Merlin was surprised that Ethan had made such a quick decision, and wondered why Ethan had chosen such a difficult path so easily.

"You said that as long as I can go down this path, at least I will have the strength of yours, right?"

Merlin nodded: "That's right, as long as you can go on with determination and don't die because of any accidents...... Although this road is difficult, there are no serious bottlenecks. ”

Ethan was aware of this, but it wasn't just the reason for his decision.

"So, if I follow the path of an ordinary mage, can I be guaranteed to go where I can go?"

"This ......" Merlin immediately understood what Ethan meant, and showed a clear smile: "Young man, your mind is very clear, which can make you walk faster on the path of mage." I hope you can stay awake forever. ”

Ethan's reason for this decision is simple: a road that is sure to reach the level of a top mage like Merlin, and the road may be full of thorns, but the end is looming.

The other path was full of unknowns, and he didn't even know where the end would be or what it would look like, and there was no need for him to take all kinds of accidents and risks to choose such a path.

An ordinary mage path may allow him to develop combat power faster, but Ethan was not a pure mage in the first place, and his means of dealing with emergencies were not limited to the magic system.

Self-preservation, it's a big deal to prepare some scientific and technological equipment in the future, which is enough to help you get through the difficult period in the early days of that road.

"As long as you can control the energy of time and space, you have a greater possibility of returning to the Marvel Universe...... Can you fool Tony Stark into getting me some gear then?"

However, Tony Stark is not a helpful character, and if he wants to get benefits from him, he must pay enough chips.

No matter how bad it is, some guns in some movie worlds can deal with a lot of dangers.

So Ethan didn't care how difficult this path was at the beginning, cultivating spiritual power was originally what he had been insisting on, and the next thing was just to continue to persevere.

"Actually, you don't have to worry too much, although it will be very boring and monotonous at first, but after you can conceive magic from yourself, as your spiritual power becomes stronger and stronger, the magic energy generated will also increase, and at this time you are not unable to draw energy from the outside world to improve your magic power. Just be careful not to extract too much, which in turn pollutes your own magic. ”

It's the same as the sea, if Ethan has enough magic power to absorb external energy and convert it into magic, it's like pouring some ink into the sea, and it won't have any effect on the sea at all.

If it is the other way around, only a small basin of water pours half a bottle of ink......

That was a long way off, and then Merlin explained in detail the cultivation method he proposed. Although it was only a few major steps of this cultivation method, it still consumed a lot of time.

To put it simply, this method is divided into several steps:

Continuing to firmly strengthen his mental power, while also having enough control over his own mental power, Ethan naturally has an advantage, and his control over his own mental power has surpassed that of many mage apprentices who are just starting out.

At this stage, it is impossible to extract magical energy from the outside world, not at all, which will pollute one's own spiritual power.

At the same time, you must continue to learn various knowledge to broaden your knowledge. According to Merlin's theory, the magic power bred by one's own spiritual power does not include all attributes. Depending on the mage's own level of knowledge of various energies, there is a certain bias.

For example, if a mage is very familiar with the fire elemental energy, then even if he does not draw the fire elemental energy from the outside world, then the magic power he has bred himself will also have a considerable degree of affinity for the fire element, and he can better master the magic of the fire element. Many mages use this method to increase their magical attributes—to 'pollute' the magic that their original attributes have been fixed with the magic they have nurtured.

If Ethan wants to have more comprehensive magical powers, then he needs to continue to work hard to learn all kinds of magic - not only can he not perform magic like a normal mage, but he will have to keep trying to learn all kinds of magic related things, which is really ...... Ethan was stunned to find the right adjective. Just thinking about it, that feeling must be very uncomfortable.

"So, can I use a magic array or a magic prop?"

"Oh, that's no problem with this. ”

Ethan nodded, it seems that he still has to firmly go on the genre of 'prop flow', coupled with the melee ability of hard work, Ethan is now not so much a mage as a four-like - can order anything, but none of them are proficient.

When you get past this stage, you'll be better.

Mental power is strong enough and sufficient magical knowledge reserves, combined with special meditation methods, will make a special change in spiritual power.

