Chapter 154 - 124: Unexpected Gain, Carrot and Stick

Chapter 154: Chapter 124: Unexpected Gain, Carrot and Stick

In less than two hours, he had learned five Level Zero Spells: Wizard’s Hand, Frost Ray, Dizziness Skill, Light Spell, and Acid Splash.

Including these five, he had now mastered a total of ten Level Zero Spells.

In terms of sheer numbers, ten Level Zero Spells wasn’t a lot.

But for someone who had yet to receive any formal Wizard training, it was an impressive feat.

Take Thomas, for example.

Thomas had spent decades in the Wizarding World, aging from a handsome young man into a white-haired elder, yet he had only managed to master seven Level Zero Spells.

After learning Wizard’s Hand, Frost Ray, and the other spells, Roy remained in Chaos Square. He took a book titled *Basic Introduction to Ancient Bylun Language* from the shelf and began to skim through it.

The Ancient Byron Language was a language all Wizards had to master.

Not knowing the Ancient Byron Language in the Wizarding World was no different from being illiterate.

In fact, it was worse than being illiterate; even everyday conversation would be a problem.

The common tongue of the Wizarding World was the Ancient Byron Language.

Roy already had a plan.

After his promotion to Legendary Knight, he would head to the Wizarding World and begin the next Chapter of his new life.

Before then, he would leave Tony and Catherine enough land and wealth to ensure they could live without a care after he left the continent.

According to Thomas, returning from the Wizarding World was far more troublesome than traveling to it.

As long as one became a First-class Apprentice before the age of twenty-five, they could travel to the Capital City of any major Empire. There, with the help of the Imperial Guardians, they could use the Teleportation Arrays left behind by the Ancient Wizards to reach the Wizarding World.

Every five years, the Imperial Guardians of the various Empires would send a new batch of Wizard Apprentices to the Wizarding World.

As for returning from the Wizarding World, you were on your own.

Simply put, the trip there was free, but the return journey was not.

Furthermore, the return trip also required a five-year wait.

The Teleportation Array only activated once every five years, so whether you were going to the Wizarding World or coming back, you had to wait for that five-year cycle.

Of course, if one attained the power to open spatial portals at will, they could return whenever they pleased.

With the mysterious buff provided by Chaos Square, Roy finished reading the copy of *Basic Introduction to Ancient Bylun Language*—a tome over forty centimeters long, thirty centimeters wide, and ten centimeters thick—in less than an hour.

To be precise, he hadn’t just read it at a glance; he had memorized its entire contents, word for word.

He had memorized the content, but that didn’t mean he had mastered the Ancient Byron Language.

Being able to read the written form of the Ancient Byron Language was one thing; truly mastering it was another matter entirely.

To truly master a language, one had to be able to read its script, understand it when spoken, and speak it fluently and accurately.

...

「The Ironblood Duke’s Study.」

Roy sat in the high-backed chair that had once belonged to the Ironblood Duke, sizing up the seven Bronze Great Knights in the study.

Their armor was stained with blood, and every one of them was wounded.

Clearly, they had run into some trouble while eliminating the members of the Reilly Clan and taking control of Ice Wind City.

"State your names and positions."

Roy said slowly.

Without a moment’s hesitation, the seven Bronze Great Knights began to introduce themselves.

"Ward Brown, Deputy Captain of the Personal Guard!"

"Robert Jenkins, Deputy Commander of the Castle Guard!"

"Sam Harrison, Deputy Commander of the City Guard..."

After listening to their introductions, Roy frowned slightly.

’Why are they all deputies?’

’Are the commanders all die-hard loyalists of the Ironblood Duke?’

Roy didn’t waste time speculating and asked directly, "Where are your superiors?"

Ward, Robert, and the others answered immediately.

It was just as he had suspected. The commanders of the Castle Guard and the City Guard were indeed die-hard loyalists of the Ironblood Duke.

As for whether Lucas, the Captain of the Personal Guard, was a loyalist, that was still uncertain.

Lucas still didn’t know that the Ironblood Duke had been killed.

Although Ward, the Deputy Captain of the Personal Guard, had no idea where Lucas had gone, Roy knew perfectly well.

After returning to the Ironblood Duke’s study from the warehouse, he hadn’t been idle. He had been looking through the various documents in the room.

These included intelligence reports sent back by Lucas and the Blood Bat Marquis, as well as the latest military updates from the Southern Territory.

After a moment of thought, Roy said to the seven men, "I am very satisfied with your performance."

"And now, I can tell you plainly: I do not require your allegiance."

"Whether it is Iron Blood Castle, Ice Wind City, or the other territories of the Reilly Clan, all of it is a gift I am preparing for my student, Roy Wesley, for when he is promoted to Great Knight."

"If you wish to pledge your allegiance to someone, pledge it to him."

"However, he will likely be the same as me and have no need for your fealty. So, you will most likely have to swear your allegiance to Baron Ice Wolf, Tony Wesley."

The moment he finished speaking, expressions of utter disbelief appeared on the faces of Ward and the others.

They knew the Dark Night Knight was fiercely protective of his own and very generous to his student.

But they had never imagined he would be generous to this degree.

’Is Roy Wesley’s potential really that great?’

’Why couldn’t I have a teacher like that?’

’That guy is so damn lucky!’

A flurry of thoughts raced through the minds of Ward and his men.

Roy paid no mind to their astonishment and continued, "Although I do not require your allegiance, I will not treat you poorly."