Imperial Crown

The potion was clearly liquid, but it tasted like jelly, cold and smooth, without any taste.

Just as he was about to chew it, it quietly flowed into his throat.

A few seconds later, Raven tasted it.

A hint of sourness, with a burning pain, spread from the tip of the tongue to the entire mouth, and then extended to the esophagus, and the heat penetrated through the esophagus to the lungs.

"Hiss--"

With a low cry of pain, the muscles on Raven's shoulders began to twitch, as if he had eaten something he shouldn't have eaten, and even his internal organs felt a churning pain, making his face pale and sweating.

In this pain, a chill suddenly spread from the lower abdomen to the whole body. Every time it reached a place, the pain was relieved. The cool feeling penetrated into the internal organs and soothed the invisible pain.

Raven seemed to be slowly immersed in ice water, and the coolness spread all the way up, to the chest, throat, and then to the lips and teeth. The tense feeling made his breathing unconsciously speed up and increase.

"Hu...Hu...Hu..."

Buzz.

At the moment when the coolness passed through his eyebrows, the Eye of Truth was quietly activated, and then the cold feeling penetrated into Raven's brain.

He lowered his head, and through the Eye of Truth, he could clearly see that between his chest and abdomen, the same silver stardust as the second-level potion was lingering and exploding.

Every time a stardust exploded, an invisible energy swept across with coldness, and the cold feeling became stronger.

Raven felt as if he had eaten a large bucket of ice cream. The blood vessels on his forehead were throbbing, but he could not feel any heat, only waves of cold pain.

And... a feeling of fullness!

This has reached the limit of what his body can bear.

Two lines of tears fell quietly, and a trace of blood filled Raven's nasal cavity.

He stretched out his hand and flicked it, and saw a touch of blood in the palm of his hand.

In an instant, Raven had made a judgment-this awakening failed!

Without any hesitation, Raven opened his mouth and let out a long breath.

If the awakening fails, you can wait for the next time, but you only have one life.

The cold feeling seemed to have found a way out, flowing up along the esophagus and gushing out of the mouth. An invisible energy permeated the air. Every time the stardust in the stomach exploded, more energy could be squeezed out.

The pressure on the body was quietly relieved.

"Huh!" Raven breathed a sigh of relief.

At least there is no danger to life now.

But as soon as this thought came up, his eyes suddenly tightened, and the Eye of Truth quietly started to work. The energy that was originally permeated in the air was pulled by the invisible force and suddenly poured into his brow.

"What is going on!?" Raven was shocked and just wanted to close the Eye of Truth.

But the expected pain did not come, and his eyes felt a refreshing taste instead, just like the first time he opened the Eye of Truth.

So in this secret room, Raven spent his time in a strange cycle. He seemed to have become a humidifier, constantly exhaling energy from his mouth and then being absorbed by his brows.

I don’t know how long it took, when the last bit of stardust exploded, the energy in the room was also absorbed.

“Is this… a success or a failure?” Raven scratched his head. He didn’t feel any changes in himself.

After all, there was no magician or teacher around him, and no one told him what a magician would look like after awakening successfully.

I don’t know, so I can only try.

Raven picked up a scroll he brought in and opened it. It recorded the wind magic [Wind Wall], and in addition, it was a short spell used to test the magician’s elemental affinity.

“The omnipresent wind element, obey my command and condense in my palm.”

Chanting the spell, according to the record above, Raven used his consciousness to mobilize the power that he himself didn’t know existed to converge into his palm, so as to “attract” the wind element.

After a short silence, Raven suddenly felt a chill in his palm, and then the corner of his clothes was lifted for no reason, a little wind sound echoed in the secret room, and then disappeared without a trace.

"Success!?" Raven was still a little bit unbelievable. He stretched out his hand and clenched it, feeling a stream of air flowing through his fingers, as comfortable as if he had stretched his hand into the spring breeze.

A distraction, the air flow on his hand disappeared.

The wind was a little illusory after all. To make sure it was not an illusion, Raven picked up the scroll that recorded the fire spell [Fireball].

