Chapter 33: The Ring
Translator: Kris Liu
Grabbing his dagger, Lucien cautiously approached the pile of ash.
The shiny item was actually a carved silver ring, inlaid with a small blue gem on top.
“It belonged to the zombie?” Lucien was surprised. He picked the ring up and started
scrutinizing it carefully.
There was a line of letters on its surface, which was written in the common tongue.
“Human nature can be colder than snow.”
The ring was just plain-looking, but when Lucien rubbed it gently he felt a mysterious and
amazing power coming from the gem. After a few minutes, when Lucien’s power started slowly
recovering from the magic backfire, he carefully examined the ring again using his spiritual
power.
Lucien’s injured soul was slightly shocked as soon as his spirit entered into the ring. He felt
inside the gem what seemed to be the power of blizzard, but its structure was way more
complicated than that of the apprentice-level magic.
“It’s a magic ring! Maybe that’s why the zombie seemed much stronger than the others.”
Lucien was excited, “It seems that the ring’s even superior to Benjamin’s Truth Badge. I wonder
which power level the ring belongs to…”
With his remaining spiritual power, Lucien couldn’t even understand the magic structure in the
ring, not to mention how to leave his own spiritual imprint on the structure, in order to use the
power.
A sorcerer with the first circle spell called Identify could directly understand the magic
properties of all level one magic items, without having to analyze their inner structures. One’s
ability in using Identify would grow along with their accumulated knowledge, and thus the
person could progress and start using the items of higher level.
Sometimes there was extra information in some of them, including their makers, for what
purposes they were made, and so on.
According to the witch’s notes, all of the magic items could be divided into different standards:
apprentice level, level one to nine, and legend level.
The evaluation criteria was based on the power of the magic item: if the power was equal to a
first circle magic or to the ability of a level one knight, it was, correspondingly, a level one
magic item. Nevertheless, there were four ranks within each level — low, medium, high and
perfect. Taking a ring enchanted with the third circle spell Lightning for example, if the ring
could be used once a day, it was a low-rank level three magic ring; if it could be used three
times a day, it would instead be considered a medium-rank level three one; if the ring had some
extra benefits like increasing the magic resistance of the user, it would be a high-rank level
three item.
If a magic item had some kind of permanent augmentation effect, it would be a level higher
than the other common ones. For example, Mind Blank was an eight circle spell, and a magic
item with the immunity towards this ring-eight magic would be recognized as a precious level
nine magic artifact.
Furthermore, the grading was also applied to magic weapons and armors.
Lucien did not know the ring very well, so he dare not wear it casually in case there was any
curse on it. After putting the ring in his pocket he was in a pretty good mood.
“The Lord of Argent, the forever lasting silence…” The person giggled in a mix of disgust and
amusement, continuously talking to himself, “A different name, a different identity?
Interesting… That person must have been bewitched by him. I can’t wait to see his shadow
coming upon the land. A battle between him and the Cardinal of Aalto will be very interesting…
“Umm… Probably there is some kind of legacy left by the previous ancient magic empire that he
could utilize.
“But the church would interrupt his plan, I bet.”
The person looked around. A cunning smile appeared upon his face.
“The pretty smart young guy just created the new apprentice magic, Sulphuric Fire Wall, by
himself. Impressive… He can be very useful to me...”
Then his figure split into countless small shadow pieces and he suddenly disappeared.
Only his giggles were left there, echoing in the pipes.
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