Chapter 257: Chapter 203 eting Chapter 257: Chapter 203 eting Invisible gusts of wind surged within the cramped room, with the sound of howling uninterruptedly filling the air.
After a while, Colin collected himself and stood still, slowly exhaling the Golden Paper.
Upon seeing the characters on the Golden Paper clearly, he imdiately raised an eyebrow.
There, in the column for Knight Rank, the long-unchanged Ultimate Knight (100/100) suddenly flashed with a blurry ↑ symbol.
This ant that the strength of a Knight continued to rise.
Regrettably, there was still no qualitative change; he had not broken through the limit of an Ultimate Knight.
Hmm?
Suddenly, he shifted his gaze, quickly looking at the Talent column.
The characters behind the Strong Life Talent slowly pulsed, changing from 4/100 to 5/100.
‘Strong Life Talent is essentially about strong Life Force. This new Breathing Skill…’
Colin closed his eyes slightly, carefully feeling the unique Blood Energy brought about by the knight’s cultivation in his body.
Surging, plentiful, rich, and viscous…
He opened his eyes, a hint of surprise flashing through them—the Blood Energy was still Blood Energy, but it had almost a qualitative difference from before!
Subconsciously, Colin’s gaze shifted to the column for Breathing Skill.
That newly fused Breathing Skill had advanced a notch after he had practiced it once.
‘I wonder whether this fused Breathing Skill, after breaking the limit once… could further advance the path of a Knight.’ Colin couldn’t help but look forward with so anticipation.
Though the strength of a Knight was far from that of a Wizard, he still saw value in it.
After all, spirit and body always complent each other.
At least among the Second Rank and Third Rank Wizards he had seen to date, the body should have been enhanced through special ans.
For instance, Atbolde must have fused with the bloodlines of Magic Plants, and the Third Rank Wizard he saw in the classroom when searching for Lillian, resembling an ice sculpture, likely underwent so sort of transformation related to Elental Life.
As he pondered, he moved a thought and, as usual, chose one character from each to na the new unnad Breathing Skill—the Yi Guang Breathing thod.
Having done all this and planning to continue studying the precursor knowledge of Ancient Tree Heart Witchcraft, Colin suddenly thought of the item exchange eting Mayer had ntioned last night at the restaurant.
Snap.
He subconsciously took out his Pocket Watch, and the silver hand pointed to five o’clock in the afternoon.
“Lord Colin, there will be a small-scale Wizards’ item exchange eting tomorrow evening. I don’t know if you would be interested in attending… The main purpose is to exchange what we have, be it knowledge, Witch Tools, or even news. They can all be items for exchange.”
He put away the Pocket Watch and took out the voucher Mayer had given him, recalling Mayer’s words from last night.
‘The item exchange eting will be at six o’clock, and the location is in the private dining rooms on the third floor… Just right after dinner.’
After a mont of contemplation, Colin put away the voucher and made a decision.
The sun slanted westward, with golden light piercing through the central dining room’s circular glass windows on the second floor, angling inside.
Ding dong dong—
The soft sound of a piano harmonized with the clinking of cutlery and plates, echoing throughout the entire dining room.
Colin set down his fork, picked up a napkin, and wiped his mouth.
Dinner was Tuscan salmon. With each bite, a rich creamy aroma filled the mouth.
Although tasty, he missed the dinners made by Renee even more.
It was a flavor from his holand, a delicacy only he would recognize.
Without any clouds to obstruct the view, and from this altitude at ten thousand ters, it seed the glow of the sunset was even richer.
Making his way through the golden remnants filtering in from the dining room’s windows, Colin walked past the neatly arranged tables and chairs of the hall towards the area with private rooms. Following the directions on the voucher, he arrived at the room where the item exchange eting was held.
“Lord Colin.”
As he entered the room, Mayer greeted him, looking sowhat surprised, “I thought you wouldn’t co tonight.”
“Just looking around since I have nothing else to do.”
Colin scanned the room.
There were already quite a few Wizards present; many faces were familiar, Wizards from other affiliated Schools whom he had seen during the boarding.
There were also many Wizards he had not seen before—they were either from other Schools in the city or were Wandering Wizards of the city.
On this Airship, aside from the Nine Major Schools and their affiliate Schools, there were also other Wizards.
With many Schools in Neustadt City, it was natural that there wouldn’t only be the Nine Major Schools and their affiliates.
In fact, besides the nine universally recognized top-tier Schools, there were over a dozen second-tier Schools, and countless insignificant ones.
However, many Schools as there might be, they were all under the jurisdiction of the Supre Council, and naturally, all needed to travel to the Southern Sea Domain.
