Wizarding Age: I can analyze everything

Chapter 111 Advancement to Wizardry, Thirty-two-sided Crystal

"Would you like something to drink?"

Pei Ze welcomed Yin Xue into the living room and asked with a smile.

"No."

Yin Xue shook her head, glanced at Xiao Yi who was curiously looking at her, took out a mica silver flower, plucked out the stamen and handed it to Xiao Yi.

The little guy's eyes lit up immediately, and he flew over with a big smile to hug the flower stamen. He chirped twice to Yin Xue and then flew to the side to enjoy himself.

Yin Xue smiled slightly, then turned and took out another book, placing it on the coffee table.

"This is what my teacher asked me to give you."

The book was about two fingers thick, entirely black, with the title—"The Wizard's Handbook"—formed in silver thread on its leather cover!

"This book contains all the common knowledge and information about wizards. Once you become a wizard, remember to study it thoroughly."

Pei Ze's eyes lit up, and he picked up the book to open it, but after trying to open it, the pages wouldn't budge.

Even with his legendary knight-level strength, he was unable to open the book.

"Only wizards can open this book," Yin Xue explained, stopping Pei Ze from doing so.

Upon hearing this, Pei Ze had no choice but to put the book away first, and then asked, "Senior, you didn't make a special trip just to deliver a book, did you?"

"Of course not."

Yin Xue smiled, stretched out her fair palm, and revealed two crystal balls the size of longan.

The two crystal balls were crystal clear, like the finest gemstones, and floating in the transparent crystals were two light gray, semi-transparent figures in the shape of babies hugging their knees.

Upon closer inspection, the facial features of the two figures bore a striking resemblance to Pei Ze's.

On a sudden inspiration, Pei Ze blurted out, "A substitute spirit!"

"That's right," Yin Xue said with a smile. "The teacher knew that you urgently needed a substitute spirit, so as soon as the competition ended, he applied to the Dawn Council to make a substitute spirit for you."

"The teacher is very thoughtful." Pei Ze happily accepted the two crystal balls.

With these two substitute spirits, the last problem in his process of condensing his spiritual crystal was solved, and he could attempt a breakthrough at any time.

"As for the remaining rewards, your teacher suggests that you wait until you become a wizard before applying to the Dawn Council based on your own needs."

Pei Ze agreed without much hesitation.

He had already planned this, and Mo Weng's suggestion was undoubtedly in line with his thoughts.

Yin Xue then took out a notebook and said, "These are materials that the teacher collected about condensing spiritual crystals. They also contain my insights and experiences when I broke through, which may be of some help to you."

Yin Xue tucked the notebook into Pei Ze's hand and said with a smile, "I'm leaving for the Turin Plane in a few days, so I probably won't see you advance to wizard. We'll have a good get-together when I get back from the Turin Plane."

"So fast?"

Pei Ze was slightly taken aback, then smiled and said:

"Maybe I'll be going to the Turin plane soon, then we'll meet on the plane battlefield."

Yin Xue smiled and nodded, saying, "Then I'll be waiting for you."

Yin Xue left quickly without lingering.

After closing the door and returning to his apartment, Pei Ze looked at the substitute spirit and Li Xinshui in his dimensional bag and silently recited in his mind:

"Omniscient, using five standard doses of Crystal Heart Water and two substitute spirits as aids, calculate the success rate of my condensation of spiritual crystals."

[91.45%]

"Over 90%, that's not bad."

Pei Ze nodded in satisfaction.

It's impossible to achieve a 100% success rate in condensing spiritual essence; a 90% success rate is already quite remarkable.

Even for Yin Xue, the success rate of condensing spiritual crystals couldn't possibly be as high as his; it would be at most 70% or 80%.

Moreover, even if the condensation fails, with the protection of the Crystal Heart Water and the Substitute Spirit, there is no need to worry about serious injury; at most, it will take a while to recover.

Moreover, there are still rewards left from the Dawn Council. If we really fail, we can get another batch of promotion resources from the council.

With a backup plan in mind, Pei Ze's psychological pressure immediately lessened.

Considering that the process of condensing spiritual crystals could take anywhere from ten days to a month, he thought for a moment and then took out a large amount of honey and placed it in the living room to serve as food for Xiao Yi, and gave the little guy a few more instructions.

Xiao Yi quickly realized that Pei Ze was about to do something big, and that he would be going into seclusion for a long time, and she immediately showed an uneasy expression.

It took Pei Ze a lot of talking to calm the little guy down.

He then packed his things and headed out to the Tower Academy.

If we're talking about the safest place in the entire outer city, besides the city guard's garrison, it would be the four major wizarding academies.

