Wizard: Starting from the Skill Tree-Chapter 470: Test

The prototype of the Spiritual Power Crystal also generated some conflict with the energy framework.

Even under immense pressure, a faint trace of an extremely small, cloudy crystal prototype barely started to appear, but its internal structure caused significant frequency conflict with the surrounding energy framework.

It was like trying to force an irregularly shaped peg into a mortise, causing the entire structure to creak and nearly collapse.

"Reduce the compression rate, prioritize stabilizing the energy framework."

Duke did not panic in the slightest. Instead, after calmly analyzing the problem at hand, he immediately began to make adjustments.

His spiritual power operated at high speed, soothing the restless energy nodes and repairing the broken energy channels.

He had to temporarily slow down or even stop the compression of his spiritual power.

This was like walking a tightrope, having to find that delicate balance between compressing spiritual power and stabilizing the energy framework.

Too fast, and the framework collapses; too slow, and the crystal cannot coalesce.

Attempt after attempt, time and again being pulled back from the brink of collapse.

Duke recorded countless patterns of failure, sometimes with dark attribute energy going berserk first, eroding the crystal prototype.

Sometimes, the flame energy was too violent, shattering the initially coalesced structure.

Other times, multiple energies became imbalanced simultaneously, triggering a chain reaction that led the simulation system to completely collapse, requiring a fresh start.

Each failure deepened his understanding of the problem.

He constantly adjusted his strategy, attempting to find resonance between the solidification frequency of his spiritual power and the oscillation frequency of the energy framework, reducing internal conflict.

This process consumed far more mental energy than any of the experiments he had conducted before.

In the laboratory, Duke often stayed for several days at a time, looking exhausted but tirelessly conducting experiments.

Because he could clearly see that as the plan continued to optimize, the duration that the tiny crystal prototype was able to maintain in the simulation system was getting longer, and the threshold of collapse was also continuously increasing.

One month later.

When one of the simulation experiments ended, Duke looked at the final frozen data on the monitoring screen.

A small, imperfectly structured but nevertheless successfully coalesced six-attribute composite spiritual power crystal virtual model had finally formed, existing stably for over ten minutes.

Only then did Duke breathe a sigh of relief. After so many experiments, he had finally succeeded in completing this simulation experiment for the first time.

This period also made him deeply aware of how difficult the path he chose to take was.

Simply running a simulation experiment required so many repetitions to finally succeed.

If he were not conducting simulation experiments and started the advancement directly, there would likely be almost no chance of success.

To increase the probability of advancement, multiple simulation experiments are necessary to continually optimize and improve the advancement plan.

However, the current experimental work is not as heavy, as the basic experimental process is already established; what remains is only to optimize and adjust.

Duke can also allocate more time to increasing skill proficiency, aiming to elevate his spiritual power to 150 points when the advancement plan is fully finalized.

In the following two months, Duke continued to repeat simulation experiments, encountering many unexpected situations.

He used the vast amount of failure data to fine-tune the relative positions, energy output intensity, and interactions among the six types of attribute energy.

Duke refined the process of spiritual power injection and compression from the initial rough release into an extremely complex compression curve composed of countless tiny phases.

Which phase needed to be fast, which needed to be slow, and which needed to pause to allow the energy framework to adapt—all were precisely planned down to the second.

Addressing the various problems encountered before, he designed several sets of emergency intervention plans, ready to activate his intervention measures the moment the monitoring data showed a specific danger sign.

After two months of rigorous experiments, Duke could skillfully compress a trace of released spiritual power into a spiritual power crystal with six attributes.

He became extremely familiar with the entire process, understanding almost every detail, aware of all possible problems he might encounter.

Inside Duke’s space ring were stacks of parchment, all filled with data records related to the experiments and detailed experimental processes.

If this information were released, it would surely gain recognition from the Arcane Master Association and likely earn a lot of points.

However, Duke would not do so because it involves his personal secrets and various information closely related to himself.

This material absolutely cannot be easily leaked, and Duke plans to place all the data into the Light God Court after the experiments are finished for added security.

The simulation experiment can be considered essentially complete, and Duke has recently been organizing relevant materials, with his advancement plan optimized to a mature level.

Duke then glanced at the attribute panel on the skill tree.

[Constitution: 22.3]

[Strength: 23.2]

[Agility: 21.6]

[Spirit: 145.3]

[Free Attribute Points: 4]

There wasn’t much time in recent months for gaining skill proficiency, hence gaining only four free attribute points.

The next step is to level up another skill to maximum, obtain a free attribute point, and reach the threshold for advancing to a Crystalized Wizard.

There are still a dozen or so spells provided by Robert that haven’t been leveled to max yet, so Duke just needs to arbitrarily pick one.

The target should naturally be easy to cast, allowing for faster rate release to quickly gain proficiency.

"Ice Needle Technique, Level 1 Magic, condenses water attribute energy to form a needle strike attack... this is it."

This magic spell is simple, quick to release, and requires minimal consumption, making it the ideal choice for rapidly accumulating proficiency.

On a deserted island, in the magic laboratory.

Duke raised his right hand, his spiritual power slightly fluctuated, and three crystalline ice needles quickly coalesced from the moisture in the air, suspended above his palm.

With the movement of his mind, the ice needles shot swiftly towards the distant target, accurately embedding into the center.

[Ice Needle Technique: LV1 (1/100)]

At first, Duke was still unfamiliar, but after becoming accustomed to the syllables of these magic spells, he began casting continuously with a steady rhythm.

With continued practice, he grew smoother and the intervals between spells gradually shortened.

After two hours, he could release the Ice Needle Technique very skillfully without any hesitation, and the magic power consumed each time became nearly negligible.

The only sounds in the laboratory were the subtle whooshing of the ice needles breaking through the air and the crisp impact on the target.

Duke was entirely immersed in a mechanical and efficient state, his arm lifting, coalescing, and firing in a smooth, flowing manner.

The proficiency of the Ice Needle Technique was rapidly increasing, soon leveling up, but the spell’s level advancement still did not bring any growth in spiritual power.