"Ellie, what time is it now?"
"Eight o'clock. It will be time for breakfast in a little while."
It was eight o'clock now, and Richard had been meditating at around five o'clock. In other words, although Richard felt that he had only been in the sea of soul for a while, he had actually been meditating for three hours.
"It seems meditation distorts my sense of time."
As Richard was thinking about this, his stomach started to growl again.
"Richard, aren't you afraid?"
Ellie's voice came from the lower bunk, and from the sound of it, her emotions had stabilized.
"Afraid?"
Richard lay on the bed, curled up to relieve his hunger, and his mind was filled with the experiences of the past month.
He spent every day of this month in fear, with a thin body, limited food, and a bad temper. Every morning when Richard woke up, he hoped in his heart that it was a dream.
The current situation is many times better than it was a month ago.
"I've been through worse than this. It's nothing to be afraid of."
"…"
The room fell silent.
Before being chosen, Ellie was the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and the pressure of survival was like a cloud in the sky to her.
Can be seen, but almost untouchable.
It was hard for her to imagine what Richard had been through to remain so calm in the face of fighting.
He is so thin that he can be blown down by a gust of wind.
"So what are you going to do? We can't defeat those nobles."
Ellie thought of the knights she had seen before, those armored monsters who could cut through a phalanx of a hundred men on the battlefield with just a few knight squires.
Ellie couldn't imagine how she would cope if she met someone like that.
"Ellie, who do you think is stronger, the wizard apprentice or the knight?"
"Of course..."
Ellie subconsciously wanted to answer the wizard's apprentice. Even an apprentice wizard possessed magical powers, which a knight could not resist.
But before she could say anything, she thought of the book in her bag - "How to Become a Wizard's Apprentice".
She was so overwhelmed by fear that she forgot that the academy had already left them with a means of resistance.
"Richard you are a genius!"
Ellie threw off the quilt and jumped out of bed, running to the table with the wizard dictionary and "How to Become a Wizard's Apprentice".
Although she did not practice martial arts since childhood like those nobles, they were definitely no match for her in reading.
Richard ignored Allie's reaction. He just wanted to eat breakfast quickly.
After a while, there was a knock on the door of the room.
Richard immediately got out of bed when he heard the sound.
It's breakfast time!
After opening the door, Richard saw a puppet-like thing pushing a food cart with dozens of portioned breakfasts neatly placed on it.
"Room 225, breakfast for two."
A strange human voice came from the puppet's body, the sound was sharp and piercing.
Richard brought two plates into the room and handed last night's plate to the puppet.
The puppet took the tray and then wobbled over to the next room pushing the food cart.
"This is magic."
Richard looked at the puppet, a hint of heat flashing in his eyes.
In the room, Ellie was translating non-stop, holding a dictionary in one hand and a book in the other.
"Ellie, your breakfast."
"Here you go."
Ellie replied without even looking up. At this moment, she had already started to explore the ocean of knowledge and had no intention of eating at all.
Richard scratched his head and thought that being young was good, as one could be full of energy even without eating.
However, his current body doesn't seem to be much bigger than Ellie's.
…
Richard sat cross-legged on the bed with his eyes closed.
At this moment, his mental power is observing the world instead of his eyes.
Now is the seventh day since he connected to the Sea of Soul.
During these seven days, everything on the airship was stable.
Richard followed the instructions in the book and constructed his own magic return step by step. This process was not as fast as connecting to the Sea of Souls, but it was almost not difficult.
Also during these seven days, Ellie, who shared the same bed with Richard, was working day and night to translate "How to Become a Wizard's Apprentice", and her diligence even surprised Richard.
Sure enough, when faced with a life-and-death crisis, everyone will unleash their inner potential.
Linking to the Sea of Souls frees the wizard apprentice's mental power from his soul, allowing the wizard apprentice to use mental power to sense the magic power floating between the worlds.
In Richard's perception, the magic power floating between heaven and earth was like fireflies, flashing bright and faint light.
Richard's mental power turned into tentacles, and all the magical light spots were absorbed by them wherever they passed.
