Entering the Divine Kingdom, 99.9 Mental Power

"All right." Lohr closed the laboratory door and turned to join the apprentice ranks.

The Third-Level Apprentices standing at the front hurriedly stepped back when they saw Lohr approach, leaving an open spot at the very front.

Lohr smiled and nodded at everyone. Without standing on ceremony, he walked straight into the vacant position.

There was another person beside him, a rather powerfully built man. This was probably Randolph, whom Kateya had mentioned to him before.

At the head of the group, Fray saw Lohr join them and immediately continued leading everyone forward.

Randolph glanced at Lohr without saying anything, merely twitching his nose twice.

Meanwhile, Lohr was busy responding to the enthusiastic greetings of old acquaintances behind him and did not notice Randolph's little movement.

"Lord Lohr, it has been a long time. I really never expected that after visiting my place only once, you would already have your own laboratory," Lus said with a smile.

"Yes, it has been a long time." Lohr smiled and nodded.

"Lord Lohr..." Tia, standing nearby, was unwilling to fall behind and hurriedly greeted him as well.

"Lo..."

Although Lohr had rarely left his laboratory during the past six months, that did not stop people from crowding around him whether they knew him well or not.

He chatted as he walked, and only after more than three hours did they finally reach the stairway beneath the Wizard Tower's top floor.

"We're here. Go on up." Fray, who was walking in front, gave them a reminder.

Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent and climbed the stairs with reverence in their hearts.

They had never seen Nelson, the wizard who owned this Wizard Tower. He was a great existence capable of standing shoulder to shoulder with gods!

They were about to meet such a figure. How could they not be excited?

Yet when they climbed the stairs and looked ahead, they suddenly discovered that all they could see were the backs of countless Third-Level Apprentices dressed in wizard robes of various colors.

Tens of thousands of Third-Level Apprentices stood in the vast open square without uttering a word. The silence was terrifying.

"The Earth-Fire School is here too. Looks like everyone has arrived. Then let's depart."

Suddenly, a figure over five meters tall, surrounded by countless earth elements, appeared at the very front of the square and swept his gaze over the crowd below.

After confirming that no one had violated the rules by bringing external items such as First-Circle scrolls, he immediately waved his hand.

Before the apprentices could even see what had happened, they found themselves enveloped in dense earth elements and lifted into the air.

Whoosh—

Feeling the weightlessness beneath his feet, Lohr could not help twitching the corner of his mouth.

"This way of entering the Divine Kingdom is really simple and brutal. No wonder the Divine Kingdom Trial was only held for a few editions before being abandoned."

Forcibly smashing through the Divine Kingdom's subspace barrier with brute force was something only a Fourth-Ring Wizard could accomplish, and it caused tremendous damage to the Divine Kingdom.

If they kept doing this frequently, the Divine Kingdom would probably collapse before long.

Rumble—

Who knew how much time had passed when Lohr suddenly felt the earth elements enveloping him crash into something and begin shaking violently.

He had been prepared for this. He immediately raised both hands against the elemental wall to keep his head from being smashed.

About two or three seconds later, the shaking stopped and was replaced by a sensation of rapid descent.

Bang—Creak—

Not long afterward, the sound of heavy objects striking the ground rang out, accompanied by the sound of trees being crushed.

The moment he landed, the earth elements surrounding Lohr directly merged into the ground and vanished.

Lohr rubbed his dizzy, rattled head and looked around.

The place where he had landed appeared to be a forest. Everything around him was pitch-black, and he could only see seven enormous trees within ten meters of him, their tops invisible to the eye.

"It really is dark. As expected of the Dark God's Divine Kingdom." Lohr clicked his tongue.

However, he could sense waves of pressure unique to Divine Power Crystals coming from every direction around him, as well as the repeated sounds of heavy objects landing in the distance.

"I'll add some points first. There's no rush to search for Divine Power Crystals and special potions."

Lohr looked around, cast Levitation Spell on himself, climbed a tree more than thirty meters tall in a few quick movements, casually found a branch to sit on, and summoned the game panel.

[Name: Lor Rokes

Age: 13

Physique: 2.7+

Mental Power: 46.2+

Psychic Energy: 462+

Spells: Small Lava Eruption Spell (0.7+0.3 rings)+, Adaptive Rock Barrier (0.9+0.2 rings) (Limit Break available, no First-Circle spell slot, cannot advance), High-Temperature Amplification (0.7 rings)+, Wall of Flame (0.7 rings)+, Levitation Spell (0.5 rings)+, Consciousness-Sea Microscope (0.9 rings, Limit Break 0.1 rings) (Limit Break available, no First-Circle spell slot, cannot advance)+, Earthvein Breathing Spell (0.3 rings)+

Meditation Talent: Level 5+

Meditation Method: Fire-Earth Meditation Method (Third-Level Apprentice)

Charge Points: 51,588 points, 58.33%]

Fifty thousand Charge Points—this could practically be called Lohr's entire fortune.

There were now only a little over fifty contribution points left on his contribution card. Calling him the poorest Third-Level Apprentice would not be an exaggeration.

Ignoring that long string of spells, Lohr first tapped the plus sign behind Meditation Talent.

[Meditation Talent: Level 5 → Level 6

Charge Points: 51,588 points, 58.33% → 51,332 points, 58.33%]

"Again!"

[Meditation Talent: Level 6 → Level 7

Charge Points: 51,332 points, 58.33% → 33,412 points, 58.33%]

After this addition, the plus sign behind Meditation Talent disappeared entirely.

The gap between Level 5 and Level 6 Meditation Talent was not too large, requiring only a few hundred Charge Points.

But the gap between Level 6 and Level 7 talent was far greater, costing Lohr nearly twenty thousand Charge Points.

The Level 8 and Level 9 talents beyond that were even more astronomical. In his previous life, not a single player had truly raised their talent to Level 9 using Charge Points.

"Level 7 talent is good enough. If I cultivate the Meditation Method now, I can increase my Mental Power by at least 0.1 points a day. That's five times faster than even my previous point-adding cheat."

Lohr thought, Afterward, I can seize some Aptitude Enhancement Potions and see whether I can use them to reach Level 8 Meditation Talent.

After upgrading his Meditation Talent, his gaze moved upward and finally settled on Mental Power.

[Mental Power: 46.2 → 99.9

Charge Points: 33,412 points, 58.33% → 29,497 points, 58.33%]

In an instant, Lohr's Mental Power reached the peak of Third-Level Apprentice.

Next, he only needed to advance his meditation model, determine the primary and secondary Fire-Earth elements, and choose an apprentice-level spell as the core spell for advancement before becoming a First-Circle Wizard.

"Advancing the meditation model takes three days. There's no rush. It won't be too late to advance after seizing more things during the first few days."

He was determined to use Small Lava Eruption Spell as his core to advance into a First-Circle Wizard. Only then could he fuse another First-Circle spell and obtain his first spell with a trace of spatial properties.

No one in the Divine Kingdom could interfere with his choices, but that might not be the case once he returned to the outside world.

Therefore, he had to set aside three of the ten days of the Divine Kingdom Trial to advance his meditation model.

The three days in the middle were the most cost-effective choice.

As for officially advancing to a First-Circle Wizard, that would take at least half a month. He could only do that after leaving.

"Mental Power is settled. Next come the spells."

Lohr lowered his gaze, which finally settled on that long string of spells.