In the year 682 of the Sacred Calendar, Roger Otta Rivers has been in the Rhine Magic Academy for four years. With fairly intelligent aptitude, he will be able to leave this academy in two more years and become a formal magician. In this tumultuous era, due to the well-known destructiveness, magicians are highly sought after. At the same time, because of the equally well-known weaknesses of magicians, such as poor physical strength and long incantation time, the protection of magicians in war becomes the first matter that needs to be considered. Even so, even the famous generals on the mainland still find it difficult to completely avoid the casualties of mages.
Mastering magic requires talent, and it takes a considerable amount of time to become a qualified magician. This also results in the number of magicians on the mainland being rather scarce. Correspondingly, the status of magicians is much higher. At the same time, most senior mages are also very wealthy individuals, as various gems, magic silver, and black iron magic materials are all extremely valuable. Advanced magic items often make cross-level battles among mages possible. It has been said that the magical power of a magician is proportional to his wealth.
Roger's father, Viscount Rivers, is a lower noble in the Rhine City-state Alliance, and his fiefdom is only a small town and several surrounding villages, with a population of only a few thousand. In any case, as a noble with a fiefdom, Roger still has the right to insert Otta in the middle of his name, which is the symbol of the lower hereditary noble of the Rhine Alliance.
The names of the mainland are strange and diverse. Basically, each country has a certain kind of name. In recent years, with the rise of the Sacred Church and the expansion of theocratic power, countries have gradually accepted Gloria as the name of the mainland, meaning the hymn of God. The Rhine Alliance is located in the southeast corner of the mainland and is formed by the alliance of more than a dozen large and small duchies. Compared with the three major powers on the mainland, namely Dero, Austria-Hungary, and Asrofec, its national strength can only be regarded as a second-rate country. However, it is better than the bottom and not as good as the top. King Louis XIV of the Alliance still frequently shows off his military power in front of the remaining thirty or so small countries, especially the adjacent Ron Duchy and Cordo City-state. Nevertheless, this king's interest in art, beauty and immortality is far greater than that in expanding territory. During the more than ten years of his reign, most of the time he has been at peace with neighboring countries.
Corresponding to the national status of the Rhine Alliance, the Rhine Magic Academy is just a second-rate medium-sized academy on the mainland, situated in the north of the Rhine City, the capital of the alliance. The teaching style is rather down-to-earth, which directly results in the fact that in the more than three hundred years of the school's history, there has never been a figure that has shocked the mainland. Due to the need of various countries for magicians, magic academies are often the most equal places on the mainland where the hierarchy is strict. At least generally speaking, there will not be a situation where civilian magic apprentices are beaten to death by nobles. And often civilian students who successfully graduate can, after a period of experience, also have a great chance of becoming nobles.
Roger's family situation is a bit declining, and there are only four servants in the family, which is rather embarrassing for a noble with a fief. In addition to his hot temper, old Rivers has no financial management ability, and his income keeps decreasing year by year. However, this does not prevent Roger from learning all the bad habits that a noble should have, such as arrogance, conceit, lewdness, hot temper, and the insidiousness and cunning that ordinary nobles do not have. After Roger had his first sexual experience with a maidservant at home at the age of fourteen, he has made the small territory more and more chaotic since then. Old Rivers had to send Roger to this magic academy a year later and exhausted the few ancestral jewels for this.
Roger doesn't expect the old man to give him any more financial support. For his usual pleasures, he needs money. So by being sweet-talking, he curried favor with a mid-level mage, Firth, in the academy, managing the magic laboratory for him and doing some work that Firth couldn't come forward to do. At this time, Roger is studying a bead that inexplicably appeared in front of him in the magic laboratory. The bead is dull and pale, with a few cracks on it, and it doesn't seem to be of much value. The only thing that shows a little difference is that there are faintly a white and a black light flashing in the bead. Roger opens his eyes wide and carefully assesses the value of this bead, but he never thought that the bead is also studying him. Suddenly the bead cracks and the black qi rushes straight to Roger's forehead and enters his brain. Roger's whole person seems to become a mollusk and squirms. From time to time, a bulge bulges here and a depression there, and black blood spurts out from the skin from time to time. Finally, Roger slowly opens his eyes, his eyes are a pale color, and a deep laughter rings out: "The mental power of this soul is not bad." Roger looks at the fragments of the magic bead on the ground. Just at this moment, the white qi also struggles to fly out, but it is said that it can't fly too far away from the magic bead fragments no matter what. Roger's eyes light up, and the white qi and the fragments of the magic bead are also sucked into the forehead, and a shrill cry is faintly heard in the laboratory. There is again like boiling water in Roger's body, and it doesn't calm down for a long time. When he opens his eyes again, he has returned to the appearance of an ordinary person.
