Wizards begin by accessing the Inspiration panel.

Chapter 180 Advancement! Formal Wizard

That's right!

Just now, Richard successfully advanced to the rank of a formal wizard, and this power instantly intoxicated him!

This feeling of being filled with power is just wonderful!

It felt as if an endless stream of power was surging within me!

At this moment, every cell in his body is still cheering, shouting, and evolving!

Advancing from a third-level wizard apprentice to a full wizard is not merely a promotion.

It's completely different from a first-level wizard apprentice advancing to a second or third-level wizard apprentice!

To be precise, this was a process of leaping to a higher level of life.

No wonder so many third-level wizard apprentices are desperate to break into the gates of becoming full-fledged wizards.

Richard brought up the Inspiration panel and saw that the panel had been slightly adjusted after his promotion.

At the very top of the [Witchcraft] section, a secondary category called [Level 1 Witchcraft] has been created.

Upon clicking through, three brand-new Level 1 spells were clearly visible below Rodrigo's Mutant Meditation Technique. These were obviously the innate spells he had acquired after being promoted to a formal wizard.

The first innate sorcery skill is [Mental Shock] (Limit).

[Mental Impact: Instantly consumes three points of mental energy to attack the opponent's consciousness, causing dizziness, unconsciousness, or even death. The stronger the opponent's mental energy, the less damage they will suffer; the specific damage is determined by the difference in mental energy between the two parties.]

The second innate sorcery skill is [Magic Armor] (Limited).

[Magic Armor Technique: Consumes three points of mental energy to condense the power of dark elements and bones, forming a black bone armor with extremely strong physical and magical defense.]

The third innate sorcery is [Soul Link] (Limit).

[Soul Link: 50% of the damage taken by the caster is shared by their undead summons; this effect can be swapped. If there are multiple undead summons, one must be selected as the primary summon. Once activated, this effect lasts until the summoning ends.]

The three innate magical abilities are naturally at the limit level.

All the original effects of the meditation method have disappeared, such as the secondary mental shock. However, a new innate sorcery, mental shock, has been added, which, in a sense, exists in a higher-level form.

Unfortunately, the two very useful special effects, Advanced Energy-Saving Casting and Concealing Breath, are also gone.

However, you can't have your cake and eat it too!

After all, compared to other spells, the Magic Armor Technique and Soul Link are far more powerful.

Moreover, the cloak that Richard obtained from Donato this time is even better than the original Rodriguez meditation technique's breath-concealing effect in terms of its effect alone.

After all, as a low-level magical artifact, its only function is to specialize in concealment, and its effectiveness is obviously outstanding.

Hmm, is this subtle sense of repulsion the power of the rules of the Norman Secret Realm?

Richard carefully sensed the pressure exerted on his body by the surrounding space, as if it were trying to expel him from the secret realm.

He silently estimated that he would be forcibly teleported out of the Norman Secret Realm in at most half an hour.

Therefore, I must eliminate all obstacles within half an hour!

When Richard, clad in menacing black knight armor that obscured his face, stepped out of the large wooden house, everyone was shocked!

Only Stephanie breathed a sigh of relief, a smile appearing on her face!

The master has finally been promoted!

"Who exactly are you? How did you manage to advance to a formal wizard in the Norman Secret Realm?" Gildas's green eyes were fixed on the black-armored man before him.

Dolores was shocked as soon as Gildarts finished speaking!

Portia was shocked!

Even Stephanie, disguised as Shadra, was forced to feign shock!

The surrounding wizard apprentices and spider knights were completely dumbfounded!

Dolores blurted out:

"What! Gildas, you're saying this person just successfully became a full-fledged wizard in the camp?"

Dolores felt like she'd seen a ghost!

I was only gone for half a day, and when I came back, my base camp had become someone else's promotion ground?

However, the man in black armor remained silent in the face of everyone's astonishment and Gildarts's questions!

The next second! The vengeful spirit strode towards the group with a loud "thump thump thump," suddenly launching an attack.

Judging from the target of the vengeful spirit's hatred, it was Gildarts!

Unfortunately, the enormous abomination attracted everyone's attention.

Unbeknownst to anyone, a ripple suddenly appeared in the air, as if a transparent, invisible energy was shooting directly at Gildas from the black-armored man.

