Chapter 31: Snake stick

Due to the personalities of wizards, this teacher-student relationship is even closer than that of close relatives. Students must offer everything to their teachers and place their loyalty and destiny on the teachers; and teachers also need to treat them more closely. Children, lovers and even elders treat their students more seriously.
　　In the wizarding world, betraying one's teacher is the most hated and contemptible crime in the wizarding world. Precisely because of the existence of this symbiosis and extinction relationship, on this tower, the chief student can be regarded as the spokesperson of the wizard leader he serves.
Naturally, the seriousness of the formal teacher-student relationship makes wizards very cautious about this. A student with unpredictable minds may cause a devastating blow to the inheritance of a school, such as Rasputin who has a powerful force but is unwilling to accept disciples. In fact, there are not a few people, and there are also those who simply accept their relatives and lovers as students, and deepen the connection through the two-layer relationship-this has led to the emergence of the Demon Family.
　　 They generally have ancient occult traditions, and they will not communicate with the outside world, let alone let their knowledge be mastered by outsiders. These wizard families often have a long history, and they constitute the main force of "aristocracy" and preaching "theory of blood" in the wizarding world.
　　 Even in a relatively free wizarding world like Magic Tower, and as a powerful wizard leader, the five members of the "Steppenwolves" still maintain this caution.
　　 Marion Green, who has the most apprentices, has no more than ten students. And not surprisingly, a leader of a school will often only train a chief student in his life.
　　Because of this, the identity of the chief student is the most competitive goal of the younger generation of genius wizards. The fearsome rumors have been heard by even Richard, who was an outsider in the past.
Apart from ganging up for support, studying the magic way assiduously and raising the rank faster, using excellent performance in tasks such as "Hunting Moments" to please teachers, and winning in wizard duels that emphasize personal strength, etc. are normal ways of competition. There are even conspiracy methods such as assassination, poisoning, and framing.
　　 All in all, it is extremely cruel and fierce competition, let alone winning, once you plunge into this vortex, it is not easy to survive in the end.
　　 The aloof wizard leaders never paid attention to such "little things", so this bad custom has been retained. A legendary wizard is often born on countless corpses of the same kind. They are able to climb up step by step by relying on far beyond ordinary human talents and wrists. Naturally, they will not take this kind of "reasonable" competitive relationship to heart.
And because this is an internal competition between students, the teacher really wants to intervene to stop it, but it violates the unwritten rules of the teacher-student relationship in the wizarding world. Rather, the people on the magic tower think that only in this environment can a birth be born. A truly outstanding young wizard.
　　 What's more, even if the students are dead, it will not affect them. Countless people are eager to teach wizard leaders. They will not lack students who can train.
　　 But for Richard from a modern civilized society, this kind of naked society dominated by the law of the jungle is really a respect.
In the past, he was ignorant of the unknown. He was also envious of the lives of young wizards who were far more talented than himself and valued by the top: studying the magic way in the laboratory, hunting demons in the wilderness, and fighting all the way in the wizard duel. Laureate the crown...this is what you should do when you travel to another world!
　　 At that time, Richard was frustrated that he could not become a real wizard and enjoy the exciting and adventurous life.
　　 But with his in-depth understanding of the wizarding society, his mind quickly faded, and he began to feel that there is nothing wrong with being mediocre.
　　Competition belongs to competition, and adventure belongs to adventure, but I am afraid to live a life of having to worry about my life all the time.
Richard has self-knowledge about himself. Ordinary modern people are no longer used to fighting with life as a bet in the past. This kind of personality is naive from the perspective of the black tower, and naive enough to be seen by malicious people. The prey was murdered silently one day.
Richard has always believed that the best thing he should do is to stay away from danger as much as possible. As for other negative influences, such as being regarded as "cowardly and cowardly" because of this retreat, and being despised and despised by others are all trivial things. .
　　 It's just that things are impermanent. He didn't expect that one day he would ascend to the sky in one step and directly cross the stage of competing with the young wizards at the top. But whether this is a good thing is still unclear.
　　 Richard thought of this, and his hand holding the snake stick of gold and gems couldn't help pressing harder.
At the moment when his magic power is still at the rank of "apprentice", in addition to the vision power, knowledge and authority possessed by a legendary wizard, the only thing he can rely on is the items that once belonged to Rasputin (there were originally The opponent once set up a "constant body protection spell~EbookFREE.me~" but Richard found that although he can control the activation of this part of the spell, once it is triggered, the required magic power is not at all he can Assumed), but unfortunately, Rasputin is the kind of wizard who doesn't pay much attention to things outside the body.
　　 Richard's arms still had the Book of Magic and the black thorns, but it would take some time to study the secrets hidden in them.
　　The only thing left to use is the mask on his face and the golden snake stick in his hand. The silver mask is just an auxiliary alchemy prop that can play a camouflage effect in the spell domain spell, so the only thing left to use against the enemy is the snake stick.
　　According to Richard's observation, the snake rod has a powerful force originating from the mental domain-its magic power is far stronger than the mask, and it is the magic power of the master level. Its abilities include plural aspects: it can distinguish lies, judge emotions of happiness, anger, sorrow, etc. As a means of attack, it has a spell called "mental storm".
　　 This spell is the top of the "mental shock" type of spell. Mental shock is a signature spell in the mental domain, which can cause dizziness and even coma to the enemy. Its effect varies according to the level of willpower, and people with weak will may even become idiots.
　　 Mental Storm is even better on this basis, except that the effect is enhanced to the point where it can cause direct brain death, the scope is far expanded, and it can be used by multiple personnel. Richard believes that its essence may be some kind of strong electromagnetic pulse weapon for the human brain.
　　 Of course, alchemy props and wizards who can actually cast spells are still different. A powerful spell of this scale requires a charging time within ten hours, and cannot be used in long-term battles. It is even more meaningless for the legendary wizard.