Versatile mage c1 2021, p.122
Versatile Mage c1-2021, page 122
"The two of you better not be hasty. Don't you go around and destroy the position of our school all on your own," a Summoning student within the practice ground spoke up. Beside him was a fierce blue wolf!
"Lu Zhenghe, don't underestimate us. I'd be able to knock down your Violent Mark Wolf on my own!" Xu Dalong's short temper immediately arose.
"Hehe! There is indeed someone who is capable of single-handedly knocking down my Violent Mark Wolf on their own. However, that person is not you. Why don't you go and practice a couple more years." The summoning student, Lu Zhenghe, patted the large head of the wolf next to him, his smile filled with ridicule.
Xu Dalong's face turned black as he pointed toward the Summoning Element student. "Just you wait!"
"I will definitely get the highest reward from fighting against other universities this time. With the ability that the Pearl Institute has, I'm afraid even if they were to team up, they still wouldn't be able to win against my Violent Mark Wolf, hahaha!" Lu Zhenghe laughed egotistically.
Lu Yiming shook his head. As students of Imperial College, the vast majority of them were very arrogant.
That's nothing he could do about it, they indeed had extremely dominating abilities.
"Where's your captain?" Lu Yiming asked.
"Captain was tired, she went to rest up first. Mr. Lu, why don't the few of us go to the fights tomorrow. Let's not bother our Captain."
"Yeah, yeah, just us will be enough."
The second they mentioned the Captain, the few of them couldn't help but display admiration.
The position of this group was very simple. Whoever was the strongest was the Captain!
When they were choosing their Captain, even the extremely arrogant Lu Zhenghe did not object.
In front of others, Lu Zhenghe's Violent Mark Wolf was a fierce wolf. In front of her, it turned into a little dog.
Chapter 252 - Condensed Spirit Essence
As evening came, Mo Fan quietly moved to the rooftop.
The air in the Imperial City was even worse then the Demon City. No matter which part of the city you were in, there was no way for you to see the starry skies. The clouds made the night pitch-black and everything unclear. There was a layer of a yellow drizzle around, like a pollution of the light.
Mo Fan planned on continuing meditating tonight and wanted to focus on the Summoning Element that had recently evolved into a Nebula.
Who knew why, but the Little Loach Pendant was a bit odd today, as it let out a strange radiance. Mo Fan thought it was very weird.
During the past couple of days, while he was appreciating the Magic Historical Sites, Mo Fan had gone to Mr. Qiu Yuhua specifically to ask about matters regarding Undead Tools.
Recalling what Zhao Manyan had mentioned before, Soul Remnants and Soul Essences that appeared after death could not be seen, and thus could not be collected, either. Only Undead Magicians were capable of controlling them.
If other Magicians wanted to collect Soul Remnants or Soul Essences, they had to use the Undead Tools forged by the Undead Magicians…
Just where did the Little Loach Come from? It was a precious Meditation Tool, and also a Undead Tool.
Tonight, the light emitted by this little thing was particularly strange. Mo Fan decided to use his intent to probe and see what he could find out.
The Underground Holy Spring was stored within the Little Loach Pendant, and was nearly completely digested. The reason why Yu Ang was able to sense the aura of the Underground Holy Spring was because the Little Loach Pendant had emitted some drops of the Underground Holy Spring stored inside it.
Spitting out the Spring again was basically impossible. Additionally, the Little Loach Pendant seemed to have linked to it. Even if someone wanted to take it away, it would be impossible. To be frank, the Black Vatican no longer had any possibility of ever getting the Underground Holy Spring.
"Why are you being so noisy? Not only are you not asleep in the dead of the night, you're also letting out some strange, green light…" Mo Fan was sitting on the rooftop as he watched the Little Loach Pendant in confusion.
As night fell, the Little Loach Pendant began to light up a green radiance. From time to time, it would start to tremble as well. If Mo Fan wasn't one hundred percent sure that the Little Loach Pendant was actually a pendant, then he would've suspected it to be a living creature.
