Chapter 340 Breaking Through the Second Level

In the Xisheng School, the mandatory tasks that first-level wizards need to complete each year are four per year.

On average, there is exactly one task per quarter.

But this does not mean that wizards need to complete one mandatory task every quarter, but a total of four per year.

In practice, schools do usually assign mandatory tasks once a quarter, but this is usually the case...

Wizards can apply for an early start and complete the four mandatory tasks for a year in advance.

But once allocated, it cannot be postponed except under special circumstances.

On the afternoon of February 1st, Colin rushed back to the city of Neustadt, covered in dust.

Instead of going home, he went directly to the school's general affairs castle.

"Sir Colin, we meet again." It was still the wizard on duty whom I met in January. His expression was a little strange, with a hint of sympathy in his doubts.

"Your mandatory mission this time is to go to Gubei Village to eliminate the incoming first-order ice and snow monsters."

"How long is the mission deadline?" Colin asked calmly.

"Let me see...well, it's three months, but..." the wizard on duty raised his eyebrows slightly, raised his head in surprise and continued: "But there is a week of preparation time, and you can leave after a week."

This is a relatively rare situation. Generally speaking, mandatory tasks do not give wizards much time to prepare. They must leave in a day or two at most.

If there are special circumstances that require more preparation time, the wizard who accepts the task needs to apply for it on his own initiative, rather than being given it at the beginning of the task.

"Yes, I understand." Colin nodded expressionlessly, "Give me the details of the mission."

"Okay, Sir Colin." The wizard on duty handed him a crystal, and at the same time added: "If there are no special circumstances, I personally recommend that you complete this task as soon as possible, otherwise if you fail, you will not only be deducted To gain school points, you still need to accept two mandatory tasks again.”

"Yeah." Colin nodded and took the crystal.

Half an hour later, Colin returned home.

Sitting on the armchair in the study, he did not rush to check the specific mandatory tasks. Instead, after taking a short rest, he walked to the meditation room.

‘Seven days...should be enough. ’

A black shadow followed closely behind, almost perfectly blending into Colin's own shadow.

These are the silent shadows produced by the Black Mist Web, there are six in total.

Transformed from the Great Knight, each of them has at least the strength of a first-level elementary monster. The leader of them, the Silent Shadow, is even as strong as an intermediate first-level monster.

But for the current Colin, the strength of Silent Shadow is obviously not enough, but what Silent Shadow is good at is not fighting.

boom.

The door to the meditation room slowly closed, and the bright crystal cast a deep shadow.

The morning of two days later.

Uriah came to visit on behalf of the Hidos family, and accompanying her was a male wizard named Andy, who came from the Clifford pure-blood family.

Colin received them in the study.

"Sir Colin, long time no see, I thought you were at Zhenzhihui." Yulea sat down first and said with a smile on her face.

She continued to turn her head and explained: "This is Mr. Andy. We happened to meet on the road, so we came here together."

"Good morning, Mr. Colin." Andy also sat opposite Colin, leaning against Yulea.

When he congratulated Colin on winning the Golden Feather nameplate, he also came here on behalf of the Clifford family, so there was no need to introduce himself too much.

In fact, the Clifford family was also the only pure-blood family to send a male wizard, which made Colin particularly fondly remember it.

"Good morning, you two." Colin greeted him lightly with a polite smile, and without saying much, he just ordered Renee to serve tea.

The three of them chatted for half an hour, ranging from the weather to anecdotes about schools, but there was no real topic.

In other words, Uriah and Andy didn't mention the reason why they came here at all, as if it was just a visit between friends.

And Colin didn't ask, just greeted politely.

Anyway, there is no need to expend energy on the Black Mist Web for the time being, and only four hours of daily meditation are required.

He had plenty of time to go around in circles with the two people in front of him.

However, to Colin's surprise, until Andy asked to leave an hour later, he still did not reveal anything useful.

As for Uriah, although she stayed for an extra hour, she only directed the topic towards him, such as his favorite food and other non-nutritious things.

