Wizards begin by accessing the Inspiration panel.

Chapter 182 was quite fruitful.

I never expected these two items to be so sturdy; they remained virtually undamaged even under such a violent explosion!

It must be something extremely valuable.

Richard took it and first fiddled with the dark mirror.

The black mirror was made of some unknown material; it felt neither like gold nor wood to the touch, which immediately piqued Richard's curiosity.

After careful observation, Richard could basically guess that the item was most likely a witchcraft artifact.

However, the way the night elves crafted their magical artifacts differed greatly from that of the human wizards on the surface. They didn't set up any instructive spells on them, so Richard couldn't figure out how to use the mirror or its specific effects.

Unfortunately, Dolores just self-destructed, her body and soul destroyed!

Otherwise, if we let the crystal handle it, it will immediately reveal the item's function and how to use it.

He casually tossed it to Stephena, and Richard then took the black box.

Upon handling the box, it felt quite heavy, seemingly several times heavier than metal, and it had strange pale green patterns around it, clearly indicating that it was some kind of witchcraft array.

Although Richard had some research and experience with witchcraft arrays, this particular array was too complex, and he could only discern the effects of some combinations of witchcraft runes.

But this was enough for Richard to guess the main function of this complex magic array: to keep the items placed inside alive.

However, what gave Richard a bit of a headache was that this complex magic array also integrated a sub-magic array that served as both a protective and key mechanism. Therefore, if the corresponding incantation was not known, even if it was broken through by external force, the items inside the box would likely be damaged.

Fortunately, Dolores's powerful self-destruction had already damaged part of the protective magic array, so with a little more effort, the box should be able to be opened soon.

However, this requires gradually increasing the attack intensity; otherwise, if it exceeds a certain threshold and causes excessive damage to the box, it may affect the integrity of the items inside.

Therefore, it is not suitable to immediately attempt a brute-force attack.

After all, Richard could now clearly sense that the entire Norman Secret Realm was increasingly rejecting him, and that he would be forcibly teleported out in about twenty minutes.

I need to arrange some trivial matters immediately.

Richard's original plan was to inform Melo himself, but now it seems that he was still a bit careless. Although he had eliminated most of the members of the Spider Knights, there were still some scattered members.

If Milo and Ophelia are unlucky enough to run into them, that would be terrible!

Richard glanced at Stephena. He had originally thought that it wouldn't matter if he were teleported out, as he could have Stephena go alone to escort the two women out of the secret realm. But now that plan was no longer feasible.

Because Stephena currently has as many as four or five tracking marks on her, once she and the two women teleport back to the base, Stephena will instantly become the target of everyone's attacks!

Just as Richard was deep in thought, suddenly, a sound seemed to come from the dense forest!

Two spider knights rushed from the dense forest to the camp. The scene that greeted them after they emerged from the forest struck them like lightning!

At the camp's main gate, human wizard apprentices and spider knights lay scattered about!

The two of them misjudged the situation. The Spider Knights were indeed all dead, but many of the wizard apprentices were still alive.

However, those wizard apprentices who were affected by Richard's forgetting spell are still in a coma, so they lie on the ground and appear to be dead.

They even saw the corpse of their own deputy commander, Portia.

There were only two people standing in the entire area, a man and a woman. The man was a stranger, a human male, who looked to be only fifteen or sixteen years old.

They recognized the graceful woman; it was Princess Shadra who had suddenly appeared yesterday.

This combination is quite bizarre!

Richard and Stephanie also noticed the two Spider Knights who had suddenly appeared. One of them had a familiar figure on his shoulder—Andrea.

"This...this..."

"Your Highness Shadra, this is..."

Richard smiled slightly. It was just as he had thought of; a brilliant idea had just flashed into his mind.

Richard had no interest in killing ordinary Spider Knights, so he raised an eyebrow and signaled to Stephanie to deal with these two small fry.

Upon seeing this, Stephania immediately smiled charmingly, walked over, and reassured her, "It's alright, don't panic, all the enemies have been eliminated!"

After their initial shock, the two pointed at Richard, trembling, and asked, "Then who is this human?"

At this moment, Stephania had already circled behind the two and said, "This human you're talking about? He's my master!"

As soon as they finished speaking, the two men felt a sharp pain in their chests. They saw a sharp black longsword protruding from their chests, piercing right through their hearts!

Why

All the strength in my body was drained away with the gushing blood.

The next second, the two of them collapsed to the ground like rag dolls.

Stephania bent down, turned Andrea's body over, pressed her hand against his neck, and said, "Master, thankfully, Andrea has only fainted."

"He's really unlucky. I let him go, but he still got caught and brought back. Hehe~"

"Stephena said with a smile."

"No, Andrea was really lucky; he only survived because he met us!" Richard said with a smile.

"Your powerful and wise master is absolutely right!"

Hearing Richard's amusing words, Stephanie burst into laughter, her body trembling and her breasts heaving.

Due to time constraints, and because Richard had other matters he wanted Andrea to handle,

In less than a minute, Andrea was woken up by Stephania.

Andrea, who was in a deep sleep, kept dreaming.

Where am I?

I remember encountering two spider knights in the dense forest, but I was quickly overwhelmed and knocked unconscious.

Could this be where we are now?

In an instant, Andrea regained consciousness and opened her eyes.

What came into view was a charming face that could be both happy and angry.

"Andrea, you're finally awake!"

"You...you..." Andrea was deeply impressed by the beautiful face in front of her.

About half an hour ago, this was the face that notified him to run! And it also told him that it was Stephena.

"I really am Stephania. What, don't you recognize me?" Stephania looked at Andrea's stunned expression and couldn't help but giggle.

