"Is this the gate of darkness..."

Lance walked over quietly, looking up and down at the object. At this moment, it was wrapped in a thick layer of black curtain, but it still exuded an inexplicable mysterious aura.

He asked to stretch out his hand gently, and the curtain opened a corner.

The dark door reveals a patterned side, and the painted black background and exquisite carvings make people breathe.

A sharp demon horn appeared on the edge of that corner.

"This dark door is a teleportation item leading to a bottom plane of the abyss. It is said that behind the dark door is a place full of wealth. An ancient great demon lord buried his life's wealth here, and even the most cunning demons could not find the whereabouts of these wealth."

Lan explained softly: "It was because my father got this dark door that he caused the disaster. My mother and brothers and sisters were not spared... Andulan, the beast, after killing my father, he raped and mistook my mother, and even let my five-year-old sister go..."

Lance sighed in his heart, that old guy Andulan is really worse than a beast. He actually killed his brother with his own hands for a treasure.

"So, your father should be a wizard?" Lance asked softly.

Lan nodded and said, "My parents are both first-level wizards. They have always regarded Andulan as the person they trust the most. So after an expedition to the ruins, they got this treasure and shared it with Andulan... But this crazy guy. After using my parents to complete part of the cracking of the Dark Gate teleportation secret text, he couldn't suppress his ambition and sneaked into attack and killed my father."

"Cracking the ciphertext?" Lance's heart moved and simply pulled down the entire black curtain.

In an instant, the mysterious door was immediately completely exposed in front of him. The dark border, the exquisite glyph, and the image of a large demon with long horns appeared on the paper. He had three pairs of eyes, the first pair was scarlet, the second pair was dark blue, and the third pair was pitch black. His chest was open, revealing the three hearts leaping inside.

"This is the big demon Tin Sli." Lan explained softly:

"It is also the owner of this legendary wealth, a demon lord of the abyss. The Dark Gate is a very powerful teleportation prop. But it is also a one-time consumable. If you want to inspire the teleportation runes of the Dark Gate, you must decipher the runes on the Dark Gate. These are all Abyss Words. My parents have a certain understanding of the Abyss Word, but Anduran knows nothing."

"But Anduran was so anxious that before my parents could decipher the Dark Gate, he took action. I, the only one in our family, escaped. The only one escaped to the Stormland in the West. At that time, my parents were free wizards living in the northwest forest of Kurosawa and rarely dealt with others. Anduran was the same. It was probably after our parents died. He found that it was difficult for him to continue deciphering the cipher texts with his knowledge, so he began to walk out of the forest, communicate with the wizards in Kurosawa, and established the Black Gate Society."

"But it is so easy to learn such a rare language? Even the wizards of Silver Light may not know much about Abyss. It is very difficult to get started. Among the knowledge sold by the Magic Spring Chamber of Commerce, the meaning of each Abyss byte is priced at 100 magic stones! I guess this is what Andulan acquired behind the scenes. Unfortunately, after so many years, he still failed to decipher the cipher text."

Listening to Lan's sad narrative, Lance's face became a little weird.

"There are indeed all Abyss Words on this sect... But you said that in places like Kurosawa, Abyss Words are really scarce to what extent?" He was a little unbelievable.

Lan looked at Lance with some surprise, but still answered with certainty: "I didn't exaggerate it. If you don't believe it, you can also ask someone from the Silver Star Alliance."

Lance almost laughed out loud.

Abyss Word? Is he a master?

Most of the books Amman left him were books on the basic language. In the initial process of laying the foundation, he learned various languages. At first it was Gulun, and then the Abyss.

At the beginning, he thought this was a compulsory course for wizards, and he could not handle it without the help of the fox. So at that time he was surprised how other wizards did this.

It was not until he entered Ferrondor that he gradually realized that not every wizard would receive so many advanced language training when he was in the beginning!

Most wizards only use common and advanced witch terms (must be required for casting spells) and the more popular Gulun language, and few people master the rest of the language. There are very few wizards like Lance who have a little understanding of the fourteen and five languages.

It was only then that he felt Amman's good intentions. Although the two had not been together for a long time, the enlightenment teacher in his life was very caring for him. So even though he joined Scarlet Castle, Lance did not forget to learn the language books left by Amman and enrich his skills.

Until today, he has practiced the Abyss Language to the Master level! He can decipher a slightly simpler cipher text at a glance.

In Lan's surprised gaze, Lance glanced at the runes on the Dark Gate, then took a piece of white manuscript paper from the table, and waved his hand to write the first phrase.

He stood there, holding a quill in his hand, and writing quickly under the dim candlelight.

In just half an hour, the originally white manuscript paper was already filled with dense text, but it was written in common language.

