Wizard: I Have a Nightmare World

Lynn's gaze swept back and forth between [Wind Blade] and [Lightness] twice before he finally made his choice.

I want both!

With his current income from medicine, buying two copies of Zero Ring Magic is not a burden at all.

Moreover, these two tricks, one offensive and one defensive, complement each other perfectly, allowing him to quickly improve his combat abilities in a short period of time.

Lynn pulled two books from the bookshelf, then found an "Introduction to Building Wizardry Models" and a "Basic Mental Power Micromanagement" on the fourth floor. He stacked the four books together and hugged them to his chest.

"Have you made your choice?"

Amber poked half her head out of his pocket and asked in a low voice.

Lynn nodded, then walked to the counter and completed the borrowing procedure.

The person in charge of borrowing and registering the books was a middle-aged woman wearing round-framed glasses. She glanced at the stack of books in Lynn's arms, her gaze lingering on [Wind Blade Technique] and [Lightness Technique] for a moment, before looking up at Lynn again.

"Apprentice Lynn, you haven't officially registered your sorcery school yet, have you?"

"Although Zero Ring Trick can be learned without school registration, I suggest that you consult a certified wizard or find a senior apprentice who has already successfully built a model before you build your first sorcery model."

"There are many cases of failure in the first attempt to construct a witchcraft model. Some people even suffer mental damage after the failure and need several months to recover."

Lynn nodded, thanked him, and then left the library with the book in his arms.

After leaving the library, Amber poked his head out of his pocket and let out a long breath.

"I'm so suffocating!"

"Your human libraries are so stuffy! You don't even open a window!"

Lynn ignored Amber's complaints. He took the four books back to the incubation room, locked the door, and then sat down at the worktable, first opening the book "Wind Blade Technique".

The first page of the book contains a complete structural diagram of the witchcraft model.

It was a complex pattern woven from dozens of geometric lines, with a six-pointed star at the center. Each point of the six-pointed star extended an arc that connected with a ring of fine runes around the perimeter.

The entire model looks like a half-open metal flower, full of symmetrical beauty and a precise sense of structure.

Lynn observed carefully for a while and found that the core logic of the model was not complicated.

The structure of the magic model consists of three parts: energy input node, configuration transformation loop, and magic release port.

Mental energy is injected from the energy input node, undergoes a series of compressions and transformations through the configuration transformation loop, and is finally exported through the magic release port, forming a compressed wind blade.

The whole process is like a production line, with mental energy as the raw material, the configuration transformation loop as the processing equipment, and the magic release port as the outlet.

"It doesn't seem too difficult."

Lynn turned to the second page and began to carefully read the steps for building the model.

The first step in constructing a witchcraft model is to use mental power to outline the basic contours of the model in the space of consciousness.

This step requires extremely precise mental control. The outline must not deviate in any way. Even if only one line deviates from the original image by the slightest bit, the entire model will collapse.

The second step is to fill the energy loops on the basic outline.

This step is more difficult than the first step because each energy loop has fixed requirements for the flow rate and frequency of mental energy.

The third step, and the most difficult one, is activation!

Once the entire model is built, it needs to be activated with a powerful mental pulse.

If the model is constructed accurately enough, it will automatically operate after activation, becoming a fixed structure in the consciousness space that can be accessed anytime, anywhere.

If the model is not constructed precisely enough, the activation pulse will cause it to collapse on the spot, and the energy shock generated by the collapse will damage mental energy.

Lynn closed the book, shut his eyes, and began to mentally simulate the entire process of building the model.

He sketched the six-pointed star and curved lines again and again until the pattern was etched into his mind like a brand, and he could clearly see the position and angle of each line even with his eyes closed.

Then, he began his first attempt.

Lynn took a deep breath and focused his mental energy into his consciousness space.

Following the instructions in the book, he began to use his mental power to outline the basic structure of the Wind Blade Technique in his consciousness space.

At first, everything went smoothly. The six points of the six-pointed star were accurately drawn, and the first outer arc was also smoothly completed.

But when he was outlining the third arc, one of the lines was slightly off-center.

The entire outline instantly lost its stability, like a tower whose foundation had been removed, collapsing in Lynn's consciousness space.

Buzz—! !!! !

Lynn felt as if someone had hit his head hard with a hammer, and a wave of dizziness and stinging pain washed over him.

