Chapter 184: Orientation Complete
The room was suddenly filled with hushed whispers at the ntion of necromancy. This was a hot-button issue due to the recent fall of Laconia at the hands of a large horde of undead and the sudden ergence of the Necropolis in its place.
"Silence," The teacher ordered after a few monts, causing the room to quickly quieten down. "While yes, even though it may be considered controversial, the dark elent is still a very viable source of magic."
"Now, moving on to how one acquires that source. Let's briefly talk about attunent," She said, "Now, I've previously ntioned that attunent is the act of infusing your body and soul with your chosen elent, now how we go about this is sowhat of a complicated process."
"There are a couple of steps that a wizard must take before acquiring attunent. The first step, and arguably the most important one, is that your soul must achieve proper resonance with the elental magics of your chosen type," The teacher explained, "So of you may know of this as the elental trials, but for those unaware, it will be better explained once it is your turn to take the trials."
"After completing your trial, the next step is to then infuse your soul with the chosen elent," She explained, "You will be given a list of items that you must collect for the attunent ritual. Once you return with the items the attunent ritual will comnce."
Upon her first explanation ending, rlin received a quest notification.
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[Common Quest]
Attuned to the Elents I.
You've learnt that the next step in your wizard journey is to acquire attunent to a chosen elent.
Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Light or Dark.
These six elents make up the primal force of the world and learning to harness one of them will increase your power exponentially. The first step is to conquer an elental trial, but to challenge it you must first improve your control over magical energy.
Speak with an instructor in the attunent room about taking an elental trial.
? Requirent: You must have a level 2 or higher magic soul with the ?Attuned Elent? skill equipped to challenge a trial.
? Reward: 200 Wizard EXP
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rlin clicked the accept button on the quest window before continuing to listen to the lecture.
"With that, does anyone have any questions before we move on?" Elore asked before glancing around the room. It seed as though nobody raised their hand, so she moved on to the next topic.
"Next up, we'll talk about what most of you are excited for," She said in a sowhat sarcastic tone, "The library."
"The library of this school is incredibly vast. Not only does it contain a wide variety of magic tos, grimoires and spellbooks. It contains a copy of almost every book that had been circulated around the major cities before the crisis." She explained, "There are also thousands of original copies of docunts and research notes that you can access, so more dangerous than others."
"Now, all of these resources are free to access, of course, but a large majority of them have been sealed away until you improve your rank within the school, as indicated on your badge." She said.
A couple of groans could be heard from the crowd, it seed as though so people weren't fond of the idea that they wouldn't be able to learn incredibly powerful magic out of the gate.
"This is for your safety, so don't be too disappointed... The last thing we need is another beginner wizard trying to learn gravity magic before mastering mana control." She muttered out loud, "Our poor cleaners have enough work as it is without having to scrape the flattened remains of students out of the crevices of stone brick."
"Now, do we have any questions in regards to the library?" Elore asked. "And before anybody asks. No, I will not explain the gravity magic situation in further detail."
It was at this mont that rlin raised his hand, causing the instructor to look at him.
"Just the one question then, very well," Elore said. "What would you like to ask?"
"Of all the books and docunts within the library, would any of them hold information on the ruins of this city?" rlin asked.
"Oh? You consider yourself a bit of an archaeologist?" She said with a surprised look, "I suppose there would be so, although most of the information from that period has already been lost to ti, so I'd doubt it'll have exactly what you're after, but you may be surprised."
"If you're truly interested in the ruins, stick around after the lecture." Elore said with a cheeky smile, "There may be a teacher here who would love to et with you."
Hearing these words caused yet another quest notification to appear before rlin.
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[Hidden Uncommon Quest]
Archaeology Club.
Your question posed to Elore during the orientation lecture had surprised her but seed to also give her an idea. She claims that she wishes to introduce you to a teacher and that if you're interested she would do so after the lecture ends so long as you remain in the room.
Speak with Elore after the orientation lecture ends.
? Reward: 50 Wizard EXP
? Failure: The quest will be removed.
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rlin was a little surprised that his question gave birth to a quest, but after reading over it, he accepted the quest and gave Elore a nod, indicating that he had no further questions.
"Very well, now if nobody else has a question, we'll move on to the next topic." She said, "Extracurricular classes and activities."
"This school holds a large variety of classes that you can take. Our most popular ones are alchemy and rune crafting. Enchanting is rather high on that list as well." Elore explained, "Apart from those, so teachers occasionally hold classes to teach certain spells, although this may be restricted based on wizard rank or an appropriate price tag."
The ntion of wizard rank caused groans once more.
"Sothing I failed to ntion previously, but will bring up now since it's still relevant." Elore said, "You can learn and use spells outside of your attuned elent."
"If, for example, you decided that fire was the path that you decided was suited for you, any fire spells you learn will be influenced and benefit from that attunent." She explained, "If you also knew a spell from the air elent, you would still be able to use that spell, however, it would be cast as if you weren't attuned at all."
"There is however an exception to this," She said, "Spells of the opposite elent to your attunent will beco harder to cast."
"Using our previous example, a fire wizard attempting to blast an enemy with a torrent of water will have to use twice as much mana to cast the spell." Elore explained, "This is due to the fire elent within the user's body fighting against the water elent infused mana."
"The two elents are diatrically opposed and in most normal cases can never truly coexist." She said, "Although exceptions are always the case, such as the existence of an undead priest."
"Magic is truly a paradoxical existence that humanity will no doubt struggle to fully comprehend even hundreds of thousands of years from now..." She muttered before inhaling smoke from her pipe once more.
p??da n?vel "Finally, we'll cover extracurricular activities," She said, "I've spoken plenty about wizard ranks, but never ntioned how one may go about upgrading their rank. Well besides just attending classes, here's where extracurricular activities co into play."
"Here at the wizard college, both students and teachers engage in research to further their understanding of magic. This research oftentis requires materials or labour, and you may obtain points towards your wizard rank by providing them."
"Teachers often require an assistant or two during their research, experints or rituals. If you're up for the task and et the requirents, you may be temporarily hired to participate." Elore explained, "Other tis, they may need materials that cannot simply be found within the city, or a specific task completed and may request that soone perform the task in their place."
"Lists of these requests can be found in the task hall, and every completed task can be exchanged for points, along with any other rewards stated on the task sheet." Elore explained, "Students can also submit requests at the task hall, as long as they have the points or other items to submit as a suitable reward."
"And finally, once you've received enough points, you can spend them to upgrade your rank." She exhaled another cloud of smoke, "This will grant you access to more advanced classes and resources. Perhaps even better tasks if ranks are listed as a requirent."
「You have completed the quest, "Orientation day!", rewards have been delivered.」
"With that, your orientation is now complete," Elore stated, "Now go research the world of magic to your heart's content."
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[MOD] Quinntessential: Man, this ga really is realistic.
[MOD] Quinntessential: That felt as long as an actual lecture.
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