wei complained in his heart. He suddenly remembered some small companies in his previous life where he worked for jobs that did not require much technical skills. It took several rounds of interviews, and in the end he had to interview the boss.
But considering the current situation in the Endless Sea, it is understandable.
Next, Celia told Levi about some taboos, including not being able to extract dragon blood privately and not being able to steal the roots of the magic tree...
It can be seen that these things must have happened in the past.
After chatting for a while, Celia also received a notice from Ms. Triss.
They returned to the cabin, where a witch with golden curly hair, wearing a nightgown and looking a little casual, with disheveled hair, which was incompatible with the image of a meticulous wizard, was leaning lazily on a chair.
"I've read your information. You came from the human world, and then joined a wizard organization in the ninth district of the outer ring. Now you're a self-employed wizard. At your age, it's really great to be a third-ring pharmacist. That's why I chose to meet you alone." Ms. Triss said.
"Levi is humbled and honored to receive the attention of Ms. Triss," Levi said quickly.
The information collected by the Witch House were all his early information. Later, due to the damage of the Heart of Skynet, the information was never updated and Levi had to compile it himself.
Apart from concealing some key secrets and events, Levi basically provided the Witch House with his actual situation, including his talent as a pharmacist. Appropriately exposing some talents would make it easier for him to do things.
Now it seems that the reason why Celia treated me so well is probably because she knew my talent as a pharmacist.
"It's a pity that you are a male wizard. If you were a witch, I could let you join the Witch House... Or, you could learn a sex change spell? Although the Witch House strictly speaking cannot recruit sex change witches, considering your good talent, I can make an exception for you." Triss smiled playfully.
For a moment Levi couldn't tell whether she was joking or serious.
"I still want to be a wizard..." Levi said.
To be honest, he didn't want to join a high-level wizard organization as it had too many restrictions. It would be good enough if he could become a temporary worker, maintain a cooperative relationship, and each get what they need.
"No kidding, this is a temporary badge. With the badge and the spell, you can travel freely between our organization and Pluto City. Wizards are not allowed to stay overnight in our Witch House, so after you accept the pharmaceutical task here, you can go back to Pluto City. Celia is your contact person, and your pharmaceutical tasks are all assigned by her, unless it is some special potion. The success rate of ordinary three-ring potions cannot be less than 80%, otherwise we will terminate the temporary employment agreement, and you will also need to pay liquidated damages and corresponding material loss costs..."
Triss handed Levi a green leaf-shaped badge, which was the symbol of the Witch's House.
"I'm fine here. If you have any questions, just go to Celia." Triss yawned and patted her lips with her slender, beautiful fingers.
"Thank you, ma'am. We'll take our leave now." Levi and Celia left.
After receiving the pharmaceutical task and materials, Levi was about to leave with Celia when a witch in gorgeous clothes came towards them.
"Sir Levi, why are you here?" The witch looked at Levi in surprise.
When Levi took a look, he found that it was an acquaintance, the Rose Witch, who was Newt's partner and one of the twenty-four flowers.
"I'm here to interview a temporary job... Long time no see, how is Wizard Newt doing now?" Levi thought of the serious and meticulous man.