As his intent entered the pendant, Mo Fan was shocked to discover that the inside of the Little Loach Pendant actually had a void space.
Perhaps because his cultivation back then was not high enough, his intent had been unable to truly enter the world of the Little Loach Pendant. This time, Mo Fan felt just like his first time using Dimensional Summoning, his intent felt as though he was in a plane different from his own.
However, Mo Fan did not panic. Even something like the Three Step Pagoda had a colossal space hidden within it, the mysterious Little Loach Pendant having a world of its own was not strange at all. Otherwise, where would it put the Underground Holy Spring? Where would it put the collected souls?
As his intent continued to wander, he realized this piece of void was actually not that big. As Mo Fan proceeded toward the deeper parts, he quickly spotted an incredibly clear river in the middle of it.
The aura emitted by the river was just like the Underground Holy Spring. You could basically say that there was a murmuring river flowing within the void of the Little Loach Pendant!
As Mo Fan watched carefully, he realized there was a ball of green light hovering above the waters of the river. It looked like a bunch of enlarged fireflies as it floated above the river.
The green fireflies' radiance had already reached a certain scale. It began to gather as it glittered above the clear river, simply too beautiful. However, once he was clear what the firefly radiance was, Mo Fan was no longer able to think of them as beautiful.
To put it in a nice way, the things floating above the river were Soul Remnants.
In a bad way, they were all souls.
In the very beginning, when Mo Fan had killed the Spirit Wolf that belonged to Instructor Bai Yang, the Spirit Wolf's soul had been absorbed by the Little Loach Pendant.
Ever since, the Magical Beasts and the people from the Black Vatican killed by him had all turned into those specks of light as they floated into the Little Loach Pendant.
Mo Fan thought that those worthless Soul Remnants had all been turned into food for the Little Loach Pendant, but who would've thought that they were all here, turned into a green lantern hovering above the river...
Mo Fan was also puzzled. He really did not understand the Little Loach Pendant's addiction to gathering all these spoils of war.
Fortunately, not too long afterwards, the green radiance began to dim. Although Mo Fan was suspicious, since he couldn't tell what was going on, he had to stop wasting time.
They were all Soul Remnants. Compared to the Soul Essences that could be used to create Stardust Magic Tools and Nebula Magic Tools, the difference was like a grain of sand and gold. Since the Little Loach Pendant liked to collect them, then he'd let it be. Being a Pendant with a goal was not a bad thing, either!
Mo Fan no longer paid any more attention to the Little Loach Pendant. He sank into his magic Cultivation.
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As he entered the latter half of the night, the Little Loach Pendant turned restless once more, continuously trembling.
Mo Fan opened his eyes. Just as he was about to scold the pendant, he suddenly realized that the originally scattered green radiance had concentrated greatly!
Mo Fan to opened his eyes widel and his mouth was gaping enough to fit a fist inside it!
The scattered green radiance and the condensed green radiance were two completely different things. The former was a Soul Remnant as worthless as a grain of sand, and the latter was a Soul Essence worth as much as gold!
The problem was, he clearly did not fight anything, nor did he kill any Magical Beast, so how could the pendant possibly produce a Soul Essence?
Furthermore, this was the genuine article!
Mo Fan hastily used his intent to probe and suddenly realized the Soul Remnants hovering above the river were no longer there. The space above the river was completely empty, there was only a Soul Essence with a very concentrated radiance. It was as mesmerizing as the moonlight!
Mo Fan was not the kind of person who liked to have a meat pie drop from the sky. He needed to have everything made clear to him before he would feel safe.
This Soul Essence was too sudden. It was just like picking it up from the street...
Being happy was one thing, but his heart was still a bit not at ease.
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Carrying this hesitation, early morning finally arrived.
Mo Fan knocked on the old teacher, Qiu Yuhua's door the first thing in the morning. The old teacher yawned as he looked at Mo Fan saying, "You're up quite early, what's wrong?"
"Sir, I was reading a book regarding the Undead Magic Tools. It said that other than just collecting Soul Essences, they also have one extremely special ability. Do you know about it?" Mo Fan asked him.
