Chapter 229 – Determination to Become Stronger
Chapter 229 – Determination to Become Stronger
Four Undead Apprentices, two converted successfully.
Lange, who had the strongest will, did not meet with good luck, his spiritual energy space shattered, and he was reduced to a plant without consciousness. Although Worth survived, his mental power space was permanently cracked, and he lost the possibility of progressing in meditation.
In the end, the Harland Territory Mage Association, in accordance with Lange’s wishes, let him die peacefully, and his body was dissected in the hospital and used in the research of magic medicine.
Worth lost his potential and was bound to be mediocre for the rest of his life, but he soon married and had children and gradually came out of the shadows. Despite the impossibility of becoming a wizard for the rest of his life, Worth was ultimately a magically gifted person, still able to use zero-ring magic, and would always be in a position to rise above the average person.
The two undead apprentices who succeeded in their conversion were John and Barnes.
The success of the two converting to meditation gave the other undead apprentices a great deal of confidence, especially Butler, who walked with the wind these days.
Butler’s determination to become stronger was very strong, and even though the success rate of the conversion was only half, he still made up his mind and took the initiative to come to look for Richard, requesting to convert to the meditation method.
“I see your point, but Butler you are still young, I think you have all the time in the world to wait. Right now there are still some problems with the conversion, firstly the Book of Curses has not been extrapolated to the professional level yet, and secondly in the process of the conversion, there are many issues that have arisen that we have yet to understand.
The most crucial point is that you are a formal magician, more severely eroded by the magic energy particles of the undead attribute, the risk of transmuting the Book of Curses should be greater, I think you’d better wait for a year or two, after we have a deeper knowledge of magic energy, then transmute the meditative idea, and the high probability of success should be greatly increased.”
“President Richard is right about everything, probability-wise it is true, but I don’t want to see the other undead apprentices in the territory surpass me.”
Butler’s character was somewhat competitive, to this point Richard was instead pleased, in the study of magic and science, this kind of spirit of competition and the pursuit of first place was often needed.
As long as he did not engage in underhanded tactics to suppress his competitors, Richard encouraged young people to be competitive.
For an organization, it was better to be competitive internally than to be dead.
“Butler you have to understand that learning magic is a long term process. Improving fast in the first few years may not always be a good thing. In my opinion running fast is not as good as running steady. It’s only those who can consistently improve in a long term competition that can be considered truly outstanding.”
Despite Butler’s strong request, Richard did not agree.
Of the thirty or so members of the Harland Magic Association, the only ones with superior magical talent were Sophia, Wendy, and Butler.
Upper class magical talent, even if there was no magical research talent, there was no innovation in the research of magic, meditation could not get the feedback from the magic energy particles, and meditating step by step without encountering accidents, generally by the age of fifty or sixty, one could advance to the seventh ring.
Normally speaking, upper class magical talent, growing into a high ranked magician is basically guaranteed.
With such an excellent talent, naturally, he was valued by Richard.
After sending Butler away, the second batch of undead apprentices who wanted to switch disciplines approached the door.
Even though Lange died on the way to transfer, it still didn’t change the determination of the undead apprentices to become stronger.
These undead apprentices from the bottom of the hierarchy, as long as they were given a little bit of a chance, they would grab it with all their might, even if there was a great danger, or even the loss of their lives.
Richard asked himself, did he have such determination?
The answer was yes, because he was not willing to be mediocre and had a heart to jump upwards.
On the battlefield Richard is brave, a brave man is able to face everything, including death.
If his identity is transformed, he will still seize every opportunity to change his destiny.
This time the request to convert the meditation idea was six people, two of them were already Higher Apprentices.
The day before replacing the meditation idea, Richard talked to them separately, informing them of the dangers of replacing the meditation idea, and asked them to think clearly before making a decision.
The six undead apprentices remained firm, and there was no one who quit the next day.
Because of the experience of the last conversion, Richard made adjustments to the casting intensity of the Requiem Technique, and Sophia also increased the dosage of the Soul Potion.
But people still died during the conversion.
A Higher Undead Apprentice’s spiritual space collapsed and he lost his life on the spot.
Two undead apprentices had cracks in their spiritual space, and their magic levels could not be raised for the rest of their lives, and they also fell victim to headaches, neurasthenia, and other aftereffects.