And the City Lord of Neustadt was a mber of the Supre Council.
Beside Mayer, there was another familiar face—Milo from the Wotak School. But to Colin’s surprise, Sovoc, one of their group of four, hadn’t co to the item exchange eting.
Furthermore, people like Lillian did not participate in this barter eting.
“Lord Colin, this barter eting is much larger than what I told you about yesterday,” Mayer sighed.
No sooner had he spoken than a commotion ca from the doorway.
Colin listened intently.
“Lord Morton…”
Those noises, upon closer listening, were a series of respectful greetings.
Glancing up again, a fiery Witch with silver hair and silver eyes who was wearing a silver hoop earring walked in.
She was not in a Wizard Robe but rather in a bustier combat outfit; her wolf’s tail-like silver hair was tied up, revealing a pale, indifferent face.
“That’s Witch Morton from the Silver An School,” Milo remarked quietly by the side, his tone sowhat admiring.
Colin withdrew his gaze. The Silver An School, like the Yista School, was one of the Nine Major Schools.
If he rembered correctly, the relationship between the Silver An and Yista Schools was also quite amicable.
Of course, this had little to do with Wizards from affiliated Schools like theirs; Witch Morton was out of their league to connect with.
As soon as Morton arrived, she unapologetically took the main seat, regardless of whether anyone was there, and with her legs crossed, she directly declared,
“Alright, the barter eting now begins… let’s start with you.”
She looked towards the Wizard sitting on her left side.
A barter eting involved each Wizard taking turns, according to a certain order, to speak out about what they were selling or what they wished to purchase, with the rest of the Wizards responding in turn—such was the procedure.
“Yes, Lady Morton,” the Wizard on the left side nodded in agreent, pulling out several pale purple Magic Crystals from his bosom.
“Magic Crystals, the auxiliary type, huh?… If it were Attack Witchcraft, it might be difficult to exchange,” Mayer comnted in a low voice, sowhat surprised.
If Colin had heard Mayer say this before, he would have been puzzled, but not anymore.
The booklet Lillian gave him just happened to contain relevant information.
About Magic Crystals, while they have many benefits, they also co with nurous drawbacks.
The most prominent of these is the difficulty in using them in real combat.
Of course, this refers to Magic Crystals of First Rank Upper and beyond.
The reason is simple: it also has to do with the casting ti…
The complete process of using a Magic Crystal first involves injecting spiritual power to construct a Magic Model from the runes inscribed on the Magic Crystal, then the magic power stored within the crystal makes contact with the Magic Model to form witchcraft.
While it saves the Wizard the effort of constructing a Magic Model, the runes’ automatic assembly of the Magic Model also takes ti,
and, generally speaking, it is slower than a Wizard manually constructing the model.
This shortcoming is not imdiately apparent during an Apprentice’s period—as with the Light Brightness Skill, once mastered, the casting ti is within 0.3s.
Using a Bright Crystal, the ti is also generally under 0.5s,
The re 0.2s difference is not significant.
But when reaching the First Rank, the standard casting ti for witchcraft exceeds one second, with at least half taking over two seconds.
After constructing a Magic Model in the mind, the casting ti is usually within one second.
At this point, using a Magic Crystal, the difference in casting ti becos sowhat unacceptable.
The Wizard to Morton’s left continued:
“First Rank Upper Magic Crystal—Chilor Exploration Technique. There are five in total, three thousand Magic Stones for all, or six hundred and fifty per piece; alternatively, equivalent items or knowledge can be traded.”
Indeed, as Mayer thought, the Wizard produced the auxiliary type of Magic Crystals.
The Chilor Exploration Technique, as its na suggests, is mainly used for geological exploration.
After the Wizard finished speaking, several Wizards began to make offers in sequence, and all five Magic Crystals were finally bartered away, marking a good start to the trade.
Subsequently, the Wizards took turns in their seated order to speak.
Of course, not every Wizard needed to bring out items for exchange; those without anything they wished to sell could simply pass.
Colin naturally had nothing to offer, so when his turn ca, he naturally chose to pass.
His main purpose for being here was to see if he could pick up anything useful for himself.
Unfortunately, until the end of the barter eting, he wasn’t able to exchange for a single item.
Either it was not needed, or if it was needed, he could not afford it.
‘However, it can be considered an experience gained.’ Walking along the corridor back to his room, Colin thought to himself.
At the next corner, his footsteps suddenly ca to a halt.
In front of him stood two familiar figures engaged in conversation.
One was Margaret, his direct superior at this Alus Association event.
The other was Witch Morton from the Silver An School, whom he had just seen.
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