Surviving The Fourth Calamity

53: Chapter 53 Hill is a Magister Now 53: Chapter 53 Hill is a Magister Now Hill plunged into his most heavily protected Alchemy Laboratory.

This was a small room of only 5 square meters, constructed from the essence of the world’s hardest metal, extracted from mithril.

The protective array was set up by Fran during his spare time, and there was a seat in the middle of the room, firmly secured.

The attributeless crystals that the players had initially brought out were tightly compressed to form the protective casing for this seat.

Hill sat on the chair and activated all the arrays.

First, he expelled all other elements from the laboratory, then took out a large number of smaller space crystals and gradually crushed them until they disintegrated into space elements invisible to the naked eye.

When a sufficient amount of space elements filled the small room, Hill closed his eyes and silently meditated.

The space elements swirled and danced in the laboratory; Hill quietly observed with his spiritual power, noting when they would connect and when they would repel each other.

During a week of relentless meditation, he gradually outlined the preferences and aversions of the space elements in his mind.

Slowly, Hill used his spiritual power to combine the space elements into various runes.

It might sound easy, but this observational skill was honed over the past decade, during which Hill had scrapped countless other elemental crystals.

Elements have personalities.

The Fire Element is lively, the Earth Element is steady, the Wood Element is elegant, the Metal Element is sharp, and the Water Element is gentle.

With the rare Thunder Element, Hill only deduced a grim character.

Space Element, however, is elusive.

This is why creating storage spaces is so challenging—it’s about how to combine these elusive space elements into runes and then sketch them into diagrams.

Because space crystals are so precious, nobody can afford to crush them in such large quantities, not even the legendary ones could find enough.

The only option is to stabilize the small spaces they form naturally, which is why the size of space crystals is crucial.

However, as an alchemist of Hill’s caliber, he had already spent a lot of time researching the construction combinations of the elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Faced with this new element, he was not without approaches.

Inside this tightly sealed laboratory, Hill used his spiritual power to guide the space elements into different rune patterns.

Then, he assembled these runes into a magic array.

Although assembling them was tiresome, Hill was a person with abundant patience.

With optimal protection on him, he endured various explosions and spatial cracks from the arrays he assembled until the space elements in the room were completely depleted.

Hill felt that his abilities were still insufficient to research spatial magic; the runes he combined were too complex, and the spells had no offensive power and took too long to cast.

However, a few small runes could be used to craft spatial magic arrays.

He stretched lazily, deciding to rest first.

As Hill stepped out of the laboratory, he was greeted by List.

“Did sir’s experiment succeed?”

“There was a slight improvement, but it’s far from enough,” Hill pondered, “It’s not very useful, just enough to expand your warehouse a bit larger.”

“That’s also good, congratulations, sir.”

“Let’s not talk about that.

My magical foundation is not deep enough, and I had no expectations of discovering much.

Making some arrays and storage devices is fine enough.

Has anything happened during this time?”

“Nothing major.

Alice was chased by Merkel for a few days and decided to hide and cultivate.

The five from the Undead Tribe chose their house blueprints yesterday and started construction today.

The Water Elemental Family and the Wood Elemental Family came to me this morning, hoping to find some work too.”

“It seems the territory is really too idle.

Send the Water Element to create a pretty stream, running along the left wall, stretching forward to a right turn at the door, then turning towards the church, and set up a fountain pond in the small square outside the church—pick a blueprint that matches the church well.

For that shaded walkway, once their houses are completed, have the Wood Element transplant more large trees there at night, ideally with one or two watchful Treants.

Give 20 crystals to each of the elemental spirits who go out.

They just want those attributeless elemental crystals!

But tell them to try not to attract attention.”

“Yes, sir!

Mr.

Old Cat and two others have some friends who also want to settle here; they are currently on bounty tasks.

But there are no tasks to be done within the territory.

The magical beasts that haven’t died have already fled, and ordinary wildlife contributes too little.

They can only go to clear magical beasts far from our territory every day.

We haven’t planned on expanding our territory, and I was going to ask them to go next door.

But Master Fran’s Magic Tower also has many Undead, and they clear out even faster than we do here.

Hill, troubled, rubbed his forehead: “Tell the general store that I need various types of ore, and I will buy anything.

The Undead Tribe possesses Basic Appraisal Technique, inform them.

As long as it’s not useless rock, I want it all.

Did they send the herbs to grandfather’s territory already?

If they come here, also take them!

If there are any treasures, notify Adrian, and let him buy them back at the original price.”

“Alright, master.”

