Grimm shuddered and suddenly came out of his deep meditation.
Suddenly sitting up on the bed, Grim gasped for air. Everything in the dream was still vivid in his body. Even the traces of burning pain were still fresh in his memory.
Was it an illusion, a dream, or something else?
Grimm began to feel bewildered.
In the past, he had meditated countless times, but every time it was a blur. It was rare for him to have such a clear and intuitive feeling. It was as if … as if the dream he had just had was also under his control!
"A.I. Chip, perform a new self-examination on me!" Grimm seemed to have sensed something and ordered.
[Beep. Beginning body scan of Host … Scan complete. Beginning self-examination report …]
With the A.I. Chip's prompts, a new self-examination report appeared in his mind.
Name: Grimm
Race: Human
Attributes: Strength 4, Agility 4, Vitality 3, Spiritual Force 8.03
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Profession: Apprentice (Elementary)
HP: Profession Experience State: Healthy
Profession Skills: Scroll Transcription, Spell Reading
Personal Skills: Flaming Hand
As expected, there were some abnormal changes in his basic data.
If not for the A.I. Chip's precise monitoring, Grimm would not have known that the deep meditation gave him a 0.03 increase in spiritual force and 2 points of Profession experience.
This meant that the dream-like scene just now was not an illusion, but something that had really happened and existed.
Then what were those colorful spots of light?
As soon as this thought appeared in his mind, the answer automatically appeared.
Elemental particles!
Every person with a Magus' innate talent would have different elemental affinities. The lights that he saw in his meditation were actually elemental particles that floated in the Magus World. He had an affinity with the fire element, so those uninvited red lights were the so-called fire elemental particles.
According to the classification of elemental particles, his affinity with the fire element was undoubtedly the highest, followed by the green plant element and the yellow earth element. As for the others, they had all been rejected by the elemental particles.
As for the white light that Grimm was trying to capture in his meditation, it should be the so-called dark elemental particles. Due to the incompatibility between him and Grim's Origin, it would be ten times or even a hundred times more difficult for him to capture the dark elemental particles. Although the dark elemental particles that were incompatible with his body could slightly increase his spiritual power, they also damaged his body in disguise.
As far as he could remember, the few apprentices in the Wizard Tower who mainly focused on dark element affinity were not in good health. They usually looked weak, probably because their bodies had been eroded by the dark element particles.
It seemed that an acolyte's innate affinity attribute could affect the efficiency of each meditation, and the efficiency of each meditation could in turn increase the acolyte's spiritual force.
Grim recalled what he had seen and heard in the Meditation Space and could not help but frown. According to his estimation, in the meditation space just now, the number of white light spots was obviously greater than the red fire elemental light spots. Didn't this mean that in such an environment, an acolyte with an affinity for the dark element would definitely have a higher meditation efficiency than him?
Why was this happening? Shouldn't the elemental particles in the world be balanced?
Could it be … Could it be that this was deliberately done by the Wizard Tower?
Grim's expression suddenly turned ugly.
He remembered that the master of the Wizard Tower, Wizard Anderson's innate affinity with the dark and wind elements were the most important.
No wonder many acolytes who entered the Swamp Tower at the same time as him had already grasped two or three spells and successfully advanced to intermediate acolytes, while he was still struggling on the path of a beginner acolyte. It was not only his innate talent that was dragging him down, but also this damned 'harsh' environment.
Grim hesitated for a moment, but he did not try to meditate again. For a beginner acolyte like him, although meditation could slightly increase his spiritual force, it still could not replace sleep. Therefore, in order to recover his energy as quickly as possible, he had to let go of his worries and have a good sleep.
Looking at his spiritual force that had been depleted by more than half, Grim shook his head with a bitter smile and once again fell asleep on his bed.
… …
The next day, Grim, who was still in deep sleep, was suddenly awakened by the A.I. Chip's beep.
At this moment, he was shocked to find that the A.I. Chip's solidified Burning Hand's spiritual force model had been completed.
Soon, all the data related to this spiritual force model flowed into Grim's perception.
