Wizard: I Have a Nightmare World

The White Crow Tower was shrouded in a thin mist in the early morning.

As soon as Lynn stepped out of the incubation room, he saw a short apprentice rushing over, holding a sealed metal box in his hands, his face beaming with joy.

"Senior Lynn! The apothecary asked me to give this to you!"

"The items needed for your mission have arrived!"

Lynn's eyes lit up as he took the metal box, finding it quite heavy.

Upon opening the box, one finds a thick layer of insulating cotton inside, with a transparent glass bottle in the center containing a dark gray, viscous substance.

The mucus had a faint sheen, like some kind of biological secretion, and emitted a faint earthy smell.

At the bottom of the glass bottle, there was a note with details about the restocking location and time.

"It's an extract of the cuticle of a burrowing insect, and judging from its texture, it's very fresh."

Lynn nodded in satisfaction, put the metal box into his spatial ring, and patted the apprentice on the shoulder.

"Thank you for your hard work. Tell Supervisor Harvey that I will deliver the payment to the apothecary today."

"No problem, senior!"

The apprentice turned and ran away.

Lynn quickly returned to the incubation room, locked the door, and took out the metal box, placing it on the worktable.

Amber had just woken up, rubbing her eyes as she flew down from the windowsill and landed on Lynn's shoulder, looking at the glass bottle with curiosity.

"What is this?"

"An extract from a burrowing earthworm."

Lynn carefully placed the extract of the burrowing earthworm and the previously preserved tissue sample of the burrowing lizard on the worktable.

The two items exhibit drastically different microstructures under a magnifying glass.

In the tissue sample of the burrowing lizard rat, although the energy circuit was complete, there was obvious roughness at the nodes, as if it was a work carved with a blunt knife, with uneven edges.

The energy circuits in the extract of the burrowing earthworm are like precise mechanical components, each one flowing smoothly and naturally, with rounded and smooth nodes, exuding a harmonious beauty.

"As expected, one is the original, and the other is a degraded replica."

Lynn muttered to himself, his gaze sweeping back and forth between the two samples.

He closed his eyes and mentally compared the energy circuit structures of the two samples.

The burrowing lizard rat's loop largely replicates the structure of the burrowing earthworm, but there are varying degrees of deviation at several key nodes.

These deviations are what resulted in the burrowing lizard rat version having high energy consumption, poor stability, and short duration of shielding capabilities.

"If I correct these deviation nodes one by one, and then incorporate the optimized structure from the stealthy worm version..."

Lynn suddenly opened his eyes, a gleam of excitement in them.

He quickly wrote down this information, then put away the two samples, and went to prepare the reward for the mission, the [Coagulation Potion].

After the potion was finished, he went out and handed it over to the manager of the apothecary, and then returned to his cultivation room.

Upon returning, Lynn didn't stop for a moment; he immediately began building his zero-ring trick model.

Because it had already been successfully constructed in the Nightmare World, Lynn was able to complete the construction in the real world very smoothly.

The power of the Wind Blade Technique: Combo Slash is not easy to test in the training room. To find out the specifics, you can only go to the White Raven Tower's special sorcery training ground.

The Wind Binding Technique and Life Detection Technique were much simpler; Lynn used them directly on Amber.

His gaze fell on Amber, and with a thought, the sorcery model of the Wind Binding Technique in his consciousness space was activated.

Under Lynn's mental control, a gentle breeze transformed into a chain that firmly bound Amber.

"Huh? What happened?"

"Why can't Amber move all of a sudden?"

Amber, who was perched on Lynn's shoulder, suddenly found herself unable to move and began to scream and wriggle around on Lynn's shoulder.

Soon after, tears welled up in Amber's large, dark green eyes.

"Lynn, Amber seems to be sick; she can barely feel anything in her body right now."

"If Amber dies, remember to bury Amber and the Lily of the Valley Cottage together."

Seeing that Amber had already uttered her last words, Lynn quickly dispelled the Wind Binding Spell.

Instantly, the restraints on Amber disappeared, and the little guy instinctively flapped his wings and flew away.

"Huh? Amber's healed again?"

Amber looked at her hands, feet, and wings behind her in disbelief.

After confirming that there were no problems, a look of suspicion appeared in those dark green eyes.

"Lynn, were you bullying me just now?"

Amber puffed out her cheeks, flew to the top of Lynn's head, grabbed his hair, and pulled hard.

Lynn could only feign surrender and ask Amber to let him go.

Upon seeing Lynn surrender, Amber snorted twice, then flew to Lynn's cheek and pressed it against hers.

