Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes - Chapter 35

Chapter 35: Plan for the future

In the days that followed, the brothers and sisters in their respective territories sent congratulatory letters one after another.

Anvis’s brothers and sisters were on good terms so far. It had something to do with the rules of succession in the Olivendi family—

As one of the four great duke clans, the candidate for the head of the Olivier clan was not restricted by gender, but his strength had to be at the ninth rank.

And maliciously harming talented family descendants was absolutely forbidden. That harmed the family’s foundation.

Once it was discovered that someone had maliciously plotted against their clansmen, they would be severely punished, and their descendants would never be allowed to run for the position of clan head. This was the greatest deterrence to all those who had evil intentions.

The ones who ensured that this rule was enforced were the two peak ninth-rank elders in the family.

They had all lived since the early days of the Gloria Empire, and their direct bloodline had been passed down for countless generations. Their affection for their descendants had almost been completely obliterated, leaving only their loyalty for the family.

No one could guarantee that their evil methods could hide from the peak of rank 9 experts.

After that, Anvis continued his daily routine of studying, reading, and meditating. He strictly played the role of a noble scholar and displayed it to the people in the castle who were secretly staring at him.

It had to be said that after officially becoming a mage, the speed of meditation to absorb magic power and increase spiritual power was completely different from when he was at level zero.

For example, a level-zero apprentice meditating was equivilant to using a small straw to draw water.

Moreover, the advantages of top-grade meditation techniques such as increasing the purity of spiritual power, increasing magic affinity, and so on could only be fully displayed when one became an official mage.

When he was an acolyte, the only difference between a top-grade meditation technique and ordinary meditation techniques was that his spiritual force would increase faster.

……

At night, Anvis returned to his room and sat quietly with his eyes closed.

However, he did not enter meditation tonight. Instead, he was carefully planning his future path after reaching the first stage.

In his previous life, relying on his bloodline and background, past Anvis, who was a little overconfident, chose to learn and develop all specialisations in the school of Transformation .

That was usually a choice made by eight or nine great magic casters.

In the end, he became a knowledgeable mage as he wished. However, large amounts of magic research and experiments also slowed down his bloodline growth to a certain extent.

As a result, when the family declined in the future, past Anvis’ own strength would only reach the level of a seventh-rank.

If he chose to specialize in one of the sub factions of the School of Transformation, he would at least be able to advance to level eight when he was faced with danger.

Of course, whether it was rank 7 or rank 8, it would not have made much difference to his situation back then.

But an eighth-rank expert always died with more dignity than a seventh-rank expert.

After inheriting past Anvis’ memories, Anvis obtained all the research results of his previous life, but he did not intend to continue on the path of his previous life.

At present, he was faced with a new, better option:

The Divination School—

Mages proficient in the School of Divination were known as Prophets. In this world, Prophets were a rare and noble profession.

If mages were like nobility , then comparing a common sorcerer to a prophet would be like comparing a baron to an earl.

The vast majority of families that reached a certain scale would conduct tests on every descendant.

If possible, Anvis hoped to gain the identity of the Prophet.

This would allow him to reveal the future information in his memory to the duke openly and greatly increase the weight of his words in the shortest time possible.

In the memories of his previous life, the Duke had specially invited a Prophet to check if past Anvis had the talent of a Prophet.

The testing time was on the seventh day after past Anvis became a first ranker. To the present Anvis, it should be tomorrow.

This kind of test could only be carried out after rank one, and seven days was to let him stabilize his realm.

The specific testing procedure was very simple. The Prophet would prepare a special crystal ball. The person who was to be examined would connect to the crystal ball with their spiritual power and then close their eyes and relax.

If you can feel the mysterious power in the crystal ball and see some fragments of the future through it, congratulations, you have the talent to learn prophecy.

If not, too bad.

Naturally, during the testing process in his previous life, past Anvis did not sense anything. In the end, he could only declare that he had no fate on the path of the Prophet.

This was how the School of Prophecy was like. If one could feel it, they could feel it. If one couldn’t feel it, they couldn’t feel it.

However, past Anvis, who would become an master mage in the future, was still unwilling to accept it. Thus, he had specially researched the nature of the so-called ‘gift of prophecy’.

He had read countless books, including ancient books from the High Elves era and manuscripts of famous prophets.

In the end, he concluded that the so-called talent of a Prophet could be divided into the following two points.

First, a powerful soul; second, affinity to the net of fate.

A powerful soul was easy to understand. It was the strength of a person’s soul. Different from the strength of spiritual power, the strength of the soul would only increase as the rank increased.

This was also the reason why some Advanced experts could forcefully use low-level prophecy spells.

The net of fate was somewhat abstract.

Simply put, the development trajectories of all existences in the world could be seen as a thread. This thread was the fate of this existence.

Countless threads interweaved and intertwined to form a ‘net’ that enveloped the entire world. This net was the fate of the world.

The Prophet’s Prophecy spell was equivalent to prying into this net of fate through some means, and deciphering the future through the information and feedback he received.

However, not everyone could do this. Most people could not sense the existence of the Net of Destiny even if they used prophecy spells. Only a few people could sense it.

This ability to perceive the net of fate was the affinity to the net of destiny.

This kind of affinity was as unpredictable as fate itself. It might appear on the son of a great duke, or on the child of an ordinary peasant woman.

Regardless of whether their parents were strong or weak, or if they had bloodlines, the probability of such a talent appearing was always the same. Even among the twins, the younger sister obtained the Prophet’s Talent, but the older sister did not.

The magic world still did not know what the formation of this talent depended on.

“Everything is fate… cough—fate’s choice.”

Touching the family talisman on his chest, Anvis began to think about what he should do tomorrow.

As a transmigrator, his soul was definitely much stronger than little Anvis, who was the same age as him in his previous life. However, he didn’t know if there were any changes in his affinity to the Net of Destiny.

Theoretically speaking, if he could become a Prophet, it would be of great help to the goal of saving the Olivendi family. This was in line with the effective range of the wishing spell.

However, if he still didn’t have any talent in this life, he would switch to the mysticism school and use some special mystical spells as an excuse to explain his understanding of the future.

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