Chapter 229 Determination to Become Stronger
Two of the four undead apprentices successfully switched to cultivation.
Langer, who had the strongest will, did not encounter good luck. His mental space was broken and he became a vegetative person without consciousness. Although Voss survived, there was a permanent crack in his mental space, and he lost the possibility of progress in meditation.
Finally, the Harland Territory Mage Association, in accordance with Langer's wishes, let him die peacefully, and his body was dissected in the hospital for research in magic medicine.
Voss lost his potential and was bound to be mediocre for the rest of his life, but he soon married and had children, and gradually walked out of the shadows. Although it was impossible for him to become a magician in his lifetime, Voss was a person with magical talent after all, and he could use zero-ring magic, so his situation would always be better than that of ordinary people.
The two undead apprentices who successfully switched to cultivation were John and Barn.
After the two people successfully switched to meditation, they gave great confidence to other undead apprentices, especially Butler, who walked with the wind during this period.
Butler was very determined to become stronger. Although the success rate of switching to cultivation was only half, he still made up his mind and took the initiative to find Richard and asked to switch to meditation.
"I understand what you mean, Butler, you are still young, I think you have enough time to wait. There are still some problems in the transformation now. First, the Book of Curses has not been deduced to the professional level. Second, in the process of transformation, many problems have arisen that we have not yet figured out.
The most critical point is that you are a formal magician, and you are more seriously eroded by the magic particles of the undead attribute. The risk of transforming to the Book of Curses should be greater. I think you should wait for a year or two. After we have a deeper understanding of magic energy, we can transform to the meditation method. The probability of success should be greatly increased."
"President Richard is right. It is indeed the case in terms of probability, but I don't want to see other undead apprentices in the territory surpass me."
Butler's personality is somewhat competitive, but Richard is very pleased with this. In the research of magic and science, this kind of competitive spirit and pursuit of the first is often needed.
As long as they don't use insidious means to suppress competitors, Richard encourages young people to be competitive.
For an organization, internal competitiveness is always better than being dull.
"Butler, you have to understand that learning magic is a long-term process. The rapid improvement in the past few years may not necessarily be a good thing. In my opinion, it is better to run steadily than to run fast. In the long-term competition, only those who can make continuous progress can be considered truly excellent."
Despite Butler's strong request, Richard did not agree.
Among the more than 30 members of the Harland Magic Association, only Sofia, Wendy, and Butler have superior magic talents.
For superior magic talents, even if they have no magic research talent, no innovation in magic research, no feedback from magic particles during meditation, and no accidents, they can generally advance to the seventh ring when they are in their fifties or sixties.
Normal speaking, superior magic talents are basically guaranteed to grow into high-level magicians.
With such excellent talents, Richard naturally values them.
After sending Butler away, the second batch of undead apprentices who wanted to transfer to cultivation came to the door.
Although Lange died on the way to transfer to cultivation, it still did not change the determination of the undead apprentices to become stronger.
These undead apprentices from the bottom of society would desperately seize the slightest opportunity, even if there was great danger or even the loss of their lives.
Richard asked himself, did he have such determination?
The answer was yes, because he was unwilling to be mediocre and had a heart that jumped upward.
Richard was brave on the battlefield, and a brave person could face everything, including death.
If his identity was changed, he would still seize every opportunity to change his destiny.
This time, six people asked to switch to meditation, two of whom were already high-level apprentices.
The day before changing the meditation method, Richard talked to them separately, told them the dangers of changing the meditation method, and asked them to think clearly before making a decision.
The six undead apprentices were still very determined, and no one quit the next day.
Because of the experience of the last transfer, Richard adjusted the strength of the requiem spell, and Sophia also increased the dosage of the soul potion.
But people still died during the transfer.
The mental space of a high-level undead apprentice collapsed and he lost his life on the spot.
The two undead apprentices had cracks in their mental power space, and their magic level could not be improved for a lifetime. They also suffered from headaches, neurasthenia and other sequelae.
