Alvado Continent,
Karugusha Highlands,
Inside the Shadow Crow Holy Tower Arcane Academy.
Biting cold wind blew through the gaps of the wooden cabin into the room, and Luo Lin, curled up on the wooden bed, could not stop trembling.
At this moment, he felt as if he had been thrown into a high-speed tumbling drum, and two memories from different worlds were constantly and forcibly kneaded together in his mind.
One side was the young Luo Lin from Blue Star who was traveling around the globe.
The other side was the teenage Luo Lin from the Shadow Crow Holy Tower Arcane Academy who had fallen into despair and committed suicide.
The severe headache slowly receded like the ebbing tide, leaving behind lingering pain and a patch of icy clarity.
Luo Lin, or rather the brand-new Luo Lin who had fused two souls, slowly opened his eyes.
Coming into view, the ceiling of the wooden cabin was covered with a thin layer of frost, and the crude, rough environment was worlds apart from the warm and comfortable hotel rooms of Blue Star in his memory.
Struggling to sit up from the wooden bed, Luo Lin supported the edge of the bed with one hand while covering his face with the other.
He remembered that he had sailed out to sea and encountered a storm as a result.
Then, after he opened his eyes, he arrived at this unfamiliar place, and his mind also gained the memories of another teenage Luo Lin who shared the same name.
Quickly browsing through the memories of this teenage Luo Lin, he only now realized that he had come to an unfamiliar world.
Or rather, he had traveled through time into a world dominated by extraordinary wizards.
As for his current self, he was a wizard apprentice within the so-called Shadow Crow Holy Tower Arcane Academy who was about to experience the evaluation that would determine his future destiny.
Stretching out his hand, Luo Lin looked at his left wrist, where there was still a wound that had not yet fully healed.
This wound was the very reason why he was able to occupy this body.
According to the original owner's memories, all wizard apprentices recruited into the Shadow Crow Holy Tower Arcane Academy would receive five years of free training.
As long as they passed the evaluation in the fifth year, or reached the standard of a Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice during this period, they could stay and continue their studies, marching toward the legendary Official Wizard.
If they failed to meet the apprentice evaluation standards in the fifth year, they would be saddled with the huge debts spent by the academy on five years of training.
At the same time, if the apprentices were unable to pay these debts, they would directly become experimental materials for Official Wizards.
Under this immense pressure, quite a few apprentices with poor aptitude who felt that their future was hopeless committed suicide in various ways.
The original owner of Luo Lin was one of them.
Wizards... individuals possessing extraordinary power?
I didn't expect to actually travel through time into such a magical world.
What's even more surprising to me is that there is a pile of messes waiting for me after the time travel.
Luo Lin muttered to himself.
This was because while just checking his memories, he also discovered that there were only two months left until the so-called apprentice evaluation.
This meant that if he did not reach the so-called standards two months later, he would take on the huge debt for the original owner and embark on a debt-repayment journey lasting who knows how many years.
Moreover, if he had no way to repay these, then just as stated in the memories, he would become a lab rat on an Official Wizard's experimental table.
For a moment, Luo Lin felt his temples throbbing.
Yet he did not lose heart because of this reason, but instead pondered whether there were any methods to break the deadlock.
Right at this moment, a light blue panel that only Luo Lin himself could see appeared in his line of sight.
[Subject: Luo Lin] [Race: Human] [Status: Mild mental shock, weak, malnourished] [Rank: First-Rank Wizard Apprentice (Progress 15%)] [Attributes: Physique: 0.8 Spirit: 1.5 Mana: 3/15] [Mastered Knowledge: Basic Meditation Method (Novice 36%) Basic Rune Identification (Novice 17%) Basic Magical Botany (8%) Basic Potion Material Processing (22%)] [Specialty: Efficient Scholar (Passive)]
This is...
Seeing this familiar interface, Luo Lin felt that it was very much like the panel players possessed when he was addicted to games back then.
The panel data coldly and objectively reflected Luo Lin's predicament.
The original owner's talent was truly mediocre, with most of the knowledge mastered over five years remaining at the entry level.
Even the core Basic Meditation Method for apprentices progressed slowly.
