Chapter 0011: Flame Arrow
Grim was agitated, and suddenly withdrew from his deep meditation. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Sitting up from the bed suddenly, Grim gasped for air, everything in the dream still clearly remained in his body. Even the slightest burning pain is so fresh in my memory!
Is it a hallucination, or a dream, or something else?
Grim began to hesitate.
He had also meditated countless times before, but each time it was vague, and it was rare for him to have such a clear and intuitive mental feeling. It's as if ...... It's as if the dream he just had could be manipulated by him!
"Chip, re-test me!" Grim snapped in order.
"Drop, start a body scan of the subject...... The scan is complete, and the self-test report is generated......"
As the chip continued to prompt, a new self-test report was projected into his mind.
Name: Grim
Race: Human
Attributes: Strength 4, Agility 4, Constitution 3, Mental Power 8.03
Faction: Orderly and neutral
Occupation: Wizard Apprentice (Beginner)
Health: 11/11
Professional experience: 566/1000
Status: Healthy
Class Skills: Transcribe scrolls, read spells
Personal Skill: Burning Hand
Sure enough, there were some unusual changes in my basic data.
If it weren't for the chip's accurate monitoring down to the cellular level, it would be impossible for Grim to know that the deep meditation just now actually brought him a 0.03 increase in mental power and 2 points of professional experience.
This shows that the suspicious dream-like scene just now is not illusory, but real and has indeed happened.
So what are those colorful points of light?
As soon as the thought came to mind, the answer came to me automatically.
Elemental particles!
Everyone with wizarding talent will have a variety of different elemental affinities, and the points of light they see in meditation are actually elemental particles floating throughout the wizarding world. He is a fire elemental affinity, so those uninvited red points of light are the so-called fire element particles.
According to the division of elemental particles by wizards, their affinity for the fire element is undoubtedly the highest, followed by the green plant system and the earthy yellow earth element. As for the others, they have been rejected by the affinity element and are gone.
As for the white point of light that Grim tried to capture during his meditation, it should be the so-called dark elemental particle. Due to the discord with Grim's origin attributes, it was undoubtedly more than ten or even hundreds of times more difficult for him to capture dark elemental particles than affinity elements. Moreover, those dark element particles that did not fit his physique, although they could also bring him a slight increase in mental power, they also damaged his body in disguise.
In his impression, the health of several apprentices in the tower who mainly focused on dark element affinity was not very good, and they usually looked weak, and there were probably factors that had eroded their bodies by dark element particles.
It seems that the apprentice's innate affinity can affect the efficiency of each meditation, and the efficiency of each meditation can in turn contribute to the growth of the apprentice's mental power.
Grim couldn't help but frown as he thought back to what he had seen and heard in the meditation space. According to his estimates, the number of white points of light in the meditation space just now was significantly more than that of the red points of fire elemental light. Doesn't this mean that in such an environment, the meditation efficiency of the apprentice who is friendly to the dark element is definitely higher than his own!
Why is this so? Shouldn't the particles of the basic elements between heaven and earth be equilibrium?
Don't...... Could it be that the wizards of the Tower are deliberately doing this?
Grim's face suddenly turned ugly.
He remembered that the master of the tower, Anderson Wizard's talent affinity, was the most important of the dark elemental and the wind element.
It's no wonder that many of the wizard apprentices who entered the swamp tower at the same time as themselves had already mastered two or three witchcraft and successfully advanced to intermediate apprenticeship, while they were still struggling on the path to a junior apprentice. It's not just talent that's holding you back, it's also this damn "bad" environment.
Grim hesitated for a moment, and did not try to enter the meditation again. For a junior apprentice like him, meditation, while it can increase a small amount of mental total, is still not a substitute for sleep. Therefore, if you want to recover your energy as quickly and best as possible, it is the right way to sleep with a happy beauty.
Seeing that he had lost more than half of his mental power, Grim shook his head and smiled bitterly, and fell asleep on the bed again.
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The next day, while still asleep, Grim was woken up by a sudden beep in his head.
At this time, he was shocked to realize that the Burning Hand spiritual power model solidified by the chip had been completed.
Soon, all the data about this mental power model flowed into Grim's perception.
