Walking into the familiar laboratory and closing the heavy door, Athir looked around casually and then sat on the bed beside him.
"According to my instructions, martial law has been put in place in the manor, and a special magic array has been set up outside the laboratory for protection. Anyone who wants to enter will be discovered by me immediately."
Sitting on the huge wooden bed, Athir felt calm: "I have already taken all the necessary defensive measures. The rest depends on me."
Thinking of this, he picked up a box on the wooden table and opened it directly.
In the wooden box is a bottle of emerald green medicine.
The emerald green potion was very clear, and the liquid inside seemed to have life, pulsating slightly constantly, looking quite extraordinary.
This is the juice of the ancient thorn tree. It can play a very good auxiliary role in the process of being promoted to a formal wizard. It is extremely precious to the third-class apprentice.
The bottle in Atier's hand was a gift from a teacher in the academy.
"Chip, how is the improvement progress of the distortion barrier?"
Sitting at the head of the bed, Athir asked the chip in his mind.
After obtaining the appearance of this first-level spell from Edith, Athir ordered the chip to analyze and simulate the spell in order to make the effect of the spell as good as possible.
After all, for a wizard, the spells solidified in the sea of spirituality are too important. If possible, of course they must be optimized as much as possible.
"Improvements have been completed..." In an instant, the mechanical sound of the chip sounded again.
"Compared with the original version, the improved version has increased stability by 17.1% and power by 67%…"
The chip prompts kept ringing in Athir's mind.
"Let's get started!"
Feeling the large amount of information emerging in his mind, Athir took a deep breath and determination appeared in his eyes.
"I have made all the necessary preparations. What follows depends on my luck..."
This thought flashed through Athir's mind as he drank the juice of the ancient thorn tree in his hand. Then he closed his eyes and entered a deep state of meditation.
After drinking the juice of the ancient thorn tree, a feeling as if being burned on fire emerged in Athir's body, along with a feeling of weakness as if his vitality was drained.
"The subject's physical activity begins to decrease... The mental limit begins to increase..."
In his mind, the mechanical sound of the chip rang again, but this time Athir was temporarily unable to pay attention to it.
A feeling of confusion emerged in the body, and then a dim spiritual sea appeared in Athir's consciousness, illuminated by an inexplicable force.
A large amount of mental power was like surging sea water, constantly churning there, like a tsunami, raging in the spiritual sea.
Under the effect of the sap of the ancient thorn tree, Athir felt that his mental strength was more abundant than ever before, as if it was inexhaustible. The spells that he had found difficult to use in the past could now be cast without any pressure.
This feeling of being free from restraints was somewhat fascinating, but at the same time it made Athir wary.
When he was in Uraldo College, relying on Edith's relationship, Athir had consulted a lot of valuable information in the college library, including the various problems that one would face when being promoted to a formal wizard.
In his current situation, it seems that his mental power is growing wildly on the surface, but in fact it is obtained by burning the vitality of the body. Once he reaches a certain critical point and fails to complete the promotion, this promotion will fail completely. It is hard to say whether there will be any sequelae at that time, but the vitality that has been burned is really lost.
Even if Athir's life span is long enough, he can still survive even if his promotion fails, but it will still affect his future promotions, making the possibility of being promoted to a formal wizard less likely.
Various thoughts flashed through his mind. Sensing the spiritual sea that was illuminated at this moment, Athir endured the pain of his vitality being burned and tried to construct a spell template of a twisted barrier in the spiritual sea.
This is also the most difficult stage for a third-level apprentice who is trying to be promoted to a formal wizard.
Even the most basic spell templates were difficult enough to stump countless people. It would take at least several months for an ordinary apprentice to learn and master them. This was especially true for the first-level spell templates, which were hundreds or thousands of times more complex than the basic templates.
If the template for constructing a basic spell is to visualize an ant in your mind, then the template for meditating a first-level spell is to visualize a human being in your mind. Every blood vessel, every hair, and every detail of the body structure must be correct, otherwise the spell will fail. You can imagine how complicated it is.
To construct a first-level spell template directly in the sea of spirituality when one has never constructed a first-level spell template is a huge challenge for any apprentice, not to mention that one must ensure success in one go, and the psychological pressure is even greater.
