Chapter 743 Hope Not Lost <TOC> Chapter 745 Arrival at Feran
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In the evening, Drew came alone to Angel’s room.
Angel explained some basic knowledge of the Wizarding World to Drew, such as the three formations, the distribution of branches, and the related levels. After Drew had digested the information, Angel solemnly took out a booklet from his bracelet.
“This is the —Circular Cutting Guidance Method—, one of the basic guidance methods of the Savage Grottoes. You can learn it for now, and if you have the chance to acquire a better guidance method in the future, it won’t be too late to change it then,” Angel said, and also told Drew about some of the taboos of the —Circular Cutting Guidance Method—, emphasizing that the most important thing for a wizard is “knowledge” and strictly forbidding the dissemination of the guidance method.
Drew happily accepted the guidance method, never having imagined that Sir Angel would so readily entrust it to him.
He had seen many extraordinary people aboard the Cloud Conch and knew very well what a guidance method meant. The extraordinary people he had seen all valued their guidance methods greatly, and without a certain level of trust, how could they pass down their methods?
Drew felt like he was in a dream. Just yesterday, he was an ordinary person, but today he had become a talented individual, joined a wizard organization, and even obtained the coveted wizard method. He still felt dazed, and if it weren’t for the pain he felt when pinching the flesh of his hand, he would have thought he was in a beautiful dream.
Angel, however, didn’t pay much attention to Drew’s gratitude.
As a guide, he naturally wouldn’t make Morrow’s mistake.
Back then, it was because Morrow had been too selfish about his own guidance method and treated Angel and Alan differently, not passing on the guidance method to Angel in time, that in the end, Sanders intercepted them halfway and they had no room to argue.
Having learned from the past, Angel knew what he should do. Once he decided to bring Drew into the Savage Grottoes, he would secure him first, pass on the guidance method as soon as possible, and avoid any variables.
Once Drew learned the guidance method of the Savage Grottoes, it would be almost impossible for him to join another wizard organization unless he became an official wizard and joined another wizard organization as a top combatant.
“Every half month, I will take an hour to answer your questions about cultivation,” Angel said before letting Drew leave on his own.
When leaving, Drew’s expression seemed hesitant.
Actually, from the moment he entered the room, Drew had this expression, but Angel didn’t bother to ask.
As Drew was about to leave, he couldn’t help but turn back to Angel and say, “Sir Angel, there’s one more thing I want to tell you.”
Angel just looked at him quietly, waiting for his words.
“When I tested this morning, I didn’t notice any changes, right? But when I left the room, I noticed that the sky outside had changed, different from what I saw during the test.”
Drew described what he saw in the sky outside when he touched the talent sphere: a few low rain clouds drifting, making the sky somewhat gray. However, when he left and returned to the deck, he found that there were no traces of rain clouds outside, it was a completely clear day, and there weren’t even any clouds.
“Does this count as a change?” Drew asked.
“Yes.” Angel nodded without hesitation, while also pondering which talents corresponded to this change.
He had seen many issues of the —Annals of Abiras Talent Collection— in Sanders’ study, with numerous records about “cloud transformations.”
Even transformations like “white clouds stained with blood, evening glow turned into frost” had appeared.
These records actually belonged to different talents; of the three major structures, besides bloodlines, the other two had similar transformative phenomena.
However, was Drew talking about a rain cloud appearing out of nowhere?
Angel remembered that there seemed to be several similar cases in the 23rd issue of the —Annals of Abiras Talent Collection—.
But those cases belonged to the transformations of nature wizards, ocean wizards, and prophecy wizards.
Angel recalled that a rain cloud had appeared in the morning test, and it seemed to rain in the afternoon. Could it be that his talent, like Totoro’s, was from the mysterious prophecy side?
If it were really a prophecy-based talent, that would be great. Savage Grottoes had always been lacking in prophecy talents.
“I’ve heard from Deputy Captain Helen that you seem to have a very accurate prediction of weather changes? In the Death Ring Zone the other day, you foresaw the hurricane too, didn’t you?” Angel asked curiously. If Drew had previously awakened an ability to predict changes in weather, he might be a promising prophecy talent.
Dru hesitated for a moment, “Indeed, I can accurately judge weather changes, but it’s not prediction, it’s more of an accurate perception of the surrounding air’s humidity, temperature, and some meteorological details. When I was a child, I often watched the direction of the sea in the village, and as I saw it more often, many things were imprinted in my brain.”
“I see.” Angel nodded, “In that case, I guess you might be a talent of the ocean lineage. Roman used to be of this lineage.”
Hearing about the ocean wizard, Drew was initially delighted. Although he had only been on the Cloud Conch for three years, he had been longing for the sea since he was a child. His affection for the sea was something that could never be erased. Therefore, when he heard about the ocean-related talents, he immediately brightened up.
However, when he heard that Roman was also an ocean wizard, the smile that had just risen on Drew’s face immediately froze.
Drew was completely youthful in temperament, with all his thoughts written on his face.
