5: Chapter 5 Meditation

Walking into the room, Byron looked around.

The room was decorated in the luxurious style of medieval classical nobility.

Intricate handmade wool tapestries hung on the walls, and underfoot lay a thick, soft, dark red carpet, deep enough to swallow all sounds of footsteps.

In the center of the room sat a large oak four-poster bed, and by the window was a set of agarwood desks.

Neatly arranged on top were a brass candlestick, a pure white velvet quill, and a stack of parchment emitting a faint scent of ink.

Beside the desk stood a tall, solid wood bookshelf covering an entire wall, densely packed with various classics and parchment scrolls.

After taking in the situation in the room, Byron immediately lay face down on the bed, sinking into it until his vision went dark.

However, no one noticed that in the darkness, a faint, imperceptible strangeness flashed across Byron's eyes.

Previously, in front of Klevin and the other person, Byron had not taken any risks to challenge the abilities of a wizard, so he could only let the Eye of Omniscience silently record everything that appeared.

Now, it was time to check the results.

"Eye of Omniscience, did you record everything just now?"

[Recording complete, archiving complete. Do you wish to view it?]

"View."

The next moment, a scene immediately surfaced in his mind, starting from when Byron stepped into the beam of light.

However, Byron skipped through it roughly for a while, and after confirming there were no omissions, he turned his attention back to the reality before him.

"Eye of Omniscience, scan the entire room's furnishings and look for any anomalous items."

He wanted to see what exactly this so-called surprise Klevin mentioned was.

[Scanning... Weak energy residue and abnormal Mental Energy markers detected. Coordinates: Second row, third book; third row, seventh book; sixth row, first book.]

Seeing this, Byron did not get up immediately.

He lay on the bed with great patience for another full ten minutes before rolling off.

Byron had never lacked patience.

Only after searching the desk did Byron turn his gaze to the bookshelf.

Even so, he still pulled out the books one by one and began to flip through them quickly.

While he was flipping through them, the Eye of Omniscience was recording every character on the pages at a terrifying frequency.

Only after the Eye of Omniscience finished recording a book would Byron put it down.

Time passed slowly, and after learning that the Eye of Omniscience had finished recording everything, Byron put down the "basic wizard principles" in his hand.

By this point, those three books had already been recorded by the Eye of Omniscience.

The three books were "Basic Meditation Method," "A Brief History of Wizards," and the book he had just put down, "basic wizard principles."

"Eye of Omniscience, organize the contents of the three books simultaneously."

["Basic Meditation Method" organization started, organization complete.]

["A Brief History of Wizards" organization started, organization complete.]

["basic wizard principles" organization started, organization complete.]

[Do you wish to transfer?]

The moment the Eye of Omniscience began, Byron felt as if the brain matter inside his head was being constantly stirred by a wooden stick; he felt dizzy, accompanied by waves of throbbing pain.

Fortunately, that sensation came and went quickly and soon disappeared.

Byron rubbed his still-throbbing head slightly and pondered in his heart.

"It seems that when the Eye of Omniscience is operating, it requires my own participation. As for that pain that felt like it was tearing my Soul..."

Byron's eyes flashed.

"Eye of Omniscience, scan my body and analyze the reason for the abnormality just now."

[Scanning body... Scan complete. Analyzing... Analysis complete. Reason for abnormality: caused by a sudden surge in pressure on Mental Energy.]

Looking at this information, Byron perfectly confirmed the guess he had just made.

The Eye of Omniscience was like a computer, and his Mental Energy was the sole power source and computing power for this computer.

If too many tasks were started simultaneously and his Mental Energy couldn't keep up, the consequences of forced analysis could be imagined.

However, after absorbing the data from those three books, the Eye of Omniscience had made some progress and was now able to enter the mental Domain.

This also indirectly indicated that the richer the data of the Eye of Omniscience, the more powerful its abilities would be, and the more time it would require.

Byron: "Eye of Omniscience, digitize my Mental Energy."

[Analyzing... Lacking corresponding knowledge and data models. Estimated analysis time: 490,896 hours and 49 minutes.]

Seeing this result, the corner of Byron's eye twitched slightly, and he decisively ended the task.

It seemed that before entering the wizard academy, wanting to digitize Mental Energy as precisely as Physique was pure wishful thinking.

"Eye of Omniscience, transfer the 'Basic Meditation Method' you just organized."

This time, Byron didn't dare to do all three at once; he only had it transfer the Basic Meditation Method that had finished being analyzed, which was also what he was most interested in.

In an instant, a large amount of knowledge surged into Byron's mind like a fountain.

With this, Byron gained an understanding of the "Basic Meditation Method."

The entire book described the essence of Mental Energy, the structure of the Soul, and how to Cultivate the Meditation Method...

As the name implies, the Basic Meditation Method might not be the most powerful, but after countless experiments, research, and modifications by wizards, it was definitely the most perfect, most comprehensive, most widely promoted, and most suitable Meditation Method for beginners.

This Meditation Method was the same as the visualization methods of Taoism and Buddhism that Byron had seen in his previous life; they all involved visualizing something in the mind to enhance one's Mental Energy.

It was just that the Buddhist and Taoist schools visualized specific objects, whereas the wizard's Meditation Method involved visualizing abstract runes.

After the runes visualized in the Mental Sea and the Mental Energy reached a certain value, one could become a Wizard Apprentice.

The Wizard Apprentice level was divided into three stages: First-Rank Apprentice, Second-Rank Apprentice, and Third-Rank Apprentice.

The requirements for each stage were different.

If one wanted to become a First-Rank Wizard Apprentice, one needed to visualize over nine runes and have over ten points of Mental Energy; for the second rank, it was over eighteen runes and twenty points of Mental Energy.

As for the Third-Rank Wizard Apprentice, in addition to the visualized runes and Mental Energy, there were other requirements, but the Basic Meditation Method did not record them, so Byron had no way of knowing.

The speed of Cultivating the Meditation Method was closely related to Aptitude.

Simply put, Mental Energy determined whether one could Cultivate and how fast one could Cultivate; elemental affinity determined what one learned quickly; the Soul determined how far one could go; and as for Comprehension Ability, it determined how fast one learned.

Therefore, the better the Aptitude, the greater the chance of becoming a wizard.

Thinking of this, a flash of lightning seemed to streak through Byron's mind, and he suddenly froze.

"Wait!"

If the operation of the Eye of Omniscience required drawing upon his Mental Energy as power and computing power...

Then, from the moment he stepped onto the deck of this ship, he had been keeping the Eye of Omniscience open the entire time to record.

In that case, the previous test's judgment of his Aptitude was actually inaccurate; his talent was higher than the top of the third rank, so wouldn't that mean he could reach the fourth rank?

Thinking of this, Byron smiled.

Although this would lower some of his evaluations, his Aptitude hadn't changed.

Compared to being made to stand in the spotlight and constantly receive attention from others, that little bit of trouble was not really trouble at all.

Unexpectedly, by sheer coincidence, he had strangled future dangers in the cradle.