There were only three who successfully switched to meditation, and the success rate still didn’t improve.
Richard carefully studied each of the people who had converted to meditative thoughts, delving into their subconscious several times. Richard constantly studied the body data of the nine Undead Apprentices, the most important being the two who died.
In order to figure out the cause of death, Richard personally participated in the autopsies, using a microscope coupled with a visual magnification spell to study the brains of the deceased.
The cause of death of the deceased was quickly clarified, the pineal gland of the deceased’s brain was attacked by magic energy particles and was severely deformed.
Through the study of the deformed pineal gland, Richard found that the magician’s spiritual space was hidden in the pineal gland.
This discovery was very shocking.
This knowledge should not have existed in the inheritance of the magicians of the Morning Glory Continent, and Richard’s discovery opened a new door.
But if you want to figure out where the mental space is in the pineal gland, and what exactly is the relationship between the two, I’m afraid that more dissections and more research are needed to be sure.
Richard is not a madman who disregards everything for the sake of researching magic, frantically capturing magicians for dissection.
Since the research couldn’t go on for the time being, Richard decided to stop and rest for a few days to change his mind.
The time had already reached the middle of December, and next year Margaret would be leaving the castle and entering one of the Riverbank Elementary Schools.
Richard decided to spare a few days to accompany his daughter.
Born in a lord’s family, Margerick grew up alone, she had no playmates, and the ones who accompanied her were adults.
The thoughts of adults were not on the same channel as children.
Richard observed that the last year or so Margerick was not very happy.
A child seems to know nothing, but has a very sensitive heart, and Margaret can sense who is genuinely good to her.
“Margaret, are you bored in the castle, why don’t we go out for a walk and take a break.”
Richard saw Margaret quietly playing with a wooden cart, and suddenly felt some guilt in his heart, feeling that he had rarely fulfilled his fatherly responsibilities.
“May we go out, father?”
For safety reasons, Margaret was rarely able to leave the castle, and although she was young, her status was very important in the Harland territory. As soon as she grew up and became a professional, she was the first heir of Richard and Sophia.
“It’s possible, Margaret. After the Goddess Birthday Festival, you will be going to school, and then you can come into contact with a lot of small children, and you can still invite them to the castle.”
For Margaret’s safety, Richard would arrange for professionals to protect her, and Anne and Audrey would be responsible for picking her up and dropping her off every day.
Near Riverbank Elementary School, Richard would arrange for a garrison. Guarding next to the barracks, no one would dare to attack Riverbank Elementary School, which would be no different from sending them to their deaths. Besides, Sophia is pregnant this year, and Margaret is no longer the sole heir.
Losing the title of sole heir, Margaret’s situation was instead a few points safer.
Richard held Margaret in his arms, changed his clothes and walked out of the lord’s mansion, walking aimlessly on the streets and observing the street scenes of Fort William.
Fort William had been built for many years, but there were still not many people in the city.
Because of the Harland Territory’s decree forbidding migration, most of the castle was filled with the families of the garrison, along with a small number of free people.
Comparatively speaking, the residents of Fort William were almost all hardcore supporters of Harland’s territory, and the environment was very clean.
Along the flat road, Richard held Margaret and slowly wandered.
After seven or eight years, Fort William was already significantly different from when it was just built.
There were already seven to eight thousand freeholders in Fort William, and counting the garrison and the students of the Riverbank Elementary School, there were tens of thousands of residents living in the castle.
There were also some villages near the castle, which also had a large number of freemen. Counting these freeholders, the market radiating from Fort William was already close to twenty thousand people.
Little children were playing in the square, seeing their peers, Margaret kept wriggling in Richard’s arms, looking like she wanted to participate in the children’s play.
Richard put Marguerite down, Marguerite striding her short legs, mixing with the small children, looking particularly happy.
Richard looked at Margaret’s smiling face, and suddenly felt especially happy.
Margaret and the children played in the square all afternoon, even the clothes are a little dirty, to the evening before reluctantly followed Richard back to the castle.
When Sophia saw Margaret dirty her clothes, she was a bit unhappy, seeing her gloomy face, Margaret lowered her head and whispered, “Change your clothes, they’ll be clean.”
