Published at 30th of June 2019 07:49:43 PM
On the rugged mountain road, Merlin was still seated in a carriage . He often stretched his head out from the window to look at the fallen leaves that had gradually yellowed . It was late autumn now, but he could not feel a single hint of cold . Instead, there was a surging heat hanging about in the air .
“I heard the Fire City sits at a place that has an extremely high temperature . Its surroundings look as if it was encompassed by flames, thus giving it the name Fire City . I must visit the place if I have the chance . ”
Merlin muttered in a low voice in the carriage . He knew that he had entered the influential area of Fire City . The obvious soaring temperature was the most obvious characteristic of Fire City .
Merlin even sensed that the Spell Models of Fireball and Furious Flame in his Awareness had quickened their speed in absorbing Fire Elements . Moreover, the increase of their Magic Power had an obvious development as well .
The Fire Elements were even richer within Fire City than any other region .
Merlin’s finger slid across the map and finally halted at a place called Tolle City .
“It seems that I’ll probably reach Tolle City in half a day’s time!”
From the time Merlin had left Floating City, he had actually been traveling for nearly twenty days . He had initially thought that it would take him only a couple of days to reach Tolle City .
However, there were too many tough mountainous roads along the journey . On top of that, he could only travel during the day; he had to find a place to rest at night . Thus, he had wasted quite a bit of time on his journey .
Fortunately, Merlin was not rushing for time . During this period, he had used up the few Phantasmal Magic Potions on him . The rate of increase of Mind Power was less effective than when he had first taken the potion .
This proved that the potion was slowly losing its effect on Merlin . Fortunately, he had obtained the Bell Space which allowed Merlin’s Mind Power to meditate in the space without a moment of rest . The Mind Power that Merlin had displaced into the Bell Space had increased by a factor of ten .
“Let’s wait for a bit more before merging the Mind Power in the Bell Space with my own Mind Power . Then I may be able to reach the conditions needed to construct the Second-level spell, Darkness Tide!”
Merlin had chosen the most complex and powerful Darkness-type spells in Abyss Fort . Initially, Merlin did not want to construct Darkness Tide as his first Second-level spell because he would use up a lot of his Mind Power in the process of doing so . Moreover, even if he had constructed it successfully, its Spell Model would take up a lot of his Mind Power .
However, since Merlin had not exchanged other Second-level spells from Dark Magic Region, he only had a Darkness-type Second-level spell with him now . As such, the decision was made that If his Mind Power was sufficient later on, he would choose to construct Darkness Tide without a moment of hesitation .
Soon, half a day had gone past . The carriage slowly approached a city that was surrounded by high walls . This was Tolle City; Merlin could clearly sense that there were numerous Spell Casters and Normies walking about busily in the city .
Such a scenario was new to Merlin as he knew that Spell Casters were generally arrogant and proud . There was a distinct sense of pride that came from Spell Casters as they believed that they were completely different from Normies . Hence, in the case of Tolle City, where Spell Casters and Normies did not distinguish themselves from each other was extremely rare .
There were still some forms of distinction though . Take for example, when some Normies met Spell Casters who wore Wizard’s robes, they would smile and bow respectfully, showing their respect towards the Spell Caster .
“Interesting . Normies and Spell Casters living as equals . Tolle City is indeed interesting!”
Merlin’s interest was piqued by Tolle City as the carriage slowly entered pass the walls of Tolle City .
Tolle City was bustling with people . Many peddlers and Spell Casters were loudly promoting their goods on offer; none of the Spell Casters appeared to be arrogant at this place . Having seen such a scene, Merlin felt as if he had returned to Blackwater City .
However, the fluctuations of Elements that seeped out from some of the Spell Casters made Merlin realize that Tolle City was a very special place . It was completely different from Floating City which required that one be a Spell Caster to enter the city; there was almost no Normies in the Floating city .
Even Merlin’s carriage driver was hired from outside of Floating City by the Delman clan .
There were no Normies in Floating City at all . In comparison, Tolle City had many Normies around who only displayed basic respect towards Spell Casters . They treated Spell Casters like any other person; without fear and anxiety . Some of the peddlers could even bargain with the Spell Casters .
Merlin had never seen anything like this before . Moreover, the peaceful interaction between Spell Casters and Normies was exactly what Merlin had hoped to have in his life . Spell Casters and Normies were fundamentally the same . The Spell Casters might be more powerful, but they were still humans by nature .
