Compared to others, Charlie's thinking is a bit more, and his talent in the wizard aspect has always been his weakness. He has no elemental affinity, no magic furnace, and no awakened special bloodline, which has led to his slow comprehension of advanced spell models.
Fortunately, by mastering the improved version of Starry Meditation, he has not fallen too far behind in terms of magic power accumulation, but he still cannot make up for this disadvantage.
Like Qingtong, as a crystal badge apprentice, she doesn't need to learn magic runes, doesn't need to supplement other magical knowledge, and doesn't need the analysis ability of the chip. She only needs to maintain focus and can comprehend advanced frost spells through intuitive understanding. This seems to be an innate ability, just like the innate ability of beasts. Elemental affinity is such a magical feature. As long as you learn spells that match the attribute, you will have twice the effect with half the effort.
Once Qingtong masters some of the casting techniques invented by Charlie, she will surely unleash a surprising strength.
Another example is Charlie's opponent, Peter. He was chosen by High Mage Felinando because he has the physique of a "Child of the Holy Light". Even with half the rest time, his learning progress in light magic is far ahead of other apprentices.
This is talent!
Talent is such a frustrating thing.
Expanding the scope to the Arcane Circle, this place gathers countless brilliant and decisive talents. To surpass them and maintain the top spot in the scoring, Charlie often has to put in many times the effort.
Holding 5,153 points, Charlie came to the scoring market. He gave orders to his teammates, but in fact, he needs to consume more points himself.
Ghost mushrooms are good stuff. After discovering a small amount of ghost mushrooms in the Sogotanlu swamps, he tried their effects and found that they can increase shadow resistance and shadow affinity. In the past, due to lack of points, he sold them, but now? He needs to buy them back again.
Huh! The price is a bit low! Strange?!
After browsing through several ghost mushroom listings, Charlie found that some ghost mushrooms that look good in quality are actually priced lower than the school's purchase price.
After doing a filter and comparing carefully, Charlie found the reason. These mushrooms are the spoils brought back by second-year apprentices. It seems that Twilight Town is a major producer of ghost mushrooms.
People seem to have not discovered the improvement effect of ghost mushrooms on physique. Charlie guesses there are two possible reasons: First, ghost mushrooms are a necessary material for "Shadow Oil", which is already quite expensive, so no one uses them directly for consumption; Second, the improvement effect of ghost mushrooms on physique is subtle and imperceptible. Only the chip can detect it. Eating one or two pieces doesn't show obvious improvement.
Charlie collected all the low-priced ghost mushrooms in the market, about eight clusters, spending a total of 530 points. Of course, the more the better, but the acquisition process cannot be too hasty, otherwise the price will rise again. There are semi-professional merchants in the scoring market who are very sensitive to market fluctuations.
Then, as he browsed further, Charlie found another good thing - the "Colorful Potion", a potion specially prepared for magic apprentices. It can comprehensively improve the elemental affinity of magic apprentices, equivalent to a weak version of "Elemental Affinity". Everyone deserves to use it. The materials are not particularly precious, but the entire refining process is quite complicated. Not only is the procedure long, but it involves more than 130 kinds of herbs, so the production cost is very high. It is often impossible to refine due to a lack of certain herbs.
The seller is the alchemist Linke from the academy, who is using an online auction method. The starting price is 1,000 points, and the buy-it-now price is 3,000 points. The listing time is 12 hours. When the time expires, whoever bids the highest will get it. Of course, if you don't want to wait, you can also buy it at the buy-it-now price.
The starting price is not high, but the buy-it-now price has already exceeded the original value of the potion. Of course, this is a special period, and as long as someone thinks it's worth it, they can buy it. It has been listed for nearly an hour, and the price has soared by 1,730 points after dozens of bids, approaching its own value.
Looking at the long list of bids, Charlie made up his mind and bought it at the buy-it-now price. In an instant, the points stored in his badge were reduced to only 1,523 points.
Soon, the Colorful Potion was removed from the scoring list. Seeing it disappear from the list, countless students let out angry roars in different places, with Weining being the most intense. A gem in his hand was smashed, and when he checked the transaction record, he saw Charlie's name. This was the second time, and he had snatched it from him again!
"It's you again, Charlie! You lowly mudblood!!"
So annoying! Just seeing this name is annoying!! Seeing the 200-point charging gem that was smashed because of this name, his heart is even more annoyed!!!
Weining is not short of points, but he had his eyes on two things, in addition to the Colorful Potion, there was also an anti-magic cloak made of the thick skin of a "Devil Shark", which can reduce various spell damage. This cloak is worth 2,500 points. If he bought the Colorful Potion at the buy-it-now price, he would miss out on this cloak.
