Versatile Mage: Thunderstorm

Chapter 31 Shi Liang's Past

"Boss Zhankong, do you have any method to improve your physical fitness?"

Li Yu once again called upon the almighty Zhan Kong.

"Improve your physical fitness?"

Zhan Kong on the other end of the phone was startled at first, then gave an answer.
"Yes, I have."

"what way?"

"Once your magic level has broken through, your physical fitness will naturally improve. Instead of taking the time to exercise, you might as well use it to practice meditation and improve your magic level as soon as possible."

"No matter how strong your physique is, can you tear a demon apart with your bare hands?"

"We are magicians, we can just kite the demons from a distance. Do you still want to fight in close combat? Read less novels. Young guys are always thinking about becoming berserkers."

"Or have you finally come to your senses? Tell me, which girl do you like? Do you want to exercise to get in shape so that you can have a deeper exchange with her beyond friendship? In my opinion, exercising is too tiring. You can just take some drugs. I have a secret recipe. I have personally experienced it and it definitely works!

If you want to be both physical and emotional, the boss can personally go to your home to propose marriage for you. Getting engaged in high school and getting married in college is a great story."

Li Yu held his forehead helplessly. He knew it would be like this. Every time the topic would go off topic as Zhan Kong started talking.
"Boss Zhankong, I'm not kidding you. Is there any serious way to improve your physical strength?"

As if he heard the firmness in Li Yu's words, Zhan Kong also gave up the idea of ​​continuing to tease him and said in a deep voice:
"There are indeed more serious methods, but the cost is huge, and it is difficult to improve. The results are not significant, and the effort is completely disproportionate. It is not worth it at all."

"If you have that spare money, you might as well find a way to exchange it for resources to improve your magic level."

"Improving your physical strength is something you should consider when you reach a bottleneck in your magic level."

"But since you asked, I'll tell you about the methods magicians often use."

Li Yu was shocked and concentrated on listening to the advice of his senior. Zhan Kong's voice also reached Li Yu's ears through the phone.

"First, the most commonly used and common method, which has been passed down for thousands of years to fundamentally improve physical strength, is the medicinal bath. You can understand this without me saying it. It is to soak in a medicinal liquid made of various natural treasures. The benefits of this method are obvious. The increased strength is real. Every extra point is yours, and it can indirectly improve your magic power and mental strength. Of course, this method requires a lot of natural treasures. Even if you spend hundreds of millions, you still can't reach the bottom, and the upper limit is very low.

Then there are magic tools. Many special wearable magic tools, such as armor and battle robes, have the ability to enhance the magician's physical strength, allowing the magician to fight demons head-on to a certain extent in a short period of time. This kind of magic tool is an instant combat power. As long as the magic can withstand it, it will be amplified when worn, and the effect is immediate. However, the magic tool may also be damaged. After damage, the amplification will naturally be unusable. Moreover, this kind of special magic tool that can amplify the magician's power is not only very expensive, but also rare in number. It is a rare treasure that is priceless.

Then, if you are lucky enough to awaken the summoning system, and then you encounter a demon that can possess you, hurry up and contract it. The possessed demon is a priceless treasure, which can safely, stably and risk-freely improve your direct combat capabilities with the demon. However, the probability of encountering a possessed demon is estimated to be lower than the probability of winning the lottery jackpot.

Then the fourth method is what I recommend the most. Practice diligently, and your mental strength and magic will naturally improve and feed back to your body. The physical strength of a high-level mage can be comparable to that of some slave-level monsters. "

"In short, these are the methods. Think about it carefully."

Zhan Kong hung up the phone. Li Yu recalled the former's words. The main idea was to practice hard and improve the magician level. Other methods would not be worth the effort.

This was Zhankong's initial view, until...

An hour later, Li Yu's cell phone rang and he answered it.

"Boy, no wonder you suddenly remembered to ask me if there is any way to improve your physical strength. It turns out you came prepared!"

Zhan Kong's sudden realization echoed in Li Yu's ears. The latter felt relieved and said in a brisk tone:
"Boss Zhankong, it seems your investigation has yielded some results."

Zhankong affirmed.

