Wizards: Starting with Fairy Crests

068: Spell Experiment

Grey Tower, Lynch's residence.

Inside the room, the curtains were half-drawn. Lin Qi sat upright in a high-backed chair. Sunlight streamed through the window and fell on his calm and focused profile, outlining his clear features and revealing the pure rational light in his eyes.

The desk in front of him resembled a miniature analysis table.

On the left, the memory crystal ball from Lucy was placed on an inconspicuous brass stand.

Every movement of the purplish-black sarcoma, every subtle twist and ripple in space, and every twitch of Raymond's facial muscles caused by extreme pain were clearly visible.

Lynch's gaze swept calmly over the scene, his eyes like the most sophisticated observation instruments, capturing the trajectory of energy dissipation and the nodes of material anomalies.

Without any emotion, only the pure intention of measurement.

On the right, several open bone fragment sample boxes are neatly arranged, revealing the details of the samples:

The necrotic morphology of cells at the edges of skin tissue slices; the traces of dissipated vitality remaining at the roots of hair follicles; and the eerie colors of putrefactive substances and ghostly mucus intertwined in the mixed sample constrained by the force field.

Lynch would occasionally use enchanted tweezers to pick up the samples and examine them carefully under a magnifying lens, or use his fingertips to gather a wisp of probing magic to lightly touch them and sense the residual energy properties and decay rate inside.

His right hand held a hard charcoal pencil with an extremely fine nib, and he wrote rapidly on an open, thick, and sturdy gray tower-style experimental notebook.

Lines of calm, concise handwriting, filled with quantitative indicators and logical symbols, continued to emerge:

• Observation Record - No. 07 - Daytime: Record of initial vital signs of the target individual. Curse anchor point spatial distortion parameters: Initial K value 0.068±0.005, consistent with the prediction range for low-intensity fissures in the "General Rules of Plane Projection Curses".

• Instantaneous energy peak analysis: The first materialized grazing event was captured in the image, showing obvious spatial folds and negative energy eruption peaks. By combining the instantaneous energy residue captured in sample B, the instantaneous impact intensity was estimated to be ≈ 29.5 - 32.1 standard mana.

Conclusion: This curse possesses the ability to deliver a high burst of both physical and energy damage, and its strength rating is [Effective Apprentice Level - Upper Limit].

• Evaluation of the effectiveness of psychological intervention: Inverse modeling and extrapolation based on the comprehensive target behavioral response delay time, the degree of physiological loss of control of fear expression, and the time difference between the final loss of consciousness and the disappearance of vital signs.

The combined effects of the curse's mental erosion, painful feedback, and fear implantation have an overwhelming and groundbreaking disruptive effect on individuals with a mental resistance rating below 10, and are highly likely to cause their effective resistance to drop to zero.

In other words, for creatures with a spirit level below 10, this spell has a ranged instant-kill effect that can kill in one hit, which is roughly equivalent to those below the advanced apprentice level.

"However, in practice, we also need to consider whether the opponent has protective magic tools, potions, scrolls, or other protective enhancements. In actual use, we still need to be sufficiently cautious and do thorough intelligence gathering in advance..."

After completing the final analysis and recording, Lynch deftly fastened each sample box and affixed the label with the information.

The memory crystal ball was also removed from its stand, wiped clean, and placed in a special storage bag.

Finally, he picked up the notebook filled with derivations, formulas, and conclusions, quickly reviewed the key pages, confirmed that the logical chain was complete and the data was clearly labeled, and then snapped it shut.

This concludes a complete spell experiment.

"Phew!~"

Lin Qi put down his pen, leaned back in his chair, and let out a long sigh. The long hours of analysis, calculation, summarization, and organization... an experiment was truly exhausting.

This was just a test of an apprentice-level spell. It's unimaginable how much time, energy, and effort a formal wizard would put into creating a spell model from scratch.

It's no wonder that wizards are so strict in guarding their knowledge. No one would be happy if such precious fruits of their labor were to be lost so easily.

After calming himself down, Lin Qi got up, put on his cloak, and walked out of the laboratory, wondering if he should relax for a bit.

Should I go to the Gray Tower dormitory to find the flirtatious senior Michelle? Or should I summon Lilith over?

Both women had their own unique charm, and Lin Qi liked both of them very much.

or...

Let them come together?

That would be ideal, of course, but it's not easy to achieve. Lilith is fine with it, but Michelle and he only have a mutually beneficial relationship.

She's not his female slave or servant, so how could she possibly fulfill his unreasonable demands for no reason?

Let's wait until we're together with Lucy later to experience the fun of it.

Lost in thought, Lin Qi pushed open the door and went out.

The brighter afternoon light flooded in, causing him to squint slightly. What followed was a cacophony of sounds and sights, vibrant and even somewhat crowded.

Figures dressed in apprentice robes of various colors came and went, their steps sometimes hurried and sometimes leisurely, dividing the originally spacious street into flowing lines.

The sunlight was fragmented by the figures of people moving about, and light dust danced wildly in the noise. The air was filled with a tense vitality, anxious ambition, and an omnipresent sense of competition.

These new faces are mostly young, with the excitement of entering the world of magic for the first time, the desire for power, and the growing pressure and tension in their eyes.

After several years of development, the Gray Mist Forest, which had been cleared out by the Nightmare Beasts, has been revitalized.

The number of apprentices gathered around the Gray Tower has reached one or two thousand.

Relatively speaking, these apprentices were lucky. Desolation often means rebirth, and the Gray Tower, having just experienced a round of harvest, naturally cared for and nurtured these newly planted buds.

The six-month probationary period that Lynch experienced has now been abolished by the Grey Tower, and all apprentices in the Grey Mist Forest can now live around the Grey Tower for protection.

Furthermore, with the clearing of the entire gray fog jungle, the previous competition and infighting have been greatly relieved.

Resource points that used to be frequented by hundreds or thousands of apprentices fighting tooth and nail are now deserted, and there's no longer any need to kill each other for a single quest released by the Gray Tower.

What's even more exciting is the discovery of the various wizarding organizations that were once scattered throughout the Gray Mist Forest.

These wizarding organizations were wiped out by the Nightmare Beasts, and their former strongholds became abandoned ruins.

Their accumulated knowledge, magic stone resources, and precious materials... are treasure troves waiting for future generations to explore.

For these new Grey Tower apprentices, this is undoubtedly the best of times, full of opportunities, hope, and an infinitely promising future.

According to the pattern, this era will last for about 10 to 20 years.

Once the ruins are nearly excavated and the resource points are allocated, the Gray Fog Jungle will enter a period of fierce competition.

After another 10 to 20 years of brutal competition, batches of apprentices with poor qualifications and talents were eliminated, and then came the final and darkest period of despair.

By this point, apprentices have basically no further prospects; their value lies in maintaining the status quo and ensuring the quality of their food and flavor.

Only when the nightmare beast awakens will the delicious food be served.

Then everything returned to the starting point, and a new cycle began.

It goes on and on, in a never-ending cycle.

no way,

This is the wizarding world; hope and sunshine are merely appearances, while cruelty and despair are the dominant themes.

There is no other way to break out of this cycle but to continuously become stronger, strong enough to stand aside and transcend the rules.

Only then can we change our predetermined fate!

"Now..."

"It's far too early to relax..."

As he watched the apprentices around him getting busier, the slight relaxation in Lin Qi's mind quickly receded like a receding tide.

He didn't go looking for Lucy or Michelle again, but turned away.

I walked back to the place I had just left...