Burning Hand was a low-grade fire spell that could both attack and defend. Its power was not that great, but there were still many runes that formed the spiritual force model. There were at least 28 of them. Each of these 28 runes had their own unique pronunciations and were almost independent of each other. They seemed to be unrelated to each other, but they could be combined to form a complete spell model.
If such a task was given to an ordinary person, it would be impossible for most mortals to memorize 28 incantation syllables that were independent yet closely connected to each other, and then recite them in order without missing a single syllable.
If Grim had just arrived in this world, he would not have believed that he could do this. However, in this strange world that was filled with elemental energy, he was able to do it easily.
Of course, this was also related to his high spiritual force of 8 points.
In the past, if Grim wanted to chant all 28 incantations in one breath, it would take him 5-7 seconds. However, after it was solidified, Grim could save the time and only need to pour elemental energy into the Burning Hand that was already formed in his spiritual space.
This meant that he only needed 2-3 seconds to cast a complete version of Burning Hand, greatly reducing the casting time. As his control over the fire elemental energy deepened, there was still room for him to shorten the casting time.
There was more than one piece of good news.
Since this was a spiritual force model that had been solidified in his mind, he did not need to exhaust his spiritual force to construct it bit by bit. Hence, this Burning Hand, which normally consumed 2 points of spiritual force, had now been reduced to 1 point.
Did this not mean that the number of spells he could cast in the future had doubled?
This was a discovery that made him wild with joy!
However, the mighty A.I. Chip's prompt sounded in his mind again.
[Beep. Discovered that there is room for improvement. Would Host like to proceed? Note, this improvement will consume 1 point of spiritual force per day and require 100 Profession EXP. Estimated time of completion is 34 hours and 25 minutes!]
Oh, improving Burning Hand?
It sounded fine. But why would it consume so much Profession EXP? If he had to consume Profession EXP for every spiritual force model in the future, he was afraid that the little bit of Profession EXP he had accumulated over the past 6 years would be squandered in the blink of an eye.
Grim did not let this surprise get to his head. Instead, he chose to reject it after thinking about it calmly.
First of all, Burning Hand was only a close-range spell, and he was not satisfied with its battle value. Sooner or later, it would be replaced by a more valuable long-range attack or defensive spell, so there was not much point in continuing to invest in it.
Secondly, with his current spiritual force, his spiritual space could not hold more than 3 solidified models. In this situation where there were too many monks and not enough gruel, leaving the limited spiritual space for Burning Hand was obviously not the best way to develop in the future.
On the other hand, Grimm was more inclined to solidify long-range spells, and he even had a specific target in mind.
That was another fire elemental spell that he had been studying for half a year — Flame Arrow.
Flame Arrow was a low-grade fire elemental spell. It could condense fire elements into a magic arrow and shoot it at a target, dealing 7 points of physical damage and 18 points of fire elemental explosive damage.
With Grim's pitiful 3 points of vitality and 11 points of HP, a single Flame Arrow would be enough to kill him. That was why Grimm had always dreamed of obtaining a long-range attack spell.
However, it was a pity that such a low-level spell like the Flame Arrow contained 34 Spell Runes. This caused him to bitterly study it for half a year, but he still could not grasp the method of constructing a spiritual force model.
After such a long time, Grimm had spent no less than 20 knowledge points and a large amount of time on the Flame Arrow Spell. Even his own Witchcraft research had been delayed. However, he was still hovering at the threshold of success, unable to become an elite apprentice who could grasp multiple spells.
However, with the help of the A.I. Chip, the threshold should be much lower!
Filled with excitement, Grim did not care that it was breakfast time. He hurriedly washed his face and sat in front of the wooden table, flipping through his magic notes. All the spell models, incantations, mental strength oscillations, and casting materials related to the Flame Arrow had been recorded by Grimm in the book.
A real spell casting was not as simple as ordinary people thought.
The 34 syllables of the incantation were not something that could be recited in one breath to complete the spell casting. This process was an extremely complicated result of the perfect coordination of the hands, mouth, heart, and brain.
When reciting each incantation, Grim's spiritual force had to be adjusted to the frequency of the incantation, and his hands had to complete the necessary gestures.
If there was any mistake or delay in the entire process, the only consequence would be … a backlash.
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