Wizard Bloodline.

Chapter 175 Meditation, [Living Steel]

Ronan tried it. In this environment, combined with the help of "Spirt's Universal Orb", he and several other people who had comprehended spells of the extraordinary realm, their master-level proficiency increased about three to five times faster than normal.

After reaching 500 points of master-level proficiency, it becomes increasingly difficult to improve. Ronan has comprehended many domains of magic, and the average improvement when applied to each spell becomes slower and slower.

Efficiency can be increased by three to five times, which can save a lot of time.

"The power of the corresponding elemental spells cast here is much greater than that of many spells outside. The speed of practicing [Ascetic Body Training] can also be increased a lot."

Ronan was able to survive the confrontation with the remaining will of the "ancient frost hydra Hekator" without any danger, all thanks to his strong will that far exceeded that of wizards of the same level.

If it were an ordinary person, he would probably not even have the time to ask Benigo for help and would have been eroded and devoured long ago.

This will was tempered by Ronan through countless painful hardships, and it is stronger than steel and iron. However, it is far from enough to fight against the dominant consciousness from ancient times. [Austerity Body Training] is still the top priority of Ronan's future practice.

After experiencing the battle at the Ancient Witch Resurrection Conference in the Goblin Plains, Ronan felt that his efficiency in increasing his mental power through meditation seemed to have improved a little.

This improvement is so small that it is almost imperceptible without careful experience, but it is indeed an improvement.

"It should be the constant battles of spells and collisions of magic domains that have removed some of the impurities in my soul."

Ronan guessed.

Facts have proved that the path of the ancient combat wizard is indeed effective. A wizard with ordinary qualifications like him should take the initiative to seek competition and temper himself in constant fighting. Only then will he have the opportunity to reach the same level as other wizard geniuses, or even surpass them.

Walk out of the ice inheritance space and return to the warm and quiet little room.

The aroma of food entered Ronan's nostrils. He looked up and found that there was an extra piece of food on the long table in the middle of the room.

——A few pies, half a golden roast goose, and a bowl of thick soup made with cabbage leaves, mushrooms and chopped onions. There seemed to be other sauces added in it, and it smelled faintly of egg yolk.

Has anyone come to the room when he entered the inheritance mark space?
Ronan's eyes flickered, and he saw a black writing board the size of two palms next to the food. On it was written in beautiful handwriting: If you have any needs in life, write them on the board, and someone will naturally arrange them for you.

"It looks like they really don't plan to let me out in the short term."

Ronan sat down at the long table, calmly picked up the silverware on the table and tasted the food one by one, then silently wrote down his evaluation of the food and the recipe he expected for the next meal on the black writing board.

He slowly tore at the crispy and greasy roast goose leg, his eyes sweeping across the bookshelves around him. He watched as a book with a blue cover, half a finger thick, automatically left the shelf and flew in front of him, and he flipped the pages and opened it.

This book without a cover only records a spell rune and no other content.

Ronan flipped through the books one by one and found that most of the books on the shelves were runes.

This surprised him and he wondered if this was the place where the core knowledge of the Dharma Ring was passed down.

Runes are the epitome of a wizard's talent and wisdom. Any runes in existence are treasures. If Ronan wants to make achievements on the path of a wizard in the future, he will inevitably have to create his own runes.

The prerequisite for this step is to have sufficient rune knowledge reserves.

During his practice, has he come into contact with and collected few runes?
Quite a lot.

Is that a lot?
In fact, it’s not much, and it is still far from reaching the minimum standard of creating your own runes.

The [Mirror Light] talisman is just a stripping of the core runes of the "Universal Orb" and the second-level mirror magic tool, and is far from being a "self-creation".

Of course, it was a bit too far-fetched for a mere second-level wizard like him to think about creating his own runes and establishing a school of spells.

For example, Ronan currently has several high-level rare runes in his hands - the core rune of the Universal Orb, the core rune of the Space Stasis Staff of the Dawn, the core runes of the Mirror Dagger and Silver Comb, and the rune of [Cold Soul].
Ronan has never stopped studying these runes, but the progress has always been very slow. The reason is that he has too little knowledge about runes.

