Above the mage!

Chapter 431: Success Rate of Ring Upgrade

The additional effects of [Long-Range Shooting] and [Know Yourself and Your Enemy] are very simple and crude, but the changes to the Panacea Secret Elixir are a bit more fancy, with two new secret elixirs and two additional effects added.

But it also makes sense, because the [Pancreatic Elixir] itself is fancy enough.

Compared with the additional effects, Gaode actually values ​​the secret medicine [Super Memory] more.

Isn’t this equivalent to a youth version of a certain Doraemon’s memory bread?

This is a prop that countless people have dreamed of.

Although there are no monthly exams or final exams now, learning is necessary no matter which world you go to. As for learning efficiency, in addition to comprehension, memory is also a very important point.

The points for three rare first-ring spells have been added, and there are three origin points left.

After thinking for a while, Gao De selected three that he thought had the highest priority from the ordinary first-level spells he had mastered but had not yet added points.

[Craftsman's Blessing+] (Transmutation, 1st Ring):

The subject's next pass at the crafting stage will see more luck.

Bonus: Your next process will be more in tune with the tools you use, resulting in greater precision and longer operational stability.

[Diagnosis+] (Divination, 1st level):

You can determine whether a creature, object, or area carries a disease or infection.
Bonus: After confirming the presence of a disease or infection, you can observe the target's living environment (such as water sources, food storage) to obtain disease transmission routes.

[Decompose Corpse+] (Necromancy, 1st level):

With this spell, the caster can quickly break down a corpse into smaller, fleshy parts.
Additional: During the decomposition process, the caster can also use spells to quickly extract the blood from the corpse.

Yes, the three spells he chose at the end were all functional spells.

Because the additional effects of "Wind Spirit Moon Shadow" are mostly focused on adding functionality, it complements the functional spells.

Another point is that the combat spells that Gaode often uses have already been increased.

Those combat spells that have not yet been upgraded are those that are used less frequently and are "optional but must be available" backup spells.

Compared to functional spells, their priority in adding points is naturally lower.

City Hall, Godet's office.

The early morning sunlight, wrapped in the unique cold breath of the North, cut obliquely through the window lattice, casting narrow shadows on the floor.

There was a thin layer of frost on the windowsill.

Gao De was writing hard at the long table, and the feather pen in his hand was rustling as it moved.

He is working on a draft that will be extremely important to Phoenix.

That is the construction program for the second city in the North.

Phoenix is ​​currently the only city in the North.

But now, its population has exceeded one million, and within the next foreseeable year, it will expand to more than two million.

This is still a rough estimate.

Although the development of Jinhui Farm has made food production relatively abundant and Phoenix is ​​developing rapidly, it is impossible to keep up with the population growth rate.

The resource and management pressures generated by this massive influx of population will sooner or later "burst" Phoenix.

Therefore, it is necessary to plan the construction of the second city as early as possible and then transfer part of the population there.

As for the location, there is no need to think too much, Amap has already decided long ago:

Varal Bay.

It is not only a port for communication with the outside world, but also a commercial activity point in the North with unparalleled economic value. It is also a sacred tree territory point that is extremely important to the North.

Establishing a city in Varar Bay can, on the one hand, serve as a transportation hub in the north and better carry out cross-border trade activities.

And based on this new city, a deep-water port will be established in Valar Bay to develop the shipbuilding industry, warehousing logistics and port-side commerce, making it the core engine to activate the commercial lifeline of the North.

On the other hand, with the sufficient human and material resources brought by the construction of the city, we can establish an integrated "protection-scientific research-utilization" system around the sacred trees, ensure more comprehensive protection of the sacred trees, better afforestation, and better utilization of tree resources.

After writing for a long time, Gaode raised his head, stretched his body, and glanced at the scenery of Phoenix outside the office window.

Now that everything is on the right track, Phoenix's potential is being stimulated step by step.

It's like a huge train, accelerating along this flat track.

This is even the current situation after AutoNavi intentionally slowed down its development pace and prioritized stability.

Food must be eaten bite by bite, whether it is his personal path of cultivation or the path of development in the Northern Territory, one cannot rush things.

That being said, in reality, both of them are incredibly fast.

Not to mention a month and a half, it is no exaggeration to say that Phoenix is ​​changing every day.

With the tribal integration and the immigration reception plan led by Guardian Chief Quentin, new people from the North join Phoenix almost every day.

As the population continues to increase, corresponding houses and living facilities are springing up according to Gaode's Phoenix urban construction design, and road construction is also a top priority.

