Wizard Tower, Library
Leo held the Multiplied Mana Absorption Great Witchcraft he had traded from Tao Rhys. This wizarding book recorded Tao Rhys's entire process from discovery, observation, summarization, to the final innovative completion of the spell's creation.
It's fair to say that Tao Rhys didn't hold back at all in this deal.
The story begins with Tao Rhys observing a beast called the Many-Toothed Beast, a herbivorous animal that survives by gnawing on roots and stems with its sharp teeth.
This beast always becomes exceptionally aroused at certain times, during which the battle lasts 30% longer than usual. Beasts that are normally invincible can be defeated during this period.
Most notably, this period was the only time in the life of the Many-Toothed Beast that it ate meat.
Tao Rhys initially thought that the Many-Toothed Beast, like other wild beasts, were in their mating season and were doing this to attract better female Many-Toothed Beast.
However, as more observations were made, the idea of a courtship period was changed, because the excitement period is not within the courtship period, and both male and female Many-Toothed Beast exhibit the same symptoms.
After multiple dissections, the root cause of the Many-Toothed Beast's hyperactivity was finally discovered.
During this period, the Many-Toothed Beast's mana will always increase by 30% out of nowhere, and the mana consumption time will be 40% longer than in other periods. This is the reason why the Many-Toothed Beast's combat power increases inexplicably.
Through repeated simulations of different environments, it was discovered that the Many-Toothed Beast of this period absorbed mana three times faster than in normal times.
The wizard's notes, after tens of thousands of experiments, dissections, and studies, finally revealed the key.
At the moment Many-Toothed Beast reaches adulthood, its body secretes a substance that stimulates a leap in physical development.
If the Many-Toothed Beast can withstand this unusual leap in advancement, then it can become a first-class beast.
However, if their bodies cannot withstand such rapid improvement, then they will be stuck in stagnation for the rest of their lives.
He changed from a herbivore to a carnivore during this period because his body needed a lot of energy to increase the success rate of evolution. After that, regardless of whether he succeeded or not, he would revert to his original herbivore diet.
In fact, this is the instinct of life to overdraw on the body's future in order to gain an opportunity for a leap in evolution.
Crossing the past, Level 1 life
If you can't overcome that, you'll be just an ordinary wild beast for life.
The cruelty of life is laid bare!
After numerous experiments, including killing several populations of Many-Toothed Beast, Tao Rhys successfully secreted this substance that stimulates physical enhancement.
Her original idea was to stimulate the slaves to improve using the same method. If her idea succeeded, this witchcraft would be a groundbreaking achievement!
Wizard expeditions often involve more than ten times the number of slaves. Even if Tao Rhys's magic can increase the advancement of slaves by one-tenth, it would mean a large number of level two and three slaves.
It will directly and exponentially increase the wizard's power. Regardless of the world, level two and level three wizards are the backbone of the force, and their numbers will not be too large.
In the normal evolution of life, the higher the level, the more its numbers decrease by tens of times. But once this double-digit multiple is reduced to a single-digit multiple, it means that second and third levels will appear in an explosive manner.
Imagine that terrifying scene: originally only a fraction of level two and three, now suddenly their numbers are almost the same as level one...
This is a nightmare for any conquering world, leaving them with only surrender and trembling as their only options.
But for the Wizard World, this is the best news!
Leo could sense Tao Rhys's excitement from the wizard's notes; she was so thrilled and passionate, as if she had become the protagonist of the world, standing at a pivotal point that would change its course.
Every word you write now will influence the direction of the world's development!
Tao Rhys conducted her experiments with the determination to change the course of the Wizard World, and the dense experimental records demonstrate her resolve.
Reality is cruel, everyone knows that, but when faced with choices, people often pray or selectively forget this cruelty, believing that luck will smile upon them.
In her wizard's notes, she recorded 370,000 kinds of slaves, but none of them produced this substance in the same way.
She then injected the substance extracted from the Many-Toothed Beast into the slaves, but the extremely strong rejection caused the experiment to fail irreversibly in its very first step.
fail,
fail,
Constant failures
One hundred and fifty years of failures turned Tao Rhys from a once ambitious wizard into a dejected and ordinary one.
Furthermore, due to the excessively long duration of the experiment, she missed a significant amount of cultivation time, becoming the lowest-ranking level one Level One Elemental Wizard. Even more terrifyingly, she depleted her entire family's savings.
One hundred and fifty years of experimentation, 370,000 experimental subjects—this is an unimaginable astronomical expenditure.
Although Tao Rhys's family is a wizarding family, with Level Two Wizard in the family, the cost of such an experiment is probably only something Stigmata Wizard could easily afford.
The fact that she has been able to persevere for 150 years is already a result of the entire family's desperate efforts to support her.
