The Magical Path Of The Wizard With A Biological Chip

Three months later

When Leon woke up from a long period of meditation, he couldn't help and have a worried expression on his face.

"Chip, how efficient is this meditation?"

"Calculating... Spirit has increased by another 0.007. According to the current progress, in order to reach the maximum of 20 points, an estimated 139 days will be needed."

The muscle near the corner of Leon's lips twitched.

His body had turned into Flame Body and he had also used his authority in the Mage Tower to make himself a room with abundant Fire Elementiums. In addition to that, his daily meals were all magical energy foods that would bring great benefits to his body and Spirit. Even combined with the Fire Diamond pillow and Deep Sea Flower, he had actually just gained an increment of 0.007 in a day. Compared to the past, where he could easily gain 0.05 increment in every meditation, Leon felt it difficult to adapt to the situation.

Since he had become a Pseudo-Mage, Leon had discovered that the increase in Spirit brought by basic meditation and studying magic spells was not as significant as in the past. Because he had the help of the Chip, he was able to detect the increment of his Spirit on a daily basis. Yet, for those Pseudo-Mages who didn't own such ability, their productiveness was ten times lower than his. What was the thing that they relied upon in order to go through this painful period?

Leon closed his eyes and pondered for a brief moment. Only then did he realize something.

It seemed like those Pseudo-Mages rarely stayed in their own rooms and meditated days and night. Instead, they spent most of their time bustling about, training themselves laboriously through different missions. In the past, Leon had thought they did this for the sake of getting more resources. Now, looking back and pondering deeper, it was more likely that due to the slow progress in their Spirit, they were pushing themselves to the brink of death as a method of stimulating their Spirit.

This might not be a bad idea!

"Chip, you spent quite a long time doing analysis. Have you found out why there's such a slow progress for Spirit?"

"Beep. The modeling of the mission has been completed. The result shows that during the period of apprenticeship for humans, the primary task is to arduously increase the density of Elementium in the body and strive for a qualitative change that comes from quantitative accumulation. The ultimate goal is to rise and become a magical creature: Mage.

After entering the grade of Pseudo-Mage, the increase of Spirit becomes slower because the accumulation of element energy is approaching its bottleneck. Due of the lack of traction from a vital core, and because of the characteristics of elements, the energy accumulated in the early state will cause an unpredicted distraction to the energy that comes in later. This causes the efficiency of energy accumulation in the later state to weaken significantly."

The Same-Element Attraction and Universal Repulsion of element energy?

Both of them were elementary theories of elemental magic spells that had long been known by all senior Mages. To put it simply, among the different types of Elementiums, it was easier for the Elementiums with the same element to gather together and produce a homogeneous region. The Mages referred to this phenomenon as Same-Element Attraction!

However, there was a limit to such aggregation. Once it reached or exceeded this limit, Mages had discovered that it would become extremely difficult to bring in more Elementium of the same element. It was as if there was a powerful repulsive force between those Elementiums of the same element which caused them to reject each other. As a result, Mages had referred to this phenomenon as Universal Repulsion.

The characteristics of Same-Element Attraction and Universal Repulsion existed within all Elementiums at the same time. The key was the regional density of the Elementium. If the density was lower than the limit, they would portray the characteristics of Same-Element Attraction, but when it was higher than the limit, they would show the characteristics of Universal Repulsion. The Mages didn't know the details and exact theory for this phenomenon, or perhaps they did have a conclusion but magical knowledge of such an advanced degree was not something Leon had the right to know right now.

"Chip, do you have any workable methods that can solve the current problem?"

"Beep. Data analysis complete. There are two workable solutions:

Solution number 1: Core Transplant.

The Spirit of Apprentice Mages is scattered, as it is not bound by a vital core. Transplanting a Fire element core into the brain can reduce the repulsiveness between Fire Elementiums.

Pros: Able to solve the issue of having Spirit increase at a slow rate, and eventually increase the success rate of official Mage Advancement Ceremony.

Cons: The transplanted Fire element core cannot compare to the Element Core formed by oneself and it will restrict the possibility of future development.

Solution number 2: Stimulate the Spirit.

Bypass the weak stimulation toward the Spiritual Domain which is caused by the accumulation of Elementium. Instead, use a more direct approach which can stimulate the source of the Spirit, using the method of reducing the tenacity of the Spirit to obtain increments of the Spirit's maximum limit."

Leon knitted his brows in a tight frown.

Ugh, restricted to the knowledge mastered by the Chip, Leon didn't like either of the solutions it provided. The first solution was a method that attended to the superficials and neglected the essentials; it was the lousiest approach that could destroy his future totally, and was only useful to those Pseudo-Mages who had no more hope of becoming an official Mage. As for the second solution, it wasn't too dependable either. It was still unknown whether this method could really cultivate an official Mage, but it for sure could give birth to a freak.

Since the crooked ways weren't feasible at all, Leon had no choice but to focus all of his attention on the source of Mages.

Spirit!

The reason for human Mages to set 21 points of Spirit as the basic threshold of breaking through the limits of humans and becoming official Mages was most probably because 20 points was the maximum limit of Spirit a human's body could ever achieve!

