Chapter 233: Ascension
Multiple Telepathy and Combat Tactics. This title instantly attracted Eddie. During the Mid-level Wizard Apprentice stage, one could only contract one familiar. Although Master-Servant Covenants allowed contracting multiple creatures, the specific number related to the Wizard’s mental strength, these contracted creatures could not be commanded as easily as one’s own arm.
Creatures under a Master-Servant Covenant had no telepathic connection with the Wizard and could only be commanded like a mortal commanding a hunting dog.
Eddie turned to the page with this paper. Reading the first paragraph, his eyes gradually brightened.
“As long as the activated life form is created by the Wizard themself, telepathy between the Wizard and the activated life form can be achieved. We can manufacture a large number of unactivated Gargoyles and have the Wizard Apprentices who purchase them activate the Activation Magic Array. This achieves multiple telepathic connections, making it possible to command multiple contracted creatures in battle through telepathy.”
So that’s it, Eddie thought. This principle was simple, but realizing it was difficult.
Looking at the author again—Magic Council Member Polina—Eddie understood completely. Only she would painstakingly delve into the application methods and scope of Gargoyles.
After all, Polina had made a fortune in Mana Stones through Gargoyle patent rights, forcefully becoming an Advanced Wizard Apprentice by “whaling” (spending heavily). In the High Tower Territory, her deeds were known to everyone.
While Eddie was reading the paper, Carlo touched the silver blessing mark on his forehead, looking at the floating iron bowl in front of him, happy as a 300-pound fat man.
“Congratulations, Carlo. You have achieved Mental Overdrive and become a Quasi-Wizard Apprentice.”
Touching the Lesser Mana Stone, the Wizard Apprentice responsible for bestowing the Lesser Mental Blessing on Formal Citizens smiled. He handed Carlo a Grimoire to assist him in making a covenant with Torch-Bearer Ace, and continued:
“You can practice according to the Five-Step Meditation Method or the Mind Flow Exercise Method. As long as your mental power reaches 1 Unit and you can meditate using the Minimalist Meditation Method, you will be eligible for admission to the Elementary Magic School and receive the corresponding Magic Robe and Magic Badge.”
Carlo respectfully accepted Introduction to Wizards, bowed again to the apprentice to express his thanks, and left the Administration Office gate. Carlo was full of ambition. Today was the beginning of his supernatural journey!
Just then, his Grimoire suddenly became scalding hot.
Carlo opened the Grimoire and found the last page flashing, with a line of text emerging.
“Please gather all Wizard Apprentices in Nightlight City at the castle hall. Ensure arrival before sunset. Torch-Bearer Ace.”
On the third floor of the West Tower of the castle, all fifty-seven Advanced Wizard Apprentices of the High Tower Territory were present.
“Lord Torch-Bearer, after multiple simulation experiments, the Formal Wizard Promotion Ritual is ready.”
Bayen bowed slightly and said to Ace.
“The Magic Array in the castle hall has been set up, and the Magic Network hub, the Crystal Magic Sphere, has been placed in the center of the Magic Array.”
Daina said respectfully to Ace.
“All Wizard Apprentices have been notified. There are 1,131 people with Mental Overdrive or above in the entire High Tower Territory, 1,021 of whom are in Nightlight City.”
Betty added.
Ace looked at the fifty-six Advanced Wizard Apprentices present besides himself. This was the foundation of his confidence in advancing to Formal Wizard.
Thirty people had just stabilized their mental scale at 1 Unit, twenty had reached 2 Unit, and six had reached over 5 Unit.
Added to over two hundred Mid-level Wizard Apprentices and over seven hundred Lesser Apprentices, it was enough to start a promotion experiment!
After implementing the Magic Network for more than three months, Ace had accumulated rich experimental data. Various scenarios, peak values, valley values, mode values of soul resonance, and corresponding scatter plots had all been recorded.
The sun gradually set. Wizard Apprentices arrived at the castle hall one after another.
Under the illumination of Controllable Light Orbs, the hall with the transparent dome was as bright as day. Under Bayen’s direction, the apprentices found their positions in the Magic Array.
The entire Magic Array consisted of Dream, Focus, Imprint, and other parts. Ace floated above the gigantic Crystal Sphere, opening his mental perception vision while contacting the projection within the sphere.
