The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 100: Advancement to Wizard
The place where wizards are promoted is a closed room with no windows or doors, and the only way to enter here is by teleportation.

The room is not big, only about 20 square meters, and it appears to be made of wood, as if it was dug directly out of the trunk of the World Tree.

There were many patterns drawn on the walls and floors of the room, which came together to form a complex pattern that made people dizzy at first glance. With the runes scattered between the patterns, the whole room looked like a three-dimensional magic circle.

There was a crystal ball in the center of the room, and Richard obtained a message after using mental exploration.

That's how this house is used.

"Spin the crystal ball clockwise and then meditate." Richard glanced at the crystal ball. "Is it that easy to become a wizard?"

After that, Richard spun the crystal ball around as instructed by the message.

Then a faint wave of magical power entered Richard's perception.

The patterns in the room began to light up under the input of magic power, and a surge of life breath filled the entire room. In addition, an inexplicable fragrance seeped out from the wall, which made people feel peaceful just by smelling it.

"Incense?" Richard muttered to himself.

At the same time, Richard had a mysterious feeling.

He felt like he was back in his infancy, back in his mother's arms, safe and comfortable.

Without hesitation, Richard began to meditate immediately.

In this peaceful and comfortable atmosphere, Richard quickly entered a meditative state.

But unlike the usual state of meditation, this time Richard did not enter the sea of ​​souls, but came to a void space.

In this space, the only light is a dim glowing sphere in the distance.

The moment he saw the sphere, Richard knew what it was.

"The origin of the wizarding world... is this what it looks like?"

Richard instinctively moved closer to the origin of the wizarding world, just like a baby moving closer to its mother.

The origin of the wizarding world seemed to have sensed his child, and a ray of warm light shot out from the origin and slowly shot into his forehead.

In an instant, Richard felt a gentle energy entering the depths of his soul and opening an invisible shackle.

After opening the shackles, the energy left a mark deep in Richard's soul.

That is a mark left by the wizarding world, which represents that Richard is recognized by the wizarding world.

After leaving the mark, Richard's consciousness suddenly became hazy. It felt like you were diving and then suddenly being pulled out of the water.

When Richard came back to his senses, he found himself in a space without a single ray of light.

At the same time, drops of resin-like viscous liquid began to seep out of the wall of the room where Richard was. These liquids flowed along the lines of the magic circle and finally gathered on Richard's body, wrapping him up like amber.

In the ancient past, there were two biggest difficulties for wizard apprentices to advance in their careers. One was the darkness of the soul when advancing their spiritual power, and the other was how to avoid dying of physical exhaustion during the advancement.

It takes a long time for a wizard apprentice to transform into a wizard, and the time unit is often years. During this process, the wizard apprentice will always be in a vegetative state.

At this time, the wizard apprentice needs a plan that can both protect himself and provide nutrition for the body.

And this amber is the solution prepared by the Tower of Truth.

The world tree is rich in life energy resin and is blended with a variety of raw materials to ensure that the wizard apprentice can be alive and well even if he sleeps for a hundred years and then wakes up.

……

In the darkness, Richard gradually understood what Joe Lord meant by persistence.

In this dark space, without any reference points or senses, Richard had no way of judging how long he had been there.

And Richard had no tools to pass the time.

This is simply torture.

In this space, the bored Richard began to recall his memories, from his past life to this life, from his experiences in the previous life to his travels in this life.

These memories became the only thing that kept Richard from going crazy.

He couldn't sleep because in this space, Richard had no concept of fatigue. His mind was always awake and he didn't need sleep at all.

If he forced himself to sleep, that would be the end for him.

Once, twice, three times...

The memory was blurry at first, then gradually became clearer, until it played out before Richard's eyes like a movie.

And as time went by, Richard could even memorize every frame of the movie.

Dullness, boredom, then rage, madness, and finally, everything returns to calm.

After Richard recalled it countless times, the darkness before his eyes suddenly broke.

The magnificent view of the Sea of ​​Souls came into Richard's sight.

The Darkness of the Soul is over.

The magnificent starry sky awakened Richard's numb heart. In an instant, Richard burst into tears. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

He even forgot how to speak.

After a long time, Richard finally awakened his instinct and murmured to himself:

"finished?"

He could feel that his body was constantly changing in the Soul Sea. To use an inappropriate analogy, when he was an apprentice, Richard's body in the Soul Sea was like a plankton. Now, Richard has finally evolved from a plankton into a shrimp. When his soul completed the transformation, Richard felt his body sink instantly, as if he had fallen into the water, and the scenery in front of him also changed.

