The witch thought I am a Demon God
Chapter 451 - 272: Complete Transformation Spell·Eagle and Searching for Students_2

Chapter 451: Chapter 272: Complete Transformation Spell·Eagle and Searching for Students_2

"Those smugglers got lucky."

"If we see them again next time..."

"Wait a moment, the direction they’re heading seems a bit off... It looks like they’re not leaving the Black Sea, but delving deeper into it? Quite strange, a midsized smuggling ship with double-masts dares to brave into the Black Sea. Are they people from the Belisarius Business Republic?"

"Or they discovered some treasure in the depths of the Black Sea. No matter, our target is the treasure ship of the Republic of Belisarius, that has nothing to do with us."

Members of the Mountain Salt pirate ship exchange glances.

...

After parting ways with the Mountain Salt Pirate Group, Ivita and the others sailed for another night, the professionals, the Hearthstone Witch, and Ivita had nothing better to do, so they fished for wooden crates on the deck.

Overnight, they only reeled in some scattered silver coins, without any additional pirate ship components.

Ivita sighed, believing that they had used up all their luck on Volcano Island.

However, on the next morning, when the Hearthstone Witch was opening the wooden crates on deck, she surprisingly discovered a type-two pirate ship component—a whale oil cannon.

The power of the regular cannonball fired by this cannon seemed to be much stronger.

Captain Sam immediately had the sailors move the cannon to the gun-deck at the bow of the ship.

For the entire morning after, Captain Sam could not help but beam at the Hearthstone Witch, because the Elven Wind Sail from last time was also her discovery.

In Captain Sam’s eyes, the Hearthstone Witch was indeed a skilled treasure hunter, always contributing components to the ship.

Ivita was astonished as well, taking several fresh looks at the Hearthstone Witch.

How could this guy be more fortunate than himself?

At noon, Captain Sam found Ivita on deck.

He said to Ivita: "Boss, we still have some distance from the Cross Island. The Black Sea is riddled with uncharted territories, so traveling to Cross Island the way we are right now could take from a few months to several years, with countless perils along the way."

"If we hit a streak of bad luck and continue to enter these unmapped waters, we might find ourselves wasting a decade or more time here."

"However, pirates and black market merchants have some convenient routes of their own to access the Black Sea. One of them is—Transit Sea."

"Going through...the Transit Sea, we could reach Cross Island in only half a day. That’s where we’re heading towards right now."

"The Transit Sea is a magical sea zone that connects directly to the shallow waters around Cross Island."

"The only issue is, there’s a port called Transfer Port in Transit Sea, it’s a subsidiary port of Central Harbour that exclusively monitors and inhibits non-pirate and non-smuggler ships from entering. So, we need a pirate ship’s black-flag; with a black-flag, we could enter Cross Island."

Ivita pondered. To enter Transit Sea by merely hanging up a black flag, seemed too easy to trick.

But it made sense.

The pirate world itself lacked strict management.

Nobody cared about your identity, as long as you hung up a black flag, you could enter Cross Island. After looking around inside, you might find the fun of being a pirate.

Most of those who could get to the Cross Island black market were probably not good people, except for special cases like themselves.

Ivita said to Captain Sam: "There are black flags everywhere in this sea zone. If we run out of black flags, we could just rob a pirate ship and then we will have one."

Captain Sam pursed his lips, then nodded his head at Ivita.

After he left, the Hearthstone Witch who had been waiting nearby walked over after Captain Sam had finished reporting to Ivita.

"Your Majesty, there’s something I need to tell you." The Hearthstone Witch pulled out four magic books for Ivita, "Your Majesty, you are a formal wizard now."

"Now, you can start learning the rule-based transformation spells."

"These are three rule-based transformation spells I found in the portable carriage, which can turn you into an eagle, a tiger, or a black bear."

"And this is the portable carriage magic book, a unique magic of Hearthstone Castle. We usually don’t teach it to outsiders, but you are not an outsider to me, so I will teach you."

The Hearthstone Witch cheerfully betrayed the knowledge inheritance of their Hearthstone Castle.

