This wizard only wishes to be a teacher

A Meditation Method requires 10,000 points. Is it expensive?

It is definitely not cheap. If you were to exchange these points for Magic Stones, you could get a thousand of them. For Gagarin, that would also be considered a huge sum.

But this is an even better Meditation Method, representing the foundation of the path of a Wizard. Let alone a thousand Magic Stones, even if the price were higher, Gagarin would think of every possible way, sparing no expense to get his hands on it!

This Meditation Method is something Gagarin had never even heard of before. Perhaps it might secretly be passed down within some powerful and ancient wizarding families. But such precious Meditation Methods are not to mention widely disseminated, even snippets of information about them are extremely rare to come by.

As for obtaining them? It’s basically impossible! Even for superb talents with fifth-level aptitude, it would be very difficult to obtain this level of Meditation Method from those families.

Maybe if one sold oneself to that family, the Meditation Method one would ultimately get would be a "Youth Version" or so-called "Export Version" that has been modified and neutered, with certain risks hidden within.

And other apprentices? They don’t even get a chance to sell themselves!

But now? Here with Lucien, it is openly offered for exchange. No additional conditions required, just enough points to make the exchange!

It’s like a precious contraband item, now clearly priced, and even the price is one that these weaker apprentices could hope to reach if they tried hard enough.

This is simply too... too crazy!

Gagarin, trembled with excitement, clutching the list Lucien handed him tightly, bowing deeply, "Master Lucien, I will not disappoint you!"

"Hmm." Lucien, watching Gagarin who seemed to be barely restraining himself at this moment, handed him another list, also showing a slight smile. "This is a list of some miscellaneous tasks that I need to deal with lately, as well as some of the materials I need. I have also marked the points I am willing to pay."

"By the way, if you have some precious items, like Witch Tools, some knowledge not found within the academy, or other items, I can also convert them into Magic Stones or points. However, for things like Magic Potions and Witch Tools, my buying price will be much lower than the exchange price."

Gagarin’s eyes lit up. He didn’t hesitate to take out a scroll and placed it respectfully on Lucien’s desk.

"Lucien, this is an ancient wizard inheritance I came across on an adventure by myself. Unfortunately, it’s incomplete and has quite high requirements for the inheritor..."

Gagarin explained softly, while Lucien picked up the scroll and looked through it.

"Physical Refining Wizard sect? Hmm, it also includes some techniques for crafting Witch Tools. It seems to follow the hard refining sect that tempers the body to be as tough as a Witch Tool. This is interesting, but it’s a pity the inheritance is incomplete. Only the apprentice part is fairly intact, but including the part on ascending to a Formal Wizard, nothing is recorded..."

Lucien quickly skimmed through the scroll, then laid it back down.

Gagarin was very nervous. He had owned this scroll for a long time and although it appeared precious, it was of extremely little use to him.

After all, according to the scroll’s description, one needs to forcefully embed Alchemical Runes into the body. It requires not just Talent but also a lot of restorative potions or resources for support. Moreover, the training process is excruciatingly painful and not suitable for him at all; he simply couldn’t afford it.

But Gagarin was also somewhat worried that the scroll might not catch Lucien’s eye. After all, for Lucien, the sect of Body Refining Wizards might be powerful, but definitely not worth the effort to research.

"Here is what we’ll do, if this were a complete inheritance, I could offer you 5,000 points to buy it. However, since it is incomplete and lacks the key promotion part, I can only offer 2,000 points," Lucien said slowly, looking at Gagarin.

Gagarin breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly nodded in agreement. The price Lucien offered was significantly higher than what he himself had expected.

"That... Master Lucien, I would like to exchange for a Praise of Moonlight," Gagarin began, glancing at the alluring Greybone Meditation Method (Improved). Yet, he bit the bullet and chose a Praise of Moonlight, which would be most helpful for him at the moment.

"That’s fine. The rest you can manage on your own, exchanging resources and such, settling once a week," Lucien said, taking out a vial containing Praise of Moonlight and handing it to Gagarin, then gesturing with a wave that he could leave.

Gagarin stood there, stunned, taking the vial in front of him. Looking at the drop within, light and dreamy like moonlight, his expression turned somewhat dazed.

Just... just like that, it was in his hands?

Although he had offered a physical refining wizard’s inheritance in exchange, this relatively fair trade still seemed unbelievable to Gagarin.