Who would have thought that a year ago, Phoenix was a dilapidated city close to a primitive tribe where people died of starvation every year.

And who would have thought that Gaode, who is now preparing to be promoted to the second ring, has only been nineteen months, less than two years, since he became a first-ring mage.

This is the seventh day since Gaode returned to the North.

After so many days of rest and adaptation, his condition has been adjusted to the best, and he is almost ready to start trying to upgrade his rings.

Gao De had already looked up the key points on how to advance to the second-ring mage in the library of the Sea Sentinel Mage Tower.

The key points of advancement are considered expensive knowledge in the outside world, but the Sea Sentinels are extremely generous in this regard and directly open them to Sea Sentinel mages for free.

However, his current authority only allows him to review the key points for promotion to a second-ring mage.

Therefore, Gaode is not sure whether the Sea Sentinel will still provide free promotion experience for higher levels.

After all, a second-ring mage is still a low-ring mage, and is nothing to a mage organization of the level of the Sea Sentinels.

Just like in the previous life, elementary and junior high schools were both compulsory education and were free, but this treatment was no longer available from high school onwards.

There are four stages in the process of being promoted from a mage apprentice to a first-level mage: cleansing the blood to increase vitality, turning mana into liquid, removing mental impurities, and expanding the sea of ​​magic.

They correspond to increased lifespan, refined magic power, improved mental strength and the final upgrade.

Although the process of being promoted from a first-ring mage to a second-ring mage is different, the essence is the same.

After being promoted to the second ring, life span will also be increased, and the theoretical upper limit of life span will increase from 150 to 225 years.

But this time, it is no longer the first level, but the last level, after expanding the magic star sea.

And it is no longer about cleansing blood, but about [Elementalizing the Flesh]

[Elemental Body] is the signature ability of a second-ring mage, comparable to the [Precise Perception] possessed by a first-ring mage.

At this time, the magic power in the mage's body will radiate to the body, and the mage will be able to choose an element to strengthen the body, that is, elementalization, so as to gain resistance to the corresponding element and increase lifespan. The mana liquid will become crystallized, which is the first step to promotion to the second ring.

The so-called crystallization is actually easy to understand. It is a further upgrade of the mana form, from the original liquid mana solidified into a mana crystal.

The second level is to break the limit of mental power, that is, to break the threshold of 200.

In terms of mental power, there is no essential difference between a second-ring mage and a first-ring mage, it is just a simple improvement in strength.

As for Gaode, he had already broken through the limit early, which meant that he had completed the second stage of promotion to a second-ring mage ahead of time.

The third level is still to expand the magic star sea, from the first ring of the star sea to the second ring of the star sea, so as to capture the second ring of magic stars and establish a second ring of magic model.

Although it is not easy to improve the mage's level in the early stages, there is no so-called bottleneck.

The key is to work hard and steadily. As long as you practice step by step, your magic power will always increase. The only difference is the speed.

The reason why the three stages of primary, intermediate and late stages are distinguished is simply because the difficulty of improving mana will increase by a level with each new stage.

Just like in the first ring stage, a wizard with outstanding talent can be promoted from the early stage of the first ring to the perfect stage of the first ring in a very short time.

Those with average talent, if they have a strong background and outstanding financial resources, can use magic potions + high-level training rooms or natural treasures like dragon and bird blood fungi, and simply pile up resources to advance from the early stage of the first ring to the late stage of the first ring in a short period of time.

But in the world of mages, most mages are unable to perfect a certain level and try to upgrade their levels.

The reason is very simple. Mages with "outstanding talents" or "outstanding backgrounds" are a minority after all, and the latter are even rarer than the former.

Most mages can only use ordinary talents and ordinary resources to practice hard day after day.

One hundred and fifty years of lifespan may seem like a long time, but it is not enough for a mage to practice.

For example, Gaode, his mage talent is already at the middle level.

However, if there is no high-level spiritual land and spiritual power beyond one's own realm, it will take about a year to condense a drop of liquid mana in the initial stage of the first ring.

When it comes to the middle stage of the first ring, the difficulty of condensing mana rises to a higher level, that is, it takes about a year and a half to condense a drop of liquid mana.

In the late stage of the first ring, the difficulty increases to a higher level, and it takes two years to condense a drop of liquid mana.

With this calculation, even a wizard with average talent would need 90 years to practice from the initial stage of the first ring to the perfection of the first ring.