Weining also only has around 5,000 points. To scrape together enough points, he has already sold a lot of resources, some of which were precious items from his mother. In fact, the points he exchanged through the scoring system in the past few months are far more than 5,000, but he is different from Charlie.
Prince Weining has royal blood, and he must maintain the dignity of the royal family. Some daily expenses are unavoidable, and he cannot save. For example, he keeps a group of high-level palace guards, who are strictly forbidden to participate in missions. In fact, they don't even need to be responsible for the academy's security, but he still brought them because it is related to the dignity of the royal family; For example, the gatherings with some noble scions, this is a way for the upper class to build connections, a small gathering every three days and a big one every five days, and there will be points spent whenever there is a gathering; Again, there are some indescribable relationships with a few delicate canaries, which can soothe the mind and improve learning efficiency.
Money is needed everywhere, points are needed everywhere, and the expenses are very large. His monthly royal member subsidy is almost all spent there, so although he has exchanged a lot of points, he has not accumulated much, and even less has been used for his studies. Basically, he only uses them when there is an urgent need, but every time he wants to use them, he finds that he doesn't have many usable points left, and he is always suppressed by Charlie.
Next, Charlie also purchased some potions, spending nearly 4,500 points, and kept 600 points on hand.
Consumption can always bring a sense of pleasure, especially large-scale consumption.
A moment later, the scoring system's server brought all the items Charlie had purchased and packed them up.
"Mr. Charlie, these are all the items you purchased. You can take the Enchantment Box back first, and return it next time."
The Colorful Potion is preserved in a special Enchantment Box, while the ghost mushrooms are not so well-treated, packed in a wooden box, and the rest of the potions are neatly stacked in a potion box.
"Okay." Charlie can actually store them all in his ring, but he doesn't want to expose this priceless spatial equipment.
After returning to his residence, Charlie prepared to use the most expensive thing he had bought so far. The last time his biggest investment, the blood essence of the Nine-Tailed Lizard, was "tricked away" by Anthony, wasted in vain, and now it is lying at the bottom of the ring space, and he doesn't know when he can use it.
This time, a similar mistake cannot be made again.
Charlie opened the Enchantment Box, and a strange magical wave was emitted. Inside the box, soft spice bags wrapped a bottle of colorful potion, which is more like a bottle of starlight collected from a five-colored nebula than a potion, beautiful enough to not want to destroy its existence.
Charlie gently removed the bottle cap and poured it into his mouth.
Boom!
A group of dazzling fireworks suddenly surged in his consciousness, leading him into a wonderful ethereal realm, while the strange taste in his mouth pulled him back to reality. It is a taste that is difficult to describe, like a delicious fresh soup that has been left for half a year, the taste has become extremely layered through the effect of time, not exactly delicious, but not particularly undrinkable either.
The two different feelings kept pulling Charlie's brain, virtual and real, the colorful halo slowly dissipated in his consciousness, and Charlie felt that his magic power pool seemed to be coated with a faint rainbow glow. He vaguely felt that the ability of the magic power pool to naturally absorb the floating particles in the air has become stronger.
"Display my personal attributes." Charlie commanded in his mind.
"Host Charlie, the Posen Forest coefficients are as follows:
Strength 4.7 Agility 2.5 Spirituality 423 Physique 2.9 Constitution 3.3 Perception 20 Personal magic pool 560.3 Fire affinity 4 Fire resistance 6 Shadow affinity 6 Shadow resistance 11 Nature affinity 8 Nature resistance 20 Water element affinity 7 Water element resistance 23 Holy Light affinity 3 Holy Light resistance 5 Earth affinity 3 Earth resistance 5 ..."
The changes most evident in the long list are the personal magic pool data and the elemental affinity attributes. The Colorful Potion brought changes that, on the basis of the original, added +3 to most elemental affinities and +5 to elemental resistances. It involves aspects of fire, water, nature, earth, thunder, holy light, shadow, and arcane.
"The drug effect is still ongoing, and the stable data can be seen a day later," the chip prompted.
"What effects can these changes bring?"
"Affinity will be reflected in the spell effect, slightly enhancing the spell power, and you will also have a weak improvement in the control of various elements. The specific values need to be collected from more combat data; Resistance is reflected in the ability to resist spell damage, which also needs to be tested in actual combat."
Although Charlie can't yet feel the specific effects, just from the data, the Colorful Potion is worthy of its value, bringing a eye-catching change to Charlie's data.
The consumption of 3,500 points is worth it.
Then Charlie started to process the ghost mushrooms. The chip analysis shows that if they are consumed together with another herb, the effect will be better. Charlie looks forward to seeing what changes will occur in his shadow and water attributes after eating these mushrooms.