Chapter 92 040: Tempering the Soul

It rained in the afternoon, and all outdoor classes were cancelled and replaced with holidays. The apprentices who were stuck in the castle were so bored that they started to find various ways to entertain themselves.

Some were playing magic chess, controlling the knight's chess pieces to defeat the dragon on the dungeon chessboard and rescue the abducted princess.

Some people also get together to play magic poker, using cards of different values ​​to summon fire dragons, knights, wizards, etc. in various combinations to defeat the opponent and eat the opponent's cards.

Some of the new kids were holding the 'treasure map' in the maze-like castle and excitedly looking for treasures.

Some bored senior apprentices would make some treasure maps and distribute them. New apprentices knew nothing about it, but after obtaining the maps by "chance", they would think they were the chosen ones and follow the paths on the maps to find the "artifacts" buried in the castle.

Of course, in the end they gained nothing, and only suffered a lot from the various magic traps set by the nosy seniors along the way, which made the apprentices hiding in the dark laugh.

Some apprentices were busy with their own things, some were reading Mirror Shadow Card Books, some were preparing potions, and some were studying.

It was just an afternoon like any other, calm and peaceful.

"Crash!" The raindrops hit the blue-gray ancient stone wall, making a series of crisp sounds.

In the room, Luo Xi stood quietly in front of the window, looking at the rain outside.

a long time.

"Enjoy the rain scene carefully once, time +1 day."

A system notification sound came to his ears, but Luo Xi was not happy about this sudden gain. His brows were still furrowed, and a cloud of sorrow gathered between his brows, just like the dark clouds in the sky.

All wizarding organizations in the South Coast Alliance will undergo a six-month intensive training in combat.

The official reason given was that the wizards performed too poorly during this cholera outbreak caused by the black wizards. Anyone who was attacked by the black wizards either fled without a fight or was defeated in the fight. In front of the black wizards, the white wizards were like lambs to be slaughtered.

It didn't sound like anything was wrong, but Luo Xi could sense a storm was brewing. Such a big training mobilization might mean the alliance was not just trying to enhance its self-defense capabilities. "War?"

Luo Xi sighed. As a pacifist, he really just wanted to study magic quietly. It couldn't be said that he had no interest in fighting and killing, but he absolutely hated it.

For a moment, Luo Xi considered taking Nicole away from this witch area and going to other places before the war started, but he gave up the idea after a flash of thought.

Firstly, as a wizard here, he can't just leave whenever he wants. Otherwise, it is human nature to seek profit and avoid danger. If there is a little war or disaster, all the wizards in the wizard domain will run away. What's the point of playing? In addition, this wizard domain has cultivated him for so long. It can't be said that he has shared life and death with it, but he can't just betray it like this, right?

Being too sophisticated and selfish will make you have no friends. Luo Xi is just an ordinary person and cannot make ruthless decisions and kill decisively like those peerless bosses.

"Let it be."

Pinching his brows, Luo Xi finally decided to take things one step at a time.

"Da Da Da"

There were footsteps behind him, and a pair of slender arms wrapped around Luo Xi's waist, and the soft body pressed against his back.

Nicole hugged him and said, "What are you thinking about? You are so absorbed in it. Come here and teach me. What is the pronunciation combination of this spell? Why can't I figure it out?"

She placed a large tome on Transfiguration in front of Rosie's eyes.

I don't know why, but after coming back in the morning, Nicole suddenly announced that she wanted to learn the difficult art of transfiguration, and ran to the library to borrow relevant books on the spot.

Luo Xi pulled back his thoughts, took the book and sat on the chair, and Nicole also sat on his lap.

"You said this, this is simple"

After instructing Nicole, Luo Xi also entered the meditation room and started today's daily meditation.

The storm is coming. Since you are not planning to leave your hometown, then make preparations quickly. After all, this is a world where strength speaks. As long as you have enough strength, you can remain unchanged no matter how turbulent the outside world is.

Roshi dormitory, meditation room.

"Try to complete a meditation, time +3 days."

Opening his eyes, Luo Xi opened the system panel and looked at the current mental power attributes.

Mental power: 52.8.

