【48 random Novice Magic spells are currently being drawn...】
【Duplicate magic will be added to the Host's proficiency for that spell.】
【Congratulations, Host! You have received...】
【Metal-type Novice Magic — Hardening (7) → Hardening LV3】
【Wood-type Novice Magic — Growth Acceleration (7) → Growth Acceleration LV3】
【Water-type Novice Magic — Water Creation (4) → Water Creation LV2】
【Fire-type Novice Magic — Ignition (6) → Ignition LV3】
【Earth-type Novice Magic — Rock Armor (5) → Rock Armor LV2】
【Lightning-type Novice Magic — Electric Spark (5) → Electric Spark LV2】
【Wind-type Novice Magic — Levitation (5) → Levitation LV2】
【Ice-type Novice Magic — Freezing (3) → Freezing LV2】
【Dark-type Novice Magic — Sprint (2) → Sprint LV2】
【Light-type Novice Magic — Illumination (3) → Illumination LV2】
【Soul-type Novice Magic — Clarity (1) → Clarity LV1】
A chaotic flood of basic knowledge surged into his mind, but Lin Gui only let out a helpless sigh.
Lower elemental magic from the five elemental phases, three types of middle elemental magic, two types of upper elemental magic, and one niche soul magic.
Almost every category of magic was represented.
Unfortunately, they were all at the novice level.
If he had obtained these during his first two years in the profession, he would have been too excited to close his eyes for three days and nights.
He had put in untold amounts of effort just to grind through those thick, heavy magical grimoires and construct spell models from scratch.
If there had been rewards like this that directly infused skills, why would he have wasted two entire years?
But now...
He casually chanted a few syllables, and a few faint Electric Sparks sputtered from his fingertips.
With dead-fish eyes, Lin Gui plucked a foxtail grass from the corner of the wall and controlled the Electric Spark to slowly burn it.
Only after a full minute did the edge of the grass blade barely show a trace of scorched yellow.
“...”
This level of power was barely enough to tickle someone.
This was exactly why he couldn't muster even the slightest interest in these Novice Magic spells.
They were too weak.
His gaze drifted indifferently across the ten types of Novice Magic.
It was meant to be a casual glance, but his eyes suddenly locked onto Levitation.
“!!! How did I not think of this! There’s a total game-changer hidden in the Novice Magic spells!!”
The Mage Guild's classification of magic levels was usually based on mana output power.
The higher the rank of the magic, the greater the consumption, the more terrifying the power, and the learning difficulty would skyrocket exponentially.
However, one particular novice spell completely defied this law.
It possessed extremely high practical value, an infuriatingly high learning difficulty, and... a pitifully low mana consumption that was completely disproportionate to its utility.
That was Levitation, the spell that allowed objects to float.
It was such a simple spell.
Yet its complex and profound principles and manipulation requirements had stumped generation after generation of powerful mages.
At the very least, when Lin Gui had flipped through a few pages of it back then, he had decisively given up.
In that 6,578-page-long 《The Complete Encyclopedia of Novice Magic》, the explanation for Levitation alone occupied 526 pages!
Lin Gui's eyes suddenly erupted with a brilliant light.
He abruptly pulled out his oak staff and sat on it sideways.
Following the formation of the mana circuit that had been directly infused into his mind by the system, he chanted in a low voice.
In the next moment, the staff actually supported his body and shakily drifted off the ground!
Seeing his feet leave the ground as he hovered in the air, Lin Gui's face flushed with excitement.
What mage hasn't fantasized about soaring through the sky?
But in this world, this seemingly simple flight magic was an outlier novice spell that blocked the path of countless grandmasters!
The terrifying part of the system's reward was that it directly bypassed that despair-inducing learning process, allowing him to grasp its essence instantly.
Sitting on the staff, Lin Gui drifted back and forth at a low altitude of three or four meters.
He played like a child who had finally received his most coveted toy, losing himself in the joy of it.
A strong impulse welled up within him.
He wanted to fly higher and further!
But since it was still broad daylight, he didn't want to cause a commotion.
A sudden flash of inspiration struck as he remembered his trademark skill, the Shroud of the Gloomy Night.
At that thought, Lin Gui immediately chanted under his breath.
His figure rapidly faded, completely vanishing as if merging into the light.
He rode his hidden staff through the alleyways.
He even mischievously swiped an apple from a small fruit stand.
The owner, who was lecherously peeking at a streetwalker on the street corner, completely failed to notice Lin Gui riding his staff and flying right past his face.
Satisfied, Lin Gui left behind a few copper coins and, with a surging heart, steered the staff straight toward the sky.
The sound of the wind whistled in his ears as he felt a rush of adrenaline.
He continued to climb, clearing the rooftops, passing through the clouds, until he stood above a magnificent sea of clouds.
He gazed blankly at the gorgeous sunset glow, momentarily forgetting everything.
It wasn't until a sense of weakness hit him from his nearly exhausted mana that Lin Gui suddenly snapped out of it.
He looked down; the earth below was already tiny. He was actually a thousand meters in the air!
In an instant, his face turned pale.
“!!!”
A sense of weightlessness suddenly attacked him as he began to fall rapidly!
Lin Gui frantically squeezed every last shred of remaining mana from his body, attempting to cast Levitation again.
But the speed of the fall was too fast. The faint buoyancy just generated was simply unable to counteract the terrifying gravitational acceleration.
Feeling the howling wind in his ears and the increasingly close silhouette of Caran City, Lin Gui's face turned from white to green.
He was at his wit's end; his mind even began to wander through a revolving lantern of random thoughts.
Is this how this life ends? Can I even be reincarnated again?
Even worse, the system's gloating voice rang out perfectly in his mind.
【Host, how do you feel about the reward the system gave you now?】
“Stop with the damn nonsense!! Save me already, dammit!!”
Lin Gui hugged his oak staff for dear life, his voice tinged with tears.
【Hmph.】
【Now sending extra rewards.】
【Host: Lin Gui】
【Class: Mage】
【Rank: Low-tier High Rank mage】
【Mana capacity: (15/1,264)】
【Magic spells are as follows:】
【High Rank magic: Shroud of the Gloomy Night LV9; Wind Listening LV9; Sprint spell LV9; Silence spell LV4; Wind Blade LV3; Earth Wall LV4; Summoning LV2; Shadow Penetration LV9; Shadow Pierce LV1.】
【Mid Rank magic: Sharp Wind Slash LV7...】
【Low Rank magic: Hardening LV3...】
【Now distributing extra reward: Mana capacity +100】
【(15/1,264) → (115/1,364) | 636 Mana capacity points needed for the next rank breakthrough.】
A surge of pure and massive mana instantly flooded into his nearly parched body!
Lin Gui grabbed onto this final life-saving straw, his hands death-gripping the staff.
He closed his eyes and roared the incantation with all the strength he could muster:
“Breath of lightness, ethereal feather!”
“Shed your burden, rise upon the wind!”
“Levitation!! Ascend!!”
A powerful buoyancy was suddenly generated, desperately fighting against the terrifying downward momentum.
By pushing the 100 points of mana to their absolute limit, his falling speed was finally, barely, suppressed.
Lin Gui manipulated the tottering Levitation spell and glided crookedly toward the ground.
Ultimately, amidst a flurry of chaos and loud mooing, he crashed headfirst into a farmer's cow pen outside the city.
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