Chapter 22: Nightmare Driver’s License

Chapter 22: Nightmare Driver’s License

“Don’t worry, I’m just here to test a few Magic spells, I won’t hurt you.” Louis waved his Wand, and the evil spirit began to dance ballet like a Marionette.

[Whatever you want to know, I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you everything! I am the Magic Mirror, I can go anywhere, and I have seen many things, I know every secret of this academy!]

The Wizard did not respond. Like a conductor, he focused on waving his Wand, and so the evil spirit began to do a handstand amidst the dance music.

This silence from the Wizard made the evil spirit even more terrified.

Practice Magic? Who would believe that!

This ‘Mysterious Man’ definitely had some ulterior motive!

Mr. Stuart felt the death countdown above his head was ticking. Like counting beans, he started to spill out everything he knew.

After emptying that out, he began to tell every secret he knew about every Wizard. To please Louis, he transformed into each person’s appearance as he spoke about them.

This seemed to pique Louis’s interest a little.

At the same time, the evil spirit also noticed that whenever he transformed into a male wizard, Louis would frown slightly (entirely because a male wizard doing ballet looked too unseemly), but whenever he transformed into a Witch, the corner of Louis’s mouth would curl up slightly into a smile. He would take a good look.

A thought struck the evil spirit. His transformations began to have a specific target, and the secrets he revealed also became targeted.

After hearing these secrets, Louis grew very curious.

This Mr. Stuart was not only a three-hundred-year-old Warden of the Dark Domain Black Prison, but had also once served as the previous Witch Queen’s mirror spirit—meaning, he was the Magic Mirror.

After the current Witch Queen ascended, Stuart attempted to become her turncoat—though he wasn’t successful, he must know many shocking secrets!

But before that, there was a small problem that needed to be solved.

[You seem to have discovered this issue…]

[A. Trigger the Witch Queen’s Magic Spell and destroy Stuart. Reward upon completion: Mana +1]

[B. ‘Help’ Stuart remove the Witch Queen’s Magic Spell. Reward upon completion: Nightmare Driver’s License1, Experience +50]

Suddenly, Louis’s eyes turned black. He stretched his hand towards the Mirror.

Immediately after, dense Incantation Texts suddenly appeared all over the evil spirit in the Mirror. Then, amid wails, the evil spirit was pulled out of the Mirror by an invisible force.

Within the power of these Incantation Texts, Stuart finally revealed his true form.

He transformed into a six-legged monstrous horse with raging flames burning all over its body. It floated in mid-air, its upper half standing upright, with six arms—some growing from its abdomen, some from its back.

Its head looked like an alien, but it had two horns covered in Incantation Texts—one of which was broken, making it a ‘unicorn’.

It had no eyes, no upper or lower lips, and sharp teeth in its mouth. It looked ferocious and terrifying.

There were many types of fiend-level evil demons, and Mr. Stuart was undoubtedly a Nightmare.

Louis cast another Magic Spell. This time, the Nightmare, amid wails, shattered like a Rubik’s cube, splitting into many slices.

These slices floated in mid-air, spreading out flat like sheets of paper. On each slice, there was a kind of densely packed, black Incantation Text.

Stuart watched helplessly as his body, like many scrolls, covered the entire hall. He was scared out of his wits.

I’ve been sliced?

But I don’t seem to be dead?

It doesn’t seem to hurt much.

Louis sat on the ground, unhurriedly pulling each ‘scroll’ before his eyes, examining them slowly.

It was visible that three types of Incantation Texts glittered within Stuart’s body. The first type of Incantation Text was very strange, written in a bizarre script. It was the Magic Spell Stuart had fixed within his own body.

‘Hmm, the book from the Sacred Oak mentioned that some Wizards carve Magic Spells onto themselves to become stronger. Like Illidan… It looks like Stuart has suffered damage. These Incantation Texts were carved on him to restore his own Strength, but he did a rather messy job…’

Louis looked at the other two Magic Spells within Stuart’s body. They were both sealing-type Incantation Texts.

Both these Incantation Texts were very special.

