Carrying the things Linley had given him, Zhou Tong once again returned to the plaza of Baruch City. It was already very late, and the sun had already set. Zhou Tong headed directly to the residence of the people of Qing Hu Town.
Everything he had experienced today was undoubtedly a huge shock to the people of Qing Hu Town.
Especially when they found out that Zhou Tong had already been bestowed the title of "Court Magus" by Linley, they were even more shocked.
That night, dinner was turned into a party by the group of people led by Austin to celebrate Zhou Tong's "promotion".
Early the next morning, Zhou Tong bade farewell to the people of Qing Hu Town and went to the Baruch Academy of Magic and Force by himself. With the medallion Linley had given him, he was able to move about unimpeded. The academy had even arranged a small courtyard for him to live in.
The Baruch Academy of Magic and Force was an academy established at the same time as the Baruch Kingdom, and its principal was Linley. Thus, it was extremely wealthy and occupied an extremely large area, with a circumference of nearly twenty kilometers. There were restaurants, clothing stores, bars, and other service establishments. It was like a small city.
"Most likely, Linley brought over many things from the Ernst Institute." Zhou Tong murmured to himself as he browsed through the books.
After all, many of the things here were simply too similar to the Ernst Institute described in the original work.
However, there were still many places that hadn't been built yet. Thus, Zhou Tong quickly finished his tour.
Afterwards, he went directly to the academy's library.
Although the Baruch Academy was still under construction, the library had been completed long ago. However, there weren't many books in the library yet. One could see that there were only about a hundred thousand books in the library.
"After all, the Baruch Kingdom has only just been established. It doesn't have enough resources!" Zhou Tong said to himself. "But it doesn't matter. It's good that there aren't many books. It saves me time to search for them."
Qingshan Town taught people how to read. Although it was only the most basic literacy, Zhou Tong didn't have to worry about being unable to read.
He casually walked past the bookshelves. Most of the books on the bookshelves were related to magical beasts.
After all, magical beasts were actually a kind of resource for some powerhouses, so they needed a lot of books to explain.
The fur of magic beasts was a good material for making armor, and the bones of some magic beasts could be directly used to make weapons.
Moreover, Magic Beast meat was also the favorite of many powerhouses. High-level Magic Beast meat contained abundant mana. Eating this kind of meat for a long time could play a role in nourishing one's body. Why were so many nobles able to cultivate so quickly even though they had never gone through such cruel training? The most important factor was that they ate well.
After walking past the bookshelves that were filled with books on magical beasts, the next section was filled with books on the history and geography of the Yulan continent. This included the three major magical beast gathering grounds of the Yulan continent; the Mountain Range of Magical Beasts, the Mountain Range of the Setting Sun, and the Forest of Darkness, as well as the two major empires of the Yulan continent; the Yulan Empire and the O 'Brien Empire.
However, he could slowly look at these things in the future. Right now, the most important thing for Zhou Tong was the magic incantation, the low-level magic incantation.
Soon, he arrived at another section. This section had the fewest number of books. They were all books on magic incantations, as well as some notes and insights of previous magicians.
He walked directly to the bookshelves and took out the three most numerous books – [Complete Earth-Style Magic Incantations], [Complete Water-Style Magic Incantations], and [Complete Fire-Style Magic Incantations].
The books on these types of magic incantations were the most numerous. There were over a hundred books on each type of incantation.
Of course, these hundred books were all exactly the same. This was in order to prevent too many students from borrowing them, so they were basically all duplicated.
After receiving these three books, Zhou Tong began to carefully flip through them one by one.
Half an hour later, he closed the last book, [Complete Fire-Style Magic Incantations]. Thus far, Zhou Tong had memorized all the incantations for earth-style, water-style, and fire-style magic incantations, from the first level to the forbidden level.
"It's time to give it a try!"
A hint of excitement appeared in Zhou Tong's eyes. Placing the books back on the bookshelves, he immediately headed towards the mountains behind the academy.
Although the mountains behind the Baruch Academy were called mountains, in reality, they were just a few hundred meter tall mounds. However, the environment here wasn't bad. It was a pristine forest with all sorts of towering trees. Occasionally, one could even see some small animals, such as rabbits and pheasants …
"It should be around here!" Zhou Tong came to a spot near a pile of chaos and stood still.
"Although my spiritual energy is powerful, my mageforce is still too weak. Right now, I'm at most comparable to a magus of the second rank. I'd better start from the basics!" Zhou Tong focused his mind and began to silently chant the words to a fire-style magic incantation.
Magic incantations were very strange things. Whether one chanted them silently, in a low voice, or loudly, there was no difference.
Because magic incantations weren't necessary to activate magic, they were only needed to allow the magus' spiritual energy to reach a certain state. Thus, some high-ranked magi didn't need to chant incantations to instantly cast low-level spells.
As he chanted the incantation, Zhou Tong felt a surge of fire-style mageforce begin to stir within his dantian.
A short while later …
"Bang!"
A human-head-sized fireball appeared in front of Zhou Tong, emanating scorching heat.
Fire-style spell of the first rank – Fireball!
Zhou Tong stretched his hand into the fireball. This was a spell of the first rank. It wouldn't be able to harm him, a warrior of the seventh rank.
"So this is the power of a spell of the first rank. Not bad … it should be about three thousand degrees!" Allowing his hand to be bathed in flames, Zhou Tong nodded. Then, with a clap of his hand, he dispersed the fireball.
Three thousand degrees. On Earth, this was the maximum temperature of fire. But in this magical world, this was merely a spell of the first rank.
"Next, let's try water-style magic …" Zhou Tong once more silently chanted the words to an incantation.
Very quickly, with a ripple of water-style mageforce, an arrow of ice appeared in front of Zhou Tong.
Water-style spell of the first rank – Frostbolt!
"Swoosh!"
The arrow quickly flew out from Zhou Tong's side and hit a rock not far away. Immediately, the rock was cracked open. Especially in the crack, there was a faint cold air coming out.
"The penetrative power of the arrow, and the freezing power of the cold air … the power is not bad." Zhou Tong nodded, and then continued to chant. This time, it was an earth-style spell …
Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.
In this half a year, Zhou Tong spent his mornings and afternoons practicing magic in the mountains behind the academy. In the afternoon, he would spend his time in the library, further absorbing the knowledge of this world. At night, he would replace sleep with meditation, meditating while refining his mageforce.
Although it had only been half a year, Zhou Tong's mageforce had already risen to the level of a level-nine mageforce. Moreover, he was already very proficient in using earth-style, fire-style, and water-style mageforce.
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