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Chapter 140 The Old Magician in the Fairy Tale World?

The old man was dressed in a pure white coat that resembled a formal suit, and he held something that looked like a gentleman's cane in his hand. Even when Xue Dinglu was not around, he acted like a stage actor, circling around the various treasure display cases.

Upon seeing Xue's Law, he put on an exaggerated and bizarre performance of etiquette, his white goatee clearly visible: "I am the great magician Grimm."

Xue Law: "..."

He suddenly felt that the old man across from him must have just finished filming a KFC commercial. The moment he opened his mouth, Xue Law had the feeling that Colonel Sanders was saying "I love your mom" in a lewd tone.

Another important point is that the old man was only barely at level 4, and he could clearly sense the old man's strength without needing any instruments.

Delicious food...

Although his main body was only at level 3 with 27% experience, Xue Law never relied on his main body to fight. He was an item-based player, so he really felt inferior to an old mage who had just entered level 4...

Of all the travelers he had ever met, he was only slightly better than the old dead.

Perhaps he's not as strong as the old undead yet. When Xue Lude left, the old undead seemed to have ascended and become the guardian of the world's consciousness. Although his world consciousness was a bit useless, he's at least a mid-level 4th rank now.

Now, the old man was holding something like a magnifying glass, looking at the magic ring of the Zero Beast, and said with surprise and shock, "Extraterrestrial mages, how did you manage to seal a giant dragon in such a small bracelet?"

"No, no, no, it doesn't seem like a dragon. This has power stronger than the Dragon King. It's like a Titan from ancient stories. My God, it's really amazing. It's magic I've never seen before. I must copy it down..." A magic book appeared out of thin air in the old man's hand, and then a quill floated up and began to record.

Xue Law: “!!!”

This old man's magic is different from anything he's ever seen before!
So far, starting with the old undead, all the magic Xue Law has seen has been focused on manipulating energy for combat or to assist in combat.

The divine magic of the Old Undead World, the demonic magic provided by the Great Sage, the elemental magic of the Holy Magic Continent, and the psionic mastery of the Beast World are all essentially ways of manipulating energy.

Similar to how technology uses batteries to power devices, magicians use themselves as batteries, employing magic circles or certain organs as energy outlets.

Essentially, it is something that Xue's law can comprehend.

To paraphrase the words of the Great Sage, the foundation of magic is the balance of matter and energy; magicians are simply a group of people who can freely utilize the energy of the planets around them.

But this old man's magic was different. He didn't mobilize any energy, but instead seemed to give the quill a life, saying to it, "You can move, bro."

The quill pen started moving by itself!

"Wait, old man, do you know any other magic? Let's exchange some spells." A holy light cutting disc blade appeared in Xue Dinglu's hand, a spell that seemed to have shocked the old man as well.

Therefore, Xue's Law directly treated the knowledge modules left by the great sage as a magical Baidu Encyclopedia and began exchanging magical knowledge with the old man.

What he didn't expect was that this change would take up the entire morning.

……

"Amazing! Absolutely amazing! Magic can be used in such a way! It's incredible! I must record this so my students can learn from it!" The old headmaster kept exclaiming in amazement as he watched Xue Lude deconstruct the functions of his Holy Sword of Salvation.

Xue's Law was also rendered numb.

He obtained a large amount of magic from the old man, but this magic...

[Frog Trick (Rank C): A magic trick that transforms a unit into a frog. The effect weakens over time and with increased strength, but the unit's fundamental nature remains unchanged.]

[Blessing Spell (Rank C): Grants a blessing to someone. If the recipient happens to encounter a talking animal, the blessing will be fulfilled.]

[Communication Skills (Rank C): Grants other small animals the ability to speak human language.]

[Bread Making Skill (Rank C): Able to conjure bread of various flavors at will.]

[Life-Giving Spell (Rank B): Can imbue other inanimate objects with life.]

[Cleaning Technique (Level C): Quickly removes dirt and keeps the skin fresh.]

……

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the old man's magic. His magical style is like this.
This isn't magic at all!
Especially the bread-making and life-creating magic that create things from nothing—doesn't that completely violate the principle of conservation of magic?
Xue Dinglu's familiar knowledge of magic seemed to shatter at this moment; he never expected that magic could have such a strange variant.

The old man kept staring at the deconstructed Holy Sword of Salvation. Several of his quills had already gone out of commission. The quills, which had been given life by the life-giving magic, even ran up to the old man after being exploited and splashed ink all over his face. The old man had to yell and make the five quills take turns on duty before he could calm them down.

Xue Law: "..."

"If this isn't magic, how can it possibly bring together the wishes of all living beings in the world?" The old man had almost plucked all of his goatee, yet he was still studying the Holy Sword of Salvation.

