The Wizard: Grinding Experience Starting with Knight Breathing Techniques 120

“Let’s go, let’s take a look in the village.” Li Wei beckoned to Kadel Knight and Bure.

Kadel Knight was stunned for a moment before hurriedly nodding.

Then he realized something was wrong; he was the captain.

Why should he listen to this outsider, the White Wolf?

But remembering the other party’s brutal display of ripping apart a snow leopard,

his heart still hadn’t calmed down.

“So you can kill Snow Wraiths like that,” Bure stroked his chin, voicing what Kadel Knight wanted to say.

Li Wei walked on, unconcerned. He had only briefly shown his skill, seemingly frightening the two men senseless.

“My lord isn’t here to earn a bounty, but to hone your skills, are you?” Kadel Knight chuckled wryly.

Li Wei didn’t answer, taking it as an affirmation.

Kadel Knight silently followed Li Wei.

This man was clearly not a true wandering knight.

Wandering knights could not possess such strength.

Nor could they be so wealthy as to afford a longsword forged from so much mithril.

From the display he’d just shown, he was undoubtedly a Great Knight. No wonder he felt the other party was unusual at first glance.

And the iron-clad strongman beside him was also a Great Knight, and the White Wolf’s bodyguard!

In this situation! Aside from the scions of great noble families on outdoor training excursions, Kadel Knight could think of no other possibility.

Li Wei searched the village with Kadel Knight and Bure, finding no other Snow Wraiths, only the bodies of those few people.

“This is the consequence of disobeying orders. If it weren’t for Lord White Wolf’s great strength, even we would have been implicated in danger,” Kadel Knight sighed, subtly flattering Li Wei.

Finally, they returned to the team.

Kadel Knight told the others that those few men had died after acting on their own accord, hunting Snow Wraiths in their lair.

This immediately calmed the restless hearts of the others.

The subsequent actions went much more smoothly.

Outside Ice Valley City, scattered corpses were visible everywhere.

These seemed to be the remains left behind by the Snow Wraiths.

Kadel Knight’s expression was heavy as he led everyone quietly towards the city.

Li Wei also entered the city.

Inside the city, frost-covered skeletons were everywhere, a scene resembling a hell on earth.

“Are there any living people left?” Li Wei’s heart stirred.

Although they were strangers to him, seeing so many corpses frozen by the roadside still brought a certain indescribable feeling.

Before the return of the demon tide, the ordinary people of this world could barely survive under the exploitation of the nobles.

After the return of the demon tide, survival itself became a problem for ordinary people.

Li Wei sensed the surrounding movements. He ignored the main group and left with Magma Shark silently.

For the next period, he planned to hunt Snow Wraiths near Ice Valley City. After achieving his goal, he would return to Ice Snow King City and then take the Wild Dog Knights to the Ice Pillar Islands.

Kadel watched the departing White Wolf, wanting to say something, but ultimately dared not speak.

With the White Wolf in this city, he felt an inexplicable sense of security.

“Captain, that person acted without authorization!”

A wandering knight glared resentfully at the departing Li Wei, muttering.

Bure and Kadel Knight looked at him with the eyes of an idiot.

“If you possessed nearly pure mithril weapons like him, could tear apart Snow Wraiths, trample snow leopards, and single-handedly slaughter over a dozen Snow Wraiths, you could also act alone. I wouldn’t mind. I’d be glad if you hunted more Snow Wraiths to save our kingdom’s people,”

Kadel Knight sneered.

The man, upon hearing this, dared not speak again.

“It’s just because he has pure mithril weapons, isn’t it? Give me a pure mithril weapon, and I can slaughter Snow Wraiths too,” someone grumbled.

Kadel Knight ignored them.

There were too many self-righteous people in this world.

That White Wolf, and the strongman beside him, were most likely Great Knights.

Coupled with high-purity mithril swords, as long as they weren’t besieged by hundreds of Snow Wraiths simultaneously,

in this city, there was indeed little danger.

Of course, this wasn’t an absolute statement.

After all, before the Snow Wraith disaster, Ice Valley City

was one of the kingdom’s top ten largest cities, with a permanent population of 100,000.