“You are a girl, your speech and behavior should be in line with etiquette, what does it look like to be dirty like this?”
Sophia took out a small wooden stick from the side of the bed, stared at Margaret’s small hand, and said sternly, “Hold out your hand.”
“For a small child, staying in a gloomy castle all day is really a painful thing. Let’s forget about it today, it’s rare for a child to be happy.”
Richard took Sophia’s hand and said to Margaret, “Be smart, quickly go and change your clothes.”
Richard knew in his heart that it was hard to educate a child well by spoiling them too much and obeying everything.
If you want your child to develop a sound personality, family education is very important. Both parents must have one who is strict and one who is gentle.
This is true of most families, and a strict father and a kind mother are the most common combination.
Only when placed in Richard’s family, it was instead somewhat reversed, becoming a strict mother and a kind father.
With Sophia’s big belly, conjugal life would not be possible.
Seeing Richard suffocating, Sophia turned her head and said with some sadness, “Otherwise, let’s find you a court lady.”
Pregnant women are very sensitive, and besides, after years of getting along Richard had deep feelings for Sophia. He didn’t want to see Sophia sad and said firmly, “No, I’ll go outside to calm down.”
The winter night was very cold, Richard was blowing cold wind on the castle balcony.
The cold north wind scraped one’s cheeks red, but in this environment one’s brain was very active.
Richard in order to suppress the brain secretion of hormones, deliberately think of some cruel things, so that he can calm down and calm down.
Suddenly Richard thought of the dead Lange, the image of dissecting Lange’s brain appeared in Richard’s mind.
The bloody brains finally suppressed the impulsive hormones.
An inspiration surfaced in Richard’s mind, and he hastily seized it and wrote it down in the notebook he carried with him.
Richard went to the study, constantly searching and flipping through a book, and wrote down the important content in his notebook.
He didn’t sleep all night, but the next day was very energetic, the next morning Richard couldn’t wait to tell Sophia about this inspiration, the two of them studied it for most of the day, and felt that Richard’s idea had feasibility.
Richard’s idea was to refine a special alchemy item, and then transfer all the magic energy in the magician’s mental space into the alchemy item.
When all the magical energy in the body disappeared, then he would switch to meditation, which should increase the success rate of the transfer and reduce the intensity of the clash of magical energy particles in the mental energy space.
To refine this special alchemy item, the materials could use magic crystals that were capable of storing magic energy.
The internal structure of the alchemical item should be similar to a magician’s spiritual energy space. And a magician’s spiritual space is hidden in the pineal gland of the brain.
Richard had already dissected the pineal gland of two magic apprentices, and the general structure had already been memorized through the portraits.
Richard immediately used magic crystals to carve a model of the pineal gland, and then inscribed a spell formation that absorbed death-attribute magic energy particles on the model, creating an alchemy item that imitated the mental energy space.
This alchemical brain had no utility, no self-awareness, and could merely store a small amount of death attribute magic energy particles.
This feature, however, allowed for the transfer of the magic energy in the bodies of low-rank necromancers.
After using the Alchemical Brain, three more necromancer apprentices transferred the Book of Curses, and all of them succeeded this time.
Right in the middle of this period of time, Richard’s mind was very active, the progress of his research was very smooth, and in just a month or two, his understanding of the nature of magical energy went a few more points deeper, and he succeeded in extrapolating the Book of Curses to the fifth layer.
The Book of Curses was successfully deduced, and an Alchemy Brain was also produced.
Butler finally couldn’t help himself, and once again found Richard, firmly requesting to switch to meditation.
Butler is the territory’s excellent talent, Richard and Sophia valued him, the two personally, escorted him, rushed to the Goddess Birthday Festival a few days before the conversion success.
A few days before the Goddess Birthday Festival, through the attribute panel, Richard knew that his Breathing Method was also about to be promoted.
Cultivating Breathing Method, Richard was considered a very talented group of people.
Even without using his killing experience, his speed in practicing Breathing Technique was equivalent to people with excellent talent like William and Roland, and according to Richard’s observation, only Jennings in Harland Territory was a few points faster than him.
After five years of hard work, Richard finally rose from the fourth rank to the fifth rank. At the age of twenty-five, a fifth-order warrior was already among the fastest cultivation progresses in the Grant Kingdom.
(End of Chapter)