The scroll also recorded the method of testing elemental affinity.

After chanting the spell, Raven used his mind to guide a certain power to his fingertips.

According to Lux, a wizard usually has only one element that he is friendly to. It is not that spells from other factions cannot be used, but both the efficiency and power will be greatly reduced.

According to Raven's understanding, this is like a diesel car burning gasoline. Although it can barely run, it is a harm and waste for the car and the oil.

The previous wind element affinity test went so smoothly, Raven did not expect to succeed in the fire element test once, but as soon as he focused on his fingertips, a flame burned from them!

"Huh?" Raven's eyes widened, slowly raised his palm in front of him, and blew gently.

The flame went out with a puff.

Chanting again, the mind was concentrated again, and the flame on the fingertips suddenly burned, almost igniting Raven's hair.

"It succeeded again. Is my affinity for fire better than wind?"

That's really good. After all, the destructive power of fire magic is well-known, which is much cooler than wind magic.

Two types have been tested, and there are two left. Raven is not reluctant to try them.

A few minutes later, Raven stared at the dust under his feet and the water flowing in his palms.

Raven swallowed his saliva and was slightly surprised: "It's earth, water, fire and wind, four elements affinity."

Earth, water, fire, wind, plus holy light and darkness, are the six elements that make up the world. All other elements are extended on this basis.

The affinity of the four attributes of earth, water, fire and wind means that Raven can cast spells of any faction without any additional loss.

Raven calmed down and smiled to himself: "So, I have indeed become a mage."

But a doubt came to his mind again.

Where is my magic power? Where is my magic power, why can't I feel it?

He blinked and suddenly saw something flash by.

"Huh?"

After a slight pause, Raven closed his eyes again. At this moment, the Eye of Truth no longer looked outward, but began to observe himself from a high position, as if his soul had left his body.

At this moment, he could clearly see that in his mind, there was a thin layer of silver light curtain rippling, which represented his mental power, the most important energy for a mage besides magic power.

And below that, between his eyes, at the center of his eyebrows, there was a group of invisible energy condensed-it seemed that this was his magic power.

"So that's how it is." Raven opened his eyes, with a smile on his lips, and sighed: "Now, I am finally a real baron!"

Why did neither Old Gordon nor Denise object when Raven spent a lot of gold coins to help him awaken?

Because there are many extraordinary people who are not nobles in the world, but few nobles who are not extraordinary.

Raven becoming extraordinary is a good thing for the entire Griffith family.

When the empire was first established, there was a rule that only extraordinary people could be granted a title. Now, with the extravagance and decadence of the empire, many rules have been abolished or exist in name only, but this one remains unchanged.

Of course, it is not for the prosperity of the empire, but because of the arrogance of the aristocracy.

You are not even extraordinary, how can you distinguish yourself from those mud-legged low-class people?

Moreover, the promotion of the title is closely linked to one's own rank and strength. In the empire, no viscount is lower than the third rank.

Becoming a wizard means that Raven is one step closer to the viscount, although only a little.

But aren't the roads in the world walked step by step?

"And, I have a little clue to the secret of unlocking the family curse." Raven closed his eyes and stroked his eyebrows with his fingers.

At this moment, he could clearly see that a scarlet, dark energy was entangled around him like a spider web. It was not dense at the moment, but it gave him a fatal premonition of danger, like a noose that would tighten at any time.

His intuition told him that this was the shackles of the Griffith family bloodline.

Although Raven had heard that no one in the family could live past the age of 40, he had never seen it with his own eyes, and was skeptical about such an elusive thing.

Now that he could see this clearly, it was already an improvement, at least it gave him a clear hint.

Inexplicably, Raven thought of Donald, his cheap uncle who was already a second-level bloody knight when he died.

"Could it be that you also saw these, so you were forced to do such crazy and cruel things?"

He suddenly understood Donald a little bit, no one could watch death approaching step by step and still remain rational.

Shaking his head slightly, Raven took back his scattered thoughts and opened a box next to him.