Once they stepped over this threshold, there would be some essential differences between a human Mage and an ordinary human, as the human Mage would become more like a magical creature. Therefore, the reason why there was such a huge gap in the overall strength between an Mage of 21 points Spirit and a Pseudo-Mage of 20 points Spirit was most probably because the basic data of their bodies had become totally different!

With the aid of so many outside advantages, without the need to participate in any life and death training, Leon could still achieve an increment of 0.007 in his Spirit on a daily basis. If this was known by any other Pseudo-Mages, for sure they would be extremely jealous. For Leon, however, it was still very slow!

Because... because the recent transformation of Worm controller Blake had made his heart tremble!

Initially, he had thought his progress had gone beyond all other people. Thus, catching up or even suppressing Blake was just a matter of time. But, after he had accidentally bumped into Blake in the Tower a few days ago, such thoughts had become rather inconclusive!

That Worm controller nearly had a new transformation every single day and his massive Spiritual pressure had become more visible. After having the Chip perform a scan on him, Leon knew that it was highly possible Worm controller's Spirit had gone beyond the half-mark of a Pseudo-Mage. That meant his Spirit must have reached beyond 20.50. Yet, he had only become a Pseudo-Mage less than half a year ago!

This proved that the increase rate of Worm controller Blake's Spirit was not weaker than Leon's.

Of course, it might be the result of Blake visiting the fifth floor of the Swampy Tower every couple of days. From the scan results of the Chip, it was highly possible that Mage Eclivel was performing a bloodline infusion experiment on Blake, because the Chip had detected the familiar scent of blood from Blake's body.

Although the smell of blood was rather faint, with the Chip's gene detection approach that scanned up to the cellular level, it was still detectable and was presented in front of Leon. He was really angry with such a discovery, as the source of the bloodline factor was actually pointing directly at Bleia.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

This meant that the blood sample Bleia had given Mage Eclivel was being used on Worm controller. Having two different bloodlines that kept fighting each other inside of Blake's body was no different than placing him at the brink of life and death every single day. No wonder his Spirit was increasing at such an incredible rate.

There was no room for reconciliation between Worm controller Blake and Leon. And yet, there was one thing that worried Leon the most. If Blake was able to stand at the pinnacle of Pseudo-Mage before him, then it was highly possible that something he didn't want to see would happen.

From the information publicly available in magical books, he knew that the success rate of becoming an official Mage in the Zhentarim region wasn't that high. Basically, out of ten Pseudo-Mages, if two or three of them could become official Mages, that would be something worth a grand celebration. During an official Mage Advancement Ceremony, though the innate talent of an apprentice played a big role, a large part of the success rate was actually pure luck.

Indeed, a Pseudo-Mage with a powerful innate ability would have a higher success rate than those Pseudo-Mages of that weaker innate talent, however, it was not absolutely certain. Even a Pseudo-Mage with extraordinary innate talent would still have to face the possibility of failing when advancing into the realm of official Mage! Yet, for some fellows with lousy innate talent, if they were lucky enough, they might take the leap and rise to be the master of this world – an official Mage!

Therefore, in the Mage Continent, every single Pseudo-Mage felt nervous during the official Mage Advancement Ceremony, fearing they might miss their steps and became a total failure for their life. After all, once the advancement ceremony was failed, there would be a significant decay in the Pseudo-Mage's Spirit and the success rate of next advancement would drop by 50%.

Hence, except for those favored children who received special attention from big families, no Mage Family wanted to pour another round of new investment into a Pseudo-Mage who had failed once.

And this was what worried Leon the most!

If... if Blake reached the top of Pseudo-Mage first, he would only have to tell those Mages who were in charge of the advancement ceremony that his success rate of advancement was 100% if he could devour Bleia. Then... what kind of outcome would happen?

On one side was a Pseudo-Mage who had signed an Mage contract with the family, and on the other side were two Pseudo-Mages who had only signed the servicing contract. One had a 100% success rate of advancement, the other side had two Pseudo-Mages who had an uncertain success rate of advancement...

If it was that situation, together with the involvement of Mage Eclivel, Bleia would face a life-threatening situation!

Leon hadn't told Bleia about this. Before he had a method to solve this situation, telling the situation to the irritable Bleia would be no help at all. Unless Leon could capture tens of Mage level demons at one go and give them all to Bleia as a supplements, he would have to depend only on himself in order to change the situation.

Leon lowered his head and looked at his right palm. On top of it, there were two black fragments of bugs. Through his powerful Elementium Vision, Leon could barely see some constantly changing Musta scripts on top of the fragments. On one of the fragments, he read 'save me,' while the other was 'devour Bleia.'

The two fragments of bugs didn't come to him at the same time. The first one had arrived during the night, one month ago. When he had been meditating, a fingernail sized black bug had crawled through the window into Leon's room. It had exploded upon touching on Leon's wooden table, leaving behind only a bizarre shell covered with words. As for the second one, it had appeared one week ago.

It was only because of the clues brought by these fragments that Leon had drawn the conclusion that Blake had the intention of devouring Bleia. Otherwise, no matter how profound his intelligence, there was no way he could have thought of such an absurd conclusion.

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