It has only been over a week since I was promoted to a wizard, but my mental strength has increased from 52.6 at the time of promotion to 52.8, an increase of 0.2. You have to know that this is pure meditation without going through the system. It is almost equivalent to the efficiency of the previous month.

After an apprentice is promoted to a wizard, his meditation efficiency will also increase. It will be about two or three times when he is just promoted, and the improvement will increase as time goes by.

Luo Xi frowned: "Isn't this too fast?"

He has recently perfected his proficiency in Demon Concealment. Even so, it is still too difficult to use it to conceal the wizard's huge mental power. Despite his best efforts, Luo Xi can only conceal his mental power to around 8.

If his strength continues to improve, this apprentice-level spell may not be able to hide his surging mental power.

"It seems that I need to look at more advanced knowledge of sealing magic. However, before finding other ways to hide my strength, I should stop meditating and focus on tempering my soul."

The training at the wizard stage is no longer simple meditation like that of an apprentice, but has two aspects, one is mental power and the other is soul power.

The former is easy to understand, which is to improve mental strength through constant meditation, and as the strength increases, the mental strength will also take on different forms.

They are atomization, liquefaction, and finally crystallization.

The strength of the wizard stage is also divided in this way: low-level wizards who are mist-like, middle-level wizards who are liquefied, and high-level wizards who are crystallized.

Only wizards with more powerful mental power can learn higher-level spells.

As for soul power, it is through repeated tempering of the soul through mental will that the soul's tenacity can be increased.

Mental strength is the trunk and the soul is the core. Only a strong enough soul power can control a strong enough spiritual power.

There are no specific levels in the tempering of soul power, only a percentage progress bar from 0% to 100%.

When the elements are crystallized and the soul power is tempered to 70%, it means that the extraordinary wizard stage has reached its peak and can impact the next stage, the wise sage stage.

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"Let's try it out first."

Thinking of this, Luo Xi closed his eyes, mobilized the mental strength of his whole body to wrap around his soul and began to temper and forge his soul.

This is a delicate technical job, just like a blacksmith forging a sword. Every hammering requires extreme caution, ensuring not to hurt the soul while making the soul sharper and tougher.

Luo Xi was not very skilled in forging for the first time, and he only lasted for more than ten minutes before it was over.

At this moment, his forehead was covered with a fine layer of sweat, and his face looked a little bad.

“Huh!~”

Opening his eyes, he breathed a sigh of relief.

It was not easy! These ten minutes seemed like a century. Every time I hit him, I had to be very careful for fear of hurting his soul. It was like walking on thin ice.

“It took a lot of mental energy…”

He checked his current mental strength and found that it had dropped by nearly one third. And you have to know that it has only been more than ten minutes, and his training progress has not even increased.

"No wonder normal wizards would choose to improve their mental strength first and then temper their souls."

Precisely because tempering the soul consumes a lot of mental energy, the vast majority of wizards usually choose to improve their mental energy first and then temper their souls. There is indeed no such thing as tempering the soul first.

Even those pure-blooded wizards from wizarding families with abundant resources would not do this. After all, weak mental strength means insufficient control over the hammering. Not only is the hammering efficiency low, but it is also extremely painful. If you are not careful, you may even hurt your soul, and it will take a lot of time to recover.

Therefore, after trying to manually temper his soul once, Luo Xi decisively decided to give up manual work and leave professional matters to professionals.

Start cheating!

[You begin to temper your soul, treading carefully as if on thin ice. ]

[Ten days have passed, and you accidentally used too much force during the training, resulting in failure of the training.]

[You begin to temper your soul, and tread carefully as if on thin ice. ]

[Ten days have passed. You lacked control during the training and were unable to train properly. The training failed.]

【fail.】

【fail.】

[You begin to temper your soul, treading carefully as if on thin ice. ]

[Ten days have passed. With your meticulous operation, you have successfully completed a soul tempering.]

After failing several times in succession, Luo Xi finally achieved his first success. In an instant, he felt that his soul seemed to have become a little tougher.

[Current progress of soul tempering +0.03%. ]

[Soul Tempering Proficiency +13. 】

(End of this chapter)