Lan stood beside him and looked at the scene incredibly. Her chest kept undulating. Seeing Lance draw the last byte, she asked in a trembling voice:

"Young Master, this is what you wrote..."

"The Secret Text on the Gate of Darkness," Lance replied.

Lan suddenly smiled bitterly, and his emotions became extremely complicated. It was because of the things behind this door. Andulan killed his parents; it was precisely because of the runes on this door that Andulan had spent many years to decipher it. It was originally a very possible thing to become a second-level wizard with Andulan's qualifications, but because of the temptation of the Dark Gate, he distracted his energy and delayed his practice, and ended up in such a tragic end.

However, these cipher texts that plagued Anduran for countless days and nights were deciphered by Lance, which was a bit too strong.

"Do you know the Abyss Word very well?" she asked in a trembling voice.

Lance re-wrapped the door of Darkness with a thick layer of curtain, then clamped it under his armpit, and swept all the manuscript papers on the table into the Arcane Ring.

"I am Master Abyss. Don't look so surprised. There is a famous saying in our hometown: Knowledge is power, and I think it's right."

"We have been delaying here for a long time. Since we have obtained the Dark Gate, let's leave quickly."

While speaking, one master and one servant quickly left the core area of ​​the Apple Manor.

...

The next day, the news that the Black Gate would be destroyed by the mysterious wizard immediately spread throughout the Silver Light. Even in the City of Rotten, some well-informed wizards also received similar information. For a moment, all the wizards living near the Silver Light became in danger. The official spokesperson of the Silver Light immediately came forward and expressed that they would strengthen the patrol force in the area near the Silver Light...

But these things have nothing to do with Lance. He held Laughren's Book of Silver early in the morning, used his contribution points to exchange for the two witchcraft scrolls on the craftsman wizard's mage tower, and left the place.

In the afternoon, under Hayward's introduction, Lance purchased an industry that originally belonged to the Silver Star Alliance.

It was a wizard manor located near the city of decay, an hour's walk and a carriage only takes twenty minutes.

This property, called Black Rose Manor, covers an area of ​​60 acres, which is naturally countless times smaller than the aristocratic manor in the medieval European era in Lance's previous life. However, Black Rose Manor serves wizards and does not require much land for planting, so the sixty acres are also said to Lance as big enough.

The Black Rose Manor includes a pine forest, a small river that crosses the manor, and a lake covering an area of ​​about seven acres. The manor's house is built on the north side of the lake, and a small pier is at the entrance. There are some fish raised by the former owner in the lake, so you can fish and relax in your spare time.

The house is a four-story duplex building. There is no big difference between ordinary villas. It has a beautiful appearance and the nearby scenery is also pleasant.

In addition, there is a large grassland in the manor, a potion plantation - also opened by his former owner, a black rose garden, a horoscope platform, a horse farm, two water wheels and a windmill, a windmill, and an alchemy workshop.

When his former owner lived, there were still many mortals in the manor serving him. Now he left here and sold the house to the Silver Star Alliance. The mortals also looked for their own way of life, leaving only an empty manor.

The price of the Wizard Manor near the City of Rot is much cheaper than that of Ferrondor. In addition, his status in the Silver Star Alliance, he only used a thousand magic stones to get it. Lance was very satisfied with this price. Anyway, he had no shortage of magic stones on hand, and these magic stones were stolen from the Black Gate Club last night, so he didn't feel sorry for spending them.

After completing the handover procedures quickly, the master and servant moved into this gorgeous manor.

However, Lance is impossible for such a large manor, so it is undoubtedly a bit difficult to let Lan manage it alone.

So he gave the little maid some magic stones, asking her to buy some slaves from the rotten city or hire some mortals to work for the manor. After all, the rose garden needs to be pruned, the fish in the lake need to be fed, and the wind mill can grind wheat when it is started and provide raw materials for the bakery. As long as there is enough manpower, the entire manor can be self-sufficient.

Especially for the Potion Plantation, Lance instructed Lan to ask her to find two people who are good at cooking potions. It is best to be a junior apprentice, and it doesn't matter if you ask for a higher price. After all, Lance bought a lot of potions on hand, and kept it in a potion bag to keep fresh, but the power of the medicine will still disappear. If transplanted into the Potion Garden, this situation would not happen. On the contrary, if the cooking is good, Lance can still harvest more potions.

He chose a few of the Arcane Rings. He took out a batch of not-so-priced potions and handed them over to Lan.

...

After handing over all the matters in the manor to the little maid, Lance spent a day resting and recovering his spirits. Then he immediately devoted himself to crazy learning and practice.

For the next five months, Lance was not ready to leave Black Rose Manor. He was going to stumble here for a while to consolidate his current state and digest the wealth he had recently obtained.

