Chapter 301: Is there still a brave man in this world?

[Your journey has been long and tedious]

[But you’re used to it]

[After twenty days of traveling, you have managed to arrive at a small town with walls not found in villages or towns, and a scattering of wizards.]

[They are, like you, the weakest of sorcerer’s apprentices, not full-fledged wizards]

[But in this small town, the status of an apprentice wizard is high enough, sought after and honored by countless commoners, that you think for a moment and decide to make a temporary stop in this small town.]

[This year, you’re 18 years old]

[The intersection of life and death and the presence of soul collectors have caused your soul to metamorphose rapidly, and you’ve refused invitations to all kinds of banquets as you meditate on your training]

[Only when a gathering of sorcerer’s apprentices convenes will you leave your state of cultivation and go to the exchange to gain knowledge]

[You know the complete division of the realm]

[The division of realms in the Wizarding World is based on the ring.]

[Apprentice wizards with zero rings only have stronger soul power, superior to ordinary people]

[A full-fledged sorcerer, i.e., a first-ring sorcerer, already possesses obvious transcendental qualities, and is capable of studying the soul to such an extent that he can inscribe the structure of the spell in his own soul.]

[This stage means the sorcerer has no regard for life and death]

[Blurring the line between the living and the dead]

[First ring, second ring, third ring, fourth ring …… until the seventh ring sorcerer, known by countless people as the apex of the legendary existence, will step into the true eternal immortality, the soul is not restricted by the underworld]

[Even, one can enter the underworld and become an immortal who rules a layer of soul realm]

……

“In the second year of the simulation, you were 19 years old.

[Your cultivation is so fast that your soul managed to reach the apprentice limit without anyone else’s knowledge]

[You’re silently thanking the countless skeleton soldiers for what they’ve done.]

[You start picking out and use it as the original technique for inscribing your soul, it’s your foundation, the first brick in the future to move to a higher level]

[You’ve been thinking about this for a long, long time.]

[Third year of simulation, you’re 20 years old]

[Your apprentice’s soul reaches its limit, you no longer suppress it, and in the tidal wave of the soul’s surge, inscribe the native spell.]

[First Circle Sorcery – Life Depletion]

[This is the best technique you’ll find that matches the words of the intersection of life and death, the realm of both life and death]

[Breakthrough, promotion, stabilization, your realm changes to 1st Ring Sorcerer]

[You clearly perceive that your soul has become sharper, and you have a deeper understanding of the deathly aura that shrouds the outside world]

[That’s a whole new perspective on sharing the power of a witch.]

[You kept a low profile and didn’t announce your promotion, just left the small town where you lived for two years alone in the middle of the night]

[You’re on a journey again]

[Preparing to travel to a land of the undead, or a real wizard’s gathering place.]

[The former strengthens your soul, the latter finds the knowledge you need, and both are equally important to you.]

[Luckily]

[Being promoted to a full-fledged wizard gives you more means and sorcery, which allows you to avoid the embarrassing situation of walking on your feet]

……

The simulation was smooth and convoluted.

In the first few simulations.

The Hsu system is all about staying in the same place for long periods of time.

But this time, in the Necrotic Side simulation, the Xu system was almost always on the move, simply because the Broken World was so barren that much of the territory was dead silent.

Ghosts, skeletons, mutated corpses.

Together, these constitute the normality of the world.

Despite obtaining quite a few soul flames and greatly curtailing the time spent on cultivation, the deathly silence that shrouded the system in gloom still didn’t make Xu System quite accustomed to it.

“For this simulation, advancement in strength is optional.”

“It is only necessary to arrive at the minimum threshold and have the ability to study the soul.”

“The real world me.”

“With the touch of this knowledge, one can metamorphose into something stronger, and the ability to become a high realm sorcerer is only a fringe benefit in comparison.”

“When we find a suitable place to live, we’ll build a wizard’s tower and settle down.”

Ride on a featherless bone bird.

Xu System’s eyes were slightly closed as he contemplated the subsequent plan.

Soul.

Death.

This is the theme of the fifth simulation and the research goal of the Hsu Department.

Department Xu believed that with the effect of the words of life and death intertwined, he would be able to study something sooner or later.

“The soul fire has been consumed a bit quickly in recent times, replenish it some more.”

The Xu system’s figure paused slightly.

Control the Bone Bird to fly downward.

Prepare to seek out the nearest village or town and replenish your supplies while decapitating some undead to obtain Soul Flame.

Shoo–

The Xu system was lucky, and it didn’t take long to spot the target.

A small village being attacked by the undead.

The number of undead was small, only twenty or so, and the Xu system landed early, just getting close enough to prepare to cast a sorcery spell.

A rusty armor-covered hand stopped him back.

“Stranger in a Strange Land, stand back.”

“Just leave it to Guts to sort it out here.”

Hsu system:?

Is it true that there are still brave people in this world?

Heavy metal armor, adhered by dark brown mud, was covered in rusty abrasions.

Full coverage, full dress.

Tightly covering the inner figure.

Only a hollow sound came out of the armor, causing the Xu system to stop advancing.

The unknown brave man moved forward alone, clad in iron armor and wielding a longsword, stepping quickly to launch an attack, saving one commoner from the undead onslaught.

Iron boots stomped, cracking worn and decayed bones.

The long sword swiftly chopped, the heavy blade chopping out the soul fire.

“Ah, it’s the Holy Sword of Valor!”

Some of the rescued villagers shouted, excitedly pointing at the armored man, and together, the Xu system saw it, the shimmering light of souls blossoming from the blade of the sword.

The light glistened and the longsword dazzled.

In the bleak world where the sun was obscured, the sword was so noticeable, as if it were a seed of hope, lighting up the eyes of despair.

“Look na, it’s the holy light of the brave!”

Another villager cried out in excitement.

The armored man took it in stride, fist clenched and attached to a milky haze, and smashed the skeletal soldier’s head with a single blow.

“Guts!”

“Guts!”

The crisis in the village was solved and everyone was cheering, and a little girl even ran out of the crowd and presented the armored man with a ring of grass.

This ……

The Xu system watched from the sidelines, his brows furrowed.

Whether it was the holy sword or the holy light, he felt that the “brave man” in front of him was not quite right.

“The previous holy light, if I’m not mistaken, was just an outward manifestation of the soul’s power.”

“Swords, or light, are very limited in their own aggressiveness.”

“So it is ……”

“Is it pure brute force?”

Xu System’s gaze shifted downward, landing on the iron armor-covered hand.

Just–

With this power, you could have saved people with a straight face, so why did you have to fake your identity as a “brave man”?

Totally unnecessary, isn’t it.