Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 791 Spiritual Baptism

Thor sat inside a giant hourglass.

The entire hourglass is made of brass mixed with mithril and magic mirror. It is engraved with many nebula patterns, allowing air and sunlight to penetrate into the hourglass, but ensuring that the inside of the hourglass cannot be seen from the outside.

Hourglasses were originally used for telling time, and when they lost the ability to observe the sand inside, their timekeeping function was naturally discarded as well.

Thor is currently located inside a large experimental chamber at the Sky City Institute of Practice.

Some time ago, Ophelia personally ordered the Academy of Knowledge and the Academy of Practice to help Thor improve his magic and mental strength as soon as possible.

The initial enhancement of his magic power is complete. Thor is already a third-tier wizard, so there are limited ways for others to help him increase his magic power.

After taking some medications and conducting several enhancement experiments, the Institute of Practice finally unveiled their ultimate weapon for enhancing individual mental strength.

This is the giant hourglass where Thor is currently located—the Blood Sand Hourglass.

It took two weeks of preparation before Saul was finally brought over.

Judging from the pained look on the face of Shaquille, the dean of the practice institute, their resource pool had really been drained in preparation for this experiment.

"Knock knock knock".

Someone outside was gently tapping the hourglass, and the echo reverberated inside.

"Lord Saul, we are about to release the sand. Please remain seated on the central axis."

"Okay, I'm all done."

After Thor came in, he sat in the central position and did not move while the others were getting ready.

"Alright," Shaquille instructed finally, "once the blood sand has completely submerged your head, you can begin meditating. During this time, do not use magic, otherwise the hourglass will stop immediately, and the entire experiment will be impossible to continue. And in the short term, we do not have enough blood sand left for a second experiment."

"I understand," Thor's voice was steady.

Shaquille retreated until he was outside the experimental chamber, and ordered the chamber to be completely sealed off.

This is to prevent other people's magic from entering the experimental chamber and causing the instruments to stop operating.

To ensure the experiment's success, the wizard sitting inside the hourglass should normally be fitted with a magic-suppressing ring. However, Thor was, after all, a third-tier wizard and a distinguished guest of the Lord of Ophelia, so no one dared to mention this before the experiment.

Even if a lot of blood sand is wasted in the end, it's better than being hated by a powerful third-tier wizard.

Once the experimental chamber was sealed, Shaquille directed his wizards to manipulate a massive metal lever and open the valve to release sand.

As the metal rod was pulled down, a pipe above the metal hourglass inside the experimental chamber was opened.

Fine, bright red sand fell from the pipe into the upper part of the hourglass.

Once the upper part is almost filled, the pipe stops dropping sand.

Then, a huge robotic arm moved over, its mechanical claws gripping the lid of the upper half of the hourglass and gently lowering it.

The lid and hourglass fit together perfectly and were finally secured with screws.

Once everything is complete, sand begins to fall from inside the hourglass.

"Shhh..."

Large amounts of bloody sand fell from the hole in the middle of the sand, landing directly on Thor's head and then rolling down his clothes to the ground.

Each grain of sand that fell and struck Thor's head felt like a small hammer, striking directly into Thor's soul.

Although he was meditating, the world in his mind had transformed from pitch black into a vast red ocean.

He himself became a small boat struggling to survive in the giant waves.

As the blood-red sand engulfed Thor's body, the small boat was also slammed into the sea by a huge wave and disappeared beneath the surface.

My body felt like it was falling apart, the salty seawater poured in and blocked out the air.

Having already experienced many illusions and mental attacks, Thor remained calm. He steadily adjusted his mental state, not resisting the giant waves, but transforming himself into a small fish. Even if he was swept up and rolled in the seawater by the giant waves, he would not suffocate.

Once he regains his balance, he will be able to swim freely in the sea.

At this moment, the blood-red sand in the hourglass had already covered Thor's head.

Shaquille, who had been cautiously observing from the outside, immediately ordered, "Invert the hourglass!"

Several strong wizard apprentices struggled to pull up the two brass chains.

The chains rattled, causing the gears overhead to spin continuously.

The giant hourglass inside the experimental chamber slowly turned upside down.

Finally, the hourglass flipped over, and Thor moved from below the hourglass to above it.

However, a miraculous thing happened.

Even though no magic was used and there were no fixed facilities, Thor remained seated in his original spot, and even when he was upside down, he did not fall.

The sand covering him fell downwards with a soft patter due to gravity.

As the sand and gravel peeled away from his body, Thor felt like an onion, with its outer layers being peeled away one by one.

In the end, he was no longer a small fish in the deep sea, but his completely clean and pure self.

There were no towering red waves around.

Only a quiet space remains.

There was no gravity, no sound, and it seemed as if there was no concept of space or time.

Thor hovered silently in this clean and tidy world, and surprisingly, he did not feel the loneliness in the extreme stillness.

"So this step is the most important and the one that can best enhance a person's spiritual power in this Blood Sand Hourglass."

The thought flashed through Thor's mind, but he quickly let it go.

This was an extremely rare experience of purifying his spiritual body. He had to cherish every minute and second; thinking too much would only hinder the results.

Why not let yourself return to being a baby, thinking of nothing, completely emptying your mind, and receiving a complete baptism?

The hourglass experiment lasted for five days, far exceeding Shaquille's initial plan of one to one and a half days.

Almost all the wizards in the entire Institute of Practice suspended their work because of this experiment.

Seeing that Saul was not coming out for a long time, Shaquille could not let the entire institute just wait around, so on the evening of the next day, he sent everyone else back, while he, as the organizer of the experiment, personally guarded outside the experimental chamber.

It wasn't until the evening of the fifth day that Thor emerged from the hourglass.

Since all the blood sand had been fully utilized and transformed into black sand, Thor no longer needed to worry about the rule against using magic. He simply teleported out of the hourglass.

How do you teleport?

Naturally, the first step is to release the Nightmare Butterfly, and then use the outside as the coordinates for his positioning.

Because of the powerful magical fluctuations, the sand that had turned into black sand suddenly cracked open one by one.

As Thor's figure appeared outside the hourglass, the inside of the hourglass roared as if thousands of firecrackers had been lit at once.

"My hourglass!" Dean Shaquille's lips twitched, his heart bleeding.

Although he knew this step would happen before the experiment, he still couldn't help but feel heartbroken when the hourglass was actually worn out.

Thor stepped out of the experimental chamber, refreshed and radiant, his spiritual and physical magic at a new balance. The previous hazards caused by the contamination seemed to have been eliminated.

At the same time, the long period of solitude also gave Thor a deeper understanding of his own power.

In short, his gains, and the time he spent using the Blood Sand Hourglass, far exceeded those of others.

But this was something no one knew except himself.

Looking up at Shaquille's contorted face, Thor smiled apologetically, but he quickly wiped the smile off and said to the dean, who was also a third-tier wizard, with a serious expression, "Dean Shaquille, please tell Lord Ophelia that I will be going to see her in three days."

I promised the group members an extra chapter, and although it's half a month late, I still managed to do it!

(End of this chapter)