He opened his eyes, rubbed his temples hard, and it took him a while to come to his senses.

"It failed."

Amber sat on the windowsill, swinging her legs, with an expression that said, "I knew it all along."

"It's normal for the first build to fail."

"My grandmother said that the construction of a magic model is itself an extreme challenge to the ability to control mental power. If you human wizards can successfully construct the first zero-ring trick within ten attempts, you are already considered to have extraordinary talent."

Lynn rubbed his temples, not discouraged, but instead his competitive spirit was aroused.

He closed his eyes again and began his second attempt.

This time, he was even more careful, checking each line several times before moving on to the next step.

However, when he drew the fifth arc, his mental energy output fluctuated slightly, the entire arc trembled, and he failed again.

The impact of the second collapse made Lynn's nose sting slightly, and he saw stars before his eyes.

The third, fourth, fifth... all five attempts failed.

But with each failure, Lynn could feel his precision in controlling his mental power improving.

During his first failure, he couldn't even complete the third lap of the arc.

By the time of his fifth failure, he had already completed six of the seven arcs, and only the last arc was needed to complete the outline of the entire basic shape.

"Almost there."

Lynn took a sip of spring water, rubbed his throbbing temples, and was about to begin his sixth attempt when there was a knock on the door.

"Senior Lynn! Is Senior Lynn there?"

The voice was hurried, with obvious panic.

Lynn frowned, got up, walked to the door, and opened it.

Standing outside the door was a young apprentice, about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing an apprentice robe covered in mud, with a faint bloodstain on his face, panting as he looked at Lynn.

"Senior Lynn! Something's happened!"

"I am an apprentice in the second cultivation room. Some kind of creature just broke into our cultivation room and made a mess of the third and fourth herb gardens. Many precious herbs have been ruined."

"Manager Harvey said he's unavailable right now and asked me to come to you for help!"

Lynn's brow furrowed even deeper.

The second cultivation room was right next to him, separated by an aisle, and it was a medium-sized cultivation room with four medicinal herb gardens inside.

During this time, he was focused on practicing his potion-making skills and didn't notice anything happening next door.

"What kind of creature?"

Lynn asked.

The apprentice shook his head, a hint of fear on his face.

"I didn't see it clearly. It was very fast and not very big, like some kind of small wild animal, but the aura it gave me was very frightening."

"Supervisor Harvey said it might be a cave creature that burrowed in from underground, and told me to come find you right away."

Lynn hesitated for a moment, then turned around and put the books on the workbench into his spatial ring, before speaking to the apprentice.

"Let's go take a look."

Amber flew over from the windowsill and silently slipped into Lynn's pocket.

Lynn followed the apprentice out of the incubation room and walked to the door of incubation room number two at the end of the corridor.

The door was half-open, and a strange smell mixed with soil and herbal juices wafted out. Faint, soft sounds could be heard, as if something was gnawing on something in a corner.

Lynn pushed open the door to the incubation room, his gaze sweeping over the scene inside, his brows furrowing deeply.

Herb gardens No. 3 and No. 4 were indeed in a mess, with soil scattered everywhere. The once neatly arranged herbs were trampled into pieces, and several precious earth vein grasses were uprooted and their leaves were scattered all over the ground.

In the center of that mess, a creature the size of an adult cat was burying its head in gnawing on the roots of a silverleaf flower.

The creature's skin had a rough, grayish-black texture, its back was covered with a layer of fine scales, its limbs were short and its claws were sharp, and a short, thick tail swung back and forth behind it.

Its mouth, a mouth full of sharp teeth, was chewing rapidly, and juice dripped from the corners of its mouth onto the destroyed herb garden.

"This is... a burrowing lizard rat?!"

The apprentice gasped in surprise, his face turning deathly pale instantly.

Lynn's gaze fell on the burrowing lizard rat, and information about the creature flashed through his mind.

The burrowing lizard rat is a low-level burrowing creature that feeds on plant roots and underground tubers. It is fierce in nature and, although not large in size, has an amazing bite force that can bite through wooden structures.

This creature usually doesn't appear on the surface; it is only forced to emerge from its burrows to forage when the underground food chain is disrupted.

The key issue is that the foundation of the White Raven Tower is said to have been reinforced with solidified runes, making it impossible for low-level cave creatures to penetrate it.

How did this burrowing lizard rat get in?