Wizards: Starting with Fairy Crests

053: Selection

Lin Qi looked at the pretty female apprentice in front of him. She looked about 17 or 8 years old and seemed somewhat familiar, but he couldn't quite remember where he had seen her before.

Lin Qi asked in confusion, "You are...?"

The female apprentice quickly replied, "Lord Lynch, I am Lilith. Have you forgotten? We met three years ago. Young Master Louis introduced me here."

After a pause, she quickly got to the point: "You told me to come back in two years when I was a little older."

what?

It's her!

Lynch immediately thought of Louis, that pimp, from three years ago.

As he suddenly realized this, he clicked his tongue in surprise.

This girl is still alive?

There is an extremely small chance of surviving the calamity during the Nightmare Beast's arrival, but Lin Qi doesn't know exactly how to do it. Players on the forum have summarized various methods, and Lin Qi has tried them all, but none of them have been successful.

If I had to put it into words, it would be—

luck.

It's like whatever you wish for comes true.

One minute you're considering where to start building a small force, and the next you have a ready-made agent delivered to your door. You can only say that when luck comes, you can't stop it.

With a sigh in his heart, Lin Qi nodded and said, "Let's come in first and talk."

The two entered the house one after the other.

As soon as she entered, Lilith hurriedly took off her cloak. She was wearing nothing underneath and stood naked in front of Lin Qi.

As if afraid of missing some opportunity to change her destiny, she said eagerly, "You told me to come back when I was older, and I think... I think I'm mature enough now."

Lin Qi nodded slightly.

Not bad!

I remember Louis was promoting her as a famous local beauty, and Lynch thought that wasn't entirely an exaggeration.

She is about 170 cm tall and has a very thin body with not an ounce of fat.

Her upper body is disproportionately short, but her legs are ridiculously long, almost taking up two-thirds of her total height. I don't know how they grew like that.

If I had to point out a drawback, it would probably be... a bit small, maybe only an A cup.

It's impossible to bring Lucy back to the Gray Fog Jungle now, so we'll have to find other ways to solve her physiological problems.

This thing is like eating and defecating; it's a biological instinct.

If one cannot release their emotions for a period of time, it can lead to restlessness and even affect one's spiritual practice.

Cultivation is of paramount importance to wizards.

Any wizard will try their best to abandon their biological instincts and devote their energy and time to cultivation, racing against time.

For this reason, some sorcerers will even transplant plant organs into themselves, so that they can survive by photosynthesis and absorbing nutrients from the air, thus saving them the time of eating and excreting.

Self-castration eliminates this physiological need once and for all, saving energy.

In any case, these biological instincts have no value to wizards except as a waste of time and energy.

When you find the truth and have eternal time and want to enjoy life, you can simply restore your body and reattach the organs you lost.

Lin Qi certainly wasn't that ruthless towards himself.

So he was just like other slightly more normal wizards, unrestrained and carefree, maintaining his biological instincts while ensuring they were always in a state where they could be satisfied.

After looking him up and down, Lin Qi nodded and said, "Put on the cloak first."

Serious business is serious business, and desires are desires.

Let's discuss the two separately.

However, Lilith failed to understand Lynch's meaning and instead misunderstood that Lynch didn't like her, and her eyes immediately dimmed.

"yes..."

Not bad.

Even if the result is not satisfactory, the agent still does not pursue the matter or ask questions, but simply follows the instructions. Just based on this attitude, the agent is a very qualified agent.

Lin Qi became more and more satisfied as he looked at it.

He then took out a magic stone pouch from his spatial pocket and tossed it to Lilith, saying casually, "Here are five hundred magic stones. Take them and go recruit some apprentices. Quickly organize a group and occupy some popular resource points."

Over the past few years, he has accumulated a considerable amount of magic stones by selling magic potions. Although most of them have been spent on cultivation expenses, he still has more than five thousand magic stones on him.

Investing five hundred magic stones is an easy task.

He paused, then emphasized, "From today onwards, you are my agent, and you can act in my name when you are outside."

Lilith shuddered, her eyes widening instantly.

She accepted the magic stone pouch with trepidation and disbelief, as if she were dreaming.

"But...but..."

She asked, puzzled, "You...you don't like me, do you?"

Lynch stepped forward, raised a hand, grabbed Lilith's chin, and lifted her head.

He looked into her eyes and said, "There are more ways to prove your worth than just being a tool for self-gratification. Don't let that idiot Louis mislead you. Of course I'm interested in your body, but I see something far more valuable in you."

......

The next morning, Lynch arrived at Hossman Wizard’s private library on time.

Pushing open the heavy ebony door engraved with intricate runes, a unique scent wafted out, a blend of aged parchment and distinctive ink fragrance.

The library's interior is far more profound and expansive than it appears from the outside, clearly utilizing spatial expansion technology. Magical crystals emitting a soft white light are embedded in the towering dome, providing bright yet gentle illumination.

The walls and ceiling were lined with rows of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves made of dark sandalwood, densely displaying various forms of knowledge:

Heavy leather-bound books, yellowed scrolls, shimmering crystal plates, and even some strange objects sealed in transparent amber or exotic metal boxes.

The creature that greeted Lin Qi was a crow with feathers as black as ink, except for its eyes, which were two balls of burning eerie blue flames.

This is the familiar of the wizard Hossman—the Ember.

Lin Qi bowed slightly to the raven, his posture respectful: "Lord Youjin, Instructor Hosman has sent me to choose a spell."

The familiar, Youjin, nodded. "Hossman has already informed me. What is your elemental affinity?"

Lynch replied, "Space, and darkness."

"Space and darkness, huh?" Youjin repeated, raising a wing to point in two different directions. "The knowledge carriers for space are over there, in section seven, on the third bookshelf. The knowledge carriers for darkness are in section eleven, on the first to fifth bookshelves."

Lin Qi looked in the direction indicated.

As expected, the area where the Space System was located had only a solitary bookshelf with about a dozen or so documents sparsely placed on it.

The dark-themed area, on the other hand, has five tall bookshelves displaying no fewer than a hundred books, scrolls, crystals, and other items, with a significant difference in size.

This makes perfect sense. Spatial magic is widely recognized as one of the most profound and complex areas within the wizarding magic system, and relatively few wizards study it.

While dark magic is also considered an unorthodox art, it has a wider reach and more variations and branches.

"You can choose for yourself," said Youjin, folding his wings. "Remember, you can only choose one medium. Once you've chosen, bring it here, and I will remove the basic reading restrictions for you."

"Thank you, Lord Youjin." Lin Qi thanked him again.

He first went to the only bookshelf and carefully took down the leftmost one.

This is a book with a cover made of some kind of dark silver metallic sheet, and several twisted runes written on the cover in some kind of dim ink.

The title is: "A Brief Account of Walking Between Gaps".

Apart from that, there is no other information on the cover.

There is no spell level indicator, no energy consumption estimate, and no information about the specific effects of this spell.

It's understandable, really. These aren't Hossman's areas of expertise or research; they're just collections he gathered through various channels. He probably doesn't even know the contents of them all.

Lin Qi frowned: How should we choose?

Based on these few snippets of information, it's hard to say whether you'll find a good product or just another ordinary mainland Chinese item.

You only get one chance; it would be a shame to make the wrong choice!

Let's investigate first.

Thinking of this, Lin Qi gripped the book in his hand and silently recited in his mind: Investigate.

The system notification sounded precisely on time the next second:

"An ordinary spell."