Chapter 32: Orthodoxy and Cannon Fodder

"Phew... third level of Qi Condensation."

Jie Ming slowly exhaled a breath of turbid air, feeling the pure True Essence flowing in his body like a murmuring stream.

With sufficient credits, Jie Ming didn't wrong his appetite anymore, and all kinds of high-energy foods were stuffed into his mouth.

A large amount of food that solidifies the foundation and cultivates the origin, plus the dual nourishment of "Purple Qi from the East," and the drive of the constantly improving meditation method, his cultivation base climbed like riding an accelerator.

Now, only half a year had passed since Jie Ming enrolled, and he had climbed from the first level of Qi Condensation to the third level of Qi Condensation.

True Essence formed a wider and deeper lake in the dantian, and every circulation could feel the enhancement of power.

The physical body became more resilient and transparent under the nourishment of True Essence, and the five senses were more keen.

At the same time, his wizard meditation method progressed rapidly.

Thanks to the nourishment of the Cultivation system to the spiritual sea and soul and the assistance of higher-level meditation rooms, plus the fact that he didn't need to hide his cultivation speed after being identified as a "genius," Jie Ming had successfully engraved the fourth Truth Rune of his wizard career, and the fifth Truth Rune was also about to succeed.

Jie Ming focused his mind and looked inside.

In the spiritual sea, the first three "Transformation," "Fusion," and "Refining" runes representing the foundation of alchemy were shining brightly, and immediately following, the fourth newly engraved rune also emitted powerful spiritual fluctuations.

Jie Ming thought carefully about the choice of the core of the fourth Truth Rune.

The wizard apprentice stage needs to engrave nine core Truth Runes. These runes often lay the foundation for the wizard's future school direction and ability foundation.

Although he majored in alchemy, the wizard school system is huge and complex, and many school runes can be used generally or as auxiliary.

Finally, Jie Ming anchored his fourth core rune on the "Stability" rune, one of the three core runes of the potion school.

This "Stability" rune can balance energy and material structure, inhibit out-of-control reactions, and is an indispensable foundation for potion studies.

At the same time, it is also one of the auxiliary runes of alchemy. Many experiments related to alchemy in the later stage need to use the stability rune to inhibit energy.

Choosing it can not only deepen Jie Ming's attainments in the field of alchemy but also lay a foundation for his future potion research.

Jie Ming had already decided on his future path. He planned to choose the logistics school—the alchemy he learned, and the core runes of potion studies and rune studies—for all nine core runes during his wizard apprentice period.

This choice is quite rare even among logistics wizards.

Many logistics wizards, after engraving three to six core runes of their own school, often choose to engrave some combat-type runes, such as amplification, energy, shield, casting, elemental, etc., to make up for their lack of frontal combat ability.

But Jie Ming is different.

Because besides the wizard system, he has another cultivation system!

The Great Dao Library records countless exquisite combat spells and body techniques, as well as the refining methods of various talismans and magic treasures. He doesn't need to worry about his lack of means in combat at all.

So in the choice of Truth Runes, he can completely ignore the problem of combat power and put all his energy into the accumulation of logistics knowledge, laying a solid foundation for the fusion of dual systems at a higher level in the future.

"Phew..."

Adjusting his breathing, Jie Ming didn't end the cultivation state, but took advantage of the period when his spirit was refreshed after the breakthrough, and turned his attention to the center of the spiritual sea.

Surrounded by four Truth Runes, there was the first wizardry model that was about to take shape in his wizard system.

The learning of wizardry in the Wizarding World is not a simple "spell + gesture," but the same as the cultivation steps of the meditation method, which is to construct a wizardry model in one's own spiritual sea.

Because constructing a wizardry model also consumes spiritual sense, many wizard apprentices and even official wizards won't engrave too many wizardry models, otherwise it will affect their cultivation progress.

And the construction difficulty of these wizardry models is terrifyingly high.

In the wizard civilization, every wizard can be seen as a scientific researcher, and a wizardry model can be understood as a "subject research result" successfully completed based on their own knowledge system and research direction.

The released wizardry is the concrete application of this "subject."

Therefore, there is no completely identical wizardry model in this world.

Even if it is the same basic wizardry of the alchemy school—Alchemy, the wizardry models constructed by different wizards will be different due to differences in their knowledge accumulation, personal understanding, and slight focus in research direction.

The advantage is that the wizardry model constructed this way is not a "dead thing" that never changes, and there is no clear level division.

It will continue to be optimized and enhanced along with the growth of the wizard's own knowledge system, deepening of understanding of the world, and improvement of technology.

Because of this unique learning method, the "original" wizardry models that the vast majority of wizards in this world have properly mastered are actually not many... just like many researchers in the previous life only have a few truly valuable scientific research results in their lives.

Of course, this refers to "properly" mastered wizardry models.

Besides "proper" ones, there naturally exists an "improper" evil path in the wizard system—you can forcibly engrave wizardry models that other wizards have already constructed into your own spiritual sea through rote memorization.

In this way, even if you don't understand the principles at all, you can release the corresponding wizardry.

It's just that this kind of "pirated" wizardry model has lost the possibility of advancement and optimization.

And when conquering other planes, if you encounter rule incompatibility or other problems, this kind of rote-memorized wizardry is very likely to fail, and cannot be adjusted and changed at any time according to the actual situation like those "proper" wizardry models based on one's own understanding.

And this kind of improper wizardry model is often the object that the group of combat-type wizards is keen to learn.

They need to quickly obtain various direct and effective attack or defense means. Principles don't matter to them, as long as they can be used.

But in the plane invasion war of the wizard civilization, under normal circumstances, data of the enemy plane is collected first, and then the wizard

Because of the differences between the Combat Department and the Logistics Department, it is usually the Logistics Department that handles adjustments and countermeasures; as for the source of information, it naturally relies on those cannon... wizards from the Combat Department.

"What Logistics Department and Combat Department, it's clearly the Orthodox Department and the Cannon Fodder Department instead..." After understanding the essence of this "scientific research" versus "application" in the wizarding system, Jie Ming couldn't help but complain in his heart.

No wonder that wizard Jack said back then that Logistics Department wizards were the orthodox ones; now it seems that Logistics Department wizards are the group of people who have grasped the essence of wizarding power.