Doug's Tragedy, Advancement to Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice
He left Castle.
He returned home.
Ian also took out two Knowledge Crystals.
Before long, Ian had finished examining them.
"No wonder they said it was incomplete!"
Ian's teeth ached.
The cultivation of a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice required condensing a core rune, and the Four-Element Resonance Meditation Method truly was different.
Ordinary meditation methods involved condensing a new, separate rune to serve as the core of the entire Mental Power Space.
But as a meditation method passed down from the academy, Four-Element Resonance was far from that simple.
It used four Advanced Runes to construct a resonance field, then used the power of those four runes to refine a core rune.
This rune would fit perfectly with the previous four runes.
What the library's portion lacked was precisely the most crucial part: the resonance field.
What would that lead to?
The greatest effect was that it would make the refining process incomparably slow. Moreover, the resonance field itself was a powerful means of attack, capable of greatly strengthening the connections between runes.
Especially the connections between compatible elemental wizardry.
"What a scam!"
Ian's teeth ached again.
He also saw why Horton had not been afraid of him running off. What he had given was still incomplete.
It only contained the part about condensing the core rune; everything afterward was completely absent.
But Ian was no longer resistant to it.
He could sense that this meditation method was truly powerful.
He really did not know how Horton had obtained it from the Elemental Mystery Wizard Academy back then.
"I can ask around when I go outside this time."
Ian pondered inwardly.
For no other reason than the name alone, he felt it should be a good academy suited to him.
In the blink of