Thor sits inside a giant hourglass.

The entire hourglass is made of brass mixed with mythril and magic mirrors, and many nebula patterns are carved on it, allowing air and sunlight to penetrate the inside of the hourglass, but ensuring that the inside of the hourglass cannot be seen from the outside.

The hourglass was originally used for timekeeping, but when it lost its ability to observe the sand and gravel inside, the ability to keep time was naturally abandoned.

The current location of Thor is in a large experimental chamber in the Sky City Practice Academy.

Some time ago, Ophelia personally ordered the Academy of Knowledge and the Institute of Practice to help Thor improve his magic and spiritual power as soon as possible.

The increase in mana has been preliminarily completed. Thor himself is a third-order wizard, and others have limited means to help him improve his magic powers.

After taking some potions and doing several ascension experiments, the practice finally came up with the weapons they used to improve their mental power.

It's the huge hourglass where Thor is currently located - the blood hourglass.

It took two weeks of preparation before Saul was called.

It could be seen from the distressed look on the face of Shaguire, the head of the practice institute, that in order to prepare for this experiment, their resource library had really hemorrhaged.

"Knock knock."

Someone is gently knocking on the hourglass outside, and the echo echoes inside.

"Your Excellency Thor, we're going to release sand, please sit on the central axis and don't move."

"Okay, I've got it done."

Thor had been sitting in the pivotal position since he came in, and had not moved until the others were ready.

"Okay," Shaquille finally admonished, "when the blood sand is completely over your head, you can start meditating." Don't use your magic during this time, or the hourglass will stop immediately and the experiment won't be able to continue. In the short term, we don't have enough blood sand left in our hands to conduct a second experiment. ”

"I see." Thor's voice was steady.

Shaquille stepped back and retreated all the way to the outside of the experiment chamber, and ordered the entire capsule to be sealed.

This was to prevent other people's magic from entering the chamber, causing the instrument to be forced to terminate operation.

In fact, in order to ensure the smooth experiment, it is normal to wear a forbidden magic lock ring to the wizard sitting inside the hourglass. But after all, Thor was a third-order wizard and a distinguished guest of the city lord of Ophelia, so no one dared to mention this stubble before the experiment.

Even if a lot of blood sand is wasted in the end, it is better than being hated by a powerful third-order wizard.

When the chamber was sealed, Shaquille commanded his wizards, manipulating a large metal pole to open the valve for the sand.

As the metal rod was pulled down, inside the experimental chamber, a pipe above the metal hourglass was opened.

Fine, crystal-red sand falls from the pipe into the upper part of the hourglass.

When the upper part is almost filled, the pipe stops falling sand.

Then, a huge robotic arm panned over, grabbed the lid of the upper part of the hourglass on the mechanical claw, and gently lowered it.

The lid and hourglass fit tightly together and are finally secured with screws.

When everything is done, the inside of the hourglass begins to fall downward.

"Rustling ......"

A large amount of blood sand fell through the hole in the middle of the mouth, directly on top of Thor's head, and then rolled down the hem of his clothes to the ground.

Every piece of sand fell, knocking on top of Thor's head, it was like a small hammer, directly into Thor's soul.

Although he was meditating, the world in his mind had changed from pitch black to a sea of red.

And he himself became a boat struggling to survive in the waves.

As the blood and sand submerged Thor's body, the boat was also slapped head-on by the big waves, and it sank under the surface of the sea.

The body seemed to fall apart, and the salty sea water poured into the body, blocking the air.

Thor, who had already experienced many illusions and psychic attacks, was not frightened, he calmly adjusted his spiritual body, did not resist the huge waves, but turned himself into a small fish, even if he was swept by the huge waves and rolled in the sea, he would not be suffocated.

When he regains his balance, he will be able to swim in the sea.

At this time, the blood-red gravel in the hourglass also passed over Thor's head.

Shaquille, who had been watching cautiously outside, immediately ordered, "Reverse the hourglass!" ”

A few strong wizard apprentices struggled to pull up the two brass chains.

The chains make a "bang, bang, bang" sound, driving the gears above their heads to rotate non-stop.

The huge hourglass in the test chamber slowly reversed.

Finally, flipping up and down, Thor also went from under the hourglass to above the hourglass.

However, a magical scene happened.

Obviously he didn't use any magic power, and he didn't have any fixed facilities, but Thor still sat in his original position, even if the whole person was upside down, he didn't fall down.

The sand that covered him fell downward in a slump of gravity.

As the sand on his body peeled off little by little, Thor felt like an onion, being peeled at the skin layer by layer.

In the end, he is no longer a small fish in the deep sea, but a completely clean himself.

There were no red waves all around.

There was only a quiet space left.

There is no gravity, no sound, as if there is no concept of space and time.

Thor was quietly suspended in this clean world, and he didn't even feel the loneliness in the extreme silence.

"It turns out that this step is the most important step in this blood hourglass, and it is also the step that can best enhance people's mental strength."

The thought crossed Thor and quickly emptied it.

This is an extremely rare experience of purifying the spiritual body. He must cherish every minute and every second, and thinking too much will affect the effect.

It's better to return to being a little baby, think about nothing, completely empty your spirit, and accept a complete baptism.

The hourglass experiment lasted five days, far beyond Shaquille's initial plan of a day to a day and a half.

Almost all the wizards in the academy had their work suspended because of this experiment.

But seeing that Thor was delayed in coming out, Shaquille couldn't let the entire practice institute just wait, so in the evening of the next day, he asked the others to go back, and he, as the organizer of the experiment, personally guarded outside the experiment cabin.

It wasn't until the evening of the fifth day that Thor came out of the hourglass.

Because all the blood sand has been completely used, from blood sand to black sand, Thor does not have to worry about not being able to use magic power, and directly teleports from the inside of the hourglass to the outside.

How to teleport?

Naturally, he released the Nightmare Butterfly first, and then turned it outside into the coordinates of his positioning.

Because of the powerful magic fluctuations, the sand that had turned into black sand suddenly crackled one by one.

As Thor's figure appeared outside the hourglass, the inside of the hourglass rumbled as if thousands of firecrackers had been lit at the same time.

"My hourglass!" The corners of Shaquille's mouth twitched, and his heart was dripping blood.

Although he knew that this step would be going on before the experiment, he couldn't help but feel distressed when the hourglass was actually lost.

Thor walked out of the experimental chamber, his whole body refreshed, and his spiritual body and physical magic reached a new balance. Some of the previous pollution hazards seem to have been removed.

At the same time, the long period of solitude also gave Thor a deeper understanding of his own strength.

In short, his harvest is far better than the time he spent using the blood hourglass.

But this point, no one but himself knows.

Looking up at Shaquille, who had a distorted face, Thor smiled apologetically, but he quickly put away his smile again, and said to the dean in front of him, who was also a third-order wizard, with a serious face: "Dean Shaquille, please talk to the city lord of Ophelia, and in three days, I will go to find her." ”

promised the group friends to add more, although it was half a month late, but it was still done!

(End of chapter)