Above the mage!
Chapter 1 Spell
Chapter 1 Spell
The dark and cramped room housed two wooden beds, a wooden table that could fall apart at any time, two relatively intact wooden chairs, and a stove covered in dust and stains. There was only one narrow aisle in the entire room that was just big enough for one foot to pass through.
A faint ray of light shone through the small air vent on the south wall of the room.
Through the light, the dust floating in the air is like mayflies without support, drifting freely around.
In the dim light, one could see a thin young man lying flat on one of the slightly damp wooden beds in the room.
The young man, who was called "Gao De" both in his past life and in this life, was looking at the small, dusty room in the dim light and smelling the faint musty smell in the air.
There was a dead silence all around.
This place doesn't feel like a residence, but more like a claustrophobic prison cell.
"Are you saying that I've been unconscious for almost a day?" Gao De finally spoke and asked the boy who should be called "roommate".
"I thought you were dead. I was scared to death!" The young man who answered was very thin.
Gao De's figure was already considered thin, but he was much thinner than Gao De. He looked malnourished and was as small as a child of only eight or nine years old.
Of course, Goder knew that he was already thirteen years old.
I am also this age.
Although in his world, this age is just considered a child.
But here, thirteen years old is already considered an adult.
Why was “myself” unconscious for almost a day?
To be more precise, how "oneself" died.
It must be because of "my own" death that he was able to take over the magpie's nest.
A very simple inference.
Unfortunately, Gao De could not remember anything about his own death. He had no idea where he was, what his current situation was, or the name of his roommate.
Fortunately, he did remember something, as his previous life still left him with some memories.
Some of the things that Gaode considered truly important were clearly engraved in his mind and could not be erased.
Perhaps for "myself", the memory of this place was too painful, so when the cuckoo took over the magpie's nest, it was not passed on to him.
In Gaode's opinion, this might be a good thing - if he really inherited all the memories of his predecessor, then who is he?
Is it the predecessor, or itself, or a new personality that is a fusion of the two?
He doesn't want his personality to change.
The downside is that he now urgently needs to figure out his situation.
Fortunately, he didn't have to try hard to test it, because his roommate named Amy was already frightened and started talking incessantly without him even asking.
"I knew this day would come. Although you are the only one among us who can independently prepare a primary spider poison potion, in the eyes of Master Seda, this is nothing."
At this point, Amy glanced at Goddard, who had an expressionless face. As if she was afraid that he would be unhappy, she stammered, "I mean, we are called apprentices, but everyone knows that Master Seda doesn't treat us as human beings at all. We are just his human-shaped little gray mice for drug testing and free servants."
"So, Master Seda doesn't care about our abilities at all."
After hearing this, Gao De could probably guess how he fell into a coma.
Keywords: drug trial.
Amy was still chattering, and it was obvious that Goder's coma had frightened him so much that he needed to talk to relieve the negative emotions.
"I'm telling you, I've checked your breath before, and you clearly weren't breathing at all, and there was no heartbeat either. You were dead as hell, and yet you managed to wake up. If you hadn't been able to talk to me properly, I would have suspected that you were no longer human, but a ghost!"
Amy slapped her thigh, very excited about her roommate's resurrection.
In such a place, his companions are his spiritual support.
And if Gao De died, it would probably be his turn to try the medicine soon.
"Could it be that the potion made by Master Seda was successful?" Amy guessed.
Thinking of this possibility, he became even more excited.
Because if they really succeeded, Master Seda would be very happy, and they would definitely have a good life.
Besides, maybe we won’t need them to test the drugs anymore?
After all, the potion has been successfully refined.
Gao De is not as optimistic as Amy.
He knows the truth.
The potion brewed by the Sedda wizard that Amy was talking about did not succeed.
——It should be said that Amy’s good roommate was successfully sent away.
Gao De rubbed his temples, which were still aching slightly, and concentrated his mind to organize his thoughts.
As a student of the Department of Mathematics at Peking University, one of the top universities in China, he had been working on his graduation thesis in the school library all night long. He was so sleepy that he lay down on the table and took a nap.
When I woke up, there was already thick smoke and the whole place was red.
It was an endless tongue of fire licking at him, leaving him no room to struggle.
Once a fire breaks out in a place like a library, it is difficult to stop it.
So Gaode's fate was already determined.
