The Power of Nature

Chapter 97 The Power of Nature

The Face of Truth Project is an ultra-long-term project that will accompany Green throughout his life, so Green naturally wouldn't waste a lot of time studying this kind of knowledge during this crucial period before the Saint Tower Qualifying Battle.

However, the knowledge of the Endless Eye is something that must be learned.

More than four months have passed since he learned the basics of the structure of the human eye and other methods of human perception. During this time, Green's daily life has become more regular. In the mornings, he attends lectures by his mentor Peranos on the seventy-ninth floor of the Black Tower. In the afternoons and evenings, he studies the magic of explosive flames in his own cabin. Occasionally, he gathers with Binghamson, Raffi, and others as a luxurious activity for mental relaxation.

On this day, Green arrived at his mentor Peranos's laboratory as usual, only to find that the huge scroll had already been rolled up.

Seeing the somewhat puzzled look in Green's eyes, Peranos said calmly, "Take it. This Endless Eye Scroll will be a gift from your mentor to you. After your Face of Truth is revealed in the future, you will refine this scroll to perfection and then pass it on to your disciple. I have already taught you the basic principles of the Endless Eye. From now on, you will need to conduct specific experiments based on your own physical characteristics."

Green's expression turned serious.

He respectfully accepted the scroll, which felt incredibly heavy, with both hands trembling slightly. For the first time, a sense of responsibility for the inheritance of knowledge in the wizarding world arose within Grimm. At this moment, it felt like a very solemn, serious, and sacred ceremony was being performed, and Grimm had no other thoughts.

Only through the transmission of knowledge from generation to generation can the wizarding world grow ever stronger. Those so-called ancient scrolls are the result of generations of wizards perfecting a particular field, which then became precious carriers of knowledge in the hands of later generations, passing down through the ages alongside the wizarding world.

After putting the scroll away, Green asked, "Teacher, what will I be learning today?"

"Three methods for a wizard apprentice to become a full wizard!" Peranos said earnestly, word by word.

Green's face lit up with excitement. Advancing to become a full-fledged wizard was the dream of countless wizarding apprentices, but often only a handful out of hundreds of apprentices achieved this dream. The vast majority turned into dust and ashes with the passage of time. It seemed that the so-called bottleneck for wizarding apprentices to become full-fledged wizards was a curse that had killed too many people.

Without advancing to become a formal wizard, an elemental wizard apprentice will face death after three or four hundred years at most. However, if one advances to become a formal wizard, life will undergo a sublimation and transformation. Life will no longer be limited by the degree of decay of the physical body, and the soul will become the foundation of an elemental wizard.

In other words, before becoming a formal wizard, the body nurtures the soul; after becoming a formal wizard, the soul is immortal, and even if the body becomes decayed and old, it will maintain a normal physiological function level.

Green asked nervously, "Which three methods?"

"Strength, wisdom, and luck!" Peranos said earnestly, "Among these, the one with the greatest chance of becoming a formal wizard is strength. As long as you can become the top person in a region of the Seven Rings Holy Tower in the Holy Tower Qualification Battle, you will come into contact with the secret of the wizarding world, and you will have an absolute guarantee of becoming a formal wizard. The one with the smallest chance of becoming a formal wizard is luck, or what you might call fate. Although the wizarding world has always denied it, all wizards know in their hearts that it does exist. The endless world always favors some people that you may not even care about."

Green did not speak.

Although he had previously learned the secret of the peak wizard apprentice in the Holy Tower Qualification Battle from his mentor Peranos, Green felt a little sad and couldn't help but find it hard to understand that one of the three methods to advance to a formal wizard was this, and even included in the category of strength.

Peranos, however, said indifferently, "It's a waste anyway, so why not let you wizard apprentices benefit from it? This is a unique rule and rhythm of the wizarding world."

Upon hearing this, a trace of sadness instantly appeared on Green's face, though it was quickly concealed.

"Mentor, since so-called luck is a passive choice of fate, something that cannot be controlled, then what about wisdom?" Green had already ruled out the possibility of advancing to a formal wizard by relying on fate. As a rational wizard, Green, like most wizards, never believed in fate, nor would he entrust his path to advancement to something unseen and intangible, waiting for fate to make a passive choice.

"If you want to advance to a formal wizard through wisdom, you must first understand the true difference between a wizard apprentice and a formal wizard." As he said this, Peranos glanced at Grimm. In an instant, Grimm felt the surrounding natural forces begin to squeeze him frantically, and he felt as if he were in a natural prison.

This wasn't the first time Green had faced the suppression of natural power by a formal wizard. Green was still able to maintain basic composure because he knew that on the path of elemental wizards, it was inevitable for high-level wizards to suppress low-level wizards in terms of natural power.

Peranos took out a crystal ball and said calmly, "Let's test your current attack power."

After Green nodded, he cast a fire bat spell, and with a boom, waves of fire scattered in all directions.

After dispelling the undying flames, Grimm looked at the crystal ball, his face turning grim. "Only 39 degrees? It's been suppressed to only five times the base attack power?" (Grimm currently has 40 points of maximum mental strength, and on average, each attack can generate about 75 to 85 points of magic power. The Joyful Spring Necklace and the ring that amplified mental strength during the regional war are no longer useful, which can be attributed to the Meditation and Listening Potion.)

