Abe the Wizard

“Yes, teacher uses ‘move in a flash’ whenever he travels, it is the signature spell of an intermediate wizard. When someone has mastered the ‘move in a flash,’ almost no one could keep a wizard locked up in one place,” Carlos said admiringly.

“How far, in terms of range, can the ‘move in a flash’ go?” Abel remembered that the mysterious movements of his teacher Wizard Morton, but he was very concerned about how far he could travel with the ‘move in a flash’ since it seemed that the ‘move in a flash’ from Diablo could only be seen at close range.

“It all depends on how far your power of the will can extend. The larger your power of the will could extend, the further you can travel.” Camille explained.

Since the three of them talked while walking, when they were walking out of the teleportation circle, there was suddenly another white light behind them as more wizards were being teleported to the circle.

Carlos then took a badge from his pocket and placed it in front of his chest. The badge had a six-star shining circle on the top with three small leaves on the bottom. Camille, on the other hand, also wore a badge on her chest, with an extra tiny leaf.

Noticing that Abel was looking at the badge on his chest, Carlos smiled, “It’s a wizard’s badge. You can also apply one from the wizard union. Do you see these leaves? One leaf means one rank. Since I’m a rank three novice wizard, I have three tiny leaves.”

Carlos took one look at the badge on Camille’s chest in a mocking way and then said, in the face of Camille’s defiant gaze, “You know, your rank determines the number of leaves you have. Seeing Carlos had skipped introducing her own badge, Camille stared directly onto Carlos’s eyes with her eyes of death.

In the midst of the drama between the three, they walked out of the teleportation circle. As Abel looked curiously at his surroundings, although this place was called a city, it looked more like a town as there was only one main road. The road was made from giant boulders, and it was also very smooth with both sides of the roads occupied by various shops.

“These shops in the City of Caral are the shops of the witches and wizards as well as the branches of some large trading corporations. These shops are tailored for wizards, sp the goods in these stores aren’t exactly cheap. If you want to buy something, remember to check the price first, or you will not have enough gold to buy them,” Carlos kindly explained and introduced Abel.

“Abel, tell me if you don’t have enough gold coins, or if you need anything else,” Camille smiled at Abel.

“Thank you, Camille. I think my family’s fortune is enough for me already.”Abel replied gratefully.

As they spoke, the three of them came to a huge storefront with a wand painted on the sign. “Here we are,” Carlos said. “This is the wizard’s exchange. Witches and wizards in this neighborhood hold fairs here every twenty days, and luckily, today is the day of the fair.”

Abel watched curiously as Carlos went to a table in the doorway and drew a gold coin to a wizard follower standing there with his magic card. He then took a sign from the wizard follower.

“Ok, let’s go. It’s shop 168.” Carlos waved the sign at the two of them.

Abel could see clearly that there was a sign of 168 on the sign, but nothing else.

In front, Carlos found shop 168, which was more like a long bar than a shop. There was a three-story wooden shelf behind it. Carlos then took twelve runes from his arms and placed them on the first shelf, while Camille took fifteen runes and placed them on the second.

“How come you have more runes than I do?” Carlos asked Camille defiantly.

“This is because you’re lazy. I’ve been drawing at least five times a day for months. What about you?” Camille asked Carlos with a blank look.

“I.. I just spent a little more time practicing,” Carlos said guiltily.

“Are these the runes you made?” Abel asked, picking up one of Camille’s runes.

“Yup, but the materials are too expensive, which means the success rate of these runes weren’t able to increase. I could barely break even too,” Carlos sighed.

“What materials are these runes made of?” Abel asked, looking at the wood and gold on his hands, it felt like a similar material he had worked with before.

“It’s made of crystal cores. I used a potion to soften them slightly, then reshape them and finally carved them with a knife. As my teacher, Wizard Morton, is good at making runes, Carlos and I have learned this skill.” Camille said.

It was made from the nucleus of a crystal, thought Abel. No wonder he felt so familiar. The irregular shape of the nucleus had been refashioned into a rectangular plate, so he couldn’t even recognize it.

Abel then looked at the runes, most of which were “8#Ral” runes, a few “7#Tal” runes, and “10#Thul” runes.

“Why are there so many fire attack runes here?” Abel asked Camille.

“Wait, you know these runes?” Instead of answering Abel’s questions, Camille was surprised that Abel knew the runes. This was because the knowledge of these runes wasn’t something that could be learned casually. Even for wizards, they could only learn the knowledge of these rules if they have a heritage in rune drawing. Otherwise, most wizards would generally purchase their runes if they ever need them.

“Yes, I’ve learned runes from my blacksmith teacher for a while back then.” Abel looked at Camille, puzzled, as He didn’t think that this knowledge was valuable. From the beginning, he had a Dwarf magical weapons forging guide, which allowed him to learn the most systematic knowledge of the runes, and successfully copied the rune from a rune sign.

“Was your blacksmith teacher a dwarf?” Camille didn’t expect Abel to have also learned forgery. In her memory, only the dwarf blacksmiths would have inherited their rune systems.

“No, my blacksmith was a human blacksmith, but his teacher was a dwarf blacksmith,” Abel explained.

Camille suddenly realized, “No wonder you know about this rune knowledge. When making a rune sign, you need to balance the energy within the crystal core to the energy the rune requires. Recently only Fire crystal cores were available on the market most of the time, so all the runes signs we made were basically all fire attributes as well.

Abel had some understanding of the requirements of making runes, as it was the same principle as forging the magic swords. Both of them required the same energy. The difference was that the runes used the crystal core, while the magic sword uses the magic gems.

“Can I learn how to make runes?” Abel asked Camille expectantly.

“I don’t think I can teach you. The teacher will have to teach you this knowledge when he can. I will not dare to teach you in advance as I might get in a lot of trouble.” Camille shook her head, but when he saw Abel’s disappointed look on his face, she added, “But I can teach you the basics of how to use a carving knife. These are the basics of rune making.”

“Thanks, Camille! Abel’s mood was suddenly much better, as he was able to practice the basic use of carving knives first. This would lay a good foundation for learning rune card making in the future and save a lot of time. This was because he had a lot of time to practice in Rogue encampment.

“Carlos, stay here. I’ll go with Abel and buy him a good carving knife.”

“You can’t do this,” Carlos protested.

Turning to Carlos, Camille ignored his protestation and called Abel out.

As they passed, Abel remembered. “Camille,” he asked softly and curiously, “What’s the price for a half day’s rent in one of these shops?”

“10,000 gold.” Camille looked back at Abel and then said, “Don’t come here by yourself. Your levels are too low. Although it is safer here, there will still be dark wizards.”

“Dark wizard?” Another word Abel had never heard.

“Dark wizards is the name given to evil wizards who were born by robbing ordinary wizards. You may see an ordinary wizard here, but he could also be a dark wizard secretly. So be careful in the Wizard world.” Camille explained, then said to Abel, “You’ve got a great talent. You’ve reached level 2 in such a short time, but there’s a lot of rank four and rank five novice wizards out there, and sometimes there are even official wizards, and you can’t get away from them since they are so strong.”