The next morning, Feng Chou went to the business district with his two followers and bought a lot of low-level experiment materials.
After that, Feng Chou went back to the villa. The butler bought some vegetable seeds, chicken seedlings, duck seedlings, and lambs according to his request.
Feng Chou asked his four followers to carry the cages with the chicken and duck seedlings and two pairs of lambs to the test area.
About a third of the test area was empty. Feng Chou chose one of them and paid the rental fee for three days at the center of the test area. It was a total of 864 crowns, and he got the key to the lab. The golden key was actually a magic item. It was also a magic item that activated the lab's protective function.
Half of Feng Chou's funds had been used to buy the experiment materials. After paying for the experiment, he was basically clean.
Before entering the lab, Feng Chou said to his four followers, "You'd better go back and wait for me. I'll be in the lab for three days."
Morris said, "It's our duty to protect you. We'll take turns waiting here."
Feng Chou smiled and did not say anything else. He walked into the lab and locked the door from the inside.
After entering the lab, Feng Chou first sent the vegetable seeds, chicken seedlings, duck seedlings, and lambs to Qiankun Pagoda.
This time, Feng Chou bought all the experiment materials related to the basic knowledge of spells. He also bought all the experiment materials for the basic knowledge of illusions and alchemy. He planned to spend three days doing all the experiments on the basic knowledge of spells, illusions, and alchemy.
The knowledge of spells needed to be sensed and observed in the experiment process. Only then could one have a deep understanding and a detailed grasp of the knowledge. It could be used as a reference to master the corresponding spells.
After all, mages were not scientists. Understanding knowledge was far from enough. More importantly, they needed to be able to apply the knowledge to spells. This required mages to accurately connect the knowledge on paper with the actual phenomenon of spells.
Therefore, a mage's learning was bound to be accompanied by a lot of experiments.
Experiments naturally required the use of experimental materials. Most of the materials used by mages were expensive.
Fortunately, the price of basic magic materials was relatively cheap. The cost of the materials for dozens of experiments was less than a thousand crowns.
Feng Chou only bought one set of all the experimental materials. He did not have enough funds. He also did not know how the sale of the machete was going.
Of course, the reason Feng Chou only bought one set of materials wasn't because he wanted to resign himself to fate and try his luck. Rather, it was because the Heaven and Earth Pagoda Spirit had assured him that with his assistance, the chances of the experiment failing were extremely small.
After locking the door, Feng Chou called out to Qiankun Pagoda in his mind. He agreed to merge with his consciousness and assist him in the experiment.
When Qiankun Pagoda entered Feng Chou's body, Feng Chou felt completely different. He felt that his eyes and the various senses of his body had become the most precise instrument. He only needed to look at anything to know its exact size and position. The error could even be as precise as a micrometer. His ears had become the measurement of sound. His control over his body had become very detailed. He could make his body completely still, and he could also make his body move on the order of micrometers.
In short, Feng Chou felt that not only had he become an extremely precise instrument, he had also become a super computer.
This was Qiankun Pagoda's Full Assistance Mode. It was equivalent to combining Feng Chou with Qiankun Pagoda, the super computer.
In the Full Assistance Mode, Qiankun Pagoda could share all of Feng Chou's senses. Under such circumstances, Qiankun Pagoda could collect all of Feng Chou's sensory information, even if it was information that Feng Chou himself had neglected.
Next, Feng Chou began the process of the experiment with extreme precision, just like the most precise experimental robot.
Qiankun Pagoda was not bragging. With his help, Feng Chou perfectly completed all of the experiments without a single failure.
If these dozens of experiments were done by an ordinary acolyte, regardless of whether they succeeded or failed, it would probably take at least two weeks just to go through all of them. However, with Qiankun Pagoda's help, Feng Chou only used two days and two nights to complete all forty experiments.
After completing the experiments, Feng Chou used the remaining time to try to use the information obtained from the experiments to master the first spell of his life.
For the first spell, Feng Chou chose the "Illusory Sound" spell.
With Qiankun Pagoda's help, Feng Chou successfully constructed the spell "Illusory Sound" in his spiritual world for the first time.
When Feng Chou used a short incantation and a hand gesture to release the spell, a cat's meow echoed in the laboratory.
Next, Feng Chou removed Qiankun Pagoda's help and tried to construct the spell himself.
Without Qiankun Pagoda's help, he was immediately beaten back to his original state. The first time, he failed halfway through the construction, and the second time, he failed again.
After failing three times in a row, Feng Chou's spiritual force was exhausted. He could only enter Qiankun Pagoda and patiently sit down to meditate.
With the environment rich in spiritual energy created by Qiankun Pagoda, he only used a third of the time of an ordinary magician to recover his spiritual force.