This kind of change is like digging a spring out of the soil composed of spiritual power, and then the magic power conceived by the spiritual power will slowly gush out like a spring.

At this stage, Ethan can already use the magic power he generates to perform magic, and no longer has to rely entirely on external objects.

Of course, at the beginning, the spring was very small, and there was very little spring water that could gush out, and the magic power at this time was still very fragile, and it was very easy to be polluted by external forces, so it still could not absorb external energy.

After that, the spring water becomes a stream, and the stream condenses into a small lake, and then into a river and a lake, and finally into the sea.

At this time, Ethan's magic power can already be described as profound, not only can he cast spells by himself like a normal mage, but he no longer has to worry about the pollution of his own magic by external energy, and he can increase his total mana by absorbing energy or simply restore his own loss.

From Merlin's words, Ethan realized that in order to turn his magic power into a sea that can contain all things, in addition to relying on the accumulation of time, he also needs to have a large enough knowledge of magic, and even need to learn and understand various energy properties, otherwise it is unlikely to produce 'attributes' that can contain all things.

It's a pity that Merlin didn't give a clear answer.

"It's a pity, I don't know exactly how, after all, no one has really tried this cultivation method yet. ”

Ethan was suddenly curious, how did Merlin get started, and did he choose an energy that he was most familiar with like an ordinary mage?

"Oh, this ......" Merlin suddenly showed a smug smile, "I am not a pure human, I was born with a huge amount of magic. ”

"Damn, it's pure talent!"

Only then did he remember that the legendary Merlin had the blood of a goblin and was born with a talent for magic, and an ordinary person like himself who couldn't even be an apprentice was not comparable to this one at all.

Ethan, who was inexplicably shown off, was depressed, and he thought again at this time that the mage profession was very talented, and from this point of view, the path that Merlin proposed to himself may be the only path that can make him practice.

If he really continued to cultivate like most mages, it was very likely that he would not be able to go on again after reaching a certain level - the best case scenario might be that after mastering the water attribute element, because his spiritual power was polluted, he would be stuck on a single attribute and would not be able to break through. And because the talent is not good enough, he started too late, and the total amount of magic power is worse than that of mages of the same grade.

Of course, Ethan, who has a space-time pointer, may find other ways to break the bottleneck of talent, but to what extent it will end up is too much uncertainty.

He didn't like this, so when there was such an opportunity in front of him that he could achieve quite a lot, he grabbed it and refused to let go.

Although this set of cultivation methods only talks about the 'sea' level, Ethan has already opened his mind and roughly 'calculated' it later.

The sea seems to be boundless and unfathomable enough, but it's not the most 'huge'.

No matter how big the sea is, it is at most a planet, what if he can give birth to a galaxy containing countless planets? Not to mention mass, the depth of magic alone has already crushed many existences, and mass is not without direction, such as stars that can be the core of several planets?

Further, an infinite number of these star systems make up larger galaxies...... Ethan even thought of using magic to create a universe that existed within himself.

"Uh...... Shouldn't this thing be called the Little Universe?"

Ethan, who accidentally turned to Saint Seiya again, put away his brain, and now there is no doubt that he thinks so far, what he needs to do next is to learn all this knowledge step by step, memorize it all in his mind, and then persevere in his hard work.

Because of the limited time, he can only stay in this world for ten days, after Merlin determines Ethan's learning direction, the most important thing is to guide him on how to control the energy of time and space, as for the set of spiritual power cultivation methods, Merlin is ready to sort out all the materials, let Ethan go back and practice slowly.

This meant that Ethan was going to have another stack of textbooks.

"Speaking of books, I have an idea that I wonder if Your Excellency can do it?"

Ethan suddenly thought of the pile of books on his ship, and now he felt a little broken when he saw that Merlin was about to give him a lot of them.

It is foreseeable that in order to learn more magical knowledge and more energy attributes, he will have to read more books in the future, will he have to prepare a boat to load books in the future?

Therefore, making a magic item that can store learning materials has become the most important thing at the moment.