The first type of Incantation Text seemed to contain an extremely massive amount of Mana, filling every corner of Stuart’s body. If Stuart were sliced open, one would find dense Incantation Texts in every inch of his flesh and blood—and now, Louis had sliced Stuart open.

Those Incantation Texts looked like a million-strong army. But their structure was very chaotic, so this million-strong army was a slave army, a motley crew.

They were besieging the second type of Incantation Text, trying to expel it.

It seemed this second type of Incantation Text only occupied a corner of Stuart’s body. Compared to the first type, it was like a ten-thousand-strong force.

But this ten-thousand-strong force was an elite cavalry, and what’s more, led by someone like Xiang Yu. In their struggle against the first Incantation Text, they charged recklessly, as if entering an unmanned land. But the first Incantation Text was numerous, so a stalemate had developed.

Both wanted to drive the other out and were entangled.

This second Incantation Text belonged to Louis. As for the first, Stuart seemed very familiar with it. He suddenly remembered something and began to curse loudly.

[That damned ‘Delphinia’! That filthy bitch! When did she secretly cast this Magic Spell on me?!]

“Hmm… judging by the scale of the work, it would take at least three to five months to complete this spell.”

[…]

Louis stroked his chin and studied it. One could tell the caster was highly powerful in Mana and even seemed to have learned a little bit of ‘modern magic theory’.

But her skill was really not great. The Magic Spell also seemed to have many errors.

‘It’s a type of demonic decree. The caster even specifically sacrificed a Demon for this. The Mana infused is quite a lot, but why does the skill level feel like that of a half-baked Forbidden apprentice?’

The Forbidden Archmage frowned in confusion. If this were his student, he would definitely pull down her pants and spank her.

However, the Mana infused into this Magic Spell was so abundant that breaking it wasn’t difficult, but it would be a pity to waste all this Mana.

Louis planned to salvage the Mana from this Magic Spell for his own use, turning it into his own Seal.

He thought for a moment, recalling the book “Anthony’s Detailed Guide to Spell Disenchantment” which he remembered reading in the Forbidden Sanctum, and “Modern Magic Theory.” Then he closed his eyes and pondered briefly.

Soon, he figured out how to modify it.

Opening his eyes, Louis looked at an area of the Witch Queen’s Incantation Text. He pointed a finger, and several characters in that area’s Magic Spell were changed. Then, the entire structure of Incantation Texts in that area crumbled. The characters stopped connecting together and began to swim around like tadpoles.

This scene made Stuart’s jaw drop.

Before he could think further, something even stranger happened.

Louis frowned and used his finger to draw in that area. Then, the crumbled Incantation Texts in that area began to obey his command and started swimming within Stuart’s body.

Gradually, they recombined according to a certain pattern. A moment later, all these Incantation Texts became different.

Louis put down this ‘slice’ from Stuart’s body and picked up the second one. After a glance, he tapped it, then brought over the third, the fourth.

Watching all this, a very strange feeling suddenly arose in Stuart’s heart.

It was as if the person before him was a teacher correcting a student’s homework!

Five or six minutes later, the Incantation Texts on all the slices had changed in appearance.

Looking at those Incantation Texts, Louis nodded with satisfaction.

Nothing of what the Witch Queen had painstakingly created was wasted. It had all become Louis’s ‘Demonic Decree’.

From now on, forget Stuart, even if ten Witch Queens came, looking at these intricate, massively Magically potent, and terrifying Incantation Texts, they could only scratch their slightly reddened ears and quietly ask the teacher how to do this assignment.

When the last Incantation Text was modified by Louis, all the Incantation Texts flickered and entered Stuart’s soul flame.

At this moment, Stuart suddenly had a feeling.

Twenty years—today, he suddenly had a master again.

A line of text also appeared before Louis’s eyes.

[Nightmare Driver’s License +1]

[Brave Knight! You have obtained your first mount. Quickly take up your dragon spear and defeat the Evil Dragon—though the dragon spear in your hand isn’t quite suitable; perhaps you should swap it for an ironwood one.]

The Wizard Louis ignored the Narration.