Only three people successfully switched to meditation, and the success rate did not improve.
Richard carefully studied every person who switched to meditation and went deep into their subconscious several times. Richard continued to study the physical data of the nine undead apprentices, and the most important one was the two dead people.
In order to find out the cause of death, Richard personally participated in the autopsy and used a microscope and visual magnification spell to study the brains of the dead.
The cause of death of the dead was soon figured out. The pineal gland of the dead brain was attacked by magic particles and was severely deformed.
Through the study of the deformed pineal gland, Richard discovered that the magician's mental power space was hidden in the pineal gland.
This discovery was very shocking.
In the inheritance of magicians in the Dawn Continent, there should not be this cognition. Richard's discovery opened a new door.
However, if you want to find out where the mental power space is in the pineal gland and what the relationship between the two is, I am afraid that more dissections and more research are needed to determine.
Richard is not a madman who is desperate to study magic and is crazy about capturing magicians for dissection.
Since the research cannot be carried out for the time being, Richard decided to stop and rest for a few days to change his mind.
It is already mid-December, and Margaret will leave the castle and enter the Riverbank Primary School next year.
Richard decided to take a few days to accompany his daughter.
Born in a lord's family, Margaret has been lonely since childhood. She has no playmates, and the people who accompany her are adults.
The thoughts of adults are not on the same channel as children.
Richard observed that Margaret has not been very happy in the past year or so.
The child seems to understand nothing, but has a very sensitive heart. Margaret can sense who is really good to her.
"Margaret, are you bored in the castle? Why don't we go out and take a walk to relax."
Richard saw Margaret playing with a wooden car quietly, and suddenly felt guilty, thinking that he rarely fulfilled his father's responsibilities.
"Can I go out, father?"
For safety reasons, Margaret rarely leaves the castle. Although she is young, her status in the Harland Territory is very important. As long as she grows up and becomes a professional, she will be the first heir of Richard and Sophia.
"Yes, Margaret. After the Goddess' Birthday, you will go to school. You will be able to meet many children at that time, and you can also invite them to the castle."
Richard will arrange professionals to protect Margaret's safety, and Anne and Audrey will be responsible for picking her up every day.
Richard will arrange garrisons near the Riverbank Primary School. Guarding next to the military camp, no one dares to attack the Riverbank Primary School, which is no different from sending oneself to death.
Besides, Sophia is pregnant this year, and Margaret is no longer the only heir.
Having lost the title of the only heir, Margaret's situation is actually a little safer.
Richard held Margaret in his arms, changed his clothes and walked out of the lord's mansion, walking aimlessly on the street, observing the street scene of Fort William.
Fort William has been built for many years, but there are still not many people in the city.
Because of the decree prohibiting migration in Harland Territory, most of the people in the castle are family members of the garrison and a small number of free people.
Relatively speaking, the residents in Fort William are almost all staunch supporters of Harland Territory, and the environment is very clean.
Along the flat road, Richard strolled slowly with Margaret in his arms.
In seven or eight years, Fort William has been significantly different from when it was just built.
There are already seven or eight thousand free people in Fort William. Including the garrison and the students of Riverbank Primary School, there are more than ten thousand residents living in the castle.
There are also some villages near the castle, and there are also a large number of free people in these villages. Counting these free people, the market radiated by Fort William has reached nearly 20,000 people.
The children were playing in the square. When they saw their peers, Margaret kept twisting in Richard's arms, and it seemed that she wanted to participate in the children's play.
Richard put Margaret down. Margaret walked with her short legs and mixed with the children, looking particularly happy.
Richard looked at Margaret's smiling face and suddenly felt very happy.
Margaret played with the children in the square for an entire afternoon, and even her clothes were a little dirty. In the evening, she reluctantly followed Richard back to the castle.
Sophia was unhappy when she saw Margaret had soiled her clothes. Seeing her gloomy face, Margaret lowered her head and whispered, "Change your clothes and you'll be clean."