The most important thing is of course learning the second-level witchcraft.

After some selection and consideration, Lance determined the order of spell learning. He devoted himself to the analysis and memory of the runes. As for the dark gate, he put it aside for the time being and did not rush to open it. God knew that there was a terrifying monster in the abyss behind this gate. He was now at hand, so there was no need to take such risks.

For more than three months, Lance devoted most of his time to spell learning. Even the refining of the Hiltings Bow was delayed for a while.

Three months later, he completed the first stage of the plan and successfully mastered a large number of second-level witchcraft. At this point, his second-level witchcraft suddenly became much richer.

In the character card of the Fox, Lance's character is displayed below the second level of witchcraft:

[Multiple Melting Ray], [Outland Lightning Chain], [Cutting], [Thunder Spear], [War of the Fire God], [Bileg Li Field Swamp], [Bileg Lightning Star], [Bileg Magnetic Field Storm], [Explosion Fireball], [Paper Man Stand-in], [Great Mist Technique], [Witchcraft Super Power], [Roaring Spell Streaming (Talent)], [Crystal Mist]

The various second-level witchcrafts made Lance's strength double. Compared to his short-term difficulties three months ago, he now has more second-level witchcrafts, and he has more choices when fighting.

Among these witchcrafts, the only defensive spell is [Crystal Mist]. This spell is also the only spell that does not meet the mainstream direction of Lance Magnetic Storm Mage’s advancement, but the reason why he chose it for practice was mainly to turn it into his own solidified spell. After being promoted to a second-level wizard, everyone will have a place for solidified spells. Inspiring solidified spells requires only one thought, no need to cast or chant.

Most wizards will choose a powerful defensive spell as their protective trump card and solidify it on their own body, and Lance is no exception.

This spell called Crystal Mist is considered the best even among the second-level protective spells. Another reason why Lance chose it as his solidification spell is that this spell is the only rune level of this spell, which is the [refined type], and the rest are standard types.

In terms of defense characteristics, Crystal Mist has a 360-degree all-round defense range without dead corners. When Lance is attacked, layers of thick crystals will form on the surface of his skin as a barrier. This crystal is not an ordinary product, but a crystal of magic, with the ability to soften and harden, and is completely controlled by Lance's mind.

What's even more amazing is that the effect of this spell is not fixed, but can grow.

"The current Crystal Mist is only at the first level. If you continue to use the small spells attached to this spell to devour a large number of high-quality crystals, you can increase the level of Crystal Mist. With this process, its defense power will be greatly increased."

Lance tried to use white crystal to increase the defense power of Crystal Mist. After a few days, it was indeed effective. After decomposing and swallowing twenty white crystals, the defense power of Crystal Mist increased by about 20%, which made him overjoyed and made a complete decision to position this spell as his own solidification spell.

Another week later, he successfully completed the solidification of his spells and added another layer of insurance to his life safety.

At this point, the first phase of the plan before Lance's cultivation was completely completed. However, he was not in a hurry to enter the next part, because at this time, the task he had previously handed over to the fox had been completed.

...

"The spell intensity evaluation program has been established, is it enabled?" The long-lost voice of the main chip sounded in Lance's heart.

He breathed a sigh of relief. He had wanted to establish this program for a long time, but there were too many data and parameters involved, and even a fox was not easy to establish.

After spending a lot of time and establishing enough databases, this subroutine can finally come in handy. Just like the character strength evaluation program, they are subroutines under the control of the fox and can be run at any time.

"Enable! Scan the character card [Lance] to evaluate the intensity of the spells under the character card."

"The command has been received. Scanning starts."

"The scan is completed, the evaluation process is officially started..."

Soon, rows of light green data were poured down and fell into Lance's eyes.

The spell strength of each spell he mastered was quantified and placed on the table in a simple and clear manner.

Lance immediately began to examine the strength of each spell.

The term spell strength is usually only accessible at the edge of a second-level wizard. For low-level wizards, they can only vaguely feel that some witchcraft are powerful and practical, while some witchcraft are a bit useless and have very narrow uses.

When the second-level wizard stage, wizards often use spell strength to evaluate the "quality" of a spell when communicating.

But in Lance's view, this evaluation is still a bit rough and not accurate enough, so the current scene comes.

All spells are marked with numbers and are digitized.

Offensive spells, in units of atk, use destructive power, casting time, concealment, and magic consumption as the main parameters, and weighted calculations are carried out with different weights to finally obtain a number; while defense spells are in units of dfe, the reference data corresponds to offensive spells; while auxiliary spells pay more attention to practicality and special effects.

【Scam Ray】Spirit intensity: 5atk

【Molten Ray】Spirit intensity: 25atk

[Multiple Melting Ray] Spell Strength: 75atk (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!