It seemed that Xue's magic was an even bigger problem for him. The two looked at each other, both showing expressions of difficulty and embarrassment.

It can be confirmed that although both of them use what is called "magic," they are completely different systems.

During their conversation, Xue also discovered that the old man's world was an incredibly fantastical one, with Sky Island in the clouds, home to a kingdom of giants, and Lilliput in the east, where the little people were only the size of a hand.

In the vast ocean, countless little mermaids with teardrops swim freely; in the distant Silver Kingdom, dragons lurk, eyeing the treasure; witches concoct potions deep within the forest; and adorable little animals may utter human language at any moment.

An adventurer falls into a cave and is said to have arrived in a bizarre and wondrous land; in the deserts of the far east, there are said to be enormous monsters and spirits that can grant wishes…

Xue Law: "..."

No wonder the old man's movements were so exaggerated and comical. Xue Dinglu closed his eyes; he had finally figured it out.

This old man's world isn't a real world at all; it's a fairy tale world!
He's the kind of guy who's just a background character in a fairy tale, the kind of guy who's portrayed as a world-famous old magician.

Sure enough, he said that the old man's magic had a strange smell, and there were many bizarre spells that were completely illogical and subverted the laws of conservation of matter and energy. Xue Law didn't know just how outrageous that fairy tale world was to be able to give birth to such strange spells.

The magic and sorcery that Xue Dinglu is familiar with are actually alternative sciences: fireballs, lightning, magic shields, spell arrays, and energy control.

The old man's world, on the other hand, is purely functional magic, consisting of transformation, spells, divination, persuasion, bestowal, charm, and so on...

This led to Xue Law looking at the old man's magic as if it were a book written in heaven, finding it illogical, while the old man also found Xue Law's magic illogical.

Meanwhile, the old man also received a cell phone. Looking at this strange little box that could display images and sounds, the old man frantically scratched his beard. And when Xue Lude opened "Ultraman Tiga", the old man plucked out several more hairs from his beard.

After that, the old man gradually became obsessed with tokusatsu dramas.

Xue Lude sat at his own doorstep, looking at this strange magic and really felt a headache coming on.

He was actually quite interested in the magic of many old men, such as the Cleaning spell and the Bread spell. Although they were of low rank, they could genuinely improve one's quality of life.

There are also life-giving magic and communication magic. Life-giving magic can give life to inanimate objects, like the old man's broken quill pen, while communication magic can communicate with anything.

In the future, will Xue's Law be able to directly communicate with the consciousness of other planets using communication techniques, instead of having to launch a large-scale divine descent ritual and risk his life to find the consciousness of a planet?

Even though he felt he knew all the spells, he still said to his own flowerpot, "Sheep Transformation!"

The flowerpot did not react at all.

Old Wang's dog happened to pass by, and in an instant, Xue Luding grabbed it by the scruff of its neck and lifted it in front of him, repeatedly using "communication techniques" on the dog!

Dog: "Woof woof woof..."

"Cleaning Technique!"

The dog barked even louder and struggled incessantly, the dirt and dust on its body shaking.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Is someone stealing a dog?" Neighbor Grandpa Wang seemed to have heard his dog's screams. When he came out, he saw Xue Luding holding the dog by the scruff of its neck with one hand and pointing the dog's nose repeatedly with the "Great Wilderness Imprisoning Heaven Finger" with the other.

Grandpa Wang was speechless, wondering why Xue was messing around with his dog all day.

"Hey, Xue kid, what are you doing? I can hear Laifu's screams even from across the mahjong parlor," came Grandpa Wang's voice.

Xue Daolu immediately put the dog down, feeling embarrassed. The dog then ran behind Grandpa Wang and started barking at Xue Daolu.

"It's nothing, just playing with it," Xue Dinglu said immediately. He couldn't very well say that he had just used the dog as a guinea pig for testing fairy tale magic, could he?
“I have a few puppies that are a little over a month old. Do you want one? If you do, I’ll bring you one,” Grandpa Wang said immediately.

"No need, no need, I'm at school every day, I don't have time to raise it..." Xue Dinglu immediately refused.

Fafnir would probably love to have a puppy, but Xue Dinglu really doesn't have the time. He feels that by the time he goes to another world, the puppy will be long gone when he comes back.

He also mentioned that his family used to keep a large black dog when he was a child, but it disappeared after the fire.

Some people say that it was because the dog kept barking at its own door that it attracted the firefighter who was rescuing the person, which allowed Xue Lude to be rescued.

Since then, Xue has never kept any pets again.

He can't possibly catch two small animals to kill and use as backup materials for the Skybreaker's summoning, can he? It's not that simple.

(End of this chapter)