Chapter 11

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

After sending off his men, Lind called Vladimir over.

“Can you bring all the books about magic in my territory to my room?”

“Magic? Do you mean magic related to humans?”

“Yes.”

“Of course, my lord.”

Not long after, Vladimir pushed a cart that carried a mountain of books to Lind.

“Sir, these are the books on magic.”

Lind nodded, indicating that Vladimir could leave.

The old butler turned into a blood bat and left the room after bowing to Lind.

Lind picked up a book on human magic and started reading.

Lind knew nothing about the magic of this world other than his own Blood Magic. And some of the demon hunters in Blackwater Town were good at magic.

These people were his enemies.

It was not a good thing to know nothing about one’s enemies.

After reading a few books, Lind had a certain understanding of the magic system in this world.

There were three types of mages in this world.

The first type was mages who relied on “incantations” and “spiritual power” to drive the elemental power in their surroundings. These mages were known as “spellcasting mages”. They were the most common mages in the minds of ordinary people.

The second type was mages who relied on the “magic medium” to activate the “magic”. Such mages did not need to chant spells to cast magic, but they needed to consume the medium.

For example, the blood of a vampire was a medium.

Such mages were also known as “medium mages”, and vampires were among them.

The last type was mages who used magic arrays, alchemy potions, and various magic tools to perform magic. These mages generally did not have any magic talent. Such mages were also called “Alchemy Mages.”

Mages had a very noble status on Bayes Continent.

Only those who were born with an extremely sharp perception of the surrounding elements could become mages.

Even a vampire, who could release magic through blood, needed magic talent to release higher-level Blood Magic.

Lind was able to become a lord not only because of Dracula’s favor.

This body of his was extremely talented in magic.

Relatively speaking, Alchemy Mages had a much lower status.

Alchemy mages had no talent for magic. They could only use magic by relying on alchemy potions, magic arrays, and various magic tools.

Most of the mages in Blackwater Town belonged to the “Alchemy Mage” sect.

Whether it was “Spellcasting Mages” or “Medium Mages”, the types of magic they used were fixed.

The type of magic they could use depended on their perception of magic elements.

If one’s perception of fire elements was keen, they would be better at fire spells.

If one had a strong perception of the water element, one would be better at ice-type spells.

The four most basic elements in this world were fire, water, wind, and earth.

Many other spells were derived from these four basic elements.

For example, the combination of wind-type spells and fire-type spells could form lightning-type spells.

The combination of wind-type spells and water-type spells could form ice-type spells. In addition to the fusion of two types of elements, there was also the fusion of three types of elements. Fire Element, wind Element, and earth Element could form magma-type spells.

Most mages could sense one of these four elements.

Of course, there were a few exceptions.

For example, dark elements and light elements.

These two elements could not be evolved from the Four Basic Elements. There were also space mages, who were not based on the Four Elements.

When Lind saw this, an idea suddenly popped up in his mind.

Although he did not know the exact principle of “Spellcasting Mages”, from the description in the book, both “Spellcasting Mages” and “Medium Mages” seemed to have the ability to sense magic elements.

Did that mean that if a Medium Mage did not use a medium but cast a “spell” like a “Spellcasting Mage”, did that mean that he could also use magic?

According to the description in the book, Lind slowly closed his eyes and sensed the elements around him.

Soon, many densely packed light spots appeared in his vision. The red light spots were the light spots of the fire element. When they approached, there was a trace of scorching warmth. The green light spots were the light spots of the wind element. When they approached, it was as if his love were caressing his faces. There were also the blue water element and the yellowish-brown earth element.

Lind was very surprised, because ordinary mages could only sense one element. A slightly stronger mage could sense two elements, and there were very few mages who could sense three elements, but Lind could clearly sense all four elements.

Could it be that I’m actually a one in a million magic genius?

Lind couldn’t help but think in his heart, but he also felt puzzled.

Since his predecessor had such talent in magic, why didn’t he choose to be a “Spellcasting Mage”?

Lind found a book titled Basic Magic Spells. He found the simplest spell in fire magic, Fireball.

Then, he reached out to the window and chanted an incantation. Finally, he roared, “Fireball!”

However, the flames only grazed Lind’s hand and did not shoot out.

“What’s going on?” Lind was a little puzzled.

Just as he was puzzled, the system in his mind spoke.

“There’s a mistake with the host’s ‘incantation’. There are a total of seven key syllables for the ‘Fireball’ incantation. The host only read one syllable correctly, so it couldn’t form an elemental resonance, causing the magic release to fail.”

Lind was stunned. He had clearly read it according to the phonetic signs in the book, so why was there only one syllable correct?

“What’s the correct sound?” Lind asked the system.

“The correct pronunciation of ‘Fireball’ is…”

The System recited an incantation, which was clearly different from Lind’s.

Lind repeated the chant with the system. This time, the fireball did not disappear directly, but it did not shoot out either.

It only formed a tongue of fire in his hand before dissipating.

However, it was clearly much better than before.

The system also said, “The host’s incantation is 43% correct, but there were still four key syllables that had mistakes.”

After saying that, it repeated the incantation of the fireball spell.

Just like that, Lind followed the system and used Fireball over and over again. Finally, he released a small fireball.

However, even this simple spell exhausted Lind’s mental strength, making him feel tired.

Lind seemed to understand why his predecessor was unwilling to be a Spellcasting Mage despite his high talent in magic.

This incantation was really long and difficult.

This was the simplest incantation for the fireball spell. The more powerful spells were clearly longer.

In comparison, the vampire’s Blood Magic did not require incantations or mental strength at all. It could only be used with blood as a medium.

It was much better than an incantation.

Even so, Lind still intended to learn how to use the incantation.

This was because he had to have an identity to cover himself. He couldn’t just use his blood to cast spells when he encountered danger in the future. Wasn’t this clearly exposing his identity as a vampire?

There was nothing better than the identity of a mage to protect him.