Wizards: Starting with Fairy Crests

004: Apprentice Meditation Method

According to the rules of the High Tower, all new apprentices joining the Grey Tower can only live in the shacks surrounding the Grey Tower.

Only those who become formal apprentices in the Grey Tower can live inside it.

There is only one requirement to become a formal apprentice: to advance to the intermediate apprentice level within two years.

Louis took a sip of water, his eyes practically overflowing with undisguised jealousy: "Yes, they moved to the tower. The Habsburg family really hit the jackpot this time. In less than half a year, Jackman has meditated on four basic will runes and advanced to intermediate apprentice. It's an enviable high-level talent. God is so unfair!"

The difference in cultivation efficiency between apprentices with different talents is quite terrifying.

Taking the advancement from low to medium level as an example, super talent generally only takes 1 to 3 months; while high talent only takes a few months to half a year.

It takes one to three years for someone with average talent, and at least five years for someone with low talent. As for the remaining inferior talent... being able to advance to the level of an average apprentice in more than ten years is already considered as hard work.

Lin Qi narrowed his eyes.

Becoming a formal apprentice in the Grey Tower is undoubtedly the ultimate goal for all of them, the ordinary apprentices.

After all, living inside the tower would grant access to more abundant resources, higher levels of knowledge, and superior training conditions.

It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that it changed the fate of their class.

As a time traveler, Lin Qi knew that this held an even more irreplaceable and invaluable meaning—

Survive!

The purpose of the Gray Tower is to provide food for the Nightmare Beast, and the so-called food is these apprentices with abnormal mental abilities.

When the Nightmare Beast awakens, everyone will be engulfed in the nightmare and die in fear.

However, there is a small exception: the wizards of the Grey Tower and their apprentices.

They all belonged to the second-tier wizard's retinue and private property, so of course they wouldn't be used to feed nightmare beasts.

In other words, as long as one becomes a formal apprentice of the Gray Tower, one can avoid the calamity that will soon follow.

This is also the most practical way to survive in this predicament.

Running away is pointless.

These apprentices have all been branded with the spirit of the Gray Tower, and are not allowed to leave the Gray Tower on their own.

Moreover, the Gray Fog Jungle is fraught with danger, and key exits are heavily guarded by Gray Towers.

Without Grey Tower's permission, no one in this jungle can leave this place, leave this table.

"fair..."

Lin Qi seemed thoughtful: "Of course it's unfair..."

......

After seeing Louis off, Lynch immediately began to work on improving his strength.

The apprenticeship stage primarily involves meditating on basic will runes, which are spiritual substances that communicate with the rules of the elements.

There are ten in total, and the apprentice levels are determined by these ten, namely:

1～3枚低等学徒、4～6枚中等学徒、7～9枚高等学徒，完成第十枚的冥想就能晋级巫师了。

Lin Qi's current strength is equivalent to that of a low-level apprentice who has just finished meditating on one rune...

Unfortunately, the original owner of this body had been busy trying to achieve magical results for the past six months, leaving very little time for meditation. Being able to complete the meditation of one rune was already considered a sign of his considerable talent.

The room was dimly lit, with only one candle burning on the wooden table, and the air was filled with the stench of burning fat.

Lin Qi sat cross-legged on the simple wooden bed, his eyes closed, his breathing slow and long, his consciousness sinking into that chaotic sea of ​​consciousness.

He could "see" a faint trace of spiritual energy painstakingly outlining and filling the contours of the second basic will rune. The process was agonizingly slow, like carving words on solid ice with a blunt needle.

After an unknown amount of time, the slight stinging sensation from the exhaustion of his mental energy brought him out of meditation.

He opened his eyes, a hint of weariness in them, and with a slight thought, summoned the semi-transparent light blue system panel.

Name: Lin Qi

【Occupation: Low-level Apprentice lv1 (271/3000)】

[Attributes: Strength 0.6, Agility 0.8, Constitution 0.5, Spirit 0.6]

[Mana: 6/6]

[Mastering Knowledge: Apprentice Meditation Techniques, Forest Fairy Crests]

His gaze was fixed on the experience points column.

271!

It only increased by 5 points compared to before meditation.

Lin Qi frowned deeply.

Each meditation session grants 5 experience points, and even though the experience gained from each meditation session may fluctuate, it will never exceed 10 points.

With his current strength, someone of average talent like him can only complete two deep meditations a day; any more would damage his spiritual essence.

In other words, he can only gain a maximum of 20 experience points per day.

Going from 271 to 3000 requires 2739 experience points. Even if everything goes smoothly and there are no bottlenecks, it will still take... at least 137 days, more than four months.

And this is only to reach level 2. There are three levels for lower-level apprentices, and the experience required for each level increases significantly.

A year? That's probably too optimistic.

He stared at the cold numbers, his fingertips unconsciously tapping his knees.

Outside the window, the massive shadow of the gray tower was slowly engulfing the shantytown, like a silent mockery.

The seemingly peaceful area will soon become a land of the dead, and no one will be spared.

Time...time is what he lacks most.

Although advancing to intermediate apprenticeship within a year falls within the two-year time limit stipulated by the Gray Tower, Lin Qi knew he couldn't wait that long because—

There are now less than eight months until the Nightmare Beast awakens!

In other words, if he cannot advance to intermediate apprentice within these eight months, the wizard will not care how much talent or potential he has in the future; he will end up like any other apprentice, nothing more than fodder.

genius?

The wizarding world has no shortage of geniuses!

Lin Qi stroked his chin, lost in thought: "Looks like we'll have to think of another way..."

If this were in another world where fate is locked in by talent, Lin Qi would probably have no other good options but to wait for death.

But fortunately, this is a wizarding world.

Mysterious potions, enigmatic magical ingredients, and unforeseen, extraordinary encounters...

This fantastical and bizarre world is filled with all sorts of wonders, and talent is certainly not the only solution to an apprentice's fate.

As long as the right path is found, even those with inferior talent can grow into high-level beings.

And coincidentally

Lynch knew that the correct path for everything in the world existed.

"It seems..."

Lin Qi pondered for a moment and said, "I need to visit the Evil Eye Witch as soon as possible... Although it's inevitable that I'll be corrupted by the Evil Eye Tyrant, there's no better way right now..."

Evil Eye Witch: A wandering wizard-merchant who roams the Gray Mist Forest, whose true identity is actually a follower of the Evil Eye Tyrant.

You can buy a strange potion from her that can greatly enhance an apprentice's meditation efficiency.

of course,

Everything in the wizarding world comes at a price, and the price of this strange commodity is—

Pollution!

"As for pollution..."

"We'll figure out a solution later. As long as the soul isn't parasitized and enslaved, there's still time..."

He made a decision quickly.