Testing Room

The squeaking friction sounded in the room...

Located in the center of the room, a stone pillar with a diameter of over one meter was tightly entwined with withered yellow vines, frantically strangling it.

Soon the originally gray stone pillar gradually changed its original color to light yellow with the strong strangulation of the withered vines.

A moment later, the stone pillar that could test the power of spells no longer changed color. Raymon, who was standing by, nodded in satisfaction. With a flick of his finger, the withered vines that were still trying to tighten instantly collapsed and soon fell to the floor.

"How is the result of the attack power data?" In response to Raymon's question, a large amount of data appeared in Raymon's vision. Soon the results of the chip were displayed.

"Death Coil: Level 2 spell. Attack power 40 units. Estimated increase in power by 20% for every 1 point increase in spiritual power. Optimization and improvement possible 37%."

Seeing this data-based attack power result, a faint smile emerged on Raymon's face. He was very satisfied with such data. He soon retrieved the data of the Ice Spike spell as well.

"Ice Spike: Level 1 spell. Attack power 16 units. Estimated increase in power by 10% for every 1 point increase in spiritual power. Optimization and improvement possible 91%."

"Optimization and improvement" was a new technical term formed by Raymon's chip after absorbing and organizing knowledge about spell improvement.

The higher the percentage, the higher the possibility of improving the spell model. The lower the percentage, the higher the probability of failure or even collapse of the spell model improvement.

The power of the two spells had been tested many times by Raymon. He had stayed in this room belonging to the spell power testing room of the Wizard Academy for three days.

After Raymon mastered the "Death Coil (Improved Version)" spell proficiently, he came here to test the power of the spells he had mastered to obtain accurate data values.

Because Raymon's slow increase in strength brought gradual improvement in his body genes, Raymon's increasing physical fitness also made him more and more eager to advance to a formal wizard.

But according to his mentor Edgar the Wizard's explanation of advancement, Raymon was very confused. Edgar the Wizard solemnly told him that for a level 3 apprentice to reach the peak of a level 3 apprentice and have the ability to impact a formal wizard, the assessment standard was to successfully cast a level 3 spell.

Although this standard seemed simple, according to the successful experiences of many advanced formal wizards, each level 3 apprentice could have at most two opportunities to impact a formal wizard. Therefore, to increase the probability of one-time successful advancement, almost all level 3 apprentices would use potions to increase the probability of successful advancement.

However, for level 3 apprentices, these auxiliary potions had considerable individual differences when used. Even if mature potions were available, it could not guarantee that each potion would allow the person preparing to advance to successfully impact at one time.

Therefore, the use of auxiliary potions was also the biggest problem troubling all those preparing to advance.

Raymon still remembered Edgar's original words. "Although the success rate of level 3 apprentices advancing to formal level in the underground world is much higher than that on the surface, only 10% of level 3 apprentices can advance successfully at one time."

Such a low success rate of advancement surprised Raymon and also increased his vigilance. He knew the consequences of failing to impact a formal wizard.

So at that time, he asked about the half of the advancement resources promised by the academy in the contract.

Until today, half a month later, Raymon still clearly remembered the mocking expression on Edgar the Wizard's face at that time.

Edgar told Raymon frankly that although the academy would provide some potions as auxiliary resources for students' advancement, even a great wizard could only provide experience with potion use as a reference and could not guarantee a method for 100% successful advancement of level 3 apprentices!

For Raymon, who was extremely eager to meet the advancement requirements, Edgar the Wizard only told him that for apprentices without top talent, experiencing some life-and-death struggles in this extreme state might stimulate the growth of spiritual power and provide the most basic guarantee for future impacts on formal wizards.

Thinking of this, Raymon frowned tightly.

Because after Raymon's chip collected and organized a large number of books about wizards, Raymon's estimation of the requirements for advancing to a formal wizard through the chip gave him only a rough grasp of the requirements for his advancement.

Successfully releasing a level 3 spell was the most basic requirement. After calculation by the chip, Raymon also knew that a certain level of spiritual power, about 20 points, was required for advancement.

Although these requirements did not seem very high at present, as Raymon prolonged his meditation time, the slowing increase in spiritual power made Raymon realize the problem.

Even though Raymon had meditation grass to improve the efficiency of his meditation, according to the records of his meditation effectiveness over the past two weeks from the chip, Raymon came to the frustrating conclusion that it would take him three years to meet the advancement requirements through meditation!

Raymon's current spiritual power had increased to 7.2 points, but to meet the standard for impacting a formal wizard through meditation, even if Raymon maintained twenty hours of meditation per day, he could increase his spiritual power by at most 0.4 points per month.

The chip's conclusion about the slowing increase in spiritual power through meditation was that Raymon was currently stuck in a bottleneck in the growth of spiritual power. Especially with Raymon's medium talent, unless he was willing to spend a lot of time increasing his spiritual power, he had to find other ways to increase his spiritual power.

"Damn wizard talent! The fivefold difference in meditation efficiency compared to those with top talent is simply an insurmountable gulf!" Raymon cursed to himself as he stood up.

But this feeling of frustration was soon relieved by Raymon. At least he was not a person of ordinary talent; otherwise, the hundredfold difference in meditation effect and the slight difference in spiritual power would result in decades of time consumption!

"Fortunately, there is medium wizard talent, otherwise I really have to find a place to enjoy myself for decades!" Raymon consoled himself with a bitter smile. Although he did not have the conditions of top talent, Raymon, who had embarked on the path of wizardry, would not easily give up.

The only thing that still gave Raymon a headache was that his current protective force field was purely wood-attributed.

Even with level suppression, if Raymon really encountered a level 2 apprentice proficient in fire spells, Raymon would be in big trouble...