It wasn’t until he left Lucien’s study that Gagarin still felt somewhat unreal.

He subconsciously raised the vial in his hand, admiring that beautiful, crystalline droplet inside.

"I..." Gagarin felt his mouth go dry, and he licked his lips, but he quickened his pace towards the place he had been staying for the past few days.

He was about to try taking this tube of precious potion. Of course, before trying it, he still needed to use some methods he knew to test Lucien’s potion, to prevent it from having any "dirty stuff" inside.

...

"Physical Refining Wizard..." After Gagarin left, Lucien picked up the scroll again and carefully read through it. However, he temporarily skipped the Body Refinement methods of the Physical Refining Wizards and focused mainly on some parts about alchemy within the scroll. He had seen quite a few interesting things during his preliminary reading, which gave him some inspiration in designing his own Witch Tool.

"So, by using a special ring structure to keep the half-finished witchcraft model stable but unable to be activated, and then at a critical moment, destroying this ring structure to quickly build the witchcraft model and complete the Magic Essence reflux..."

The more Lucien read, the brighter his eyes shone.

Stone from other hills may serve to polish the jade here. The Physical Refining Wizards’ approach is to continually strengthen and harden the body as a Witch Tool, even going so far as to embed witchcraft runes inside the body to enhance it, and, by using these means, potentially activate micro wizard formations laid within the body to instantly unleash engraved witchcraft when necessary.

This technique had the same line of thought as Lucien’s current research on the ’Wizard’s Handbook’ Witch Tool.

Only, the methods recorded in this manual were too rudimentary and required a very strong physique to even attempt, carrying no small risk of failure. Therefore, it could only serve as an inspiration for Lucien’s own Witch Tool research and not as a direct approach to copy.

"Perhaps, once I have new binding slots available, my second student might try following the path of a Physical Refining Wizard? Even if many of the witchcrafts of the Body Refinement faction are not usable by me, the alchemical techniques of the Physical Refining Wizards are what I need, and they could even play a significant role in gradually perfecting the ’Wizard’s Notes’," Lucien mused as he closed the manual.

He couldn’t help but let his imagination run wild.

Afterward, he started to try and experiment on a small scale, referring to some wizard formations from the heritage manual of the Physical Refining Wizards, and explore incorporating these alchemical techniques into the draft designs for the making of the Wizard’s Notes.

Bang—

"It failed, the ring circuit is too stable..."

Bang—

"Failed..."

Lucien began one trial after another, and though most ended in failure, with a few experiments even resulting in minor explosions that left Lucien somewhat disheveled, his eyes were getting brighter and brighter because, with each attempt, he seemed to find the right direction.

"My previous approach was all wrong, terribly wrong," Lucien said with excitement in his eyes.

"All along, my idea was to borrow from the sealing methods of sorcery scrolls, but I always couldn’t solve the problem of the materials of the sorcery scrolls being difficult to reuse. But in fact, I do not need something like the sorcery scroll that can preserve a witchcraft for a long time in a stable activated state—I only need it for a few days."

"And a ’planting’ method, like that of the Physical Refining Wizards, is quite suitable for the design concept of the ’Wizard’s Notes.’ All I need now is to find a balance between stability and convenience!"

Lucien exhaled with excitement and then feverishly began the new design and trials.

He had a premonition that his exclusive Witch Tool, the ’Wizard’s Notes,’ was not far from coming into existence.

...

Gagarin opened his eyes and gently wiped away the tears at the corner of his eyes.

After he took a moment to recover from the just-ended poignant Illusory Realm, he looked down at his hands and even pinched himself lightly.

It hurt, which confirmed that what had just happened was no dream but a very real event.

"It really was Praise of Moonlight," Gagarin closed his eyes again, feeling the pretty silver that tinted his Spirit Sea, and looked carefully at the eight new spirit runes that had appeared on the membrane of his Spirit Sea, finding the whole scene somewhat surreal.

The status of Third-level Wizard Apprentice, which he had long desired, had been upgraded so effortlessly.

And the Praise of Moonlight that Lucien had given him had nothing wrong with it; it was ridiculous that he had wasted about an eighth of the potion to test it, otherwise the increase of his spiritual power would have been much greater.

Thinking of this, Gagarin couldn’t help but smile bitterly, feeling that for the first time, his usual caution had slightly backfired on him.