This situation made Colin feel a little confused for no reason, but that was all. He put it aside and didn't think about it anymore... There was no need to think about it.

Colin was more willing to spend his energy on the fireball spell that broke the limit four times to see if he could break the limit again and become a second-level witchcraft before starting the mission.

After all, although he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in the gourd of the pure-blood family, as long as he was a member of the school for one day, he would be a golden feather for one day.

Then, those pure-blood families would most likely not kill him... after all, there was no deep hatred.

Those pure-blood families just want to subtly change their minds and let themselves join them.

As long as the means are kept to the surface, then for you, it will only add to the obstacles at most.

…

The remaining five days passed quickly.

During this period, Andy did not come again, but Yulea came twice more.

Every time we come here we chat, and occasionally we do ask some questions about witchcraft knowledge, but we only scratch the surface.

Colin patiently explained it once at first, but then he just shook his head and said he didn't understand.

February 7, 3586 in the Anan calendar.

In the morning, the weather was sunny.

Colin was walking in the small garden in his yard, and on his left shoulder was the elf Naxi.

Demi followed suit.

Today is the last day of preparation before the mission.

Colin must leave the city of Neustadt tomorrow at the latest.

Otherwise, if you fail to arrive at the mission location within the specified time, it will also be considered a mission failure.

However, Colin was not wasting his time at this moment.

He was relaxing physically and mentally for the upcoming advancement.

After this morning's meditation, the Hochia meditation method was successfully integrated with the original Holy Circle meditation method.

The total consumption reached 250,000 magic stones.

But it was all worth it. Although he had not yet advanced to the second-level wizard, the benefits brought to Colin by just the fusion of the two meditation methods were immediate.

To put it simply, after Hogia's meditation method was integrated into the Holy Circle meditation method, he could already cast the steel temperature-resistant force field while summoning the black mist armor.

You should know that this is not a simple operation.

Perhaps before, Colin could summon the Black Mist Armor within one second and then cast the steel temperature-resistant force field, but not at the same time.

Such a small improvement may not be noticeable in many cases, and the effect is not great.

But for the other two witchcrafts that Colin mastered, it was a qualitative change.

——Four limit-breaking fireball spells and one limit-breaking summoning fire element.

Summoning the fire element did not change its casting prerequisite after breaking the limit - it requires a fire source as a casting material.

The fire source has an impact on the strength of the summoned fire element, but it is not large. At most, it fluctuates up and down by half a small level.

In the past, when Colin performed the witchcraft of summoning the fire element, he usually used the fireball of the fireball spell as the casting material.

This leads to a problem. The process of summoning the fire element requires an extra step to create a fire source, which will slow down the summoning time.

According to past situations, even Colin has engraved the models of two witchcrafts into the spiritual sea.

But the time required to summon a fire element also takes at least 1 second.

After the fusion of the meditation method, according to Colin's experiment, if the fireball technique and the summoned fire element are cast at the same time, the duration of the final summoned fire element will be greatly reduced, almost instantaneous.

At first, Colin thought that the omission of the part about creating the fire source led to this result.

But after thinking about it carefully, the reasons may be more complicated.

After all, the prerequisite for summoning the fire element is a fire source, which means that the fireball technique must create a fireball to summon the fire element before it can be activated.

But when the two witchcrafts were cast at the same time, Colin found that they overlapped inexplicably.

And this results in the final casting speed being even faster than simply casting the summoned fire element.

This can't help but remind Colin of the combined witchcraft of the Black Mist Web, which seems to have similarities.

But with his departure imminent and the need to break the limit, he didn't have extra time to search for information from the school or the True Knowledge Society, so he could only put it aside for the time being.

About ten o'clock in the morning.

Colin ended his walk.

He left his residence and came to the Shinchikai's laboratory.

According to the previous knowledge of Atbald and the meditation method, the time required for the second-level limit breaking is variable, ranging from two hours to one day.

During this period, advanced wizards must avoid any outside interference.

