Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 134: Advanced Knowledge, Team Formation in Advance

Around eleven o'clock in the evening, Lin Bo closed the last introductory textbook on ritual studies and stuffed it into the storage box next to the desk.

The bookshelf in front of me is empty and can be used as a nest for spiders to weave their webs.

Relying on a neuron-activating tincture, he had forced himself to memorize all the books in his collection. And after a period of practical study, he had basically completed the literacy task of three common magical knowledge subjects.

Next, it’s time to purchase advanced knowledge.

Spellcasters of each school should have a particular professional knowledge focus, and often choose one or more fields of knowledge as their specialization.

The School of Transmutation focuses on alchemy, the School of Necromancy studies negative energy, the School of Evolution delve into the power of elements, druids comprehend and live with the magic of the wilderness, psykers immerse themselves in the mysteries of the mind, and even priests have to repeatedly ponder theological scriptures.

The exclusive knowledge of any one school is enough to occupy the student's entire life.

Lin Bo's professional knowledge is based on true name studies and magical linguistics.

Every True Name he knew was obtained through True Name exploration and alchemical practice; there was no ready-made True Name book to study. To advance further on this path, he relied primarily on his perception and alchemical proficiency.

Therefore, he will continue to study advanced alchemy, and this part of the expenditure is unavoidable.

Fortunately, among all types of magical knowledge, alchemy knowledge is very affordable. The basic theories are taught in the introductory stage, and the subsequent advanced knowledge is mainly practical content.

Whether it is the smelting secrets of various rare magical metals or the formulas of elixirs that can cure all diseases, they can all be recorded in ordinary language on ordinary paper. When purchasing, you only need to consider the value of the knowledge itself.

The real cost of alchemy lies in the purchase of various experimental instruments, tools and materials, as well as the construction of specific ritual sites to meet experimental needs.

In contrast, the advanced codes of many schools must use specially made pages to carry knowledge, and the paper material alone is quite expensive.

These magic books even condense so much spiritual power that they will produce various strange phenomena, including attracting the attention of beings from other dimensions, sucking the life force of the readers, maliciously transforming the readers into animals, and the contents of the books spontaneously escaping.

Because of this, buying such books on trading platforms is a very wallet-breaking act.

Lin Bo estimated that he could not avoid the fate of spending money on books, because magical linguistics was really expensive. Even if he could save a lot of money by deciphering the languages ​​of other worlds, in order to master more advanced spell grammar, he would need to minor in enchantment and conjuration.

Conjuration is the study of how to command the Weave through mortal speech, thereby achieving spells. Conjuration's most profound and brilliant achievement is the omnipotent "Wish," which allows the caster to alter the universe simply by speaking aloud their wishes.

Lin Bo wasn't a magic web caster; he used words to manipulate magical language and summon miraculous powers. However, the study of spells was also of great reference value to him.

The same applies to enchantment. Rune enchantment directly uses words of power to form spells. Lin Bo can directly recite these enchantment spells to cast spells.

Therefore, in the next stage of study, the knowledge that Lin Bo needs to purchase is mainly alien languages, alchemy, spells, enchantment and ritual studies.

He looked at the empty bookshelf and suddenly recalled that not long ago, every time he went out, he had to seal the shelf tightly with iron plates to prevent thieves from stealing books.

Lin Bo couldn't help but laugh.

He sorted out the list of books to purchase, opened the chat interface, and found [Toxulus].

A moment later, the sea-blue trade channel opened.

Lin Bo pulled out pieces of equipment from his backpack and threw them into the trade corridor. Several boxes of varying sizes were also thrown over from the other side. Some of these boxes contained enchanted items, used to seal magical tomes to prevent them from becoming haunted by spiritual influences.

He sold his extra Tide Guardian suits, as well as miscellaneous skill books and blue equipment, to raise enough money for this book purchase. In total, he spent nearly 50,000 disaster coins, but the books he got couldn't even fill an entire shelf.

After completing the transaction, Lin Bo took a look at the balance of disaster currency: 155
He was actually happy about the long-lost state of poverty. The disaster relief coins he had in his hands were of little use and were only valuable if they could be spent.

Put the new books on the shelves and arrange them neatly by category.