This is especially true for people like Athir who use improved spell templates.
Although the improved spells are powerful, their complexity will inevitably be higher. To a certain extent, it will only make solidifying spells more difficult.
However, compared with others, Athir also has great advantages.
A wizard is a high-powered computer. The stronger the mental power, the stronger the calculation ability. In this regard, Athir's mental power also far exceeds the level of an ordinary third-class apprentice when he is promoted.
In addition, with the existence of the chip, although Athir had never constructed this spell in his mind, he had tried it many times through the simulation function of the chip.
Taking all these conditions into consideration, even though the difficulty of the improved distortion barrier has greatly increased, Athir still has confidence in himself.
In my mind, the dim spiritual sea gradually lit up.
In the spiritual power that is surging like the tide, a little light is gradually appearing.
The light was extremely weak at first, and seemed to be extinguished at any time. But then it became brighter and brighter, and its size also grew larger and larger, gradually rising in the vast spiritual sea, illuminating the entire spiritual sea like a sun.
If you observe carefully in the sea of spirituality, you can find that inside this ball of light is a pure crystal with complex runes on it, which together form a complete structure.
And this entire crystal is the solidified spell template. It is now standing quietly above the sea of spirituality, releasing a faint light.
The light was very bright and clear, but it had no real heat. It merely emerged in the sea of consciousness and could only be observed by Athir.
"Success!!"
When the crystals in the spiritual sea successfully rose and condensed, Athir felt delighted as he felt the changes coming from the spiritual sea.
In the vast spiritual sea, with the successful solidification of the spell template, the entire spiritual sea seemed to have undergone some unknown changes, causing the originally boiling sea water to begin to calm down.
The changes in the spiritual sea will also extend to the body, causing the third-class apprentice's body to slowly transform and complete the changes in the life level.
However, having reached this point, things are not over yet.
After the spell template is solidified, it is still very fragile. If an accident occurs at this time, the crystal produced after the spell template is solidified may collapse at any time.
Therefore, at this stage, Athir must maintain the spell crystals in his spiritual sea as much as possible. Before that, not only can he not use spells, but he must also concentrate as much as possible, otherwise the process may fail.
And the defensive measures that Athir had taken before were actually prepared for this moment.
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Time passes by little by little.
When the magic crystals in his sea of consciousness had stabilized, Athir opened his eyes again.
If you look closely at his eyes, you can see a faint light in them. If someone looks directly at them, they will immediately feel a strong stinging sensation.
This is a phenomenon caused by the inability to control the surge in mental power, and it is also a common symptom among newly promoted formal wizards.
"Finally...success!"
Sitting on the bedside, he quietly opened his eyes, feeling the sunlight coming through the window and the weak feeling coming from his body. Athir felt a little excited, and there was a little more joy in his eyes: "Officially a wizard!"
At this moment, he felt that his condition was very bad. Because of taking the thorn tree juice to impact the formal wizard, a large part of his vitality was burned. At the moment, his whole condition was extremely bad and he looked very weak.
However, despite this extreme feeling of weakness, he could still sense the strength in his body, which was several times stronger than before he was promoted.
"Name: Athir Fakus. Strength: 13.5 (15.7). Agility: 13.9 (16.1). Constitution: 14.1 (16.5). Spirit: 17.6."
Before his eyes, the familiar attribute panel appeared again, allowing Athir to have a full understanding of his body.
In addition to the one-time increase of 4 points in mental strength, the other physical attributes have also increased greatly, but they are still in a weak state for the time being.
As time goes by, during the period when he has just been promoted to an official wizard, Athir's physical attributes will continue to grow greatly, and will not stop until the end of this transformation period.
Theoretically, this transformation period is also the weakest time for a formal wizard. Not only can he not use too many spells, but his physical fitness has not yet reached the level of a formal wizard. Although his combat power is far stronger than that of a third-class apprentice, he is no match for other formal wizards.
Of course, this may not apply to Athir.
With his strong physical fitness, even if he had just been promoted, he could probably directly confront a formal wizard.
(End of this chapter)