The Burning Hand, as a low-level fire-based sorcery that is both offensive and defensive, is not very powerful, but there are still a lot of witchcraft runes that constitute the spiritual power model, and there are as many as 28. Each of the 28 witchcraft runes has an awkward pronunciation and a nearly independent special purpose, seemingly unrelated to each other, but can be organically coupled together to form a complete model of witchcraft.
If this kind of work were given to an ordinary person, who was asked to memorize 28 independent but closely connected mantra verses, and then chanted them in a good order, I am afraid that most mortals would not be able to do it.
If it had been at the beginning of Grim's crossing, he didn't believe he could do it. But in this strange world overflowing with elemental energy, he did it easily.
Of course, this is also related to his mental power of up to 8 points.
In the past, it would have taken Grim 5-7 seconds to chant these 28 mantra verses in one breath. However, when it is solidified, Grim can completely save the time for chanting the incantation, and only need to infuse the elemental energy into the burning hand that has been formed in the mental space.
This also means that it only takes him 2-3 seconds to cast a full version of the Burning Hand, which greatly reduces the cast time. Even as his control over the fire elemental deepened, there was room for this time to continue to compress.
And there's more to it than that.
Since this is a model of spiritual power that has been solidified in his mind in advance, there is no need for him to consume his mental power to build it bit by bit. Therefore, this burning hand, which usually consumes 2 points of mental power when casting spells, has now been reduced to 1 point.
Wouldn't this mean that the amount of witchcraft he could cast in the future would be doubled!
This was an ecstatic discovery!
But then the great chip chime rang in his head again.
Note that this optimization will cost 1 point of mental power/day and require 100 points of professional experience. This task is expected to take 34 hours and 25 minutes!"
Uh, improve the burning hand?
Sounds good. But why do you need to consume so much professional experience? If any operation related to the mental power model in the future requires the consumption of professional experience, I am afraid that the little professional experience I have accumulated in the past six years will be squandered in the blink of an eye.
Grim was not carried away by this unexpected surprise, but chose to refuse after calm thought.
First of all, the Burning Hand is just a melee sorcery, and the combat value available to tap does not satisfy him. Sooner or later, it will be replaced by more valuable ranged attacks or defensive sorcery, so it doesn't make much sense to continue investing in it.
Secondly, in terms of his current spiritual power, the number of solidified models that can be accommodated in the spiritual space does not exceed 3. In such a situation where there are too many monks and too little porridge, leaving the limited spiritual space to the burning hands of little value is obviously not in line with the optimal development in the future.
Grim himself prefers to prioritize the solidification of ranged attack type witchcraft, and even he already has a draft of the specific target.
That was another fire-based sorcery he had been studying for half a year-Flame Arrow.
Flame Bolt, a low-level fire-based elemental sorcery. It can be shot at the target with a single magic arrow condensed into a fire elemental, dealing 7 physical damage and 18 fire burst damage.
With Grim's measly 3 Constitution and 11 Health, a single Flame Bolt is enough to kill him instantly. So all along, Grim has dreamed of obtaining a ranged attack sorcery.
But it's a pity that it's such a low-level witchcraft as Flame Arrow, which contains as many as 34 witchcraft runes. This made him study hard for half a year, and he didn't really grasp the way to build its mental power model.
For such a long time, Grim has invested no less than 20 knowledge points and a lot of time in the witchcraft of Flame Arrow, and even his own witchcraft studies have been delayed. However, he still hovered outside the threshold of success, and did not become an elite apprentice who mastered the plural witchcraft.
But now with the assistance of chips, presumably the previous threshold will be lowered a lot!
In a hurry, ignoring that it was breakfast time of the day, Grim hurriedly washed his face and sat down at the wooden table, opening his witchcraft notes. All spell models, sorcery spells, psychic shock frequencies, and spellcasting materials related to the Flame Bolt have been completely copied from Grim.
Casting a spell is not as simple as the average person thinks.
The 34 mantra syllable pages can be used to complete the witchcraft without reciting them in one breath. This process is the result of the perfect coordination and interaction of the hand, mouth, heart and brain.
When chanting each mantra syllable, Grim's mental power must be converted into the oscillating frequency that matches the mantra syllable, and his hands must complete the necessary gesture guidance.
If there are any errors and delays in the whole process, the only consequences are ...... Cast Retaliation.
Although this kind of spell casting can't kill the wizard's apprentice, it causes damage to the source of spiritual power, and it is difficult to recover without a period of recuperation. And frequent origin trauma may also cause mental decline!