The "Fighting Scholar" potion has been fully digested, and the main and auxiliary materials for the "Wizard" have been obtained. He can now advance!
Odis had originally planned to be promoted tonight, but Mike's matter delayed him, disrupting his original promotion plan. It was already midnight before he had time to consider whether to be promoted.
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Odis took a deep breath. Although it was late, he felt pretty good.
Let's advance tonight. Sequence 7 is also a qualitative change stage in the "Secret Seeker" path. After becoming a "Wizard", you can use some extraordinary abilities, which can greatly improve your self-protection and attack power.
So Odis took the lantern, went to the counter in front to find all the auxiliary materials, and then took out another main material from the "Wilderness of Knowledge": the brain of the pale-necked beast.
After gathering all the materials, he began to prepare the potion.
First, six drops of aconite juice, which has some toxicity, were added to a beaker. Then, 18 grams of purple-edged lilac flower powder, which has hallucinogenic effects, were weighed.
Then add 60 ml of pure water, and a dose of poison that can cause angina and hallucinations is ready.
This made Odis exclaim: The auxiliary ingredients in the potion recipe are completely fighting poison with poison!
He then added the deep red blood of the silver-billed crane to the beaker. Pharmacologically speaking, this is a tonic, but it does not have any detoxifying effect.
Odis opened the two wooden boxes in front of him and first took out a small brain that still seemed to have blood flowing inside.
This brain is about the size of the pad of a thumb, but it is very similar to the human brain. In the crystal-clear tiny blood vessels, there are dot-shaped illusory lights. It is under the reflection of these lights that it seems as if blood is flowing.
After the main ingredients were added, the liquid in the beaker reacted rapidly. Odis did not stir it, but the potion flowed on its own, as if melting the solids inside.
Finally, Odis added two longan-sized "fruits of the tamarisk tree," which would occasionally twitch slightly.
The potion in the cup suddenly formed a small vortex, and under its own stirring, it eventually turned into a syrup-like liquid with specks of starlight.
Odis thought to herself: This looks a bit more palatable than the "Fighting Scholar's" potion.
He took a deep breath and used "meditation" to calm the turmoil in his mind. Once he was calm, he suddenly drank the potion.
As soon as the cool potion entered her stomach, Odis seemed to hear a violent "boom," and her whole body became somewhat confused, as if she had returned to her innocent and carefree childhood.
But this wonderful feeling quickly disappeared. Two or three seconds later, Odis felt a splitting headache. It was as if something was crawling out of her head, but she couldn't find an exit, so it was churning inside her head.
Odis even had the illusion that his head had turned into cartilage, with something pushing up the left side of his skull one moment and the right side the next.
This wasn't his imagination; at that moment, his head truly felt as soft as a water-filled balloon. A small bump moved around, as if a tiny snake was wriggling inside.
Clang~
The sound of the beaker hitting the ground brought Odis back to her senses, and she tried to fight the pain with her willpower to avoid fainting from the agony.
But soon, I felt a sharp, stabbing pain in my head again. It wasn't just a stabbing pain, but also a tingling sensation afterward.
Then came the pain of being cut by a knife, followed by the pain of being sandwiched between two hard objects...
It was as if someone was using various instruments of torture to torment Odysseus's brain, causing it immense suffering.
Finally, the first wave of headache ended, and the pain started again as a spasm. However, the second wave of pain was much less severe. Odis quickly used "meditation" to resist the pain, and soon the symptoms were greatly reduced.
But Odis knew very well that he still had to grit his teeth and get through the final hurdle to promotion.
After the pain had mostly subsided, suddenly, that unfamiliar and cold voice once again pierced Odis's ears:
"Boundless universe! You…pile up…jump around…knowledge…canal…endless…"
Although I could hear a few more words clearly this time compared to when I was promoted last time, most of them were still unclear.
Those indistinct parts were either like the low growl of a beast, making Odis's heart pound; or like fingernails scratching a thin sheet of iron, making a sharp noise that made him extremely irritable; or like harmful ultrasound waves, making him dizzy.
Fortunately, the sound disappeared quickly, but Odis had already collapsed to the ground, veins bulging on his forehead, as if he had lost consciousness for a brief moment.
Then a severe wave of dizziness hit him, like severe motion sickness or severe drunkenness, causing him to start gagging again.
A minute or two later, Odis, panting heavily, slowly got up from the ground: No, I have to find a way to block the voice of the "Hidden Sage".
Otherwise, having just been promoted and being in a weakened state, hearing him shout like that would be terrifying!
Odis planned to ask Bernadette for a favor when the opportunity arose.
Roselle seems to have made her a magical item that can prevent her from being "chased" by the "Hidden Sage." Let's see if we can study it and make a low-end version, or try to find a way to copy one.
