A mage's journey begins with a battle mage.

Chapter 192 The Wrong Gear

The message was sent a day ago, but Jiang Shuzhou had blocked the mage's mark because he needed to do an experiment, so he only received it now.

What could possibly go wrong?

The message Jess posted could only be because of the students at the school.

And what can these students do?

Even if you accidentally kill the son of an orc tribe chief, it's not a big deal, right?

After all, the two sides were originally enemies.

Regardless, Jiang Shuzhou planned to find out more about the situation first.

He went directly to Jess's temporary residence.

Like all the monks' residences, the table was densely covered with various books, and a large number of blueprints were piled up haphazardly on the workbench.

It's obvious that no one is helping to clean up. Jiang Shuzhou's situation is much better now. Chahara cleans his lab every day and can collect at least one or two pounds of waste paper every day. Just selling the waste paper is enough to make a fortune.

However, these items were destroyed on the spot to prevent them from being seen by unauthorized individuals.

"What happened? What's going on?"

Jiang Shuzhou remained calm; if nothing happened after a day, then it wasn't a big problem.

"It's Ye Chen."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Shuzhou's expression changed. He didn't have a good impression of this fellow villager. After all, he had both parents, a car, a house, and even a fiancée, making him a winner in life.

He was naturally at odds with Jiang Shuzhou.

Moreover, although this person had been given a hard time by Jess for a week and had become much more obedient afterward, one could still sense that he was somewhat resentful.

Furthermore, his progress in learning magic and alchemy was far from ideal.

The reason he was able to successfully advance to the level of a mage apprentice was entirely due to his talent.

He doesn't even know how to use a mage's hand, and he can't read a single word of runes.

Moreover, just by hearing the name, you can tell it's definitely not someone to mess with.

"What did he do this time?"

"Could it be that his tastes are so extreme that he'd even dare to attack orcs?"

Jiang Shuzhou had already begun to imagine a scenario where Ye Chen and the daughter of a chieftain of a beastman tribe fell in love and fought each other, eventually pledging their lives to each other.

That's too perverted to be able to bite orcs.

Jess's lips twitched.

"Not that outrageous, but still quite outrageous."

"What I'm about to say, please don't laugh."

Jiang Shuzhou was taken aback. Was Jess trying to tell a joke?

"Ye Chen... he obtained the inheritance of the Orc Sword Saint, and now an Orc with Saint-level strength is demanding that he hand over the inheritance, but he refuses..."

"An orc swordsman? No, you mean a mage who inherited the legacy of a warrior legend?"

"It's strange, but it's true."

"No... Pfft, hehehehe."

Jiang Shuzhou was amused by this humor.

As expected of someone from the same hometown, he truly lives up to his name, always managing to pull off some unexpected feats.

What kind of inheritance did Jiang Shuzhou receive back then?

That was the legacy of a legendary alchemist, but Ye Chen, a mage, obtained the legacy of a legendary warrior.

I'm not afraid of being laughed at if I told anyone.

"Did you get him to switch to a warrior class?"

Jiang Shuzhou laughed for a while until he was done laughing, and finally became serious.

"Why switch to a warrior class? Why give up being a perfectly good mage to become a warrior?"

Although Jess's attire wasn't very traditional, his mindset was still quite traditional, believing that all other professions were inferior, only mages were superior.

"By the way, what do you suggest we do about this?"

"I think it's very simple, just hand it over."

The lineage doesn't belong to Jiang Shuzhou, let alone to a Dharma Master.

As the saying goes, one should not flaunt one's wealth. Even something as theoretically something that Jiang Shuzhou could keep, such as the Philosopher's Stone, he never made a fuss about.

As for the legacy of the legendary alchemist and the Mother Tree of Flesh, they are hidden very deep. Only Chahara knows that the Mother Tree of Flesh exists, but he does not know that it is a rare object. Apart from the mage Roland, no living person knows about the legacy.

"By the way, I'm willing to act as a middleman and connect them."

Jess was stunned. What did this mean?

"Don't we need to protect the students' safety?"

"?"

The Fifth Magic Academy is not a daycare, and Jiang Shuzhou is not the kind of person who treats his teachers as mentors.

If it were a master-disciple relationship in the sense of passing on tradition, Jiang Shuzhou would naturally not sit idly by.

But this is just teaching general knowledge; it's a simple matter of paying money and getting things done. Jiang Shuzhou isn't stupid; as long as he's satisfied with himself, why should he care about anything else?

"What are you talking about? He's not going to die, why bother with all that? Besides, if you can handle the orcs, then go."

"But……"

Jiang Shuzhou shook his head, then stood up and walked to the pile of blueprints.

"You're still too kind, Jess."

Immediately afterwards, Jiang Shuzhou pointed to an incorrect gear on the drawing and asked Jess a question.

"This gear is affecting the stability of the entire machine. What would you do? Should you redraw the machine for this gear?"

"Of course not, I've actually removed... him from the new drawings."

As Jess spoke, he seemed to understand something.

"I appreciate your kindness, but Jess, you need to understand that kindness depends on the situation."

Jess nodded silently; clearly, he understood.

Sigh, today is another day of accumulating good deeds and accumulating merit.

Jiang Shuzhou and Jess discussed things further, and then Jiang Shuzhou ran away, ostensibly to train Jess, but in reality, Jiang Shuzhou was too lazy to deal with such trivial matters.

That's why Jess is so easily fooled. Jiang Shuzhou could easily trick him completely, and Jess should thank Jiang Shuzhou for teaching him the philosophy of life.

However, Jiang Shuzhou was right; this kind of thing really shouldn't be tolerated.

If someone takes a benefit but can't protect it themselves, and then expects help from others without giving anything in return, their character is clearly questionable.

They are only good at petty tricks, but if they are truly cunning, they can protect their inherited information from being leaked.

He has absolutely no wisdom or social skills. If he had any social skills at all, he would have to give others benefits in order to get help from them.

In terms of strength, they are no match. If they truly possessed power, they could easily take a mere inheritance, crushing anyone who dared to utter a single word.

"I really don't understand why a warrior would hold onto their legacy so tightly."

Perhaps it contains combat techniques, or perhaps it contains special breathing methods, but it has no value to Jiang Shuzhou.

After all, there are breathing techniques in the lineage of the Blood and Flesh Gospel that can be cultivated to the legendary level, but those are just fillers; it can only be said that there are differences even among the legendary ones.

Once he created runic constructs and his standard breathing technique came into being, these so-called traditions essentially became outdated relics.

After all, according to tests, warriors equipped with rune constructs not only possess spell-like abilities, but their combat power is also about two to five times stronger than that of ordinary warriors.

This is still in its early stages, and the technology is not yet mature.

Once the technology matures, costs decrease, and mortality rates drop, Jiang Shuzhou can't think of any reason why these traditional warriors wouldn't be eliminated.

Still practicing traditional breathing techniques?

Old man, you're outdated!