Warlock Apprentice

Angor already learned something about a Soft Larva egg from Sunders.

A “Soft Larva” was a particular monster worm natural to Abyss Plane. These worms obeyed a strict social class system. They weren’t very powerful in terms of strength, so they were mostly used as alchemy material and test subjects by wizards.

A Soft Larva was potentially valuable because of the presence of Mutation Larva among them, which facilitated a certain cantrip called Transform.

The time and effort required to study a real spell and a “cantrip” were vastly different. To master a spell, a wizard might need many centuries, while a cantrip only asked for several months, as long as someone’s talent didn’t go against it.

However, there was one exception among cantrips—Transform. It was commonly believed that Transform was as complicated to study as real spells.

This cantrip was used for changing someone’s appearance. The user could either turn as small as an insect or become as big as a giant. But it only affected appearance. The user would not receive any changes in strength.

There were two ways to use Transform. One was to study the cantrip by normal means, which was the “hard” way. Whoever wished to go through this had to gain knowledge about biological structures, imitation, mana control, anatomy, precise scheduling, and nearly a hundred more subjects. It would take apprentices their entire lives to gain enough expertise.

Angor nodded. He quickly expanded his Nightmare Domain of a luxurious castle and swallowed Sunders inside.

He gained extensive knowledge about how to wield his Nightmare Domain after reading The Mystery of Nightmare Domain, such as mixing different nightmare illusions with all sorts of tactics. He planned to use his strongest moves to beat his professor.

Of course, nothing worked. At all.

Angor expected much. He only wished he could receive some more advice from Sunders.

The gentleman remained still for a while to inspect Angor’s Nightmare Domain.

“It has grown, but there’s almost nothing new in it.”

Everything shown by Angor came from The Mystery of Nightmare Domain. The only thing worth noticing was how Angor learned how to block someone’s senses, which could achieve many interesting effects such as muting someone or arousing the victim’s desires.

Apart from this, Angor only recreated the tactics taught by the book. It didn’t mean Angor did a poor job, but he might need some more creativity.

Of course, considering how much time Angor spent in the wizarding world, he already mastered different skills at an amazing speed, even more so than the other two students of Sunders. But at the same time, Sunders had higher hopes for Angor.

Which meant Sunders would get harsher about Angor’s training.

“Nonetheless, you should read The Mystery of Nightmare Domain as carefully as you can. But I wish you can also create your own path before turning a wizard. Those who only know how to follow books can never find the truth.”

Angor nodded. He fully knew what those words meant.

After the small test, Sunders brought Angor to another spot in the gravity garden. It was the “lab room” according to Sunders.

A good number of equipment and devices scattered about. Angor managed to recognize some of them since these had something to do with alchemy as well.

Labs weren’t only for alchemists. Almost every wizard had his or her own place for commencing research. Spells, magic theories… Almost everything required trial and error.

A personal laboratory was a critical facility for wizards. There might be wizards who didn’t need a home, but they still needed their labs.

Sunders took out a glass chamber large enough to contain a human and asked Angor to go inside.

Next, he injected nutrient fluid, which was vital for keeping a body alive, into the glass chamber as he demanded Angor to eject his soul.