This energy moves as fast as lightning!

In an instant, before the vengeful spirits could even react, it struck Gildas's werewolf clone with deadly force.

"Pop!"

In an instant, Gildas felt as if his eardrums had been ruptured and his head was throbbing with pain!

It felt as if a giant sledgehammer had struck him hard on the forehead!

His own Dark Werewolf Chieftain body, with its steel-like muscles, seemed to offer no resistance whatsoever.

The dark werewolf's near-immunity to dark elemental energy attacks offered no defense whatsoever.

This attack seems to target the brain, the soul!

This is Richard's innate sorcery—mental shock!

Richard's mental shock instantly made Gildas feel like he was in unbearable pain.

It wasn't because Gildas was weak, but because Richard's attack was too well concealed and the timing was perfect.

The surrounding crowd stared in disbelief at Gildas, who was clutching his head in pain, and cried out in fear:

"What kind of witchcraft is this?"

"This is so weird!"

"It seems to be some kind of spiritual witchcraft?"

This happened so fast that just as the Abomination rushed up to Gildarts and swung its giant iron axe, intending to deliver a fatal blow to Gildarts, two pairs of sharp, dark bladed arms extended from the side, blocking the Abomination's slash.

It was Dolores who saved Gildarts' life!

At first, Dolores was secretly pleased when she saw the vengeful spirits attacking Gildarts!

But when he saw that Gildas was about to die in a few moves, he immediately realized that this was at a great disadvantage to him.

After Gildas dies, I will be his next target!

Therefore, Dolores, who was originally Gildas's enemy, is now also filled with apprehension towards this mysterious black-armored man.

Just now, his summoned creature unleashed a terrifying burst of vengeful spirits, instantly killing dozens of Spider Knights. Now, it has struck Gildarts, who has been fighting him for a long time, causing him immense pain.

Dolores already had a bad feeling!

Therefore, she intervened and stopped the vengeful spirit's fatal attack.

Richard immediately frowned upon seeing this. It seemed that the two, who were originally hostile to each other, were now going to join forces against him.

In that case, it will take more effort.

But Richard remained unfazed; this situation was already within his expectations, one of the several reactions he had anticipated from his opponent.

Gildas was no pushover after all, and he quickly recovered while Dolores helped him defend himself.

They also guessed the spell the other party had just used, which was most likely a level one mental spell – Mental Shock.

"Damn it! You ambushed me! No matter who you are, you're dead!" Gildas practically spat out the words through clenched teeth.

The next second, Gildas bypassed the enormous abomination and charged straight at Richard.

Gildas' werewolf clone crouched low and, unusually, adopted a running posture using both hands and feet, like a real black giant wolf, launching a lightning-fast attack on Richard.

However, his cool moment lasted less than a second. Suddenly, an iron chain wrapped around Gildas's waist, dragging him back to his original position.

Upon closer inspection, everyone realized that it was a normal-sized arm from the back of the vengeful spirit, which precisely swung out the iron chain in its hand and wrapped it around Gildas's waist.

Now, Abomination immediately turned around, his agility far beyond what one would expect from a fat man. With his two thick arms, he swung a giant iron axe and a chain ball, smashing them down on Gildarts with lightning speed.

Gildas's lips curled into a slight smile in response to the attack.

Although the Dark Worgen is slightly weaker than the Abomination in terms of strength, it is much faster in terms of attack speed. This slow attack, hehe!

Just as he was sneering and preparing to calmly dodge, his face suddenly contorted into a ferocious expression, and he clutched his head with both claws, letting out a shrill scream!

It turned out that Richard, at just the right moment, once again combined his vengeful spirit with the abhorrent intent to deliver a mental shock to Gildas.

"boom!"

Gildarts' current state, although it is the second transformation of the Dark Werewolf, is tough and has amazing defense!

However, this mountain-splitting blow, which was also hated by the vengeful spirit, tore his skin open and sent him flying more than ten meters away, crashing into and killing several spider knights.

Especially that giant hammer blow, which dented the Dark Werewolf's sternum!

However, the vengeful spirit itself was also suffering. The price of its attack was that it had to abandon its defenses in Dolores' direction, allowing its back to endure the fierce slashes from Dolores' four sword-wielding arms.