“I don’t want to deal with anything right now!

I just want to go upstairs, wash up, and sleep,

Unless it’s something important, don’t bother me.

When I wake up, I’ll go and expand the storage for you.”

“Yes!

Master!

I will handle daily affairs on my own.

May you have pleasant dreams.”

After taking a comfortable hot bath, Hill collapsed into bed.

He quickly fell into dreamland.

Hill had a beautiful dream.

It was a towering, leafy tree that reached into the heavens.

Hill lay beneath its widespread green canopy.

It was a sunny, breezy day, and Hill lay on the soft grass, gently rolling around.

A sweet voice softly called to him, “My child, dear child, you must grow up well, grow up fast!” It was the voice of the earth, my mother, I will grow up well.

Hill licked his thick front paws and touched his own cheek.

Something seemed off.

Hill suddenly became alert: When did I get paws?

My mom isn’t in this world either!

From a beautiful dream to a nightmare, Hill woke up with a start.

Then he discovered that overnight, he had become a Magister.

Possibly due to excessive exhaustion, his body naturally entered a state of meditation and absorbed the strong Tri-Element from the territory.

Unbeknownst to him, Hill had advanced in rank.

Hill couldn’t afford to rejoice; he closed his eyes and began to examine his body inch by inch with his spiritual power.

The God of Time and Space was reliable indeed!

Divine power was truly strong.

He still had a human’s body!

Human genes!

Bear genes hadn’t shown themselves!

Hill breathed a sigh of relief, merely awakening the deepest memories in his bloodline.

This was normal; the higher the level of a Magician, the more able they were to see the inherited memories of bloodline creatures.

As long as he remembered his human identity, there would be no problem.

If one day he saw memories of Elves, that would be normal too.

Maybe he really was a Druid!

Hill mocked himself.

What a scare!

Hill “plopped” back onto the bed and blankly stared for over 10 minutes before getting up again to check the spells he had newly awakened.

The previous spells had been enhanced and now consumed much less.

But the newly emerged spells, although powerful, were ones he knew he could scarcely afford to use.

Gravity Magnetic Field: Hey, this control skill is actually great in dealing with Sky Knights.

Shape-shifting: By standing on the ground, he could swap places with an Earth Elemental he summoned.

Summon Lord of the Earth Element: This kind of Legendary Earth Element, easy to summon but hard to control, he absolutely wouldn’t use unless it was a matter of life and death.

The previous Earth Elemental summoning only went up to Magister level.

But Hill would rather use that until the Clan Leader of the Earth Elemental Family he contracted with reached a Legendary status; Hill could wait for decades.

Then there were Earthquake Technique and Meteor Shower, basic major Earth Element spells.

Tide Dance Moon Welcoming: A Water Element healing spell, also able to cure poison.

Hill looked it over; the Water series still only had this one.

It seemed his water lineage was indeed weak.

Forest Array: A Wood Element defensive spell.

By summoning trees, it formed a defensive formation, protecting him within its confines.

Forest Song and Dense Forest Stars were enhancements of the Forest Array.

One primary in healing, the other in attacking.

Forest Song could also cure poison.

Hill counted over and over; apart from Earth Element, there were hardly any attack spells.

Being a Magician really is a profession where character determines destiny!

Hill had never actually fought, so it made sense for him to awaken such a spell list.

Hill wasn’t worried though.

Although he had advanced rapidly, his foundation was solid.

Divine power, the kind that manipulates rules, had very slight side effects.

The body of a Mage only matched the speed of a Magician absorbing elements once at the Magister stage.

But for a typical Magician reaching the Magister stage, weaknesses slowly start to surface.

Besides Forbidden Spells, all spells imprinted in the soul could be instantly cast, but simply put, the mana bar was ruined!

A few major spells and he was out of magic power.

A Mage’s spells, however, were honed by themselves; once at the Magister level, every spell was the most concise.

With the same mana bar, a Mage could cast 10 spells, but a Magician doing 6 was impressive.

But Hill, strictly demanding himself to train as a Mage, had studied each spell in the Soul Imprint carefully.

Instant spells were better for saving one’s life, and it wasn’t like Hill couldn’t use other spells.

In the Magic Book that Fran had given Hill, there were even several Legendary spells!

Hill thought for a moment, imagining Adrian probably being dragged by Fran to build ships, better not to disturb him now.

He decided to get out of bed and go expand the storage.

The research on Space Element had also come to a pause.

Hill’s ability was still inadequate.

For now, he would better study his Magister-level spells well!