……
People who study mathematics are generally rational and do not believe in metaphysics. But the iron-hard facts tell Gao De that his body is no longer his own, and rejuvenation is impossible.
This extremely metaphysical thing of time travel actually happened to him.
With Amy's endless chatter and his occasional questions, in just half a day, Gao De had figured out his current situation.
The fatherless and motherless street beggar was taken in as an apprentice by Master Seda and brought back to the medicine garden, where he took care of herbs, prepared potions, helped out, and also conducted drug trials on humans.
In the entire medicine garden, except for Master Seda, everyone else is an apprentice like Gode and Amy.
The number of apprentices remains around ten all year round.
But it is dynamic stability.
Because every once in a while, Master Seda would take away an apprentice to test his newly concocted potion on humans.
No one knew what kind of potion Master Seda was trying to make, they only knew that he had always failed and had never succeeded.
And every time the test failed, the apprentice would die on the spot, with absolutely no chance of survival.
Whenever the number of apprentices in the medicine garden falls below five, Master Seda will go out and bring back a group of about five new apprentices to keep the number of apprentices stable.
As for the apprentices' origins, most of them were beggars without parents like Gao De.
"Why don't you try to escape?" Goder sorted out the messy thoughts in his mind and asked Amy thoughtfully.
"You are stupid!" Amy shouted in surprise, "Have you forgotten that Master Seda has branded us with the [Tracking Mark]. No matter where we run to, he will find a way to track us. If we don't run, we can still survive. If we dare to escape, we will die immediately!"
Tracking Imprint
Gao De's eyes narrowed slightly, and he fell into deep thought.
If time travel is metaphysics, then this world is the metaphysics of metaphysics.
——This is a world where magic exists.
Correct.
Spells.
The magic in this world is by no means the superstitious methods used by alchemists such as drawing talismans and chanting incantations, but a real magical technique of change, a kind of supernatural power that can change things and reality in an unscientific way.
The tracking mark that Amy mentioned is a type of magic.
A top student who received compulsory education should have scoffed at this mysterious power that only exists in novels, movies and TV shows.
Amy couldn't break deep-rooted ideas with just a few words.
The reason why Gaode accepted the concept of magic so easily was very simple.
He licked his chapped lips and looked towards the stove not far away.
Without Gao De making any movement, the earthenware jar that was originally hanging on the stove suddenly moved horizontally in the air, all the way to the air above the wooden table that seemed like it would fall apart at any time, and then tilted slightly, and the boiling hot water flowed directly into the cup placed on the table.
Then the earthenware jar fell steadily on the table, but the cup filled with hot water floated up and moved in front of Gaode at a steady speed.
Gao De reached out, took the cup, and took a small sip to moisten his throat which was dry from being unconscious for a day.
Then he let go, but the cup did not fall. It seemed as if there was no gravity and just floated in the air. It moved back to the table at the same steady speed as before.
During the whole process, Goder did not make any movement except looking at the stove. Amy did the same, and there was no third person in the room.
It was as if there was an invisible third party or an invisible hand that completed this not-so-complicated action and poured a glass of water for Gaode.
If this happened in Gaode's original world, it would definitely be an extremely terrifying thing.
But the two people in the room looked calm at this time, as if they were accustomed to this extremely strange supernatural incident.
——Gao De seemed calm on the surface, but his heart was actually in turmoil.
His previous incarnation did not leave him any memories of life, but it left him all the knowledge he had mastered, including language, all knowledge of the world, and most importantly, knowledge of spells and potion mixing.
No matter where you are, knowledge is the most valuable thing.
Therefore, Gao De was extremely grateful that his predecessor left him something truly important.
The method he just performed was one of the only two tricks mastered by his predecessor.
[Hand of the Mage] (Transmutation, Level 0):
A floating ghostly hand appears within range and persists until the spell ends or the player dismisses it.
If the ghostly hand is more than 30 feet (10 meters) away or if mage hand is cast again, the existing ghostly hand disappears.
The wizard hand can perform simple actions, such as manipulating an object, opening an unlocked door or container, or pouring the contents of a vial, but it cannot carry objects weighing more than 10 pounds (about 4.5 kg) or activate spell items.
This was just a trivial trick for a mage, but it brought an indescribable shock to Gao De:
"Hand of the Mage."
"It's not even a spell, it's just a trick."
“This is a world of true power and truth”
"The power of the law, the truth of the art, is."
"Spell!"
(End of this chapter)
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