77: Chapter 77 Modern History of Wizards

After returning to Hervais Manor, Nie Ning began to flip through the book Audrey had given him.

Nie Ning first opened the book on Wizard advancement, which recorded the items required for advancement as well as various potential accidents.

The items required for advancement were mainly divided into four types: promotion potion, an advancement formation, a place with abundant elemental energy, and a branded spell.

Except for the promotion potion and the innate spell, which were essentials, the other two were used to increase the success rate of advancement.

However, even with everything fully prepared, the success rate of advancement was less than half; those with poorer aptitude might only have a ten to twenty percent chance of success.

Failure would cause mental damage, and future advancement difficulty would become increasingly higher.

After reading this, Nie Ning couldn't help but smack his lips.

Of the four requirements for advancement, he only possessed one: the First-Ring Wizard spell he had.

But there was a problem: he possessed two offensive spells, while the advancement requirements suggested that it was best to use defensive spells.

Because the release speed and power of a branded spell exceeded that of conventional spells, defensive spells were naturally the first choice for survival.

Another point was that defensive spells were more stable and could enhance one's own Spiritual Power resilience and stability, thereby improving Spiritual Power protection.

In contrast, destructive spells not only had extremely poor stability, but if a mistake occurred during advancement, the consequences would be severe, allowing one to experience a 'flying' sensation for free.

Of course, this referred to the soul flying away, which easily caused soul damage.

Besides this, he had neither a promotion potion nor a place with abundant elemental energy, and an advancement formation was not something a half-baked novice like him could set up.

In other words, not a single one of the four requirements was met...

The most miserable part was not just this; he had not even learned a single basic spell to this day. I fear that throughout the entire history of Wizards, a peak Witch Apprentice like him was rare.

...

Nie Ning sighed, put down the Wizard advancement guide, and opened another book.

Thinking of what Audrey had said, the problem most likely lay in this book.

After all, Audrey wanted him to be stationed in Ska City. The danger of such a task went without saying; just encountering the coffin nail old man made his scalp tingle.

Nie Ning carefully read this Modern History of Wizards. The beginning mainly introduced some basic situations regarding Wizards, as well as what this world originally looked like.

However, when he flipped to the middle, things seemed to become a bit strange.

About fifteen hundred years ago, a powerful Wizard, while searching for other worlds under the starry sky, inadvertently entered a special space.

That special space had abundant elemental energy, almost several times more than the Wizard world.

This discovery was simply unimaginable for the Wizards of that time.

Once elemental energy was poured into the Wizard world, the growth rate and number of Wizards would see a massive increase.

For this reason, after a group of Wizard big shots discussed it, they prepared to use a complex formation to introduce the elemental energy into the Wizard world.

But initially, everything went very smoothly, and the concentration of elemental energy in the Wizard world did indeed rise.

At this moment, however, eerie things happened.

A large number of Wizards, because they had absorbed the elemental energy from the different dimension, began to undergo unknown distortions in their individual souls, which led to the appearance of many monsters that were difficult to deal with.

One must know that the soul is the foundation of a person, and the human body and soul are basically consistent.

When the soul undergoes distortion, the body enters a subconscious state of self-reorganization, instinctively changing in the direction of the soul's distortion.

In fact, this was originally a good thing, because it was a type of evolution, much like the changes humans have undergone from ancient times to the present.

But the problem also lay here.

Evolution is inherently a manifestation of adapting to the environment; in fact, knights and Wizards becoming stronger is a form of autonomous evolution.

And when the speed of evolution far exceeds what the soul can bear, that is the origin of disaster.

Evolution that is too fast leads to soul distortion, and soul distortion becomes a type of erroneous evolution, and this state is irreversible.

Those powerful Wizards discovered the 'foreign object' within the elemental energy, but for the entire Wizard world, it was already too late.

Although they resealed the entrance to the different dimension, that unknown 'foreign object' had already merged into the entire Wizard world.

The eeriness of that 'foreign object' was far beyond imagination; it could almost forcibly cause people to enter a state of 'disordered evolution'.

...

"Hmm? Psionicist?"

Nie Ning was reading with great interest when he suddenly discovered an introduction related to the Psionicist.

Normally, human talent is limited and would not derive various superpowers; only those who have mated with different races might potentially be born with various strange abilities.

However, to be precise, this still does not belong to humans, but is a talent inherited from different races.

And with the appearance of the 'foreign object', some people underwent erroneous evolution in the direction of distortion, but there were also lucky ones who evolved in a good direction.

This is the origin of the 'Psionicist', a group of 'new humans' born because of the 'foreign object'.

This group mastered many strange and peculiar natural abilities, such as innate Five Elements Manipulation, body strengthening, Spiritual Power application, and so on.

Possessing this type of talent usually leads one to become an outstanding person in the same profession.

Just like Five Elements Manipulation; after becoming a Wizard, one has innate advantages in the control of elements, as well as the mastery of runes of the same attribute.

...

Seeing this, Nie Ning instinctively glanced at his panel.

If one were to follow the records in the book, it seemed to explain why Malice Perception would frequently issue warnings.

Because the book specifically recorded a type of Psionicist.

The soul-controlling type of Psionicist.

Corrupted creatures are infectious.

When the Spiritual Power of a soul-controller comes into contact with corrupted creatures, it is influenced by the corrupted creatures and enters a state of subconscious change.

It is not just soul-controllers; in fact, almost everyone is affected.

It is just that the Spiritual Power of ordinary people is weak, and their corresponding mental resistance is too low, making it difficult to make effective resistance; they are also the people most easily corrupted and devoured.

In other words, Malice Perception was alerting him that his soul was being attacked by the soul of corruption.

Thinking of this, Nie Ning fell into deep thought.

But after thinking it over, giving up the eerie soul was a bit unrealistic.

His offensive power against that group of Corruptors was limited, and only by relying on these souls of corruption would he have a chance to fight them.

Moreover, long before recalling the Human-Faced Balloon, the warnings from Malice Perception were actually not that frequent; perhaps it was because Supernatural Adaptability had played a role.

However, a balance needed to be struck here.

Because when the soul of corruption is too strong, the warnings of Malice Perception become more intense.

Especially during the battle with the Little Boy, the Human-Faced Balloon appeared to be in an out-of-control state because it was too strong and not easy to control.

Fortunately, the book also said that increasing Spiritual Power could effectively resist corruption.

Therefore, as long as control is managed properly, he might not be affected, and could instead use Supernatural Adaptability to obtain corresponding abilities.

Furthermore, he had no way out now; if he wanted to advance to a First-Ring Wizard, he had to agree to Audrey's conditions.

Without the help of the soul of corruption, he would likely be unable to handle the work of suppressing Corruptors.