To make an inappropriate analogy, it is like a primary school student picking up a college textbook. Even if you study the textbook every day, you may not be able to figure out anything valuable after a few years.

Ronan had seen and studied too few runes, and the little knowledge he had accumulated about general runes as a rune engraver was not enough to support the analysis of high-level rare runes.

And now the rune knowledge displayed on the bookshelf in this room is a rare opportunity for him to fill in the basics.

"Even if the inheritance mark space is not open to me, it is an extremely rare opportunity for me to be able to browse these runes freely."

There was a strange light in Ronan's eyes as he slowly flipped through the rune books on the bookshelf while eating.

The magic ring has its own advantages. The pursuit of "omnipotence" allows the magic ring to store a large number of runes of various elements, as well as corresponding general spells.

Ronan doesn't necessarily need to learn every spell, but just by reading and understanding, his knowledge of spells is growing rapidly.

Costi once said that after becoming a third-level wizard, he would officially begin to come into contact with the core inheritance of the magic circle. How many systems to practice concurrently and which specific systems of spells to practice...are all issues that need to be weighed and considered. Knowing these now can be regarded as a way of preparing for a rainy day, and can make preliminary plans for the future spell system in advance.

Ronan was watching when he suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings above his head.

He raised his head and looked upwards. A loud voice was falling rapidly from the darkness.

"Hey, Damien."

A colorful conch parrot with bright feathers circled in a beautiful trajectory and quickly landed on the tabletop. It then winked at him and said hello, "Are you used to staying here?"

Bobby.

Ronan was slightly surprised by the arrival of the illusion parrot Bobby.

"How did you come?"

"Let me see you."

Bobby used his huge spiral beak to comb the feathers on his wings and replied to Ronan in a playful rolled tongue, "By the way, I'll bring you something."

As he spoke, Bolby raised his paw, and a space ring on his paw flashed, and immediately a dozen bottles and jars appeared on the table between him and Ronan.

Bolby opened his mouth and spat out a small piece of rune stone, pushing it in front of Ronan, "All of them are potions that can help second-level wizards improve their mental strength. There are also a few for third-level wizards... Here are the matching methods. Use them first, and I will bring you new ones when you are done."

Ronan's eyes flickered, and he reached out and grabbed a translucent white crystal bottle on the table in front of him. He could see dozens of strange black worms twisting their bodies inside.

These worms have strange patterns on their bodies. If you look closely, you will find that they look like human faces with emotions such as joy, anger, sorrow and happiness written on them.

"Meditation worm larvae. So many?"

Meditation worms are a very precious material for potions. A meditation worm as long as a fingernail has intelligence that is no less than that of a normal person. This kind of magic worm is very beneficial for wizards to enhance their mental strength. Ronan once read an introduction to meditation worms in a book on alchemy, and also used his authority as a sixth-ring to collect this kind of resource, but to no avail.

He didn't expect that Bobby would bring him so much at once.

"Did Lord Ringmaster ask you to come?"

Ronan looked up at Bolby, who smiled, "Of course, who else but Kirsty would care so much about you."

Bobby fluttered over to Ronan, took a look at the plate in front of him, and then used his paws to quickly write down a bunch of strange dish names on the black writing board next to him.

“You must try these dishes when you are in the Penitentiary, Damien!”

“These are all delicious dishes that you can never eat outside. Well, if they haven’t changed the chef in the past two hundred years, you won’t regret it.

Okay Damien, see you next time, have a nice day!"

Bobby blew a long whistle, then waved to Ronan, flapped his wings and flew upwards, disappearing into the darkness above his head in the blink of an eye.

"Is that the exit?"

Ronan stared at the direction where Bobby left and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Quickly and calmly counted everything that Bobby had left behind, and finally picked up the bottle containing the meditation worm, carefully poured out a black worm, and after a moment's hesitation, slowly put it into his mouth.

