“Today’s explanation ends here. This is my understanding of the Spiritual Realm Mage’s inheritance, expressed through the Magic Crystal Ball. If my fellow Mages can gain more understanding through my explanation, then I will feel very proud.”
Four hours passed, and Zhang Bo stopped his explanation. He took a sip of the cool honey water drink that James had arranged for someone to bring over, and feeling the sweet taste, he grew even happier.
He couldn't help but be happy, because he found that when he was explaining to these Human Mages, their favorability towards him increased.
Zhang Bo could clearly see that these Human Mages looked at him with a hint of admiration and recognition.
Even James, who was a bit older, around 40, looked at him with great respect and subtly deferred to him, making Zhang Bo understand that if he wanted to break the soul contract with the little monsters and then form contracts with these Human Races in front of him, it would be a very simple matter.
As long as Shen Mu nodded, he could turn these Human Mages into his Spiritual Realm Followers. It was that simple, that easy, and could be accomplished with such smooth sailing.
“Thank you very much for your explanation, esteemed Mr. Zhang Bo.” James also thanked Zhang Bo very respectfully at this time.
“Yes, thank you very much for your explanation, esteemed Mr. Zhang Bo. Every time your explanation enlightens us. We truly benefit greatly. We also very much hope that you can come and explain every day.” The remaining 10 Aiden Gaarde Devotees also thanked him very respectfully at this time.
There was no other way. The Mage knowledge about the Spiritual Realm that Zhang Bo explained was still very useful to them. They had already enriched some of their magical theories through the Mage knowledge Zhang Bo explained.
It could even be said that if Zhang Bo continued to explain, the magical knowledge they gained would support them in acquiring a second spell, or even a third.
Currently, these Aiden Gaarde Devotees possess a Minor Healing Spell formed by the power of light.
And the offensive Yang Flame Ray formed by the condensation of light power.
The Minor Healing Spell, of course, can only treat minor injuries and is not a very useful healing spell, but when they work together, they can effectively heal friendly forces.
As for the Yang Flame Ray, it's actually just so-so; its lethality is not as good as a heavy crossbow.
Its effective range is only about 20 meters. Besides having strong destructive power against Undead Monsters and evil creatures, it is not much of a threat to enemies with armor or other protective gear.
It can even be said that if the destructive power of a Yang Flame Ray is compared to a heavy crossbow, a heavy crossbow can aim and shoot repeatedly, and its effective killing range can be extended to over 100 or 200 meters.
Compared to the Yang Flame Ray, which has a killing range of only over 20 meters and an extreme killing distance of only over 50 meters, it is simply immeasurably superior.
This is also why Shen Mu has never deployed these Aiden Gaarde Devotees to the battlefield.
With a killing distance of only about 20 meters, what good would it do even if they were deployed to the battlefield? They are not as useful as the Swadian Militia who use hunting crossbows!
Those Swadian Militia who use hunting crossbows at least have fan-shaped shields that can form a shield wall to block enemy charges, and they can also use long spears to form a spear phalanx to hinder enemy attacks.
Plus the hunting crossbow's range of over 50 meters.
Known as the most versatile tier-two soldiers on the Calradia continent, the Swadian Militia are certainly not just for show.
As for comparing them to these Aiden Gaarde Devotees, the lowest-tier first-tier soldiers in the Aiden Gaarde Kingdom, it should be understood that if compared in this way, the equivalent would be the Swadian Recruit level.
What is there to compare?
But now it's different. These Aiden Gaarde Devotees and James have been studying here, and their research on spells is inherently improving their magical level. After all, they are now living people, not cold NPCs and game data in game data. They can improve their magical level through learning in the real world.
Thereby allowing their Minor Healing Spell and the damaging Yang Flame Ray spell to grow more fully.
Moreover, Zhang Bo is now explaining spell knowledge from the Spiritual Realm, which has extremely complete foundational disciplines. For them, the insights are even deeper.
Therefore, they truly recognize Zhang Bo greatly.
After all, through Zhang Bo, they understood the categories of Spiritual Realm spells, and even began to research new spells created by combining the spell structures of the Spiritual Realm and the mount & blade Warband world through Zhang Bo.
The mount & blade Warband world's application of spells is also quite ingenious, although relatively crude, which is due to war. In terms of daily spell types, it is certainly not as varied and practical as Spiritual Realm spells.
However, once it involves the battlefield, once it involves real combat, then combined with these spell theories from the Spiritual Realm, the spells of the Warband world can also be enhanced.
At least, according to their discussions at night, the Aiden Gaarde Devotees and James themselves concluded that if they were given another two or three months, they might be able to improve the spells in the Warband world, or even break down some of the spells to obtain more useful ones.
And as they listened to Zhang Bo explain the spell theories of the Spiritual Realm, they had many more insights in their hearts. Although they were only first-tier Aiden Gaarde Devotees, they were first-tier soldiers of a high-magic world. If compared to a low-magic world, similar to a historical world, they would at least be equivalent to high-tier third-tier soldiers.
Or rather, they were halfway to being fourth-tier soldiers, just a little short.
Their foundation was still quite strong.
“Alright, there’s no need to chat anymore. If we delay Mage Zhang Bo from leaving the Castle District, he will be severely punished. We cannot take that responsibility for Mage Zhang Bo. Let Mage Zhang Bo leave here quickly.”
Without further chatter, James spoke up, signaling to these Aiden Gaarde Devotees not to pester Zhang Bo anymore.
After all, if Zhang Bo couldn't leave the Castle District within the stipulated time and remained there, he would truly be punished and severely reprimanded.