“After meeting Laurinka, I could stay for a bit in Tolle City . ”
Merlin muttered . Following that, he sent the carriage driver to collect information about the Shadison clan which Laurinka belonged to .
“Sir Merlin, I found it! Shadison clan is just right ahead here . ”
The carriage driver had obtained the information and now knew the exact location of Shadison clan . Merlin nodded with a hint of a smile . “Let’s go to Shadison clan!”
Then, Merlin let down the curtains and the carriage slowly began to advance forward .
In front of a small yard in Tolle City, a man and a woman, who had long black hair, seemed a little exhausted . However, they both heaved a sigh of relief after seeing the yard .
“It should be here . The place we promised to meet at . Haya, go knock . ”
These two figures were non-other than Shireen and Haya . They came to Tolle City as well, but they seemed to have made a promise to meet someone .
Haya nodded, so he knocked and loudly called out, “Tafel, Emily, quickly come to the door . It’s Haya and Shireen!”
Movements could soon be heard from this seemingly-empty house after Haya banged on the wooden door . A few young girls dashed out of the house cheerfully; they seemed to be Spell Casters as well .
“Haya, Shireen, why are you so late? We were just discussing whether to go back or stay for the disclosure of Neverending Book by Shadison clan if you didn’t come . ”
A brown-haired female Spell Caster quickly opened the wooden door and welcomed Haya and Shireen .
Shireen was the most mature amongst the few Spell Casters, so she scanned the three young female Spell Casters as soon as she entered the house . Her expression slowly darkened .
“Tafel, Emily, didn’t I tell you that only both of you should come? We won’t know how many Spell Casters are attracted by the disclosure of Neverending Book this time . If there’s any trouble during that time, I won’t be able to protect so many people . ”
Shireen pointed to the tall beautiful female Spell Casters .
After sensing Shireen’s frustrated tone, the cheerful Emily stepped forward and explained to Shireen while holding the unfamiliar female Spell Caster’s hands . “We met her along our journey here . She’s Emma and a Spell Caster . On top of that, she’s really great and has already constructed three Zero-level spells . ”
“Roaming Wizard?”
Shireen frowned . Her gaze scanned the unfamiliar Spell Caster named “Emma” piercingly . They were all from the Spell Caster clan, so they knew each other very well . Since they heard that the Shadison clan of Tolle City would disclose the legendary Neverending Book publicly, they sneaked out of the clan to have a look at it .
However, with the addition of Emma, the cautious Shireen would not trust her as easily as Emily and Tafel did .
Hearing Shireen’s response, Emma shook her head . “Wizard Shireen, I’m not a roaming Wizard . I have a teacher and he’s a Spell Caster of the Dark Magic Region! I came to Tolle City because I heard many Spell Casters would be attracted to the disclosure of the Neverending Book at Tolle City . So I thought I may find my teacher here . ”
“Spell Caster of the Dark Magic Region?”
After hearing Emma’s explanation, she glanced at Emma with added curiosity .
In fact, the Wizards from many Spell Caster organizations would often give spells to some people who had the potential to become Spell Casters for them to learn it on their own .
Some Spell Casters were able to become one just with these spells, but the majority could not successfully become Spell Casters .
Moreover, the Wizards of Spell Caster organizations were mostly doing things on a whim . They would not actually bring their ‘student’ to their Spell Caster organizations . Shireen had encountered many similar cases in the past .
Thus, she did not find Emma’s words hard to believe after hearing her explanation .
Shireen heaved a long sigh . “Wizard Emma, please don’t have such a high hope . The Dark Magic Region is known to be mysterious . You must have a token such as the Dark Magic ring to enter it . Even the strongest Spell Caster cannot bring other Spell Casters into Dark Magic Region without having the ring . ”
After Shireen said that, Emma’s expression changed as she bit her lips tightly . “Thank you Wizard Shireen, for telling me this . But I still want to try finding my teacher . It’s more than enough to find him!”
Emma could still recall clearly the young Spell Caster who had saved her whole family back then . Before he left, he promised that he would take her as a student should she successfully construct three Zero-level spells successfully after three years .
It was almost the three-year limit now and she had constructed the Zero-level spells successfully . However, the young Spell Caster had never visited Ditas town again . Due to that, Emma decided to leave Ditas town in search of her teacher on her own .
Having seen Emma’s determined expression, Shireen did not advise her further . Instead, her tone became troubled . “Let’s go in first . The situation at Tolle City is a little complicated this time; we must discuss this carefully . ”
After that, Shireen entered the house with the young Spell Casters .