Wizard: Start with Biological Transformation to Grind Experience novel Chapter 50

Chapter 50: 017: Newcomers’ Dinner

The brilliant light made Lynch squint slightly, and by the time his vision recovered, he was already standing in the banquet hall.

The ceiling towered high into the heavens, adorned with countless glittering stars. These stars were not stationary but rotated gently, emitting a soft and mysterious glow, as if the entirety of the universe’s secrets were condensed beneath this starry sky.

The walls were made of semi-transparent magic crystals, offering a view of the garden outside where exotic flowers and magical creatures danced gracefully under the moonlight, as if they, too, were singing in celebration of the feast.

A long dining table covered with a white tablecloth stretched ahead, laden with an array of exotic delicacies: gigantic crabs caught from the deep sea, each claw over half a meter long; thin slices of blazing stag meat; and the hallucinatory mushroom soup loved by all wizards...

Luxury delicacies that Lynch had only seen in books before were now available in abundance, tantalizingly tempting to the palate. For someone like Lynch, who had initially felt little enthusiasm for attending—

Lynch wasn’t particularly interested in banquets, finding them a waste of time and bothersome due to their complex social expectations.

But seeing all this food... well, it seemed not so bad after all.

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At that moment, a young girl approached, appearing around fifteen or sixteen years old, bearing a slight resemblance to Jessica, her face adorned with carefully applied makeup.

"Cousin Susan, I was just planning to look for you!" Jessica released Lynch’s arm and stepped forward, starting introductions for both sides.

"Everyone, this is my distant cousin Susan; she discovered her wizard talent a few years before I did."

"Susan, this is my companion Lynch, and over there is Kane."

Susan greeted Kane with a graceful smile, then fixed her gaze on Lynch, speaking with interest, "Lynch Valen, I don’t need Jessica to introduce you; everyone’s been talking about you."

Lynch replied, "It’s a pleasure to meet you."

"Hehe."

The girl covered her mouth and giggled for a while before extending a bold invitation, "You’re quite an intriguing gentleman. May I have the honor of dancing with you when the music starts later?"

Lynch hesitated, "But I don’t really know how to..."

Susan, however, didn’t leave him any room to decline: "Then it’s settled. And while we’re at it, I’d love to hear the legendary story of how you defeated the Black Wizard Apprentice."

"Well then, I’ll see you later."

With that, she pulled Jessica and went off in another direction.

What on earth...

Lynch felt as though the world had transformed overnight. Back at the Shadow Tower, he had been nothing but the invisible man—a mere dot in the shadows. An ignoble birth, average aptitude, and scant impression among his fellow apprentices.

Apprentices rarely invited him to gatherings, and his name was absent from their conversations. The only time he ever drew any chatter was as the unlucky fool whose experimental materials had been swapped upon entering the Tower, thus missing out on monumental opportunities, or the fortunate novice who pleased a wizard with Parker’s peculiar creation during a previous assessment.

But now, the moment he stepped into the banquet hall, he noticed multiple gazes trailing him. His knight training endowed him with keen hearing, allowing him to catch fragments of hushed discussions about him.

"Is this the hero who defeated the Black Wizard Apprentice? The bearer of the Warrior Feather?"

"His facial features are well-defined, and those gray eyes..."

"Why? Interested in him even at this age?"

"Why not? He’s the bearer of the Warrior Feather!"

"I heard he used to be a peasant."

A noblewoman like Susan would never have spared him so much as a glance before, let alone invited him to dance. Jessica had spoken less than ten sentences to him in the past three years at the Tower, but now she could casually link arms with him.

Countless subtle changes made Lynch realize the world indeed felt somewhat different.

"Where should we go next, Lynch?"

At that moment, Kane approached. He hailed from a shoemaker’s family in the Lorent Kingdom. Though his upbringing wasn’t as lowly as Lynch’s, he was still from the modest lower-middle class and appeared uneasy at this unfamiliar scene.

Lynch said, "I’m going to grab something to eat. Want to join me?"

"Ah, rushing to eat right after entering doesn’t seem great. If someone catches us looking uncivilized, we’ll be ridiculed." Kane hesitated.

Lynch said, "Well, I’m going then."

The world could change as it pleased; he hadn’t cared about others ignoring him before, and he wouldn’t start adhering to so-called ’refinement and elegance’ just because of newfound attention now.