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In the next ten days, Salin kept repeating the spell, but he couldn't complete it even once. No matter how perfect and skilled his incantations and gestures were, he just couldn't complete this simple Level-0 spell.
During this time, Magician Jason only appeared once. He spent the rest of his time in the laboratory in the living room. It was as if he didn't need to eat. He kept doing magic experiments in the room.
Salin was a little anxious. But there was no point in rushing when it came to learning magic. He could only practice again and again. Finally, on the third ten days, Salin learned the spell.
He rushed to Jason's laboratory excitedly. Jason saw Salin's excitement and sighed. "You used thirty days to learn a Level-0 spell. Your aptitude is very poor. I suggest you stop. Otherwise, you'll only be an apprentice for the rest of your life. "
Salin was stunned. "Teacher …"
"You're not satisfied? Let's do an experiment. " Jason took out a crystal ball and placed it on the table. "Complete a spell with this."
Salin quickly cast a reading spell. The transparent crystal ball didn't change at all.
Jason put the crystal ball away. "It's worse than I thought. Your spiritual power is strong, but your elemental affinity is too weak. According to the test results, you might only have a chance to become a level-one Magician when you're a hundred years old. Salin, if you're willing, I'll give you some money. Go to Scotia City and find a swordsmanship club. At your age, learning swordsmanship might be a way out. "
Salin seemed to be drenched in cold water. If he didn't have this chance, he might have accepted Jason's suggestion. But thirty days of practice had made him addicted to magic. When he completed his first Level-0 spell, the joy of controlling everything could no longer be erased from his bones.
Become a swordsman? Just like the guards in Ceylon City, walking the streets every day, blocking the city gates to collect taxes. Or become mercenaries, unable to find a wife in their thirties?
"Teacher, is there no other way?" Salin struggled to ask.
"There is, but I can't afford the price. This isn't a problem that can be solved with gold. Unless you have a Magus of the ninth rank who is willing to help you change your constitution, you won't be able to do so. Even so, you'll only be a low-level mage in the future. You won't be able to reach level-4, "Jason replied helplessly.
"Teacher, I still want to try. I'd rather be a 100-year-old apprentice than become a swordsman. Please teach me the law of meditation. "Salin clenched his teeth. He did not have a good impression of swordsmen. There were no decent swordsmen in Ceylon City. Moreover, he had taken Jason's gold coins to learn, who knew what would happen. Having been cheated so many times since he was young, Salin was a little disappointed in this world.
"If you insist, fine. But after learning my Law of Meditation, you can't leave unless you become an official Magician."
"I'm willing to continue."
"My law of meditation is very precious even in the Qinyin Empire. If you leak it to others, I will take your life. Do you understand?" Jason said calmly. Salin felt a chill in his heart. He knew that his teacher was not joking. If he went against this request …
"Where should I start?" Jason muttered to himself. It was his first time taking in a student, and he was at a loss. When his teacher had taught him the law of meditation, he was already a level-2 apprentice, and had a lot of basic knowledge. Salin clearly did not know anything.
"The law of meditation actually includes meditation, elemental absorption, hypnosis, and spiritual resonance. Normal mages can only learn meditation, and the full set of laws of meditation can only be learned from a Great Mage. The book only introduced a single meditation technique. You'll never become a Great Mage if you rely on self-study … "
Jason patiently gave Salin supplementary lessons from the beginning, and then imparted them one by one. It only took Salin half an hour to completely remember Jason's words. Jason sighed at Salin's cleverness, and at the same time felt sad for him. Such a clever child had an abnormally low elemental affinity.
"Alright, I've told you everything about the law of meditation. You're very smart. Just read the books above in order. Meditate at least once a day, it might be good for you. Remember to cook for me once a week. If you run out of bread, go to the city to buy it. I'll leave you a gold coin. When you've completely mastered the law of meditation, I have some work for you. "
"Yes, Teacher." Salin lowered his head and left the room. He was still young, and did not understand that he had chosen an extremely difficult path. There was only excitement in his heart, as if the door to another world had opened for him. But he did not know how much he would have to pay to enter this door.
Salin went straight to the first room with books, and began to study. The first shelf was language. Salin did not even know a few words, and could only study step by step. Reading magic was amazing, and allowed him to learn words on his own. The only problem was that he had to rest for half an hour every time he used reading magic before he could use it a second time.
Just like that, Salin used a month to finally learn the common language of the continent, which was the language he spoke now. He wanted to take a look at the books at the back, but he found that the contents of the magic books in the room were very large, and not all of them were written in the common language. There were at least twenty languages in the books on the shelves. Salin had to finish learning all the books on the first shelf before he could continue reading.
