232: Chapter 232 Melissa's Troubles! Advancement in the Meditation Technique of the Evolution of All Things!

The Lady Official's Council Chamber.

Melissa sat at a desk by the window, holding a quill in her hand, with a document that looked like an itemized account statement spread out before her.

Her brows were slightly furrowed; the tip of her pen paused on the paper for a moment before she continued writing, as if deliberating over her wording.

Rowan quietly activated the Insight Spell, focusing his perception in Melissa's direction.

A moment later, lines of information appeared in his mind.

[Name: Melissa]

[Age: 20]

[Race: Human]

[Profession: Wizard]

[Meditation Method: Crystal Meditation Method]

[Rank: Advanced Magic Apprentice]

[Mental Power: 32 / 36]

[Spells Known: Fireball, Breath of Warmth]

[Emotion: Slightly Anxious]

[Transcendental Trait: Wind Element Affinity 48%]

[Rating: 85]

This time, the information obtained was richer than the last time with Helena.

It not only displayed her profession and rank but also the spells she currently mastered and specific mental power data.

Rowan's heart stirred, and he fell into thought.

In other words, the level of detail that the Insight Spell could obtain depended not only on his own skill level but was also closely related to the strength and rank of the target being investigated.

Although Helena was pregnant, she was already a First-Circle Wizard herself, so when he used the Insight Spell on her, he could obtain less information, and the displayed information was relatively brief.

However, Melissa was currently only an Advanced Magic Apprentice, a lower rank, so his lv1 Insight Spell was able to obtain more detailed data.

His gaze fell on the line [Emotion: Slightly Anxious] in the investigation results, and he felt a bit curious.

What was Melissa anxious about?

He thought for a moment and decided to try using the Deduction Spell.

...

Rowan activated the Deduction Spell, using the emotional information obtained from the Insight Spell as the base parameter and setting the deduction direction to 'anxious events'.

[Deduction Parameters]

[Emotion: Slightly Anxious]

[Direction: Anxious Events]

[Based on current behavioral characteristic analysis: frequent pauses while writing, nib repeatedly tracing the same number on the paper, gaze lingering on a certain line of expenditure numbers significantly longer than other items]

[Combined with environmental information analysis: the document in front is the territory's third-quarter financial budget draft, in which the number in the Wizard Tower construction special expenditure column has been repeatedly modified three times]

[Deduction Conclusion: The source of anxiety is the territory's financial situation, specifically focused on the pressure that the Wizard Tower construction expenditure has caused to the territory's finances]

Rowan finished reading the deduction results and chuckled in surprise.

So Melissa was worrying about the territory's financial situation, especially that money-guzzling beast of a Wizard Tower, which indeed put significant pressure on the territory's finances.

He thought about it and felt he should probably find a time to give Melissa a heads-up, letting her know that he already had a means to solve the financial problems, to spare her from burying herself in anxiety here alone.

Subsequently, he looked back at Melissa's [Rank: Advanced Magic Apprentice] line.

He remembered that among the members of the Lady Official's cabinet who had received the Wizard inheritance earlier, their current cultivation progress varied.

Helena had already successfully broken through to a First-Circle Wizard before, while Melissa seemed to have been stuck at this threshold for some time.

He thought about it and decided to use the Deduction Spell to calculate her expected promotion time, so he could have a clearer grasp of the overall growth rhythm of the Lady Officials.

He activated the Deduction Spell again, using the rank information obtained from the Insight Spell and Melissa's mental power intensity value as base parameters to begin the deduction.

[Deduction Parameters]

[Rank: Advanced Magic Apprentice]

[Direction: Expected Promotion Time]

[Comprehensive analysis based on current mental power accumulation speed, meditation efficiency, and resource consumption data]

[Current mental power intensity: 36. Expected mental power threshold required for promotion to First-Circle: 50.]

[Calculated based on current average daily mental power growth rate, estimated time required: about 60 days.]

[Expected promotion time: two months later.]

Two months later.

This time was a bit slower than Rowan had expected.

He frowned slightly and began to further deduce the reasons for the slower progress.

The Deduction Spell continued to operate.

This time, it began to deeply analyze Melissa's use of cultivation resources.

Soon, a detail surfaced.

Melissa's physical condition indicated that she was not using meditation auxiliary potions.

And he remembered that he had approved this expenditure.

Seeing this result, Rowan was slightly taken aback at first, then understood immediately.

Meditation auxiliary potions could significantly increase the speed of mental power accumulation; if used normally, her promotion time could have been shortened.

But she didn't use them.

The reason was not hard to guess.

Rowan stood at the doorway, watching the slightly furrowed brows of Melissa as she bent over her desk writing, feeling somewhat helpless.

He thought about it and decided that tonight, he would have Melissa come to his bedroom to talk about this issue privately.

The point increase after the Lady Officials' strength improved was the most crucial thing for him.

With his mind made up, Rowan prepared to continue deducing a training plan, exploring how to help Melissa accelerate her promotion.

[Deduction Parameters]

[Rank: Advanced Magic Apprentice]

[Direction: Accelerated Promotion Training Plan]

Suddenly, he felt a little dizzy.

[Result: Deduction Failed!]

He pressed his temples and let out a light breath.

He realized that with the current lv1 Universal Evolution Meditation Method, this was about the limit.

If he wanted to utilize these two abilities more deeply, he had to upgrade the level of his meditation method.

He thought about it and decided to first invest a portion of his free attribute points to upgrade the meditation method to lv2.

lv1 is Warlock Apprentice, and the corresponding Knight path is the Apprentice Knight stage.

lv2 is Low-ranking Warlock, referring to Warlocks of the first to third circle, and the corresponding Knight path is Official Knight, Senior Knight, and Peak Knight.

With a thought, 1000 free attribute points were poured into the Universal Evolution Meditation Method.

A surge of abundant mental power began to flow slowly deep within his consciousness.

He closed his eyes and sank into his mental sea.

The visualization object of the Universal Evolution Meditation Method was a Möbius strip connected end-to-end.

The silver-gray band of light spun slowly, like a snake biting its own tail, or like a twisted knot.

It floated in the void, with shimmering light flowing back and forth along the ring, one side bearing the birth of all things, the other receiving the demise of all things.

But the two sides were actually the same side.

lv1 to lv2 promotion method was to understand the profound meaning within, to unify in contradiction, to exist in paradox, and then to visualize again and again to increase mental power.

During the process of pouring in the free attribute points, it was as if he had walked thousands of laps on this one-sided surface.

Each time he returned to the starting point, and each time he discovered that the starting point was the end point, and there was no difference between inside and outside.

The flow of consciousness thus became more perfect, and his mental power grew stronger.

[Universal Evolution Meditation Method lv1 → lv2]

[Remaining Free Attribute Points: 6689]

Rowan opened his eyes.

A faint silver-white halo appeared deep within his pupils; that halo had no front or back, no beginning or end, endlessly circulating in eternal self-entanglement...

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