Wizard: This mushroom is too fierce.

It was already evening when I returned to my residence.

Roland glanced briefly at the Puji and found that they had also finished their daytime combat training and were now sitting together, listening to the reading mushroom 'Lance' give a lesson.

"Puji!" Even after the modification, Lance's figure was still on the small and thin side. However, due to his frequent reading and the increasing number of times he taught the Puji, he had gained a touch of teacher-like demeanor.

Lance stood before everyone, and slowly wrote "Recover" on the blackboard with his small hand.

"This word is pronounced 'fu,' and according to the shamanic interpretation, it means 'many times,' which is roughly equivalent to our continuous training and continuous prayer for the great king..."

"Puji!" The mushrooms sat on the floor and chanted in unison.

Roland lowered his gaze and noticed that Karak had also finished training and walked in from outside. He then took out a notebook and began to study at the table.

Turning his gaze, Roland noticed that Jin Duoduo wasn't among the group of mushrooms. He frowned slightly and called over the elven maid, asking, "Where's Jin Duoduo?"

Emilia lowered her head and said softly, "Lord Roland, Lord Jin Duoduo is currently in your study."

Roland nodded, then left alone. Standing at the door of his study, he peered inside through the crack.

"Pfft!" The little mushroom with golden leaves on its head, 'Golden Dodo,' was currently engrossed in a book, turning the pages while muttering in broken wizarding language, "My...name...is Golden Dodo..."

"Pfft!"

Upon successfully uttering the wizard's language, Jin Duoduo's face instantly lit up with joy. It encouraged itself, saying, "This is just the first step; I still have much more to learn."

"I want to give the king a surprise!"

"I want to be better than all the puppies, I want to be the pride of the king forever."

Upon hearing these words, Roland showed an appreciative expression. Very good, this is a good sign. It is a good thing that Jin Duoduo is more motivated than before. After all, it is his first loyal mushroom. As long as it continues to grow in the future, he will always keep it in an important position.

......

The next morning, after Roland had breakfast served by an elven maid, he checked the latest news on the forum.

The Bloodflame Arena is almost complete. Its overall shape is similar to the Roman Colosseum from Roland's previous life, but unlike it, it has undergone more magical treatment.

First, there's the environment. The Bloodflame Arena is equipped with weather magic facilities and ground ecology simulation devices, which can match a variety of combat environments.

Secondly, due to the large number of participants in the preliminary rounds, the academy also carried out magical treatment on the interior of the venue, adopting the modular design concept commonly used by alchemists, so that the huge arena could be transformed into multiple smaller arenas, supporting up to ten people to fight together.

"Huh?" Roland's lips curled up as he looked at Killian's reply to him. The post had been pushed to the top and had many supporters.

Roland didn't need to read the specific content to know that the comments under this post were probably all denigrating him.

After closing the post, Roland wrote on his personal homepage: "The Bloodflame Arena is seeking sponsors. Interested wizarding organizations are welcome to come to 32 Cromwell Street in Northwind City for further discussion."

After finishing these tasks, Roland stopped worrying about them and began meditating. There were only ten days left until the start of the competition.

Roland needs to work hard to improve himself. His goal is to raise his mental strength to 15 points before the start of the competition and condense 36 runes to complete the first star map node of the Destiny Meditation Method, 'Lever'.

Three days later, in Roland's meditation room, he took out bottles of starlight insect powder shimmering with blue light from his spatial ring, followed by black flame crystals and a pendant with an antique aura. These magical materials were essential for completing the nodes of the Lever Star Chart.

The Black Flame Crystal is a rhombus-shaped crystal that looks somewhat like a magic stone. After many days, Roland finally received this magical material from a wizard merchant.

As for the pendant, which exudes a classical charm, it was acquired from a fallen family wizard.

【Name: Key of Time】

[Status: Destroyed]

[Function: Allows for time acceleration when placed in a specific space (currently disabled)]

It once seemed very powerful, but now in Roland's hands, it is merely a consumable for achieving the first node of the Destiny Meditation Method.

With a slight narrowing of his gaze, Roland released his mental energy to lift all the materials up. The next moment, he closed his eyes and entered his own mental world.

At this moment, Roland's mental world had undergone a major change, with the once empty space now filled with two forces.

One is a hunting rune that constantly emits a seven-colored light, along with its first summoning rune. The other is thirty-six wood-attribute runes that Roland constructed entirely through meditation, along with six spell slots built beneath those thirty-six runes.

With the release of spiritual power and the circulation of magic, the first thing to be released was starlight insect powder, which slowly poured out of the bottle like a galaxy of stars and flowed gently toward Roland's brow.

Under the transformation of magical power imbued with spiritual energy, starlight began to appear in Roland's spiritual world.

They poured in from all directions and slowly approached the vicinity of the thirty-six runes, beginning to merge with them.

After the fusion was completed, Roland's spiritual avatar quickly closed the distance and carefully observed the wood attribute runes.

"The runes' durability has been greatly increased, and their surface appears to be coated with stardust..."

In the blink of an eye, Roland's mind was filled with a great deal of knowledge about runic literature.

"The increased durability of the runes signifies an improvement in the quality of the wizard's magic. The rune surface is imbued with specific magical materials, and based on the properties of stardust, it can effectively protect against astral radiation..."

After that came the Black Flame Crystal and the Key of Time. In just a moment, Roland fused these things into his runes once again.

The black flame crystal represents 'contagion,' which means that one's magical synergy will be greatly enhanced.

As Roland pondered, he looked at the Time Key, which had turned to dust, and a slight smile appeared on his lips.

The next moment, in Roland's mental space, thirty-six runes shone brightly, radiating light representing the wood element, constantly intertwining and combining.

Three, six, nine...

Within a few breaths, under Roland's Destiny Meditation Technique, a rune resembling a lever appeared in Roland's mental space.

【1.0】

The moment the rune star map was completed, a number entirely drawn with mental power appeared before Roland's eyes.

According to the method of destiny meditation, this represents the power of leverage.

Simply put, Roland can use it to perform magic substitution, that is, to exchange the magic power of standard magic for magic with double the power.