Ivita’s eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of the Hearthstone Witch’s portable carriage.

It was just as convenient as a carry-on space.

He had always been envious of it, but because he was not a formal wizard, he was not able to learn it.

Moreover, that portable carriage was indeed luxurious. As soon as it appeared, it was dazzling and eye-catching, with a golden pumpkin shape, golden carriage, and outer surface decorated with various silver ornaments, much like a royal carriage.

Ivita nodded at the Hearthstone Witch, saying, "That’s great. I need them."

"By the way, how many rule-based transformation spells can one wizard learn?"

The Hearthstone Witch thought for a moment and said, "You can only learn one. Every time you learn a new full-body transformation spell, it will overwrite the one you previously learned. This type of transforming one’s whole body may not seem powerful, but the principles it involves are incredibly complex."

"It even violates the laws of physics."

"So a wizard’s body can only learn one. It’s not that you can’t learn other transformation spells, it’s just that your body and soul can only adapt to one."

"Also, at the second level wizard stage, your transformation spell does not transform magical creatures, so you can only choose a species from common creatures for transformation."

Ivita was browsing these three magic books, making his selection in his mind.

He decided to learn the full-body transformation spell that turned him into a hawk.

Because the ability to fly is quite powerful in reality.

Flight ability can simulate unlimited jumping ability, dodging ability, professions that can’t fly are quite common.

Leo God is a divine blood warrior, so he has the ability to float in the air, but that is not flight ability.

In itself, flight is a strong superpower.

Upon becoming a hawk, you can get this ability in advance.

Compared to that, the ability to become a tiger or a black bear is also good, but it doesn’t really increase practical combat ability.

Ivita looked through the Portable Carriage magic book and the Full-body Transformation·Hawk magic book and found that the former required a large amount of rare magic materials, which he almost couldn’t find out at sea. He could only figure out a way after arriving at Cross Island.

The same as the key magic and lock magic.

But for the Full-body Transformation·Hawk magic, from beginning to end, only two materials were needed—a certain kind of hawk’s feathers and a certain kind of hawk’s blood.

Thus, Ivita decides to learn the Full-body Transformation·Hawk magic first.

He looked up at the deep blue sky. Various birds were flying in the sky, including many hawks.

He had to decide what kind of hawk he wanted to transform into.

"There are red falcon, Amur falcon, swallow falcon, grey-back falcon, red-footed falcon in the sky..."

"Hawks, giant hawks..."

"Bald eagles..."

"I need to choose a hawk species that has the best flying ability, and even some combat ability."

"Which is better to choose..."

Ivita fell into deep thought.

Just at that moment, Ivita heard Captain Sam calling him loudly. Ivita looked up to see two ships in the distance.

One was a single-masted small sailing ship and the other was a double-masted medium-sized ship.

That double-masted medium-sized pirate ship was chasing the single-masted smuggling ship, wanting to rob it.

Ivita observed the two ships with Spirit Vision; they only had a few apprentice-level professionals onboard, and not in large numbers.

He immediately broke into a joyous grin, delivering an order to Captain Sam. "Immediately turn around and pursue the two ships."

"Rob both!"

"Throw all the common pirates and smugglers on an uninhabited island, take control of the remaining professionals! Our goal is to rob people!"

On the deck, the warriors, hunters, even the regular sailors and cooks, all cheered excitedly.

Ivita thought for a moment, then told the Hearthstone Witch, "Help me watch out during the raid. See if there are any young people among the ones we rob, those with magic talent. I need to find an apprentice."

The Hearthstone Witch nodded and said, "If a formal wizard wants to progress, they not only need their own efforts but also need students."

"If you want to advance to a great wizard, you need to train at least one formal wizard and three apprentice wizards from scratch. This is the most basic requirement. The higher the professional level of the students you trained, the easier your promotion will be."

Ivita took out the Opportunity Compass from his pocket, it still had five chances left. "I was just thinking about finding a wizard apprentice with excellent talent, preferably younger, to foster his temperament and build a rapport. Then the compass pointed at those two ships."

"It seems there must be the students I need on those two ships."