Warlock Apprentice

Apprentices couldn’t just turn into wizards because they wanted to.

 To 99% of all apprentices, becoming a wizard could be well considered the ultimate goal. Under such a circumstance, aiming for the path of truth as an apprentice was downright impossible.

 However, it seemed both Sunders and Flora assumed that the otherwise absurd challenge was something possible for Angor. Not only that, but they also expected Angor to aim higher after becoming a wizard, which “might take him a lot of time”.

 To them, the question was whether Angor should “take time” to accept the challenges. Unfortunately, Angor did not have such high hopes for himself. He did not have the confidence to become a wizard in the first place.

 He became a level-3 apprentice so fast all thanks to his potent channeling method that allowed him to proceed while disregarding the limits that dragged down other apprentices for a long time. Yet this channeling method, however special it was, would not help him with attaining wizard level. To become a wizard, he had to have personal awareness, an enriched mind, and most importantly, endless time and effort.

 Angor was hoping to reach that level before turning 30, which was already beyond impressive in this world. This was why he couldn’t tell his choice to Sunders, because the “major premise” of Sunders’ question was wrong!

 “I see…” Sunders nodded. “You’re right. I shouldn’t be asking you all these if you can’t get there yet. Regarding spell slots… you can put it aside for now. Think about it again once you reach your current limit and is sure you can move past it.”

 The magic array under the city was called the “eternal radiance”. When it was fully activated, it would create this barrier-like curtain that provided light to the city as well as drawing more mana from the environment.

 “Ohhh, when under this barrier, I can absorb primal mana almost four times faster than from the outside. If Angor can draw the magic array, I’ll ask him to get me one when I resume business at Barbie’s Restaurant!” Greya spoke to herself.

 She floated toward the outside of the city. She would keep going like this until she reached Brute Cavern. Without her “proper” body, she could no longer travel via plane passageways. Thankfully, she only had to fly past a short distance above Parmigi Highlands.

 Before leaving the city range, her ears twitched as she saw a group of people on the street below her talking about the news from Moonfrost.

 Greya was interested because she heard Sunders’ name being mentioned.

 “Oh… Sumesh has done it…”

 She still remembered when Sunders took a level-2 apprentice boy who always had a straight face on to her restaurant about a hundred years ago. At that time, the gentleman required another Twisting Protozoa.

 And I’m making completely no progress here… If I don’t find my body soon, I guess even that Angor boy will surpass me soon.

 She was annoyed by her condition. Even so, Greya still silently admired Sunders’ keen eye for looking for good students.

 The gentleman found three students. A truth-finder wizard, a powerful witch, and a newly-found boy who was still an apprentice but had already scared the hell out of people with his preeminent potential.

 If things kept going like this, Sunders’ students could probably create quite a legend in the south even without their professor’s help.

 Greya shook her head and kept moving outside.

 Suddenly, a piece of strange music came out of nowhere. When the strange music reached her ears, Greya immediately stopped moving.