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That black qi was precisely Rodriguez's soul. With the assistance of the divine artifact, the Soul Orb, which could isolate the power of all souls, he managed to successfully escape the Light of Judgment and evade the pursuit of the Celestial Realm. However, the power of the Light of Judgment was simply unmatchable. After all, so-called divine artifacts naturally couldn't compare to the power of the true God. Moreover, the Light of Judgment was typically initiated by the main god of the Celestial Realm to eliminate overly powerful evil in the world. After the battle at the Oedipus Temple, the Soul Orb had depleted all its power. The necromancer didn't destroy Roger's soul but chose to merge with it and inherit all of Roger's personality. Due to the limited energy of the Soul Orb, and most of it was used to imprison Vina's soul, when the necromancer merged the souls, he only opted to bring in the original understanding of magic while discarding the extensive specific magic knowledge. At this time, Vina's soul had only a very small bit of core energy left, the energy known as the Source of the God, and all her consciousness had long vanished. This tiny bit of the Source of the God was also incorporated into the soul.
The necromancer didn't destroy Roger's soul; rather, he merged with his soul consciousness. "I have already been too deeply marked by this world, and all I can do is destroy. Maybe for this world, creation is the most important. When an apple jumps into the chessboard and starts running amok, its impact on the entire game is much greater than that of a piece that jumps out of the chessboard."
Roger's talent wasn't overly remarkable. After four years of half-hearted cultivation, he was only a second-level mage and could only cast primary and first-level magic. According to the regulations of the Rhine Magic Academy, when one could successfully cast two different second-level magics, that is, when reaching the fourth-level mage, one could graduate. However, the soul merge of the necromancer brought an extremely vast mental power and could thereby achieve extremely high magic control. After all, the strength of a mage lies not only in the level of magic power, but perhaps the understanding and control of magic power are even more crucial. According to Roger's perception, the strength of a mage also lies in insidiousness and wealth. "A first-level mage with magic-enhanced rings on all ten fingers will never lose to a second-level mage with empty hands." The necromancer agreed with this point. After all, the gap between the first-level and second-level mages was just like the intelligence gap between an idiot and a moron. And based on Roger's strength, it was still somewhat challenging for him to understand mages above the fourth level.
On the Gloria Continent, magic has evolved over many years (primarily for the purpose of war) and has formed a rigorous system. Generally speaking, for every two levels that a magician's magic power level ascends, the magic that can be utilized will increase by one level. That means a tenth-level mage can cast a fifth-level magic, while an eleventh-level mage requires the magic power to be able to cast two fifth-level magics. Of course, there are also outliers outside this system, such as the necromancer Rodriguez.
The Source of the God is the purest soul energy. Rorge, whose soul and body have been completely transformed, will use this to create his own pet. Mage pets are generally the prerogative of advanced mages and are all summoned beasts. And "creation", "that is the realm of the gods", the necromancer thought. However, the gods have never been the object of respect for the necromancer, and he is busy merging souls and transforming the body once again. After completely merging the Soul Orb, Rorge's body has become completely unrecognizable. However, for various considerations, Rorge's appearance still remains unchanged, still short and chubby, with an overweight build, an ordinary face, and those insidious eyes. However, the Soul Orb has brought another mysterious skill: space.
Rorge himself doesn't have much of an opinion, and even if he does, he dare not express it. After understanding the origin of the Source of the God, he expressed great admiration to Brennan. "He will never be the last one," Rorge thought maliciously.
After three days and three nights of living like a sleepwalker and being scolded several times by Faith, the necromancer finally finished his work.
Rorge woke up. From this moment on, Rorge is still Rorge, and Rodriguez is also Rorge. The necromancer finally deceived the Celestial Realm and placed that apple on the chessboard.