Three months later.
When Grim woke up from his long meditation, he couldn't help but show a trace of worry on his face.
"A.I. Chip, how's my meditation efficiency this time?"
[Calculating … Spiritual force has increased by 0.007. If I want to reach the peak of 20 points, I'll need 139 days.]
The corner of Grim's mouth twitched.
He now had a Body of Fire, and he had used the tower's authority to create a residence with dense fire elemental energy. His daily staple food was magical food that was beneficial to his physical body and spiritual force. Coupled with the Fire Diamond Pillow and the Deep Sea Flower (which was helpful for meditation), his daily progress was only 0.007 points. This made Grim, who could easily reach 0.05 points in his meditation, feel extremely uncomfortable.
Ever since he became a Quasi Magus, Grim realised that basic meditation and studying spells did not have much effect on the growth of spiritual force. With the help of the A.I. Chip, he was able to monitor the growth of his spiritual force in detail every day. As for those Quasi Magi who did not have this method, their efficiency was ten times lower than his. What did they rely on to endure this especially difficult period of pain?
Grim closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then came to a realization.
It seemed that those Quasi Magi rarely stayed in their residences to meditate and accumulate spiritual force. Instead, most of them ran around, doing their best to train themselves through missions. In the past, Grim had always thought that they did this for the sake of resources. Now, it seemed that it was because of the slow growth of spiritual force that they wanted to stimulate their growth through wandering on the edge of life and death.
This was not a bad idea!
"A.I. Chip, you've analysed for a long time. Have you found the reason for the slow growth of spiritual force?"
[Beep. Mission model completed. Analysis shows that the main task of an acolyte is to increase the concentration of elemental energy in their body and strive for a qualitative change. That way, they can become a magic creature — a Magus.
After entering the Quasi Magus stage, the slow growth of spiritual force is because the accumulation of elemental energy is reaching a bottleneck. Due to the lack of a necessary core, the energy accumulated in the early stages will cause unpredictable disturbances due to the characteristics of the elemental energy. This causes the efficiency of energy accumulation to be greatly reduced in the later stages.]
Similar attraction and repulsion of elemental energy?
This was the basic theory of elemental magic that had been concluded by previous Magi. To put it simply, among all the elemental particles, elemental particles of the same attribute were more likely to gather together, thus forming a homogenization of space. Sorcerers called this phenomenon same-sex attraction!
However, there was a limit to this kind of fusion. Once it reached or exceeded this threshold, Magi would find it extremely difficult to fuse elemental particles of the same attribute. It was as if there was a great repulsion between these particles of the same sex, refusing to get too close to each other. Therefore, some wizards called it universal repulsion.
Elemental particles have both the same attraction and the same repulsion. The key lies in the local concentration of the elemental particles. If the concentration was lower than the threshold, it would show attraction, and if it was higher than the threshold, it would show repulsion. The Wizards had not come to a detailed conclusion yet, or perhaps they had, but Grim was not qualified to know about this kind of witchcraft knowledge.
"A.I. Chip, is there any way to solve the current problem?"
"Beep, data analysis completed. There were two possible solutions.
The first option was to transplant the crystal.
A sorcerer-apprentice's spiritual force is scattered and lacks the necessary constraints of a core. The fire-type crystal could be implanted into the brain by transplanting the crystal to weaken the repulsion of the fire elemental particles.
Advantage: It can solve the problem of slow growth of spiritual force and increase the success rate of advancement.
Disadvantage: The fire-type crystal implanted from the outside cannot be compared to the elemental core condensed by the body. It will limit the possibility of further development.
The second option was to stimulate the spiritual force.
Directly bypass the weak stimulation of the spiritual space caused by the accumulation of elemental particles. Instead, find a way to stimulate the spiritual body and reduce the toughness of the spiritual body to increase the upper limit of the spiritual force.
Grim furrowed his brows.
Well, due to the limitations of the A.I. Chip's knowledge, Grim did not like either of the two options it proposed. The first option was simply neglecting the essentials and destroying one's future. It was only useful for those Quasi Sorcerers who had no hope of advancing. The second option was not very reliable either. He did not know if this method could produce a Magus, but it would definitely produce a lunatic.
Since it was difficult to use the unorthodox method, Grim could only focus his attention on the origin of the Magus.
Spiritual force!
The reason why human Magi set 21 points as the basic threshold for breaking through the limits of humans to become a Magus was probably because 20 points was the limit of a human's body!
