Chapter 82 Knowledge? Monster?
Fortunately, later on, Teacher Monica explained the method of semi-immersive meditation in detail to everyone.
Even Thor, a newcomer who learned semi-immersive meditation on his own, gained a lot of insights from it.
When he entered semi-immersion before, he always used it to observe pollution and anomalies. But according to Teacher Monica's explanation, semi-immersion meditation is actually a temporary means to stabilize the spirit body and urgently replenish magic power.
When Thor was in danger in Mentor Kaz's laboratory, he used semi-immersive meditation to stabilize his spirit.
But after that, he spent almost all his meditation on discovering alienated materials and almost forgot its original purpose.
Thor's magic power has improved significantly compared to three months ago. Now using full immersion meditation can no longer restore all his magic power quickly, let alone semi-immersion.
But the advantage of semi-immersion is that it starts quickly, and the magic power recovered in a short period of time is actually higher than that of immersive meditation.
However, this type of meditation, which relies solely on oneself without the use of auxiliary tools, is not so easy to master.
It requires the apprentice to be familiar enough with his or her meditation diagram and to be proficient in the use of mental power.
If you just use your mental energy to follow the patterns in the picture every time you meditate, you will immediately fall into a memory maze of "it seems like this, but it also seems not to be" after putting down the book.
After most of the new apprentices began to try semi-immersive meditation, Monica wandered around the classroom doing nothing.
Occasionally an old apprentice would ask some questions.
Some of them she answered, and for others she just smiled and said nothing.
As Monica walked by, Thor also raised his hand and asked a question.
"Teacher Monica, are the meditation diagrams for first-level apprentices and second-level apprentices different? Or do we need to be familiar with different meditation diagrams at each stage?"
"Level 2 apprentices have at least learned one level 1 magic. Their spirits are strong enough to withstand more dangerous meditation pictures. You can choose to change to meditation pictures." Monica faced Thor again, and had restored her original smile. "But when you become level 3 apprentices, you won't need meditation pictures anymore."
"No need for it?" Thor was stunned, but he quickly reacted, "Location device?"
Monica raised her eyebrows. "It seems that you have really learned a lot of advanced knowledge. This is good, but also dangerous."
Monica stretched out a finger and gently touched Thor's forehead.
“Bang!”
An arc of electricity flashed.
Thor was startled and immediately dodged backwards, but he still felt a pain on his forehead.
“If you learn too much knowledge beyond your current ability, you must be prepared to bear the corresponding risks behind the knowledge.”
After saying that, Monica put her hands behind her back and continued walking, leaving Thor alone with his hand covering his forehead in deep thought.
Almost all seniors and mentors have mentioned that wizards will encounter unknown dangers in their pursuit of knowledge.
At first, Thor thought that when he was learning complex knowledge, his brain, or his spiritual body, would become dizzy and collapse due to the complex and profound knowledge.
But now thinking about it, it seems to be more than that simple.
This gave him the illusion that knowledge was actually a monster.
Unfortunately, no one has answered this question.
Thor was still thinking about this question until the get out of class was over, he had lunch, and he came to the second floor of the East Tower.
However, before entering the morgue, he met mentor Kaz again.
"Mentor?" Thor was a little surprised. Normally, Mentor Kaz didn't appear so often.
He has been seeing his mentor a little more frequently lately.
"As the first place in the test, you can choose a companion flower. I'll take you there." After saying this, Kaz turned his hands behind his back and left without waiting for Thor to answer.
Thor followed, confused.
The reward of companion flower was first mentioned by senior Luo Kai.
Because the other party was the apparent leader of the mutual aid association, Thor didn't want to have too much interaction with him, so he didn't take the companion flower seriously.
He didn't expect that the instructor would personally take him to pick companion flowers.
While following behind Mentor Kaz, Thor took out "Basic Knowledge of All Things" from his backpack and searched in the plant chapter.