It was once the city of Duke Lan Yu, a major noble of the Eternal Night Kingdom.

In the first year after the Snow Wraith disaster, Ice Valley City, as one of the sources of Snow Wraith births,

it’s estimated that one-tenth of the city’s residents, or 10,000 people, turned into Snow Wraiths.

These tens of thousands of Snow Wraiths spread from Ice Valley City, sweeping across surrounding cities and territories.

In just a few years, the number of residents still alive in Ice Valley City was less than one in ten.

Relying on the kingdom’s support, the surviving soldiers and civilians barely fought against the Snow Wraiths entrenched in Ice Valley City.

But most deaths weren’t directly caused by Snow Wraiths; they were indirect deaths due to starvation, disease, and chaos.

Although wandering knights and the kingdom’s military had killed many Snow Wraiths over the years, it’s conservatively estimated that there were still thousands of Snow Wraiths within Ice Valley City.

And once the number of Snow Wraiths exceeded one hundred, even a Great Knight surrounded by them would be in mortal danger!

After all, Snow Wraiths weren’t ordinary people; they were immortal, fearless, terrifying undead beings that only knew slaughter!

Of course, the most terrifying thing in Ice Valley City wasn’t these thousands of ordinary Snow Wraiths.

The truly terrifying thing was the special, powerful Snow Wraiths wandering around Lan Yu Castle in the city center.

These Snow Wraiths were once vassal knights under Duke Lan Yu, soldiers of the Lan Yu Guard, etc. After becoming Snow Wraiths, they still lingered near Lan Yu Castle, guarding this ancient castle.

Deep within the castle, the city’s former ruler, a well-known major noble of the kingdom with top-tier Great Knight strength, Duke Lan Yu, had also become a Snow Wraith.

Someone had once seen from afar the withered Duke Lan Yu sitting on his throne. After becoming a Snow Wraith, he seemed even stronger and more terrifying, emitting eternal, inextinguishable azure flames. He would ride a skeletal warhorse, patrolling the castle, like a nightmare knight returned from hell!

Therefore, Lan Yu Castle became a forbidden zone in the city.

No one dared to investigate it, not even Great Knights.

However, Kadel’s goal this time wasn’t to exterminate those Snow Wraiths; it was mainly to evacuate a group of survivors.

“I hope that person is alright. Don’t go to Lan Yu Castle,” Kadel Knight murmured to himself.

…

Li Wei and Magma Shark wandered the streets.

His advanced vibrational perception was fully activated, and he was on high alert. Although he was powerful, this was the Snow Wraiths’ lair, and he wasn’t invincible, so he still had to be careful.

In some houses, some hidden survivors poked their heads out. Upon seeing the arrival of a knight, they ran out.

An old man walked out tremblingly. He was gaunt, and it was unknown how he survived in this city.

“Sir Knight, are you here to save us? Did Her Majesty the Queen send you?” the old man asked expectantly.

“A rescue team is coming. Just wait here for them to rescue you,” Li Wei said.

He needed to hunt Snow Wraiths; he didn’t have the energy to save these people, nor did he have an obligation to do so.

But he could point them in the right direction; it was a simple act.

“Thank you, Sir Knight. Be careful. The further you go towards the city center, the more Snow Wraiths there are,” the old man warned, retreating back into his shelter.

For most ordinary people, staying in the city had a higher survival rate than leaving.

Li Wei sighed. If he could, he would like to save these people.

But he was powerless.

“But hunting Snow Wraiths is also saving people. Let’s kill more Snow Wraiths,”

Li Wei thought to himself.

Suddenly, Li Wei looked at his left hand, his advanced vibrational perception detecting something lurking in the alley to his left.

At first, Li Wei thought it was a Snow Wraith.

Only when he approached did he realize it was a person.

Li Wei remembered him; he seemed to be a mid-level knight from the group that had set out.

Seeing that his ambush had been discovered, the man, without saying a word, attacked Li Wei.

His longsword slashed down, only to be blocked by Magma Shark’s body.

Crack.

