This wizard only wishes to be a teacher

"Three tail feathers of the Long-tailed Partridge..." On the other side, Lucien, under the guidance of Count Sanaxis, began a covert attempt.

Now, Lucien watched calmly as the blood-red liquid inside the crucible bubbled continuously, his expression still somewhat hesitant.

"Sanaxis, are you sure there’s no problem with this method?" Lucien asked while brewing the special potion, sounding out Count Sanaxis who was lounging leisurely on a grape.

"No problem at all, this potion is useless even for ordinary people to consume, since it isn’t really a finished product as it is still missing the conditions to activate it," Count Sanaxis said with leisure, sucking sweet grape juice and speaking casually and lazily.

"So, before being activated, you can consider it a ’harmless substance’, similar to diluting a potion with a little bit of pure water. Apart from a few specific potions or materials that might be affected by this, in other cases, it won’t have any enhancing effects, nor will there be any adverse effects..."

"Inert materials?" Lucien suddenly thought of this term.

"You could understand it that way. However, in a specific environment, these little darlings will immediately become active and quickly destroy or rather devour the materials they parasitize," Count Sanaxis continued leisurely, swaying on the grape he was perched on, "Heh heh, but at least for now, they’re not interested in the essence of blood."

"I see..." Lucien nodded lightly, then fell silent, focusing on mixing this special nightmare-class potion. After successfully refining it, he carefully extracted a bit of blood essence from a container on the side and tentatively mixed the two liquids together.

"Two-legged Long-haired Monster, you actually don’t trust me," Count Sanaxis watched Lucien’s actions, mumbling displeasedly.

"This is a form of basic prudence," Lucien said, satisfied with the effects of the potion after confirming them, and then mixed the potion with the blood essence.

"I hope all these preparations I’m making won’t be necessary in the end..." Lucien murmured to himself after completing everything.

The preparations he made were also considered a backup plan in the task arranged by the Grey Bone Wizard. If things really did take a turn for the worse, then perhaps the preparations he was making now could play a significant role at some point in the future.

"If you ask me, you’re better off just going for a direct attack, always thinking this and that, it’s too boring," Count Sanaxis urged Lucien on, viewing the trouble with a sense of schadenfreude.

"Like me, back in the Dream World... err, inside the Dream Layer, I did whatever I wanted and if I saw something displeasing, I’d just go over and give it a couple of kicks..."

"So that’s why you couldn’t mix well in the Dream Layer and had to escape?" Lucien teased Count Sanaxis, who had a lofty look at the moment.

"You... what do you two-legged beasts know?!!" Count Sanaxis was clearly annoyed as it glared at Lucien, its numerous small tentacles becoming agitated.

It seemed to want to prove something, so with some effort, it tried to lift the grape beneath it.

However, this seemed to be a bit too strenuous for Count Sanaxis at the moment, leading Lucien to think that Count Sanaxis might topple over at any moment.

Fortunately, Count Sanaxis’s willpower was astonishing. After a furious roar, he finally raised the grape with great difficulty.

"Two-legged Long-haired Monster..." he began with disdain, as if wanting to say something, but soon after opening his mouth, he "let out" the air in his body and lost control of the grape as it came smashing down.

Lucien closed his eyes, not wanting to witness the misfortune before him, and casually cast a comforting restorative witchcraft for Count Sanaxis.

"Do you need my help with something in the Dream Layer?" After Count Sanaxis slowly recovered thanks to his Immortal Body, Lucien looked at him and inquired.

"No need," Count Sanaxis replied irritatedly, seemingly not over the recent accident. "That nightmare creature might be ugly, but it’s much more useful than you, Two-legged Long-haired Monster."

Lucien rubbed his nose, feeling somewhat embarrassed, but he couldn’t counter Count Sanaxis’s words, after all, Helen Wizard’s strength was genuinely at the Second-level Wizard standard, and being a creature of nightmares, she was exceptionally adept at fighting within the Dream Layer. He really was no match.

"That settles it then." Count Sanaxis muttered, waved his hand at Lucien, then leapt up, entering the Dream Layer through the influence of a particular spatial ripple, disappearing from the real world.

Whoosh—

In Lucien’s vision, after Count Sanaxis entered the Dream Layer, he quickly moved out of Lucien’s perception range. Lucien could only vaguely sense Count Sanaxis’s position through the bond of their Magic Pet contract.

