Fanatics of the Magic Academy

After leaving the old homeless man, Rose felt inexplicably choked up.

I want to say something, do something, but I feel powerless in the face of the system's killing and mutation.

Rose sighed and decided to prioritize developing his character.

He's still too weak; in fact, he might easily lose focus.

If one falls out of the realm of materialism and their identity as a believer is discovered, they will be in grave danger.

Take care of yourself first.

Rose returned to her tent, first digesting the food she had eaten that morning and restoring her focus.

Then begin consuming large amounts of meat, followed by activating [Ancient Dragon Meditation] to digest the food into energy, nourishing the soul and body.

Whether it was a misperception or not, Rose felt the ancient dragon current flowing through his body growing stronger.

The food in his stomach was constantly being converted into ancient dragon electricity, and the flowing ancient dragon internal currents swirled continuously within his body.

Continuously repairing, nourishing, and optimizing Rose's young body.

Furthermore, while nourishing the body, it communicates with the soul through the body, slowly increasing the strength of the soul.

Soon after, Rose lost consciousness.

About six hours later, Rose slowly woke up.

He stretched his body and felt exceptionally energetic, his body brimming with power.

Open the panel to check: Focus +3, Strength +1.

It is clear that different nutritional compositions of food provide different bonuses to [Ancient Dragon Meditation].

The added value of meat is significantly higher than that of carbohydrates like bread.

Furthermore, the [Gu Long Meditation] has two modes, and he can switch between them at will whenever he wants.

The first type of meditation, known as "Recovery Mode," is a short meditation session, usually lasting only about an hour. It consumes a huge amount of food and nutrients to quickly restore physical strength and concentration.

The second type is the "Deep Enhancement Mode," which involves long meditation sessions, typically 6 or 7 hours or more, and consumes all food.

It enhances physical fitness and improves concentration. According to the panel description, it also has the effect of slowly increasing faith, although there has been no instance of increasing faith so far.

Rose guessed that it was most likely because his level of faith was too high, compared to his single-digit strength and agility scores.

Faith, however, has a base value of 38 points, which is too high, making it significantly more difficult to improve.

Then Rose began her routine of going to the soup kitchen for supplies, going to the store to buy meat with vouchers, and then returning to her tent to meditate.

Rose ate almost freely, and the [Ancient Dragon Meditation] was like a bottomless pit, perfectly digesting and processing no matter how much she ate.

Furthermore, Rose felt her appetite increasing, and her golden eyes grew brighter and brighter.

Now that Rose has eaten her fill, and then meditated to increase her Concentration by 3 points and Strength by 1 point, she needs twice as much meat as before.

This means that the cost of increasing his stats has become greater, and Rose has a general understanding of the mechanism by which [Ancient Dragon Meditation] increases stats.

As physical fitness improves, appetite also increases, and more food is needed to feel full, but the increase remains the same.

It's actually quite easy to understand: the higher the base value, the more difficult it becomes to improve.

Rose was very skeptical that if this growth continued, food might not be able to meet his energy needs in the future.

In the future, it may be necessary to ingest special high-energy substances to maintain the "deep enhancement mode".

And so, Rose devoured almost without restraint, until finally, on the seventh day, the value of the supply vouchers in Rose's hands went to zero.

Correspondingly, his interface underwent a dramatic change:

Name: Rose

Age: Six years old

Occupation: Dim Light-level Ancient Dragon Follower

Strength: 12 (Increase by 5 points)

Agility: 12 (increases by 5 points)

Focus: 48 (Total cap increased by 27 points)

Rationality: 0

Faith: 39 (Increase by 1 point)

Traits:

[Fanatical Materialist] (Golden Trait):

1. Fanaticism: Your sanity cannot be increased; you can only increase your faith.

2. Materialism: By consuming Focus Points, you can temporarily convert all Faith Points into Reason.

3. Frenzied Rationality: When rationality drops below 0, it will be forcibly locked to 0, and negative rationality will be converted into positive faith points.

The Path of a Gu Long Follower:

[The Shining Ancient Dragon Follower]:

Promotion requirements:

1. Faith 40

2. Find your own path as a follower of the ancient dragons.

【？？？】：Not unlocked. Please achieve 【Shining Ancient Dragon Follower】 first.

prayer:

[Vitality Flow], [Lightning Gun], [Lightning Strike], [Electric Shock], [Ancient Dragon Meditation]

Strength and agility have increased by a full 5 points, exceeding the level of a normal adult.

Generally, there are only about 10 adults without professional training.

12 o'clock is already close to the level of a professionally trained adult.

Concentration doubled to an astonishing 48 points, and faith even improved by a little on the last day.

The only cost is a free resource voucher.

Of course, this resource voucher was originally intended to provide a homeless person with enough to live on for three months, but Rose ate it all in a week.

Moreover, Rose's stat increases from eating food are now extremely limited; even eating a full meal of meat is unlikely to provide much improvement.

Rose guessed that they had reached the limit of their current developmental stage.

After all, his body is only 6 years old. It is estimated that he can continue to improve after his body develops a little more.

Rose can now maintain the [Material] state without dropping while sustaining high-intensity spellcasting.

Security is greatly guaranteed.

Rose felt the immense power surging through her small body.

Reason will crumble, and faith will collapse.

But the left punch deals more damage, and the right punch deals more damage—that's for sure!

Rose stepped out of the tent, intending to learn more magic from the old vagabond.

Previously, his concentration was too low to support his spellcasting, but now it has more than doubled.

It's time to diversify our methods.

Soon, Rose found the old homeless man, who was still sitting blankly in the tent.

Whether it was Rose's imagination or not, he felt that the old homeless man's emaciated body had become even thinner.

Upon seeing Rose approach, Kenneth raised his eyes, somewhat surprised, and said:

"It's been a long time since you've been here."

He raised his hand, gesturing for Rose to come a little closer.

He sat in the tent, gestured with his hand towards Rose's head, and said in a slightly hoarse voice:

"You seem to have grown a bit taller."

Then, rolling his cloudy eyes, he said:

"And he's gotten stronger too."

Rose looked at Kenneth with some confusion:

"Mr. Kenneth, what's wrong with you all of a sudden?"

Kenneth pursed his chapped lips and said:

"I don't know why, but after you asked me about the child that day, I suddenly missed my son."

Is he still alive? If so, he's probably in his seventies or eighties.

Did he go to university? After he went to university, did he have to sell blood every day and participate in human experiments like I did when I was young?

Or is he just an ordinary person doing odd jobs, like my father?

He rolled his cloudy eyes and looked up at the sky, the sunlight casting a sliver of light on his murky pupils.

He murmured:

"Am I dying soon, or is it because I haven't used the enhancer lately that I'm becoming sentimental?"