"Lynn, let me know next time you need to use me for an experiment."

"If Amber suddenly can't move, she'll be very scared."

Amber held Lynn's cheek and whispered.

Lynn realized that his actions towards Amber had frightened the little guy, so he quickly comforted him.

"Don't worry, I won't experiment on you next time."

Lynn was already aware of the effects of [Wind Binding], and then focused his attention on [Detect Life].

This trick is a detection-type ability that creates a three-dimensional scan map in the mind, similar to a radar, and provides real-time information on the location and approximate size of any life form detected.

After verifying the two magic tricks, Lynn focused his energy on meditation.

Amber also left Lynn's body, carrying the small watering can to tend to the herb garden.

Time passed little by little.

Midnight arrived quickly.

Before entering, Lynn took another bottle of "Clarity Water" to improve his concentration, and then he arrived in the Nightmare World.

Upon arriving at his experimental site, Lynn did not hesitate and immediately materialized the two samples in his mind, then began his most important project—model reconstruction!

He sketched out the shielding model of the burrowing lizard rat in his consciousness space. He had practiced this model countless times and knew it by heart.

Then, based on the structure of the extract from the burrowing earthworm, he began to compare and correct it piece by piece.

First node deviation, correction.

The second energy loop deviated from its intended path; adjustments were made.

The spacing between the third node is too large, so it needs to be compressed.

The fourth...

Lynn's mental energy threads weaved through the space of consciousness, like a meticulous craftsman carefully polishing and refining the existing basic model.

One place, two places, three places...

When he completed the ninth and final correction, the entire shielding model underwent a qualitative change.

The previously somewhat rough energy circuits became smooth and harmonious, the light at the nodes became stable and bright, and the humming sound emitted when the entire model was running changed from dull to cool and pleasant.

Lynn tried to activate the model.

A gentle yet sustained force instantly enveloped his entire body.

It felt like being completely enveloped in the air, your sense of existence completely enveloped by an invisible film.

Lynn looked down at her hands, then looked up at her surroundings.

The gray fog was still churning, the barrier still stood in the distance, and everything was the same as before.

However, he could sense that his presence in this space had become extremely weak.

He took a few steps forward, his footsteps making a slight sound on the bone surface, but the sound seemed to be absorbed by an invisible force, its travel distance greatly reduced.

"Not bad, not bad, it was worth all the time I spent."

Suppressing his excitement, Lynn began testing the various parameters of the new model.

The duration, which had initially fluctuated after a stable three minutes, has now become a full ten minutes and remains stable.

The consumption of mental energy has decreased from five percent of total mental energy per minute to less than one percent per minute.

As for stability, Lynn tried to maintain the shielded state while condensing a wind blade in his palm.

The shielded model showed absolutely no fluctuations; it was as stable as a rock.

"This is the blocking capability I've been looking for!"

Lynn let out a long breath, his face full of a sense of accomplishment.

With this stable shielding model, he has an extra trump card to save his life in the upcoming draft.

If he so desired, he could completely disappear from the perception of most low-level creatures, and even evade some wizard apprentices who were not good at sensing and probing.

Lynn did not stop there.

He immediately and seamlessly began constructing the sorcery model for [Hand of Evocation].

He noticed this trick when he borrowed it from the library. As a purely auxiliary trick, it has extremely high practical value.

It can be used to retrieve objects remotely, move heavy objects, operate machinery with precision, and even in combat, it can be used to disrupt the opponent's line of sight or throw objects.

With the experience gained from building the [Wind Blade Technique: Combo], the model building for [Energizing Hand] went remarkably smoothly.

Lynn meticulously sketched out three main loops, twelve auxiliary loops, and four core nodes in his consciousness space, without any fluctuations in the process.

As the last loop was laid, a translucent ghostly hand materialized before him.

His fingers were long and slender with flexible joints, and a pale blue light floated in his palm.

Lynn manipulated the hand to spin in the air, then made it pick up a small stone from the ground and hold it firmly in its palm.

He simultaneously manipulated it to pick up three medicine bottles, and it held them firmly in place without the slightest sign of shaking.

"Excellent, and the control precision is extremely high! It truly lives up to its reputation as a jack-of-all-trades!"

At this point, Lynn has completed the modeling of four zero-ring tricks in the Nightmare World: [Wind Blade - Combo], [Wind Bind], [Life Detection], and [Energizing Hand]. In addition to the previously completed [Wind Blade] and [Lightness], there is also the newly perfected shielding ability model.

In just a few days, he went from an apprentice who could only throw basic wind blades to a combatant with multiple tactical methods.