If this pace continued, there was absolutely no possibility of passing the assessment in two months.
Luo Lin's gaze moved, finally locking onto [Feat: Efficient Scholar].
Soon, the detailed information regarding this [Efficient Scholar] appeared on the panel.
[Efficient Scholar (Passive): Time required for learning is halved, time spent using tools for manufacturing is reduced by 25%]
"Learning time halved! Manufacturing time reduced by 25%!"
Luo Lin repeated the contents above in a low voice, his heart beating uncontrollably faster.
Was this not an ability tailor-made for him?!
Time was the resource he lacked the most at present!
And this feat directly doubled his effective learning time!
Luo Lin took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.
The biting winter wind still poured in through the cracks, but at this moment the coldness in Luo Lin's heart was being driven away by a fiery warm current.
Since there was already a solution, he could not continue to sit idly by.
Standing up from the wooden bed, Luo Lin wrapped his gray apprentice robe tightly around himself, trying to minimize heat loss in the cold wooden house.
Glancing around the room he was in, not to mention that it leaked wind everywhere, even the furnishings inside were pitifully shabby.
A wooden bed, a set of wooden chairs and a table, a water vat used for washing, and a wooden chest for placing things—this was everything that could be seen inside the wooden house.
Shabby, this was Luo Lin's first impression after seeing it.
However, these shabby conditions did not produce any other emotions in Luo Lin; he walked over to the water vat used for washing.
He scooped up water containing ice shards and splashed it onto his face.
Immediately, the bone-chilling cold made him shiver, while also driving away the last trace of haziness in his mind.
"Two months' time is enough!"
Looking at the swaying reflection in the water vat, Luo Lin's gaze became resolute.
Wiping away the water stains left on his face, Luo Lin returned to the wooden bed, wrapped his body in the thin quilt on it, and then focused his attention on [Basic Meditation Method (Entry 36%)].
This was the foundation of all wizards, and also the main way to increase spiritual force and mana.
Luo Lin sat cross-legged on the bed, pulled the quilt on his body with both hands, and then, according to the memories of the original owner, tried to enter a meditative state.
The process of this meditation was more difficult than he imagined.
The cold wind, anxiety about the future, and physical discomfort were all interfering with him.
However, after slowly settling his heart and entering the meditative state, he began to concentrate hard, guiding the weak mana to build a circulation within his body.
And at this time, the effect of [Efficient Scholar] began to show.
He could clearly feel that his control over spiritual force had become a bit more refined, and those previously obscure and difficult spiritual force guidance techniques had become much clearer in his mind.
After a complete meditation cycle, Luo Lin immediately looked at the panel.
[Basic Meditation Method (Entry 37%)]
The progress had increased by 1%!
Luo Lin's heart shook.
According to the original owner's memories, in the past he needed to cultivate bitterly for a whole day, or even longer, to gain such a minute improvement.
And now, one focused meditation session had achieved it!
The flame of hope burned fiercely in his heart.
Luo Lin did not hesitate anymore, moving his body to swallow the piece of black bread on the table that was as hard as a rock, gulping down a few mouthfuls of cold water, and returning to the bed to plunge back into meditation.
Time passed in silence.
When the noisy sounds of other apprentices getting up and moving around came from outside the window, Luo Lin woke up from the deep meditation.
He let out a long breath of turbid air, a trace of fatigue flashing in his eyes, but more of it was excitement.
[Basic Meditation Method (Entry 41%)] [Mana: 5/15] [Spirit: 1.5 (↑)]
Five meditation sessions had increased progress by 5%, and mana had also recovered by 2 points.
More importantly, the spiritual attribute seemed to have loosened, showing signs of growth!
The sense of fulfillment brought by this visible growth could not be described with words.
However, at this moment, an urgent sense of hunger and a weakness more obvious than before followed closely behind.
Luo Lin knew this was a side effect left over from the original owner's suicide yesterday, and his body had not recovered yet after he transmigrated.
As for the hunger, it went without saying; something like black bread could be seen just from its appearance alone to be incapable of satisfying one's hunger.
Nutrition must keep up, otherwise the body will collapse first!
Luo Lin frowned. He had to find a way to get food that could fill his stomach and restore his health.
Rumble—
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