Companion Flower: It can establish a blood connection with a living being and die after bearing fruit. The fruits it bears are of various types and have different functions, mainly to increase magic power and stabilize mental strength.
Just a few words of introduction gave Thor some expectations for the companion flower.
Improving magic power may become a topic that Thor will study forever.
Then, Thor found himself and Mentor Kaz turning into a passage they had never seen before.
This seems to be the fifth floor of the East Tower, which is a warehouse and not a place that apprentices can enter at will.
After Saul followed Kaz in, he passed the warehouse door, continued forward, and turned into another intersection. As he walked, the road began to slope downward.
This time they went down for a long time.
Thor shoved the books back into his backpack and looked forward curiously.
The grey stone bricks were gradually covered with dust, and the candle lights on both sides became increasingly sparse and old.
One of the lampstands was broken and hung diagonally on the wall.
This has never happened in the tower before.
In his impression, the wizard tower has always been clean and tidy, and there is always someone taking good care of everything in the tower.
Thor began to wonder where the companion flower was.
After all, they are plants, and most of them still live in the soil.
The land in the wizard tower is limited... Could the companion flower be outside? Thor's heart gradually lifted, and he was looking forward to it, but also afraid to look forward to it.
I’m afraid that what awaits me in the end is disappointment.
But this time life didn't let him down.
After going down a distance, Thor saw a wooden door with a metal frame, wide open to the outside.
There were no candles lit nearby, but it wasn't dark here at all.
An extremely bright yet gentle light shone in from outside the door, forming a sharp contrast with the pale candlelight.
Teacher Kaz walked here, paused, turned around and said to Thor, who had stretched his neck and started to look, "Calm down, don't act like an ignorant monkey."
Thor immediately shrank his neck.
But his eyes still sparkled.
"Teacher, are we leaving the tower?"
"Don't make a fuss. When you reach level 2, you will have many opportunities to leave the tower. I don't let you leave the tower now because I don't want your minds to be disturbed by the outside world and stop you from studying hard."
Kaz glared at Thor, feeling that this young apprentice would embarrass him.
As he got closer to the tower gate, Thor recalled a picture in his mind.
That was the horrific scene I saw at Mentor Rum's place: charred land, bubbling mud, scattered corpses, and black unknown tentacles...
Would that be the scene at the bottom of the tower? A place like purgatory.
Mentor Kaz's figure had disappeared behind the door. Thor took a deep breath and took a step outside.
Even if it's scary, it's still fascinating.
However……
A breeze blew across my face, bringing the scent of damp grass.
Behind the gate of the wizard tower was a flat land.
There is no dark mud, only light yellow soil.
Under your feet is a specially maintained road that extends in all directions to facilitate people's travel.
There was still the blue sky above my head and the green mountains and dense forests in the distance. Everything had not turned into a hell on earth nearby.
Not far from the road was a garden, simply separated by a wooden fence. At the entrance of the garden was a small wooden house, and a person could be vaguely seen sitting inside.
Through the fence, you can see the garden, with many branches of various colors swaying in the wind. It just looks a bit messy, not like it was carefully arranged.
There was a sound of horse hooves and wheels.
Thor turned his head to look and saw a horse-drawn carriage with two passengers approaching quickly from afar, driving along another avenue.
The road leads to the wizard tower in the other direction.
The carriage was soon blocked by the high walls of the wizard tower and disappeared behind it.
"That's the entrance for vehicles." Seeing Thor stop and look into the distance, Kaz explained casually.
Thor nodded, shifted his gaze, and the surrounding scenery came into view.
The wizard tower stood in an uninhabited wilderness. Other villages could be seen only in the distance. I wondered if ordinary people were driven away there on purpose.
But although there are not many people here, it is not as scary as in the illusion, it is just a little lonely.
Thor couldn't help but wonder, "Was the scene I saw at the beginning Teacher Rum trying to scare me, or was it my imagination?"
(End of this chapter)
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