Episode Two: Growth Chapter 12: The Testament

Time passed, months passed, and it was already February, and many of the trees on Wu Mountain had already sprouted new buds, a hint of spring had quietly arrived.

Underneath an ancient tree.

Linley was sitting cross-legged, meditating on refining magical power.

Linley, who had entered the meditative state, clearly felt a large number of earthy-yellow points of light and cyan points of light surrounding his body, and these two types of points of light were constantly entering his body from all parts of his body, passing through all his limbs and bones, and finally gathering in the ‘Middle Dantian’ in the center of his chest after being purified.

Only to see that the Middle Dantian was filled with earth-yellow mist as well as cyan-colored mist.

This earth-colored mist was the earth magic power. And the green-colored mist was the wind magic power.

“Whew.”

Slowly exhaling, Linley recovered from his meditative state.

A moon white robed Delinquent sat smilingly on his knees on the ground, looking at the surrounding scenery, and when he saw Linley waking up, he couldn’t help but smile and say, “Linley, you’re all setting off for the Ernst Academy tomorrow, and you’re still working so hard today.”

Linley, however, laughed with a wry smile and said, “Grandpa Delin, you yourself seem to have said that a strong person is one who cultivates hard every day from the usual time, not letting up for a moment. It’s only through long term cultivation that one can exchange it for amazing strength.”

“Good boy, all taught me up.”

Derinkelwalt laughed and scolded.

“Heh heh.”

Linley grinned.

“Instigate!”

A black phantom suddenly flickered away in the distance, and when it reappeared, it had already arrived at Linley’s shoulder, it was precisely the Shadow Mouse ‘Beibei’, little Beibei was grimacing at Linley at this time, while pointing at the dead hare that had been on the ground.

As soon as Linley looked at little Bebe’s expression, he knew.

“Want me to help you roast it?”

Linley said with a smile.

Bebe nodded repeatedly.

“Linley.”

Next to him, Derinkelwalt telepathically transmitted his voice, “This little Shadowmouse is really weird, it’s been several months, but looking at the size, there isn’t even a single ounce of growth, it should have grown significantly as a toddler.”

“I don’t understand this either.”

Linley shook his head.

The Shadow Rat ‘Bebe’ didn’t see any growth in size, but the Shadow Rat ‘Bebe”s own movement speed, increased quite quickly.

“How bizarre.”

Derinkelwalt glanced at the little shadow mouse ‘Bebe’, who at the moment, had no idea that a spirit was sizing him up.

“It’s getting late, and we have evening training to do later.”

Linley stood up, grabbed the dead hare and headed down the mountain, Derinkelwalt drifted beside him and said with dissatisfaction, “Linley, you’ll be a magician in the future, and you’re still conducting warrior training now?”

Linley smiled and said, “Grandpa Delin, I’ve found that conducting warrior training can increase perseverance, and with increased perseverance, it can also increase mental strength.”

“Of course I know this.”

Deryn Corvette said in dissatisfaction, “How can the speed of that most primitive type of training to increase mental strength catch up to a magician’s ‘meditation’?”

Linley shut his mouth.

Conducting warrior training was a way to increase one’s spiritual energy, but it was nothing more than an excuse.

The reason Linley still conducted warrior training today was, “In the future, if I have the opportunity to drink living dragon’s blood, I can cultivate the ‘Dragon’s Blood Secret Codex’ or exercise my body. This body is the vessel, and fighting spirit is the wine. The body is very important. I’ll build a good foundation earlier and cultivate the Dragon Blood Secret Code more quickly in the future.”

In fact, with Linley’s elemental affinity, the time spent on refining magical power each day was only a relatively short period of time.

Most of the time was spent meditating to exercise his spiritual power.

But one was tired of always meditating to exercise one’s spiritual power. The warrior’s exercise was taken as a kind of toning rest. ……

The next morning, many residents of the entire Usan Town gathered on the streets of the town, all of them there to send Linley off. For Wu Shan Town to be able to produce an Ernst Academy magician, this was definitely something of incomparable honor.

In the entire Yulan continent, the Ernst Academy only recruited a hundred students a year.

At this moment, Linley was still in the middle of the Baruch family’s mansion, Hillman and a group of other guards were outside the mansion’s gates, and there was only Hogg, Linley, Walden, and the housekeeper, Hilly, in the front yard.

“Linley, today you went to the Ernst Academy, and you are now an official member of Ernst. When you graduate from the Ernst Academy, you will be a great and powerful magician! Before you go, father would like to say to you-”

On the eve of his departure, Hogg’s heart was full of words.

But after pondering for a long time, Hogg only uttered a few simple words, “Linley, remember the wishes of our Baruch family forefathers over these centuries, and remember the shame of our Baruch family!”

Hogg’s face turned a little green.

“You’ll be at least a rank six magician after graduation, and as long as you train seriously and hard, becoming a rank seven magician isn’t difficult. Plus you are a dual system magician! A level seven dual system magician, definitely a big shot in the Finlay Kingdom, you’ll have complete certainty of reclaiming the family’s inherited treasure in the future, and if you fail to do so, I won’t forgive you even if I die.”

Huo Ge stared at Linley in death.

“Even if I die, I will not forgive you!”

This sentence caused Linley’s heart to tremble.

Before parting, this was the testament that his father had given himself.

“Father, don’t worry, in my lifetime, I will definitely retrieve the treasure of our Baruch clan’s inheritance. I swear!”

Linley stared into his own father’s eyes in solemn assurance, and all he had in those clear eyes was determination.

Hogg’s eyes lit up and his large, powerful hand patted Linley’s shoulder.

“I believe you, son!” ……

On the path to the east of Wushan Town, Linley looked back at the hundreds and thousands of hometown relatives who were cheering him off, headed by his father as well as his younger brother, ‘Walden’.

“Brother, goodbye.”

Walden waved his hand vigorously.

Looking at his father as well as his younger brother, Linley also waved his hand vigorously, his eyes also slightly reddened.

“Father, Walden.”

Linley’s heart was filled with reluctance.

Since he was a child, Linley hadn’t really left home for a long period of time, and this time, it would be a long time away from home. At this moment, even the shadow mouse ‘Bei Bei’ was obediently silent on Linley’s shoulder, seeming to know that Linley was in a bad mood at the moment. Next to him, Derinkelwart, who existed in the form of a ‘soul’, also looked at Linley with an encouraging gaze.

“Linley, let’s go.”

Hillman said, there would occasionally be robbers on the road, and Hillman was protecting Linley as he went to the academy.

Linley looked at his loved ones with reluctance, but in the end, he remained determined to turn around and stride towards the Ernst Academy.

“Goodbye, my loved ones, goodbye, my hometown.”

In the year 9991 of the Yulan Calendar, the nine year old Linley, with the little Shadow Mouse ‘Bebe’, left his hometown of Wushan Town along with the Baruch Family Escort Captain Hillman’s.