Wizard: I can refine all things.

Chapter 100 Advancement to Wizard

The place where one is promoted to wizard is a sealed room with no windows or doors; one can only enter through teleportation.

The room wasn't big, maybe only 20 square meters, and it looked like it was made of wood, as if it had been carved directly from the trunk of the World Tree.

The walls and floors of the room are covered with numerous patterns, which converge to form a complex graphic that can make one feel dizzy at first glance. Combined with scattered runes among the patterns, the entire room resembles a three-dimensional magic circle.

In the center of the room was a crystal ball, and Richard obtained a message after using his mental powers to probe it.

That's how you use this house.

"Spin the crystal ball clockwise once, then meditate." Richard glanced at the crystal ball. "Is becoming a wizard that simple?"

After saying that, Richard spun the crystal ball once, following the instructions in the message.

Then a faint magical fluctuation entered Richard's senses.

The patterns in the room began to light up under the infusion of magic, and a surging life force filled the entire room. In addition, a strange fragrance seeped from the walls, which brought a sense of tranquility.

"Incense?" Richard muttered to himself.

At the same time, Richard had a very mysterious feeling.

He felt as if he had returned to infancy, back in his mother's arms, safe and comfortable.

Without hesitation, Richard immediately began meditating.

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

But unlike his usual meditative state, Richard did not enter the sea of ​​souls this time; instead, he arrived in a void.

In this space, the only light came from a dimly glowing sphere in the distance.

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

"Is this what the original state of the Wizarding World looks like?"

Richard instinctively drew closer to the origins of the wizarding world, like a baby drawing closer to its mother.

The very essence of the wizarding world seemed to have sensed the child, and a ray of warm light shone from it, slowly entering his forehead.

In that instant, Richard felt a gentle energy enter the depths of his soul, unlocking an invisible shackle.

After the shackles were broken, the energy left a mark deep within Richard's soul.

That was a mark left by the wizarding world, representing Richard's recognition by the wizarding world.

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

When Richard came to his senses, he found himself in a completely dark space.

At the same time, drops of a resinous, viscous liquid began to seep from the walls of Richard's room. These drops flowed along the patterns of the magic circle, eventually gathering on Richard's body and enveloping him like a piece of amber.

In the ancient past, the two greatest difficulties for wizard apprentices when advancing in their cultivation were: first, the darkness of the soul when advancing in spiritual power; and second, how to avoid dying from physical exhaustion during the advancement process.

The time required for a wizard apprentice to transform into a wizard is very long, often measured in years. During this process, the wizard apprentice remains in a vegetative state.

At this point, wizard apprentices need a plan that can both protect themselves and provide their bodies with nutrition.

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

The World Tree is rich in life-energy resin, which is blended with various ingredients to ensure that wizard apprentices can wake up alive and kicking even after sleeping for a hundred years.

……

In the darkness, Richard gradually understood what Jorod meant by perseverance.

In this pitch-black space, with no reference points and no senses, Richard could not determine how long he had been there by any means.

Moreover, Richard had no tools to pass the time.

This is nothing short of torture.

In this space, bored Richard begins to recall his memories, from his past life to this one, from his experiences in his previous life to his travels and observations in this one.

These memories became Richard's only support in not going insane.

He cannot sleep, because in this space Richard does not experience fatigue; his mind is always clear, and he has no need for sleep.

If he insists on going to sleep, then he will face his end.

Once, twice, three times...

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

Moreover, as time went on, Richard was even able to recite the changes in every single frame of the film.

Boredom, then rage, madness, and finally, everything returns to calm.

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

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

The darkness of the soul has ended.

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 had even forgotten how to speak.

After a long while, Richard finally awakened his instincts, and he muttered to himself:

"Is it over?"

He could feel his body constantly changing within the Sea of ​​Souls. To use a somewhat inappropriate analogy, during his apprenticeship, Richard's body in the Sea of ​​Souls was like a plankton. Now, Richard had finally evolved from a plankton into a shrimp.