“纽特在一个巫师组织找了个鉴定师教授的工作，干老本行呢。”蔷薇说道。
“哪个组织？”
“星火巫师学院，就是最近兴起的一个风头正盛的五环巫师组织。”
李维的回忆一下子回到了黑珍珠巫师集市。
“加西亚，斯派罗他们建的那个巫师组织……没想到现在还混的挺好的，这倒是挺出乎我意料的。”李维心中思索。
“我还有点事，李维阁下如今住哪里，冥王城吗？等我忙完去找你叙旧。”蔷薇女巫问道。
“是的，我暂住冥王城，到时候可以来魔女之家联系我。”李维说道。
告别了蔷薇女巫，以咒语和徽章，李维回到了冥王城的那间魔女之家药店。
看样子，这里就是前往魔女之家大本营的传送点。
“李维阁下，你认识花之女巫？”赛利亚问道。
“没……我不认识，我只是认识蔷薇女巫而已，她也是这里的临时药剂师吗？”
“不是的，蔷薇女巫也是我们魔女之家的正式成员。”赛利亚说道。
“蔷薇女巫不是花之女巫的人吗？我记得花之女巫是剑花之塔的领袖吧，她怎么也在这里？”
“花之女巫就是从魔女之家出来的，目前还是我们魔女之家的高层，剑花之塔是她在外面独自创立的组织，也算是魔女之家的一份子吧。”
“原来如此，赛利亚阁下，没有别的事情的话，我先告辞了。这是我需要的药剂材料名单，麻烦你从魔女之家那边帮我收集一下吧，我会以市价购买的。”李维说道。
“好的，如果你钱不够的话，可以从你的酬金里面抵扣的。”赛利亚看了看李维需要的材料名单，都是一些炼制三环冥想辅助药剂的材料，价值不菲。
以李维这样的散修巫师，要凑够这些钱，很困难。
毕竟她也是三环巫师，在魔女之家混了这么久，也没办法完全做到冥想辅助药剂自由，一年用几支就不错了。
“多谢。”
“李维阁下再见，欢迎再次光临魔女之家。”小魔女也可莉甜甜的说道。
“可莉再见。”
李维挥挥手，离开了这里。
他从魔女之家这边拿了十份药剂材料，得在半个月内完成炼制工作，然后按时足额的上交。
“又可以顺道肝制药熟练度了，还白嫖了一个药剂配方。”
同样的，药剂配方都是签署了保密协议，只能自己服用，不得用于任何盈利活动。
李维如今的制药技能已经十一阶，说不定在这里，就可以将其肝到十二阶，也就是三环资深药剂师的水准。
他在冥王城中租了个地方，打算在巫师世界待一段时间，多收集一些这里独有的资源和知识带回人间。
一个月的时间匆匆而过。
炼制药剂之余，李维也在这冥王城之中，大量收集低阶法术书，为融合三环天赋法术做准备。
三环法术也收到了几个，并不是很多，因为中阶以上的法术，药剂，法阵知识传承，基本上也把控在巫师组织和家族那里，散修获取的难度很大。
这也是为什么星火巫师学院能够迅速崛起的原因。
巫师学院的门槛低，同时还给了散修巫师一条获取资源的途径。
这一天的午后。
一间小酒馆内，李维和蔷薇女巫面对面坐着，喝着酒。
“紫罗兰那小妮子如今正在闭关冲刺三环巫师境界，要不然我就把她一起带来和阁下见面了，她对于阁下可是印象深刻，时常提起，以至于我们的主人都对你感兴趣了。”蔷薇女巫说道。
李维苦笑说道：“我不过是一介普通巫师，勉强在巫师世界混口饭吃，颠沛流离，连个组织都没有，不值得花之女巫这样的大人物惦记……话说现在她也在魔女之家吗？”
“主人她进阶元魂巫师之后，先是主动参与了几次元魂巫师战役，立下了不少战功，后来她要准备筹建自己的圣塔，为了收集一些材料，离开了巫师世界，前往其他位面旅行了吗，已经走了十几年了，不知道什么时候归来。”蔷薇说道。
对于元魂巫师来说，位面旅行几十年，甚至上百年也很常见。
六环元魂巫师的寿命多达两千年，据李维所知，花之女巫修行到现在，其寿命也不到三百年。
而且，在中阶巫师之后，别的巫师是越修行越慢，她反而越来越快。
以至于外界有很多传言，说花之女巫可能是“大巫师”甚至“传奇巫师”转世重修。
当然，对于这种传言，花之女巫并没有承认。
不过李维觉得这种可能性极大。