Magma Shark’s huge dark energy palms directly shattered the inferior longsword.

Then, Magma Shark punched the man in the chest, sending him flying backward and crashing into a pile of debris.

Li Wei walked over, looking at the mid-level knight.

“Who sent you?” he asked.

The mid-level knight was stunned.

After hearing from Kadel Knight that the White Wolf had a pure mithril sword, he became greedy and had an idea.

He thought that the reason why the White Wolf could slaughter Snow Wraiths was because of the sharpness of his pure mithril sword.

So he followed, disbelieving, relying on his familiarity with Ice Valley City, he hid in advance, attempting to kill Li Wei by surprise, to take his mithril sword.

Now, he deeply regretted it, fear flooding his heart.

The next moment, his head separated from his body, his eyes wide open in death.

Li Wei skillfully searched the body.

“Three Wraith Cores.”

“Sixty gold coins.”

“Huh, what’s this?”

Li Wei pulled out a thick booklet from the mid-level knight’s body.

The cover of the booklet was torn off, so Li Wei couldn’t tell what it was. But after he roughly flipped through some of the contents, the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curl upwards.

The booklet was called the *Kun Gu Book*.

From the booklet’s introduction, Kun Gu was a pharmaceutical and medical master from the Gaia Empire hundreds of years ago, a being that made even the erudite members of the church seem insignificant.

The Gaia Empire, a country far away from the Emerald Kingdom. It was unknown how this mid-level knight obtained this book.

The *Kun Gu Book* recorded many kinds of basic medical knowledge, pharmaceutical knowledge, many drug illustrations, and many pharmaceutical prescriptions.

These pharmaceuticals weren’t poisons like those in the Human-faced Spider Breathing Method inheritance diagram; they were genuine medicines for healing. Most shocking to Li Wei was that this master had even cracked many of the “holy medicines” kept secret by the church.

Li Wei glanced through it. The *Kun Gu Book* recorded hundreds of prescriptions, including several “holy medicine” formulas. The illnesses these prescriptions addressed were numerous, covering many common ailments of the people in this world.

Finally, the owner of this booklet mentioned that due to the suppression of the Earth Church, he had to conceal his medical and pharmaceutical knowledge.

The Earth Church was the state religion of the Gaia Empire, believing in the “Holy Mother of Earth,” said to have a close connection with the “Heavenly Father.”

“This master named Kun Gu was truly erudite. Many of the prescriptions he mentioned are of great value; these are truly invaluable formulas. It’s a pity that with the existence of the church, they couldn’t be popularized,”

“Most of the prescriptions are useless to me. With my Great Knight physique, although I’m not immune to all diseases, I won’t get ordinary colds and fevers,”

“But these prescriptions for treating external injuries are very useful to me. I can refine some and keep them with me, just in case.”

Among the several holy medicine formulas, there was one that Li Wei had bought for Fred, called “Holy Blood Potion.”

Its effect was to quickly heal major internal organ and bone injuries, accelerating wound healing, comparable to the “Black Jade Continuous Paste” in wuxia novels.

Li Wei found that one of the ingredients in the Holy Blood Potion formula was something he had seen before.

“Earth Dragon Beast Blood.”

“The Earth Dragon Beast is truly miserable; its whole body has been exploited.”

Li Wei mourned for the Earth Dragon Beast and memorized the formula.

If he had the chance, he would refine some Holy Blood Potions for himself.

He didn’t plan to sell medicine to make money; that would be robbing money from the church and would easily attract their attention.

And with his artisan-level forging skills, he didn’t lack money.

He made medicine purely for his own use.

Li Wei found a safe place, had Magma Shark guard him, and read the booklet with relish.

By the time he finished reading, it was already the early morning of the next day.

He found that on his proficiency panel,

the Pharmacy skill, which had been stuck at level 3 for a long time,

had unknowingly reached level 4.

In addition, there was a new skill.

Li Wei—

Pharmacy: Level 4 (346/20000)

Medical Skill: Level 2 (33/5000)

…

“Level 4 Pharmacy isn’t the limit yet, and level 4 doesn’t have any special effects.”

