29: Radiation

However, he had Abby, so his learning capability was excellent. He was confident that he would do well even in a large crowd.

"With this method, I can certainly save some magic crystals!" Wade though.

He only had seven Magic Crystals left. Earlier, when he was in the Mission Area, he saw that the missions that awarded Magic Crystals generally had more troublesome tasks, and required one to be a Rank 2 Apprentice at the very least to survive the tasks. Right now, Wade did not meet the basic requirements to even take those missions.

"As for the cleaning tasks, they are all done by those spell slaves, and the rest are all grabbed by others. There is simply no way for me to earn magic crystal through this methods!"

Wade was a little frustrated. Magic Crystals were the currency among Sages, and were also the most common way to obtain greater knowledge in the academy. Without Magic Crystals, his studies would be impeded.

"Hm... I had better attend those public classes first and advance to a Rank 1 apprentice. After that, I'll consider taking up missions to earn some Magic Crystals!" Wade sighed while making the decision.

"Abby, how is the mapping of the academy?"

[Beep! 58.4% has been mapped]

Abby replied. In front of Wade was an image, in which the whole of the academic ground was covered, each layer of the buildings was displayed and divided into multiple parts, and it looked like a beehive.

Some areas even had names attached, with Mike's explanation for them on the side.

The areas that could be entered freely were marked in green, while the dangerous areas were in yellow. As for the areas that even Mike did not dare enter, Abby indicated them in red, representing extreme danger.

For those red coloured danger zones, Wade had decided to walk around them. He even decided not to ask about them before becoming a Rank 5 Apprentice.

"The mapping has been recorded!" Wade nodded his head and said farewell to Mike, "Mike, thank you for accompanying me for a day, I remember most of the important areas of the academy now!"

"That's great! If there are any things that you don't understand, you can ask me!" Mike said in good intentions.

"Of course!" Wade gave a small smile.

After bidding farewell to Mike, Wade ate his dinner and went back into his room. He began to practice the meditation technique.

A Sage's meditation is an endless journey, only with daily commitment and persistence, can one achieve enough Mental Force to become a being that can control mysterious powers.

"Abby is only useful for analysing the meditation technique and pointing out the nodes. As for the creation of the nodes, it was completely dependent on my own Mental Force, and it also relied a little on my comprehension and aptitude. In these areas, Abby does not provide much help!"

After meditating, Wade felt his Mental Force increase by another thin fraction, and then he entered into a deep respite.

....

After several days,

In a classroom full of teenagers in black robes could be seen listening to a middle-aged man, he was teaching them with a look of annoyance on his face.

"A Rank 1 Apprentice is actually someone with a stronger Mental Force than an average person. At the same time, he is able to move energy particles and store them inside their body, and is a newbie at conceptualising the creation of magic power. Only a Rank 2 Apprentice will be able to access a magic spell's formula and cast the spell in its complete form.

But once their body creates magic power, their stats can be strengthened through constant radiation as their body resists the poisoning from the external radiation." after completing the lecture the man left the room in a hurry.

Wade was there in the class and after hearing all that the professor said he made his judgment on the levels separating the apprentice based on the data on the meditation technique.

"Abby! Retrieve all the data I have gathered today, and begin analysing!"

This is what Wade had been doing all this time. He would do his best to collect data from other people without drawing their attention, and store the data in folders.

He created a folder with the data regarding Mental Force and how to transform them, a lesson which Wade learnt yesterday. The information required was too much, and the process may be measured in years.

[Beep! Analysis completed. Result: The entire surroundings of The Black Academy is contaminated with traces of radiation. The biggest sources of contamination are Sages, and a few experimental setups and materials. The Host is suggested to stay away from these sources, or to increase the resistance of the body!]

"As I expected! There are no regular human beings in the whole of this academy because of the environmental effects that the Sages and Apprentice bring about. As for these effects, only a Sage can resist against it a regular human would most likely have a lifespan of a few years in this environment!"

Wade's face dimmed, and conjured up the images of a few people, including Sam and Fred.

"According to the readings of the radiation emitted by them, a Sage is actually a moving source of radiation. Each one of them is like a mini nuclear reactor, or, could they have made use of the radiation to advance??" Thought Wade with creased brows.

"No matter what, I must hurry up and become a Rank 1 Apprentice. The longer I take, the greater the damage my body will receive." Wade decided.

In the next three weeks, Wade would report to where Fred was every day, assist in the cleaning of the experiment lab, and sort out a few insignificant experiment resources.

Other than finishing his regular chore at the lab with the professor, he would always go to the library to amass more knowledge that he could get for free from the library. Many of the common aspects which he didn't know about the sage world had now been unravelled by him.