Full-Time Magister: The Ruler of Wind and Rain

After a brief get-together, the three of them went their separate ways.

Wang Yu walked the streets of Bo City, wearing a cloak, not wanting to be seen. His original plan was to return to Bo City to seek revenge on the major powers that had sponsored his studies at Mingzhu. However, he suddenly had no desire to visit the Mu family; instead, he decided to go hiking.

He quickly arrived at the highest mountaintop on the outskirts of Bo City, a place called Qishan Park, still within Anjie, facing Xuefeng Mountain Station across the river. From this vantage point overlooking Bo City, Wang Yu silently memorized the general terrain and took out his phone to snap photos, preparing to ask Lingling for help with planning later.

Bo City, a small city in the southeastern mountainous region of China, appears peaceful and beautiful now. However, apart from the Black Vatican, perhaps only Wang Yu himself knows that it will face annihilation a year from now. This is also why he absolutely does not want to go to the Mu family. You should know that the Black Vatican's Tiger-Town Grand Deacon is none other than Mu He, who is currently the Mu family's most frequently seen figure. Wang Yu does not want to expose himself to the Black Vatican at all, and at least when his strength is insufficient to protect himself, he should try to avoid it as much as possible.

However, he couldn't even convince himself to stay out of it. Even though he had only lived in this small town for a little over a year after transmigrating, the memories in his mind told him unmistakably that Wang Yu was born and raised here. He simply couldn't stand idly by and remain uninvolved in this catastrophe. Even if he could rationally convince himself that not getting involved with the Black Vatican was the right thing to do, Wang Yu couldn't give himself an explanation emotionally or morally.

As a child raised in an orphanage, the city wasn't exactly kind to him, but at least it raised him to adulthood. The orphanage was located far from the safe isolation zone protected by the city's barrier, and the thought of the helpless elderly and children in the orphanage instantly becoming food for demons in the event of a disaster made Wang Yu's heart clench with pain.

I must play my part in the future disaster in Bocheng and never stand idly by.

Bathed in the glow of the setting sun, Wang Yu made this firm decision.

Having decided to help, the next step was to figure out how. Wang Yu's first thought was about Old Man Bao. When he joined the Qingtian Hunters, he had feigned his prophetic abilities and told Old Man Bao that Bo City would face a future disaster. He believed that with Old Man Bao's abilities and connections as a retired high priest of the Holy Judgment Academy, even if he only investigated Wang Yu's information with a "better safe than sorry" attitude, he could still help Bo City a lot.

So, besides that, could he leak information to seek help from the Inquisition or the military? After much deliberation, Wang Yu decided to postpone it. Firstly, he had never established contact with either of these forces. His only two connections were those he had known for a long time but had never met in person: Zhan Kong, the commander of the Bo City army, had once given him a notebook, and Lingling's sister, Leng Qing, worked for the Inquisition, but Wang Yu had never interacted with either of them. Moreover, as far as Wang Yu knew, the Black Vatican's infiltration of the military and the Inquisition was quite terrifying, and Wang Yu didn't want to leak information today only to be ambushed and killed by the Black Vatican tomorrow.

The last path is to rely on personal strength. From today onwards, all efforts will be aimed at improving my combat ability against demons. I spent two years cultivating to the intermediate level. I believe that a year from now, I should be able to deal with those wolf beasts that will cause trouble in Bo City more easily.

With his mind made up and his future clear, Wang Yu didn't delay any longer. He immediately switched on his wind-powered vehicle and sped down the mountain. He needed to get back to Shanghai as soon as possible to begin fulfilling his responsibility as a hero to the world.

Become stronger, become stronger by any means necessary!

On the high-speed train back to Shanghai, Wang Yu began to draft his training plan for the next year. First, the future disaster in Bo City, for him, was a long war to annihilate the city's demons. Currently, he had absorbed some wind-cutting techniques in his wind and water elements, shaping them into flying blades with considerable destructive power. However, Wang Yu was still far from being a super-level mage who could freely create magic; forcibly shaping them was extremely taxing on his mental and magical energy. With a large number of demons attacking the city, frequently using wind and water blades was unrealistic at this stage.

From a magical economics perspective, the most suitable combat strategy for Wang Yu in Bo City a year from now is to use his most proficient mid-level wind and water magic, Wind Disc and Storm Wave, when facing general-level enemies; and to use fully offensive fire magic when facing servant-level enemies. However, since Wang Yu's awakening, he hasn't allocated much time to fire magic. In order to be able to use it as a mainstay when needed, subsequent training and practice time need to be significantly shifted towards fire magic. However, his main wind magic cannot be neglected. It seems that water magic may have to temporarily take third place. As for earth magic, it's enough to switch gears occasionally. Time is really tight!

Besides cultivation, Wang Yu also wanted to acquire other combat power multipliers such as magical artifacts and spirit seeds. However, he currently only had less than two million in assets, so he really couldn't afford spirit seeds and magical artifacts worth at least ten or twenty million.

As the saying goes, poverty breeds greed... no, it's more like the poorer you are, the more wicked ideas you'll come up with. Wang Yu's first thought was that if he didn't have money, he should just take out a loan! But after checking online, Wang Yu discovered that loans for mages in this world not only had incredibly harsh contract terms and small loan amounts, but also ridiculously high interest rates. The maximum loan amount was only three to five million, with an annual interest rate as high as 100%! This was simply outrageous! However, considering the high mortality rate of mages, especially low-level mages who needed loans, the banks' bad debt rate must be incredibly high, which explains why the interest rate was so inhuman.

If this tactic doesn't work, then there's another one. Wang Yu remembered the Secret Scroll Zhao Manyan had mentioned to him. Considering his meager two million, he realized he couldn't afford anything that would actually boost his strength. Wang Yu decided to gamble on the Secret Scroll, hoping to glean some useful information to generate some unexpected profits to sell. Otherwise, relying solely on commissions, even a year of hard work wouldn't earn him enough for a single spirit seed!

That's right, Wang Yu has made up his mind. He needs to get a spirit seed for himself within this year, otherwise, it will be too difficult for an ordinary mid-level mage to face a general-level demon.

Next, the most wicked of all tricks: borrowing money from Lingling and Old Man Bao. One of these two is a high-level hunter who doesn't spend much of the money he gets from missions, having mostly saved it all. The other is a retired high priest from the Holy Judgment Court. It would be a joke to say he doesn't have tens or hundreds of millions in his pocket. If he hasn't managed to get any money by the time the Bo City Cataclysm approaches, he'll have no choice but to swallow his pride and ask them for money!

Wang Yu, who was very concerned about his image, decided to use this last option as a way to motivate himself. He had to avoid being forced into the embarrassing situation of borrowing money from little girls and old men.