After more than ten attempts, Feng Chou finally relied on his own strength to successfully construct the Illusory Sound spell and successfully released it.
After grasping the basics of this Rank 0 Illusory Spell, the three-day time limit of the laboratory was almost up. Feng Chou walked out of the laboratory.
Just like three days ago, it was noon outside the laboratory. Today was a sunny day. The bright sun shone on Feng Chou's eyes and made him tear up.
Feng Chou used his hand to block the sun and walked down the stairs in front of the laboratory. The two followers waiting for him at the door greeted him. One of them, Mickey, reported to him, "Sir, Lady Glynis came to visit you two days ago. After asking about your situation, she came again today. She should still be waiting for you at the north gate of the Mage Academy."
Feng Chou nodded, "Got it. Let's go straight to the north gate."
The three of them walked to the north gate of the Mage Academy. Glynis' carriage was indeed parked at the edge of the square not far away. Her knight, Jared, was waiting at the gate. When he saw Feng Chou coming out from a side door of the gate, he said impatiently, "Lady Glynis is waiting for you in the carriage."
Feng Chou smiled and nodded to express his gratitude. He then walked towards the carriage.
As soon as Feng Chou boarded the carriage, Glynis threw herself into his arms.
After a long time, their lips parted. Glynis opened the small cabinet under the seat of the carriage as if she was presenting a treasure. Inside the cabinet was a small box about 30 centimeters long.
Glynis pointed at the box and said, "It's too heavy …"
The Qiankun Pagoda had already told Feng Chou that there were over a thousand gold lions (20 kronor gold coins) in the box. These gold coins, together with the box, weighed over 20 kilograms. No wonder she couldn't carry it.
Feng Chou took out the box and gently opened it. Looking at the glittering gold coins inside, he kissed Glynis softly and said, "Thank you. You're the only one who can help me now."
Hearing this, Glynis smiled brightly and said, "I'm willing to do anything for you."
Feng Chou held her face and said, "You've already helped me a lot by being willing to exchange these things for gold coins …"
The two of them cuddled in the carriage for a while. Under Glynis's persistent pestering, Feng Chou promised to meet her at the school gate a week later.
After sending off the reluctant Glynis, Feng Chou returned to the villa. Without saying anything, he went straight to his bedroom and fell asleep.
He slept for an entire day and night.
After waking up, Feng Chou took a bath and fiddled around in his study for half a day. With the help of Qiankun Pagoda, he mastered another rank 0 illusion spell, Silent Portal.
If this news were to spread, it would probably scare a bunch of people to death. For other acolytes, even if they had the basic knowledge of a certain element, it would take them several months to learn a new spell. During this time, they would also need to repeat a lot of experiments to figure out the knack of constructing the spell. Not only would it take a lot of time, it would also cost a lot of money.
For Feng Chou, as long as he had the basic knowledge, he would be able to successfully construct a new spell with the help of Qiankun Pagoda. During this process, Qiankun Pagoda would naturally help him summarize his experience. After that, all he needed to do was to try a few more times under Qiankun Pagoda's guidance and accumulate the correct experience.
With 25 points of mental strength, one could construct and store two different rank 0 spells at the same time. This was enough to prove that an acolyte had the qualifications to explore rank 1 spells.
The next morning, Feng Chou brought his two followers to a building in the teaching area.
This was the Acolyte Management Center. Feng Chou wanted to prove his ability here and obtain the qualifications to become an advanced acolyte. Only by obtaining this qualification would he have the qualifications to enter the beginner spell library on the third floor of the Wizard Tower.
When Feng Chou walked out of the Acolyte Management Center, there was already a silver badge pinned to the chest of his robe. This badge indicated that he was already an advanced acolyte.
This badge could be said to be difficult to obtain, but it could also be said to be simple. For example, Feng Chou only needed to use two different rank 0 spells in front of the Wizard in charge of the inspection to obtain this badge.
It could be said to be difficult to obtain because in the entire academy, there were only a dozen acolytes who wore this badge, and every acolyte who wore this badge was the future of the academy.
After obtaining the badge, the first thing Feng Chou did was to go to the Wizard Tower.
The doors of the Wizard Tower were open all year round. All official acolytes and acolytes with advanced acolytes had the right to enter at any time. As long as these two conditions were met, there was no need to worry about activating the iron statues at the entrance of the Wizard Tower.
After entering the Wizard Tower, there was a room on the left side of the hall on the first floor. Acolytes or acolytes who wished to go to the beginner's library could pay a deposit of 100 crowns in this room. After that, they would be able to use the elevator at the back of the room to reach the third floor of the Wizard Tower.