stonecrandall Chapter 131 Stud
Chapter 131 Stud
It's that "you want something" attitude, like a gift, yet with a hint of impatience and reluctance.
This posture was all too familiar to the wizard Valennir!
The Silver Grey School controls the wizards in the seven kingdoms—and in those seven kingdoms alone, there are more than fifty registered wizards who are associated with the great nobles.
These "registered" wizards were all second- or even third-class wizarding apprentices.
Besides these fifty-odd registered wizards, there are many more wandering wizards who roam between various countries—those are the true "wild wizards."
They have no fixed place to stay, no attachments or ties, and they are the people who despise rules the most.
For them, even if they really broke the rules, it would just mean changing their appearance and wandering to another place—they even dared to directly rob the Silver Grey School!
How did the Silver Ash School manage to get these "wandering wizards" to abide by the rules among wizards?
The answer is quite simple.
Enticement.
Every ten years, the wizards of the Silver Grey School will choose a location among the seven kingdoms to hold a wizarding gathering.
The location of the gatherings rotated among the seven kingdoms in turn.
The wizards of the Silver-Grey School will guarantee the safety of all wizards at the gathering and the fairness of all transactions.
At the same time, the wizards of the Silver-Gray School would also bring out some knowledge unique to their school at the gatherings. Registered wizards from the seven kingdoms and those wandering wizards could use their wealth to exchange for knowledge unique to their school from the wizards of the Silver-Gray School.
—When they exchanged knowledge with the wizards of the Silver Grey School, or asked them to identify something they didn't recognize, the wizards of the Silver Grey School displayed a helpless and disdainful attitude, exactly the same as the attitude displayed by the Thunder Wizard in front of them!
"School of Wizards!"
"The Thunder Wizard really is a wizard from a powerful school of thought."
"They came to Forked Ridge to break the rules among wizards; they truly have some unique mission!"
"So what is their mission?"
"Does this mean they want to start a war with the Silverash School?" In an instant, the wizard Valennir trembled involuntarily.
His demeanor in front of Luo Ang became increasingly cautious and timid.
"Thunder Wizard is joking." Wizard Valennil lowered his head; he had decided to go all in!
The wizard Valennir is over 130 years old!
For many, the wizarding war two hundred years ago is just a distant piece of history.
When the wizard Valennil was born, the Wizarding War was only seventy years old—his great-grandfather had personally experienced that war!
Many traces of war still remain in their territories.
His teacher... to be precise, that wasn't really his teacher.
That was just the wizard worshipped by their Levin family.
His name is Tiffany the Wizard.
They were survivors of that war.
During the war, the Tiffany wizard suffered very serious injuries.
From the end of the war until his death, Tiffany the Wizard never fully recovered from her injuries.
In the year Valennil was born, Tiffany the Wizard completely abandoned the idea of recuperating and began to enjoy her last moments, indulging in sensual pleasures to the fullest...
Valenil was fairly good-looking—so, although he later inherited the title of Duke, it did not conflict with his becoming Tiffany's lover.
Of course, this was his own choice.
It was precisely because of this proactive choice that he was the first to receive Tiffany's "legacy" after her death.
Over the decades, Tiffany the Wizard exhausted all her resources to heal her injuries, leaving Valennier with very little inheritance.
Fortunately, basic meditation techniques are not valuable to wizards.
Therefore, the wizard Tiffany did not sell the meditation method in exchange for resources to heal her injuries—and thus, Valennier obtained the meditation method left behind by the wizard Tiffany.
And Tiffany's diary!
The diary records a great deal of information about the war, clearly demonstrating its horrors. It recounts how the Tiffany Wizard was wounded, how she sought treatment, and how she finally gave up in despair...
Tiffany was a very powerful wizard, a third-class wizarding apprentice.
After Valenil received Tiffany's "legacy," he gradually grew from an ordinary person into a first-class wizard apprentice, then a second-class wizard apprentice... During this process, the title of "Tiffany's apprentice" brought Valenil countless conveniences.
Later, when Tiffany's death was confirmed, Valenil had already become a second-class wizard apprentice and had been "recognized" by the Silver Grey School.
In short, although he did not personally experience the wizarding war two hundred years ago, the wizard Valennil knew very well the horrors of the wizarding war through the wizard Tiffany's notes.
Tiffany's notes clearly record the cause of that wizarding war—a war started by a school of thought called "Reform," which then rapidly expanded and swept across the entire wizarding world.
Even the high-ranking third-class wizard apprentices lost countless lives in that war.
As a wizard who knows the horrors of wizard wars and has also experienced wars among mortals, Wizard Valenil knows very well that when you are involved in a situation that may become a war, the first choice you need to make is not to run away!
The tide of war is an extremely terrifying thing; once it sweeps across the land, it devours everything at an incredible speed.
The more you try to escape, the easier it is to die!
Therefore, we cannot escape!
Instead, we should take the initiative to face it and make the choices!
In war, there will always be opposing sides.
When there are factions, people are involved—and when people are involved, there are those who are close and those who are distant, those who are important and those who are not.
Some can serve as core components, while others can only be used as consumables.
In war, once someone is identified as "expendable material," they are only one step away from death.
So how can we avoid becoming a consumable and a victim of ignorance?
It's very simple—show your value.
In front of another important person, demonstrate your keenness and talent, make him think you are useful, get him to "pull" you up, and make him believe that you can be an ally, not an enemy.
Otherwise, the more perceptive you are, the closer you are to death!
Similarly, as a wizard who has experienced more than one war, Valennir also understands another principle of war—war brings change, reshuffling, and also great benefits!
So, I went all in!