Ponder the Orb [A Wizarding LitRPG]

What if pipe-smoking wizards were really master cultivators?

When Mark is ripped from Earth and dropped into a realm of wizard towers and magic, he gets taken in by a ragtag group of hermits who spend their days smoking halflings’ leaf, arguing about spell progressions, and… pondering glowing orbs.

They call themselves the Blue Wizards.

The White Tower calls them a disgrace.

But as Mark starts training with them, he realizes something unsettling:

Their strange “orb pondering” might actually be a lost path to real power.

Now he’s learning to cultivate mana, unlock spells, and survive a system that clearly has plans for him, whether he likes it or not.

Unfortunately, those plans involve overflowing rifts, undead hordes, and a rapidly escalating necromancer problem that’s beginning to threaten the entire Earthly Realm.

It’s a good thing all that pondering gave him firepower in spades.

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WHAT TO EXPECT:

–  Weak-to-strong wizard MC

– A Tower of slightly unhinged wizard mentors

– Xianxia inspired mana cultivation

– Smoking halflings’ leaf, fishing, casting [Fireball] with bro, and pondering that orb!

TL;DR: Lord of the Rings meets Cultivation in a LitRPG World.