And inside the Dream Layer.

Whoosh—

In front of Earl Sanaxis, the Helen brand shone with light, and the next moment, the figure of Helen Wizard appeared before him.

At this time, Helen Wizard looked somewhat like a hybrid of a human and a doll, with skin resembling that of a human but still bearing the patterns of a puppet, one eye made of a button and the other a normal human eyeball.

These abstract images, under the influence of the Dream Layer, seemed incredibly harmonious, as if they were naturally meant to be that way.

"It’s so-so, but it still looks disgustingly revolting..." Earl Sanaxis watched the respectfully prostrating Helen Wizard with a look of disdain.

And Helen Wizard, emitting the pressure of a Second-level Wizard, trembled all over when she saw Earl Sanaxis, as if facing something horrific.

She trembled and reached out her hand, and the next moment, with the sound of the lines bursting, her button-made right eye was directly plucked out by her own hand, revealing a mix of flesh and cotton stuffing inside.

Earl Sanaxis floated up cursing and muttering, and then, slowly, merged with the wound where Helen Wizard’s original right eye had been.

Soon, Helen Wizard’s body became stiff, her eyes tightly closed, as if adapting to the new body.

Suddenly, "Helen Wizard" opened her eyes. Only, her eyes had become deep and serene, and without uttering a word, she flew into the deeper reaches of the Dream Layer.

"The other me, the other me! Can you hear my voice..."

In the Dream Layer, a stream of information began to spread rapidly to every corner along with special oscillations, and where this stream of information passed, the Dream Worms wandering in the Dream Layer without any intelligence became more active, and many even started to glow faintly, as if instinctively responding to the voice’s owner.

...

"Please pass this on to your mentor for me; it’s the Body Refinement Method we’ve prepared for the Physical Refining Wizard Apprentices of Greybone Academy. Oh, and I have compiled it into a set of teaching plans, according to the more commonly used methods at your Greybone Academy."

Wizard Saud found Carly, his face wearing a gentle smile.

"Thank you..."

"No need, after all, it’s part of the contract." Wizard Saud smiled, and he also didn’t forget to show Carly the goodwill from Winter Fort.

"This Body Refinement Method, even within our own Winter Fort, is considered a very solid foundation for the basics, and its origin may even date back much further than the history of Winter Fort..."

Carly listened intently, nodding occasionally, while she also checked the information about this Body Refinement Realm. However, as soon as Carly looked at the title page, she became puzzled.

"Wizard Saud, the name of this Body Refinement Realm... did you forget to write it down?" Carly pointed at the title page, where the lonely "Body Refinement Realm" was written.

Logically, such cultivation methods or witchcraft models are the crystallization of the creator’s intellect. Creators would normally name their creations rather than just calling them Meditation Method or Body Refinement Realm, as a way of self-identification with their work.

"Err... actually, this Body Refinement Realm does not have a name. Its creator named it ’Basic Body Refinement Realm,’ but since we couldn’t find a corresponding ’Intermediate Body Refinement Realm’ or ’Advanced Body Refinement Realm,’ we just used this name as a placeholder."

Wizard Saud rubbed his nose somewhat awkwardly, then noticed Carly’s expression and quickly added, "But the name’s simplicity doesn’t diminish its excellence. According to the records in Winter Fort, the Wizard Apprentices who have achieved something with this Body Refinement Method have a stronger physical foundation than those using ordinary methods..."

Carly looked at Saud, not easily misled by his words. After all, she understood that a Body Refinement Method capable of building an incredibly strong foundation would definitely have some severe shortcomings compared to other methods.

"That... I need to consult with my mentor first." Carly didn’t accept the teaching plan on behalf of Greybone Academy right away; instead, she stepped back, preparing to ask for Lucien’s advice first.

"No need, let me take a look first." And just then, the gentle voice of Lucien came from behind Carly; he softly patted Carly’s shoulder, signaling that she didn’t need to go to such lengths.

"Even if he’s a genius, he is but an Elemental Wizard, and probably doesn’t understand the intricacies within the Physical Refining Wizard circle, does he?" Wizard Saud felt slightly panicked when he saw Lucien, but quickly calmed down, smiled, and nodded to Lucien, handing over the first half of the compiled teaching plan.