chapter 1 apple

Year 682 of the Holy Calendar. Roger otta rivers has been at the Rheinland Magic Academy for four years. He is quite talented and will be able to walk out of this magic academy and become an official magician in two years. In this turbulent era, magicians are very popular because of their well-known destructive power. At the same time, due to the well-known weaknesses of magicians, poor physical strength and long time of chanting spells, the protection of magicians in war has become the first issue to be considered. Even so, even the famous mainland generals are still unable to completely avoid the mage's casualties.

Mastering magic requires talent, and it takes a long time to become a qualified magician. This also makes the number of magicians on the mainland quite rare. Correspondingly, the status of magicians is much higher. At the same time, most senior mages are also very wealthy people, because various gems, magic silver, and black iron magic materials are valuable. Advanced magic props often make cross-level battles between mages possible. Someone once said that a magician's power is directly proportional to his wealth.

Roger's father, Rivers, was a lower-level noble in the Rhine City-State Alliance. His fiefdom was only a small town and a few surrounding villages, with a population of only a few thousand people. No matter what, as a noble with a fief, Roger is still qualified to put Otta in the middle of his name, a symbol of the lower hereditary nobility of the Rhine League.

The names of the mainland are all kinds of strange, and basically every country has one name. In recent years, with the rise of the Holy Church and the expansion of religious authority, various countries have gradually accepted Gloria as the name of the continent, which means God's hymn. The Rhenish League is located in the southeastern corner of the continent. It is a union of more than a dozen principalities. Compared with the three major powers on the mainland, Dro, Austria-Hungary, and Asrovik, its national strength can only be regarded as a second-rate country. However, it is not enough compared to the above, but more than enough. King Louis XIV of the Alliance would still regularly show off his force in front of the remaining thirty or so small countries, especially the neighboring Principality of Ron and the city-state of Kedo. However, this king was far more interested in art, beauty, and immortality than in expanding his territory. During his more than ten years in power, he was mostly at peace with his neighboring countries.

In line with the national status of the Rhine League, the Rhine Academy of Magic is a second-rate secondary school on the mainland, located in the north of the Rhine City, the capital of the alliance. The teaching style is better than plainness, which directly leads to the fact that in the school's more than three hundred years of history, there have been no figures who shocked the mainland. Due to the need for magicians in various countries, magic academies are often the most egalitarian places on a continent with strict hierarchies. At least, there are generally no cases where civilian magic apprentices are beaten to death by nobles. Moreover, civilian students who successfully graduate often have a great chance of becoming nobles after a period of experience.

Roger's family was in decline, with only four servants, which was very embarrassing for a nobleman with a fiefdom. Old Rivers had no financial management skills except a bad temper, and his income was still decreasing year by year. However, this does not prevent Roger from learning all the bad habits of a noble, including arrogance, arrogance, lust, bad temper, and insidiousness that ordinary nobles do not have. In the fourteenth year of his life, Roger became a man for the first time in the body of a maid at home. From then on, he became more and more disturbed in the small territory. Old Rivers had no choice but to send Roger to this magic academy a year later, and for this purpose he spent all the few pieces of ancestral jewelry he had.

Roger didn't expect the old man to give him any more support. He needed money for his daily fun. So he relied on his sweet words to flatter Feiss, an intermediate mage in the academy, to manage the magic laboratory for him and do some work that Feiss was not able to show up for. At this time, Roger was studying a bead that appeared in front of him inexplicably in the magic laboratory. The beads were dull and pale, with a few cracks on them. They didn't look like they were valuable. The only thing that seemed a little different was that there were two rays of light, one white and one black, flashing faintly in the bead. Roger opened his eyes wide and carefully estimated the value of the bead, but he never thought that the bead was also studying him. Suddenly the bead cracked, and the black air hit Roger's forehead and disappeared into his brain. Roger whole body squirmed as if he had turned into a mollusk. From time to time, a piece bulges out here, a piece sinks there, and black blood spurts out from the skin from time to time. Finally, Roger slowly opened his eyes. His eyes were pale, and a low laughter sounded: "This soul's spiritual power is not bad."Roger looked at the fragments of the magic beads on the ground. At this moment, that Dao Bai Qi also struggled to fly out, but he couldn't fly too far away from the bead fragments. Roger eyes lit up, the white energy and the fragments of the magic beads were also sucked into his forehead, and a sad cry was vaguely heard in the laboratory. Roger body felt like boiling water again, and it took a long time for him to calm down. When he opened his eyes again, he had returned to his normal appearance.

