Chapter 24 - Elias Vane

Chapter 24: 24 - Elias Vane

The way mages in the Arcane Dominion world level up, according to what King could tell, was pretty fair. Talent wasn’t the only path either. As long as one’s will was strong enough, anyone had a chance to rise.

It’s just that the path of using potions would definitely be very difficult because things like the blood of fantastic beasts were definitely not cheap things that anyone could get just because they wanted them. The recipe for making potions wasn’t something everyone knew either.

"Where is the protagonist of this world? I appeared in the forest... Could it be that something is about to happen here?"

Turning left and right, King suddenly saw clouds within his line of sight. The distance was quite close, so this place should be on a very high mountain or something similar.

[That’s right. Please follow the system’s instructions.]

King followed the system, finally stopping in front of a tree. Within his line of sight was a sheer cliff. This place was very suitable for the protagonist to activate the ’newbie reward’.

"Don’t tell me that guy named Elias is going to fall off the cliff later?"

[I don’t know about this. I only know that he is the protagonist. I don’t know anything at all about how this world will develop.]

He hadn’t waited long when he saw three people come here. Two of them wore black clothes and pointed hats like wizards. Each of them had a wooden wand hanging at their waist. With this design, these should be the wands the system mentioned earlier.

These two looked really ’unique’. One was short and fat, while the other was tall and thin. This contrast combined together basically made them villains already.

They walked on both sides of a young man. This person also wore clothes that had some features similar to a mage, but they were patched together from many different pieces of cloth as if they had been picked up from a garbage dump.

He wasn’t wearing a hat, let alone carrying a wand. On his back was an old cloth backpack filled with pots, pans, and various tools for making potions.

His brown hair was slightly messy, and he wore round glasses. His face looked kind, and on top of that, he had an innocent look that was almost like an idiot. No matter how one looked at him, he didn’t look like a mage at all, but more like some poor errand boy.

"That guy dressed like a beggar is the protagonist. I’m one hundred percent sure. From my experience, this is the trash-rising-up trope."

[You are right. In this world, everyone has a mana core. The mana core is the foundation for absorbing aether and converting it into mana.]

[The purity of the mana core has a huge effect on the speed of leveling up. The protagonist Elias is truly a freak case, being born with a shattered mana core. His leveling speed can be said to be even slower than some random person on the street. Under normal circumstances, even if he spent his whole life, he wouldn’t be able to become a mage.]

[His parents died in an accident, but since they had both been teachers at a mage academy before that, the academy took pity on him and let him work as an assistant to help them make potions. More specifically, he did all the dirty and secretless work.]

[As of now, Elias has been at the academy for three years. His reputation as a trash is so famous that he has practically become the academy’s ’mascot’. Students from the same generation as him have reached rank II at the very least. The generations after him have also surpassed him one after another.]

"So Elias is going to fall off a cliff for some reason soon. Then he’ll find a cheat down there, right? After that, he’ll break through quickly and come back to slap the faces of everyone who once looked down on him. Tsk, I could guess this plot with my eyes closed."

[This... I really don’t know his future.]

Seeing King looking so smug and confident, as if he had already seen through Elias’s future, the system didn’t dare confirm it either.

If it happened to be right, then there was no problem, but if it supported King’s wrong analysis, wouldn’t King stop trusting it in the future?

"Hmph, what’s there not to know? You just need to read a few more NovelPhoenixs, and you’ll know everything. But... with his body no different from an ordinary person, how could he not die if he fell off a cliff like this?"

Although King was arrogant and thought he was always right, he really did feel a little curious about how the story would develop.

Elias was both weak and carrying a huge, heavy backpack. From a quick look, there were quite a few sharp objects inside. There was a very high chance that he would fall and get impaled by something sharp.

After all, the system said Elias was about to encounter danger, so there would definitely be something for King to do. With him here, Elias could forget about dying even if he wanted to.

[I don’t know. See for yourself.]

As for the future of this world, the system really couldn’t do anything. The information provided to it by the Heavenly Dao of the Arcane Dominion world only contained the past, not the future.

"You guys said a fantastic beast really died here? Just give me a little of its blood, and I’ll help you make the potion."

Elias’s eyes seemed to light up as he looked at these two ’friends’, completely unaware of the slyness and deceit on their faces.

Although Elias had spent the past few years working as an assistant for other mages to make potions, he had only been allowed to learn the theory and wasn’t allowed to practice.

Everyone was afraid he would secretly steal the precious blood of fantastic beasts, so for three years, he hadn’t even been allowed to touch that kind of blood once.

These two were a pair of younger ’friends’ of Elias who specialized in bullying him. Perhaps bullying him for so long had developed ’feelings’, so they thought of him when something good like this came up.

Pip was the tall one, while Bob was the fat one. The talents of these two were ordinary, but compared to someone like Elias, who hadn’t become a mage after three years, they could clearly be called geniuses.

"Hahaha, of course. As long as you make the potion for us, we won’t be stingy."

Pip revealed an evil smile. He clearly had no good intentions in his heart. Anyone with a little bit of awareness could tell that there was something wrong with his words.

But it seemed that because he was nearsighted and was wearing the wrong prescription glasses, Elias had gone blind. His face remained full of excitement as he happily walked forward. He was getting closer and closer to the cliff.

"We’re not lying to you. When we passed by here, I saw an injured bird-type fantastic beast die right on the cliff. Go take a look at the cliff."

Behind Elias, Bob’s chubby face became extremely sinister as the corners of his mouth curled upward.