Chapter 680 - There Are Competitions Everywhere (2/2)

Seeing the suspicion in the guy’s eyes, Roland said with a smile, “We’ll meet in the woods on the east side tomorrow. That place is empty. I’ll show you the spell and give you an inventory of the magic materials I need.”

“All right.”

Field was greatly reassured. It would be fine if he could check the spell first. As long as it wasn’t too inferior to the food-making spell, he would be happy to buy it.

Then, the two of them separated.

Roland went to the cafeteria and had lunch.

He had to admit that the Transmutation Magic Tower had great cooks. The cakes and dishes were all delicious.

After Roland was full and was about to take the tableware away, a young Mage suddenly came to him.

He stood in front of Roland proudly, but he still slightly bowed when he said, “Hello, Mr. Roland. I’m Joby Robert.”

“Hello.” Holding the tableware, Roland asked, “Is there anything I can help you with?”

“I’m told that Field Julian met you in private.” The young Mage stared Roland in the eyes aggressively. “May I ask what you talked about?”

Roland was briefly stunned. “That’s very rude of you.”

“I know,” said Robert with a smile. “But my father is the Great Elder of the Transmutation Magic Tower. I can help you if you want to learn a spell or find a model. I only want to know what Julian wants.”

“That’s none of your business.” Roland shook his head and walked away, unwilling to talk to him anymore.

But Robert caught up with him and walked next to Roland. He said in a low voice, “Mr. Roland, I’m not your enemy. I just want to know more about Julian.” “Is he your enemy?” Roland chuckled. “Then go pester him. Why are you after me?”

He found the young man quite interesting. You don’t want to be my enemy? There’s an obvious hint of hostility. If I don’t listen to you, a threat will probably come next.

Robert heaved a sigh. “Mr. Roland, I’m very serious and sincere. So… can you tell me about it? All the files in the Transmutation Magic Tower will be accessible to you. However, if you’re unwilling to…”

“No, I can’t.” Roland interrupted him and stopped. He stared at the man and said, “So, whether you want to threaten me or frame me, hurry it up.”

Robert seemed rather angry, but he didn’t offer any threat. He simply held back his fury and tried to say peacefully, “Mr. Roland, you don’t have to meddle in our conflict, which is meaningless to you and won’t bring you any benefit.”

Roland smiled the moment he heard that. “I don’t want to meddle in your conflict, but he and I have a private deal. After it’s done, we’ll be total strangers, and I don’t care whatever happens between the two of you.” “But the private deal between you and him might get you involved in our conflict.”

Roland shrugged. “That’s not my concern. I’m here to study magic, not to deal with the likes of you, do you understand? Don’t piss me off. If you find me too cocky, you can ask other people how the Spatial Magic Tower disappeared.”

Robert instantly felt silent.

He did find Roland cocky, even cockier than himself, who was the Great Elder’s son.

But he was aware of the disappearance of the Spatial Magic Tower. By the sound of that, did Roland play a big part in it?

The students of the Transmutation Magic Tower weren’t interested in world news. They were more devoted to magic studies.

However, the leadership should be well aware of the matter.

He didn’t know Roland’s background yet, so he decided to ask his father first.

“It seems that you’re really good.” Robert heaved a sigh. “However, I sincerely advise you to keep a distance from Field, unless you’re stronger than a Legendary Mage or more powerful than the Robert family.” After that, Robert walked away.

Roland shook his head.

A lot of people nearby overheard their conversation.

Many of them had intended to talk to Roland after he finished lunch, but after seeing this scene and hearing the conversation, they temporarily dropped the thought.

After all, Robert was the Great Elder’s son, and Roland… appeared to be nothing more than a talented genius so far.

Until the situation became clear, they might as well wait and keep their distance.

Roland wasn’t bothered by that. Quite the contrary, he was very happy.

As a Mage, he was never fond of frequent social activities, which were a huge waste of time.

Afterward, he went to the library and borrowed a few books on substance transformation to read.

They were all written by the big shots of the transmutation school who had already died. A lot of the knowledge was very useful.

The correct name of Substance Transformation was Mineral Transformation, because it could only transform minerals.

Roland studied the transformable minerals and found that they were all metals.

Bronze, iron, silver, and gold were the mostly common metals among them.

However, nobody attempted to make money with this spell.

Although gold was very valuable, transforming bronze and iron into gold wouldn’t be profitable, because for some reason, transforming other metals into gold required a huge amount of magic power and was very inefficient. It was often the case that tens of thousands of pieces of bronze or iron could only be turned into one piece of gold. The loss was quite heavy.

The ability seemed useless at first glance, but at critical moments when one needed to make weapons with bronze and iron but couldn’t find any materials, transforming one piece of gold into thousands of pieces of bronze and iron would solve the urgent problem.

But it would still be a huge loss, and could only be used as expedience.

So, it was better to transform bronze and iron into each other, and gold and silver into each other.

One of the books mentioned that its author once transformed bronze into mercury one-third its weight as well as some other weird minerals, whose elements and usages he didn’t know.

However, such transformations were highly random and could hardly be replicated.

The book speculated that it might be because the author always changed the input of magic power randomly, and he had terrible control over magic power. So, the resulting minerals were different every time.

Also, the efficiency of transformation was very low. It was often the case that ten pieces of materials could only result in one piece of another material.

Roland was quite astounded when he read these books.

Substance Transformation essentially dismembered substances into elementary particles and then reassembled them into new substances!

Although it could only be used to transform metals at this moment, Roland had no doubt that he could transform other substances too as soon as he found the structural mechanism of the spell. If he could find the patterns in the spell… Roland smiled. It would be a practical spell even if he couldn’t make food with it.

After all, many special metals were very useful, especially in making weapons and armor.