Chapter 16: Remolding the Spirit Sea

"Disband!" Lucien thought, and instantly, the spiritual power bound by 97 spiritual runes dispersed, turning into specks of spiritual power permeating his Spirit Sea. As the structure formed by the spiritual runes collapsed, his Spirit Sea also became somewhat unstable, and the vast spiritual power seemed to have a tendency to disperse throughout his body.

"Condense." Lucien, however, appeared calm and controlled his spiritual power to begin rotating in his Spirit Sea in a special trajectory, forming a small vortex.

Gradually, some loose spiritual power was sucked into the vortex, expanding its scale and allowing more spiritual power to be absorbed by it.

As the vortex continuously absorbed and transformed, Lucien's previously unstable Spirit Sea stabilized once again.

Soon, as the vortex absorbed all the dispersed fragments of Lucien's spiritual power, it eventually covered about half the space of Lucien's Spirit Sea.

Whir—suddenly, a strand of extremely pure spiritual power thread was separated from the center of the vortex.

Then, a second strand, a third strand.

"Solidify." Following the Meditation Method, Lucien quickly began reconstructing his Spirit Sea. These refined and purified threads of spiritual power were arranged according to the Meditation Method into spiritual runes that constrained spiritual power and fortified the Spirit Sea.

As each spiritual rune was continuously constructed, the vortex in the center of the Spirit Sea seemed to form a special connection with these runes, beginning a slow expansion.

Whir—

When Lucien solidified the 60th spiritual rune, it seemed to reach a critical point, causing his Spirit Sea to tremble slightly.

Subsequently, the Spirit Sea began to expand toward the void around it.

Rumble—

Lucien's consciousness became somewhat unstable.

Fortunately, this expansion did not last long, but when everything ended, Lucien was shocked to find that his Spirit Sea had expanded more than three times its original size in both length and width.

"How... how huge." Lucien felt as if he were somewhat like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world.

At this moment, in the center of the Spirit Sea, the vortex was rotating at a constant speed, and those 60 spiritual runes surrounded the core of the vortex in a very special structure, continuously rotating, accelerating the speed of spiritual power being separated from the vortex compared to earlier.

"According to the description in the Meditation Method, the limit for a Third-level Wizard Apprentice is to solidify 360 spiritual runes within their own spirit, and now that I have solidified 60 runes, have I just broken through from a First-level Wizard Apprentice to a Second-level Wizard Apprentice?"

Lucien's consciousness swayed slightly; he could feel how pure his transformed spiritual power was, even feeling that his current self, having only solidified 60 spiritual runes, was already not weaker in terms of spiritual power than before.

Moreover, the spiritual power in his Spirit Sea was still not completely transformed.

Lucien steadied his consciousness and continued to solidify one spiritual rune after another.

At the same time, his Spirit Sea continued to absorb the Magic Essence from the outside world, using them as nutrients to accelerate the rotation of the vortex in the Spirit Sea, hastening the continuous transformation and nurturing of spiritual power.

The first one, the second one...

Time passed unknowingly, and as the vortex in Lucien's Spirit Sea gradually quieted down, he understood that his original spiritual power had been completely transformed.

"Sigh—" Lucien opened his eyes, his consciousness returning to the outside world.

"82 runes," Lucien smiled. Although this number seemed much less than the original 97, he was confident that in terms of combat power, he could defeat his former self.

After all, Lucien's spiritual power had greatly improved in terms of purity. The amount of spiritual power needed to perform witchcraft had thus reduced.

It was like turning a soft piece of raw iron into tough hundred-times forged steel. Although the volume had decreased, the overall quality had increased greatly!

"However, if I were to be classified according to the Wizard's default standards, I would now be demoted to a Second-level Wizard Apprentice," Lucien suddenly thought to himself, yet the corners of his mouth gently rose.

After all, ranks are illusionary, only strength is truly one's own.

Hu—

Lucien stood up and involuntarily glanced towards the bed.

At that moment, soft snoring sounds were coming from there.

Lucien walked closer and found Carly lying sprawled on the bed, and the book he had given her, titled "Whiz Wizard," was open on her chest.

Clearly, Carly had fallen asleep while reading.

Lucien's mouth twitched, but he still gently waved his hand, moved the book away from Carly's chest, and then gently covered the little one with a blanket.

Handling the hefty exercise book in his hands, Lucien was speechless, wondering how Carly could sleep like that.

If he were in her place, with such a heavy book pressed against his chest, let alone snoring in sleep, wouldn't he find it hard even to breathe, feeling suffocated?

From a certain perspective, Carly was quite the prodigy.

Lucien watched Carly turn over and continue sleeping soundly, and he silently complained to himself inside.

...

"Hmm?" Early in the morning, when Carly opened her eyes, she blinked at the blanket covering her, rather puzzled.

But soon Carly understood what had happened, and she hastily picked up the book next to her, trying hard to hide her flurry.

"Really... I was thinking about giving Tutor Lucien a little shock…" Carly slightly dropped her little head, gently tapping her head in annoyance.

Carly carefully looked around and found that Lucien was not in the room.

"Hu—" Carly let out a slight sigh of relief, but quickly, she clumsily opened the book, planning to cram at the last minute. However, thinking that she hadn't meditated the previous night, Carly quickly put down the book and hurriedly closed her eyes.

But before Carly could enter a meditation state, Lucien had already pushed the door and entered, holding a cage in his hand.

"Tutor Lucien," Carly greeted him, her voice somewhat guilty, but soon her attention shifted from Lucien to the strange lizards in the cage, curious about the purpose behind Tutor Lucien bringing them.

"Experiment materials," Lucien said casually as he placed the cage on the ground. "Anatomy is fundamental for a wizard. In the earliest times, wizards would dissect some extraordinary natural beings, imitating their internal structure and innate Magic Patterns, which gradually led to the creation of witchcraft."

"For wizards, dissection is our way of observing the world, understanding its rules most directly. You might not need it in the future, but you cannot skip learning it," Lucien looked at Carly. "Today, I will teach you anatomy, and I will also teach you one of the simplest witchcrafts."