“Vulgar! How can you call it stealing? I’m just asking you to borrow the books. Once I finish reading them, you can put them back. Anyway, those basic magic books aren’t read by anyone, so nobody will ever know. Jack, I’ve had such bad luck today, and it’s all to help you. You should help me too, right?” Ryan Carter stared righteously at the chubby Jack and said.

After hearing this, Jack looked hesitant, but under the emotional persuasion of Ryan Carter beside him, he finally agreed—albeit reluctantly—to “borrow” the magic books for Ryan Carter.

That night, Jack sneaked over to Ryan Carter, pulled out a copy of “Fundamentals of Necromancy” and a “Magic Dictionary” from his plump belly, handed them to Ryan Carter, and gave him a long string of warnings before slipping away quietly.

Originally, with Brian’s status as a menial worker, he wasn’t qualified to learn to read. But because this menial had to do everything, and some tasks required it, over the past six years he had actually learned quite a bit. All this knowledge was passed on to Ryan Carter, so Ryan Carter was able to understand the writing in these two books.

After Jack left, Ryan Carter closed the small wooden door of the storeroom, opened the first pale yellow page of “Fundamentals of Necromancy,” and began reading with great interest.

Magic is a method of using spiritual power to communicate with certain magical elements in this world. There are four ways to use magic: through incantations, magic scrolls (primers), gestures, and magic circles.

Necromancy was once extremely prosperous. When necromancy was at its peak, all dark magic was classified as necromancy. Unfortunately, it has now declined, and necromancy has instead become a branch of dark magic.

Necromancy originally only controlled souls and skeletons, but as it developed, predecessors kept experimenting and improving, causing necromantic spells to increase in number and gradually form a system, eventually becoming the representative of dark magic.

The foundation of any magic is spiritual power, and the way to obtain spiritual power is through meditation—sensing magical elements that ordinary people cannot perceive. Only by meditating and producing spiritual power can one be considered a magic apprentice.

So, when Ryan Carter was studying “Fundamentals of Necromancy,” the first thing he did was meditate to sense spiritual power. However, after meditating for seven days straight, Ryan Carter gained nothing at all—he couldn’t sense even the slightest bit of spiritual power.

During these seven days, Ryan Carter only practiced meditation at night. During the day, he diligently played the role of Brian, still doing all the cleaning, pest control, and garbage disposal as usual. If he didn’t, as a menial worker, Ryan Carter wouldn’t be able to get food at the Magic Martial Academy, nor would he be able to stay at Babylon Magic Martial Academy.

Because of the pain in his soul, every day, Ryan Carter’s head would suddenly hurt several times. The first two times, Ryan Carter immediately fainted again, but later, although the pain would still come from time to time, perhaps due to his adaptability, Ryan Carter didn’t faint anymore.

During this period, Ryan Carter’s reputation as half-crazy and half-foolish also spread. However, even though Ryan Carter seemed crazy and foolish, he still finished all his daily tasks as usual. At Babylon Magic Martial Academy, seeing that Ryan Carter still did his work despite his appearance, they didn’t expel him.

As for Ryan Carter’s strange behavior, the necromancy students all agreed: Ryan Carter had been doing this for six years and it had become a habit. So, although he seemed a bit crazy, this habit couldn’t be changed, and he still completed his daily tasks.

However, during these days, whenever students wanted to use Ryan Carter for magic experiments, every time they found him, Ryan Carter would suddenly have a “headache” at just the right moment. When his head hurt, he would act even crazier, and sometimes he would mess up the experiments so badly that the students all knew Ryan Carter had been afflicted with Lisa’s soul pain. Since he was also a bit crazy, they didn’t know what to do with him.

No one still knows why Lisa beat up Buck, but during this time, Buck has been in a bad mood and would find excuses to come and beat up Ryan Carter. Buck is a magic apprentice and physically stronger than Ryan Carter, so even when Ryan Carter pretended to be crazy and fought back, he still got beaten up badly these days.

At night, returning to the storeroom, as soon as Ryan Carter came in, he cursed loudly: “Buck, you bastard, just you wait—one day I’ll beat you so badly your own parents won’t recognize you.”

Today, Ryan Carter was beaten by Buck again. Buck and a little skeleton ganged up on Ryan Carter, so of course he couldn’t win, and now he was covered in bruises. However, these days, Ryan Carter felt his strength growing, and his appetite had also increased a lot. His food was never enough, and he kept asking Jack for more every day.

Moreover, every time after being beaten by Buck, although it hurt a lot at the time, once he returned to the storeroom and practiced magic using the “solid” technique, the next morning he would wake up without any pain at all, and his spirit would be excellent. The next time he fought with Buck, he found that the pain from Buck’s blows was getting lighter and lighter.