Mystery: I Married the Queen of Mystery

The "Brawler Scholar's" potion had been completely digested, and the main and auxiliary ingredients for "Wizard" were already in hand. It was time for advancement!

Originally, Otis had planned to advance tonight, but Mike's matter caused a delay, disrupting his original plan. It was midnight before he had time to consider whether or not to advance.

Otis took a deep breath. Although it was late, he felt his condition was quite good.

Then advance tonight. Sequence 7 is also a qualitative change stage in the "Seer" pathway. Becoming a "Wizard" would allow him to use some extraordinary abilities, greatly improving his self-preservation and attack power.

So Otis, carrying a lamp, went to the front counter to gather the auxiliary materials, and then took out another main ingredient from the "Knowledge Wilderness": the brain of a Pale Long-Necked Beast.

With the materials prepared, he began to concoct the potion.

First, he dripped 6 drops of aconite juice, which had a certain toxicity, into the beaker. Then, he weighed 18 grams of purple black-edged lilac pollen, which had hallucinogenic effects.

Then, he added 60 milliliters of pure water, and a dose of poison that could cause angina and hallucinations was concocted.

This made Otis sigh: the auxiliary materials in the potion formula were completely using poison to fight poison!

Next, he added the deep red blood of a Silver-Beaked Crane to the beaker. From a pharmacological point of view, this was a tonic, but it didn't have any detoxifying effect.

Otis opened the two wooden boxes in front of him, first taking out the small brain that seemed to still have blood flowing through it.

This brain was about the size of a thumb's pad, but it was very similar to a human brain. In the crystal-clear and tiny blood vessels, there were dot-like illusory lights, and under the reflection of these lights, it seemed as if blood was flowing.

After adding the main ingredient, the liquid in the beaker quickly reacted. Otis didn't stir it, but the potion flowed on its own, as if it was melting the solids within.

Finally, Otis added two longan-sized "Fleabane Tree Fruits" that occasionally twitched slightly.

The potion in the cup instantly formed a small vortex shape, and under their own stirring, it eventually turned into a clump of syrup-like liquid with twinkling starlight.

Otis thought to himself: it looks more palatable than the "Brawler Scholar's" potion.

He took a deep breath, using "Meditation" to calm the thoughts churning in his heart. Once he was calm and peaceful, he suddenly drank the potion.

As soon as the cool potion entered his stomach, Otis seemed to hear a violent "rumbling" sound. His whole person became somewhat chaotic, as if he had returned to innocent childhood, carefree.

But this wonderful feeling quickly disappeared. Two or three seconds later, Otis felt a splitting headache, as if something was trying to drill out of his head, but couldn't find an exit, so it stirred around in his head.

Otis even had the illusion that his head had turned into cartilage, and something was pushing the left side of his skull high for a while, and the right side of his skull high for a while.

In fact, this wasn't his illusion. At this time, his head really felt as soft as a balloon filled with water. A small bulge moved around, as if a small snake was drilling around inside.

Clang~

The sound of the beaker falling to the ground brought Otis back to some reason. He tried hard to use his will to fight against the pain, to avoid fainting.

But soon, needle-like pain came from his head again, not only stabbing, but also stirring after the stabbing.

Then it changed to the pain of being cut by a knife, followed by the pain of being pinched by two hard objects…

It was as if someone was using various torture instruments to treat Otis's brain, causing it to suffer greatly.

Finally, the first round of pain in his head ended, and it started to hurt from cramping again. But the second round of pain was much lighter. Otis quickly used "Meditation" to resist this pain, and soon, the symptoms were greatly reduced.

But Otis was very clear that he still had to grit his teeth and pass the final stage of advancement.

After the pain had basically disappeared, suddenly, that strange and cold voice once again drilled into Otis's ears:

"The boundless universe! You… heap… jump… knowledge… Karnar… endless…"

This time, although he could hear a few more words clearly than during the last advancement, most of them were still vague.

Those vague parts were either like the low roar of a beast, making Otis's heart jump; or like fingernails scratching a thin iron plate, making a sharp noise, making him unusually irritable; or like ultrasonic waves that could cause harm, making him dizzy.

Fortunately, this voice quickly disappeared, but Otis had already fallen to the ground, his forehead bulging with veins, as if he had lost consciousness for a short while.

Immediately afterwards, a violent sense of dizziness struck, like being very carsick, or very drunk, causing him to start vomiting again.

A minute or two later, Otis was panting heavily, slowly getting up from the ground: No, I have to find a way to block the "Hidden Sage's" voice.

Otherwise, just after advancing, when he's weak, hearing him say something like that is really terrifying!

Otis planned to discuss it with Bernadette when the opportunity was right, to borrow something from her.

Rosell seemed to have made her a magical item that could avoid being "chased" by the "Hidden Sage". See if he could study it to make a low-profile version, or find a way to copy one.