“Dream Clone, link with all mental imprints inside the Crystal Sphere.”
Ace said through telepathy.
Inside the gigantic, crystal-clear Crystal Sphere, colorful light suddenly erupted, then was shrouded in mist. All Wizard Apprentices present felt a violent mental tremor in an instant.
If someone could see through the colorful mist inside the Crystal Sphere, they would find one light sphere receiving over a thousand mental imprints, sending out mental chains to connect with each one.
“Apprentices, please place your hands on the Mental Imprint Knowledge on the second page of the Grimoire to link to the Magic Network!”
Ace said using the Amplification Spell above the Crystal Sphere.
As the apprentices linked, in the vision of mental perception, over a thousand mental chains rushed straight to the gigantic Crystal Sphere, connecting with the mental imprints within.
The apprentices’ spirit bodies gradually left their physical bodies, diving into the Crystal Sphere.
Only thick, invisible chains connected everyone’s spirit body and physical body. These were the Chains of Rules, fleeting and transient.
Ace didn’t pay much attention. Under the command of the Dream Clone, the apprentices formed local area networks centered on the consciousnesses of the fifty-six Advanced Wizard Apprentices.
The local area networks led by the fifty-six Advanced Apprentice consciousnesses revolved like stars around the Dream Clone, the “Mirror Image Root Consciousness.”
With the increasing number of links, the entire network area became complex and deepened.
As the Root Consciousness, Ace also began to link with the consciousness of every Wizard Apprentice. Buzz!
Intense resonance on the soul level. Ace’s body slowly landed on the Magic Array, and his spirit consciousness entered the Crystal Magic Sphere.
With the addition of the Root Consciousness, the entire network became a consciousness network space shaped like two inverted conical hats buckled together. The internal structure began to become increasingly complex and diverse, and strange mist permeated and thickened.
Unlike the Magic Network, where everyone had independent dream spaces and simulated a “Fantasia of Magic” in the public dream space but still maintained an independent surface consciousness network.
This stable consciousness network space was more similar to a Subconscious Sea. Although the Wizard Apprentices retained their individuality, a collective will was born.
This collective will was unified by the “Root Consciousness” and the “Mirror Image Root Consciousness,” led by fifty-six “Main Consciousnesses,” finally forming an indescribable magical phenomenon.
“Meditation begins!”
Accompanying the command of the “Root Consciousness,” the Wizard Apprentice consciousness bodies at each node began to meditate. Mana surged into their bodies through the Magic Array and exchanged with their consciousness spirit bodies through the invisible Chains of Rules.
The Mana inside the entire consciousness network space, that is, the gigantic Dream Crystal Magic Sphere, began to gather immensely. The Mana pulsed orderly, seeming to brew some change.
Every node was absorbing Mana, strengthening its own soul, and nourishing the body along the chain between soul and body.
Some Mana always overflowed, flowing along the mental network, quickly spreading throughout the entire mental network. In the mental network space shaped like double buckled conical hats, a unique Mana environment formed.
This Mana carried parts of the Wizards’ imprints, flowed and washed repeatedly within the network, absorbing the unique information flow emitted by Ace. Finally, it formed a unique Mana with the collective characteristics of the Wizards present, dominated by Ace’s information flow and supplemented by other Wizards’ information flows.
With the extreme rhythm of Mana, a high-Mana environment gradually formed inside the entire Crystal Sphere. The Mana boiled!
Every apprentice on the nodes felt this boiling. This was a boiling on the soul level, driving their souls to slowly sublimate.
Ace’s soul also felt this activity. Wave after wave of collective Mana washed over him repeatedly like a tide, loosening Ace’s solidified mental scale. That mental power infinitely close to 10 Unit, blocked by some mysterious dam, unable to break through.
At this moment, scoured by the collective Mana like a surging flood, the dam began to crack slowly.
Ace felt some limit seemingly broken. He seemed to sense the cheers of the embryonic Wizard Subconscious Sea hidden in the Sea of Illusion and Reality. Everything was so smooth; becoming a Formal Wizard seemed within easy reach!
However, in a place Ace’s consciousness didn’t notice, on the Magic Array.
Ace’s body was withering bit by bit. His firm and strong muscles became somewhat shriveled. His even breathing became disordered. The Chain of Rules connecting his body and soul flickered, seeming to become thinner and thinner.
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