The Wizard's Secret Journey

Chapter 8: A Glimpse
It was as if the pause button was pressed, and everything around was frozen in an instant.

Then everything began to fade away.

In just a moment, all that was left in Lin En's eyes was the "Detailed Instructions on Making the Mental Shock Crystal Spell Tablet" in his hand.

On the pale yellow paper, countless black characters suddenly came to life!

They jumped, twisted, and shouted, together forming one bizarre picture after another.

Then, whispers from nowhere sounded quietly in my ears.

All this should have been very annoying, but Lynn only felt empty and calm inside.

Thinking seems to be elevated to an incredible level in an instant.

But soon, a feeling of falling suddenly came over me.

He fell rapidly again!

come down.

come down--

Bizarre pictures rose from the book in his hand and enveloped him like a curtain.

Gradually, the whispers in my ears became soft and pleasant.

A world full of mysteries slowly unfolds.

Lynn was intoxicated and filled with joy.

But in reality, he had a blank expression on his face and beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

The pair of out-of-focus light gray pupils were trembling rapidly like mosquitoes and flies.

"Ho-!"

I don’t know how much time had passed, but Lin En suddenly stretched his neck, as if a dying man was sighing his last breath.

With a snap, the book fell out of his hand.

He lost all his strength and collapsed on the wooden bed, his face pale, but his eyes were full of joy.

Lin En raised his head with difficulty and looked at himself.

Points of golden light gather together.

[Name: Lynn Kent]

【Age: 16】

[Skill: Psychic Shock Crystal Spell Making (Proficient)]

[Source energy: 0 (self); 0 (world)]

All source energy has been exhausted.

The world's source energy needs to be obtained from the outside world, while one's own source energy will slowly recover as long as one's own state is normal.

Lin En didn't care too much. All his attention was focused on the newly appeared skill column.

With his eyes slightly closed, he could feel a large amount of knowledge about making crystal tablets emerging in his mind, as if he had been practicing it attentively for several years!

'Glimpse the truth and gain its power.

'This is just like using a cheat to add points directly!'

Lin En was amazed, and after a careful inspection, he soon discovered something different:
'Peering into the truth brings more of an improvement in understanding, and cannot directly bring about changes in reality... It is slightly different from adding points.

'But at the same time, peeping also has two other greater advantages!
'First, in the process of understanding, your own talents will be subtly improved. Second, any knowledge, even if you don't have it, can also be understood as long as it is in front of you! '

After feeling his own condition, Lin En also recovered some strength.

The wooden bed had no headboard and the mud wall was dirty and difficult to lean against. He propped himself up and managed to sit upright, with the corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably.

"ha…

"Ha ha……

"Hahaha--"

Although he tried his best to control it, the suppressed laughter still burst out of his throat and slipped out of the corners of his mouth.

The shed was still dark, but Lynn felt that all he could see was light!
He got out of bed, pushed open the wooden door, and wanted to take a deep breath of fresh air, but the faint stench of corruption and urine coming from his nose immediately made him give up the idea.

"We still have to hurry up and make money..."

It was not too late, and Lin En did not hesitate. He turned back to the shed, took out three gold dragons from a hidden corner, and walked towards Bauhinia Street again.

Not long after, he returned to the shed with a set of crystal carving tools worth 1 gold dragon and 6 pieces of crystal materials.

At this point, the only savings he had left were 4 gold dragons and 60 silver wolves.

When passing by the green river that he had avoided before, Lin En's eyes suddenly fixed.

A few men in linen shirts were wandering around not far away, smoking popular cigarettes, with tattoos on their bodies faintly visible, and from time to time there were a few shrill laughs.

'You never see these people in the shantytowns... The closer you get to the shantytowns, the worse the security becomes.

'I don't know if they are related to the beating I heard earlier...

Lynn didn't look at it any more, but took a detour and walked quickly towards his shed.

"When I have more savings, I should probably move out of here."

……

Back in the shed, Lin En ignored his hunger and started carving crystal tablets in the sunlight coming through the thatched roof of the shed.

Although it was his first time carving, holding the carving knife, Lin En felt as if he had been immersed in carving for a long time, and even had a sense of muscle memory.

But he couldn't carve for too long because the hunger in his stomach began to become unbearable. Lynn reluctantly got up and prepared to cook.

Suddenly there was a loud noise outside.

"…Why do they only charge 8 silver wolves per month, but I have to pay 14 silver wolves?!"

It's Ant's voice. Why is he here?
Lynn opened the door and looked over to where the sound came from.

Ant was standing in front of the manager named Ellison, arguing about something.