After chewing with his teeth, Ronan seemed to hear a woman's sharp cry, and then his mouth was filled with an extremely nauseous and greasy feeling.

Just as described in the book, the taste of taking the meditation worm directly is very bad, and it is best to wrap it in nectar and eat it together.

But this is also the most effective way to use it. While chewing, Ronan already felt that the meditation worm was exerting its magical effect, and the second spiritual power crystal in his mind was growing rapidly at a speed that was almost visible to the naked eye.

"Click——"

When this feeling of rapid growth came to an abrupt halt, Ronan opened his character panel and saw that the progress of the second-level wizard under the [Strength] column had increased from 40% to 42%.

Just one meditation worm allowed him to increase his mental strength by 2%, and he still has at least twenty of them!
"As expected, they are extremely precious potion materials for third-level wizards. These twenty or so meditation worm larvae are probably Costi's personal collection."

Ronan felt slightly touched.

Before entering this "penance room", Costi kept expressing his pessimism about his promotion to a third-level wizard in three years, and his eligibility to participate in the Southern Wizard Genius Gathering and compete for the "Heramus Wizard Seat".

As a result, he asked Bolbi to send a large amount of precious resources to help him reach the third level.

This woman is just as hypocritical as ever.

Ronan sighed a few words, put away the materials on the table, took out the tea set he carried with him, brewed himself a cup of black tea, and continued to read the rune books on the surrounding bookshelves.

He felt that he had begun to like life here.

He doesn't need to worry about anything. Food and resources will be delivered on time. All he has to do is practice and acquire knowledge step by step.

For most wizards who seek stability, this place is simply paradise.

After drinking two cups of black tea, Ronan put down the rune book in his hand, stood up, walked to the small gray door representing the metal inheritance mark space, pushed it open and walked in.

In the ascetic room where there is no distinction between day and night, time slips away silently through invisible fingers like transparent sand.

At first, Ronan tried to use an hourglass and pocket watch to tell time every day, but he forgot to check one day, and later he simply stopped paying attention to it.

There are only a few things left in his life -

Meditation, practicing spells in the inheritance mark space, training the body, and then rune research.
Ronan enjoyed the peace.

In fact, he hadn't had such an ordinary and fulfilling day for a long time.

This kind of daily routine accompanied him for a long time during his apprenticeship period, but after he was promoted to a first-level wizard, he has been constantly on the go and rarely has the time to calm down completely.

"Crack-"

Under the leaden sky, Ronan stood on a huge dark red strange rock with his right hand outstretched.

Balls of black metal shot out from between his fingers, fell to the ground, and ran fast like living things. Some even grew wings and flew at high speed like birds.

These living metal substances spread around Ronan in an instant, and at a certain moment, Ronan flipped his palm.

All the moving metal immediately gathered together and turned into a strange human figure over five meters tall with three heads and six arms.

This strange human figure had no facial features, and only two black hole-shaped eyes on its three heads. Ronan raised his head and looked at it silently.

A faint consciousness was transmitted, and soon, this strange humanoid began to run quickly along the vast metal land. During the running process, the shape of the human body kept changing, and many weapon-shaped spikes grew on the body. The spikes shot out and exploded violently on the ground, creating one big pit after another.
Ronan stared at the moving figure, and a light flashed slightly in his eyes.

In an instant, the running figure suddenly stopped, as if frozen in an instant, and the whole person quickly turned into brilliant silver from top to bottom.

[Silverization] Talisman is activated.

The strange human figure that had turned silver seemed to have a more mysterious aura. It continued to move forward, but this time its figure strangely disappeared from the spot, and then suddenly appeared dozens of meters away.

After doing this several times, Ronan raised his hand.
"Oh!"

The entire strange humanoid exploded and turned into a stream of silver metal, flying quickly towards Ronan's palm.

"incredible"

Ronan looked at the silver metal that flowed between his fingers like mercury, mixed with a hint of the mysterious aura of space in the strong energy fluctuations belonging to the metal system, and couldn't help but murmur in a low voice.