Generally speaking, it is quite remarkable for a mage with medium mage talent to become a first-ring mage at the age of twenty, and this is more likely to happen after the age of twenty-five.

In other words, a wizard with average talent would normally have to be 115 years old before he could perfect the first ring and start trying to advance to the second ring.

This is the ideal time calculated under the assumption that nothing unexpected happens during this period and that he persists in practicing every day.

A mage with talent below average will not be able to cultivate to perfection before reaching the deadline unless he has a special opportunity.

——For a mage with this kind of talent, being able to be promoted to a first-ring mage is actually a great honor for them. Becoming a second-ring mage is not something they are qualified to dream of.

The difficulty of practicing is cruel enough, but before upgrading, it is nothing.

Because the increase in mana at least has no bottleneck and no danger.

Upgrading the ring is different. It is a very dangerous thing with a very high probability of failure. It is a cruel trial.

According to the Sea Sentinel's promotion points, without any external factors, the success rate of upgrading low-level (one to three rings) mages is less than 20%.

That is to say, out of ten first-ring late-stage mages, only two will be able to be promoted to second-ring mages.

Behind these cold numbers are the blood and tears of countless mages.

Maybe some people think that if the upgrade fails, just try a few more times.

A 20% success rate is low, but if it doesn’t work once, try five times. If it doesn’t work five times, try ten times. You will eventually be able to succeed in upgrading your ring, right?
It really doesn’t work.

It is indeed possible to try to upgrade the ring multiple times.

However, every time a ring upgrade fails, one has to endure the backlash of magic power, which will leave the body with injuries that are difficult to recover from. Not only will it take a lot of time to recover, but it will also greatly reduce the success rate of the next ring upgrade.

If the success rate of the first attempt to upgrade the ring is 20%, then the success rate of the second attempt may be only 10%.

The success rate of the third ring upgrade is already negligible, almost zero.

Moreover, the injuries caused by the backlash of magic power due to failure to upgrade the ring will continue to accumulate.

After failing many times in upgrading the ring, he still refused to give up and tried his luck again. If he failed again, he might even lose his life on the spot.

According to statistics, more than 90% of those who successfully get promoted pass it in one try.

Only one in ten lucky people will succeed on their second try.

As for cases where a breakthrough was achieved more than three times, they are so rare that they are not included in the statistics at all.

In this situation, the level-up potion came into being.

It has two functions. One is to increase the success rate of the ring upgrade.

For example, the [Green Vine Spirit Dew] that Gaode exchanged from the Sea Sentinel can increase the success rate of upgrading the ring by 40%.

After drinking it, Gaode's success rate of upgrading his ring soared to 60%.

The second is to protect the mage who fails to upgrade from backlash, and resist the magic backlash caused by the failure to upgrade.

This is equivalent to providing an extra life to the mage.

Because of the protection of the level-up potion, there were no injuries on the body, so the wizard's success rate for the next level-up attempt is still 20%.

Of course, each level-up potion will only take effect the first time you drink it.

Therefore, there is no bug that if you have enough level-up potions, you can try to level up as many times as you want.

In fact, the one percent of mages who successfully upgraded in the second promotion basically drank the upgrading potion during the first promotion, and used the potion to protect their foundation and leave themselves the spark of upgrading.

With a bit of luck, he was able to change his fate - he failed in the first promotion even though the success rate bonus from the upgrade potion was achieved, but he succeeded in the second promotion entirely on his own. This was definitely luck.

Gao De silently calculated his success rate of upgrading his ring.

20% plus 40% of [Green Vine Spirit Dew], that's 60%.
My mental strength has already broken through the limit, which means I have already passed one of the three levels of the ring upgrade in advance. This can at least increase my success rate of the ring upgrade by another 10%, which is 70%.
In addition, the place where I will upgrade my ring will be the core spiritual land where Bingyu Wutong is located, which is a fifth-level spiritual land.

The concentration of magic power in the fifth-level spiritual land would be of great help to the crystallization of mana in the first stage of the upgrade, and at least provide a 50% success rate.

Seventy-five percent.

After getting the final answer, Gao De let out a long sigh.

This success rate is already very high.

Reality is not probability theory, and variables cannot be strictly controlled. There are various influencing factors. Therefore, for an event with a probability of 75%, with a sample of 75, the final number of occurrences will often be more than times, rather than the theoretical times.

"Tomorrow, let's do it tomorrow." He set the date for his upgrade.

As for now, keep working.

Gaode buried his head again and perfected the construction draft at hand.

(End of this chapter)