自己如今有熟练度面板，再加上那些元素亲和天赋，资源也不是很差的情况下，他的修行速度，基本上不弱于常规的元素之子了。
可是，他从踏上巫师之路到现在，八十年左右的时间，也才修行到三环巫师境界。
而进阶高阶，李维估计，得四五百年起步了。
虽然元素之子之间的天赋也是有差异的，同时还会有一些其他的变量也会影响修行速度，但是不至于差距如此巨大。
在李维看来，也唯有那种传说中的转世重修，才能如此高飞猛进了。
“唉，啥时候才能追上百花骑士的脚步，收入我的……骑士团啊！”李维还想着把百花收编的事情。
遐想之时，蔷薇的声音传来：“李维阁下现在还在研究收集超凡生物吗？”
她看着李维手上的爱丽丝戒指。
“是的。”
“不知道李维阁下对于【赤幽冥雀】是否感兴趣？”
“赤幽冥雀？这种超凡生物不是已经在一千年前就被宣布在巫师世界灭绝了吗？”
李维之所以听说过这种鸟，是因为此前在收集不死鸟血脉生物的时候，正好看到过其资料。
“不瞒你说，我和两位朋友前段时间在无尽海发现了一处失落的秘境入口，里面有一座古代巫师遗迹，看样子可能是中阶巫师组织留下的。
里面有一座很大的植物园，有许多在外界稀缺的药剂资源，奈何那植物园中盘踞着一头黑色大鸟，我和另外两位朋友都是三环巫师，其中不乏一位三环资深巫师。
结果一场恶战之后，我们居然不是那大鸟的对手，没办法，只能退出，再做打算，出来一查，那大鸟居然是【赤幽冥雀】。
这超凡生物，拥有极强的自愈能力，配合那遗迹中植物园的古怪法阵，几乎可以达到不死的地步，除非是四环巫师出手，将其瞬间击杀，神魂俱灭，否则对方都会复活。
不过若是找了四环巫师……估计那些珍贵药草，也就没有我们的份了，我想到阁下是超凡生物学家，或许应该有相应的解决办法，所以想请阁下帮忙一二，事成之后，那植物园的药草，包括古代巫师遗迹的其他资源，我们都可以按照功劳分配。”
“纽特巫师不也是超凡生物学家吗？”李维没有着急答应，反问道。
“想要拿到那些资源，我们大概率得击杀赤幽冥雀才行……你也知道，纽特最看不得这些，我都没敢和他说这件事。”蔷薇女巫无奈说道。
“其实我也不喜欢对超凡生物打打杀杀的，不过蔷薇阁下是我的朋友，我可以考虑一下，晚些时候再给你答复。”李维解释了一番。
蔷薇捂嘴微笑道：“我懂得。”
和李维叙旧完之后，蔷薇便离开了。
“赤幽冥雀……居然是这种超凡生物，我的死烬呼吸法修行秘药也有着落了。”
黑焰妖鸟早就没办法支撑李维修行了，这让他的死烬呼吸法一直卡在十二阶，难以寸进。
“不过前往古代巫师遗迹，以及探索秘境，都存在一定的风险，尤其是和别人组队……蔷薇女士还好，从危险感知来看，她没有啥恶意，不过她那些朋友，可就不好说了，我若是去的话，必须做好万全准备，最好让所有人在探索前让大家签署互不伤害协议。”
李维上一次和别人组队，还是在人间猎杀地龙兽的时候，那一次，他就被队友给背刺了。
好在他实力强大，成功反杀。
去肯定还是得去的，过了这个村，可能就没有这个店了。
况且李维连四环巫师都能杀，不至于因为几个三环巫师翻车，只不过该有的小心谨慎不能少。
三日后。
李维给蔷薇女士答复，他会去参与探索。
蔷薇女士表示她有个法阵巫师朋友，需要提前准备一些针对遗迹法阵的克制法阵，所以暂定一年后去探索。
李维自然无异议，他也需要准备。
冥王城中。
李维和魔女之家的合作顺利进行着，他炼制的药剂质量和成功率，都得到了魔女之家的认可。
赛利亚那边，也帮李维把药剂材料给收集的齐全了，让李维去取货。
他来到魔女之家，小魔女那边迅速计算着费用。
"Keli has calculated that a total of 105,000 Taishi will be needed, of which 3,000 Taishi can be deducted from Mr. Levi's salary for the next five years."
