Chapter 55 It Turns Out that Talent Can't Be Relied On

Duke frowned, as if that was all he could do for the time being.

Duke didn't have anything to complain about. After blindly hitting and hitting blindly, he was given luck to complete the foundation building. With the arcane fire circuit inherited from the high elf king, Duke is already happier than most mages.

Duke slowly opened his eyes, and what caught his sight was Old Norton who was still in shock, hiding in the magic shield and even trembling a little.

"Have you finished building your magic circuit?" the old man asked tentatively.

"Hmm. I'm afraid I will call Elf Prince Kael'thas my senior brother in the future." Duke said playfully.

The old man almost fainted from fright: "Please, don't scare me. Stealing elves without authorization, no, the inheritance of the elf king will cause a lot of trouble!"

"It's okay, the Sun King will soon..." Duke wanted to say that the Sun King would die soon, but he suddenly remembered that the secret must not be leaked, so he shut up.

"What about the Sun King?"

"No, this matter is really getting bigger. The one who sent me the letter will be the one to take the blame." Duke didn't really want Alleria to take the blame. What he was thinking about was how to further improve his magic circuit. Even if the Sun King stood in front of him, he couldn't tell.

"Yes, where did you go to collect the mana just now?"

Duke looked at the dull-colored mana gems at the old man's feet, and suddenly felt a pain in his heart. In order for him to build a good arcane circuit, the old man had already paid him the coffin.

Not wanting to hurt the old man Norton, Duke made a 'shush' gesture for silence: "I'll ask Medivh to borrow some."

Unexpectedly, the old man yelled strangely: "Impossible! The Guardian has been missing since last Wednesday. He was neither in Stormwind City nor returned to Karazhan without any notification."

Duke's heart suddenly thumped, and it jumped violently.

Medivh is missing! ?

Duke, who is familiar with the history of the world of Azeroth, of course knows what this means.

The disappearance of Medivh is a huge event for the Stormwind Kingdom and the entire world. During Medivh's disappearance, Sargeras lurking in his body was no longer satisfied with hiding in the dark and secretly influencing Medivh's decision. Sargeras began to devour Medivh's soul.

When Medivh reappears in the sight of everyone in the Stormwind Kingdom, he will launch the most famous first [Dark Portal] event in history, introducing orcs into the world of Azeroth. This is also the beginning of a series of turmoil and annihilation crises in the Azeroth world.

At this moment, Duke finally felt that the wheel of history, which seemed to have stalled, was still turning in an irreversible direction!

Duke couldn't help but dumbfounded: "Well, I admit that I took the mana from the mana crystal that Medivh put in the mage's tower. But I didn't take it, it was the Sun King's back door." Duke put the letter on the Sun King's hand The back door left by the mental power told Norton.

The old man was really happy and surprised.

The good news is that this time Duke and him don't have to have any accidents. What was surprising was that the elves were so unkind, they actually reserved a hand for all the mana gems that flowed out to humans.

Seeing the old man's frightened look, Duke comforted the old man: "Don't worry, I have the pearl route in my hand, at worst, I'll buy a batch of mana gems to compensate Medivh later."

No wonder it will be compensated!

The next time we meet Medivh, that guy will already be the boss of the Burning Legion! Don't cut the boss and give the boss a gift? I'm insane to do this.

Of course, Duke's actions comforted the old man very well. When Duke offered to compensate the old man for his mana crystals, the old man refused.

"No need. I don't have any children. I have been practicing arcane arts for most of my life. I didn't realize that I should accept a disciple until I suddenly realized that I was really old. Although you are not my disciple in the true sense, I put You are regarded as a closed disciple. Itana may be better, and she is expected to hit the sky mage. But it is not bad for Daniel to be an earth mage in this life."

The old man put his hand on Duke's shoulder: "My research depends on you to help pass it on."

"I……"

Duke's eye sockets couldn't help being red and moist.

Just like a father gave birth to a son, the son gave birth to a grandson. In the world of mages, inheritance is the same thing. Many times, for the continuation of learning, many things are done without asking for anything in return.

"You don't need to be surprised, you will think so when you are old. Well, since you have a solid foundation now, starting tomorrow, you can formally learn my arcane skills."

"knew."

At this time, there was a messy sound outside the house. It should be the guards and duty mages from the Magic Academy who came.

"Hey! Abra Norton, you old ghost, are you dead? Just snort when you die." A rude cry came from the window.

"Fillett, I'm not dead even if you're dead!" Old Norton yelled back angrily.

"Fine. And what about the little Duke Marcus?"

"In a little while you'll be able to sit with him in the sky mage's seat."

"Oh, hell, I've lived in vain all my life. That's right, where do you send the bill? Are you here or Marcus? This time I lost a lot, and I can't figure it out without a few thousand gold coins."

Upon hearing the thousands of gold coins, the old man Norton shrank his head: "Of course, the boy Marcus will handle it himself."

Duke, tongue-tied, lost all emotion just now because the old man didn't want him to pay for the crystal.

Hello! What about the mentor who agreed to take care of everything?

Give me back my emotion!

Facing Duke's mournful gaze, old man Norton decisively changed the subject: "Yes! Your arcane foundation has been well established. Now is the time to strengthen your knowledge of arcane. Starting tomorrow, you will come to me Learn the art of the arcane."

Well, just treat it as tuition.

After that day, the entire academy knew that Duke had been promoted to the ninth rank of Earth Mage. All the official mages looked at Duke changed.

Duke didn't understand at first, but later the old man told him that in the world of mages, only mages who have truly formed a magic circuit and can continuously absorb free mana in the atmosphere will be recognized as real mages. The standard of being able to cast three first-level spells is purely for the convenience of judging the boundary between a mage and an apprentice.

In the days that followed, Duke devoted himself to learning arcane skills from old man Norton, that is, metamagic expertise.

It's different from the game where you can have special effects simply by adding points. In the case that the system elves couldn't analyze it, Duke could only act like a real apprentice, constantly using his own senses to perceive.

Over and over again, in constant failure and practice. There are so many failures that Duke can't remember how many times he failed.

Finally, Duke succeeded.

[Arcane Subtlety]: Reduce your target's resistance to all your spells. The specific effect depends on whether you can grasp the target's weakness in actual combat.

[Arcane Concentration]: You have a 10% chance to enter the energy-saving spellcasting state after casting any kind of harmful spells. Clearcasting status reduces the mana cost of your next damaging spell by 100%.

[Arcane Meditation]: Allows you to maintain a 15% mana regeneration rate when casting spells.

Just when Duke thought that his days of training would last indefinitely, a spell imprint on his hand became hot.