Wizard: I have ten trillion nanomachines

Then, the sails of the Wanderer slowly rose and unfurled in the sea breeze, making a "whooshing" sound.

"Adjust sails! Check anchor chains! Ready to set sail!"

Captain Paul gave the order, and the crew members performed their duties, pulling ropes and adjusting the direction of the sails.

The massive ship slowly departed from the dock, heading towards the vast ocean in the morning light.

The seawater lapped against the ship's hull with a dull thud, and seagulls circled and cried out above the ship.

In the rooms on the fourth floor, some gifted individuals like Charlie and Wu Ke were excitedly discussing their future wizarding lives, while others were packing their luggage or pondering who on the ship was more worthy of their friendship.

Others came up to the deck, gazing at the receding coastline, some with excitement, some with longing, and some with peace.

The Wanderer cut through the waves at great speed, and the wind on the deck grew stronger, carrying salty, damp air that brushed against everyone's face.

Meanwhile, in the lower deck, Lo Kunlun was helping Lear organize and inventory the cargo.

As a newcomer to the ship and the weakest among them, he was naturally assigned this kind of menial task.

For Lear, "Loren's" help would save him a lot of trouble.

As for Lo Kunlun, since the voyage was long anyway, and he had nothing better to do, helping Lear, who was born on the Wizarding Continent, would allow him to extract more information about the Wizarding World from him, which was much more interesting than sitting alone in silence.

In the cargo holds on the ground and second floors, in addition to the supplies needed for the voyage and the materials collected by the wizards, there were also various kinds of goods.

Golden Estate's wines, precious gems, deep-sea corals, and gold.

This is the lowest unit of wizard currency.

Wizards also use gold, as this precious metal is a good conductor of magic.

In addition, wizards, or more precisely, formal wizards, have the ability to explore other planes of existence.

Regardless of the plane of existence, different races share the same understanding of this metal: it is a core currency that can be traded.

Even in the wasteland of the second era, gold was an equally important resource.

Many people wonder, in a near-apocalyptic situation, what can gold, as an ornament, be used for since it can't be eaten or used?

Only someone who has been constantly struggling on the edge of life and death would think that way.

Gold has excellent electrical conductivity, ductility, and corrosion resistance, and is chemically stable, making it widely used in industries such as electronics and semiconductors.

Also, this thing can only be mined, not manufactured.

Formal wizards are even more terrifying beings.

The difference between a mortal warrior and an apprentice is that between a human and a superhuman.

The difference between an apprentice and a full-fledged wizard is like that between an insect and a god.

"I've heard it said," Lear chatted with Lokunlun after finishing tidying up, "that there was a very, very large city that offended a formal wizard, and in the end the wizard uprooted the entire city and threw it into the sea."

Formal wizards are so terrifying that they rarely appear.

Even apprentices within the same organization might only ever see the guardian wizards who take turns overseeing the organization.

Most of them have their own things to do, such as research, exploration, and searching for worlds nearby that they can invade.

The three people, Meda and her companion, who hired Lear on his ship, came from a wizarding academy called Silverblood, which is said to have six official wizards.

However, even formal wizards cannot produce gold, or rather, it is extremely difficult for them.

Luo Kunlun has a deep understanding of this.

Gold is a cosmic-level product, requiring an extremely high-energy environment to synthesize.

While a formal wizard can indeed move mountains and fill seas, compared to a supernova explosion or a neutron star collision, it's nothing more than dust.

No, it probably doesn't even qualify as dust.

The currency above gold is magic stones, which are special stones that nobles exchange for "youth".

Like the spiritual stones in cultivation novels, they can restore magic power and spiritual power, and even promote the growth of spiritual power.

The difference is that on the Wizarding Continent, wild wizard apprentices and mortal warriors are not allowed to possess them, and even if they obtain them by chance, they must be forcibly handed over.

In the camp where Lear was born, if you obtain a magic stone, you must hand it over to the camp administrator in exchange for "game points".

It's a very simple principle: "currency" only has value when it's used, while magic stones can enhance mental strength even if you just keep them.

For wizards, an increase in mental strength means an increase in magic power, which in turn represents an improvement in overall strength.

To put it bluntly, it's a survival of the fittest.

Those with greater power have absolute authority and can forcibly confiscate magic stones, leaving mortals and wild wizards powerless to resist.

So this is easy to understand: if I am stronger and more powerful than you, I can just rob you by force, and what can you do about it?

If you hand it over yourself, you might get some benefits in return, just to save face.

If you can't be dignified yourself, don't blame me for helping you be "dignified"!

As for why Meda and the other two were willing to trade potions for magic stones instead of simply robbing them, there are reasons for that.

First, they also need to recruit talented individuals.

Secondly, in this forgotten land, the quantity of magic stones is extremely small and unevenly distributed; otherwise, they would not have been abandoned so long ago.

Whether you can find the magic stone depends entirely on luck.

They traveled to the continents of Volo and El, and only managed to collect four magic stones.

Killing someone for such a small thing is foolish. If word gets out, it will only bring shame to the Silver Blood Academy. It would be better to give them something as a reward, which would also encourage people to continue searching for magic stones and make it easier for them to collect them.

The two chatted for a while, and Luo Kunlun extracted a lot of information from Lear. These fragments of information gradually pieced together a clearer picture of the wizarding world in his mind.

To be precise, it is the wizarding world as seen through Lear's eyes.

After that, Lear left because he had other errands to run.

Outside the cargo hold, the Wanderer continued to speed across the sea, with waves rolling and the wind howling.

Luo Kunlun stayed in the dimly lit cargo hold, processing the new information.

He suddenly realized that, apart from the difference in strength, wizards and mortals, or so-called superhumans and mortals, were not really different.

While in the Kingdom of Bauhinia, Luo Kunlun saw a manuscript that appeared to be half of a wizard's diary.

The diary is filled with a sense of superiority.

The wizard who wrote in his diary believed that mortals were like ants; if one died, a large swarm would soon follow.

Wizards have long since transcended the realm of humanity and are superior to mortals.

Humans are too noisy, weak, fragile, and incompetent, and they are unaware of it.

Greedy, ugly, cunning, mercenary, vulgar, and foolish.

Seemingly shrewd yet suspicious, seemingly honest yet ruthless, they will fight and struggle for gold and silver and their own desires.

Humans are ugly in that they always crave things that are not commensurate with themselves.

Wizards, on the path of pursuing truth, far surpass ugly and imperfect mortals.

After reading it, Luo Kunlun could only curse, "This person is so arrogant that he doesn't know what the world is like!"

It's very simple. If you replace interests and desires with extraordinary knowledge and resources, then the above words can be used to describe wizards and extraordinary individuals.

They are all just fish that live in the vast ocean, one is a big fish, the other is a small fish, or even a shrimp.