A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 38 Setting Sail

After forwarding the post to the Huaguo Forum, Jiang Shuzhou thoughtfully enabled the forum's anonymity function, since he never leaves his name when doing good deeds.

I don't care about empty fame or false profit. When I'm out and about, I, Jiang Shuzhou, keep a very low profile!

"Hehehehe".

With a strange laugh, Jiang Shuzhou clicked "forward" without hesitation.

It's time to give the world a little magic shock!

This article is full of references and is at least 60% accurate. It also contains many spellcasting tips, but I don't know if people on the forum can understand it.

Soon, like sharks smelling blood, a large number of people gathered to watch the post as soon as it was forwarded.

"Incredible! Mages are so rotten, how can they still brag about it?"

"To be fair, the upper limit is indeed high, but don't worry about the lower limit."

"That's right. Once we musketeers become mech pilots and smash you with our mechs, you'll realize you're wrong."

"Yes, yes, you're making it sound like a mage can defeat a god, you bunch of maggots in the shadows!"

"Alchemy can indeed make money, but how do you learn it?"

Jiang Shuzhou was able to hold back on the other points, but he almost lost his composure on the one about gods.

The current situation is indeed such that neither the gods nor the mages can do anything to each other. The gods reside high in the astral plane, and the mages are helpless against them. The mages are in the prime plane, while the gods cannot leave their divine kingdoms and cannot descend to the prime plane.

So the current situation is that the two sides are deadlocked, but to say that they can't defeat the gods is not necessarily true.

The sun god Asu is a good example. Relying on his divine position as the sun god, he acted recklessly. In order to demonstrate his great divine power, he used the authority of the sun to plunge the mage alliance into eternal night.

This situation lasted for over a century, during which time the Mage Alliance was known as the "Land of Eternal Night." However, the god's arrogance ultimately led to his downfall.

While the other gods either didn't notice or tacitly approved, the twelve floating cities joined forces to completely shatter the sun god's kingdom, and the sun god was utterly destroyed.

Although he later returned from the dead through faith and won the resurrection match, he fell from his original powerful divine strength to weak divine strength, which can be said to be a complete return to square one.

Although there are still some issues with the details, such as how the sun god was resurrected in such a short time after his divine kingdom was destroyed.

However, Jiang Shuzhou didn't care too much. Based on his understanding of mages, he figured they had probably made some underhanded deals with the gods, trading away the sun god's divine status.

"It seems the Alliance of Saints is quite good at whitewashing; they can even whitewash this."

With a sigh, Jiang Shuzhou stopped reading the person's other comments. He casually clicked on the person's profile to see if they were a charlatan or a true believer.

The result wasn't good; it seems this person is genuine.

"No? You really believe that?"

Afterwards, Jiang Shuzhou felt relieved. That made sense. Being a pastor meant reciting those scriptures every day, which were full of praise for God. If you recited that stuff every day, wouldn't you get brainwashed?

"Oh, what a pity."

Because of the repost, Jiang Shuzhou couldn't reply to the comments. Otherwise, he would definitely have a fierce debate with this believer and break his defenses.

"By the way, since my US account hasn't been banned, does that mean I can post photo sets again?"

Unable to contain his excitement, Jiang Shuzhou sent the message immediately.

Your account has been blocked from posting.

Huh? Wasn't this supposed to be about freedom of speech?

Fortunately, the lockdown only lasted three days, which was much less severe than in China.

Since he can't even post a full set of pictures, and Jiang Shuzhou has already been making waves on the forums, playing tricks on quite a few people.

Jiang Shuzhou decided to go to sleep. It was already 8 p.m., and he would get up at 5 a.m. the next morning to go straight into the game and set sail for the civilized world.

From then on, the sea was wide enough for fish to leap freely, and the sky high enough for birds to fly freely.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Some young people go to bed at 8 o'clock, while some elderly people can't fall asleep at all.

That person was none other than our beloved Professor Wang. Ever since he came to his senses and decided to become a Dharma Master, Professor Wang hasn't had a single good night's sleep.

It seemed that he finally had a goal in life. He started practicing meditation at seven o'clock every day. On the first day, he felt the elements and then completed the absorption in the afternoon.

It must be said that Professor Wang is talented.

Unfortunately, he was stuck on magic for a long time. Even though he goes to bed at 11 pm every day and plays games late into the night, he still hasn't been able to learn magic.

He hasn't even learned the Mage's Hand technique.

But that's not bad either; his progress alone is equivalent to that of more than 400 people.

"Professor, this is a list of spell skill books that need to be purchased. Please take a look."

"I'm getting old. It's your turn, young people, to take over. Work hard, and you'll be the one to succeed me when I retire."

After carefully reviewing it, Professor Wang signed his name, and then casually offered the young man who came in a rosy promise.

However, in a sense, this statement is indeed correct. Professor Wang has recently become obsessed with all kinds of mage knowledge and has not paid much attention to this project, which is nominally still a mage project but has long since become a magic network mage project.

He was only responsible for signing his name each day; he didn't care about anything else.

Young people should be given more experience; he doesn't want to waste his precious time on such trivial matters.

You'd be better off spending that time learning spellcasting techniques.

"Sigh, more than four hundred people, and they all turned into magic network mages. They have no perseverance at all."

Looking down at the bustling crowd below, Professor Wang in his office felt a sudden sense of loneliness.

Shaking his head to dismiss the feeling, Professor Wang prepared to go online again.

It's 9 p.m. now, the night is still young, he will fight until dawn, he must take down the mage's hand today!

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

On the deserted island in the early morning, just as dawn was breaking, Jiang Shuzhou logged on. Today, he was going to escape this deserted island and head to a civilized country.

"Set sail!"

Cut the ropes and lower the lifeboat hanging on the side of the pirate ship. Jiang Shuzhou has now brought everything he can.

He was dressed in a robe over chainmail, holding a pirate scimitar in his hand and two guns at his waist; he didn't look like a good person at first glance.

It was early morning on the second day, and Jiang Shuzhou logged into the game very early.

He had waited so long for this moment.

"Velisco, your mage master is back!"

Because it was a lifeboat, and the pirates were clearly not very wealthy, the lifeboat was about two meters long and about one meter wide.

Jiang Shuzhou felt the platform was too small, but now was not the time to dwell on that.

Fortunately, it was equipped with a small sail, otherwise Jiang Shuzhou would have had to rely on oars to cross the sea. Even with Jiang Shuzhou's physical strength, which was stronger than that of an ordinary person after his advancement, he still couldn't withstand such a thing.

Zhang Kaifan and Jiang Shuzhou felt that they had less place to stay, but it wasn't a big problem since they were alone anyway.

"Whirlwind Technique"

The spells he had specially learned finally proved their worth at this moment.

A gust of wind swept in, and in an instant, the lifeboat started moving, its speed soaring.

"It's not over yet!"

"Wave-making technique"

The waves and the gale pushed the lifeboat toward the direction the compass needle pointed to, toward Velisco.

Rowing a boat doesn't rely on oars, but entirely on the wind and waves.

Jiang Shuzhou never used the oars on either side of the small boat, displaying the demeanor of a sorcerer the entire way.

Aside from consuming some mana, it has almost no drawbacks.

Although Jiang Shuzhou looked disheveled from staying up all night studying magic, he looked really handsome standing proudly on the boat.