Chapter 9 Promotion
In the maze-like corridor, Xiao En has regained consciousness.

“Destiny is a concept.”

"If this concept is taken away by humans, then the part of the world that belongs to this concept will be polluted, such as the lost knowledge of mankind, the distorted way of human reproduction, and even the normal birth, aging, illness and death of mankind."

Xiao En didn't get much information at the moment because the last spell was interrupted and he only read half of the black book.

"Knowledge is polluted. Knowledge is a living thing."

"Mystical knowledge is even more dangerous, hiding madness and disorder, like a virus."

When using reading magic to master the mysterious knowledge, Sean felt madness and pain in his heart, as if the mysterious knowledge wanted to erode his brain, and he would be at risk of mental disorder if he was not careful.

He is in a dangerous situation now.

Because of his amazing inspirational gift, all the 'unspeakable vanities' want to get him.

Now Xiao En must learn to use his own cognition to re-understand this bizarre world.

Because this is the first step to becoming a spellcaster.

“To understand the world in my own way.”

"Promotion completed."

Xiao En murmured to himself: "So what does the world look like in my eyes?"

Lady Hecate was very generous.

As a teacher, if others are still teaching apprentices how to master a certain spell or ability, then Ms. Hecate has already handed the general outline of the extraordinary people's promotion to Sean, which is to understand this world and know where the source of the extraordinary people's power lies.

Use your own cognition to re-understand the world, and finally obtain the caster's original magic power in the promotion ceremony.

"You can't know too much, because you'll go crazy and die."

"But you can't know too little, because that makes you blind and foolish." Many of Lady Hecate's words are mysterious and obscure.

So you need to guess it yourself?
As a flash of light appeared in front of him, Xiao En saw the butcher waiting outside the door, who looked like a mountain of meat.

"Let's go." The butcher nodded slightly.

When they passed the long sky corridor again, the butcher said in a deep voice: "From now on, you will work in the morning every day, and you can come to Ms. Hecate in the afternoon."

"She's usually free in the afternoon."

"If you need anything, you can tell me and I will prepare it for you."

"Of course, the expenses will be deducted from your salary."

Xiao En nodded gently and said, "Yeah."

The two men returned to the original place again, and the butcher prepared another small room for Xiao En.

"You can go about your business now."

"Dinner will be served in an hour and a half." The butcher took off the blood-stained apron hanging on the wall. On the iron rack not far away, there was something covered with black cloth. It looked like a huge mountain of meat.

He needs work now.

inside the room.

Sean is still thinking about how to become a real spellcaster, or he is trying to re-understand the world in his own way.

Lady Hecate gave him a lot of things, but unfortunately he couldn't fully master them yet.

"Knowledge will teach you magic."

Just this one sentence was enough for Xiao En to ponder for a long time.

"The first step for a spellcaster to gain power is to re-understand the world and then get feedback from the world."

“This is raw magic.”

“The closer everything you know is to the essence of the world, the more dangerous it is, but the feedback you get will also be stronger.”

Xiao En fumbled around in the room and found a piece of white paper, a quill pen, and ink. He scribbled something on the white paper and murmured, "Cognitive world."

“This world is supposed to be normal.”

He began to recall the knowledge he had read from the black book. Those words were engraved in his mind and he could recall them at any time.

This way of learning is convenient, but the process is not easy.

At least for now, the magic that Sean sees in this world is not something that can be accomplished by simply chanting a spell loudly and consuming some magic power.

"A mysterious side world with a relatively high civilization. In addition to humans, there are other races."

"Well, it's a bit like a fantasy country on the mysterious side."

Xiao En sensed the restlessness of knowledge because of the doodles he wrote casually. Those symbols representing knowledge were swimming on the white paper, like tadpoles gathered by ink, with their own life and spirituality.

But when he looked at it again carefully, the graffiti was still the same graffiti.

"Mysterious knowledge." Xiao En's expression gradually became solemn.

Once mysterious knowledge is written down, it will be endowed with life and spirituality. The words that Xiao En just muttered to himself and flashed through his mind were all mysterious knowledge.

This knowledge is the secret of the world and only the extraordinary can read it.

For example, the things that Xiao En scribbled casually, in the eyes of ordinary people, are just some messy graffiti, but in the eyes of extraordinary people, they are just the words that flashed through Xiao En's mind. This is very idealistic.

Because the mysterious knowledge that Sean understood could not be understood from the text symbols seen by the naked eye.

They are obscured by blindness and stupidity.

"Then."

"An ineffable ancient being knows this world."