Within the Tower Academy, the spell lab in the experimental zone is the safest.

Once the door is closed, no one can enter unless the specified time period is reached or the user inside opens the door voluntarily.

Therefore, Pei Ze decided to complete his advancement in the magic laboratory.

Apartments are still too unsafe.

Upon arriving at the magic experiment building, Pei Ze paid for a full three months' worth of usage time in one go, which startled the staff in charge of registration. After confirming several times that it was correct, the staff member registered Pei Ze for a room with a puzzled expression.

Holding the room key, Pei Ze went straight to the third floor.

The staff member stared at his retreating figure with a puzzled expression, muttering to himself, "What kind of magical experiment takes three months?"

Suddenly, he thought of something, and his expression became quite interesting.

"Could it be that he's about to be promoted?!"

Pei Ze was unaware of the staff's speculations and didn't care.

After closing the door, he summoned Mist Feather and had it wait by his side. Then he took out the notes Yin Xue had given him and quickly began to browse through them.

In less than a minute, all the contents of the notes were recorded by the All-Knowing Eye and absorbed into his mind.

Pei Ze closed his eyes and carefully comprehended the essence for a while, making sure he hadn't missed anything, before taking out the Crystal Heart Water and the Substitute Spirit.

Five bottles of Glass Heart Water were lined up on the floor, the silver liquid shimmering with a captivating luster under the light.

Pei Ze picked up one of the bottles, popped the cork off, tilted his head back, and poured it directly into his mouth.

As the medicine entered the stomach, a surge of vibrant life force instantly erupted.

In an instant, Pei Ze felt his entire body brimming with power.

"Such abundant life energy."

Pei Ze clicked his tongue in amazement; this life energy was even more concentrated than when he was promoted to legendary knight.

After calming himself down, Pei Ze finished the remaining four bottles of Glass Heart Water in one go, then picked up two crystal balls that sealed the substitute spirits and put them in his mouth.

Once everything was ready, he closed his eyes, calmed his mind, and began his breakthrough.

The process of condensing spiritual energy into crystallization sounds simple, but it is actually extremely difficult to do. It involves continuously compressing spiritual energy until it crystallizes.

Otherwise, so many people wouldn't be stuck at this stage.

When Pei Ze sensed the invisible and intangible spiritual power deep within his mind and began to mobilize his will to compress it, a silvery-white flame suddenly burst forth from his body with a hiss.

The flames burned fiercely, without heat, smoke, or sound; they simply burned silently.

In a place unseen by others, Pei Ze's life force, fueled by the burning silver flames, rapidly transformed into streams of strange, unknown energy, supporting his compressed mental power.

The life energy that was originally abundant throughout the body slowly but steadily decreased.

At the same time, as the compression of mental energy continued, an intense pain, seemingly emanating from the depths of his soul, suddenly surged from the depths of Pei Ze's mind, as if someone were pounding his soul and head with a heavy hammer.

Pei Ze's brows furrowed instantly, almost interrupting the process of compressing his mental energy.

Fortunately, he had a strong enough will and endured it.

However, the intense pain came and went quickly, disappearing without a trace in no time.

No, it didn't disappear, but rather it transferred to the substitute spirit.

The semi-transparent human figure inside one of the two crystal balls held in Pei Ze's mouth suddenly twisted, rolled, and struggled violently, its face contorted in a silent scream, as if it were enduring extremely intense pain.

The flames burned silently, the spirits roared silently, and everything proceeded in quietude.

As time passed, the mental energy deep within Pei Ze's mind was gradually compressed, transforming from formless and intangible to tangible and substantial, from a gaseous state to countless droplets, which then gathered together to form a pale silver liquid.

Later, pieces of silver crystals began to appear in the liquid.

During this process, the substitute spirit inside the crystal ball finally succumbed to the damage and vanished into nothingness.

The pain then shifted to the second substitute spirit, and the silent roar began once more.

After an unknown amount of time, just as Pei Ze's life energy generated from consuming the Glass Heart Water was about to be exhausted and his substitute spirit was about to reach its limit, a sudden jolt ran through the depths of his mind. Accompanied by a buzzing sound, a silver crystal finally took shape.

Pei Ze's spirits lifted, and he immediately focused his mind to sense the surroundings.

In the depths of my mind, which resembles a starry sky, a magnificent, multifaceted silver crystal floats in mid-air.

It has a total of thirty-two faces, each of which is a regular hexagon with a six-pointed star pattern in the center.

The entire crystal radiates a mesmerizing light, more beautiful than the world's most precious gemstones.