During this period of time, Philip would send a few magic cores every now and then, and Raven would often get some semi-monsterized domestic pigs to make leather. Now, there are 63 complete monster leathers in the warehouse.

And Raven didn't use all the magic cores for leather making. He kept 5 of them, with the attributes of earth, water, fire, wind and holy light.

This was to test whether he could absorb more energy from the magic cores once he became a mage.

He chose a magic core with the power of storm and held it in his hand. Raven's fingers exerted a little force, and a crack grew from the surface of the magic core. The magic core quietly collapsed, and the energy contained in it gushed out.

"What is this...?" Raven frowned.

This time was different from the previous times. The energy in the magic core was pure and pure, but today it was mixed with a twisted purple-black breath, just like a piece of rotten meat that made people feel disgusted.

"Could it be that the magic core will also deteriorate?"

Raven was amused by his own thoughts.

For safety reasons, he still did not absorb the energy in it until the energy dissipated completely. He chose another magic core with the power of fire.

This time, it still contained that kind of purple-black, corrupt and disgusting thing.

"Strange, this was delivered just a few days ago."

A dozen minutes later, he smashed open another earth-attributed magic core, and there was still that thing inside.

At this time, even if Raven reacted slowly, he knew that it was not a problem with the magic core itself.

"The Eye of Truth evolved after I became a first-level mage, allowing me to see things I couldn't see before?" Raven stroked his stubbled chin: "It's very likely. After all, when I closed my eyes before, I didn't have that kind of 'inner vision' state."

If that's the case, then there's no reason why I can't absorb the magic core energy that I could absorb before.

He used the power of the Eye of Truth: "Come."

The foggy earthy yellow energy in the air rushed to the center of his eyebrows. Raven could feel that the magic power he had consumed was replenished.

The purple-black breath also penetrated into the center of his eyebrows.

The moment it touched his skin, Raven felt the familiar tingling and itching.

"I understand. It turns out that this is what makes me so painful when absorbing the magic core energy." A gleam of light flashed in Raven's eyes. While absorbing the energy in the magic core, he tried to keep the purple-black corrupt breath out.

With a thought, an invisible barrier, or more precisely, a sieve, was supported in front of Raven. The energy of the magic core was unimpeded, but the purple-black breath could not rush in anyway.

Raven's eyes would close for a while from time to time.

He could clearly see that as the power of the magic core poured into his body, the strength of his body did not increase too much, but the magic power expanded little by little after it was replenished to perfection.

Although the amplitude was not high, the total amount was actually increasing.

"It seems that the magic core can replace meditation and increase my magic power, but I don't know how efficient it is compared with meditation."

As he said that, he opened his eyes and looked at the scroll next to him.

In addition to recording spells and ways to test elemental affinity, these four scrolls also recorded a universal meditation method.

"Ouch...!"

Suddenly, Raven felt a burst of fatigue, as if he had not slept for two days in a row. He closed his eyes slightly, and saw that the silver color representing mental power in his mind had become extremely thin.

He quickly gave up absorbing energy, and his mental power finally stopped consuming. The purple-black aura that was about to rush to the center of his eyebrows also stopped, hovering in a daze.

Absorbing the energy of the magic core itself hardly consumes mental power, but blocking the strange smell of corruption will consume a lot of mental power.

"Hmm... This smell is so strange, does it mean that it is also the culprit that caused the domestic pig to go berserk?"

While talking to himself, Raven added another goal to his schedule: to verify the feasibility of this plan on domestic pigs.

Picking up the scroll, Raven smiled and thought of Lux.

These scrolls are written in both Imperial and Elvish. Although the meanings are similar, the syllables used in Elvish are shorter.

This means that whoever is proficient in Elvish, a first-level mage, can cast spells at a faster speed, and his combat ability and self-protection ability can be greatly enhanced.

"It seems that she has thought of this day a long time ago, and the conditions she put forward are not just to embarrass me." Raven sighed: "Have I bullied her too much?"