Mages were all knowledgeable people, and without reading magic, there was no way to complete magic learning.
Fortunately, after a month, Salin finally mastered the law of meditation. Now he could use reading magic twice in a row, and then recover completely in ten minutes.
The magical elements stored in a magic apprentice's body were pitifully small, and Salin had even less than the average apprentice. Even so, he was very satisfied. There were four huge rooms, each with dozens of large bookshelves and tens of thousands of books, enough for him to read.
He was no longer in a hurry to advance; he was eager to absorb more knowledge. Salin patiently learned in order. There were more than a thousand books on language, the common language, Myers language, magic language, Qin 'in language, Scotia, Tanggulas language … Salin even learned the Caucasian language. The Caucasians had never produced a Mage. The Caucasian region was still very primitive, and only had priests. But Salin was obsessed with learning languages. He used half a year to master the languages introduced in more than a thousand books.
It was slow at first, but as he recognized more and more words, his learning speed became faster and faster.
By the time he finished the last book, he could use reading magic three times in a row, which meant that he had become a level-2 magic apprentice. Salin didn't know that it was actually because his mental strength was very strong, and he didn't consume much when controlling magic. Since he was only casting level-0 spells, the consumption was pitifully small. In reality, the magical elements stored in his body were still at the level of a level-1 apprentice.
This speed couldn't be said to be the last, but it was absolutely unprecedented. If an average person practiced at this speed, they would have been kicked out long ago. Salin had the best law of meditation, but after using half a year, he didn't improve the ability to store magical elements in his body. Jason wasn't being perfunctory. Salin really wasn't suitable for learning magic.
The next content was general knowledge of magic. It was still a bookshelf with more than a thousand books. The mysterious veil of the magic world was lifted. Salin didn't know how much he could learn, but he believed that hard work would always pay off.
The origin of magic was unknown. It was generally believed that magic on the Myer Continent had at least 30,000 years of history. It was only perfected during the second dynasty more than 10,000 years ago, and was divided into six major elements: earth, water, wind, fire, light, and darkness. From then on, the calendar of the Myer Continent was perfected. A year was divided into 12 months, and each month had 30 days. Six days made a week. The sixth day of each week was the dark day, and it was the rest day for all professions. Even after the fall of Myer Goddess (Goddess of Nature) and the rise of the Holy Church, this habit didn't change.
The calendar of the Holy Church was too troublesome. The Holy Church thought that a week should be seven days. After a hundred years of implementation, the entire continent still only used the new calendar within the Holy Church. In the end, it was still left unsettled.
Before becoming a level-1 mage, apprentices weren't limited to casting level-0 spells. After becoming a level-6 apprentice, a mage apprentice could actually learn a level-1 spell and complete it. This was the magic formula for casting spells above one's level. There was only one chance to cast spells above one's level, and it wasn't strange for mages to be able to do it.
However, after a mage cast spells above their level, they would fall into a weakened state, and it was almost impossible for them to recover by themselves. They could only rely on meditation to recover the magic strings they used up.
The magic strings were the cornerstone of magic. Without the magic strings, a mage apprentice would never be able to advance to an official mage. To form the magic strings, one must have strong mental strength and elemental affinity. Salin's elemental affinity was very low, so Jason said that if he wanted to become a mage, he might have to wait until he was 100 years old.
According to Salin's speed of improvement, this wasn't an exaggeration.
As for what the magic strings were, there were detailed descriptions in various books, but they couldn't be unified. What Salin could understand was that the magic strings existed in a mage's body, and provided the basic elemental energy for a mage to cast spells. Through constant training, a mage apprentice allowed the magic elements to accumulate in their body, from quantitative change to qualitative change. This process was the process of forming the magic strings, and it was also the process of advancing from an apprentice to an official mage.
What made Salin discouraged was that he had never seen a book that mentioned another way to form the magic strings. If he relied on accumulation, he really had no hope of becoming a mage.
After half a year, all the food stored in the kitchen was finished. Salin knew that it was time for him to go shopping in the city. He went to Jason's lab and told him that he was going to the city.
"How's your study going?"
"I can already complete three reading spells consecutively." Salin emphasized the word "three", hoping to attract his teacher's attention.
"Alright, go." Jason didn't say much else, and just gave Salin another five gold coins. Salin's improvement was a little faster than he had expected, but Jason knew that this was because of Salin's strong mental strength. He judged that Salin still had the strength of a level-1 apprentice, so casting another level-0 spell wouldn't make much sense. At least, it wouldn't help Salin accumulate enough magic elements. In other words, he wouldn't be able to form the magic strings in the end.
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