Runes and Mind Sea Space

An hour later,

Wayne slowly opened his eyes and felt the changes in his body. His physical constitution had strengthened by at least threefold.

He raised a hand and clenched his fist.

He felt as though he could punch a cow to death now.

Of course,

Wayne knew that was merely an illusion caused by his sudden surge in strength. He rose and headed for the bathroom.

With magic energy particles entering his body for the first time and naturally strengthening it, impurities had also been expelled.

Across the surface of his body,

A thin layer of grease had formed.

Half an hour later,

Wayne emerged in pajamas, sat on the sofa, and directly closed his eyes to meditate, entering his mind sea space.

When he sensed it again,

Wayne finally understood why the Lord Wizard Academy only recruited students with top-tier talent.

The area occupied by just twelve runes had already reached twelve square meters—one square meter per rune.

That sounded like very little.

A top-tier talent holder's mind sea space had a radius of one kilometer. Converted into square meters,

That came to roughly 3.14 million square meters.

Was that large?

Of course it was large enough, yet it still was not enough. The number of runes in a wizard array did not grow in a straight line.

It grew exponentially.

An apprentice-level wizard array had only twelve runes.

But once it reached a first-level wizard array, it started at one thousand runes. That was also why

Lord Wizards

Were the protagonists of this era.

Not to mention the number of runes contained in even higher-level second- and third-level wizard arrays.

After that,

Wayne did a rough calculation based on cultivating without any cheats.

At the apprentice level, he needed to imprint thirty-six runes. Even if he cultivated with utmost diligence,

And condensed two runes a day,

He would need only eighteen days to finish. Even allowing two more days to combine the wizard arrays, in other words, he could complete apprentice-stage cultivation in twenty days.

But to advance into a first-level official Lord Wizard, he needed to condense at least one thousand runes.

That would take five hundred days.

That was over a year, but no one could stay tightly wound and cultivate nonstop. Adding the time spent relaxing and resting along the way,

It would take at least around a year and a half.

Then there were the mandatory courses.

Even if those took only half a year,

That meant becoming an official Lord Wizard and passing the academy's minor assessment three years later would require roughly two years, give or take.

At that thought,

Wayne slowly let out a breath. "It seems the Lord Wizard Academy's

First three years may look relatively free,

But they have their own thresholds."

As long as one was disciplined enough during those three years, one could basically advance.

And after advancing to a first-level Lord Wizard,

Why was there so much freedom?

It was also because subsequent advancement took far too long.

At that thought,

Wayne quickly took it in stride. He was not an ordinary person.

He was a cheater whose cheat had never been turned off.

Back to the point.

Wayne began sensing the changes in his mind sea space. After the Golden Nurturing Array took shape,

The mind sea space

Had undergone two changes. First, magic energy particles continuously flowed into the mind sea, then the wizard array sent them throughout the mind sea space.

They were used to strengthen the mind sea space

And expand it.

Yet Wayne could only sense that his mind sea space had grown by less than a centimeter. Even that was only because

The mind sea space was part of Wayne himself, allowing him to perceive its minute changes.

"Tut, tut. No wonder the mind sea area eventually becomes insufficient. Seeing the leopard through a tube, even with higher-level nurturing arrays,

They may not be much faster. At this rate of growth, compared to the space's original area,

It would be a miracle if it were enough to use."

Shaking his head as he spoke, he turned to observe the second change.

The second change was that after magic energy particles entered the wizard array, they nourished his mental power, allowing the droplets manifested from mental power to continuously

Increase and recover!

That was why

During the apprentice stage, people often chose to combine auxiliary wizard arrays.

After observing all the changes,

Wayne left his mind sea space, poured himself a glass of orange juice,

Then sat down to think.

Based on the knowledge he had encountered so far, his path of cultivation

Already held limitless promise.

What he needed to do now was cultivate diligently.

With that thought,

Wayne continued studying Basic Meditation. After all, which wizard array runes he would imprint next

Needed careful consideration.

The road was long. He would take it one step at a time.

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed. Wayne had advanced to a high-level Lord Wizard apprentice and gradually completed the combination of three more wizard arrays.

Namely,

Apprentice-level · Ten Blades Array: Ten golden blades within the array slashed in from every direction.

Apprentice-level · Golden Radiance Formation: It formed a golden-element shield capable of blocking apprentice-level attacks.

Apprentice-level · Flight Array: Within the wizard array's range, it allowed himself or others to fly.

These three new wizard arrays were Wayne's achievements over the past half month, together with the first Golden Nurturing Array.

The current Wayne could be said to be

Equally capable in attack and defense,

Able to assist and flee.

Of course,

What delighted Wayne most was that he no longer had to ride Didi flying cars.

However,

This period of high-speed cultivation had come to a temporary end. After all, the number of runes contained in a first-level wizard array

Was so great that even with Wayne's infinite mental power supporting him, he still needed a great deal of time to complete the imprints.

Therefore,

Wayne planned to first study the mandatory courses

And search for a first-level wizard array diagram suitable for himself.

After all, Basic Meditation

Only recorded apprentice-level wizard arrays. First-level wizard arrays had only introductions, without any runes.

With that thought,

Wayne stood up, went downstairs, and headed outside the villa.

A quarter of an hour later,

Wayne descended from the sky in front of the central building of the teaching district

And walked inside.

Upon entering the first floor, he did not see any freshmen. They had probably all realized it by now.

If Wayne could discover the academy's invisible threshold, the others naturally could as well.

Walking forward,

Wayne looked at the large screen above, which displayed over a hundred courses.

But only ten bore red lettering marked mandatory. Clearly, those ten had to be studied.

They were,

[Basic Dragon Information],

[Basic Elf Information],

[Sanctuary History],

[Introduction to Wizard Levels],

[Introduction to Knight Levels],

[Basic Sprite Information],

[Runes Basics],

[Relations Between the Three Great Races],

[Sanctuary Power Distribution],

[Contract Array Basics].

After reading through those ten mandatory courses, Wayne did not rush to choose one.

Instead, he shifted his gaze

To the other elective courses. But after looking for a while, he lost interest.

Because they were all designed for students with top-tier elemental talent but poor mental talent.

For example: [Guidance on Mind Sea Area Classification], [How to Enter Meditation].

Those were courses for people with poor mental talent, who needed outside intervention to enter their mind sea spaces.

For those with top-tier talent,

It was as easy as turning over one's hand.

After taking a quick look, Wayne lost interest and chose a mandatory course that was about to begin.

[Basic Sprite Information].

This was the course Wayne chose, because before long, he would be able to obtain a sprite.

Naturally, he needed to understand them.

After checking the teaching building and classroom floor shown below, Wayne turned and left the teaching center building.