Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems

Chapter 423: First Circle Crystallization Knowledge

Locke nodded. Indeed, for Grand Wizard Sulla, restricting his access to crystallization stage knowledge was undoubtedly advantageous to him.Moreover, the other party didn't even need to do anything extra. He just needed to say nothing at all.

With only second-level clearance at the White Dragon Library, he couldn't access such core secrets.

Witch Sophia said, "To advance to the First Circle crystallization stage, you need to master a very important small technique, permanent defensive field compression."

Locke nodded. "Teacher, I already know this technique. I learned it from my opponent when fighting black wizards."

Witch Sophia nodded. "Very good, then continue to study this technique in depth. As you know, the way wizards first break through racial limits is by engraving a permanent defensive field on the surface of their souls. As a wizard's magical pressure increases, the strength of the permanent defensive field also improves, causing the wizard's soul limit to increase."

"However, during this process, the parameters in this formula don't have a simple proportional relationship. As your magical pressure increases, the improvement your soul limit can obtain gradually becomes smaller."

Witch Sophia said, "Therefore, after mental power reaches 6,000, it becomes increasingly difficult for wizards to improve. So permanent defensive field compression wasn't invented for combat, but rather to better increase the soul limit."

"Facing the reality that the limit increases more and more slowly, wizards made their first countermeasure, which is by compressing their own permanent defensive field. Using this method, they add external force to their permanent defensive field, using this 'compression force' to increase the upper limit of the permanent defensive field."

"You can understand it this way: before compression, the increase in magical pressure drives the increase in your soul limit. After compressing the permanent defensive field and maintaining it as the normal state, the increase in magical pressure and the increase in 'compression force' together constitute the increase in the limit."

Witch Sophia used simple and understandable language to describe the importance of compressing the permanent defensive field. "So you need to practice normalization, maintaining the technique of compressing your permanent defensive field. Here is information on the relevant techniques."

A spell radiance shot from Witch Sophia's brow toward Locke's brow. Immediately, Locke learned about various related practice techniques.

First was to manipulate his permanent defensive field daily, maintaining different sizes and different shapes, and practicing repeatedly, practicing both the switching time and maintenance time, gradually making the practice time longer and longer, until finally practicing for 24 hours.

This way, he could achieve normalized mental power compression.

Witch Sophia said, "This is a small technique for advancing to crystallization wizard, normalized compression of the permanent defensive field. Although this is the mainstream method in current wizard society, I actually comprehended this myself."

"At that time, Lilith's Cottage wouldn't open the relevant database to me, wanting to use this to force me to stay in the southeastern quadrant, so I could only comprehend it myself. I basically reinvented the wheel."

Locke wiped the sweat from his forehead.

Teacher, this isn't just reinventing the wheel. You basically emulated ancient wizards and retraced the path of establishing the wizard magic level system and advancement methods.

You took what ancient wizards, so many generations of people, researched and figured out, and in less than three years, researched it yourself and thoroughly understood it.

Locke looked at the materials Witch Sophia had transmitted to him. Part of it was materials from the Star Domain Sea, and another part was methods Witch Sophia had comprehended herself.

The differences between the two weren't very large.

This showed that Witch Sophia had once unintentionally created on her own a set of the most advanced advancement theories currently available.

Both involved compressing the permanent defensive field, but there should still be differences in the level of specific practice methods.

Many good wizard academies monopolized this portion of high-quality materials.

Locke also sighed. He was indeed experiencing slower and slower progress after his mental power reached 6,040.

Now it took two or three nights to obtain a single point increase in mana, and the rate of gain was still slowing down.

At first, he had thought this was just a normal phenomenon. After all, when he looked at other wizards, they were the same at this stage, and his advancement speed was still many times that of ordinary wizards.

After all, he had the force from the Natural Plane constantly flowing in.

He had thought it was just that advancing to liquefaction wizard was this difficult, requiring a huge energy level.

Who knew he had completely misunderstood.

It wasn't that he wasn't obtaining enough energy, but because his soul limit's growth rate had slowed down, so it was no longer a problem of insufficient energy infusion, but rather a problem with the mechanism of magical pressure strengthening leading to soul limit increase.

This meant that no matter how much the natural plane favored him, it wouldn't have much meaning.

The soul limit restricted his rapid improvement. Of course, before reaching ten thousand magical pressure, he was still far from encountering that desperate racial soul limit where he couldn't improve magical pressure even a tiny bit.

That would require a second breakthrough of the racial limit.

According to the materials, once a wizard broke through the racial limit for the second time, that wizard's life level would formally reach an unprecedented degree.

At that time, a Second Circle wizard could even rely on their physical body and soul to survive briefly in the void without needing the protection of world force and world principles.

Witch Sophia nodded and said, "You've learned the methods, right? Your mentors in the southeastern quadrant couldn't possibly teach you proactively. It's not that they have a bad relationship with you, but they themselves are helpless. This portion of knowledge is content that major wizard academies in lower-level wizard lands blockade and prohibit from trading."

"But in the Star Domain Sea, it's just information that can be obtained through commercial transactions. Therefore, even some merchants will proactively introduce this knowledge to you and recommend you purchase their compression methods."

"Similarly, your fellow students in the southeastern quadrant, because of contractual restrictions, also couldn't proactively mention compression methods to you. Although that Grand Wizard Sulla could make his own decisions, he also had no reason to remind you of the existence of compression methods."

Witch Sophia said, "This creates a situation of knowledge barrier. Even if everyone around you is a wizard who already knows about the existence of this compression method, even if the resource channels around you might be able to obtain information in this area, because you don't know of its existence, because it's deliberately blockaded, you cannot trade for it."

"Therefore, for wizards, knowing that something exists already allows you to gain power from it."

Locke nodded deeply in agreement. "Teacher Sophia, I've learned much."

Witch Sophia said, "Whenever you have time, you can go listen to more academic exchange meetings and lectures by high-level wizard mentors. Some things, even if you just learn the terminology at exchange meetings and lectures, it means you can break through this knowledge barrier formed by information monopoly."

Witch Sophia instructed.

Locke nodded. It seemed that all liquefaction stage direct lineage wizards of the Plutarch family knew about the existence of compression methods, only he didn't know.

And in the Plutarch family, the only one who might tell him about the existence of compression methods after knowing about it, Alicia, had only recently become a vaporization stage wizard.

Therefore, naturally she hadn't yet reached the point of needing to encounter compression methods.

Witch Sophia said, "Also, regarding the problem of your topic selection for the Cloud Marsh Cup, I actually do have several suggestions. In the Star Domain Sea, because I'm responsible for teaching breeding studies to students here, I've learned a large amount of foundational breeding study content from the Star Domain Sea. I learn while teaching. When I encounter things I don't understand, I first learn them myself once, then simplify them and teach them to those students, even teaching those wizards who just became First Circle wizards and just joined the research group."