"It must be boring to live alone in the church, otherwise I wouldn't have read so many books."

He made up his mind that even if it was not to pay less debt, he would step up his study of Elvish.

On the one hand, it is good for his magic ability, and on the other hand, it is an opportunity to accompany Lux more.

This innocent and kind priest has paid a lot for him and deserves his protection.

Holding the scroll in his hand, Raven wiped the belt, and the scrolls disappeared immediately. He said easily: "Hey, I can finally use the space belt without the magic core."

Pushing open the door of the secret room, Raven walked towards his bedroom with light steps. Through the window of the corridor, he could clearly see the rising sun.

In the bedroom, Petty was sweeping the carpet. When she saw Raven coming back, she showed a surprise on her face: "Baron, you finally finished your training. I was so worried about you these two days!"

"Two days?" Raven was stunned for a moment and chuckled: "Then I am in seclusion."

Raven said the second half of the sentence in Chinese, of course Petty didn't understand, and she didn't want to ask.

There will be no shortage of beautiful women around the baron. Although she is also a little pretty, if she wants to serve the baron for a long time without being hated, she should always remember her duty.

"Sir, breakfast is about to start. Do you want to eat in the house, or...?"

Originally, he didn't feel anything, but now when he heard this question, Raven's stomach began to growl: "Tell Poirot to prepare something richer and go to the restaurant to eat together. I also just want to understand the situation of the territory in the past two days."

"Understood, sir!" Petty bowed and left.

Half an hour later, Raven sat at the dining table, and the maids brought the breakfast that had been prepared.

The golden brown croissant was cut in half, with beautiful and fine pores on the cross section; the smoked pork was fried until the surface was slightly burnt and the fat became transparent; the poached egg was fried on one side with the fat from the roasted pork until it was half runny, which was quite tempting; plus a bowl of potato and sausage soup with good color, aroma and taste.

This meal was rich, with the right combination of carbohydrates, protein and fat, which made Raven full, but he still felt unsatisfied.

Western food is good, but it is always lacking in satisfaction, making Raven feel full but not full.

After all, bread, no matter how well it is made, is not a staple food from an Oriental perspective.

This made him miss Chinese food a little.

Rice is hard to find, but buns, steamed buns, and noodles are still worth a try.

I have to find a chance to teach Poirot.

"Lord Raven...?" Old Gordon called Raven's name.

"Oh, I was a little distracted just now." Raven swallowed the saliva that had just been secreted and raised his head: "What's the matter?"

"I'm calling you." Even after breakfast, Denise's makeup was still exquisite. She asked bluntly: "Raven, did you succeed?"

After saying this, everyone looked at Raven.

The latter leaned back in his chair, smiled and uttered a few syllables, and suddenly, a cluster of flames burned on his fingertips.

"God bless the Griffith family..." Old Gordon was stunned, tears flashing in his slightly turbid eyes: "My lord, you succeeded!"

"God bless the good man." Eric complimented: "I knew that with your nobility, sincerity, kindness and bravery, you would definitely become a magician!"

Denise looked at Eric with a strange look.

Why didn't she realize that this seemingly rough guy could flatter so naturally.

How can you say noble, sincere and kind?

Although she thought so, Denise did not despise Raven's achievements at all.

Magician, the synonym of mystery and power.

Every magician is a precious asset of the empire, and its status far exceeds that of knights of the same level, especially fire magicians. Its lethality and destructive power on the battlefield are very important. A high-level magician may even turn the tide of the battle with a high-level magic.

If taking back the town of Shining Gold is just a starting point, then Raven becoming a magician is the first step taken by the Griffith family after its resurgence.

"It seems that my investment was not in vain." Denise smiled: "This money was not wasted."

"Oh?" Raven raised his eyebrows: "Could it be... the samples I mentioned last time have arrived?"

"Hmm." Denise nodded and said: "They are stored in the workshop's warehouse."

"Then let's go." Raven slapped the table and stood up: "I hope they are of good quality.

Whether Angel's Tears can be truly made into a luxury product depends on this time."

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