The old instructor's eyes began to shine. It was like he had met another great master who would delve into this kind of study as he wearily said, "Where did you read this book at, it must be an ancient book! I actually accidentally came across some very early materials that had some records written down…"
When Mo Fan saw this old teacher's eyes turning extremely excited while pretending to act so mysterious, he knew that this old guy definitely had the answer that he wanted. Thus he directed him in the direction of what he wanted to understand.
The old teacher Qiu Yuhua appeared as if he was spilling all of the secrets he had discovered throughout his life as he whispered, "There's a rumor that there's a Undead Magic Tool that doesn't just collect Soul Essences, but it even has an affinity with Soul Remnants. This is because this type of Undead Magic Tool... is capable of refining those Soul Remnants into a proper Soul Essence!"
After hearing this, Mo Fan felt like his entire body had just lit up.
As expected, the Little Loach Pendant that had turned all those Soul Remnants into a Soul Essence.
Turning sands into gold!
Chapter 253 - Strengthening The Star
Mo Fan couldn't help but give the Little Loach Pendant a kiss. Owning a Pendant and having it reach this kind of realm, that was way too amazing. It was far too exceptional.
After he returned to his room, Mo Fan went inside it to affirm once more.
It was indeed a Soul Essence, a Minion-level Soul Essence.
A Minion-level Soul was also relatively precious, because all the basic Stardust Magic Tools required them.
When Mo Fan was pondering about how he could use the Little Loach Pendant to earn big money in the future, he accidentally discovered an even bigger problem!
It appeared that he was not able to extract the Soul Essence!
"Little Loach Pendant, don't tease me. If I can't take out the Soul Essence, then I can't bring it to auction. If I can't sell it, I won't have money." Mo Fan didn't know whether to cry or not.
He had discovered gold, but was unable to extract it. In that sense, even if there was more gold, what was the point of it?
Mo Fan studied it for a long time, and realized that he was unable to extract this condensed Soul Essence from the Little Loach Pendant. If this was the case, then wouldn't the refined Minion-level Soul Essence be just the same as a decoration?!
Could it be that he jumped the gun too fast?
Mo Fan was a little unwilling as he continued to study the Soul Essence.
He didn't eat breakfast. He used all of his time attempting to extract the gold that he had picked up from the street.
Mo Fan used his intent to repeatedly attempt its removal. He eventually realized that this Soul Essence was not able to go anywhere else, other than inside his Spiritual World.
This kind of feeling was just like a Spiritual Imprint. It was like this Soul Essence had a imprint on it, and was firmly bound to him...
The question is, what was the point of having this special Soul inside his own Spiritual World?
After probing it for a long time, the bored Mo Fan decided to move the Soul Essence toward his Lightning Nebula.
The Lightning Nebula was purple and had a spiral shape now, like a galaxy. It was extremely bright within the vast Spiritual Space.
As Mo Fan watched the radiating Soul Essence being pulled in, he realized that this firefly-like radiance was involuntarily floating toward a Lightning Star.
Just as Mo Fan was trying to discern what was going on, the Lightning Star suddenly began to emit a certain magnetic field, and it devoured the radiant Soul Essence completely.
"Shit, how could that thing be eaten?!"
A Soul Essence was worth three to give million RMB! How could it eat it like that, it was outrageous!
How could a normally very obedient Star suddenly have such a change in attitude?! It swallowed a Soul Essence, and even refused to spit it back out!
This whole situation rendered Mo Fan completely dumbstruck.
Originally, he was only experimenting. Who could've imagined that this Soul Essence would get devoured, and it was devoured by one of the Stars that he used to form a Magic Star Path!
This situation had already exceeded Mo Fan's imagination. Mo Fan hastily found Mr. Qiu Yuhao again and hoped to obtain some kind of explanation for all this from him.
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"A Star devouring a Soul Essence?" The old teacher pushed his glasses while his face displayed a smile.