"Yes, I did find out a lot of things."

Then, he said in a surprised and envious tone:
"Sometimes I wonder if you are the lucky child in the novels. You always get good things."

"Why didn't I realize that this small place like Bo City is so blessed with so many talented people? First you, then Mu Ningxue, that girl who was born with spiritual energy, then Mo Fan, the interesting genius you mentioned, and then you bumped into a top research genius. It's simply full of talented people."

"Boss, let's talk about the results of the investigation first."

Li Yu believed that the almighty Boss Zhan Kong was capable of doing anything.

"In fact, there is no need for me to investigate specifically." Zhan Kong looked at the identity information of Shi Liang in his hand and was amazed.

"Shi Liang's information is clearly displayed on the university's official website. He has won many awards for his achievements, and he indeed returned to Bo City only a year ago.

It seems that the local forces in Bo City have tried to invite him, but all were rejected. I don't know what the manor is doing at home.

I didn’t expect that he was continuing his unfinished research at the academy.”

"Ok?"

Li Yu noticed something was wrong.
"Does the local power in Bo City know him?"

"That's right. After all, this kid was considered a famous genius in Bo City back then, and the Shi family was also a well-known family in Bo City."

"Shi family? I've never heard of it."

"Of course you haven't heard about what happened more than a decade ago. You were still wearing open-crotch pants back then."

Zhankong clicked his tongue and said:

“Even I got the files from the Bo City Government.”

"The founder of the Shi family is Shi Liang's grandfather, a high-level wizard. The second generation is the only son of Mr. Shi, Shi Liang's father. Shi Liang's parents are both mid-level wizards. They are very young and will probably become high-level wizards in their lifetime. Shi Liang also became famous at a young age. It can be said that in Bo City at that time, three generations of the Shi family were heroes."

"What happened later?"

Li Yu asked. According to the existing information, although the Shi family did not have any big backers back then, they were quite powerful in Bo City. But now Bo City does not have even a little bit of the reputation of the Shi family. If nothing unexpected happened, then something unexpected must have happened.

"It's still those bastards from the Black Church."

Zhankong was cursing on the phone.

"After Mr. Shi passed away, the Shi family did not decline because there was someone to take over. When Shi Liang was in the third grade of junior high school, Shi Liang's parents went to another city to handle business. They encountered a demon attack on the city and were temporarily recruited to participate in the guard mission. They were killed by a close-range attack from the demon."

"Demons attacked the city? Did the Black Church do that?"

"No."

Zhankong gnashed his teeth and said:
“Although the demon attack on the city was successfully resisted, it also caused huge casualties. The most infuriating thing is that those beasts even sent a telegram to the whole country, clearly describing the entire process of guiding the demons to attack the city. It was like a slap in the face of everyone.

These bastards are indeed Saran’s people, and they are all imitating that madman.”

After expressing his criticism of the Black Church once again, Zhankong continued:

"You can probably guess what happened next. After Shi Liang's parents passed away, only Shi Liang and the old housekeeper left by Shi Liang's grandfather were left. To make matters worse, Shi Liang failed to successfully awaken his magic in high school, and later he was diagnosed with a physique that forbids magic, so his path to magic was completely cut off.

Since the Shi family had no magicians, they could not keep the huge family business, so they sold most of their property and only kept a few stores to be managed by others. After that, the Shi family closed the manor, dismissed the servants, and the old housekeeper took Shi Liang to study in another province. "

"Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise that the loyal old butler of the Shi family is a mid-level mage. Otherwise, those family properties would have been swallowed up by other forces, not to mention being sold at a lower price."

"But the property was eventually sold. Everyone thought that the Shi family had completely fallen on hard times. However, unexpectedly, Shi Liang became famous through his studies. Even a national university wanted to invite him to be a professor, but he refused."

"Why would he refuse?"

Li Yu became even more confused.

In Bo City, Shi Liang couldn't even find basic researchers and suitable research subjects. Other experimental resources must be extremely difficult to obtain. If he chose to stay in the national university, there would always be no shortage of research resources, right?

"That's the next question I want to talk to you about."

(End of this chapter)