So Colin thought for a while and finally decided to come to the True Knowledge Society's laboratory.

But this time, he chose the second-order laboratory.

The Zhenzhihui is located in a remote location, and usually no one comes here for ten days and a half.

Moreover, the laboratories were built strictly according to the best specifications, although some of the precision instruments inside were seriously damaged.

However, the room's defensive witch formation and the walls made of special materials have basically remained intact.

Open the door to the second level laboratory.

After a cursory glance, the overall area inside was larger than that of the first-order laboratory, and there were some more instruments.

However, since Colin rented the cheapest and most damaged laboratory, most of the instruments inside seemed to be no longer usable.

Without any further delay, Colin took out the soft cushion he carried in his storage ring, sat down cross-legged in the open space next to the experimental table, and prepared to start breaking limits.

The key to advancing to a first-level wizard is to plant the seeds of talent and let them sprout. While opening up the spiritual sea, it will also bear a precious fruit - true talent.

The key to advancing to the second level is to let this small sapling with only one fruit grow further and expand the spiritual sea while gaining a second true talent.

At the same time, the spirit will be strengthened.

This kind of strengthening can condense and solidify the originally loose spirit, making the shape of the soul clearly visible.

'I don't know what my second true talent will be...'

Colin collected his thoughts and slowly closed his eyes.

The magic is as calm as a secluded dream, but the spirit is boiling like a tsunami.

The essence of wizard advancement is the continuous spiritual sublimation, and the entire advancement process basically does not require the participation of magic power.

As long as the spirit is successfully strengthened by then, the capacity of magic power will naturally increase with the tide.

The concentrated aromatherapy next to him was filled with misty heat, and the only sound left in the well-soundproofed laboratory was Colin's undetectable but long breathing.

I don’t know how long it took, but a pale white halo visible to the naked eye gradually appeared between Colin’s eyebrows.

Dense and swaying, it looks mysterious and unusual.

But this is just the beginning, and the entire advancement process will probably continue for some time.

Time passed like this, and the halo between Colin's brows became brighter and brighter.

I don’t know how much time passed.

At a certain moment, the white light between the eyebrows suddenly shrank, forming an extremely bright dot, and then quickly submerged into the spiritual sea, went straight to the tree of talent, and finally merged with it.

Uh-huh!

As if pressing the time accelerator button, the talent tree in Colin's spiritual sea sprouted rapidly and grew vigorously.

Then, he withstood the spiritual overseas wall.

Click.

It started out as just a hairline crack.

However, in the blink of an eye, like toppling Dono dominoes, tiny cracks suddenly covered the entire spiritual wall.

In the laboratory, Colin's face was calm, neither sad nor happy, and he just exerted more force silently.

With a click, the entire mental outer wall was completely shattered, and the talent tree that had grown up in a circle was finally able to stretch out.

A misty halo of light emanated from the talent tree, and many translucent filaments suddenly emerged between the fragments like disconnected threads.

Then those filaments quickly woven and expanded, forming a new spiritual overseas wall.

The whole process was smooth and fast.

When the outer wall was completely formed, a strange fruit appeared on the top branch of the talent tree, officially announcing that Colin had successfully broken through to the second level!

…

On the other side, Uriah came to the middle-aged wizard's office again.

"Has Colin not set off today yet?" the middle-aged wizard asked.

"I went to visit him this morning. His maid said he was not there, but the people outside the door said they saw Colin." Yulea replied respectfully.

"Well, it's good that we didn't set off." The middle-aged wizard touched his chin and nodded with satisfaction.

"Lord Bray..." Uriah couldn't restrain her curiosity, hesitated and asked: "Why do you need to monitor Colin's itinerary?"

"Did you know that he took on a mandatory mission?" Bray smiled and asked suddenly.

Uriah shook her head and looked at Bray with doubtful eyes.

She didn't know why Bree suddenly mentioned this.

However, Bray smiled, but did not answer Yulea's doubts. He just said lightly:

"You'll find out later."