If he dared to make any special or inappropriate moves, then the Lake Rat Gang Destroyers guarding the Castle District would not hesitate to directly imprison Zhang Bo or use their whips to let him know the consequences of daring to disobey Lord Shen Mu's orders.
“Yes, I don’t want to cause trouble, so I’ll see you tomorrow.” Zhang Bo still had a humble smile on his face at this time and planned to leave without much explanation, but as he left, he also thought of something and placed the Magic Crystal Ball from his backpack on the library table, saying to them: “This is my Magic Crystal Ball. It contains magical power, and you can refer to it freely, but do not use it, because the magical structure inside the Magic Crystal Ball is too profound. Even I can only control it with the powerful mental strength of a Prophecy-type Mage. For you, I think it’s better to first understand the operating principle of this magical item.”
Zhang Bo spoke sincerely, not caring if his words contained any condescending meaning.
Because this Magic Crystal Ball indeed requires stronger magical perception to control, and the sensitivity of the mental power involved is not something that these basic Evocation Mages can master at present.
This was the truth; Zhang Bo truly did not believe that these young Human Mages could use the Magic Crystal Ball.
It was better to tell them in advance, lest they misuse the functions of the Magic Crystal Ball and cause unnecessary trouble.
After all, this Magic Crystal Ball currently contains a hidden function to open a teleportation gate at a very deep level.
If they messed around and caused the teleportation gate to open, that would be a huge problem.
Of course, saying that messing around would open the teleportation gate is an extremely small probability and highly unlikely. After all, the Elders in the Wood Elf Plane, no matter what, have extremely high magical levels, absolutely not comparable to himself and these current Evocation Mages.
Therefore, the hidden teleportation gate they set up, besides himself knowing how to open it, wanting someone else to open it would be as absurd as an ordinary person trying to shoot a small branch of a halberd on a city gate tower several hundred meters away with a bow.
However, for Zhang Bo, he had to be cautious; if something went wrong, he couldn't bear the consequences.
But because his Magic Crystal Ball also had a suitable reason to stay in the library, inside the Castle District, he could only come up with this method, placing his Magic Crystal Ball in the Holy White Council's Holy Light Torch Tower library.
Otherwise, if the grand plan was implemented and the Magic Crystal Ball in the Castle District could not open the third teleportation gate to allow more Wood Elf soldiers to raid in, he would be held responsible.
But now it was fine; his relationship with these Human Mages was truly very close, so finding this excuse was not a problem.
“Thank you very much for your generosity, Mage Zhang Bo. We will always remember your contribution.” James and these Aiden Gaarde Devotees nodded to Zhang Bo with great gratitude.
Zhang Bo didn't say much either, just waved his hand and immediately left the library, walking quickly towards the gate of the Castle District.
“Mage Zhang Bo, you’ve actually exceeded the time. Please leave here quickly.” The Lake Rat Gang Destroyers guarding the library entrance also looked at Zhang Bo at this time, their eyes carrying a hint of sternness.
In fact, just a moment ago, the four hours had already passed, and he had indeed exceeded the time limit.
“I am very sorry. I was continuously discussing Mage knowledge with the Mages just now and lost track of time. I apologize greatly. I will leave immediately.” Zhang Bo acted very sincerely, apologizing repeatedly, not wanting to shirk responsibility at all.
“I heard your voice, you were lecturing the whole time, that’s why we allowed you to leave quickly during this period. Otherwise, if you waste any more time, the consequences will be very serious, Mage Zhang Bo. I hope you understand.” The Lake Rat Gang Destroyer pointed towards the direction of the city gate, signaling him to leave quickly.
“Understood, understood, I’m going now.” Zhang Bo didn’t hesitate, immediately took off, and trotted towards the city gate.
And he ran very fast.
Within a few minutes, he reached the city gate, seeing the two Lake Rat Gang Destroyers staring at him, and the Human Race soldiers guarding on the city wall also watching him coldly. A cold sweat and a numb feeling emerged in Zhang Bo’s heart.
“Mage Zhang Bo, hurry up, you’re already late.” The Lake Rat Gang Destroyer guarding the city gate reached out, ordering the drawbridge to be lowered, and at the same time said to Zhang Bo, who ran over, panting and looking very nervous: “This is your first time being late. You weren’t like this before. Don’t do it again next time.”
“Yes, yes, I understand.” Zhang Bo nodded repeatedly, a wry smile on his face, then quickly walked out of the city gate and crossed the drawbridge to the Town Area.
Behind him, the drawbridge, as the iron chains were pulled up, seemed to transform back into the outer city gate, blocking the true city gate.
Only the gurgling sound of water falling into the moat from the canals on both sides of the city gate made a sound.
And now Zhang Bo couldn't help but wipe the sweat from his forehead. It was cold sweat, because just now he realized that if he hadn't run, hadn't been so rushed, he would definitely have faced a bad outcome.
He had no doubt that if he dared to run in any other direction, the archers on the city wall would directly attack him.
Even those Lake Rat Gang Destroyers would directly pull out the javelins on their backs and throw them at him.
They simply didn't care about his life.
If he dared to make any offensive moves in the Castle District, they would kill him on sight according to the absolute prohibition in the Castle District.
This also showed that the Castle District was truly very strict.
But Zhang Bo had also tested it out now: he truly dared not have any extra thoughts about the taboos in the Castle District.
Because his being late this time by less than 10 minutes was intentional. He had already stopped keeping track of time in his mind, just wanting to see what would happen if he delayed a bit.
And seeing such strictness now, he also gave up the idea of intentionally being late to buy time in the future.
Looking at the expressions of those Lingjie Human Race, if he dared to be late again, he would probably truly face severe interrogation, or even threaten his life. (End of this chapter)