[Activated Metal - Living Steel (Master 60/1600)]!
After Ronan had been using this first-level metal spell, [Activate Metal] for such a long time, he had finally mastered it to the master level.

The derived extraordinary domain has a unique effect. It can further "deeply activate" out-of-body metals and even achieve an effect similar to that of a metal puppet - it has no self-awareness, but can execute some simple combat commands issued by Ronan, and can also do some reconnaissance and detection tasks like a living thing.

In general, the effect of the extraordinary domain of [Living Steel] is not particularly outstanding, but it has greatly enriched Ronan's combat methods. The effect after possession is also very good, and there will be a wonderful feeling of wearing living armor.

But what really surprised Ronan was the optimization and transformation of the [Silverization] talisman by the space energy seed in his mind.

After being nourished by the energy of space, the [Silverization] talisman underwent some wonderful changes. When he activated [Silverization], the metal spells he cast would sometimes even exhibit magical effects similar to those of space spells.

"This is not a simple space energy seed. It should also contain some inherited knowledge of the space magic of the Ancient Mirror Court. It's just that I don't have the corresponding means to actively receive and interpret it."

Ronan looked at the space energy seed in his mind and once again felt its extraordinaryness. It was obvious that the gift left to him by the Dawn-level silver staff magic tool was far beyond his imagination.

If he was really a proper Mirror Court wizard, he might have already comprehended some amazing space magic from this seed.

Unfortunately, he was not, so this gift was transferred to several of his soul symbols in the most superficial and crude form.

Whether it is the transformation of [Mirror Light] into [Multiple Mirror Lights], or the miraculous changes that have occurred in the [Silverization] symbol at the moment, they may only be a tiny fraction of the true value of this gift.

Ronan felt sorry, but there was no way he could change anything. He could only watch a huge treasure slip away in front of him every minute.

"I still have the core rune of the silver staff of the dawn-class magic tool. I will combine this rune with the core rune to see if I can dig out the true value of this space energy seed."

"Even if I can't inherit any space magic, transforming the [Mirror Light] and [Silverization] talismans to be as powerful as possible can be considered a way to stop the loss to some extent."

As Ronan's attainments in ice magic become more and more profound, metal magic becomes increasingly useless to him. However, if it can be combined with the mysteries of space magic, perhaps it can be reborn and become a new trump card in Ronan's hand.

Ronan thought about it and slowly withdrew from the metal inheritance mark space.

However, this time, as soon as he stepped out of the gray door, he suddenly discovered.
He had always been alone in the meditation room, but today there was an extra person coming out.

A handsome and dazzling face, short golden hair like flowing golden threads, silver-white eyes as deep and quiet as a lake, and a powerful mental fluctuation belonging to a third-level wizard.
An An sat quietly at the long table, flipping through a book of runes in his hand.

When Ronan came out, he happened to look at him.

Orion.

Four-color metal Orion.

Ronan's expression fluctuated slightly, and his body froze. He stood in front of the small gray door and stared at Orion silently.

After a moment, his eyes regained their calmness, and he walked towards the long table naturally, and finally pulled out a chair and sat down in the seat directly opposite Orion.

As Costi said, many people in the Circle of Magic had high hopes placed on Orion.

At present, this ascetic room has eight inheritance mark spaces, and the right to use them has always been only owned by Orion.

Ronan is a latecomer and an "intruder".

However, there didn't seem to be any dissatisfaction or hostility on Orion's face about the "territory being invaded". He was quite friendly towards Ronan and even took the initiative to nod and greet Ronan.

"Long time no see, Ronan Damien."

Orion knocked lightly on the table, and several transparent little figures with wings like smoke quickly emerged from the seemingly smooth and seamless mahogany table.

They climbed up Orion's fingers with a grunt, looking at him with flattering and intimate expressions.

Orion fiddled with the little figures with his fingers, and then said to Ronan calmly, "Would you like something to drink?"

(End of this chapter)