Although Ian encountered several Honeyfang swarms along the way, he managed to avoid them all safely, eventually reaching his destination: a plateau surrounded by towering fences.
"Finally!"
Ian couldn't help but feel a surge of excitent. He was now one step closer to becoming a Wizard apprentice. Although he wasn't entirely sure if his guess was correct, the re possibility thrilled him.
Ian didn't waste ti and quickly opened the old fence door, which broke as he tried to open it.
After entering the plateau, he directly approached the center while combing through the dense bushes.
As he thought, Wizard Ruther hadn't left anything behind; the entire garden was covered with bushes and nothing else.
However, he could already see a simple cabin at the center, made of plain wood, from afar.
Ian could also feel that the closer he moved to the center, the more mana surrounded him. By the ti he arrived at the wooden cabin, he could clearly sense the mana around him growing denser through his ntal power, while the Life Seed in his dantian rotated slowly.
However, he couldn't ditate outside, as that would simply be courting death.
After all, along with the increasing mana, he also felt more and more uncomfortable all over, as if inhaling even a bit of it would cause sothing bad to happen to him.
"Thud!"
Suddenly, a loud sound of sothing falling to the ground shattered the peace of the entire area.
Apparently, just like the fence gate, the door of the wooden cabin was already broken.
However, Ian didn't care and began searching through each room inside the cabin.
But to his disappointnt, aside from broken pots and apparatus of unknown origin, there was nothing inside the entire cabin—not even a single mana stone.
"How stingy."
Ian cursed the Sixth-ring Wizard who had left nothing behind in his abode.
"Fortunately, the ditation room is still functional."
After venting his frustration, he roughly cleaned the ditation room, which was filled with unknown runes and writings all over the floor.
These were the mana purification arrays engraved by Ruther for his practice when he resided in the garden.
Although the wear and tear made the place unsuitable for even a First-ring Wizard, it was at least sufficient for Ian to reach the First Class Wizard Apprentice rank.
After cleaning everything, Ian placed a futon in the center and sat down. From there, he could see the runes on the floor shimring slightly, purifying and supplying mana throughout the room.
Once he sat down, he first used his Veiled Knight Breathing thod to calm his heart. Since it was his first ti ditating, he didn't want to ruin it by being too eager.
When the Knight Breathing thod was active, Ian could feel so mana being absorbed by his Life Seed in his dantian. However, it was so subtle that it could almost be ignored.
"Let's start!"
Ian then recalled all the information about the Veiled Mind ditation thod in his mind and began visualizing the complex pattern recorded there, carefully following it step by step.
Unlike the Knight Breathing thod, which required breathing in a specific pattern, the ditation thod required absorbing and transforming mana from the surroundings to strengthen one's ntal power, thereby increasing strength.
However, without an anchor point, drawing mana and transforming it into ntal power was nearly impossible. The complex pattern Ian followed carefully served as the anchor point for this ditation thod.
Although he didn't fully understand what the pattern was, he could feel himself slowly drawing mana from the surroundings into his body and toward his mind.
Surprisingly, so of that mana was also being absorbed by the Life Seed in his dantian, much faster than with his earlier breathing thod.
As Ian began to ditate, he slowly forgot everything around him and imrsed himself in his mind.
Gradually, the mana density around him thickened, with more and more mana being drawn into his body.
Ti passed bit by bit, and it was already dark. The area around the plateau had beco pitch black, with nothing in sight. Even the occasional flapping of the Honeyfang Butterfly had disappeared.
However, Ian was imrsed in his ditation and busy visualizing the complex pattern in his mind. After an unknown amount of ti, when he finally drew a semblance of the pattern in his mind, he suddenly felt refreshed all over.
If Ian weren't in this selfless state, he would have noticed the Life Seed in his dantian suddenly rotating rapidly and directly supplying a stream of energy it had absorbed earlier through a temporary channel, speeding up his ditation progress exponentially, almost as if it were a catalyst.
"Boom!"
He didn't know how much ti had passed when Ian suddenly felt a massive explosion inside his mind, akin to being stunned by a loud blast.
In an instant, the mana around him surged and began drilling directly into his mind, as if a floodgate had been opened.
Ian suddenly felt an unprecedented clarity in his mind, greater than when he had reached the High Knight realm. It was almost as if he had entered the enlightennt state ntioned in his previous world.
"Hah..."
Ian exhaled deeply and opened his eyes while smiling from ear to ear.
"Finally reached First Class Wizard Apprentice."
He then looked outside the room and saw that it was already the morning of the next day. Although tracking ti in this dark, forbidden area was difficult, clues from the peripherals made it possible.
"Almost 12 hours? Faster than I thought."
Ian was genuinely surprised, as he had been prepared to ditate for a day or two.
After all, his ntal power was higher than that of a normal human being because of Body Synchronization and transmigration. However, 12 hours was still faster than he had expected.
Just when he thought his qualifications for Wizardry were good, he noticed that the Life Seed in his dantian was almost shriveled, rotating slowly as if it had drained all its energy.
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