Chapter 258 Spiritual Meditation (Ⅰ)

A person's energy is limited after all.

Thomas's interests were so wide that there was not much left to devote to his studies.

Instructor Rawls compared the efforts of his two students, and he inevitably thought that Thomas was playful and not enterprising.

In fact, just give Thomas a motivation, beat him from time to time, and force him to concentrate on his studies.

For example, as it is now, if he can't improve his level within ten days, he will not be allowed to participate in the "Hunting Festival". The potential of this playboy will be terrible!

Joan had no doubt that Thomas could meet Rawls' mentor's requirements before the deadline, and now he needed to spend some time meditating in order to raise his mage level to level 3.

Joan took off his boots, sat cross-legged on the bed, and followed the guidance of Rawls' mentor to enter a state of meditation.

The mage's "meditation" is actually similar to the trick of "concentrating on casting spells".

The difference is that spellcasting concentration is to concentrate the mental power on a specific spell configuration. "Meditation" does not target specific spells, but gathers the mental power into an invisible "probe", consciously manipulating this Root the spiritual probe to contact the "magic net" and explore the deep mysteries of the magic net.

Before Joan came to study at Leiden Academy, he did not receive systematic training from a mage. He just learned magic through a set of methods he found out. He didn't know much about meditation methods, and he didn't even understand the meaning of spiritual meditation.

It is precisely because the foundation is too weak that Joan completed the first two upgrades in a daze - he upgraded inexplicably as soon as he woke up.

This method of self-cultivation and passive upgrading cannot be said to be bad, but the efficiency is too low, and "knowing what is not knowing why" is not the right way to seek knowledge after all.

After coming to Leiden Academy, Joan finally got the guidance of a good teacher, and mastered the perfect secret method of meditation under the careful teaching of Master Rawls. component.

Through deep meditation, Qiao An consciously drove his spiritual power to explore the magic net, and gained a deeper understanding of the "magic net".

Under the detection of spiritual power, the overall shape of the magic net is very interesting.

Just like a stack of neatly stacked "big cakes", there are 11 "big cakes" from top to bottom, corresponding to rings 0 to 9, plus legendary spell slots.

Among them, the thickness of the "big cake (magic net)" corresponding to the spell slots of the 1st to 9th rings increases step by step. The thicker the "cake", the higher the magic power level, and of course the corresponding spell slots are also higher.

No matter how thick or thin, these nine "cakes" can be divided into two parts: the "surface layer" and the "inner layer".

What the caster first comes into contact with is only the surface layer of the magic net of a certain ring level. After the level is increased, the inner layer can be touched. If the level continues to increase, it can penetrate the current heavy magic net and touch the surface layer of the magic net of a higher level. ...and so on, going deeper and deeper, and constantly improving one's mana practice.

However, the 1st magic net corresponding to the 0-level spell slot and the 11th magic net corresponding to the legendary spell slot are special cases.

If you want to compare these two layers of magic nets to a big cake, then the thickness of the cake corresponding to the 0-level spell slot is almost 0, and there is no distinction between the outer and inner layers, while the thickness of the cake corresponding to the legendary spell slot is almost infinite, and there is also no The difference between the outside and the inside.

This also means that there is no upper limit to the magical energy level of legendary spells, and it can even reach the point of fighting against true gods.

After understanding the basic structure of the magic net, Qiao An looked back at his practice experience, and many problems that had confused him were easily solved.

For example, when he first came into contact with magic two years ago, with perseverance and good luck, he learned the first 0-ring trick "Mage's Hand" by himself and became a mage's apprentice.

If he had mastered the systematic meditation method at that time, he could use his spiritual power to touch the 0-ring magic net, which is the level where the 0-ring spell slot is located.

With the deepening of his study, Qiao An accidentally upgraded the "Hand of the Mage" to the "Hand of the Higher Mage", which means that his Mage level has been raised to level 1, and he can access the magic net of the first ring. surface area.

And when Qiao An was promoted to a level 2 mage, his mental power penetrated into the inner layer of the magic net of the first ring, but he hadn't really broken through the magic net of the first ring, so he could only get the magic slot of the first ring at most. It's just that the understanding of the magic net has deepened, the use of magic power has become more proficient, and an additional 1st-level spell slot has been added.

Now, what Qiao An has to do is to concentrate his mental power and use it as a probe to continue to explore deeper into the magic net, try to break through the first ring of magic net, and touch the surface of the second ring of magic net.

If he can achieve this goal, it means that he already has the ability to explore the mysteries of the magic net of the 2nd ring, and he will be able to obtain the 2nd ring magic slot the next day and be promoted to a level 3 mage.

This is the brief process of using the "spiritual meditation method" to actively increase the level of spellcasting.

During the two-hour meditation, Joan used the "probe" formed by his own spiritual power to continuously drill into the depths of the magic net of the first ring. In the end, only a layer of "membrane" was left to achieve a breakthrough, touching Touch the surface of the second ring magic net.

It's a pity that his will can no longer maintain concentration, and the probe formed by the manifestation of mental power cracked inch by inch, and the increasingly intense headache forced him to stop meditating.

Joan opened his eyes, yawned tiredly, and massaged his eyes and temples on both sides according to the technique taught by Master Rawls to relieve the headache.

This attempt to break through the realm fell short, but Qiao An's efforts were not in vain.

Compared with yesterday when he was meditating, his mental power detected a deeper position in the magic net of the first ring.

One of the great benefits of the "spiritual meditation method" is that it has continuity.

If you probed a certain depth yesterday, you will reach the same depth tomorrow without any effort when you meditate.

It's like digging a hole. Yesterday it was dug three feet deep. During the downtime, the hole was filled again. At first glance, it seems that yesterday's hard work was all in vain. In fact, what filled the hole was only a layer of soft floating soil, and it was easy to dig again. .

Until it reaches a depth of three feet again, if you continue to dig, it will no longer be floating soil, but solid clay or even rock, and the deeper you dig, the harder it will be.

Joan wrote down the progress of today's meditation in the notebook and compared it with the data recorded in the previous few days.

After a series of statistical processing, he transformed the data into a fitting curve on the coordinate system.

The horizontal axis is the number of meditations, and the vertical axis is the progress achieved.

Observing this upward convex curve, it is not difficult to find that its slope gradually decreases, that is, the progress made in a single meditation gradually decreases.

The characteristics of the curve are exactly in line with the general consensus - the higher the career level, the slower it becomes to level up.

To put it bluntly, it is "easy to learn but difficult to master".