The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 17 What is a Wizard?
After Richard refined the basic meditation method, he almost fainted on the spot, but relying on his willpower, he still forced himself to meditate using the basic meditation method.

After his mental strength recovered, Richard began to practice elementary meditation.

Compared with the basic meditation method, the primary meditation method has seven more spiritual runes. Although this change allows Richard to stay in the Sea of ​​Souls longer, it also more than doubles the difficulty of meditation.

Richard failed many times, but finally, with the help of luck, he completed the construction of ten spirit runes.

The elementary meditation method allows Richard to stay in the sea of ​​soul for four hours, which is twice as long as the basic meditation method.

But don't underestimate this time, the longer the soul stays in the sea of ​​souls, the more benefits it will get. Although it is only two hours longer, the increase in mental strength is greater than six hours of meditation using the basic meditation method.

Meditation cannot be performed multiple times in a short period of time, otherwise the soul will be lost in the sea of ​​souls and unable to return.

So after meditating, Richard chose to go to the library again.

The library of the academy is open day and night, and even at night you can still see many apprentices going to the library.

Richard has a lot to learn, and what he has plenty of is time.

The entrance examination came to an end quickly. In just ten days, more than half of the nearly 10,000 apprentices who came to take the examination died, and the rest all entered the academy.

During this time, Richard relied on the free books in the library to learn about the composition of the wizarding world and various etiquette. His mental strength also successfully increased from 15 to 15.1 under the effect of the primary meditation method.

With the entrance exams over, the free classes at the college are also open.

Each student has four free classes every month. After the four free classes, the remaining classes require magic stones to attend.

The academy will issue one magic stone every month in the first three years of enrollment, but if you want more magic stones, you need to complete campus tasks issued by the academy or trade with apprentices.

New apprentices have a three-year freshman period, during which the academy will not force them to take on tasks. After the three-year freshman period, the academy will examine the apprentices. If they want to stay in the academy, they must complete the engraving of at least one spell mark and have a mental strength of 20 points, which means they become a low-level apprentice.

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Boom—boom—boom!

The heavy sound of the bell echoed in the college, indicating that it was already eight o'clock in the morning.

Even though he came to another world, Richard could not escape Zaoba's fate.

The class was Introduction to Alchemy, Richard's first class.

At this moment, he was sitting in a tiered classroom on the third floor of the Central Black Tower. Ellie was sitting next to him, and the entire classroom was full.

"Richard, why hasn't the teacher come yet?"

Ellie looked at Richard's profile, her mind full of thoughts.

It had been six days since she entered the academy, but Richard was still lukewarm towards her. All he did all day was read in the library and meditate. The only time he went to the restaurant was when she took the initiative to invite him.

Is she so unattractive?
"Maybe he was delayed by something."

Richard replied absentmindedly as he flipped through the introduction to magic he had borrowed from the library.

He didn't care about what Ellie was thinking, as he was immersed in the ocean of knowledge.

He was fascinated by the descriptions of wizard spells in this introduction to spells. Elemental spells, soul spells, necromancy spells, and even curse spells, each of which had its own characteristics and uses. This book also mentioned a concept called combat system.

A powerful wizard must have his own combat system. They rely on their most core spells, supplemented by smaller spells to deal with various situations, to build their own combat strategies, so that they can face any enemy calmly during plane wars and wizard fights.

If he wants to build a combat system, he must...

Thumb, thump, thump, thump...

A sound of footsteps approached from outside the classroom, and the classroom, which was originally a little noisy, suddenly became quiet.

boom.

The door of the classroom was pushed open, and a long-haired lady in a wizard robe and black leather boots walked into the classroom. This lady was tall and slender, with a charming curve, and a pair of narrow eyes on her stunning face, which made her look mysterious.

A mysterious black cat. This was Richard's first impression of her.

Walking up to the podium, she quickly wrote a line of big words on the blackboard.

What is a wizard?

"Hello everyone, I'm Anna Dosi. I'm a student of the Alchemy School wizard Jorod. This class was supposed to be taught by my mentor, but because a very important alchemy experiment he's conducting is at a critical stage, I'm teaching this class instead."

Anna's voice was calm, but it carried an irresistible aura.

"So, can you tell me what a wizard is?"

Anna held a pointer in her hand and scanned the entire classroom. She was clearly standing lower than the students, but everyone who saw her felt that she was looking down on them.

"You tell me." Anna pointed at an apprentice with her pointer.

"Well... I think a wizard is someone who can use magic." The apprentice who was called up was obviously unprepared, and his answer was very perfunctory.

"Very good, this is indeed a characteristic of a wizard. Any other opinions?"

Anna waved her pointer and asked him to sit down, then pointed to another one.

"I think a wizard is someone who uses magic to change the world."

Anna nodded. "That's good, but it's still just an appearance."

Anna then pointed at a few more apprentices, but their answers were obviously satisfactory to Anna.

Finally, Anna's pointer was directed at Richard.

"Apprentice, what do you think a wizard is?"

Richard looked into Anna's eyes. This woman, who had been full of aura since the beginning of the class, was now staring at him. Her gaze was so sharp that it was almost like she was going to make a hole in Richard. Before this, all the apprentices avoided her gaze, but Richard was going to face it head-on.

Richard took a deep breath, looked at Anna and slowly said:

"I think wizards are a group of lunatics who pursue knowledge. Spells and magic are essentially just byproducts of the pursuit of knowledge."

After Richard finished speaking, the classroom fell silent, and all the apprentices in the classroom were looking at him.

His answer was a little too outrageous. Magic and spells were the hallmarks of wizards and the abilities they relied on for survival. How could they be by-products?
"very good."

Anna motioned for Richard to sit down, and then wrote down what Richard said on the blackboard.

"Wizards are a group of lunatics who pursue knowledge. This sentence is the key to whether you can become a wizard. My mentor told me this, and I tell you the same thing now."

Anna's words shocked all the apprentices in the classroom. Wasn't the purpose of their entering the wizard academy to become wizards?

But how should we understand this sentence?
All apprentices have their own understanding in their hearts.

Richard looked at Anna on the podium. What he said was not original, but came from the ruler of the wizarding world, the Speaker of the Parliament of Truth.

When Richard first read this sentence, he felt that the Speaker was a bit Versailles.

I just want to pursue knowledge. Magic and spells are just things I made up by the way. They are not worth mentioning.

But after hearing what Anna said today, Richard had a new understanding of this sentence.

"A lunatic who pursues knowledge. It is enough to pursue knowledge and become a scholar. Why should one become a lunatic?"

Richard looked at the blackboard, raised his hand and wrote a sentence on his notes.

“Perhaps it is not that fanatics pursue knowledge, but that one must become a fanatic to pursue knowledge.”

(End of this chapter)