Chapter 50: Chapter 50 Equipnt Upgrade
Upgrading equipnt was not an easy task, and the Magic Equipnt Richard had on hand was mostly substandard, with no room for further improvent.
To create new Magic Equipnt, he needed Magic Equipnt Design Diagrams.
Although Jolod had quite a few Magic Equipnt Design Diagrams, if Richard wanted to get his hands on them, the cost in Magic Stones would be no small figure.
Richard had recently made a large purchase, and his stock of Magic Stones was nearly depleted, making it impossible to upgrade all his equipnt in the short term.
Fortunately, he was not in a hurry at the mont.
Ti whizzed by, and in the blink of an eye, Richard’s tenth year at the Academy had arrived.
Two years ago, with the help of the Interdiate ditation thod, Richard’s spiritual power had successfully broken through the barrier of thirty points, making him an Interdiate Wizard Apprentice. Now his spiritual power had reached thirty-two points, and his physique had also improved to thirty due to the Rebound Effect.
Although this pace was not fast among the official apprentices, it was already like a dinsional strike against most ordinary ones.
After all, the Interdiate ditation thod worth two thousand Magic Stones was not sothing just anyone could afford.
In addition, during this period, Richard had also not neglected upgrading his own equipnt.
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Fifty-sixth floor of the Central Black Tower.
With the engraving of the last Rune complete, Richard leaned back in his chair and exhaled deeply.
On the table before him lay a black Great Sword, pulsating with Magic Fluctuations as dense Runes had been inscribed upon it.
“Finally finished,” Richard stretched lazily.
It had taken him half a year to craft this Great Sword. To acquire its design diagram, he had spent all his accumulated Magic Stones on Jolod in the past two years.
But it was all worth it.
The design diagram for this Great Sword was called Demon Eater, and its creation was quite complex. As a Wizard Apprentice, it had taken Richard half a year just to complete its first stage of crafting.
Even though it was only the first stage, its effects were remarkable.
The Core Magic of the Demon Eater Sword’s first stage was nad Greedy Demon Fla, which not only possessed an astonishing temperature but also an effect that burned Magic Power. If spells like a Magic Barrier ca into contact with Greedy Demon Fla, their Magic Power consumption would instantly multiply several tis.
For most apprentices who were not wealthy, this was a fatal blow.
Because Magic Power ant Magic Stones, and the majority of Wizard Apprentices did not have enough Magic Stones to support using spells recklessly. Once contaminated with Greedy Demon Fla, the withdrawal of spells was inevitable.
Of course, using Greedy Demon Fla required Richard to expend quite a bit of Magic Power himself.
But Richard’s Magic Stone reserves were quite plentiful.
His monthly inco of four hundred Magic Stones was considerable within the entire Academy.
Apart from the Demon Eater Sword, Richard had also crafted several pieces of Magic Equipnt during this ti.
The Concealer Cloak, which could reduce the presence of the user and hide the Apprentice’s Magic Wave. When used with Breath Concealnt and Silence Technique, it could even elude a Wizard’s hasty search.
The Guardian Pendant’s effect was to automatically trigger a thirty-second duration Magic Shield capable of withstanding magic of fifty Energy Levels when attacked by a Spell, using up a third of a Magic Stone each ti.
Besides that, Richard also owned the Vine Ring, capable of summoning a twisted vine to control enemies, the eyeglasses with Eagle Vision Skill, the Magic Gun equipped with Demon-breaking Bullets, the Magic Pocket with two cubic ters of storage space, swift boots, the Mind Protection Ring, and various other small Alchemy tools.
Ready these items had cost Richard seven or eight thousand Magic Stones.
But the effects were undoubtedly worth it.
Now Richard was not only equipped with protection against various attacks, but he also possessed crowd control, acceleration, and a certain degree of long-distance attack capabilities.
He could almost be called a moving fortress.
Having stored the Great Sword properly, Richard habitually visited Jolod’s laboratory on the ninety-ninth floor of the Black Tower to scavenge.
