While the apprentice mages below were still frowning and wondering, Karl, a common folk with an open mind, had already received his reward.
After drinking the Manablood, Karl felt for the first time the pleasure of possessing an endless supply of mana in his body and noticed the power of the Manablood.
The most dangerous and difficult step of forming a magic model, with the support of ample mana, had become extremely simple. He only needed to mobilize the mana to form the magic nodes in his spirit sea using the nodes he usually remembered.
He then repeated and repeated until all of the magic nodes were succession formed.
With prior experience with Viena, Reed was not so worried about Karl and continued to write his notes.
Five and a half solhours later…
The sky had been taken over by the Goddess of the Night, and the magic lamp in the study let out a warm yellow light, as it shone upon the scroll, exuding a somewhat old-fashioned atmosphere.
Karl who had closed his eyes opened his eyes with a look of surprise.
Whoosh…
A reddish-orange fireball the size of an egg floated before him.
At the moment, Reed also received a system prompt.
Ding!
Apprentice mage of the Vermillion Tower, Karl Bach had broken through and became a Mage. The strength of the Vermillion Tower has been improved. Reward: Character Experience — 200.
Reed Kaschar
Race: Vampire (Progenitor)
Level: Mage Lvl 10 1003/5000, Warrior, Lvl 5 (level cap reached)
Mana: 652/652
Talents: Progenitor Vampire (Unique), Bloodline Shackle (limited), Magic Affinity (Ultimate)
Racial ability: Bat Transformation, Blood-sucking recovery, Powerful physique (passive)
Spells: First Circle of Magic: Fireball, Lightning Bolt, Puppetry, Mage’s Hand (Improved), Mana Shield, Waterfall.
Second Circle of Magic: Detection, Greater Fireball, Thunderstorm, Puppet Master, Mana Surge, Haste, Strengthen, Charm.
Third Circle of Magic: Teleport, Voidwalking, Pyroblast
Earlier on, the improvement of the Mage’s Hand had gained him 500 experience points, and the promotion of his two apprentices gained him another 400.
Reed found that his experience gain had improved a lot in the last half month, and had completed one-fifth of the experience needed to level up.
He was still 4,000 experience points short to get to Level 11.
At this moment, Reed was quite tempted to get back to Dawnbreak and bring a large cask of Manablood back to let all of his apprentice mages to break through to become full-fledged Mages.
When these twenty apprentices were to be promoted to a Mage he could level up straight away.
But reason still made him suppress his inner impulses.
Forget have twenty-two apprentice mages being promoted into a full-fledged Mage all at once, even a third of them doing so was enough to cause a huge commotion.
Mage apprenticeship was the most critical hurdle to become a Mage. Once a person had stepped through the process from scratch, it was just a matter of time from being a Mage to an Intermediate-level Mage.
However, it was this hurdle that prevented 99% of apprentices from being able to touch the true realm of a Mage and was stuck in the title of apprentice until their deaths.
If the news of Reed had potions that could allow 100% of people to advance in their class, forget him, even the Transcendent Mage of Grimm may not be able to keep it safe.
Conversely, if he had paid a huge price in exchange for a scarce amount of magic potions, even if there were greedy gazes they would not say anything.
Since there were not many magic potions of that kind, the difference was whether they were expensive or not.
So, he still needed a good excuse for training apprentice mages, and there was no hurry.
“Master Reed, I’ve broken through.”
There was an unconcealed surprise in Karl’s tone.
“Very good, in the future, you will be treated the same as Viena in the Vermillion Tower. Learn new spells as soon as possible, and I will leave the apprentice mage classes to you in the future.”
“Understood, Master Reed.”
Reed smiled slightly.
“Call me Sir from now on.”
Karl raised his head and looked at him in disbelief. Sir or Teacher, the meaning of this title was just too different.
Only apprentices who had been truly recognized are qualified to call their tutors, teacher.
“Yes, Sir Re…”
Reed stepped forward and patted the young lad on the shoulder. “Karl, you are a smart boy, work hard, and you will get what you want.”
“Yes, sir. I will not let you down.”
“You may leave.”
By the time Karl descended to the first floor of the mage tower another commotion ensued.
Karl was also promoted into a full-fledged Mage?
This was just too amazing.
The moment a few apprentices that were still hesitating saw the Fireball spell floating in Karl’s hand, it became the straw that broke the camel’s back as everyone came to Reed’s study without exception.
“Master Reed, I am willing to sign the Covenant of Souls.”
“Yes, Master Reed, we are all willing.”
“As long as you can make us proper Mages, we will pay any price.”
In just a single day, two of the apprentices like them had broken through into a full-full-fledged Mage, and that was a huge shock to them.
Reed was already prepared for this, no one could not be moved by such a massive temptation.
Especially a group of apprentice mages who cannot even reach the watermark of a Mage.
“Very well. All of you should know how expensive the potion that could allow an apprentice to awaken and promote to a Mage. This sort of magic potion could be sold for at least 300 gold Pykes in the market, so I only have a few with me, and it is impossible for everyone to get it.”
The apprentices below were immediately remorseful as they looked enviously at Karl. If they were able to make up their minds early, the chance would have been theirs.
“To be fair, I will have an assessment in a month, and the top three achievers will be rewarded with magic potions.”
“So, don’t make any excuses or reasons, try your best.”
“As for the Covenant of Souls, I’m not pushing it, you can wait until the day you get the potion.”
There was still hesitation among the apprentice mages below, and when that day comes, they believed that priority would be given to those who had signed the covenant.
For such a precious potion to be given to them was itself a blessing from the Goddess of Fortune. A few hundred gold Pykes, even the Vermillion Tower were to hire an intermediate-level mage the cost would not need that much gold Pykes.
How was it possible to without a price?
When the first person took the lead, everyone formed the Covenant of Souls with Reed.
With that, these apprentice mages all plan to place their fates in Reed’s hand, and they will never harbor any second thoughts.
Even if Reed’s identity as a vampire were to be exposed, Reed had total confidence in controlling this group of apprentices.