Levi took the goods and took a rough look at them. The materials inside should be enough to refine about a hundred meditation-aiding potions, which would be enough for him to practice for ten years.
The higher the level of the meditation-assisting potion, the longer the effect lasts.
The price was not a problem, so Levi handed over another 100,000 Taishi. Now he only had 250,000 Taishi left.
Although he was still a wealthy man among the three-ring wizards, he always felt insecure.
Even Celia was surprised. She obviously didn't expect that Levi, a casual wizard, would be so rich.
Even if they were three-ring wizards in the Witch House, most of them couldn't come up with so many Taishi, not counting the fixed assets.
"Sure enough, Lord Levi is no simple person. Not only is he a talented pharmacist, he's also rich. It's just that his appearance doesn't quite match my aesthetic taste..." Celia was fantasizing over there.
She also wanted to find a three-ring wizard who was rich, talented and had potential, and to travel together on the wizarding journey.
However, she looked down upon ordinary wizards, and the wizards she liked looked down upon her...
So, until now, Celia is still alone.
"Thank you, Miss Celia." Levi put away the materials and left.
"This Celia is a good person. After seeing that I am rich, she didn't even think about killing people to steal treasures. But I still have to be careful in the future and not show off my wealth."
…
Time flies and a year has passed.
The year 1095 of the Holy Hui Calendar, the month of harvest.
This year, Levi's pharmaceutical proficiency has increased more than in the past few years combined.
Adding the materials he already had, Levi collected the materials for one hundred meditation potions. In half a year, he refined them all, and successfully made eighty-six potions in total, which was enough for his practice for a long time.
It is estimated that by the time he has digested all the ingredients for the medicine, coupled with the rich elemental power of the Starry Sea, his mental strength will be able to reach 150 points.
Among the three wizard arts, refining equipment and magic arrays are still stuck at the fifth level, which is the second ring level, because there are no more advanced blueprints and inheritance.
As for spells, the three-ring spell Yangyan Explosion has been pushed to the ninth level limit by Levi.
"Go and try out how powerful it is."
Levi left Pluto alone and found an uninhabited sea area.
On his right eye, he wore a pair of peculiarly shaped single-frame glasses. The glasses seemed to be made of some kind of crystal, and were engraved with extremely complex miniature magic arrays and runes.
Levi held the spell materials in his hands and chanted the spell of Yangyan Explosion. Soon, five golden flames grew larger in his hands, quickly spinning and merging, and finally turned into a golden sun with a diameter of about ten meters.
The golden flames were thrown out and exploded.
The shock wave of fire swept over and submerged Levi.
Boom, flames shot up into the sky.
At the same time, numbers began to appear on the lenses of the glasses Levi was wearing.
[Attack energy detected, attack strength coefficient: 33 cards.]
"After the Sunburst is fully practiced, the attack strength is 33 cards... Very good. After all, the upper limit of the attack strength of a third-level spell is 39 cards. This power is enough to shatter most third-level defense fields. This wizard named Castro is really a genius. He can actually invent such a thing."
Levi took off his glasses and put them away.
This single-frame pair of glasses, called the Eye of Castro, was a small gadget developed by a high-level wizard named Castro in the wizarding world a few years ago. So far, it has not been mass-produced, so most low-level wizards don't even know about it.
It was because of Levi's acquaintance with Rose that he learned about this thing from the Witch's House, and then he spent a high price of three thousand Taishi to buy one for an early trial.
It is said that if it were not for the war, the Wizard Council would have been ready to vigorously promote the [Eye of Castro] within the wizard civilization.
At the same time, a system for classifying spell attack strength will gradually be applied. That is the "Castro Test".