Seeing this, how could Angel not understand his thoughts? Angel recalled Drew loudly saying that he wanted to be a good wizard on the bow of the ship this morning. It seemed that he genuinely cared about being a “good wizard.” Now that he heard Roman was an ocean wizard, he categorized the ocean lineage as “bad.”
Angel: “The quality of a wizard does not represent the morality of the wizard. A good wizard may be a dark wizard; a bad wizard may be a white wizard. The code of conduct is not the standard for measuring goodness and badness. This point, Deputy Captain Helen said it right in the morning. The goodness and evil of Roman cannot be judged by a one-sided evaluation, let alone a huge ocean system?”
Although Drew understood this principle, he still appeared listless. Angel did not continue to speak, after all, he was not someone else’s life mentor, and at present, Drew was only a mission target for him to complete the guide mission.
After Drew left, Angel took out another notebook that recorded daily trivial matters, turned to the page that recorded the guide mission, and wrote down a name after Totoro, Babaya, Kudou, and Rococo: Drew.
Speaking of which, there were already five talented individuals. This could be considered the minimum completion of the guide mission.
However, five still seemed a bit too few. After all, Sanders had brought back nine talented individuals, and his recruitment philosophy was based on the standard of nine cabins fighting in blood.
Angel planned to travel around several continents at that time, hoping to find more people to join. After all, the final reward for the guide mission was entirely based on how many talented individuals were allocated.
In the following days, the Cloud Conch sailed smoothly.
As for Drew becoming a talented individual, under deliberate concealment, indeed, no one knew. Drew still liked to chat and play with other sailors on the deck, but during this process, Drew began to cooperate with Captain Alvin, revealing his desire to get married and have children, laying the groundwork for his future departure from the Cloud Conch.
At night, Drew would study the —Circular Cutting Guidance Method— in his room. During this time, Angel also pointed out some issues with Drew’s meditation process.
However, so far, Drew had not made any progress, and it was not easy for him to succeed in meditation in the Devil’s Sea area, where turbulence and huge waves could be encountered at any time.
These days, Angel lived a regular life. In addition to routine meditation and learning true illusion spells, he devoted the rest of his time to the holographic tablet.
Most of the time when Angel opened the holographic tablet, he would browse through —The Enchantment Compendium—.
—The Enchantment Compendium— consists of four parts: Introductory Edition, Basic Edition, Advanced Edition, and Perfect Edition. The Introductory Edition mostly talks about single magic runes, while the Basic Edition begins to introduce complex magic rune combinations. The Advanced and Perfect Editions are entirely devoted to magic energy formations.
Angel browsed —The Enchantment Compendium— to find an enchantment that could block prophecy wizards from peering.
Although the first group of Rat Ant Underground Society members had all been killed by him, the information obtained from them undoubtedly indicated that there must be prophecy wizards involved behind the scenes. To avoid more trouble and the risk of his family being discovered, Angel had to find a way to block prophecy wizards before returning to the Old Land Continent.
—The Enchantment Compendium— truly deserved to be a valuable ancient inheritance, and he finally found the magic energy formation that could restrain prophecy wizards after drifting in the sea of magic runes for almost half a month.
The vast majority of the formations were from —The Enchantment Compendium – Perfect Edition—, which were beyond Angel’s current level, so he decisively gave up on them.
The remaining few were all from the —Advanced Edition— of the compendium.
Among them, six formations were incredibly complex, consisting of a minimum of 38 runes. With Angel’s current strength, it wasn’t just the issue of crafting the formations; the mere amount of magic power required from the Soul Source was insufficient to even complete drawing the 38 runes.
In the end, only one formation remained, known as the “Poem of the Void.”
Its effect was more in line with Angel’s expectations, as it could block the detection of prophecy wizards from three separate regions when activated. However, it only had this blocking effect when it was active. The process of activating it consumed a staggering amount of magic crystals at an unimaginable speed.
Compared to the “Entanglement of the Silent Deity” from the —Perfect Edition—, which came with a passive aura and could even block the prophecies of legendary wizards, the “Poem of the Void” was significantly weaker.
Even so, the number of runes in the “Poem of the Void” reached 15.
The most runes Angel had crafted in a formation before was only eight. Crafting a formation with 15 runes would likely be very difficult for him with his current abilities.
This indirectly indicated that items capable of blocking prophecy wizards were extremely rare.
Angel himself had learned that in the Wizarding World, anything related to the prophecy branch was always priced very high. Such items that could block prophecy wizards could almost be considered strategic tools and were terrifyingly expensive.
His attempt to challenge the “Poem of the Void” was far from simple.
In the following days, Angel completely immersed himself in learning the “Poem of the Void,” tirelessly pushing forward. However, his progress was extremely slow. In the process, he even managed to learn several secondary spells, but he still hadn’t broken through to the tenth rune of the “Poem of the Void.”
Chapter 743 Hope Not Lost <TOC> Chapter 745 Arrival at Feran