"You are a girl, your words and deeds should be in accordance with etiquette. What kind of words are you talking about when you are so dirty?"
Sophia took out a small wooden stick from the bedside, stared at Margaret's little hand, and said sternly, "Put your hand out."
"For a child, staying in a gloomy castle all day is really a painful thing. Forget it today, the child is rarely happy."
Richard took Sophia's hand and said to Margaret, "Be smart and change your clothes quickly."
Richard knew that it was difficult to educate a child well if he spoiled the child too much and obeyed everything.
If you want your child to develop a sound personality, family education is very important. One of the parents must be strict and the other gentle.
This is the case in most families, with a strict father and a kind mother being the most common combination.
However, in Richard's home, it was a bit reversed, and they became strict mothers and kind fathers.
Sophia was pregnant, so they couldn't have sex.
Seeing Richard was uncomfortable, Sophia turned around and said sadly: "Or I'll find you a palace lady."
Pregnant women are very sensitive, and Richard has deep feelings for Sophia after years of getting along. He didn't want to see Sophia sad, and said firmly: "No, I'll go outside to calm down."
It was very cold in the winter night, and Richard was blowing the cold wind on the balcony of the castle.
The cold north wind made people's cheeks red, but in this environment, people's brains were very active.
In order to suppress the secretion of hormones in the brain, Richard deliberately thought of some cruel things to calm himself down.
Suddenly, Richard thought of the dead Lange, and the picture of dissecting Lange's brain appeared in Richard's mind.
The bloody brain finally suppressed the impulsive hormones.
An inspiration emerged in Richard's mind, and he hurriedly caught this inspiration and wrote it in the notebook he carried with him.
Richard came to the study, constantly looking for and flipping through books, and writing down the important contents in his notebook.
He didn't sleep all night, but he was very energetic the next day. The next morning, Richard couldn't wait to tell Sofia about this inspiration. The two studied for most of the day and felt that Richard's idea was feasible.
Richard's idea was to refine a special alchemical item, and then transfer all the magic energy in the magician's mental space to the alchemical item.
Wait until all the magic energy in the body disappears, and then switch to meditation. This should increase the success rate of the switch and reduce the intensity of the conflict of magic energy particles in the mental space.
To refine this special alchemical item, the material can be magic crystals that can store magic power.
The internal structure of the alchemical item should be similar to the magician's mental space. And the magician's mental space is hidden in the pineal gland of the brain.
Richard has dissected the pineal glands of two magic apprentices, and the general structure has been recorded through drawings.
Richard immediately carved a model of the pineal gland with magic crystals, and then engraved a magic array on the model to absorb death-attribute magic particles, creating an alchemical item that imitated the spiritual space.
This alchemical brain has no practicality, no self-awareness, and can only store a small amount of death-attribute magic particles.
However, this feature can transfer the magic energy in the body of a low-level necromancer.
After using the alchemical brain, three more undead apprentices switched to the Book of Curse, and this time they all succeeded.
During this period, Richard's thinking was very active, and the research progress was very smooth. In just one or two months, he had a deeper understanding of the essence of magic energy and successfully deduced the Book of Curse to the fifth level.
The deduction of the Book of Curse was successful, and the alchemical brain was also produced.
Butler finally couldn't help it, and once again found Richard, insisting on switching to meditation.
Butler was an excellent talent in the territory. Richard and Sofia valued him very much. The two of them personally took action to escort him and successfully switched to meditation a few days before the Goddess's birthday.
A few days before the Goddess's Birthday, Richard knew through the attribute panel that his breathing method was about to be promoted.
Richard was a very talented person in practicing breathing methods.
Even without using killing experience, his speed of practicing breathing methods was equivalent to that of people with excellent talents like William and Roland. According to Richard's observation, only Jennings in the Harland Territory was a few points faster than him.
After five years of hard work, Richard finally promoted from the fourth level to the fifth level. The 25-year-old fifth-level warrior was already one of the fastest practitioners in the Grant Kingdom.