However, the experiments that yielded no returns for a long time, coupled with the family's financial crisis, forced Tao Rhys to abandon her experiments and participate in expeditions to earn rewards in order to make up for the trouble she had caused her family over the years.
Sometimes fate is just that unpredictable.
Just as Tao Rhys was about to give up, she suddenly realized that if she changed her idea about her experiment, it could also be a good form of witchcraft.
That is to shift the focus from stimulating slaves to stimulating wizards, changing the experimental subjects to wizards, lowering the experimental requirements by one level, not seeking a one-time, explosive evolutionary leap, but simply temporarily increasing the speed at which wizards absorb elemental energy.
The sheer number of experiments and the deep understanding of them allowed Tao Rhys to easily create witchcraft.
The first experimental subject was herself. Her experimental notes recorded her emotional fluctuations before the Tao Rhys experiment, a feeling of resolute determination to fight to the death.
The result was unexpectedly smooth; Tao Rhys's witchcraft was surprisingly successful!
This is the origin of Tao Rhys's Multiplied Mana Absorption Great Witchcraft!
Leo carefully examined the structure of the witchcraft and the way the magic flowed; it was extremely beautiful, even revealing a kind of aesthetic appeal.
Before seeing this wizard's notebook, Leo felt that this witchcraft was incredibly powerful.
After all, Leo had personally experienced this witchcraft dozens of times in the Black Tomb World. He knew that at that moment, the body's energy absorption speed increased by 5 to 10 times, which could increase a normal wizard's combat time by 2 to 3 times.
What an amazing boost to magical power!
But upon closer inspection, you'll find...
Um,
That's awesome!
Most importantly, this was still a simplified, temporary version of the witchcraft that Tao Rhys originally wanted to create!!!
"Use mental energy to construct magical nodes, stimulate the body's cells to secrete them, and accelerate the absorption of magical energy."
This is a form of sorcery dominated by mental power. With the wizard's consent, Tao Rhys's mental power interferes with the wizard's body, stimulating certain cells and thus accelerating the rate of magic absorption.
Leo could understand the principles of witchcraft, Leo could also understand the nodes of mana construction, but...
My mental strength is insufficient!!
The minimum requirement for this spell is Level One Elemental Wizard with over 95 points of mental strength.
This is normal, after all, it was created by Tao Rhys when she was at level one.
But Leo isn't Level One Elemental Wizard!
His mental strength is only 50 points!!
"Heh, we've come full circle."
Leo counted on his fingers, noting that the exchanged sorcery required level one mental strength.
Crystal Heart capable of autonomously absorbing mana would most likely require at least level one mental strength to activate.
Furthermore, the newly acquired methods preserved by the Eyeless Spider require even greater soul power to activate.
It was as if everything was pushing him to advance to the level of Level One Elemental Wizard; if he didn't advance, his life would be ruined!
"So I need to advance to the Level One Elemental Wizard before I can acquire these abilities, right?"
Leo couldn't help but smile wryly. If advancing to the Level One Elemental Wizard was so easy, he would have done so long ago.
It has been almost half a year since Leo returned, and he has not yet set foot on the fourth floor of the Wizard Tower.
Two hundred thousand failed experiments would break even the strongest will; it was a place of heartbreak!
Leo always intentionally or unintentionally avoided that place.
Avoiding problems won't solve them, but it will prevent you from facing them now!
Like an ostrich burying its head in the sand during a sandstorm, Leo seemed to be telling himself that as long as he couldn't see it, nothing had happened.
But looking at Tao Rhys's wizarding notes recording her experiments, she realized she had spent 150 years on a single spell.
These 150 years are three times longer than the time he was in defeat.
The number of experiments he conducted was six or seven times greater than his.
Compared to Tao Rhys, Leo's failure seemed as ridiculous as a naughty child not wanting to go to school.
This wizard's notebook, seemingly a record of Tao Rhys's witchcraft, is also nothing less than a slap in the face from Tao Rhys to Leo.
The wizard's notebook was flipped to the last page, which contained no experimental data, only a sentence written in hard, iron-like handwriting.
"The instincts of life are so wondrous, yet I lacked the eyes to perceive them..."
The words convey a sense of helplessness, loss, and even despair.
The prolonged failures completely crushed Tao Rhys!!
Elemental Wizard are a bunch of crazy guys. Any wizard who hasn't given up on their wizarding path will go through this painful and torturous process.
They might achieve nothing for decades, centuries, or even millennia, and even if they die in the wizard's tower, they will only be a skeleton unknown to anyone.
However, once the Elemental Wizard completes their experiment, the explosive power they gain will be unimaginable.
Just like Tao Rhys,
If she achieves her initial goal and realizes the opportunity for the slave army to make leaps and bounds, then her name will shine as brightly as the stars in the sky, illuminating the entire Wizard World!
Unfortunately, she... failed!