Adam didn't express any doubts about the price, but asked, "I totally agree, Master Kino. It's just that I don't have aether crystals for the time being. ”

"According to the exchange rules set by the Third Element Saint Tower, ten thousand units of power stones are worth a complete ether crystal, and with the income of your laboratory, it will take fifteen months to fully pay for it. ”

After Adam improved his meditation method, the Tower raised the cost of his research from five thousand power stones per month to seven thousand per month.

Adam directly took out his identity certificate and put it on the alchemy puppet, he was in a coma for more than a year, and the wealth accumulated in the laboratory was enough to pay the price this time, but then he needed to have a period of poverty, because he also had to pay the fees of Master Victor in installments.

As for why the reward for saving lives is not as high as the cost of using Victor Mage once, this needs to take into account the difference in value caused by the level of the two mages.

After the payment was made, Gen Keno took Adam into his lab.

Adam found that there was no apprentice or assistant in Master Keno's experiments, and the people who controlled the instruments were all alchemical puppets, and there were many kinds of instruments, many of which were huge high-level instruments, and Adam had seen several on the list, which were very valuable.

"I am the only alchemist of the official rank in the Moldor Elemental Tower. Master Keno introduced, "The research of the Moldor Tower in this area is lagging behind, and I am not strong among alchemists, but it is enough to solve your problem." ”

Master Keno kept performing operations on various instruments that Adam couldn't understand, and finally led Adam to what looked like a virtual helmet, stopped and said to him, "Sit in, and open your soul." ”

Adam sat down as he was told, and after two cold tentacles touched his brain, he came to a space similar to a soul sea, where unknown energy fluctuations tried to probe his soul, and then he was blocked by the mage's armor.

"Don't resist, fluctuations won't peep into your memory, it's necessary to detect. ”

Hearing Master Kino's words, Adam untied the mage armor formed by the telekinesis and let the waves of energy sweep through his soul.

Adam felt his soul tremble unnaturally, and then the energy resembling electricity intermittently filled the entire space.

"There is a big problem with your soul, and the embodiment of soul tendencies is incoherent, which also means that your soul is full of dark wounds, and if you can't solve this problem, you won't be able to advance to the rank of official mage. ”

Adam tried to speak, and then his voice rang out in the virtual space, "I know that the replenishment of telekinesis can slowly repair the soul, and I expect it to be solved within fifteen years. ”

Master Kino continued, "The information from the phenomenon suggests that your soul tendencies are supposed to be related to electricity. ”

Adam knew that the play meat was coming, and this was where he doubted.

"The apprentice with an affinity for the electric element is in a relatively awkward position, and the mage world's research on the electricity system is seriously lagging behind the other elements, and the reason is that electricity is a more violent energy than other elements, and the apprentice lacks the ability to study and control it, while most of the formal mages have their own paths and research directions, and few people will study the electricity system from scratch. ”

"Almost all the electric magic in the mage plane is inherited from the ancient magic system, but modern mages have discovered some of the characteristics of electricity through difficult research, and then used runes to standardize the operation of electric magic. ”

Adam said, "Did you find a positive and a negative charge?"

Master Kino was surprised and said, "That's right, I didn't expect you to know this, there shouldn't be any information about this in the library of the Moldor Tower, right?"

But he didn't dwell on the question, because it was no secret, but continued: "The generation of electrical magic is the process of discharge, and discharge is the process of negative charge flowing into positive charge. (This thing is just nonsense for me, I'm here after Baidu has a look)

"So," said Master Kino, after a pause, he suddenly asked, "Do you have a contract with the Tower?"

"No, not yet. ”

"If you sign a contract with the Tower, the rest of the message is free, and if not, you'll need to pay an Aether Crystal to get it. If you are interested in signing a contract, you can apply directly from me. ”

Adam thought for a moment, then agreed.

Signing a contract with the Tower of Moldor is a good choice, starting with the dean, every mage strictly follows the spirit of the contract, Adam does not resist, and it is also good for him to sign the contract, because he probably guessed what Master Keno is going to say next.

"Every promotion of a mage is a leap forward in one's own understanding of knowledge, first establishing a theory, and then integrating abstract theories into the soul through continuous empirical evidence, the soul will receive the gift from the ether, and in this way the soul will be transformed and master the corresponding power. ”

Master Kino told the secret of the mage's promotion in a very flat tone, and Adam finally knew why the mage studied knowledge, and it turned out that the study of knowledge would receive feedback from the most fundamental forces that make up the world.

"The development of the mage world to the present, almost all the roads below the fourth level have formed knowledge to study, which allows the mages to skip the time to explore, as long as they understand it, they can come to the fourth level step by step, it can be said that there are only two bottlenecks for low-level mages, the first is to be promoted from an apprentice to a first-level mage, and the second is to become a super-dimensional mage from the fourth level. ”

Adam understood what Gen Kino meant, this is the advantage of standing on the shoulders of giants, just like on earth, the lower stage can reach the level of the predecessors as long as you continue to learn, but if you want to go further, if you want to achieve a higher academic status, you need new theories and empirical evidence.

"But there is no system for the formation of electric magic, and in my impression, the path of electricity stops at the first level, which means that if you want to follow the inclination of the soul to determine the direction of research, then you need to create your own path. ”

Master Kino motioned for Adam to exit the virtual space, and then said to him, "I'll give you a free suggestion, with your talent, you don't have to deliberately pursue soul tendencies, although it will be easier to communicate with the ether, but it will be very difficult for you to advance without a formed theory to support you." ”

"I'll think about it, thank you very much for your help, Master Keno. ”

Adam paid for the assignment and thanked Master Keno before exiting the Elemental Laboratory.

Master Keno's words did not make Adam's new life cowardly, but only strengthened Adam's resolve.

Since you have come to this world, it is interesting to go out of different ways, and although it is easy to blindly follow the direction of your predecessors, you will definitely lose a lot of scenery along the way. And Adam was still young, not as eager to get promoted and live as much as James and Frank, he had a lot of time to find a new path.

And the most important thing is that the mages of this world still have a shallow understanding of electricity, but the earth is different, and the scientists on the earth have far surpassed this world in the study of electricity, even if the nature of electricity between the two worlds is different because of the existence of ether, but at least there is a direction.

This step from zero to one, Adam has already taken.