Wizards: Starting with Synthetic Gems

Chapter 425 Knowledge of Monocyclic Crystallization

Locke nodded. Indeed, for the great wizard Sura, restricting his access to knowledge of the crystallization stage was undoubtedly advantageous.

Moreover, the other party doesn't need to do anything extra; they just need to remain silent.

I only have level two access to the White Dragon Library, which means I can't access such core secrets.

The witch Sophia said, "To advance to the first-ring crystallization stage, you need to master a very important little trick: the compression of the permanent defensive force field."

Locke nodded. "Teacher, I've learned this technique. I learned it from the dark wizard during our battle."

Sophia nodded. “Very good, then let’s continue to study this technique in more depth. As you know, the first way a wizard breaks through the limits of their race is by engraving a permanent defensive field on the surface of their soul. As the wizard’s magical pressure increases, the strength of the permanent defensive field also increases, resulting in an increase in the wizard’s soul limit.”

"However, in this process, the parameters in this formula are not simply proportional. As your magic pressure increases, the increase you can get in your soul's upper limit will gradually decrease."

Sophia the Witch said, "Therefore, once a wizard's mental strength reaches 6000, it becomes increasingly difficult to improve. Thus, the compression of the Permanent Defense Field was not invented for combat, but to better increase the upper limit of the soul."

"Faced with the reality that the upper limit of the defense is increasing more and more slowly, the wizards came up with their first solution: to compress their own permanent defense field. In this way, they added external force to their permanent defense field and used this [compression force] to increase the upper limit of the permanent defense field."

"You can understand it as follows: before compression, the increase in magical pressure led to an increase in the upper limit of your soul. After compressing the permanent defensive field and maintaining it in a normal state, the increase in magical pressure and the increase in [compression force] together constitute an increase in the upper limit."

The witch Sophia described the importance of compressing a permanent defensive field in simple and easy-to-understand language. "Therefore, you need to practice maintaining and continuously compressing your own permanent defensive field. Here is information on the relevant techniques."

A beam of magical light shot from Sophia's brow toward Locke's brow, instantly revealing various training techniques to him.

First, you manipulate your own permanent defensive force field every day, maintaining it in different sizes and shapes, and practice repeatedly, increasing both the switching time and the maintenance time, gradually making the practice time longer and longer, until finally you are practicing 24 hours a day.

In this way, one can maintain a constant state of mental energy compression.

Sophia the Witch said, "This is a little trick for advancing to the Crystallization Wizard level: the constant compression of a permanent defensive force field. Although this is the mainstream method in the current wizarding society, it is actually something I figured out myself."

"At that time, Lilith's Hut wouldn't open the relevant database to me, trying to force me to stay in the Southeast Corner Region. So I had to figure it out on my own, which was like reinventing the wheel."

Locke wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Teacher, you're not just repeating the same mistakes; you're actually imitating ancient wizards and going through the same steps of establishing a ranking system and promotion methods for wizards.

He figured out something that took generations of ancient sorcerers to figure out, and he did it all in less than three years by himself.

Locke looked at the information that Sophia had given him. One part was about the Starfield Sea, and the other part was about the methods that Sophia herself had come up with.

The difference between the two is not significant.

This suggests that the Sofia witch unintentionally created a state-of-the-art theory of advancement.

Both involve compressing a permanent defensive force field, but the specific training methods should still have different levels.

Many good wizarding colleges have monopolized this part of the high-quality materials.

Locke also sighed, realizing that his progress had indeed slowed down considerably after his mental strength reached 6040. Now, it took him two or three nights to gain even a small increase in mana, and the rate of increase was decreasing.

At first, he thought this was just a normal phenomenon. After all, he had seen other wizards doing the same thing at this stage, and his advancement speed was still many times that of those ordinary wizards.

After all, the Force of the natural Force plane is constantly flowing back in.

He had thought that it was just that advancing to the level of a liquefaction wizard was so difficult, requiring a huge amount of energy.

Little did I know I was completely wrong.

It's not that I don't have enough energy, but rather that the growth rate of my soul's upper limit has slowed down. So it's no longer a problem of insufficient energy input, but rather that the mechanism for increasing the soul's upper limit has malfunctioned due to increased magical pressure.

This means that even if a natural plane favors you, it doesn't really matter.

The soul limit restricts its rapid improvement. Of course, before reaching 10,000 magic pressure, it is far from encountering the despairing soul limit of the race that prevents it from increasing its magic pressure even slightly.

That would require a second breakthrough of the racial limit.

According to the information, once a wizard breaks through the racial limit for the second time, their life level will officially reach an unprecedented level.

At that time, second-circle wizards could even survive briefly in the void using only their physical body and soul, without needing the protection of the world's power and principles.

The witch Sophia nodded and said, "You know the methods, right? Your mentors in the Southeast Corner Region are unlikely to teach you on their own initiative, not because they don't get along with you, but because they have no other choice. This knowledge is something that is blocked and prohibited from being traded by the major wizarding academies in the lower-level wizarding lands."

"It's just that in the Starfield Sea, this information can only be obtained through commercial transactions. Therefore, some merchants will even take the initiative to introduce this knowledge to you and recommend that you buy their compression method."

"Similarly, your fellow disciples in the southeastern region, due to the restrictions of their contracts, cannot proactively suggest the compression method to you. Although Grand Wizard Sura can make his own decisions, he did not remind you of the reason for the existence of the compression method."

The witch Sophia said, "This creates a knowledge barrier. Even if you are surrounded by wizards who already know about this compression technique, and even if you have access to resources that allow you to obtain this information, you cannot trade for it because you are unaware of its existence and it has been deliberately blocked."

"Therefore, for a wizard, knowing that something exists is enough to gain power from it."

Locke nodded in deep agreement. "Professor Sophia, I have learned a lot."

Sophia the Witch said, "Whether you have free time or not, you can go to academic conferences and lectures by senior wizard mentors. Even if you only learn the terms at these conferences and lectures, it means you can break through the knowledge barrier formed by this information monopoly."

Sophia the witch instructed.

Locke nodded, thinking that all the direct descendants of the Plutarch family who were in the liquefaction stage knew about the compression method, except for himself.

And Alicia, who was the only one in the Plutarch family to know about the existence of the compression method, was likely to tell him, as she had only recently become a wizard in the vaporization stage.

Therefore, she is naturally not at the point where she needs to learn about compression methods.

Sophia the Witch said, "Also, regarding your topic selection for the Cloud Ze Cup, I do have a few suggestions. Because I was responsible for teaching breeding science to the students in the Star Domain Sea, I learned a lot about the basic breeding science content of the Star Domain Sea. I learned and taught at the same time. When I encountered something I didn't understand, I would learn it myself first, and then simplify it before teaching it to the students, even those wizards who had just become first-ring wizards and joined the research group."

(End of this chapter)