Sean felt that he needed a little imagination now. Ms. Hecate only told him to recognize the world to obtain original magic, but did not tell him how to recognize it. She just threw a book to him and let him think about it himself.

Is this a crazy world with supernatural powers?
This awareness is clearly not enough.

It is not enough to support Sean to become a supernatural being and obtain the original magic power to cast magic.

“They have come into this world.”

"In other words, their will entered this world, and then the Age of Turbulence began." Sean began to recall the knowledge he had seen using reading magic, looking for information about the Age of Turbulence, but unfortunately there was not much.

The doodles Sean had written were changing again.

"In the Age of Turbulence, because of the advent of these ancient indescribable things, the order of the world gradually collapsed, and civilization fell into decay and madness."

Xiao En could only use guesses to fill in the missing parts as much as possible.

He now always had a feeling that his promotion ceremony might be different from that of others, because Ms. Hecate seemed to be asking him to do a history problem, allowing him to complete his understanding of the world from history.

It’s a pity that I didn’t finish reading that book.

"The Dark Ages came, and the ancient Old Ones entered this world. They took away the destiny of this world, or some corresponding concept and law. The old world gradually went to destruction, and other races were wiped out. Humans were the only survivors."

"The world has been transformed into a crazy country suitable for evil creatures to live in. That's why they say this world has fallen."

“Thus was born the Weird Nation.”

Sean felt it.

With a slight tingling sensation on his scalp, he felt a cool and slippery breath, as if invisible tentacles were brushing against his body, giving him goose bumps all over. He couldn't tell what it was, but it entered his body bit by bit.

This may be the original magic that Lady Hecate mentioned, the feedback the world gives to the caster, and the source of all supernatural powers.

But it feels a bit disgusting.

"All extraordinary powers are stolen. Warriors take the essence of life from the filth of flesh and blood, and spellcasters steal the raw magic from the false knowledge."

This is raw magic!
Sean felt very sick now, because the raw magic gave him the feeling of an invisible spiritual tentacle that was unconsciously sweeping across his body, as if the mysterious knowledge and Sean's understanding of the world attracted its arrival.

"This is definitely not the magic that a fantasy kingdom should have!"

"At least magic isn't supposed to be like this!"

The primitive magic entered Xiao En's body. It had life, but no spirituality. Compared with those living knowledge, the primitive magic, it should be described as it, it was not active and could not feel any emotional consciousness.

When Sean read the black book, he felt pain and madness, which were the emotions left behind by the person who wrote the book and recorded the mysterious knowledge.

But primitive magic does not have that, its thinking consciousness is like that of a single-celled animal.

The original magic power is extremely huge!

Chaos, disorder, madness, ignorance, weirdness, Xiao En didn't know what words to use to describe this behemoth.

It has no substance.

Xiao En could only feel the vague existence of the raw magic, as if it were a huge unconscious spiritual entity enveloping the entire world.

"We are thieves."

Sean now understood a little bit what Lady Hecate said. He needed to steal some of his own extraordinary power from this behemoth.

ceremony.

Xiao En began to arrange the ritual. He used torn paper strips to lay a net around himself, a large net with a diameter of about three meters, and Xiao En stood in the center of the grid. Ms. Hecate said that the first ritual for a spellcaster to ascend is the simplest, and only requires the use of an ancient ritual called "Magic Net" and the weaving of materials containing mysterious knowledge.

And the doodles Sean just wrote are mysterious knowledge.

hum!
As the ceremony arranged by Sean was completed, the torn pieces of paper began to ignite deep purple flames, and the mysterious knowledge swam like tadpoles. They gathered into woven black runes, like a huge black spider web, capturing and cutting the invisible tentacles that brushed past Sean's body.

"Touch of Undying."

“Detecting emotions.”

"The Hand of Mysticism."

Sean finally understood what Lady Hecate meant by 'knowledge will teach you magic', because in the invisible tentacles cut by the 'net', he gained knowledge, new mysterious knowledge, and extraordinary power imprinted in it.

The melted original magic power poured into Sean's body. The magic power was like a gray mist, wrapped in mysterious knowledge, and flowed into the depths of his brain with his breathing.

——"The Hand of Mysticism!"

The quill in front of Xiao En's sight was picked up, as if an invisible hand appeared. When he moved slightly in confusion, he saw a dark hand emitting a ghostly aura extending from his back. The invisible dark ghost hand, which was invisible to the naked eye, held the quill on the table and drew a pentagram on the blank paper.

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(End of this chapter)