Wizards begin by accessing the Inspiration panel.

Chapter 125 Six Months Later

That is, it has excellent coverage, just like the bodycon skirts worn by women in the past.

Wait a minute! Some people might ask, is excellent support really an advantage? Surely not!

It really counts! Richard tried it out, casting Bone Armor (II) on himself and his four skeletons. As a result, even he couldn't tell which was which, because it was completely sealed, with nothing showing inside.

Of course, this is on the premise that Richard summons four identical undead summons, such as four skeleton archers or four skeleton guardians.

Otherwise, the differences in weapons would make it easy to distinguish between them!

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Time flies.

Richard has been in the blind merman tribe for six months now, and the merman warriors in the tribe are now very familiar with their "wandering wizard".

Basically, this dedicated "wandering wizard" didn't miss a single battle against monsters.

They held this "wizard" in the highest esteem, whose power was unfathomable.

Meanwhile, Richard was in the alchemy room, refining potions, while Fingart watched intently, diligently learning.

As he watched, Fingart secretly pondered, "My master's superb potion-making skills are truly incomparable. Although my master is never afraid of me learning potion-making skills on the side, and I have also learned many special making skills, compared with my master, it is still the difference between starlight and the sun. The gap is too great."

I originally thought that my master's potion-making skills were on par with my teacher's, but I later discovered that my master's potion-making skills far surpassed my teacher's. At first, it was just because my master was not familiar with his tribe's unique potion-making system.

Moreover, in recent months, the master has been making more and more potions, many of which he has given to himself, and in the form of mission rewards, he has given them to the clansmen who have made contributions in finding traces of monsters or collecting rare herbs.

After half a year of recuperation, the strength of the Blind Merfolk tribe has been steadily increasing. The number of high-level merfolk warriors has increased from three to six, and the number of mid-level merfolk warriors has reached twenty.

This is all thanks to the various merman potions concocted by the master.

In fact, Richard concocted many potions specifically for murlocs in order to quickly improve his [murloc potion-making] skills.

Of course, the ultimate goal was to push the [Heart of Mutation] to its limit in the next few days. Thanks to his experience in refining other merfolk potions, he calculated that the energy points required to upgrade the [Heart of Mutation] were actually less than those required for the [Golden Horned Frog Egg].

This once again proves that Richard's thinking is correct.

Thousands of bottles of various merman potions were useless to Richard, as he himself could not take them and they would be of no use if brought back to the surface.

So, after thinking it over, Richard decided to give it to Fingart as a reward for the "hard-working" fishmen who diligently helped Richard find traces of monsters or rare herbs.

These were completely useless to Richard, merely byproducts of improving pharmacology, yet they yielded excellent results.

Immediately, the merman warriors were in high spirits, and their efficiency in finding monsters increased by at least 30%!

Richard chuckled upon hearing Fingart's report, "He really is an otherworldly version of a working-class guy; a little encouragement gets him all fired up!"

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Richard himself has made remarkable progress in the past six months. On the Inspiration panel, apart from the two alchemical bombs, Fire Dance Star and Silver Moon Dust, which did not have raw materials and therefore could not be upgraded to the limit, Richard has almost upgraded the control level of all other [Witchcraft] and [Skills] to the limit.

Even the ancestral Clavel breathing technique has been pushed to its limit.

Although the ancestral breathing technique did not contribute much to Richard's attribute improvement due to the overriding effect of the Rodrigo Meditation Technique, it still added two special effects: Clavier Breathing Technique (Limit, Special Effects: Robustness, Healing).

"Strong" means that Richard's body is much stronger than that of ordinary people, while "Healing" means that the body recovers from wounds and injuries faster. Both of these are considered very good talents among knights.

But for Richard at present, these are merely icing on the cake.

Because Richard had already pushed the Rodrigo Meditation Technique to its limit, Rodrigo Meditation Technique (Limit, Special Effects: Advanced Energy-Saving Casting, Breath Concealment, Arcane Art: Secondary Mental Shock)

He already possesses the physical attributes of a high-level knight, and with a total mental strength of 28.8 standard units, he is approaching the mental strength limit of a level three wizard apprentice.

According to the classification of wizard apprentices on the continent of Byers, those with a total mental strength exceeding twenty but not exceeding thirty standard units belong to the third-level wizard apprentice level. Those below twenty and above ten belong to the second-level wizard apprentice level, while those below ten belong to the first-level wizard apprentice level and ordinary people.

Before reaching the age of thirty, one's mental strength doesn't present any major obstacles. However, as one's mental strength approaches thirty, a formidable barrier suddenly appears.

That's right, it's not a pass, it's an insurmountable barrier!