Lin Bo pulled out a copy of "Alchemy City: Master Tana's Crucible Secrets," which contained dozens of advanced recipes. These recipes all had a unique characteristic: they were quite complex, requiring the raw materials to be refined in stages before ultimately combining and refining the different products.

It takes a long time to complete an advanced alchemy.

He could no longer carve out time from his schedule for alchemical practice as he used to; instead, he had to plan ahead and dedicate several weeks to intensive study. However, tonight he would still proceed according to plan. Around midnight, he would study the otherworldly language and decipher the runes. Later that night, he would meditate and then delve into the realm of natural philosophy.

Early in the morning, Lin Bo came to the third floor of the lighthouse with a stack of design drawings and a pile of steel. He first dismantled the old equipment and then began to build a fully automatic lens rotation device.

He used an enchanted plasma engine to drive the shaft within the device, allowing the lens, weighing several tons, to rotate continuously. He added a voltage and current stabilizer to the engine, using a chip to control the output power and, in turn, the rotational speed.

The heavy steel slowly deformed, transforming into a long column that connected to the Fresnel lens in the tower's lamp holder. Lubricate it, plug in the power and network cables, and you're done.

Lin Bo spent the rest of the morning setting up a computer network on the third floor to assist in controlling the lighthouse.

The computer's operating system was the same as Iron Guard's, with no graphical interface and a purely programming language. However, he could understand it perfectly, and the actual experience was not much different from that of a graphical window.

If he wanted the lighthouse to operate fully automatically, with the lights turned off at sunrise and on at sunset, and the operating time extended in bad weather, Lin Bo would have to spend more time and install a weather monitoring station near the lighthouse.

He took out his calendar, made a note of the matter, and planned to find time in the evening to design a construction blueprint.

In the afternoon, I went to the caves to run maps and work.

Lin Bo saw a lot of team formation messages in the [Distant Star Botanical Garden] dungeon channel.

Even at normal difficulty, many players choose to travel together.

The advantage of doing this is that you can screen out suitable teammates and build a stable and tacit long-term team, which makes it easier to tackle the Desperate Situation and Purgatory difficulties.

He also planned to recruit some reliable teammates and form a ten-man team as soon as possible to challenge the difficulty of Purgatory.

It is best to clear an affix copy before reaching level 7 and before receiving level penalties to obtain high-multiple clearance rewards.

Since each player can only join one team channel at a time, Lin Bo had to quit the team at the Sea Spirit Altar before recruiting teammates to conquer the Botanical Garden dungeon.

This situation is very common, and many players only invite friends to form a team before going to the dungeon.

Lin Bo first completed two runs of the [Sea Spirit Altar] today, and then explained the situation in the channel.

[Heart Healing]: Wow, even though you already have a new career, you still won’t abandon us? (Tears)

[Fist Bone Iron]: Love, Faith, etc.
[Lighthouse Guest]: See you tomorrow then
[Evil-Exorcist]: See you tomorrow!

[Network Tip: Player "Lighthouse Guest" has exited the current team channel]

Lin Bo came to the public screen of another copy and started sending messages to invite people.

[Lighthouse Guest]: Mage profession, long-term team, today's challenge is normal difficulty, interested in adding friends

He chatted with Mushroom and Seagull while waiting.

There were quite a few players online today, and Lin Bo quickly received two friend requests. After agreeing, he added them to the team channel.

[Astrology Fan]: Hello, I am a summoner, level 5, I can recruit relatively strong front-line defenders, and I also have some self-protection ability.

[Gun Bullet Soul Stealer]: Artillery Master, or more precisely, Magic Cannon Master, Level 6, specializes in long-range fire support
[Lighthouse Guest]: Mage, level 6, ranged profession, also has some melee skills

After a brief self-introduction, seeing that his team information had been replaced by new messages, Lin Bo did not wait any longer and directly sent an invitation.

[Network Tip: Player [Lighthouse Guest] invites you to join the dungeon campaign [Out-of-Control Botanical Garden on a Distant Star] (Normal Level)]

A deep purple vortex of space and time opened up in the open space.

Lin Bo checked his equipment, thought for a moment, took off the mage's mask, and then stepped in.

(End of this chapter)