Episode 1 – The Ring of the Coiled Dragon Chapter 13 – The Heart of a Strong Man (Next)

At dinner, the three members of the Baruch family as well as the housekeeper ‘Hiri’ shared a meal, and little Walton made a lot of noise at the table, causing the living room to be filled with laughter. When dinner was over, and after the old housekeeper, Hiri, had carried Walden to bed, Linley talked to his father, Hogg.

“By the way, father, wizard or warrior, which is more powerful?”

Linley inquired.

Huo Ge glanced at Linley and smiled before shaking his head: ”Linley, wizards and warriors, each excels in their own way. In terms of strength alone, for magicians and warriors of the same rank, the magician should be slightly superior. Most importantly, the status of a magician is extremely high, one level higher than a warrior. For example, the rank eight dual system magician just now, in terms of status alone, I’m afraid that even a rank nine warrior would be slightly weaker than him.”

“Slightly superior in strength, sh the status difference is this much?”

Linley wondered.

Hogg laughed: “Before this, you first need to understand the classification of magicians, magicians are divided into nine levels, one level two primary magicians, three level four intermediate magicians, five level six senior magicians. And above that, level seven, level eight, level nine, these three levels, are extremely terrifying, of course, above the level nine magician there is the holy domain magician!”

“The reason why magicians have a high status is because of their great destructive power.”

Hogg said as he picked up a cup of juice and gently took a sip.

“Destructive power?”

Linley looked at his father.

Hogg put down the cup and nodded his head, saying : “A warrior, even a dragonblood warrior, can only kill nearly a hundred enemies with a single sword, and once faced with an army of a million, at most, the commander will be killed, but after a commander dies, the enemy can replace it with a new one. And what about a Holy Domain Magician? A single forbidden magic can destroy a city, destroy hundreds of thousands of troops, hundreds of thousands of troops are finished, even if the commander-in-chief is still alive, what’s the use? For a country, a Saint realm magician is even more terrifying than an army.”

Linley understood at once.

“Don’t even talk about Saint realm magicians, even rank 8 or 9 magicians can emit astonishing power in the middle of a war. That’s why the status of a magician is extremely revered.”

Hogg said with a bland smile.

Linley nodded gently.

In the ‘war’ themed Yulan Continent, it was understandable that the status of magicians was this high.

“Oh yes, father, I remember once reading in a book that magicians were physically weaker compared to warriors. But I just saw that magician, who actually jumped off the back of a raptor with ease, is this what you call his body weak?”

Linley pursued.

Hogg replied : “This question will come later, Linley, you should know that ordinary people on the Yulan continent have a lifespan of one hundred and twenty to thirty years. And most of the powerful magicians and warriors have a longer lifespan, usually two or three hundred years old, or even three or four hundred years old, and human lifespans top out at five hundred years old, and the only way to have an extremely long, near-infinitely-long life is to reach the legendary Holy Realm.”

Linley nodded.

This he had once read about from books.

“But Linley, do you know that powerful magicians and warriors, what life span is long?”

Hogg asked immediately afterward.

Linley was stunned.

Powerful magicians and warriors had lifespans of three to four hundred years, and Linley had taken this for ‘granted’ and hadn’t even pondered why.

Seeing Linley’s expression, Hogg couldn’t help but smile: ”Linley, first of all, I have to tell you, there are fire, water, wind, earth, thunder, light, darkness, and other major attributes of the elements in the heavens and the earth, whether it’s a magician, or a warrior, they all absorb the elements of the heavens and the earth to train, and this leads to the fact that whether it’s magic, or fighting qi, they all contain attributes that differ. If you look carefully, you can find that the four male fighters of the mercenary squad just now, the first red-haired man’s fighting qi, is the fire attribute fighting qi. Of the other three, there was a wind attribute fighting qi, and there was also a water attribute fighting qi Fighting qi is divided into attributes, and magic is also divided into attributes!”

For the first time since he was born, Linley understood that the original magicians, warriors, absorbed the same elements of heaven and earth.

