Chapter 24: Sorcerer Apprentice
Translator: winniethepooh, Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion
The notes thrilled Lucien as well. When he first ca here he also had many questions about the world. However, he soon forgot all his questions while struggling to survive.
These overwhelming questions pointed directly to the origin of the world. Lucien believed that if he could figure them out, he might be able to learn how he ca here and how to go back.
“Even if the arcanist nad Douglas had not completely understood any of the problems, as long as he was still working on them he should be an extraordinary arcanist nowadays, comparable to the sorcerers and sorceress of legend.” Lucien was organizing his thoughts.
“There’s a journal called Arcana. The witch did et other sorcerer in this city. Everything seems to indicate there are still safe places for people to learn magic. But why would it be a journal? It sounds pretty academic...”
“Why call him an arcanist instead of a sorcerer? Does an arcanist rank higher than a sorcerer?”
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Lucien got more and more excited with his thoughts. He wished he could et the sorcerer as soon as possible and move sowhere where he could learn magic safely. He would co back to Aalto and do sothing for little Iven’s family when he beca stronger.
Among all questions, the two Lucien felt most interested in were:
“Are earth, fire, wind and water, really the most basic elents in the world? If they are, how do they stick together to form everything we know? And if not, which are the real magic elents?”
“Why is there a sun and a moon in the world? Why do they rise and set every day? What keeps them moving in such a manner?”
According to what Lucien had learned before, earth, fire, wind and water were not basic elents. As for the second question, it drew his attention because they seed to want to combine the rules of the physical universe with magic, in case Lucien’s knowledge might really co in handy to learn magic faster.
However, Lucien didn’t know how helpful his knowledge would be in this world. It was a world full of incredible creatures, magic, divine power and souls. Nevertheless, Lucien hadn’t t anything that varied from the basic laws of physics. And he did find the sa materials, like silver, copper and iron.
“I might have been wrong before, regarding why so books in my library were locked.” Lucien guessed, agitated with the prospect.
Gradually he cald down. He was now more mature and understood that no matter how great ambition one had, sitting there and daydreaming would not change anything. After all, every person still had to be practical.
He turned to the last page of the note:
“Sotis, during the break of my ditation and experints, I think about him. He’s wise, elegant, and attractive.”
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“He said he ca here to Aalto for an important secret mission. If everything goes well, in so months he might take to the heaven of our sorcerers and sorceress — ‘The Continental Congress of Magic’.
“We have an appointnt in the cetery. I wonder what he’ll tell .”
The witch’s notes ended here. “She and her sorcerer friend must have been ambushed by the night watchn. I wonder if the sorcerer managed to escape...” Lucien thought with so disappointnt. The Continental Congress of Magic was his only clue for now. But he had no idea how to find other hiding sorcerers and sorceresses.
Taking a deep breath, Lucien decided to start his first ditation. He eliminated all the distractions in his mind and got ready for it.
Following the note, Lucien kept his breathes long and gentle. Along with the breathing he let his spirit freely spread like water and then drew it back in, similar to waves, again and again until he entered into a blank world. A world where nothing existed.
Talented as the witch was, it took her more than two years to reach this level. Plus another year to augnt her spirit until it was strong enough to sense the surrounding magic elents as a junior apprentice”.
However, after becoming a junior apprentice, it would still take quite a while before one could move forward and beco a real sorcerer or sorceress. An apprentice needed to keep forging his or her spirit by doing ditation, to only then be able to analyze and build different magic structures.
Having started ditating when she was ten, the witch beca an apprentice at the age of thirteen. A year later she beca an interdiate apprentice and was really satisfied with her progress. But then, since she was not good at analyzing the patterns of magic and building their structures, she could not progress any further. So she tried to use a precious magic potion called “Magic Gate” to break through the bottleneck.
Lucien felt both disappointed and excited. From the witch’s note Lucien understood that learning magic did take ti, so unfortunately there was no way for him to take revenge on the gangsters within a short period. Actually, as Victor’s music student, Lucien was now in no hurry to protect himself with magic, since a mistake could affect his teacher’s social status. At the sa ti, it was exciting because Lucien was unexpectedly great at the ditation. After the bitter fight underground, Lucien’s spiritual power was improved by a great extent. It only took him less than thirty seconds to successfully enter into the ditation world! Observant as he was now, Lucien was guessing he could probably shorten the ti for becoming a junior apprentice remarkably, doing so probably in months or even weeks!
Actually, it was even faster than he thought.
The ditation world was very different. Lucien could feel all sorts of power here: so of them were steady, so restless, others were dynamic, and there were even gentle ones, among others...
“They are... earth, fire, wind and water... the four elents? My spiritual power has reached the level of a junior apprentice?!” Lucien was so surprised that he almost failed to maintain his ditation. “The badge really helped a lot!”
He beca truly happy. Soon he would start learning his first magic!
“I wonder... why do the four basic elents feel more like... forces...” When Lucien was about to follow the basic Elent ditation ntioned in Astrology and Magic Elents, a question ca to him. Then he noticed the similarity with the question raised by Douglas. “Maybe... they are actually the four fundantal forces — gravity, weak nuclear force, electromagnetism and strong nuclear force — in the universe? ”
“But then gravity would definitely be related to the earth elent, while the other three are in fact different manifestations from the other forces, according to what I learned in my world...”
As soon as the idea ca up, Lucien noticed that the world around him changed: A starry sky showed up and the stars were shining brightly against the dark background. Every star had an invisible string of force hanging down to the earth. Attracting those countless strings, the earth, gentle and profound, was like a silent giant grabbing mysterious ropes in its hand.
On the other hand, the remaining three elents — fire, wind and water — showed no such change, since Lucien could not figure out the corresponding connections between them and the other three forces yet. However, the previous clear boundaries between them were seemingly blurred now.
“The world... changes with my cognition?” Lucien was guessing that the sky appeared because he happened to understand the connection between gravity and the Earth Elent. He suddenly recalled an excerpt from the witch’s notes: “Stars — It was a way of ditation belonging to another school for advanced apprentices.”
As the note ntioned before, there were eight schools in the world of magic, and each of them had its own way of ditation. The witch just had a brief description in the note about the Astrology School because it was the Elent School she majored in. However, as the fundantal way of ditation for the Astrology School, the first ti an apprentice entered into his or her ditation world it would allow them to see one’s own night sky, from which he or she could choose a “Host Star of Destiny” by themselves. The star could be connected with the person, which would provide great help in the person’s future learning. More importantly, without a Host Star, magic belonging to Astrology, like Horoscope, could not be obtained.
That school believed that every soul matched a star in the boundless sky. One’s destiny kept changing along with his or her Host Star. The sorcerer would not be able to see the strings of destiny without a connection, and thus could not cast a Horoscope.
Therefore, even the basic ditation of Astrology School required an advanced apprentice’s spirit level. Before achieving that requirent an apprentice was supposed to refer to other ways of ditation to improve their power until they beca qualified.
“In this world, gravity has sothing to do with destiny? Interesting...” Lucien thought to himself. “It seems like many things happening here do not comply with my previous knowledge... Or maybe I just cannot understand it fully.”
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