Full-Time Wizard: Starting with Harvesting Wheat

Body-refining wizards enhance their physique through various hardcore methods, with poison-based body refinement being one of them. When necessary, they might even consider entering an alchemy furnace and enduring the agonizing torture of being burned by fierce flames for forty-nine days. The physical limits they ultimately achieve are incomparable to those of bloodline wizards. However, when it comes to the variety of methods used for enhancement, bloodline wizards are far more diverse.

Before Anderson invented the simple bloodline fusion magic array, in the non-supernatural realm, bloodline wizards could improve their physique only slightly faster than body-refining wizards.

Because they also need to go through a tedious process to remove redundant components from the blood, especially those that might cause side effects, which must be carefully screened out. This alone takes a lot of time.

Afterwards, it's best to first take a sample of your own tissue to check for rejection reactions with the blood. If there's no obvious reaction, you should also test the compatibility of the fusion. Insufficient compatibility will only have negative effects on the body and will not offer any benefits.

In order to acquire specific bloodline abilities, some wizards will use various tracking methods to mark the bloodline factors corresponding to those abilities, and then look for ways to increase their quantity.

For example, Soraya previously granted Histor the ability to mimic the fluid muscles of an octopus, which was a result of increased bloodline factors.

Finally, through the learned witchcraft, one can precisely and without side effects fuse with bloodlines, gaining bloodline abilities while simultaneously improving physical constitution.

This meticulous, layered approach meant that, in the non-transcendent stage, the bloodline wizard's physical improvement progress could only barely surpass that of the body-refining wizard.

After all, even if a body-refining wizard uses poison to temper their body, all they need to do is confirm that the dosage of the poison is within their own tolerance threshold, and then drink it down to endure the painful period. There are no such detailed and tedious preliminary steps.

However, the emergence of the simplified bloodline fusion magic array has widened this gap.

Slightly more advanced wizard apprentices generally do not use this magic circle because it completely eliminates the blood purification process, which may produce various side effects, the most common being physical mutation when using bloodline abilities.

Those who are "luckier" are like Roy, who directly inherited the habits of the Lottery lion.

However, just because wizard apprentices don't use it doesn't mean ordinary people don't.

—You can use this magic array to quickly improve your physique until you meet the standards for becoming a knight.

Soraya made the suggestion.

However, the number of bloodlines merged should be as small as possible, otherwise it is easy to cause rejection reactions, and it will be very troublesome to deal with the side effects when you become an apprentice later.

The optimal solution is to find a bloodline that can maximize your physical condition, ideally achieving the desired result in one fusion.

"One fusion is enough to achieve the expected results?" Roy clicked his tongue in amazement.

Currently, he needs 3.7 points of Strength and 4 points of Constitution to reach the limit of a Servant. As we all know, attributes become more difficult to improve as you progress.

He fused with 2.1% concentration of Lotl Lion blood, but only gained 0.4 strength and 0.7 constitution!

The strength of the Lothl Lion is renowned throughout Blackwater Territory!

Soraya crossed her legs again, and said with a half-smile:

—Since I said that nine months would be enough for you to become a full-fledged knight, I was not joking.

A clump of gelatinous substance was suspended in her palm.

—This is an Ottom, a type of chimera developed by wizards of the Life faction.

Roy stared intently at the lump of gel, which was pale blue, soft, and seemed ready to sag at any moment.

He was surprised, not because Soraya had produced a chimera.

Instead, this creature looks exactly like a slime from Earth's fantasy culture!

It's just a name change!

"This thing...it must be expensive, right?"

Roy probed.

Soraya calmly pointed to a number with her fingers.

"Three? Three hundred magic stones?" Seeing Soraya shake her head slightly, Roy's face darkened.

Surely not, it's just a slime...

He tried to see the thing's true form with his Eye of True Sight, but apart from the name "Ottom" that Soraya had just given, he could not see any information at all!

Damn it, his mental attribute actually increased by 0.2 after the poison body tempering.

If the previous estimate is correct, it means that this chimera's life level is higher than his.

Maybe it's mixed with the flesh and blood of some extraordinary creature that made it into a gel-like substance?

"Three...three thousand magic stones?"

Soraya shook her head again.

Roy's eyes widened.

"Thirty thousand? Isn't that a bit outrageous?"

—The Three Magic Stones.

A calm emotion flowed through my mind.

Three...three!?

Wait, is it three?!

what's going on?

Roy scratched his head in frustration.

—This is a mass-produced synthetic beast, and you would never guess what its main purpose is.

As she spoke, Soraya connected Karazhan to the channel as well.

The future path for Karazhan is that of a bloodline wizard, and we need to get in touch with this kind of thing early on.

—Why don't you two take a guess?

Given Soraya's personality, there was naturally no reward for guessing correctly, but Karazhan was still very enthusiastic.

"This ball looks soft and squishy, ​​could it be used for massage?" That thought popped into his head instantly.

Roy's idea went a little deeper than a superficial massage of the skin.

"Cough, cough." He coughed lightly twice, his ears turning red, and noticed that Soraya shook her head again.

It seems it's not meant to be used.

They made several guesses, and finally, Roy, looking at the lump of Otom that resembled a ball of jelly, couldn't help but say:

"Is it meant to be eaten?"

Soraya snapped her fingers.

—You guessed right.

Both bloodline wizards and flesh wizards need to raise extraordinary creatures in order to extract the necessary components from their bodies at any time. Ottom is a special feed for extraordinary creatures made by wizards of the life faction.

Feed... feed...

These two words kept echoing in Roy's mind.

The life level of feed is higher than his...

Are you kidding me?!

"High-grade feed?" He tried to raise his own value.

—Hmm? It's just regular animal feed. Why are you concerned about that?

Soraya struck him down without mercy.

The key point isn't here, but why it was chosen as animal feed. First, supernatural beings that eat it experience extreme satiety, not needing to eat for several days. Of course, this is just the most basic function.

Secondly, it can accelerate the cell division of supernatural beings, allowing wizards to access their materials at shorter intervals.

Third, it is mild in nature and nutritionally balanced, so organisms that eat it will not get sick due to food-related reasons.

At last……

As Soraya spoke, she suddenly took a bite of the soft ball in her hand, swirled it in her mouth, and then swallowed it.

—It comes in many flavors, but I like the sweet one the most.

"This...this is like eating pig feed!?" Karazhan suddenly shouted.

In his view, if the extraordinary creatures tamed by wizards are pigs, then Ottom is nothing more than pig feed!

How could a dignified wizard apprentice eat pig feed!

Want one? I don't accept your magic stones.

Soraya clearly treated Ottom as a snack and didn't show the resistance Karazhan expected.

—Don't worry about it being food for extraordinary beings. After all, wizards are a kind of extraordinary being, aren't they?