“The reason why powerful magicians and warriors have longer lifespans. It’s because when a magician absorbs the elements of the heavens and earth into their body and purifies and refines the ‘magical power’, those elements flow through their body and are naturally absorbed by the various organs, muscles, and bones within their body. It makes a magician’s physique better and better, and the better the physique, the longer the natural lifespan. In the same way – fighters cultivate fighting qi, they also absorb the elements of heaven and earth, and purify and refine the ‘fighting qi’ within their bodies. The flow of elements in the body similarly improved the physique. The more powerful the warrior, the better the physique, and naturally the longer the lifespan.”

Huo Ge made everything clear.

Linley’s heart was dawning with realization.

According to what his father was saying here, a magician’s body was also improved by the elements of heaven and earth, and his body was very good.

“Father, but why do others say that magicians have weak bodies?”

Linley queried.

Hogg shook his head and said : “Can’t you figure this out? To say that a magician’s body is weak isn’t that he’s really weak, but compared to a warrior of the same level, his body is a ‘weak point’. For example, an eighth level magician, although his body is not cultivated, it can still catch up to a second or third level warrior. But compared to a level eight warrior, a level eight magician’s body is a weakness.”

Linley slapped his head and smiled in embarrassment.

It was surprising that he hadn’t even thought of this simple question, he really was rigid in his thinking.

“However, although magicians can’t fight in close combat, there are ways for magicians to deal with it, one is to cast magical shields, such as ‘earth shield,’ ‘ice shield,’ ‘wind shield ‘ ‘Light Shield’ and so on, first resist with defense magic, then attack with attack magic!”

“And there’s another way for powerful magicians to take in ‘magical beasts’!”

Hearing this, Linley’s eyes lit up.

Linley also wanted to take in a magical beast in his heart, such as taking in a powerful raptor.

“A powerful magical beast is enough to protect the magician so that the enemy can’t get close to him. That way the magician can cast a powerful magic and directly kill the opponent.”

Hogg said with a smile.

Linley immediately said eagerly, “Father, how can I take in a magical beast?”

Seeing Linley’s expression, Huo Ge couldn’t help but smile and said, “There are two conditions that must be met in order to subdue a magical beast. The first is to make the beast willingly submit to you, and the second is that a soul contract magic array must be set up to make the beast become its own slave.”

“The first condition is difficult, I’m afraid that the only way to make a magical beast submit willingly is to defeat it head on. For example, if you want to subjugate a raptor, you must first defeat the raptor before you can do so.”

His father’s words caused Linley to be speechless for a moment.

He wanted to subjugate the raptor himself, but did he have the strength to defeat the raptor?

“The second condition, to set up a soul contract magic array, this magic array is very troublesome, at the very least, one must reach a rank seven magician to have enough strength to set it up.”

Huo Ge said solemnly.

Linley was stunned: “Father, according to you isn’t it true that only a rank seven magician, or a higher level magician, can subdue a magical beast?”

“No, not necessarily. If you have enough money, you can purchase a ‘Soul Contract’ scroll, and at that time, you only need to tear it up, and you can directly form a ‘Soul Contract Magic Array’. It’s just that ‘Soul Contract’ scrolls are expensive.”

Hogg smiled to himself.

“How expensive?”

Linley pursued.

“The last time I heard it was ten thousand gold coins a scroll, and it’s still priced out.”

Hogg’s words caused Linley to only be able to laugh bitterly in his heart.

The hardest thing to take in a magical beast was to defeat it.

Of course you could take in weak magical beasts, but what was the point of taking in weak magical beasts? But what’s the point of taking in a weak beast? If you want to take in a strong beast, do you have enough power to defeat it? How can you make a beast willingly submit to you if you use trickery?

It’s not easy to submit willingly.

And the seemingly secondary second condition, laying out a soul contract magic array. This one condition also determined that those who were able to subjugate the magical beasts were either powerful magicians or those who were rich. Spending ten thousand gold coins on a ‘Soul Contract’ magic scroll, it was the nobles who didn’t have enough stature to dare this extravagance.

Linley’s lips pursed and his brows furrowed slightly.

“If I really want to take in magical beasts, with our family’s financial situation, I’ll only have the path of becoming a rank seven magician and then going to take in magical beasts.”

Linley thought darkly in the back of his mind, and Linley himself was clear that this path was difficult.

The first hurdle on this path was – whether or not he possessed the ‘talent’ to become a magus!

After all, that was only a one in a million hope, if one didn’t even have the talent, it was simply impossible to become a magician.