The Wizard: Starting as a Corpse Burial Man - An Infinite Side Hustle

"The bystander."

The centaur Novak did not know Anzu's name, so he referred to him as the listener.

"From which official wizard did you obtain your [audience attendance certificate]?"

Are you also a specialist in drawing and creating magical scrolls?

"no."

Ansu shook her head, and then told the other party Sandru's name.

Sandru?

Novak couldn't recall the name immediately.

After all, wizarding academies account for one-tenth of the wizarding world, and the number of teachers reaches tens of millions.

If we include the number of formal wizards who haven't started classes, the number could increase several times over.

So he searched his memory for a while.

Novak then recalled that when he was still a wizarding apprentice, he had bought some alchemical pigments from Sandru, who was also a wizarding apprentice.

We met a few times, but that was all.

"The recommender is clearly a professional wizard who specializes in mixing alchemical pigments, and this is his first time creating a painting-style spell scroll."

This allows you to master advanced techniques that bring summoned creatures to life on paintings, thereby maximizing the effects of alchemical pigments.

Novak became somewhat interested in Ansu's talent.

He also planned to ask Sandru later if he would be willing to let Ansu become his assistant after Ansu passed the wizarding academy's assessment.

After confirming that the Sandru Ansu mentioned was the same person as the Sandru in his memory, Novak stopped discussing the topic.

Instead, he took out books containing extraordinary knowledge from his personal spatial artifacts and handed them to Ansu.

"This is the basic knowledge that I will teach in the next few classes."

Of course, some advanced skills cannot be easily learned on your own.

It requires my occult talent to explain and master.

Therefore, you will need to continue attending classes in the future.

The extraordinary knowledge in the following lessons?

Ansu was somewhat puzzled.

For Ansu, this is indeed a good thing.

But he didn't understand why the other party wanted to give him this knowledge in advance.

While Ansu was pondering, the centaur Novak continued:

"With your talent."

If we simply follow my teaching schedule and teach one type of painting-type spell scroll drawing technique per lesson, it would be a waste.

Furthermore, the entrance exam has been moved up a bit, which may change the difficulty level.

Therefore, I suggest you learn this knowledge as soon as possible, and then use your talents to apply it to improve your various abilities.

Seeing that Novak had shown him goodwill, Ansu thanked him.

With these books containing occult knowledge,

My efficiency in improving the proficiency of [Knowledge - Painting-type Spell Scroll Drawing] and the efficiency in improving the Mystic attribute will definitely receive additional boosts.

This will give them an extra advantage when facing the entrance exams for wizarding academies.

Ansu thought to himself, then opened the spatial box that the centaur Novak had previously given him.

Just as I was about to put the books in, I discovered that the names on the side of nearly half of the dozen or so books were a bit off.

It does not include knowledge of extraordinary paintings.

It also does not include knowledge of magic.

It is simply knowledge related to fire.

So, somewhat puzzled, Ansu asked the other party:

"Lord Novak, why do you have so much knowledge about fire?"

Is fire very effective for painting-type spell scrolls?

"No, the connection between fire and painting-type spell scrolls is not significant."

The centaur Novak shook his head.

"The academy requires all wizarding apprentices to acquire and master a great deal of extraordinary knowledge related to fire, in order to reduce the etheric concentration within this knowledge."

The purpose of propagation is to reduce the concentration of ether.

Therefore, even if this knowledge were given to Anzu, who was not yet a wizarding apprentice, there would be no consequences.

"I remember that when mixing alchemical pigments, I would occasionally use the soul fire of the dead, or other types of flames."

Even though the concentration of ether contained within the knowledge has decreased considerably.

The principles behind this can also be applied to the construction of alchemical pigments, and they can be put to some use.

"Is the purpose of spreading knowledge specifically to reduce ether concentration?"

As Ansu listened to Novak's account, he suddenly remembered something.

When I first visited Sandro's alchemy workshop, Sandro's assistant Wells said that the wizarding world once contained primordial aether.

The method of making fire by friction, aided by the primordial ether, was transformed into a esoteric knowledge.

Even when the number of people who possess the knowledge is small enough.

Under the influence of the high concentration of ether contained within knowledge.

A dragon can be easily killed simply by waving a torch.

However, as more and more people mastered the ability to start fires, the concentration of ether contained in this knowledge gradually decreased.

It continued until it dropped to 0.01, at which point it could not be lowered any further.

Ansu had a vague feeling that there was some connection between the two events.

Does the wizarding academy want to make all knowledge related to fire common knowledge, outside of mysticism?

They are still at odds with a force that uses fire as its power system.

So, are they trying to weaken that faction by reducing the concentration of ether?

Ansu's chances are uncertain.

But he also knew that he didn't have much information.

Therefore, it is impossible to draw an accurate conclusion in a short period of time.

It's also uncertain whether there are any other possibilities.

So I put the matter aside for the time being.

Next, the knowledge related to fire, as well as the knowledge related to painting-type spell scrolls, was transferred into the spatial artifact.

Then they left the wizard tower where the teaching area was located.

After traveling between various wizard towers for a while, Ansu arrived at an area that resembled Stonehenge, with each stone covered with various runes.

At the same time, the crystal chip, which was called the "attendance certificate," was removed.

Furthermore, by utilizing mental energy, some functions of the [Auditor's Certificate] were activated.

next moment.

With a series of spatial distortions, a dark green vortex-shaped portal immediately appeared within Stonehenge.

Ansu then walked straight in.

After a dizzying spin, Ansu found himself back in another megalithic formation.

The surrounding environment was no longer filled with wizard towers of different shapes.

Instead, they were cemetery-style corpse hotels belonging to Sandro's company.

Ansu didn't linger any longer and immediately headed towards the accommodation area for those who buried corpses in the Rose Cemetery.

At the same time, he transferred many of the resources he had previously acquired to the soul space.

This also includes the painting-shaped spell scroll called Pied Piper.

However, unlike other resources, they were not all placed within the cemetery area and were instead managed by the deceased's relatives.

Instead, they moved to the floating city area of ​​the Soul Space.

The panel notification sound rang out again:

[A painting-style spell scroll - Pied Piper] detected

Rating: 3 stars

Should it be loaded within the frame?

(The painting inside the frame can be removed or adjusted at any time.)

...

Meanwhile, in another area of ​​the wizarding academy.

Sandru is in a laboratory with the centaur Novak.