Li Wei looked at the skill, his heart calm as a well.

He was casual about leveling up his life skills.

But now it seemed that the Pharmacy skill’s potential was much greater than he imagined.

“Wizards also need Pharmacy. Part of a wizard apprentice’s daily work is assisting the instructor in Pharmacy. If I lay a good foundation in Pharmacy now, it will be much more convenient to become a wizard in the future.”

As for the Medical Skill, Li Wei left it entirely to fate.

He didn’t intend to practice medicine, saving lives and healing the wounded. With his physique, ordinary human medical skills would be useless to him.

Satisfied, Li Wei put the booklet away and took Magma Shark out into the streets.

The *Kun Gu Book* could be considered an unexpected gain.

From the tone of Master Kun Gu, Li Wei felt that the master seemed to have some understanding of wizards; he might have been a wizard apprentice or a wizard himself. With the knowledge and wisdom of ordinary people in this era, it would be difficult to master so many prescriptions, recognize so many herbs, and even crack the church’s holy medicine formulas.

Over the next few days, Li Wei didn’t continue to venture deep into the city.

He had done his homework before coming. The number of Snow Wraiths in the city center was large, especially in Lan Yu Castle in the city center, which was like a forbidden zone.

Every time Li Wei approached Lan Yu Castle, his spider sense would give him a premonition, his hair standing on end, telling him that Lan Yu Castle held unknown dangers for Li Wei.

The danger level, though not as great as when he faced the Imperial Fist, was stronger than the Evil Spirit Water Nymph.

Remember, Li Wei was now a Great Knight.

Lan Yu Castle could still bring such a strong sense of danger.

This meant that the castle was definitely not simple.

But the Snow Wraiths on the city’s outskirts were enough for Li Wei to hunt.

He had the strength of a Great Knight, his equipment was invincible, and he had Magma Shark’s help. As long as he wasn’t attacked by hundreds of Snow Wraiths, he was fearless.

Li Wei’s hunting efficiency was dozens of times that of others.

Those ordinary Snow Wraiths were basically no match for Li Wei in a single strike.

He didn’t even need Frost’s Sorrow. Relying on his dark energy and armor, plus his brute strength, he could hold down a Snow Wraith and forcibly open its skull to take the frost heart.

No matter how frantically the Snow Wraiths attacked Li Wei, they couldn’t break through his defenses.

By the third day, there were even fewer Snow Wraiths.

Li Wei could only keep going deeper. Under his grasp, the number of Snow Wraiths in the city was visibly decreasing.

However, as he went deeper, the Snow Wraiths he encountered became stronger and stronger. From initially one sword per Snow Wraith, it became necessary to spend some effort to take down one.

These Snow Wraiths should have had the strength of knight attendants in their previous lives. Their tolerance for mithril was higher than Li Wei had imagined, making him frown.

The Snow Wraiths were more troublesome than he had imagined.

These were only quasi-knight-level Snow Wraiths. If they were formal knight-level Snow Wraiths, killing them would be even more troublesome.

Overall, for Li Wei, as long as they weren’t Great Knight-level Snow Wraiths, whether formal knights or quasi-knights, there was no risk, only a matter of efficiency.

With his unlimited supply of Wraith Cores, Magma Shark fought endlessly, and the Hell’s Imprint proficiency rapidly increased.

To quickly level up his proficiency, Li Wei often had Magma Shark do the fighting, without participating himself.

And so, ten days later.

The Hell’s Imprint proficiency was directly leveled up to level 5 by Li Wei.

Li Wei—

Hell’s Imprint: Level 5 (1/30000)

…

“It’s still not the limit?”

The current Hell’s Imprint could simultaneously summon five living dead.

Aside from Magma Shark and Magma Mountain’s two summoning slots, there were three more summoning slots.

However, Li Wei didn’t have any Great Knight-level corpses, so they remained empty for now.

Five Great Knight-level living dead were already incredibly strong.

But it wasn’t the limit of Hell’s Imprint, which piqued Li Wei’s curiosity.

“Come on, let me see where your limit is!”

(End of Chapter)

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