Once this insurmountable barrier is crossed, one is considered to have entered the formal wizard stage. However, this is a huge threshold that has blocked a large number of third-level wizard apprentices, and even some wizard apprentices who became famous at a young age. They have been unable to cross it for a long time and eventually died in frustration.

Richard has already vaguely sensed the existence of this boundary.

Although Richard is not entirely clear on how to overcome this hurdle, he guesses that there are only two ways to do so: one is to find the subsequent Rodrigo meditation method for the formal wizard stage.

Another method is to forcefully break through the limits using the Rodriguez meditation technique through one's own inspiration panel. However, breaking through the limits requires three other advanced meditation techniques and a massive amount of energy points.

Now, he can slowly accumulate enough energy points, but advanced meditation techniques are extremely rare.

Moreover, based on Richard's numerous attempts, if the second method of forcibly breaking the limit is chosen, a new meditation method suitable for the first-level wizard stage can be deduced.

Therefore, you can't just pick any three of these advanced meditation methods; you have to choose carefully to make sure they can achieve a synergistic effect with the Rodrigo meditation method.

Fortunately, Richard only needed the first level of advanced meditation, or the apprentice level of advanced meditation, instead of the complete advanced meditation method.

The complete version of advanced meditation techniques is the foundation and fundamental method for all major wizarding academies or wizarding families.

If all you want is one film, then Richard can spend a few years showcasing his exceptional talent, becoming a core member or marrying into the family, and that will be enough. But that will definitely come with all sorts of oaths and contracts, the kind that promise never to betray you.

In that case, you can forget about obtaining advanced meditation techniques from other academies, so that path is out of the question.

If it's just the content for the apprentice stage of advanced meditation, then the difficulty of collecting it is greatly reduced!

However, overall, it is still very difficult, and staying in the Gray Fern Wilderness, one cannot master advanced meditation techniques at all.

Richard had initially considered targeting the blind fishman tribe, specifically the meditation method practiced by Fingart. However, it turned out that his servant practiced bloodline meditation, which had no effect on him.

One of the necessary conditions for bloodline meditation is that one must possess a certain bloodline.

Therefore, if Richard wanted to learn the Blind Fishman's meditation method, he would have to transplant the Blind Fishman's bloodline. The thought immediately made Richard tremble. Just thinking about that fat fish head, if he really became like that, Richard would want to die!

It seems that I will have to return to the school in a few days.

However, there is still one last step: to create the extremely rare potion, the [Heart of Mutation].

During this time, Richard assigned many collection tasks through Fingart. Now Richard has fully mastered and improved his knowledge of Murloc Potionology, and the display on his panel has also changed.

[Fishman Pharmacology (Mastery 78%)] Heart of Mutation (Max), Golden Horned Frog Egg (Max).

The addition of the Murloc Potion subcategory immediately made the entire panel much cleaner.

Richard arrived at the alchemy room. Over the past six months, as the potions he was making became increasingly complex, Fingart had gone to great lengths to procure all the necessary beakers, utensils, and test tubes, making Richard's potion-making process even more efficient.

Richard carefully took out the mutant Crab Demon Heart, which was stored in a box with green patterns on its surface, and placed it on the test table.

The bright red heart, about the size of an ordinary person's head, was still beating rhythmically. This was because the mutant crab demon's powerful life force came from this heart. Secondly, the box that Richard used to store it was also very special.

This is a box that solidifies a natural magic called the Breath of Life. According to Fingart, it was made by a natural magic wizard at great expense by the previous generation of fishman prophets. Of course, due to the passage of time, Richard did not take Fingart's words seriously.

However, after careful examination, Richard also concluded that the box was indeed valuable and very suitable for storing some special raw materials, so he took it for himself.

At that moment, Richard held a milky white dropper and dripped a drop onto the bright red mutated crab demon's heart. Instantly, a loud "sizzling" sound rang out, but Richard used one hand to drip the dropper and the other hand to quickly apply it with a specially made brush.

Before long, Richard had almost finished using up the milky white liquid in the dropper, barely managing to coat the surface of the mutant crab heart.

A few seconds later, the surface of the mutant crab demon's heart began to change from red to purple, and then from purple to black. When the black covered the entire surface, the mutant crab demon's heart suddenly began to shrink, gradually becoming the size of an infant's fist, and then turned bright red again, so red it was almost dripping blood.

The milky white liquid that Richard just dripped was quite special; it was the white sclera fluid from the eyes of a troll mantis, made by mixing, purifying, and condensing it with other rare herbal juices.

It contains a special substance that can undergo a special chain reaction with the skin of the mutant Crab Demon Heart.

With this [Heart of Mutation], Richard was not in a hurry to consume it. He planned to return to the school and find out how to break through to become a formal wizard before doing so.

Perhaps the [Heart of Mutation] in my hand can slightly increase my chances of breaking through.

(End of this chapter)