The moment his soul completed its transformation, Richard felt his body sink instantly, as if he had fallen into water, and the scenery before him changed completely.

He felt as if he had arrived in a deep sea, with countless points of light floating in the air around him, and he himself was one of those points of light.

He looked up, and the starry sky was still the same starry sky, but it seemed to have become somewhat distant from him.

"So all this time I was just on the surface of the Sea of ​​Souls? Now I've truly entered the Sea of ​​Souls," Richard exclaimed in sudden realization.

Upon entering the Sea of ​​Souls for the first time, Richard felt an overwhelming sense of wonder about his surroundings.

The seawater of the Sea of ​​Souls constantly nourished Richard's soul, and he could feel that his mental strength would increase with each minute his soul spent in the sea.

This speed far exceeds the speed of his meditation during his apprenticeship.

Richard tried to move his body, but he was now a speck of light, without hands or legs, making it impossible for him to swim like a human. So he tried using his mental energy as the power source for his movement, propelling himself forward by jetting water like an octopus.

In the sea of ​​souls, Richard's application of spiritual power became increasingly imaginative.

Richard continuously compressed his mental energy until it reached a limit.

Richard spotted his target—the closest point of light—and suddenly unleashed his mental energy.

The next moment, Richard was instantly closer to the target light spot.

"It's a success!" Richard exclaimed excitedly.

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

"Maggie...it seems these spots of light are marks left by wizards in the Sea of ​​Souls," Richard guessed.

To verify this hypothesis, Richard touched several more spots of light in succession.

The contents of the light spots were not exactly the same, but they were all symbols or similar things, which matched Richard's conjecture.

Richard continued his dive and soon he saw a different view.

There are creatures in the Sea of ​​Souls!

He saw a creature swimming in the sea of ​​souls.

This creature resembled a constantly twisting ray of light, swimming like a water snake in the sea of ​​souls.

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

His current state is strange. It seems that because of his promotion, he can't stop meditating even if he wants to, and can only wait for the meditation to end on its own.

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

As if it had spotted food, the serpent of light swiftly swam to the scattered points of light and absorbed the fragments of light into its own body.

"Does it feed on the eroded marks?"

The marks left by wizards in the Sea of ​​Souls generally do not dissipate. If they do dissipate, it means that the wizard's life has come to an end.

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

This secretly relieved Richard.

That makes sense. This area is full of marks left by wizards in the Sea of ​​Souls. If there were any terrifying creatures hunting souls, the Great Wizard or even the Wizard of Truth would have dealt with them long ago.

However, he didn't let his guard down. Using the light spots as cover, he quickly left the area.

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

Richard surmised that the size of these points of light represented the amount of spiritual energy, with larger ones indicating more and smaller ones less; while the color represented the age of the soul, with brighter ones indicating younger ones and dimmer ones indicating older ones.

Even the soul has an age.

According to the wizard's research, a creature's soul can exist for a maximum of ten thousand years without becoming a level four being.

Once more than ten thousand years have passed, 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 incredibly simple; cloning spells can easily replicate a wizard's most authentic physical form.

But once the soul is broken, no one can restore it.

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

His entire body involuntarily flew towards the surface of the Sea of ​​Souls.

"Is it time yet?" Richard guessed.

Advanced meditation techniques can only sustain meditation for eight hours. If we start counting from when he entered the Sea of ​​Souls, the time is probably up by now.

But when Richard arrived at the surface of the Sea of ​​Souls, he suddenly discovered that the once silent Sea of ​​Souls had been disturbed by a ripple.

A beam of white light flew out from the depths of the sea of ​​souls. As it flew, the light broke apart, becoming smaller and weaker.

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

Richard had many guesses in his 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, along with a white light.

"Caw caw caw... I, Ulysses, Lord of the Ravens, have escaped! You scum of the abyss, you'll never catch me... Holy crap, what is that?!"

(End of this chapter)