But that's not a problem to think about now. Otis continued to use "Meditation" to stabilize his condition.

Two or three minutes later, all the discomfort on Otis's body disappeared, but if he pressed his head, it still felt a little numb.

This made him seriously suspect that the Sequence 7 "Wizard's" potion might mainly strengthen the brain, so the advancement process was basically all kinds of headaches.

Then, Otis used his spirituality to sense the new abilities he had gained after the advancement.

First of all, he had the ability to cast "spells," or "wizardry." This term was too general; it should be called "a series of wizardries."

He could use spiritual materials and extraordinary abilities to cast wizardries one by one.

For example, "Flight". Otis could, when needed, use "Flight Powder," which was pre-mixed with spiritual materials, as a medium to cast a wizardry that could allow him to fly briefly.

During this process, Otis had to outline the mystical symbol corresponding to this wizardry in his mind.

And the recipe for "Flight Powder" was knowledge that Otis had gained after advancing.

At this time, in his mind, there were twelve pieces of knowledge related to "Flight," including the corresponding mystical symbols and the recipes for the required spiritual materials.

Otis picked up his pipe, pondering as he played with it: To summarize the knowledge about casting wizardries that I've gained in my mind, the three elements of casting wizardries are: extraordinary ability, spirituality, and materials.

He had a relatively vivid analogy: the corresponding mystical symbol that must appear in the mind when casting a wizardry is like a startup code, allowing the extraordinary characteristics in the body to exert corresponding power.

That is to say, as long as he mastered enough mystical knowledge, he could also create the "startup code" for the wizardries he needed!

There's nothing wrong with one stroke, one hair, one inside, one content, one existence, one look!

Then, Otis "read" through all the mystical symbols corresponding to the twelve wizardries he currently mastered in his mind.

He quickly discovered that these mystical symbols looked somewhat similar to common mystical symbols, but if you studied them carefully, the usage was completely different. These symbols were more concise, but the content expressed by a single symbol was more complex and had more symbolic meaning.

At the same time, these mystical symbols also had many differences from the mystical symbols that Otis had deduced.

Otis scratched his head. The mystical symbols that he had worked so hard to deduce were not compatible with wizardries. This was troublesome.

But then he thought again that these symbols were all symbolic symbols, and they originally didn't have a fixed shape.

It's like during the Warring States period, the characters of the seven kingdoms were also different, but if they used them to write materials, the meaning expressed was basically the same.

So Otis had a bold idea: could he also use wizardries with the mystical symbols he had deduced?

He had to do an experiment.

Among the twelve wizardries, he found a "Flame Spell" that was relatively easy to prepare the corresponding spiritual materials. So he immediately went to the pharmacy in front to find the powder ground from the leaves of the Flame Red Maple tree, as well as the red fluff from the Fire-Patterned Sable.

He chopped up the red fluff, added it to the powder, and concocted the materials needed for the "Flame Spell."

Otis first replaced the mystical symbol for "Flame Spell" in his mind with the symbol he had deduced.

Then, he came to the courtyard, and while outlining the corresponding symbolic symbol in his mind, he injected spirituality into the spiritual materials and sprinkled the powder.

Whoosh~

The powder that was sprinkled ignited a great fire!

Success!

It really works!

As the flames in front of him extinguished, Otis almost wanted to roar to the sky. With his research on mystical symbols and spirituality, he would be the wizard who could use the most wizardries in total!

Returning to the house, Otis's face was covered with a smile. He filled his pipe, then dipped a few grains of the powder used for "Flame Spell" with his hand.

Forming a small flame on his fingertip, he lit his pipe with the flame and took a satisfying puff.

At this time, he was already considering whether or not to write a "Complete Book of Wizardries."

After fantasizing for a while, Otis continued to think about the problem of wizardries.

Understanding the principle of stimulating extraordinary abilities, he began to think about the second element, the problem of spirituality.

The casting of the witchcraft confirmed his thoughts on spirituality and extraordinary characteristics from the side.

He believed that extraordinary characteristics used spirituality as a medium to complete the application of extraordinary abilities.

In this process, spirituality occupied a very important position. Spirituality in its ordinary state would not produce any extraordinary effects, but after the distortion and essential change brought about by extraordinary characteristics, the state of spirituality became very different!

It could mobilize the power of nature, stimulate one's own potential, and disrupt the balance of spirituality within the target…

Crack~

A thunderclap suddenly sounded outside.

…

Crack~

Max, who was on duty in Backlund, also heard the thunder.

It certainly wouldn't thunder at this time of year. It was probably the 'Punishers' handling a case again.

At this moment, the door of Max's office was suddenly pushed open, and a member of the 'Machinery Hivemind' held a telegram: "Captain, an urgent telegram from headquarters."

Max quickly got up and took the telegram. He saw that the content of the telegram was: Audis Gayer has advanced to 'Wizard'. Focus on observation and monitoring.