However, that was not the issue to consider now; Odis continued to use "meditation" to stabilize his state.
Two or three minutes later, all of Odis's discomfort disappeared, but when she pressed her head, it still felt a little numb.
This made him seriously suspect that the Sequence 7 "Wizard" potion might mainly enhance the brain, which is why the advancement process was basically filled with all sorts of headaches.
Odis then used her spirituality to perceive the new abilities she had gained after her ascension.
First, it possesses the ability to cast "spells" or "witchcraft," but that term is too general; it should be called "a series of witchcraft."
They can use spiritual materials and extraordinary abilities to perform various spells.
For example, with the "flying spell," Odis could use "flying powder," which was prepared in advance with spiritual materials, as a medium to perform a brief period of flight when needed.
During this process, Odis had to sketch out the mystical symbols corresponding to this witchcraft in his mind.
The recipe for "flying powder" was knowledge that Odis acquired after his advancement.
At this moment, he had twelve pieces of knowledge related to "flight techniques" in his mind, including the corresponding mystical symbols and the recipes for the spiritual materials needed.
Odis picked up his pipe, playing with it as he pondered: To summarize the knowledge he had gained about performing witchcraft, the three essential elements of performing witchcraft are: extraordinary ability, spirituality, and materials.
He used a vivid analogy: when performing witchcraft, the corresponding mystical symbols that appear in one's mind are like a activation code, allowing the extraordinary characteristics within the body to exert their corresponding power.
In other words, as long as one has mastered enough occult knowledge, one can also create the "starting code" for witchcraft.
Those twelve spells are a bit like "must-have" software. If you know programming and software design, you can design the software you need yourself!
Not a single mistake, not a single poem, not a single post, not a single piece of content, not a single look!
Then Odis carefully "read" through the occult symbols corresponding to the twelve spells he currently knew in his mind.
He soon discovered that these occult symbols looked somewhat similar to common occult symbols, but upon closer examination, their usage was completely different. These symbols were simpler, yet the content expressed by a single symbol was more complex and had a more symbolic meaning.
At the same time, these mystical symbols are quite different from the mystical symbols deduced by Odis.
Odis scratched his head. The mystical symbols he had painstakingly deduced were not compatible with witchcraft, which was troublesome.
But then he thought again that these symbols were all symbolic and did not have a fixed shape.
Just like during the Warring States period, the seven states had different scripts, but when they used their respective scripts to write documents, the meanings they expressed were basically the same.
So Odis had a bold idea: could I use the mystical symbols I deduced to practice witchcraft?
An experiment must be conducted.
Among the twelve spells, he chose the "Flame Spell" which had relatively easy-to-prepare spiritual materials. So he immediately went to the pharmacy in front and found powdered leaves from the Fiery Red Maple Tree and red fur from the Fire-Patterned Sable.
Cut the red fluff into small pieces, add powder, and you have prepared the materials needed for the "Flame Spell".
Odis first replaced the mystical symbols related to "flame magic" in his mind with symbols he had deduced himself.
Then, upon arriving in the courtyard, while sketching out the corresponding symbolic representations in his mind, he infused spirituality into the spiritual materials and sprinkled powder.
Whew~
The scattered powder burst into flames!
It was a success!
It really works!
As the flames before him died down, Odis almost roared to the heavens. With his knowledge of mystical symbols and spirituality, he would be the wizard with the most spells at his disposal!
Back in the house, Odis had a smile on his face. He filled his pipe and then dipped his hand into a few grains of powder used for the "Flame Spell".
He formed a small flame on his fingertip, lit his pipe with it, and took a satisfying puff.
At this point, he was already considering whether to write a book called "Complete Book of Wizardry".
After a brief moment of contemplation, Odis continued to ponder the question of witchcraft.
Having grasped the principles of unleashing extraordinary abilities, he began to ponder the second element: the question of spirituality.
The practice of witchcraft indirectly confirms his thoughts on spirituality and extraordinary qualities.
He believes that extraordinary qualities are achieved by using spirituality as a medium to unleash extraordinary abilities.
In this process, spirituality occupies a very important position. In its ordinary state, spirituality will not have any extraordinary effects, but after being distorted by extraordinary characteristics and fundamentally changed, the state of spirituality becomes very different!
It can mobilize the power of nature, unleash one's own potential, and disrupt the spiritual balance within a target...
Click~
A sudden clap of thunder sounded outside.
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Click~
Max, who was on duty in Backlund, also heard the thunder.
There's definitely no thunder at this time of year, so it's probably the "substitutes" handling cases again.
At that moment, the door to Max's office was suddenly pushed open, and a member of "Mechanical Heart" held a telegram: "Captain, an urgent telegram from headquarters."
Max quickly got up and took the telegram. The telegram read: Odis Garr has been promoted to "Wizard". Under close observation and surveillance.