After crossing this threshold, human Magi would have some fundamental differences from regular humans, and would be more similar to a magical creature. Hence, the huge difference in strength between a Magus with 21 points and a Quasi Sorcerer with 20 points was probably because the basic data of their bodies were completely different!
With the help of so many advantages, Grim did not need to go through the Life and Death Trials to increase his spiritual force by 0.007 points every day. If other Quasi Sorcerers knew about this, they would definitely go crazy with jealousy. However, to Grim, this was still too slow!
Because … Because the recent changes to the demonic worm Entek made his heart palpitate!
He had originally thought that his progress had far surpassed everyone else, and that it was only a matter of time before he caught up to Entek. However, after encountering Entek in the high tower, Grim's thoughts became uncertain!
That demonic worm Entek seemed to be changing every day, and the immense spiritual pressure it exuded was becoming more and more obvious. According to the A.I. Chip's scan, Entek's spiritual force had most likely exceeded half, which was 20.50 points. He had only become a Quasi Sorcerer half a year ago!
This meant that the demonic worm Entek's spiritual force was not any weaker than his own.
Of course, this could also be related to Entek entering and exiting the fifth floor of the Swamp Tower every two to three days. From the A.I. Chip's scan, it was very likely that Magus Anderson had conducted bloodline fusion experiments on Entek's body. This was because the A.I. Chip had actually detected a familiar scent of blood on Entek's body.
Although the scent of blood was extremely weak, the A.I. Chip's cell-level genetic detection was still able to pick it out, down to the finest detail. What made Grim even more furious was that the source of this bloodline was very likely Mary.
This meant that the blood sample that Mary had previously given to Magus Anderson had been used on the demonic worm Entek's body. The two bloodlines battled in Entek's body all day, which was equivalent to him living on the edge of life and death every day. It was no wonder that his spiritual force was increasing rapidly every day.
It was impossible to reconcile with the demonic worm Entek. What worried Grim the most was that if Entek reached the peak of a Quasi Sorcerer before he did, then something that he did not wish to see might happen.
From the publicly available data in the books on magic spells, it could be seen that the success rate of Magi in the scattered Forest of Towers was not high. Basically, it was already a miracle that two or three out of ten Quasi Sorcerers could advance to become Magi. Although innate potential played a big role in the advancement ceremony, luck was still the main factor that determined the success rate.
Although a powerful Quasi Sorcerer had a higher chance of advancing than a weak one, it was not a hundred percent. Some people with outstanding innate potential, who were gifted by the heavens, still had the possibility of failure when advancing to become a Magus! As for those with inferior innate potential, if they were lucky enough, they could become the rulers of this world in one fell swoop — Magi!
Hence, in the Magus Continent, any Quasi Sorcerer would tremble with fear during the advancement ceremony, afraid that they would miss a step and become a failure in life. After all, after a failed advancement ceremony, the upper limit of a Quasi Sorcerer's spiritual force would decrease significantly, and the chances of advancing to the next rank would drop by 50%.
Hence, apart from those who were favored by the heavens, no Magus family would be willing to invest in a Quasi Sorcerer who had failed once.
This was what Grimm was most worried about!
If … If that Entek reached the peak of a Quasi Sorcerer first, and he only needed to tell the Magi in charge of the advancement ceremony that he could guarantee a hundred percent success rate by devouring Mary, then … What would happen?
One would be a Quasi Sorcerer who had signed a family contract, the other would be a Quasi Sorcerer who had signed a service contract. One had a hundred percent success rate, and the other had two unknown success rates …
If Magus Anderson was involved, then Mary's life would really be in danger!
Grim didn't tell Mary about this. In a situation where there was no other way to break the stalemate, telling the impulsive Mary about this would not help. Unless Grim could catch eight or ten Magi in one go and feed Mary, she would have to rely on herself to break the stalemate.
Grim lowered his head and looked at his right hand. There were two black beetle fragments in his palm. Using his powerful Elemental Sight, Grim could barely see the constantly changing Mastavins on the fragments. One of the fragments only had the word "Save me", while the other had the word "Devour Mary".
These two fragments did not appear at the same time. The first one had crept in through the window a month ago when Grim was meditating in his dwelling. A black beetle the size of a fingernail had crawled onto his wooden table and exploded, leaving behind a strange shell with the word "Band". As for the second one, it had only appeared a week ago.
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