Although Stephanie's appearance has changed drastically, one can still vaguely discern a person's temperament if they look closely.

Andrea carefully compared the alluring woman before him with the charming young girl from his memory and found that the two did indeed have similar temperaments in some aspects.

"If you don't believe me, look who's there?" Stephania stretched out her fair finger and pointed to Richard's location.

Andreas immediately turned to look, and a look of disbelief crossed his face. He blurted out, "Richard!!"

But the next second, Andrea's expression changed from happy to astonished!

"Richard, your strength..."

"Have you already reached the level of a third-level wizard apprentice?"

Andrea's own strength, needless to say, is slightly inferior to Richard's, and even slightly inferior to Ophelia's.

Therefore, in his perception, Richard's spiritual power was as deep and majestic as a vast ocean.

In fact, the reason that Andrea could sense him was because Richard had just been promoted, and his mental strength was slowly increasing all the time, like a sword that had just been drawn from its sheath, its cold light gleaming!

Another reason was to avoid damaging the cloak during the battle. Richard had already put away the cloak before he came out to fight Gildarts and the others.

Seeing Andrea's incredulous expression, Richard put his cloak back on.

"Richard, I didn't expect to see you again. You've already advanced to a third-level wizard apprentice, and judging from the sheer power of your spiritual energy, you've probably reached a fairly high level among third-level wizard apprentices!"

"Your promotion speed is simply unbelievable!"

Because Richard quickly put on his cloak, the powerful aura he had just exuded only lasted for a brief moment. Furthermore, Andrea didn't even consider the possibility that Richard was a formal wizard.

After all, becoming a level three wizard apprentice in a year is already astonishing enough!

Besides, becoming a full-fledged wizard takes only one year!

Andrea probably wouldn't even dare to dream of such a thing!

"Long time no see, Andrea!" Richard smiled slightly.

"By the way, what's this, Stephanie?"

As if she had thought of something, Andrea asked.

Compared to Richard's meteoric rise in rank, the story of Stephanie seemed to attract Andrea's attention more.

"About Stephanie, this..."

Richard paused, the words on the tip of his tongue, but he didn't know where to begin. There were quite a few coincidences in the process of Stephena's story.

"Andrea, let me handle this," Stephania said with a slight smile.

"Yes, let Stephania tell you, she knows best!" Richard immediately nodded with a delighted expression.

Such a verbal and intellectually taxing matter is best left to Stephena, the person in charge.

Stephena was indeed eloquent. Setting aside the confidential matters, she explained the whole story clearly in less than five minutes, making Andrea nod in approval!

Since time was limited and this was not the time for pleasantries, Richard interjected:

"Andrea, I might need to trouble you with something else. I need you to go and meet up with Melo and Ophelia right away. The three of you can leave the secret realm together, and it will be much safer along the way."

"Great, is Ophelia there too? I wanted to go find her when the trading post was attacked by the night elves."

"By the way, Richard, what are you and Stephanie going to do? Why?" Andrea was quite surprised that Richard and Stephanie couldn't go to meet the two women.

Richard nodded and said, "Yes! There is indeed something important to take care of!"

"Alright, leave this to me. I'll go right away." Andrea seemed quite excited upon hearing Ophelia's news and was eager to see her as soon as possible.

Richard thought for a moment, then took out a talisman carved with four overlapping human figures from his pocket and handed it to Andrea.

"Keep this [Phantom Amulet]; it should protect you should you encounter the Spider Knight again."

Andrea accepted it nonchalantly.

But upon closer inspection, a storm of emotions surged within him, and he cried out:

"Richard, this...this is an incomparably precious top-tier witchcraft artifact?"

Richard nodded.

This top-tier sorcery tool is no longer very useful to him.

For a qualified wizard, it is easy to distinguish between the phantom created by the illusion amulet and the real thing.

However, at the level of a third-level wizard apprentice, this item is still quite useful.

Andrea's expression turned serious, and he assured her, "Don't worry, Richard, with this top-tier magical artifact of yours, there shouldn't be any problems along the way."

"By the way, after picking them up, what do we do?"

"You should all return to the school's headquarters. I have other matters to attend to and may need to leave the school for a while."

A few minutes later, Andrea drank a healing potion given to her by Richard, which slightly healed her injuries, and then quickly headed to where the two women were.

Richard then softly recited a short incantation and drew a strange rune with his right hand. Instantly, the rune transformed into a lifelike bone bird, soaring into the sky and flying rapidly towards the western part of the secret realm.

Its speed far exceeded that of a third-level wizard apprentice.

It seems that after I was promoted to a formal wizard, the power of my level zero magic has been increased several times over!

In the information carried by the bone bird, Richard also added an extra request: to ask Ophelia to take care of Tina, the little girl in Silverpine Town, and to ask her to take some time to raise her.

There are ten minutes left.

Richard could feel the growing pressure from the Norman Secret Realm!

Normally, Richard should find a place now to consolidate his newly advanced realm.

Because the process of becoming a formal wizard is not something that can be accomplished overnight. For example, Richard can clearly feel that every cell in his body is still screaming.

Upon opening the Inspiration panel and checking the Attributes section, sure enough, all attributes had exceeded 10 points!

In particular, his mental strength has broken through the 30-point mark.

But most importantly, his attributes are still improving rapidly.

It increases by 0.1 almost every few minutes.

For example, his physique was 10 points when he first advanced, but now Richard has found that in just over twenty minutes, his strength attribute has already reached 10.4.

And this is not the end!

It's still improving!

In addition, Richard felt that after being promoted to a formal wizard, his thinking seemed to become much faster and sharper. He could figure out and make a decision about many problems in just a few seconds.

For example, he quickly realized that it would not be a good thing if he were forcibly teleported out of the secret realm.

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