He seemed to have come to a deep ocean, with countless spots of light floating in the air around him, and he himself was one of the spots of light.

He looked up, and the starry sky was still the same starry sky, but it seemed a little farther away from him.

"So I was just on the surface of the Sea of ​​Souls before? Now I have truly entered the Sea of ​​Souls." Richard said with sudden enlightenment.

Entering the Sea of ​​Souls for the first time, Richard felt that the surroundings were extremely new and strange.

The water of the Sea of ​​Souls constantly nourishes Richard's soul. He can feel that his mental strength will increase with every minute his soul is in the sea.

This speed was far beyond the speed of meditation he achieved during his apprenticeship.

Richard tried to move his body, but he was now a point of light, without arms or legs, so it was impossible for him to swim like a human. So he tried to use his mental power as the driving force for his movement, and propel his body forward by jetting water like a squid.

In the Sea of ​​Souls, Richard's use of mental power became more and more imaginative.

Richard's mental strength was constantly compressed and finally reached a limit.

Richard aimed at his target - a spot of light closest to him, and suddenly released his mental power.

The next moment, the distance between Richard and the target light spot was instantly shortened.

"Success!" Richard said excitedly.

As he came into contact with the light, he finally saw what it was - a wizard's name.

"Maggie...it seems that these light spots should be the marks left by the wizard in the Sea of ​​Souls." Richard guessed.

In order to verify this hypothesis, Richard touched several light spots in succession.

The contents of the light spots were not exactly the same, but they were all symbols or something like that, which was consistent with Richard's guess.

Richard continued to dive, and soon he saw a different view.

There are living creatures in the Sea of ​​Souls!

He saw a creature swimming in the sea of ​​souls
This creature looks like a constantly twisting light, swimming in the sea of ​​souls like a water snake.

"Is it hunting souls?" Richard hid behind a huge spot of light and observed the creature carefully.

His current state was very strange. It seemed that because of his promotion, he couldn't even stop meditation and could only wait for the meditation to end on its own.

Just as Richard was observing, a point of light suddenly dissipated.

The light snake seemed to have seen food. It swam quickly to the edge of the disintegrating light spots and merged the fragments of the light spots into its body.

"It feeds on the collapsed mark?"

The mark left by a wizard in the sea of ​​soul generally will not disintegrate. If it disintegrates, it means that the wizard's life has come to an end.

Richard observed for a while and found that the light snake had no interest in the mark at all, but was only interested in the disintegrating mark.

This made Richard secretly relieved.

Come to think of it, there are marks left by wizards in the Sea of ​​Souls around here. If there were any terrifying creatures hunting souls, the Great Wizard or even the Wizard of Truth would have taken action to deal with them long ago.

But he was not careless. Using the light spot as cover, he quickly left the area.

After diving in the Sea of ​​Souls for a while, Richard saw many spots of light of different sizes and colors.

Richard guessed that the size of these light spots represented the amount of spiritual power, big means more, small means less; and the color represents the age of the soul, the brighter the younger, the dimmer the older.

The soul also has an age.

According to the research of wizards, if a creature does not become a fourth-level creature, the soul of a creature can exist for a maximum of ten thousand years.

Once it exceeds ten thousand years, the structure of the soul will undergo irreversible collapse.

This is also the origin of the wizard's maximum lifespan.

For wizards, creating a physical body is extremely simple. The cloning spell can easily replicate the wizard's most authentic body.

But no one can recover from the collapse of the soul.

After swimming for a while, Richard suddenly felt a suction force.

The whole body involuntarily flew towards the surface of the Sea of ​​Souls.

"Is it time?" Richard guessed.

The advanced meditation method can only sustain eight hours of meditation. If counted from the time he entered the Sea of ​​Souls, the time is probably up by now.

But when Richard came to the surface of the Sea of ​​Souls, he suddenly discovered that a ripple was appearing in the extremely silent Sea of ​​Souls.

A beam of white light flew out from the depths of the sea of ​​soul. During the flight, the white light continued to break into pieces, becoming smaller and weaker.

"Are there creatures fighting in the Soul Sea? Or did the Lord of the World leave the means of resurrection in the Soul Sea?"

Many guesses flashed through Richard's mind, but before he could figure it out, he saw the white light flying towards him.

In an instant, his consciousness returned to his body, and with it came a white light.

“Gah gah gah… Ulysses, the Lord of Crows, has escaped! You bastards from the abyss, you’ll never catch me in your lifetime… Damn, what the hell!”

(End of this chapter)