On the way to the Apprentice Library, Taylor began to reflect on his current shortcomings.

First, he is alone now, and his personal strength seems to be too weak. Once a conflict breaks out with hordes of monsters or zombies from another dimension, it may be difficult for him to sustain it alone.

Second, as Taifas said, what he lacked was witchcraft that could perceive a large area. This kind of witchcraft was easy to learn but difficult to master, and at the current level, it would be impossible to quickly put it into use even if he wanted to learn it.

Third, regarding comprehensive abilities, he was still somewhat lacking. A true wizard was good at knowledge of puppet construction, transformation, biology, nutrition, pharmacy, and runeology of witchcraft props.

If the problems he has summarized now are divided according to needs, then the first thing that needs to be solved now is, first, large-scale perception witchcraft, and second, he needs some combat helpers, which will be helpful for exploring planes and performing tasks.

"The Techniques of Mental Power Linking and the Basic Knowledge of Elemental Puppetry, these are the two books, right?"

After listening to Taylor's needs, Oak turned around and took out the two books from the densely packed bookshelves of the Apprentice Library, placed them in front of Taylor, and confirmed again.

"Yes, that's right, these two books."

Taylor took out his points card, paid 300 points, and put the two books in his pocket. He will return the two books in two weeks.

Oak took out a pipe from somewhere, stuffed it with tobacco, lit it, and took a deep puff. Amid the smoke, he asked curiously, "Why did you think of researching mental links and elemental puppets recently?"

Taylor reached out and held the two books in his arms and put them away before looking up and answering.

"I recently accepted a patrol mission in the southern part of the Monster Forest, and I just wanted to have more tricks up my sleeve."

“I see…”

Oak raised the pipe in his hand, knocked it against the corner of the table, replaced the tobacco with new one and said with understanding.

"The patrol missions in the south are generally the most difficult and the most challenging. It does not hurt to have more tricks. This book on the basics of elemental puppets also includes methods for making two types of puppets. I suggest you practice with the earth element magic core. After all, the earth element is relatively inert and is less likely to cause accidents."

"Understood."

After leaving the apprentice library, Taylor went directly to the sundries area to exchange for three earth element magic cores, and then returned to his apprentice dormitory with the magic cores and books in his hand.

The apprentice dormitory has now been preliminarily renovated by Taylor. He combined some witchcraft runes he had learned with magic runes, and made a preliminary renovation of his room according to the magic circle system of another dimension.

The energy-consuming magic lamps were replaced with magic circles equipped with bright runes. The ground was also kept clean by engraved cleaning runes. In the place used for heating, Taylor specially set up three burning runes and two high-temperature runes, which turned it into a furnace-like existence.

Putting the red robe he was wearing at the end of the hall, Taylor, wearing a short shirt, walked into the study room dedicated to study.

On the bookshelf in the study are some handwritten knowledge. These are the ones that I have studied thoroughly and are not important, so they are put out. The most important ones are either carried with me or placed in some corner that only I know about.

Sitting at the desk, Taylor immediately took out a brand new blank book. With the blank book in his left hand and the mental connection technique he had just borrowed in his right hand, he picked up a pen and began to copy.

After copying down the mental linking skills, he also had to write down the basic knowledge of elemental puppets, as well as the methods of making the two types of elemental puppets that came later.

As for the bird's nest and the eggs inside that Taifas gave him, Taylor placed them in a temporarily modified incubator, with a hatching magic circle consisting of warming runes, constant temperature runes and heating runes underneath.

"You know what? Taylor, actually our life right now is quite ordinary. We do our own tasks, research our own experiments, seek our own truths, and learn our own knowledge. It seems like we live in the wizard tower unchanged."

It was another day of patrol mission. Taifas suddenly held his head with both hands and raised it high. I don’t know what strange words he was saying. Maybe he felt that his current life was a bit boring to him.

Taylor doesn't think so. He thinks that this kind of plain life is pretty good. He does his own experiments, studies the knowledge brought from another dimension, further optimizes his elemental puppets, and occasionally when he feels bored, he can feed Dom who serves as his eyes.

Dom is the firebird that hatched from the egg that Taifas gave to Taylor. It is a low-level magical beast that can use the fire element in a rudimentary way.

After learning the technique of mental connection, Dom became Taylor's eyes in the sky, able to pay attention to the traces of some monsters at any time and avoid ambushes.

“Chichichichi…”

There was a burst of rapid bird calls from the sky, and a fiery red bird landed on Taylor's shoulder. This fiery red bird was Dom, the firebird that Taylor kept in captivity. Taylor took out a small insect from somewhere and fed it to Dom.

Dom swallowed the little bug into his stomach in one bite, squinted his eyes with satisfaction, flapped his wings and flew towards Taylor's head again. He had to pay attention to any abnormal situation around him and report it to his master.

"This little bird is really good. When I gave it to you, I should have caught one for myself."

Taifas looked at Dom with some envy as he had turned into a small red dot above their heads.

"Maybe I should get myself an iron-feathered eagle. The feathers of this kind of eagle are as strong as steel and it has strong melee ability. When it grows to adulthood, its wingspan will be four meters wide and it can carry people to fly. I think that thing is quite practical."

Taifas began to talk to himself again, and it seemed that he had begun to imagine the handsome scene of an eagle sitting under his butt.

Taylor had by now learned to get used to his companion's occasional erratic behavior and eccentric ideas.

The mission came to the familiar second half. During this period, they were attacked by monsters every day. From being stretched to the limit in the beginning to being able to cope with it with ease, they can now face the siege of five monsters without changing their expression.

According to the information provided by Dom, there are now six monsters surrounding them, two snakes, a green-haired monkey, two tigers and a bear.

Taylor took out two elemental puppet cores emitting ochre-colored light from his pocket and threw them on the ground. In an instant, a large amount of mud condensed and turned into a mud-armored warrior holding a spear and a giant wolf with bared fangs and claws.

The secret of the elemental puppet core is to engrave the witchcraft rune sequence on the magic core in the form of mental power, and at the same time add other materials for further strengthening. The final elemental puppet core can condense elements and gather into its own body.

As long as the core of the elemental puppet is not broken, the puppet can continuously recover by consuming the magic power in the core.

The two puppets Taylor threw out were the giant mud wolf and mud armor warrior that came with the introductory knowledge of primary elemental puppets.

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