Kobold Wizard's Journal

Chapter 195 Progress and Change

When Ruger handed the potion to old Lenser, the old dog even showed a rather satisfied expression.

"More than I expected, my nephew, especially this bottle. Look how bad it is! But it's also so beautiful. It represents your progress."

Old Lenser was referring to the last one that was completed. It was the final product that Luger had refined by learning from several failures and using inferior potion materials. Old Lenser could obviously tell it was the best one at a glance.

"Tomorrow, I will give you ten more sets of materials that have only undergone preliminary harvesting and processing. You will start by processing the materials and continue until the refining is completed. Once you have produced more than six bottles of the finished product, you can continue to learn the next recipe."

As he spoke, old Lenser picked out the worst of the four potions, tilted his head back, and drank it down. He then scratched his ears, and bubbles began to rise from his body.

"Isn't this just a bath potion?" Ruger scoffed.

This is my first time processing materials, and I'll probably only get ten sets of mediocre refining materials. It seems like I can't complete the six-bottle success rate in a day, Luger thought.

"What are you pouting about? You little brat, you've never seen those strict wizards. They even require apprentices to create a qualified low-level potion formula before they can leave the tower..." Old Lunser said, rubbing his ears.

Ruger grimaced simply because he was standing there washing his ears.

Old Lenser was still washing up when he started scratching his chin.

Luger glanced at it, then turned and went upstairs.

He walked all the way back to his own little attic.

He began with two rounds of deep meditation. No matter what he did, meditation was essential; the growth of mental strength and the mastery of runes were the foundation for everything. For example, if he reached the limit of an apprentice's mental strength today, he could at least produce one more bottle of bubble potion.

After completing his deep meditation and recovering, he began to observe the two spell models in his mental space.

Standing on the sea of ​​spiritual energy, Luger gazed up at the vast and boundless depths of the spiritual space. With a thought, two spell models floated before him. They seemed alive, like two well-behaved babies. They appeared to be countless small, living things without a clear mind, which he had combined with the wisdom of his predecessors, thus giving birth to a unified, faint mind. Whether this was right or wrong, that was how Luger always felt.

This feeling is especially strong when he faces a spell like hair removal, which is very compatible with him.

It's alive!

Ruger carefully observed the two spell models; the two little things were constantly changing on their own within their unchanging frameworks.

The spell model would sometimes shrink before his eyes and sometimes enlarge above his head, depending on Luger's thoughts.

In the mental space, Luger still habitually scratched his chin, even though it wasn't his real chin.

He thought that the two zero-level spells, Hair Removal and Spirit Hair Nourishment, should have some commonalities, which he could use as a point of comparison to break into this field and become a fulcrum to gradually transform the wisdom of his predecessors into his own means. But obviously, things were not that simple.

But he didn't give up.

He began to empower the two spell models one by one to observe their changes.

Hair removal is simpler, has better compatibility, and empowers faster. Although I've used the Spirit Hair Nourishment spell quite a bit since learning it, I haven't had enough time to master it, and my casting skills aren't proficient enough.

Gradually, he discovered some clues, but they were completely different from what he had imagined. He thought the first similarity he would find would be the way the two spells worked on the hair, but upon closer inspection, it seemed to be a weak spiritual awakening effect, which was mentioned in the Spirit Hair Nourishment spell as a weak spiritual awakening effect. However, he did not expect that the hair removal spell would be the same. That is to say, at that moment, it was not a violent plucking of the hair, but rather the hair willingly, spontaneously, as if it had briefly come alive, and ran down on its own.

This surprised Ruger and was an unexpected bonus.

Sometimes, the names of spells can be very suggestive; compared to others, a name like "hair removal spell" is quite fitting.

Ruger opened his eyes, lifted his robe, and found a spot on his leg. He first cast the Spirit Hair Nourishment spell, which was already fully activated, and then gritted his teeth and precisely controlled the Hair Removal spell. As a patch of hair fell off his leg, he carefully felt and captured the fleeting sensation. The two spells did indeed have some similar magical fluctuations.

“What a pity about my fur…” Luger said.

Instead of throwing away the fallen fur, he collected it, intending to use the Spirit Fur Nourishment Technique every day to see what changes would occur.

He stood up and stretched, making a series of crackling sounds as he did so.

Feeling his current state, Luger took off his robe and, as if feeding himself, began to use up the spells stored in the four magic marks one by one. He had been doing this for a while now. As long as the environment and energy allowed, he would insist on consuming the spells in the temporary spell slots every day and then storing new ones. By persisting in this way, he could increase the success rate of creating compound spells when advancing in rank.

Feeling his body grow taller, he didn't move around in the attic. Instead, he began to meditate, empowering the spell model and replenishing the four spells he had used.

The three spells, Bull Power, Demon Body, and Demon Skin, seem to be more deeply connected.

The final burst of energy helped him maintain mental clarity and vitality.

He sometimes wondered what kind of composite spell would be created if he put spells like Fireball and Freeze Ray into a temporary spell slot, which is a Spell Mark. Of course, according to his understanding from the Black Book, similar or incompatible things would greatly increase the chance of failure.

"If only there were something like the ones in adventure novels that could turn back time, so I could try all sorts of things and go back to the past if I wasn't satisfied," Ruger thought.

He did not cancel the spell, but instead experienced the feeling of being tall, strong, and full of energy until the spell ended normally.

He also discovered that as his mastery of these spells deepened, their duration also increased.

There are also some details, such as the swirling patterns on the body of the demon after casting the spell, which are clearer than before. Moreover, this time in the mental space, Ruger also vaguely sensed that the permanently solidified foul skin on the zero-ring spell position at the highest point was a bright star, faintly echoing the demon body floating below.

Ruger was a little confused, but his inner voice told him that this might not be such a bad thing.

Of course, this is just a polite way of putting it. The spirit didn't suddenly appear and say anything to him; it just didn't have a bad feeling when he discovered these situations. This is what wizards generally refer to as spiritual guidance.

Ruger went downstairs again and saw an extremely lavish dinner on the table, as well as old Lenser's droopy dog ​​face.

At the same time, there was also a beautiful figure busy at work.

(End of this chapter)