This testing method will change the previous complicated and inconsistent spell strength grading system of wizard civilization and cancel the so-called abstract grade divisions such as S, A, B, and C.
From then on, the measurement and evaluation standard for all offensive spells is the "Castro strength" that can be achieved after practicing to the limit without any other amplification variables, referred to as "Ka".
The standard for 1 card is based on "Fireball" as the reference unit.
The attack strength of a perfect fireball is 1 card.
The attack strength limit of a first-level spell is 3 cards, that of a second-level spell is 12 cards, and that of a third-level spell is 39 cards.
The upper limit is the theoretical limit that a spell can reach. Generally speaking, only spells of S-level standard, when practiced to perfection, can reach the upper limit.
The attack strength of most spells is far from its upper limit, and the range of spell attack strength becomes larger as time goes by.
Under normal circumstances, the power of Yangyan Blast is actually around 27 cards, which is already very strong.
Levi was able to reach the terrifying 33 cards because of the special effects of the Ether Lord and the enhancement of the Fire Dragon's true body. He was only 6 cards away from the theoretical limit.
However, these 6 cards stump 99 percent of the third-ring spells.
"Having this magical device will be of great help to me in testing the power of spells and choosing the right talent spells for myself. If I can synthesize an attack spell with an upper limit of 39 cards, then with the blessing of special effects, my actual attack strength will definitely exceed 40 points, reaching the lower limit of a fourth-ring spell."
In other words, if Levi possessed a set of top-grade third-ring spells that could reach the upper limit of attack, then even without relying on the way of the knight, he would be able to fight against ordinary fourth-ring wizards.
After all, the difference between the best third-ring spell and the worst fourth-ring spell is actually not that big.
Of course, top-grade spells are extremely rare. For ordinary wizards, the difficulty of obtaining a top-grade third-ring spell is much higher than obtaining an ordinary fourth-ring spell, which is not worth the effort.
But for Levi, with the proficiency panel, as long as he has enough low-level spells, he can synthesize top-quality spells.
For Levi, the top-grade spells are actually equivalent to the equipment without level restrictions in an old online game in his previous life, allowing Levi, a level 3 player, to use level 4 equipment in advance.
"That's right. When you wear the glasses in the future, you can also detect the strength of the enemy's spell attacks. This way, the battle will be more data-based and less likely to fail."
It is worth mentioning that the Eye of Castro can only test spells below the high level. So far, it has not been able to measure high-level spells, great spells, and legendary spells.
After reaching a high level, the strength of the spell will undergo a huge change compared to before, which is beyond the measurement range of instruments.
Levi tested his other three-ring spells again. The attack strength of the maximum level eight Ice Sword Finger was 20 cards, which was far less than the Yangyan Explosion.
Thunderbird has 12 cards, reaching the theoretical limit of a 2nd-level spell. Bladestorm has 10 cards, and Glacial Descent has 9 cards.
"By the way, let's see if I can test the strength of my physical attacks."
Levi revealed his normal form as a fire dragon, charged up his strength and threw a punch, boom, accompanied by a pouring of energy.
There was nothing in front of me, and the numbers started to soar.
Eventually, the intensity factor stopped at around 30 calories.
"In the normal Fire Dragon's true form, a normal punch can actually produce 30 calories of power... If it is a [serious punch] like the Angry Dragon Venerable and the Dragon Warrior, it would probably be more than 100."
Levi tried the destructive sword energy again. A gray-white airflow emerged from the sword and then shot out with a bang, piercing through gold and splitting rocks!
[Attack strength coefficient: 39 cards]
"It has actually reached the three-ring limit. If it has the form blessing, it will probably be over a hundred cards."
Seeing this, Levi felt that he was fine again. You know, the theoretical upper limit of the fourth ring's attack strength is only 200 cards.
After testing his combat power, Levi immediately returned to Pluto City.
We are going to explore the secret realm in a few days, so we need to make some preparations.