Improvement and Research 2

Two hours later

Lin Sheng opened his eyes, rose to his feet, picked up the Compendium of Zero-Level Spells in his hands, and returned it to its original shelf.

He planned to leave the library and head to the testing grounds to try out the effects of spellcasting.

As he passed Senior Lidu, she was sitting with another group of female apprentices, all of them flipping through textbooks on basic physics.

This foundational subject, which Lin Sheng had mastered in half an hour, seemed immensely difficult to them.

Seeing their grave expressions and the tense atmosphere, Lin Sheng found it inappropriate to say goodbye to Senior Lidu and simply slipped away quietly.

Outside the library lay a dense, thriving woodland.

The tall, straight trees stood like iron stakes driven upside down into the earth, upright and hard.

After making his way through the woods for a while, Lin Sheng finally reached the final section of the White Rock Woodland outpost—the Snakefruit Experimental Zone.

He had no idea why it was called that. Perhaps its founder liked eating snakefruit?

There were not many people in the experimental zone. Most formal mages had their own laboratories, and to prevent leaks or similar issues, they rarely came to public testing areas like this.

Only apprentices who had just learned spells did not care about such things.

The advantage of testing spells here was that it was cheap and the service was thorough. For certain low-level spells, free measured quantities of casting materials were even provided.

Lin Sheng registered his identity and mentor information with the mudman guard at the entrance.

Only after paying a small sum of gold coins was he allowed inside.

Led by a mudman, he was soon assigned an experimental room.

After the mudman withdrew, the door shut behind him.