However, the low attack level was due to Green not activating his Fiery Body; otherwise, the Firebat's attack level would have increased.

Peranos put away the crystal ball, saying matter-of-factly, "This is normal. If a Saint-level wizard were to suppress you, you probably wouldn't even be able to cast spells. But if it were a low-level wizard, your attack power might be higher. The difference lies in the control of natural forces. As a wizard apprentice, you are suppressed like this precisely because you lack control over natural forces."

Green frowned. "Control of the forces of nature? Then what do wizard apprentices rely on to cast spells?"

Shaking his head, Peranos said, "The so-called witchcraft of wizarding apprentices is nothing more than the essence of wisdom left behind by ancient wizards who used their wisdom to summarize the natural forces of the wizarding world. To put it simply, wizarding apprentices use their own magic power as the source of power, and magic circles (the essence of ancient wizarding wisdom) as the fulcrum to leverage the natural forces of the wizarding world. Because these magic circles are the wisdom summarized by ancient wizards based on the natural forces of the wizarding world, in some other world that is very different from the wizarding world, you wizarding apprentices may not even be able to cast them like the most basic wizards."

Green was stunned. Recalling his time in the Black Tower Secret Realm, he had a vague feeling that his magical power was being suppressed and not flowing smoothly.

Maybe……

This feeling likely arose because the Black Tower was a fragment of a sub-world of the Wizarding World. If it were another world, Green might not even be able to cast the most basic spells.

Peranos continued, "As for formal wizards, they are those who use magic to draw upon the power of nature as their source of strength, using themselves as a fulcrum to manipulate the rules of the world. Therefore, no matter how powerful an elemental wizard apprentice may be, no matter how high the attack intensity they can unleash, once a formal wizard uses the power of nature to suppress them, they can only surrender."

Green suddenly realized, "So that's how it is," and at the same time, he had a sudden realization.

So-called wizard apprentices are merely a transitional product between ordinary humans and formal wizards, created by ancient wizards using their wisdom. They are a group of beings who can only exert certain abilities within the wizarding world itself.

A wizarding apprentice's attack method involves drawing upon the natural forces of the wizarding world, but the most basic ability of a fully-fledged wizard is to manipulate these forces. Therefore…

Seeing that Green had already gained his own insights, Peranos said, "In that case, if a wizard apprentice wants to advance to a full wizard through wisdom, he must observe the reaction of natural forces and his own soul magic array over a long period of time, allowing his soul to comprehend nature in this way. In this respect, it is a path suitable for open wizards, but dark wizards rarely succeed, which is why there are far more open wizards than dark wizards. Of course, generally speaking, the higher the wisdom of the wizard apprentice, the easier it is to succeed, and higher wisdom means greater strength."

Green rubbed his temples, wondering how he would comprehend the power of nature if he were to advance to a formal wizard through wisdom.

After thinking for a long time, the only thing Green could recall was the "wizard's warning" he received during the novice trial when he attempted to enter the secret realm a second time during its first opening. Green couldn't even imagine personally sensing the power of nature; all he could think of was experiencing it through wizards.

In that case, it would be far too difficult for Green to advance through the path of intelligence.

Peranos, unaware of Green's thoughts, solemnly said, "Strength, wisdom, and luck—these three paths to advancement are the greatest limitations of wizarding civilization in the wizarding world! Each of the three methods for a wizard apprentice to become a full-fledged wizard has its flaws and instabilities. This is also a constraint imposed by the rules of the endless world, an inevitable limitation on wizarding civilization."

Green categorizes this evolutionary method of wizard civilization as active evolution, while classifying body-refining wizards and most otherworldly creatures as passive evolution.

In retrospect, the disadvantage of proactive evolution is similar to that of some creatures from other worlds who are born incredibly powerful; while their individual strength is immense, it limits their population growth.

However, the ancient wizards used the accumulated wisdom of generation after generation to fight against the endless rules of the world, and the wizard apprentice is precisely the product of the ancient wizards' wisdom in fighting against the endless rules of the world.

Peranos suddenly added, "By the way, Green. If you advance to become a formal wizard in the future, and if you still plan to pursue the path of physical wizardry, don't choose to degenerate your physiological functions to stimulate your mental power. Although this will save a lot of time and strengthen your mental power in the short term, it will limit the future development of physical wizardry and will also permanently maintain the aging body functions. In fact, you can choose to degenerate your mental power to nourish and strengthen your physique, and then replenish your mental power through long years of continuous meditation to reach the peak mental power value of a first-level wizard."

When a wizard apprentice advances to become a full wizard, their physical functions and spiritual power will reach perfect communication at the moment of soul sublimation, forming a perfect mutual transformation condition that only happens once in a lifetime.

Green took a deep breath and nodded, saying, "Understood."

No wonder many wizards look old; it's probably because when they advanced to become official wizards, they prioritized the rapid increase in mental power and neglected their physical functions. Anyway, after becoming official wizards, physical functions are no longer a limitation on a wizard's lifespan, so many elemental wizards simply gave up on their physical abilities...

Peranos specifically reminded Green of this because he may have made the same mistake before and still remembers it vividly.

(End of this chapter)