Wizard: Start consuming attributes from the equipment slot.

By the time Victor returned to his new home, it was completely dark.

Vivian had already returned home and was chatting with Gar about something. When Gar noticed Victor's return, he stood up and bowed, but Victor did not linger and went straight back to his room.

I went to the desk, pulled out a chair, and sat down.

Victor took out the two bottles of potion he had bought, placed them on the table, and a prompt appeared eagerly in the corner of his eye:

[Equipable item detected: Dark and Light Potions]

[Equipping this item grants the following attribute: Deep and Shallow Meditation Lv1 — Increases overall meditation efficiency by 55.55%, but during meditation, you will hear some unknown murmurs.]

[Requirement for absorbing equipment: Listen carefully to one of the delirious utterances]

[Replace this equipment?]

......

[Equipable item detected: Potion of Devotion]

[Equipping this item grants the following attribute: Self-Isolation Meditation Lv1 — While meditating, your resistance to various abnormal influences is increased by 50%, and your overall meditation efficiency is increased by 25%]

[Requirements for absorbing equipment: Each meditation session must last more than 2 hours, for a total of 7 days]

Should I replace my equipment?

......

"well?"

After seeing the effects of the two potions and equipping them, Victor couldn't help but utter a sound of doubt.

Can these two terms influence each other?

Viktor first focused his gaze on the panel for the previous potion, rubbing his chin with one hand. He felt surprised yet somewhat reasonable about the effect of this entry.

As has been said before, there are almost no freebies in the wizarding world.

Just think about it. This potion is cheaper than most other potions, but more effective. If it didn't have some strong side effects, it wouldn't be sold at such a low price.

But to be honest, Victor didn't really want that kind of increase.

Even though the bonus from this entry is quite significant, compared to the completely unknown side effects with no idea what they will have... Victor felt that his current meditation efficiency was already quite high.

Besides... Viktor has other ways to increase meditation efficiency.

Even the Devout Potion that follows closely behind has a completely positive effect, only the increased meditation efficiency is slightly lower.

However, at this moment, Victor was more concerned about whether the effects of the Devotion Potion could withstand the side effects of the Div Potion's effects.

This wasn't just Victor's wild guess.

The wizarding community is far more intelligent than imagined.

If Morningstar Academy is aware of the unknown side effects of this potion, and yet still allows its sale, then either the side effects are completely under the control of Morningstar Academy, or the wizarding community has means to counteract these side effects and ensure that most wizards are not affected by them.

For example, the effects of the Deep and Shallow Potions and the Devout Potions seem to already explain something.

Any wizard with a sound mind would not miss this unique connection.

"Perhaps, the side effects of this varying potion level are also a way for the academy's higher-ups to use as an additional method to screen for potential wizards?"

Viktor had a guess in his mind, then chuckled and dismissed the thought.

He stood up and placed both bottles of medicine aside.

He could actually try the deep and shallow potions. After all, since they were popular among wizards, the side effects shouldn't be so severe as to cause an immediate outbreak after just one meditation session. They would most likely be the kind of side effects that slowly affect the wizard.

But since there are alternatives, Victor is really unwilling to take the risk.

Moreover, meditation can only be performed once a day during the wizard apprentice stage, after which there is a cooldown period. He currently only has one equipment slot, and can only choose one of these two potions, so of course he will choose the Devotion Potion, which has no side effects.

This medicine isn't difficult to ingest; just meditate as much as possible each day, and you can ingest it after seven days.

This is one of the better pieces of equipment he's acquired recently... Unfortunately, he still needs to use these magic stones to buy some workbenches and other tools for alchemy and potion-making in his newly rented house.

Otherwise, he could have bought more potions, because Victor found that buying potions to acquire new entries seemed to be easier than expected.

From the healing potion Garr gave himself at the beginning to the two potions he bought, the effects of the potions seem to be similar to their original effects... If all the potions he encounters in the future are the same, then the matter of brewing magic potions really needs to be put on the agenda.

After all, not to mention the countless potions with various effects that have existed throughout the millennia-long history of wizarding civilization, which could bring him a wealth of attributes, just the bonuses from these attributes alone, if he could permanently absorb even one-tenth...one percent, he could become a true numerical monster!

It seems like Potions has a better future than Alchemy Golems and Body Alchemy.

Viktor scratched his head, putting the idea aside for the time being.

It's too early to talk about these things now, because even if he were given an endless supply of potions, he would only have one equipment slot and only one item capable of completing the Devouring quest.

Even if he bought other medicines, they were basically only for him to look at but not to use.

Therefore, there's no need to spend a large sum of magic stones just to make empty promises to yourself.

......

That night, I slept quite soundly.

Viktor woke up earlier than usual.

Getting out of bed and putting on his robes, Victor glanced at the closed windows in the room. It was still pitch black outside; as autumn approached, even the sunrise was getting later.

He didn't hesitate for long.

He picked up the "Potion of Devotion" from the table and put it in his equipment slot.

He then closed his eyes, silently circulating his magic, his consciousness gradually sinking deeper and deeper... until, at a certain moment, his consciousness broke through a certain boundary, as if breaking through a certain 'membrane,' and the world that his consciousness could perceive became clear...

Endless light, a sky full of twinkling stars—a magnificent sight that no amount of fancy words can describe!

This is the 'Spirit Realm'!

A strange world that only wizards can access during meditation!

This place is vast and boundless, magnificent and dazzling, yet incredibly dangerous. Simply projecting your consciousness here for too long will cause you to be assimilated by its endless power, becoming just one ray of light among the myriad rays.

But ironically, the wizard's power comes from here.

As long as you place your consciousness in the spirit world, the omnipresent magical power of the spirit world will gradually transform the nature of your consciousness, making it more and more similar to the spirit world, and thus more and more powerful.

Therefore, some people in the wizarding community believe that wizards are essentially spiritual beings.

But Viktor wasn't interested in these theories.

He was simply experiencing the new feelings that this new entry brought him...