The boy's face was full of resentment, but Ellison looked indifferent.

Standing next to them were Gigos and Leona, also with angry expressions on their faces.

After watching for a while, Lin En roughly understood what was going on. Ant was planning to move to their place... As for why Ant knew about this place, it was probably because he met Jigos and the others, but that was not the point.

The point is that the manager of the Iron Claw Gang was not willing to pay Ant 8 Silver Wolves as rent, but insisted on 14 Silver Wolves.

Sighing, Lynn made no move.

The Iron Claw Gang's manager obviously had Ant in his grasp and there was no way he would lower the price, so it was useless for him to go over now.

Sure enough, after a stalemate, the two still couldn't reach an agreement.

Although Gigos and the other man nearby tried hard to reason with Ellison, it was of no use.

Finally, Ellison waved his hand impatiently and left, and Ant and his companions could only return to the shed in shame.

"Lynn, you're back?" Jigos said to Lin at the door of the shed.

Ant looked at him and tilted his head somewhat unnaturally.

Lin En didn't care. He looked at Jigos and answered slowly, "Actually, I've been back for a while."

Jigos was stunned for a moment: "We saw your door was closed, so we thought you didn't come back..."

He pushed Ant up behind him and said, "We met Ant today, and he also knew that Dole was a liar, so..."

"So?" Lynn raised an eyebrow.

"Ant!" Gigos whispered and pushed the boy.

The latter looked at Lin En with a very conflicted expression, hesitating for a long time, until Lin En felt a little uncomfortable, then he took a deep breath and said seriously:

“So, I’m sorry, Lynn, I misunderstood you.

"I shouldn't have said that to you, I just..."

"It's okay, I don't care." Lin En shook his head slightly, a little surprised.

However, the original owner grew up with these people and spent a full 9 years together in the mountains, and they had already become familiar old friends.

It was normal for Ant to apologize to him.

He looked at the three young men in front of him, thought for a moment and said:

"Ante, if you want to move here, you can look for a house nearby. There should be other places that only cost 8 silver wolves.

"But this time, remember not to say you are from a school."

No matter what, these young men could be considered the people he was most familiar with in this strange world.

Their nature now seems not bad.

That's right, a little too naive.

Hearing his words, Ant was stunned. Gigos next to him seemed to be thinking about something, then slapped his thigh in annoyance.

"Ante, we should let you go and rent a house from Ellison yourself!"

"Why?" Leona on the side was puzzled.

"Leona, it's all your fault, you shouldn't have exposed our identities!
"That way Ellison won't offer Ant a high price!"

"This..." Leona finally reacted, hesitating and feeling guilty.

Jigos sighed, looked at Lin and said, "If I had known we should have asked you first, Lin."

Ant also looked at him in a daze, with a very complicated expression.

No matter how much the teenagers regret, life must go on.

As it was getting late, Ant returned to his shed alone.

Lin En and the other two tried to cook.

Nearly 3 hours later.

Under the moonlight, Lin En sighed silently while holding a bowl of porridge mixed with wheat husks.

Standing next to him were——

Leona holding the charcoal, and Gigos cursing and struggling with the shell.

Seeing this scene, Lin En felt somewhat comforted, but after drinking a mouthful of the hard-to-swallow porridge, he couldn't help but sigh:
“Life is not easy…”

……

Two days later in the morning.

As bits of crystal fragments fell, Lin En carved the last line on the magic tablet.

Brush off the powder and blow away the dust.

Lynn picked up the French tablet carefully.

This is already the second French film he has made.

The previous piece was declared a failure yesterday at noon because an arc was carved crookedly.

He was so angry that he stood up suddenly and walked back and forth in the shed for half an hour before he finally calmed down.

Taking a deep breath, Lynn held the French film and carefully compared it with the template in the book.

Since he could not afford expensive measuring tools and was just a mortal, he could only use this clumsy method to roughly judge whether the carving was successful.

‘There should be no problem. ’

After reading it over and over for a long time, Lin En followed his intuition and made a judgment.

The processing precision of crystal tablets is extremely high. Logically speaking, the skill of making crystal tablets at a proficient level will not allow people to have such intuition.

For ordinary people to judge success by feeling, they must at least be at a proficient level.

'The reason why I have such an intuition at this skilled level is probably because my experience has improved my talent in crystal making.

"Moreover, the current speed of producing psychological shock films seems to be on the fast side."

Glancing at the still early sky outside, Lin En's lips curled up slightly.

Tuk-tuk-tuk——

At this time, Gigos' voice came along with a knock on the door.

"Lynn, are you there?"

(End of this chapter)