Wizard: I can refine all things.

Chapter 17 What is a Wizard?

After Richard refined the basic meditation method, he almost fainted on the spot, but with willpower, he still managed to meditate using the basic meditation method.

After his mental strength recovered, Richard began practicing basic meditation.

The beginner meditation method has seven more spiritual runes than the basic meditation method. While this change allows Richard to stay in the Sea of ​​Souls for a longer time, 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 beginner meditation method allowed Richard to remain in the sea of ​​the soul for four hours, twice as long as the basic meditation method.

But don't underestimate this doubling; the longer the soul stays in the Sea of ​​Souls, the greater the benefits. Although it's only an extra two hours, the increase in mental strength surpasses that of six hours of basic meditation.

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

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

The college library is open day and night, and even at night, many students can still be seen going to the library.

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

The entrance exams quickly came to an end. In just ten days, more than half of the nearly ten thousand apprentices who came to take the exams died, while the rest all entered the academy.

During this time, Richard learned about the basics of the wizarding world and its various rituals through free books from the library. His mental strength also increased from 15 to 15.1 under the influence of basic meditation.

With the entrance exams over, the college's free courses became available.

Each student receives four free lessons per month. After completing the four free lessons, the remaining lessons require Magic Stones to attend.

The academy will distribute one magic stone per month for the first three years of enrollment, but if you want more magic stones, you need to complete the campus tasks issued by the academy or trade with other students.

Newly enrolled apprentices have a three-year introductory period during which the academy does not assign them mandatory tasks. After the three-year introductory period, the academy will assess the apprentices. If they want to stay in the academy, they must complete the inscription of at least one spell mark and reach a mental strength of 20 points, thus becoming a low-level apprentice.

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Thump—thump—thump!

The deep tolling of the bell echoed throughout the academy, signaling that it was eight o'clock in the morning.

Even after arriving in another world, Richard couldn't escape the fate of being born at 8 a.m.

This lesson is an introduction to alchemy, and it's Richard's first lesson.

He was sitting in a lecture hall on the third floor of the central black tower, with Ellie sitting next to him. The entire classroom was packed.

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

Ellie stared at Richard's profile, her mind racing with thoughts.

Six days had passed since Richard entered the academy, and he remained indifferent to her. He spent his days either reading in the library or meditating. The only time he went to the cafeteria was when she took the initiative to invite him.

Is she really that unattractive?

"Maybe something got in the way."

Richard, glancing absentmindedly through the spellbook he'd borrowed from the library, replied.

He didn't care about Ellie's feelings; he was currently immersed in the ocean of knowledge.

The descriptions of wizarding spells in this book on spells captivated him. Elemental spells, soul spells, necromancy, and even curse spells—each had its own characteristics and uses. The book also introduced a concept called the combat system.

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

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

Thump, thump, thump, thump...

A series of footsteps approached from outside the classroom, and the previously noisy classroom instantly fell silent.

boom.

The classroom door was pushed open, and a long-haired, mature woman in a wizard's robe and black leather boots walked in. She was tall and curvaceous, with a captivatingly beautiful, cold face, and a pair of narrow eyes that added to her mysterious aura.

A mysterious black cat.

This was Richard's first impression of her.

She stepped onto the podium and quickly wrote a line of large characters on the blackboard.

What is a wizard?

"Greetings, everyone. I am Anna Dorsey, a student of the alchemist wizard Jorrod. This lesson was originally supposed to be taught by my mentor, but since a very important alchemical experiment he is conducting is at a crucial stage, I will be teaching the lesson instead."

Anna spoke in a calm voice, yet with an undeniable air of authority.

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

Anna, holding a pointer, scanned the entire classroom. Although she stood lower than the students, everyone who saw her felt as if she were looking down on them.

"You tell me," Anna said, pointing her pointer at an apprentice.

"Um... I think a wizard is someone who can use magic." The apprentice, who was called upon, was clearly unprepared, and his answer was rather perfunctory.

"Very well, this is indeed a characteristic of wizards. Any other insights?"

Anna waved her pointer to make him sit down, and then pointed to another student.

"I believe wizards are people who use magic to change the world."

Anna nodded. "That's good, but it's still just a facade."

Anna then pointed to several more apprentices, but their answers clearly satisfied her.

Finally, Anna's pointer was pointed at Richard.

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

Richard looked into Anna's eyes. This woman, who had exuded an aura of authority since the start of class, was now staring at him with a gaze so sharp it seemed to pierce through him. Before this, all the apprentices had avoided her gaze, but Richard was determined to meet it head-on.

Richard took a deep breath, looked at Anna, and slowly began to speak:

"I think wizards are a bunch of knowledge-obsessed fanatics. Spells and magic are essentially just byproducts of that pursuit."

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

His answer was a bit too far-fetched. Magic and spells are the hallmarks of wizards, the abilities they rely on for a living. How could these be byproducts?

"very good."

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

"Wizards are a group of knowledge-obsessed fanatics; this is the key to whether you can become wizards. My mentor told me this, and I tell you the same thing now."

Anna's words sent a jolt through all the apprentices in the classroom. Wasn't their purpose in entering the wizarding academy to become wizards?

But how should this sentence be understood?

Each apprentice has their own understanding.

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 Council of Truth.

At first glance, Richard thought the speaker was a bit like Versailles.

I just wanted to pursue knowledge. Magic and spells were just things I created incidentally. They're not worth mentioning.

But after hearing Anna say this today, Richard has a new understanding of this statement.

"Why become a fanatic when you're obsessed with knowledge? It's enough to pursue knowledge and become a scholar."

Li looked at the blackboard, raised his hand, and wrote a sentence in his notebook.

"Perhaps it's not that madmen pursue knowledge, but that one must become a madman to pursue knowledge."

(End of this chapter)