That black energy was Rodriguez's soul. With the power of the artifact Soul Orb to isolate all souls, he successfully escaped the light of judgment and escaped the tracking of heaven. However, the power of the light of judgment cannot be competed with, and the so-called artifact cannot be compared with the power of the real god. What's more, the Light of Judgment is launched by the Lord God of Heaven to eliminate the evil that is too powerful in the world. After the battle in the Temple of Oedi, the Soul Orb had used up all its power. The Necromancer did not destroy Roger's soul, but chose to fuse it and inherit all of Roger's personality. Since the soul magic beads have limited energy, and most of them are used to imprison Wella's soul, the necromancer only chooses to bring in the original understanding of magic when fusing the soul, and gives up the huge knowledge of specific magic. At this time, only the core energy of Wella's soul was left, the energy known as the source of God, and all her consciousness had long since disappeared. This little bit of the origin of God is also brought into the soul.

The Necromancer did not destroy Roger's soul, but instead integrated his soul consciousness. "I have been imprinted on this world too much, and all I can do is destroy. Perhaps for this world, creation is the most important thing. When an apple jumps into the chessboard and starts to run rampant, it will affect the whole world. The impact of a chess game is much greater than a chess piece jumping out of the chess board."

Roger's talent is not very extraordinary. After four years of half-hearted training, he is only a second-level magician, able to use primary and first-level magic. According to the regulations of the Rhine Magic Academy, if you can successfully cast two different second-level magics, that is, you can graduate when you reach the fourth-level mage level. However, the soul fusion of the Necromancer brings huge spiritual power and can achieve extremely high magic control. After all, the power of a mage does not only depend on the level of magic power, but the understanding and control of magic power may be even more important. According to Roger's understanding, the power of a mage also lies in insidiousness and wealth. "A first-level mage with magic strengthening rings on all ten fingers will never lose to a second-level mage with bare hands." The necromancer agrees with this. After all, the gap between first-level and second-level mage is just that. Like the intellectual gap between an idiot and a retard. According to Roger's strength, it is still somewhat difficult for him to understand mages above level four.

After years of development (mainly for the needs of war), the magic of the Gloria continent has formed a strict system. Generally speaking, every time a magician's magic level increases by two levels, the magic that can be applied will increase by one level. That is to say, a tenth-level mage can use level five magic, and an eleventh-level mage is required to be able to use two level five magics. Of course, there are also freaks outside this system, such as the necromancer Rodriguez.

The origin of God is the purest soul energy. Roger, whose soul and body have been completely transformed, will use this to create his own pet. Mage pets are generally the patent of high-level magicians, and they are all summoned beasts. As for creation, "that is the domain of God" the Necromancer thought. However, God has never been the object of respect for the Necromancer. He is busy fusing souls and transforming bodies. After completely integrating the soul magic beads, Roger's body had changed beyond recognition. However, due to various considerations, Roger's appearance remained unchanged. He was still short and fat, with a bloated body, an ordinary face, and a pair of sinister eyes. However, the Soul Orb brings another mysterious skill: space.

Roger himself didn't have any opinions, and even if he did, he wouldn't dare to express them. After understanding the origin of God's origin, he expressed great admiration for Brun. "He will never be the last one,"Roger thought viciously.

After three days and three nights of sleepwalking and being scolded several times by Feiss, the Necromancer finally completed his work.

Roger woke up. From this moment on, Roger is still Roger, and Rodriguez is still Roger. The Necromancer finally hid the truth from Heaven and placed the apple on the chessboard.

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