On his back, there were at least a dozen more bloody marks, each of which would have been fatal to an ordinary person.

But the vengeful spirit, relying on its few normal arms on its back, wielded its weapons and blocked the attacks aimed at vital points, enduring more than ten ordinary slashes.

Seeing Gildarts thrown aside, his fate unknown, Dolores felt a pang of sorrow for the fallen for the first time.

Hate turned his head, glanced at Dolores with his blood-red little eyes, and chuckled.

Seeing that smile sent a chill down Dolores's spine, and she immediately went on high alert, guarding against possible retaliation from the vengeful spirit!

It seems that as Richard was promoted, the intelligence of the vengeful spirits also increased considerably.

The next second, Abomination completely ignored Dolores and continued charging towards Gildarts, who had been knocked away.

Its goal was clear: it seemed it was willing to risk injury to kill the werewolf.

At this moment, Gildas, who was seriously injured, also stood up unsteadily. He no longer thought about avenging his son Donato.

I don't even care if it's something to be ashamed of anymore.

I just want to leave the Norman Secret Realm as soon as possible.

Preserve this werewolf clone of yours!

After all, if the clone is killed, the main body will also be severely injured!

Gildas had a premonition that if the fight continued, his werewolf clone might be stuck here forever.

"Aww!"

Gildas roared in resentment and began to relax his body, fully embracing the Norman Secret Realm's rejection of him!

In an instant, Gildas's body began to blur, taking on a faint transparent appearance.

"Oh no, this guy's trying to escape!" Richard thought to himself.

Richard instantly realized what Gildas was up to, from that familiar sense of spatial repulsion.

"However, isn't it a bit too late to escape now?"

"It seems I should thank your son for his gift, otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to keep his father here!"

Richard, beneath the skull mask, revealed a strange smile.

Without hesitation, his right hand pulled out a pair of iron shackle-like objects from his pocket and threw them directly towards Gildas in the air.

With a short incantation, the shackles rapidly expanded in mid-air, emitting a dazzling purple light. One end of the shackles shot towards Richard, while the other end shot towards Gildarts, thus binding the two together tightly.

The moment Gildas saw the iron shackles, his eyes widened, and he blurted out, "War shackles!"

"How could it possibly be in your hands?"

"So you killed Donato?"

"But on your body...?"

Gildas's bewildered gaze darted back and forth between the man in black armor and Stephania!

Gildas's previously blurry figure was pulled back into the Norman Secret Realm by the special effects of the War Shackles, and his body gradually became clearer.

The vengeful spirit grinned wickedly, raised its giant iron axe high, and swung it down heavily!

Gildas, already severely injured, watched helplessly as the giant axe fell, unable to withstand it any longer!

"Sizzle!"

In an instant, the dark werewolf was neatly split in two from top to bottom, and the filth and blood inside its body were splattered all over the abomination's face.

However, the abomination grinned, completely unconcerned about the filth and blood on its body, and instead happily licked the blood from the corner of its mouth.

This bloody and terrifying scene left the surrounding wizard apprentices completely bewildered!

Gildas the Wizard's clone is dead!

What...what do we do next?

Stefan had never imagined this situation before; his mind went completely blank!

This is worse than the worst-case scenario!

Suddenly, a tracking mark far stronger than before rose instantly from Gildas's corpse, shooting straight at Abomination and Richard.

This made Richard frown!

Indeed, the tracking mark passed down after the death of a formal wizard is completely different from the tracking mark branded on an ordinary wizard apprentice.

Even if I still have a substitute doll, I can't remove the tracking mark passed down from the body of the official wizard after death.

"How can he be so strong! Damn it!" Dolores's eyes had long lost any desire to fight.

The next second, she quickly turned around and ran towards the dense forest.

Richard was stunned; he hadn't expected Dolores to just run away like that.

But this wouldn't be a problem elsewhere.

This is the Norman Secret Realm. If we let you escape, who knows how many more wizard apprentices will die at your hands! Especially since Senior Sister Meiluo and the others are still in the Secret Realm.

Therefore, there is absolutely no way we can keep you!

"Mental shock!"

(End of this chapter)