Chapter 78 - Advancement of Magical Lore! Silver Cloak! Mage!
After the incident with Miwei, Richard suddenly found… he couldn’t sleep again.
After all, he was in the prime of his youth, and after the successive lotteries, his body was much stronger than the average person’s, with an incredibly vigorous spirit.
It was impossible not to have such needs.
Moreover, he was surrounded by a group of beautiful and adorable beast girls every day.
But Richard wasn’t an animal controlled by his lower half. These beast girls were still young, and he couldn’t bring himself to do anything with them.
“Huh, it seems I can draw lots again.”
Richard noticed that reputation seemed to be enough to draw lottery again.
Since he couldn’t sleep anyway, Richard decided to draw some lots.
【Lottery successful.】
【Congratulations, host, you have drawn the reward: Advancement of Magical Lore!】
The system’s voice sounded.
“Huh, Advancement of Magical Lore, what’s that?” Richard couldn’t help but be curious.
Immediately afterward, he felt that his body was starting to undergo some changes.
Originally, after a day of activity, he would be somewhat mentally exhausted. But now, he felt that his spirit seemed to be replenishing at an extremely fast rate.
Then, Richard felt that his body seemed to have gained some unknown energy.
And his understanding of fire control magic became even deeper.
Richard felt that originally his intermediate fire control magic could only produce three to four fireballs at most, and he only knew how to produce them without understanding the principle behind them.
But now, he began to understand the principle of fire control magic.
He knew exactly how this magic was produced.
“Is this the Advancement of Magical Lore?” Richard thought.
There were very few mages in this world.
Richard hadn’t seen any other mages so far, so he wasn’t sure about their strength.
However, after the Advancement of Magical Lore, if the mages in this world had levels, Richard felt that he should have leveled up.
“My mental power has increased, and besides that, there should be an increase in ‘magic power’ as well. I should be able to produce more than five fireballs at once now.”
Richard thought.
Anyway, it’s good that his power has increased.
However, with the increase in mental power, Richard found… he couldn’t sleep even more.
He went to the balcony and looked at the city under the night sky.
There are already many people living in the city, but at this hour, most people have already gone to sleep, and only a few places have scattered lights.
After watching for a while, Richard moved to the other side of the balcony.
His balcony was very large, forming a semi-circular shape around his bedroom.
From here, he could see the other side of his territory.
The moonlight tonight was very bright.
“Huh, someone?”
At this moment, Richard saw, under the moonlight, a horse galloping.
He took out a telescope and looked.
Soon, Richard saw that on the horse, there was a person wearing a silver cloak, which looked quite dazzling under the moonlight.
From the long hair peeking out from the edge of the silver cloak, it seemed that the person on the horse was a woman.
The person on the horse seemed to have noticed Richard’s castle, changed direction, and headed towards the castle.
At this moment, a large group of people holding torches appeared behind.
Richard looked through the telescope and saw that those torchbearers were also riding horses.
Under the moonlight, those people were quickly chasing after the person wearing the silver cloak.
“Bandits?”
Richard saw the appearance of those people through the telescope, and their attire looked quite like bandits.
After the last battle victory, there hadn’t been any bandits on Richard’s territory for a while.
Unexpectedly, they encountered bandits again.
However, the other party hadn’t actually entered Richard’s territory yet.
The person in the silver cloak was actually advancing towards his territory, heading straight for Richard’s castle.
Behind them, dozens of bandits holding torches continued to accelerate. Soon, they surrounded the person in the silver cloak from all sides.
At this point, they had already reached the edge of Richard’s territory. Some patrol soldiers had been alerted and were already on their way to the castle. Some used the flashlights issued by Richard to signal in the direction of the castle.
“Master, there’s a situation outside the territory.”
At this moment, Dorothy’s voice came from the balcony below.
“Dorothy, you’re not asleep yet?” Richard asked.
There are fox people on duty at the castle every night, but Dorothy and her friends don’t have to take shifts.
“Ah… Master, I just woke up.”
Dorothy’s voice seemed to have a hint of panic.
Then, she got to the point, “It seems to be bandits. Should we give the order to eliminate them, Master?”
Dorothy asked again.
There were about ten members in the patrol team there, each with a crossbow. With a surprise attack, they might actually be able to defeat the dozens of bandits.
After all, it was nighttime, and even though the crossbows were slow to reload, they could still manage to load a new bolt in three to four seconds at most.
Experienced crossbowmen could be even faster.
Plus, under the cover of night, the bandits wouldn’t know how many people were in the patrol team and would likely panic. Support from the territory would arrive soon as well.
However, before Richard could give orders, the situation at the edge of the territory changed again.
After the dozens of torch-bearing bandits surrounded the person in the silver cloak, before they could take any action, all the torches in their hands suddenly extinguished!
“Master, something’s wrong!”
Dorothy’s voice rang out.
Richard had already seen it through the telescope.
After the torches went out, one of the bandits hadn’t reacted yet and seemed to be hit by something, turning directly into an ice sculpture.
The other bandits panicked and fled in disorder.
“Mage!”
Seeing this scene, Richard murmured.
There was no doubt that the woman in the silver cloak was a mage.
And it seemed like she was quite powerful.
The power she wielded was exactly the opposite of Richard’s.
Richard currently controlled fire, while she seemed to control ice.
Perhaps because they knew she was a mage, after several bandits were frozen into ice sculptures, the rest were scared off and ran away.
Immediately after, the woman in the silver cloak rode towards Richard’s castle.