393 Unfortunate Mages (2/2)

”That's unnecessary…” Roland was about to say that he wasn't short of money.

But seeing how solemn Hawk was, Roland stopped convincing him and said, ”Vincent has been helping with the management of the docks. You can talk to him. He's on the third floor.”

”Okay.” Hawk stood up.

Link immediately stood up too.

Roland continued analyzing his spells. He had already finished Enlivening.

During his research, Roland found that the success of this spell was highly dependent on luck. It was up to the age of the tree, its luck, and Roland's own luck whether or not the tree could be enlivened to be a treant.

Roland had actually hit the jackpot when he successfully enlivened them three times in his first three attempts. He never made it again in the following half-year, as if the three previous successes had drained his luck.

However, just because the trees weren't enlivened didn't mean that his casting failed.

Having been a Mage for a long time, Roland was well aware of the difference between a successful spellcasting and the achievement of his purpose.

For example, one could successfully cast a fireball but fail to blow up the enemy. It didn't mean that the spellcasting was unsuccessful; it was just that his purpose was not achieved.

Roland reached out to Solisa on the forum and delivered the new spell model to her.

Very soon, Solisa sent the rest of the payment. Then she sent a picture of herself with an old treant at least four meters tall with gray leaves behind her. The treant was holding a long dry branch that had a silver lantern at the end of it.

She succeeded after one try? Also, it seemed to be a Tree of Wisdom. She was really lucky!

Elven Summoner was indeed a remarkable class.

Roland couldn't help but look at his ”Hybrid” specialization. Reading the description of ”Elven Summoner” on the list, he knew that he could transform into that class without the sap of the world tree.

Also, the Summoner was one of the three officially-approved OP classes.

It must have a lot of powerful features.

But the problem was that Roland's Class growth was only five points, which was too low. Had he known this class earlier, he would've added his stats points to Intelligence and Charm, in which case he could cast powerful spells and evoke hundreds of summoned creatures around him. Who could possibly kill him?

But he didn't know that earlier.

Roland considered a moment and felt that he should pick a hidden class.

A pure Mage was indeed powerful, but relatively unremarkable. If he intended to improve his mobility, Arcane Windrunner would be an excellent class. Also, as a hidden class, Roland didn't think that it would be any worse than Elven Summoner.

Then, he pinged Betta in the guild system and asked, ”I'm told that you're close to the elves. Can you reach out to Ans again? There's something I need to talk to him about.”