175: Becoming a wizard (Part 1)

After obtaining the fruit of life, Glynn descended the stairs to the secondary elemental pool located on the first underground level of the Wizard Tower.

This was the best place for him to break through to become a Formal Wizard.

“Hoo…”

Glynn felt the abundant, almost atomized elements in the air and looked at the liquid in the elemental pool, which was a high-capacity accumulation of elements showing 99%.

For a hundred years, this secondary elemental pool, utilizing the grand underground magic net array spread throughout the entire secret realm, had accumulated countless neutral elements. Apart from supplying the Ancient Elf Tree's growth needs, the excess had all accumulated here.

And there were three such elemental pools of this specification throughout the secret realm.

This meant that each time the secret realm opened, three lucky individuals would embark on the glorious path to becoming a Formal Wizard... In this world, the true origin of the Scales of Truth Wizard, which had undergone great trauma and was now in a period of great recovery, there were three essential factors for becoming a Formal Wizard and enhancing the essence of life.

Timeliness, geographical advantage, and human harmony—none could be lacking.

1: Timeliness refers to how strong a Wizard's destiny and luck are. In this era, it is the best time for White Wizards because the world's destiny favors the White Wizards.

Therefore, White Wizards who follow the righteous path have a much higher probability of breaking through than Black Wizards who follow crooked paths, as well as sea tribes, elves, orcs, dragon tribes, and other alien race Wizards, and even other special extraordinary professionals.

As for Glynn, he came from a legitimate White Wizard Academy, the Plant Heart Academy, and was the most renowned genius Wizard of the past 50 years. He carried countless expectations and hopes from the Academy and shared in its considerable destiny. Thus, Glynn had no worries regarding timeliness.

(Over the past hundred years, Plant Heart Academy has diligently cultivated reserve Wizards, expelled Black Wizards, improved the environment of the Mist Forest using various magical plants, and regularly dispatched Academy Wizards to the border of the Motlan Grand Kingdom, to the endless sand sea west of the Mist Coast, to plant trees and reforest. This has helped humanity expand its living space by over 1 million square kilometers, recreating an entire province and benefiting hundreds of millions of ordinary humans. Therefore, Plant Heart Academy has accumulated an immense amount of destiny and favor.)

…2: Geographical advantage refers to the need for Wizards to find a geomantically auspicious location when breaking through to become a Formal Wizard. The most important criterion is whether there is sufficient elemental energy.

A Wizard's breakthrough to Formal Wizard status is divided into two steps: perfecting their innate Wizardry and solidifying their innate Wizardry.

In the second step, solidifying the innate Wizardry, an extremely vast amount of elemental energy is required as raw material and foundation to gradually stabilize the Wizard's realm, cleanse the Wizard's physical body, and sublimate the Wizard's Spiritual Power.

In this step, most Wizards achieve this by utilizing the secondary elemental energy pool of a Wizard Tower. This type of neutral elemental energy, which has been filtered and purified multiple times through special Wizard Arrays and accumulated over a long period, is most suitable for a Formal Wizard's breakthrough.

However, if these conditions are not available, one can spend more magic stones or even magic crystals, utilizing the elemental energy accumulated within these energy crystals. The only drawback is that the foundation will not be perfect, the cornerstone of the innate Wizardry will have flaws, and there will be some lingering side effects… 3: Human harmony refers to the Wizard's own breakthrough conditions being met. External conditions, no matter how good, are merely icing on the cake; one must be strong oneself.

This is why Wizards perform a comprehensive self-check and evaluation before attempting a breakthrough.

The body must be young and vibrant, Spiritual Power must be honed to perfection, the core prototype of the innate Wizardry must be stably constructed, the Mind Bottleneck must be overcome, and there should be no significant flaws… All these factors collectively determine the success rate of a peak Wizard Apprentice. Glynn's assessed basic success rate was 40%, which is quite high.

Peak Spiritual Power accounts for 10%; (One's own cultivation is the foundation; reaching perfection inherently grants 10%.)

Stability of the innate Wizardry core accounts for 10%; (This is divided into two tiers: passing and excellent. Glynn, of course, had honed it to perfection, an excellent standard.)

The Grand Knight's conviction contributing to the transformation of the mind accounts for 10%; (If there were no benefits, why would so many Wizards also cultivate the path of a Knight? A Grand Knight's conviction is equivalent to giving a Wizard's Spiritual Power resilience +1, which offers many advantages during a breakthrough.)

Developing the extreme bloodline to the second stage accounts for 10%; (Extreme bloodlines are awakened Morning Star Wizard-level bloodlines, offering several times the benefits of ordinary bloodlines to a Wizard. This is also one of the legacies left by senior Wizards to their descendants; the power of a Morning Star Wizard is unimaginable.)

Adding the vast life force of the fruit of life, which can account for another 10%, Glynn's minimum success rate was 50%. Of course, this is the minimum, as the successful enhancement probability of timeliness and geographical advantage is difficult to calculate.

In reality, Glynn's breakthrough success rate was one of the best in the entire Mist Coast, basically guaranteed… It took three hours.

Glynn sat cross-legged beside the secondary elemental pool, slowly meditating to raise his essence, qi, and spirit to their absolute peak.

Finally, Glynn, who had already rehearsed his breakthrough path thousands of times in his mind, calmly began his journey.

The first step was to eat the fruit, which tasted like a green apple—sweet and sour, quite delicious.

As countless gentle and nourishing life forces surged within him, Glynn endured the boundless pleasure, as if floating on clouds, and quickly drank a tube of life force burning aid potion.

The second step: in conjunction with the life force burning aid potion, Glynn actively performed the secret art of burning life force, sublimating the continuously replenished life force into his own Spiritual Power.

The third step: activate the Golden Finger—the Hundredfold Harvest special talent, using the 10 minutes of absolute calm provided by this talent to complete the most difficult step of the breakthrough.

The fourth step: invest the Spiritual Power sublimated from life force into the core of the already constructed innate Wizardry model. Using the core prototype as a base and Spiritual Power as a pen, quickly outline individual Wizardry runes, step by step perfecting the first-order Plant Guardian Field Wizardry, which previously only had a core prototype.

In this process, speed is crucial, because a spirit sea of only 7 intensity cannot withstand the immense Spiritual Power surge for too long. Many Wizards fail at this step because they are not fast enough, procrastinating and causing their spirit sea to directly burst under the high-intensity, prolonged expansion and surge of Spiritual Power.

With the Golden Finger's absolute calm assistance, Glynn was like an emotionless robot, following the pre-set program with speed, stability, and precision. He completed this step in just eight minutes, perfecting the innate Wizardry model in his spirit sea and connecting it with the already constructed triangular Spiritual Power model, together forming the solid cornerstone of a Formal Wizard.

The entire process was smooth and seamless. In this step, Glynn surpassed 99.99% of Wizards!

Formal Wizard—guaranteed!