Wizard: I can refine all things.

Chapter 62 Adaptation

After accepting the body, Richard began his training.

The next morning at eight o'clock, Richard arrived at the training room with the Adaptation Potion to begin training. According to the Adaptation Body's records, newcomers should prioritize training elemental resistances during training.

The training room has three types of equipment related to the elements: fire, lightning, and ice.

After injecting the adaptation potion into his body, Richard stripped naked, took a deep breath, and stepped into a glass chamber.

When training elemental resistance, the order of training is also important. With the current equipment in the training room, if you want to achieve the best results, you must follow the order of ice, lightning, and fire.

As the equipment was activated, the temperature inside the glass chamber dropped rapidly, and frost flowers instantly spread across the originally transparent glass.

The first step of the training was to be naked for thirty minutes at minus thirty degrees Celsius.

Inside the cryogenic chamber, Richard's teeth chattered incessantly, and his body trembled uncontrollably.

Being naked at minus thirty degrees Celsius would have been enough time to start a feast in his previous life. However, because Richard's physical condition had reached thirty degrees, which was beyond the range of normal humans, after being in this temperature for thirty minutes, he only suffered bruises on his hands and feet and many frostbite all over his body.

Then came the electric shock.

Richard, his body trembling, sat in the electric chair, then adjusted the current amplitude to a certain level and set a one-minute timer.

As the switch was turned on, an indescribable pain instantly swept through Richard's body. His entire body convulsed, and his hair began to smoke.

One minute later, Richard sat motionless in the electric chair, stunned.

At this moment, he was contemplating whether or not he should acquire this power.

Finally, he stood up and went to a glass enclosure.

This is the final training session: fire resistance training.

Richard then activated the switch, and a flame of one energy level instantly filled the cabin, along with a strange, burnt smell.

One minute later, Richard struggled to open the hatch. He was charred black all over, and carbonized skin fell off with the slightest movement.

Fortunately, Richard had placed the recovery pod next to the fire element training pod before training, and he plopped down inside after only a few steps.

At this moment, Richard's body, stimulated by the potion, began to absorb nutrients from the outside world. From a microscopic perspective, every cell in Richard's body was active, and the life core inside the cells began to undergo extremely subtle changes under this stimulation.

This is the essence of the Adaptor: altering the core of life through extreme environments and magical potions.

According to Jolaude's theory, life is a very tenacious thing; from the pitch-black deep sea to the hot crater of a volcano, life is everywhere.

Under extreme conditions, life forms will involuntarily adapt to their environment. If we compare the adapted life forms with the unadapted life forms, we will find that their core life processes have undergone some changes.

According to this theory, Jorrod accelerated the process of life adapting to the environment by thousands of times by using potions and extreme environmental stimuli, thereby creating the alchemical magic of Adaptation.

An hour later, Richard climbed out of the recovery pod, by which time his injuries had been fully healed.

Richard moved his body and put his clothes on.

"Phew, it felt like I'd been through hell."

After training his Adaptive Body, Richard went to the library to borrow various books on the School of Shaping and selected several cryptic notes that he could extract.

Richard returned to his room with his books and began to study diligently.

After completing his training in Adaptation Mode, Richard suddenly found that studying wasn't so boring after all.

With slight modifications to the runes, the Evocation spell can achieve a significant boost, which is far superior to training an Adaptive Body.

He might even be a hidden genius in the field of sculpting.

Richard, who had been reading all night and was feeling dizzy from all the theories and formulas of the plasticity school, closed the book.

The knowledge of the sculptural school has a mathematical beauty.

If you don't know, you don't know.

I glanced at the clock; it was eight o'clock in the evening. The wizarding academy's nightlife was just beginning.

After leaving the central black tower, Richard planned to have a drink at a pub in the residential area.

Entertainment at the wizarding academy is extremely limited, consisting only of the four classic vices: eating, drinking, gambling, and whoring.

Of these four things, Richard has no interest in gambling, and as for whoring, his relationship with Ellie is already at an impasse, so there's no need for him to seek out other women.

Apart from these two, all that's left is food and drink.

Coincidentally, Richard's path was based on physical constitution, and eating and drinking helped improve his physical condition, so he could combine spiritual practice with entertainment.

As Richard walked down the street, he suddenly noticed that the apprentices around him all had young faces, and their eyes looked at him with either wariness or longing.

Judging by the days, it's time for the new batch of apprentices to enroll.

"Wow, that's fast!" Richard exclaimed.

He used to be just like that. Now, looking back, he's become the one being watched.

There are many taverns in the residential area, and most of these taverns are run by senior apprentices who serve the academy.

Richard found a familiar tavern and went inside. As soon as he entered, he saw two familiar figures drinking together.

"Another one!" Kevin shouted, putting down the wooden barrel-shaped glass in his hand. Across from him, Chuck also smashed his glass in a similarly hearty manner.

"Another one, strong!"

Richard moved closer to the two of them, watching the scene with great interest.

"Kevin, senior brother, why are you two drinking so much?"

When Chuck saw Richard arrive, he grabbed him and shoved a barrel-sized wine glass into his hand, slurring his words:

"Junior brother, you have a good friend. He drank heartily!"

Kevin stumbled and grabbed Richard's shoulder.

"Hey Richard, congratulations! You're number one in points!"

With that, Kevin took the glass from the bartender, raised it to Richard, and shouted loudly into the pub:

"Friends, do you see this guy? This is our legendary apprentice, number one on the leaderboard, Richard!"

Let's raise a glass to him!

The tavern apprentices, hearing Kevin's shout, all turned to look at him.

These people were all survivors of the exam, and they looked at Richard with either longing or envy.

Without a doubt, they all wanted to be like Richard.

They raised their glasses and bottles at Richard, who also took the spirits the bartender offered and raised them to the crowd.

"Respect for life!"

Everyone said in unison:

"Respect for life!!!"

……

Time flies like an arrow, and a year has passed in the blink of an eye.

Early in the morning, Richard entered the training room as usual to train his adaptation body.

For the past year, Richard has persisted in training his body every day, but with very little success.

He even consulted Joe Lord about whether there was something wrong with his training, but the answer he received was that it was a normal phenomenon.

The slowest adaptation period is in the early stages. If we compare the life core to a rusty machine, then the machine must have the most difficulty when it first starts to move.

Richard entered the cryogenic chamber as usual, took a deep breath, and prepared to silently endure the pain of frostbite.

He had been training like this for a year, and he had long since gotten used to the pain.

But things seem a little different today.

As the cryogenic chamber was activated, the temperature inside plummeted, and Richard also felt some changes in his body.

He seemed to hear a crack, as if some constraint had been broken.

The rusting machine seems to have started moving!

(End of this chapter)