Jolod’s laboratory was full of treasures, with materials he casually tossed aside possibly being rare treasures for Wizard Apprentices, and discarded draft papers potentially solving puzzles that Wizard Apprentices had pondered over for years.
But for Richard, these things were secondary.
What he valued more were the objects that Jolod frequently used, like the Enchanted Surgical Knife in his hand.
[Material: Enchanted Surgical Knife]
[Extractable Skill: Jolod’s Biological Dissection Technique]
[Extraction Cost: 40 Spiritual Power]
[Proceed with extraction?]
Looking at the ssage emitted by the Miracle Furnace, Richard silently swallowed and put the surgical knife back in its place.
He simply couldn’t extract 40 units of spiritual power at the mont.
As Richard was scavenging around in the laboratory, the door suddenly opened and Jolod and Anna walked in, one after the other.
“Oh, Richard, haven’t been to the lab in half a year, have you finished your Demon Eater Sword?” Jolod looked at Richard with a smile, but his expression changed when he caught sight of the surgical knife behind Richard. A thread of magic power flew out of his hand, instantly seizing the knife.
“You can’t have this,” Jolod said warily.
Richard looked at Jolod guarding his possessions like a thief and felt a wave of embarrassnt wash over him.
As previously ntioned, Richard often ca to the laboratory to scrounge, so feathers, draft paper, and other small items would always seem to vanish after his visits.
While Jolod was annoyed by Richard’s habit, he generally said nothing about it.
Wizards tend to have their odd behavioral quirks.
Seeing this unfold, Anna couldn’t help but chuckle to herself in disbelief.
“Cough cough, Teacher, Sister Anna, long ti no see,” Richard greeted as if nothing was amiss.
“Yes, it’s been a long ti,” Anna smiled back and then suddenly walked up to Richard to asure their heights side by side.
“Ti flies so fast. You were only this tall when you first ca to the Academy.”
Anna indicated a height at her chest, whereas Richard now stood taller than her.
Richard picked up on sothing in Anna’s words.
“Sister Anna, are you going to take the Wizard exam?” he asked.
Anna nodded, “Yes, in a couple of days I’ll go to the Dean’s Secret Realm to take the Wizard exam.”
The Wizard exam, the final hurdle for a Wizard Apprentice.
Passing the Wizard exam allows a Wizard Apprentice the chance to be promoted to Wizard, thus becoming a true mber of the Wizard World.
“Sister Anna, you’re sure to pass the exam. You’re the most outstanding disciple of Jolod, the Alchemy Master of the Black Tower Wizard Academy, in a thousand years,” Richard encouraged her.
Anna responded with a warm smile, while Jolod, beside her, stroked his beard with pride.
“Richard is right, Anna. You just haven’t fought with people enough and lack understanding of other Apprentices. You don’t know what sorts of oddballs they all are. As my most capable disciple, you will definitely pass the Wizard exam.”
Anna didn’t say much. In fact, she had never worried about failing the Wizard exam; her real concern was whether she could succeed in getting promoted.
The chances of failure in advancing to Wizard were nearly thirty percent. If the promotion failed, a Wizard Apprentice would be forever precluded from becoming a Wizard.
For a Wizard Apprentice, there was nothing more terrifying than failing to beco promoted.
After so more idle chatter, seeing that Anna had business to discuss with Jolod, Richard excused himself from the lab and headed back to his room on the fifty-sixth floor.
“The Wizard exam… My own exam is coming up too,” Richard mused as he looked at the calendar on the table. The Academy’s bloody exam was only a month away. In a month’s ti, over four thousand Apprentices of the Academy would engage in a brutal fight for survival. Those who succeeded would continue on the path of the Wizard, while the failures beca nourishnt for others.
According to the rumors he had heard, each bloody exam would cull at least half of the Apprentices, and during intense competition, terrifying outcos like three or even four survivors to one combatant can occur.
The thought of this always left Richard with an indescribable mix of emotions.
He felt there was sothing wrong with this system of the Wizard Academy, but he couldn’t quite pinpoint what it was.
However, he quickly cast these thoughts aside.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest.
Since he couldn’t change the rules now, he would have to adapt to them.
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