Then he retracted his tentacles, and all those magical light spots were absorbed into Richard's body.
If connecting to the Sea of Souls is the foundation of becoming a wizard apprentice, then building the return flow of magic is the wall and roof of the wizard apprentice.
When a wizard casts a spell, he needs to use his mental power to control magic power. However, using mental power to temporarily control the magic power between heaven and earth is not only time-consuming and laborious, but also has very low effects.
The reflux of magic power is to store the magic power in the wizard's body in advance and stabilize it with mental power, so that the wizard does not need to rely on the magic power between heaven and earth when necessary.
However, the magic power stored in the magic reflux is not infinite. The magic reflux of a wizard depends on the upper limit of his mental power. If the spell used requires magic power exceeding the upper limit of the magic reflux, the wizard can only return to the original state or find another way.
With the entry of the last magic light spot, the magic power that had been accumulated in Richard's body for a long time finally changed qualitatively and turned into a trickle that started from Richard's heart, passed through his internal organs, and finally returned to his heart to form a complete reflux.
"It's done."
Richard opened his eyes, his excitement evident.
The construction of the magic reflux meant that he could now quickly release the zero-ring spells recorded in the book.
The so-called zero-ring spells refer to low-level spells that can be used directly without establishing a spell mark in the soul.
In the eyes of some wizards, this kind of spell is not even considered magic, but just a skill in applying magic.
The editor of "How to Become a Wizard's Apprentice" thoughtfully prepared four zero-ring spells at the end of the book for apprentices who have completed the construction of magic reflux.
They are: magic missile, force field barrier, light body technique, and silencing technique.
These four zero-ring spells cover attack, defense, escape, and concealment, and can be said to be very comprehensive.
And Richard, now he is finally not a weak chicken who can't even lift a chicken!
Just as Richard was immersed in joy, Ellie, who had been working day and night to translate books, suddenly threw the dictionary.
"Tired of translating again?" Richard thought.
"Haha, Richard, come down and take a look. I've finished translating!"
Ellie stood up and stretched, with a crisp sound coming from her body.
After seven days of hard work, she finally finished translating the entire book "How to Become a Wizard's Apprentice". In the process, she also learned the wizarding language almost perfectly.
"Congratulations, congratulations. It looks like you have already passed the exam halfway."
Richard got out of bed and bowed in congratulations.
"whee."
Ellie walked over to Richard and patted him on the back vigorously.
After spending these days together, Ellie and Richard have become more familiar with each other. Richard knows that Ellie is the daughter of a wealthy businessman and has been spoiled since childhood. Ellie also knows that Richard is a farmer and has a dead alcoholic father.
The two have completely different attitudes towards the future.
Richard's calmness and yearning for the future made Ellie a little fascinated. Whenever Ellie wanted to give up, Richard could always dissuade her with a few words.
Now it's time for her to give back.
"Learn wizard language from me in the next two days, and you can become a wizard apprentice."
"Huh?" Richard was stunned, but then he felt warm in his heart.
"Don't worry, Wizarding language is easy to learn. Many of its words are very similar to our language. As long as you study hard, you should be able to understand this book 'How to Become a Wizard Apprentice' during this period of time..."
"Ellie." Richard interrupted her with a half-smile on his face.
"Have you ever thought that if I become a wizard apprentice, you will have one more opponent in the exam.
One more opponent means one more danger. Aren't you afraid that I will stab you in the back?"
Richard's voice was calm, but the meaning of his words made Ellie a little scared.
One more wizard apprentice means one more opponent. In this death test, any opponent is a deadly danger.
Is she really going to teach Richard?
"that..."
Ellie's voice gradually grew louder and her tone became firmer, as if she had found a loophole in Richard's words.
"Richard, you wouldn't do that. If you would, you could just keep it to yourself now."
Richard stroked his chin,
"Generally speaking, I won't stab someone in the back. But there is always a chance..."
"But even if there is one chance, there is still a 9,999-thousandth chance."
Allie suddenly hit Richard hard with her left hand.
"You are such a weird person. I'm clearly here to help you, but you're still trying to make excuses. If you keep saying that, I'll really not teach you."