Wizard: I brought the wrong system.

Chapter 68 Persistence and Rejection

Desi exclaimed excitedly, "Yaro, do you know? The new school year is almost here!"

Yaro raised an eyebrow. "What does this have to do with good news?"

“Of course there are,” Desi laughed. “In the new school year, new apprentices will naturally be recruited. Those students who failed the death test but survived will be given a carriage ride.”

"They had just arrived on this continent, and their mental energy was stimulated by the void energy, making it easy for them to sense and enter the strange space."

"At this point, the academy's official wizards will intervene and pull those eerie spaces back into the academy..."

Yaro interrupted, "Let's get to the result."

Confucius said: "Do not look at what is contrary to propriety; do not speak what is contrary to propriety; do not listen to what is contrary to propriety."

Self-hypnosis also explains that repetitive language can affect neural structures.

A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.

When you see or hear something too often, your self-awareness will start to think that this is normal, this is the norm.

When the opposite occurs, it goes against the neural structure in the brain, producing emotions such as aversion, disgust, nausea, and anger.

Yaro was unwilling to provoke his own weak, inherent nervous system and ignite his anger.

But he was unwilling to endure feelings of aversion, disgust, nausea, and anger, gradually eroding his original neural structure to conform to the gaze of others.

Monks eat meat that is not considered "pure" or "clean".

A wise man keeps away from the kitchen.

Out of sight is pure.

Ignoring what you hear will keep you from being bothered.

Seeing Yaro's displeased expression, Desi remembered him and the reason he was not selected for the Heart of the Jungle.

This kind of behavior might displease formal wizards, but it earned Desi's respect.

He composed himself and said succinctly, "The academy will hold a competition. The top ten junior apprentices will receive a low-danger, eerie space with the right to enter and exit for one month."

"Contest?"

Yaro muttered to himself.

His first reaction upon hearing about the competition was, naturally, excitement.

After all, this is a great opportunity to gain experience points.

But after pondering for a moment, another question came to mind.

In my past life, any boxing match that was ever filmed would be constantly studied.

Not a big problem?

Others will meticulously study all your little details, many of which you have never even noticed.

This life is different from the previous one. In the previous life, I was thoroughly studied and at most lost a game. In this life, if someone finds out my weakness, I might lose my life at any time!
This is nothing like a private duel. In a private duel, no one would dare to be distracted by using the projection stones, and there wouldn't be many good angles to film.

Even with just their own memories, very few people could clearly remember all the details and habits of an enemy.

Yaro had roughly estimated his own strength, which was definitely beyond the level of a junior wizard apprentice.

He shouldn't encounter much danger in the eerie space at the beginner wizard apprentice level.

Therefore, there's no need to get hung up on the so-called competition.

After reaffirming his decision, Yaro looked up and said, "Brother Desi, I don't want to participate."

"What a great opportunity!"

Desi said anxiously, "You know yourself that a novice apprentice can't unleash very powerful magic tricks. This is no challenge for you at all."

"If you participate, you'll definitely be in the top ten!" "Why wouldn't you take a benefit that's been offered to you?"

"There must be some formal knights among the apprentices, right? Not to mention those apprentices with bloodlines, their close combat skills are not weak either. Brother Desi, don't flatter me too much."

"not to mention……"

“I don’t want to be a monkey performing in the ring,” Yaro said calmly, but with a firm tone.

Yaro held his own opinions on many of the academy's practices, so he not only lacked a sense of belonging to the academy but also harbored a strong sense of vigilance towards it. Therefore, he was unwilling to participate in academy activities, instead wanting to conceal his strength and remain an unassuming, inconspicuous figure.

Desi stared at Yaro for a long time.

Yaro felt uncomfortable being stared at. He turned around and looked at Desi, then suddenly noticed the plate in front of him and laughed for no reason: "Brother Desi, if you're not going to eat, then I'll eat it. Don't waste the food."

"I wouldn't even feed that to a dog!"

After Desi finished speaking angrily, he forked his steak and took a vicious bite.

But after taking only two bites, he suddenly paused.

Wait, something's not right. What did I just say?

Yaro chuckled and teased, "That's too much, Brother Desi, don't belittle yourself like that."

Desi stared stiffly at the steak in front of him, hesitating for a long time, unsure whether he should continue eating.

After only a moment, Desi sighed helplessly, closed his eyes, and took another bite.

The clinking of knives and forks on the metal plate created a dull, monotonous sound on the table.

Yaro wasn't in a hurry. He opened the heavy "Collection of Reaction Effects of Magic and Metal" and continued to flip through it with a relaxed expression.

To be honest, the wizards were quite skilled. Yaro originally thought that alchemy was like the fantasy novels he had read in his previous life, where you just heat it with fire and the metal automatically solidifies into the desired shape.

In reality, alchemy was far more complex than Barrow imagined.

The common metals in this world are similar to those in my previous life, yet these common metals can undergo wondrous transformations when combined with different magical powers.

How many kinds of magic are there?

It's hard to distinguish them. There are many types of metals, and then there are different magical powers overlapping, different metals fusing, and multiple effects intersecting, so the types of metals increase exponentially.

In addition, there are many strange metals produced from the bizarre space, and even alchemy masters cannot guarantee that they can identify all of them.

Therefore, the foundation of alchemy is the ability to identify the properties of the obtained metals, and only then can these properties be used to create items.

After learning a little about these things, Yaro felt his head start spinning and his consciousness becoming blurred.

Is this something a normal person can afford to play with?

Therefore, Yaro decided to try a different approach: first, figure out what he wanted to make, and then look through books to find the materials.

So when Aro turned to the place he wanted, he would stop and make a few notes, and then continue turning the pages.

Swish swish!
The sound of Yaro turning the pages of the book grew louder and louder.

"Alright, stop flipping through it!" Desi said irritably. "Come with me."

Yaro stood up with a grin: "Thank you, Brother Desi."

Desi led the way, casually remarking:
"Actually, it's good that you study alchemy. After all, your energy affinity is poor. No matter which elemental meditation method you choose, it won't change the fact that your magic power grows slowly."

Energy affinity, as the name suggests, is the ability to absorb and perceive energy from the void.

If mental energy is powder, then the power of the void is water; only when the two are combined can magic be formed.

However, once a meditation method is chosen, one can no longer simply absorb crude void energy. Just as visible light can be divided into various spectra, a single-system meditation method can only absorb a certain specific element.

Desi glanced at Yaro. "Which elemental meditation method did you choose?"

(End of this chapter)