68: Chapter 0068 The Gathering of Witches

Felina, having returned to the Carnival, planned to properly teach the unruly Li Size a lesson.

And Li Size originally intended to regain his lost honor, which played right into his hands.

Gele City was, after all, a relatively remote border city. Aside from having slightly more non-human races, it didn't have many outstanding features.

Therefore, Li Size and Felina ended up lingering in the hotel.

Two days later, the refreshed Li Size looked at the weakly slumped Felina on the bed and finally smiled triumphantly.

The Pay-to-Win ability was truly great; he could go on for three days and three nights, but Felina was genuinely exhausted.

The two rested for half a day before Felina slowly recovered her stamina and complained coquettishly:

“Husband, you’ve completely worn me out to the point I can’t get out of bed!”

The signal to retreat was given, and after tidying up...

Felina prepared to take Li Size to browse the local Wizard Market before leaving Gele City for the next destination.

The strongest individuals in Gele City were rumored to be Second-Level Wizards, and there was more than one.

Some said it was Viscount Weisman, and others said it was the Director of the Internal Affairs Department.

There were also rumors that the Police Chief and the City Defense Corps Commander were also Second-Level Wizards.

The truth was mixed with falsehoods, making it impossible to discern clearly.

Second-Level Wizards were already high-level combat power in the Duchy, so naturally, ordinary people couldn't speculate or know for sure.

However, it was confirmed that the entity maintaining this Wizard Market was a Formal Wizard living in seclusion in Gele City, named Veselin.

She specialized in plant cultivation and potion making, which was an open secret in the Wizard circle.

It was rumored that 90% of the plant seeds in all the plantations in Gele City came from Veselin.

And most of the raw Materials were sold by the plantation owners to Veselin's potion company—the Redeemer Medical and Potion Research Institute.

Veselin leveraged her attainments in the field of potions to gather a large number of Wizard Apprentices and ordinary people who wished to specialize in potion making.

She established her own company, monopolizing the common consumable potions ranging from inferior grades up to First Ring in Gele City.

This was not the small-scale operation of someone like Li Size, but a true regional monopoly!

Using the dilapidated manor where she once lived during her apprenticeship days in the plantation area as the venue, the current Wizard Market had persisted for nearly a hundred years, serving as a testament to her journey.

It seemed that the growth of Wizard Veselin must also be an epic and moving legendary story.

Perhaps every Formal Wizard in the Wizard World had a fascinating story behind them.

Veselin's Wizard Market was its abbreviation. It only opened on weekends, and it was about the same size as Li Size's factory.

Most of the transactions in this kind of market involved setting up stalls, with only a few fixed shops. It was more for long-term resource gathering.

This type of market was quite interesting...

The Wizard Apprentices setting up stalls came from various backgrounds. Not all Wizard Apprentices were the academy-trained type like Felina.

After all, successfully meeting the attribute standards for a Wizard Apprentice within nine years was undoubtedly an insurmountable hurdle for the vast majority of people.

But this didn't mean they had missed their chance at a wizarding life just because they failed the entrance exam for the academy.

After all, there were countless coincidences in the world, or perhaps they finally met the standard after graduating from a lower-level academy and became Wizard Apprentices.

It was just that such Wizard Apprentices faced far, far more difficulties than those cultivated systematically in an academy.

Those who could enter the Higher Academy were geniuses selected from a hundred.

But one must never underestimate this massive pool of apprentices. The owner of this Wizard Market, Wizard Veselin, was not from the academy faction.

Perhaps she maintained this market to preserve a spark of hope for those non-academy practitioners just like herself.

This market was famous near and far in Gele City and had been bustling for nearly a hundred years.

Most Wizard Apprentices in the dozens of towns around Gele City who had needs or wanted to trade would come here, and over ninety percent of the transactions were barters.

Li Size and Felina carefully browsed the various goods at the market.

What interested Li Size the most was certainly sorcery or various advanced knowledge, which was also the category most lacking in the market.

Li Size took a liking to a Zero Ring Alchemy Rune combination he didn't possess—'Sturdiness.'

This was a relatively common Alchemy Rune combination.

Li Size initially thought it would be easy to trade for, but the seller disdained gold coins, which made the Pay-to-Win-accustomed Li Size lose his temper.

The seller insisted on bartering, demanding a defensive Zero-Ring Sorcery or other suitable rare Zero Ring Sorceries.

Li Size had a few, but they were all restricted from secondary trading.

Li Size still really wanted this Alchemy Rune set, as he had always considered accumulating defense, and this rune was perfect for that.

Finally, after much persuasion, Li Size and the seller reached an agreement that wasn't quite a formal pact: If his 'Sturdiness' rune set wasn't sold within two months, Li Size could trade it for two 'swift spirits' if he managed to gather them.

A common sorcery was usually worth one swift spirit, which showed here that knowledge related to crafts like alchemy was more valuable than sorcery knowledge.

The former represented production, while the latter mostly represented destruction.

Li Size realized this was a manifestation of the universal values in the Wizard World.

The vast majority of wizards believed that production was more important than destruction; that was what constituted a normal civilization.

The appearance of this Alchemy Rune further increased the necessity and urgency for Li Size to refine 'swift spirits.'

Additionally, Li Size discovered a Necromancy Sorcery: 'Summon Skeleton.'

This was the Zero-Ring Sorcery that allowed Felina to summon Knight Rank Skeleton Warriors from another world, and also to Summon Skeletons from corpses in the material world by consuming very little Mental Energy.

This sorcery had subsequent versions from First Ring to Ninth Ring, forming a complete Necromancy Sorcery Legacy, and was one of the essential spells for any wizard specializing in the Necromancy System.

According to Felina, if one chose the Necromancy System after entering the Higher Academy, this Zero-Ring Sorcery and another Zero-Ring Sorcery, 'Summon Zombie,' were part of the academy entrance benefits.

However, the zombies summoned by that sorcery smelled awful and were nauseating, so Felina rarely used it.

Li Size planned to choose the Alchemy track and was unlikely to choose the Necromancy track.

But this Zero-Ring Sorcery was still quite useful; the scene at the plantation here had taught him a good lesson.

Li Size intended to buy this sorcery skill, but the seller adamantly only wanted to trade for a Lightning System Zero-Ring Sorcery. How could Li Size possibly possess one? This time, he could only give up helplessly.

Besides these two pieces of knowledge for sale, there were no other sorcery knowledge items sold at this gathering. This demonstrated the preciousness of knowledge in the Wizard World and further highlighted the hardship of non-academy wizards!

That Mody last time and the Department of Education behind him, threatening to strip Li Size of his qualification for the advancement exam at every turn—they were simply inhuman!

Li Size secretly resolved that if he ever had the chance in the future, he would definitely get even for this!

The remaining items for sale included various wizarding tools that others were skilled at making, used to earn some gold coins or trade with others.

The wizarding tools here referred to items rated at Level 1 or higher that could genuinely assist a Wizard Apprentice in certain aspects.

And the most numerous items were information about exchanging or seeking various Materials; transactions in this area were the most frequent...