Ian looked at the vast starry sky and the dark space in front of him, devoid of anything.
Looking at the twinkling star far away in his vision, he was sure this was outer space or the void.
Just when he was confused, an ancient voice suddenly sounded directly in his mind.
"Oh? Another wandering thought?"
Ian jerked at the sudden voice and tried to locate its source but couldn't. Only then did he realize he was in an incorporeal form, not with his body but with his thoughts or mind.
"Ah, so you have the Bronze token. Kid, your ti is running out. Look down at the Starwell and think of what you want. Don't be specific."
The voice didn't care what he thought, it just directed him and disappeared silently into the endless void.
After hearing the instructions, Ian looked down and saw a large void tunnel filled with stars with no end in sight.
As there was no edge or depth in sight, he couldn't fathom why this was called a Starwell.
By now, he also noticed an incorporeal hourglass beside him, where half of the sand was already poured out.
So, without thinking much, he first thanked the unknown entity and thought of sothing related to Wizardry that could help him.
After all, the voice said not to be specific.
As Ian's thoughts erged, the ancient Starwell fluctuated gently, and a tiny star suddenly shot out from below, rging into his thoughts.
Ian suddenly felt a trance as if his mind was sublimated by an unknown substance forcefully, and by the ti he woke up, he was already in the training room.
'What happened?'
Ian looked at his empty hand where the Bronze token was in surprise.
[Ding!]
[You used the one-ti Bronze Starwell token.]
[You used 50 luck points randomly.]
[Congratulations! You have received a reward: Increased comprehension. Your wizard qualification has been improved.]
[Since your destiny is a passerby villain, you cannot enter the Starwell with a Bronze token again.]
'Oh? My comprehension has increased?'
Ian thought in surprise, becoming very happy.
Unlike a Knight, who focused on the body, a Wizard was mostly about ntal power.
So, if soone had a high comprehension value, their qualification for Wizardry would be good.
Of course, the degree of affinity to elents was a major factor in determining Wizard qualification, but comprehension was also a determining factor.
This was because every Wizard had to ditate and visualize their anchor point to increase their realm, and comprehension could help speed up this process.
'Let's ditate and try to see how much it increased.'
He rembered that it almost took him a whole night just to visualize the complex structure when he was ditating for the first ti at the Ashen Sanctum.
After Ian cald his thoughts, he took out the mana nectar he stole from the Honeyfang Butterfly and ate it in a big mouthful until he couldn't eat more.
Suddenly, his body began to fill with rich mana, just like the Life Energy he absorbed from the Ethereal crystal earlier.
As Ian began to visualize the complex structure recorded in the Veilstrider Mind ditation thod, the mana started to siphon toward his consciousness automatically, while his Life Seed was also absorbing it slowly just like in the Ashen Sanctum.
After getting lost in ditation for a while, suddenly, Ian saw the sa complex pattern he saw when becoming a First-Class Wizard Apprentice.
The only difference this ti was that the picture was more clear, and the anchor was getting more solid as his comprehension increased.
He still couldn't see the whole structure, but he recognized the pattern he had visualized making him bewildered.
It was a cocoon.
Yes, a large shimring cocoon gestating in his mind like a slumbering beast silently waiting for its return.
Ian was dumbfounded by the discovery, beca agitated, and his thoughts went haywire as he almost got backlashed.
"Ugh..."
Extre headache threw him out of the ditation state.
Fortunately, just when he was almost injured, he felt a warm current of strange power rushing from his dantian to his mind, stabilizing him in ti.
"Hah..."
He breathed deeply after his mind beca relatively calm. Only then could he think about the other things that had happened to him.
'They complent each other.'
He realized after getting help from his Life Seed, just like it got help from his ntal power.
It was as if they were in sync, keeping an eye on each other.
"Hah... Ha..."
After stabilizing his mind, Ian breathed heavily as, although he was fine, his state was still not good right now to ditate again.
"Almost ssed up!"
He had lingering fear as what Wizards feared the most was backlash during ditation.
"Fortunately, I was lucky."
He then looked at his Life Seed in his dantian that was still rotating slowly, absorbing residual mana left behind by the mana nectar he ate.
Since he was already at the Tier 3 High Knight realm, it didn't shrivel like before; it just dimd a bit.
"What was that cocoon?"
After the increase in his comprehension value, he finally saw the part of the structure he had visualized. However, he never thought that it was a cocoon.
He thought the things he visualized would be like stars, moon, or fire—anything related to nature, as that's how it worked as far as he knew.
For example, protagonist Carl visualized the stars and used the Stellar Ascendance ditation thod, which has a higher starting point than other thods.
As for the lower ditation thods, they used specific natural elents such as mountains, rivers, etc., as visualization starting objects and anchor points.
For example, the Harmony ditation thod he found in the library allowed one to visualize a calm pond as an anchor and a starting point.
As you get stronger, you could always convert it into the sea, but it would get difficult since your starting point was too low.
"Let's hope it is sothing amazing."
Ian could only hope for the best now and had no idea of changing the ditation thod.
He then looked outside, which was already a dark night, and went towards his room to catch up on sleep. After the backlash, he was feeling groggy and needed sleep very much.
"Early morning tomorrow, let's go north. It is ti to clean the rats."
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