"Is this the culmination of our spiritual efforts?"

Pei Ze looked at the silver crystal, feeling a surge of joy and satisfaction.

Once the spiritual crystal is formed, it means that he has successfully advanced to become a wizard, and his life essence has evolved to a higher level!

From then on, he was no longer a pawn to be manipulated, but began to have the right to truly control his own destiny!

"call"

Pei Ze opened his eyes, spat out the two crystal balls in his mouth, and let out a long sigh of relief.

He turned to look at the clock on the wall, a look of astonishment flashing in his eyes.

"Seventy-five days have already passed?"

Pei Ze was secretly amazed.

Generally speaking, it takes about ten days to condense one's spiritual essence.

Wizard apprentices who practice advanced meditation techniques need more time, but at most a little over a month.

For example, Yin Xue took thirty-two days.

Pei Ze estimated that it would take even longer to condense his thirty-two will runes, roughly two months, but he didn't expect it to take seventy-five days.

"Luckily, we allowed extra time."

Pei Ze got up and moved around. Despite sitting motionless for seventy-five days, his body didn't feel sore at all; instead, he felt full of energy.

My mind was clear, and my senses were noticeably sharper than before.

It's as if the whole world used to be draped in a light veil, but now that veil has been lifted.

"The perception of energy particles has become much clearer, and the ability to manipulate them has more than doubled."

Pei Ze snapped his fingers, and a ray of lightning immediately crackled from his fingertip.

With a casual flick of his finger, lightning shot out and struck the crystal target not far away with a bang.

Category: Lightning

Power: 52.3 degrees Celsius

"Pure manipulation of energy particles, its power surpasses even that of lightning runes—this is the power of a wizard!"

Pei Ze's face showed a look of admiration.

"Omniscient, detect my current state."

【Spirit???】

【constitution???】

"Um?"

Pei Ze was taken aback; why were there so many question marks?

The All-Knowing Eye quickly provided feedback.

[The nature of life has changed; please establish a new energy unit.]

A new unit of energy?

Pei Ze frowned slightly, then suddenly had an idea and took out the wizard's handbook from his dimensional bag.

He sat down cross-legged on the spot and began to read the thick book.

This time he slowed down considerably, scanning and thinking at the same time.

It took him more than an hour to memorize the entire manual.

"I see. After becoming a wizard, not only will the physical body evolve, but the spiritual power will also be sublimated due to the high degree of condensation, thus changing its essence."

"Therefore, the previous mental and physical attributes are no longer applicable."

"Wizards created a new energy unit to quantify their own power, and this new energy unit is called energy level."

Pei Ze understood and immediately muttered to himself:

"Omniscient, based on the data, convert my current attributes into new energy units."

The data in my field of vision suddenly blurred for a moment, then quickly became clear again.

【Spirit 5.12】

[Body Condition 4.35]

"Only a little over five energy level?"

Pei Ze muttered to himself.

According to the wizard's handbook, wizards who have condensed their spiritual essence are collectively called crystal wizards.

Crystallizers are divided into three levels, from lowest to highest.

The newly promoted wizard is a first-level wizard.

Only by condensing a second spiritual crystal can one advance to the level of a second-level wizard.

The one who condensed the third spiritual crystal was a level three wizard.

Each level is further divided into vaporization, liquefaction, and crystallization, depending on the state of spiritual energy within the spiritual crystal.

Only by crystallizing the spiritual energy within the spiritual crystal can one begin constructing the second spiritual crystal and enter the next stage.

"So I should be in the first stage of vaporization now," Pei Ze muttered to himself.

It is worth mentioning that, through long-term experiments and statistics, the wizards quantified the mental energy corresponding to each stage.

This data is closely related to the number of crystal facets in a spiritual crystal.

For example, a wizard who advances through general meditation can condense a dodecahedron as their spiritual crystal. The amount of spiritual power it can contain is limited, making it easier to reach a state of fullness and then begin to liquefy.

Wizards like this can transition from the vaporization stage to the liquefaction stage once their mental energy reaches level 12.

Wizards who advance through advanced meditation, such as Yin Xue, condense a spiritual crystal that is a 24-sided polyhedron. The amount of spiritual power it can hold far exceeds that of ordinary wizards. Naturally, the spiritual power required to reach the full state is much greater, requiring a full 24 energy levels to enter the liquefaction stage.

"In other words, my mental energy needs to reach level 32 in order to enter the liquefaction stage."

Pei Ze glanced at the silver crystal of the thirty-two-sided cube deep in his mind and suddenly felt a sense of heavy responsibility and a long way to go.

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