Qiu Yuhua was a person who liked it when his students asked him crazy questions. If he was able to answer them, that would show that he was an excellent scholar.
The question Mo Fan asked was rather tricky. A lot of books didn't record these kinds of things. Fortunately, the old teacher had stumbled upon books that did, so he cleared his throat and began a long diatribe of things that had nothing to do with it. After that, he finally got to the actual question.
"You should already know that Soul Essence is a very good thing. It is able to provide a great assistance to a Magician's Cultivation. The greatest usage of a Soul Essence is creating a Meditation Magic Tool. Whether it is a Stardust Magic Tool or a Nebula Magic Tool, they are all worth a lot. However, in the beginning, Soul Essences were not used in that way. Before people used Necromancy to research Stardust Energy or Nebula Energy, Soul Essences were used for strengthening," Qiu Yuhua explained.
"Strengthening? Strengthening what?" Mo Fan immediately asked.
"You even have to ask this? Of course it was used for strengthening the Stars! Otherwise, why would a Star devour a Soul Essence?" Qiu Yuhua hmphed into his beard.
"It's capable of strengthening Stars?"
"Yes, before the invention of Meditation Magic Tools, Soul Essences were being wasted in that manner."
"If it is able to strengthen a Star, does that mean the Magic spells formed from the Stars would also get stronger?" Mo Fan immediately asked.
"Naturally. If the Star receives a boost, then the spells will also become stronger."
"Then… isn't that a good thing?!" Mo Fan felt a burst of joy.
So the spells were able to obtain a boost, that was good news!
Just like when casting the Giant Shadow Spike beneath the Great Nyx Formation, a single Great Shadow Spike had multiplied into six of them. It was able to completely nail the Warrior-level Cursed Beast down, like a pinned butterfly. It even had an additional effect of penetrating its soul. The strengthening of a spell was actually extremely powerful!
Qiu Yuhua shook his head and said, "I also said that it's a waste of resources."
"Why?" Mo Fan was unable to understand that.
"A Soul Essence is extremely precious. If you were to go to an auction, you'd be able to understand just how much in demand those things are. No matter what level the Soul Essences are, the ones needed for manufacturing a Stardust or a Nebula Magic Tool are simply not in enough supply. Who would actually use those Soul Essences to strengthen their Stars? Primary Magic has a total of seven Stars right? Only when you strengthen all seven of those Stars are you able to receive a certain upgrade… The problem is, other than the Magician being stupid, they would definitely not want to strengthen their Primary Magic with a whole seven Soul Essences," Qiu Yuhua said.
"Eh…" After Mo Fan heard this, the expression on his face changed.
It seems like he was that kind of stupid Magician. Just five minutes earlier, his dazzling Soul Essence had been completely devoured by one of the Lightning Stars.
"That's why, even though the strengthening of Magic Stars does exist, it would need to use a Soul Essence which provides a great benefit to the humanity. This kind of path of strengthening is very expensive. It is no different than using your money as firewood," Qiu Yuhua said.
Mo Fan thought that over as he nodded.
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Shit. If the condensed Soul Essences within the Little Loach Pendant could not be extracted and auctioned off, then he could only use them to strengthen his Primary Magic!
A Primary Magic required seven Stars, and each of them needed to be fed a Minion-level Soul Essence, then all of that money would've been able to buy him a Warrior-level Soul Essence.
Furthermore, even if his spells were buffed, the effect probably wouldn't be too exaggerated. At the very least, it probably wouldn't reach the might of an Intermediate Magic. What Mr. Qiu Yuhao said wasn't exactly wrong. As long as you're not stupid, then this is something you definitely wouldn't do.
"Let's continue to study it. If I really can't take it away, then I could only use them to strengthen the Stars." At this time, Mo Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
Using them for strengthen his Stars. That was still better then having them decorate the space above the river. The crucial point was that he'd feel too vexed when he saw them!
Chapter 254 - Team Battle
There was another school having a mock battle with the Imperial College in the morning. In the afternoon, it would be Pearl Institute vs Imperial College.
