Three more years passed without notice. Taylor was nearly twenty-two now.
Under his teacher Krite's guidance and through his own practice, Taylor's knowledge of puppetry had improved by leaps and bounds. He had even learned techniques such as constructing concealed mana channels, reverse-copying mana runes, and multiple enchantments.
In elemental studies, the conceptual transformations of fire element properties, some conceptual properties of lightning elements, and foundational hypotheses regarding spatial elements had been Taylor's primary areas of research over the past three years.
Taylor had also studied the resonance of mental power, the connection between mental power and meditation methods, adaptive improvements to meditation methods themselves, the concept of chaotic attributes, and advanced potionology.
Over these three years, Taylor had been like a sponge that could never be saturated, frantically absorbing the essence of knowledge from its vast ocean.
With mental power supporting him, Taylor was already a learning machine. Combined with the Mild Mechanized Mind he had developed himself, which further doubled his learning efficiency, he had managed to acquire such an enormous body of knowledge in just three years.
Taylor's accumulated knowledge had already surpassed the limits expected of a third-level apprentice. Today, both his mana and mental power had reached saturation as well.
He had thoroughly touched the solid barrier separating ordinary lifeforms from first-level extraordinary lifeforms. As long as he perfectly constructed a first-level spell model, he could further stimulate an eruption of mental power, allowing his life level to undergo a complete evolution driven by that increase in mental power.
Advancing to a first-level wizard required excellent physical condition and refined control over mental power. The construction of a first-level spell model was a one-time affair; there was no practice beforehand. Before constructing it, one could only observe it repeatedly and speculate within one's mind, never