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So as to redouble the effort when choosing a speciality later on!

This benefited Rein, the 'wild' Wizard Apprentice, immensely.

Soon, Rein figured out how to use the 'affinity testing' crystal ball.

The method was simple, only requiring him to pour his spiritual power into the crystal ball and earnestly perceive the surrounding mystical side-energy particles.

After a moment's thought, Rein decided to test it immediately. Thus, he began to hold the crystal ball with both hands, closed his eyes, and concentrated his spirit.

As Rein's spiritual power flowed in, the crystal ball quickly emitted a soft white light, and at the same time, different colors of light started to swirl within the previously clear crystal ball.

A few seconds later, the light gradually stabilized.

At this moment, Rein opened his eyes and saw that the topmost layer of the crystal ball was filled with red mist, while in the middle there was a light silver mist, with both seeming to have almost the same volume. Although there were slight differences, the gap wasn't significant.

The light silver color was only slightly less than the red, with their combined volume accounting for nearly eighty to ninety percent of the space within the crystal ball.

The rest were a mix of colors, almost a little of red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, blue, and purple.

According to Adams, the red represented affinity for flame energy particles: the larger the area it occupied in the crystal ball, the stronger the tester's affinity for that type of energy particle.

Rein nodded slightly, thinking to himself that this was right.

This also explained why, when he first became a Level 1 Wizard Apprentice, he could only manipulate flame energy particles.

And as his spiritual power grew day by day, on the verge of becoming a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice, he could barely affect other mystical side-energy particles around him, yet the power was still much weaker in comparison.

However, this affinity testing crystal ball could only approximately measure the tester's affinity direction and wasn't capable of an accurate quantitative test.

Simply put, it's like if you took an exam and got scores of 60 in Chinese, 60 in Mathematics, and 10 in English, the ratio would be 6:6:1; of course, if your scores were 120, 120, and 20, the ratio would also be 6:6:1.

What the crystal ball shows is a kind of ratio, not a specific value.

As for Rein's pale silver color...

That was not recorded in Adams's diary.

This made Rein frown slightly.

Clearly, if he could understand what the pale silver represented in terms of affinity direction, he could deliberately collect witchcraft and related knowledge in that direction, naturally enhancing the power of the witchcraft he cast over those with relatively weaker affinity.

However...

Since he couldn't figure it out immediately, Rein contemplated for a short moment and decided to continue reading.

An hour later, Rein had read through the entire diary of Adams.

Looking again at the spoils on the table, a smile couldn't help but spread across Rein's face.

Regarding the short wand, the diary mentioned that it was crafted from a special tree called Graywood, and had a slightly elevated effect on dark energy witchcraft.

For Rein, this wasn't of much use.

But for those Wizard Apprentices who specialized in dark energy, they would likely take great pleasure in it.

As for the slender white finger bone, the diary did not record anything, so he skipped over it.

Regarding the two Lingwen books, one detailed the method of creating a potion named 'Arcane Elixir,' which could slightly enhance spiritual power. However, nearly ninety-nine percent of the ingredients were unknown to Rein.

After briefly looking at it, Rein put it aside.

Because for most Wizard Apprentices, the only way to enhance spiritual power was through years of practicing basic meditative techniques.

And for a small number with rich resources or a legacy, there was a second method: they could enhance their spiritual power through the consumption of these rare elixirs.

However... for Rein, he had a third approach.

Its effects were far superior to the previous two methods.

That was—adding points!

So, for Rein, the Arcane Elixir, which could enhance a small amount of spiritual power, was not as precious to him as it might be to other Wizard Apprentices.

Mainly because Rein considered one thing.

At the current stage, if he chose to produce this elixir, he would have to search for these rare materials himself.

Possibly, the time spent in the process could allow Rein to level up several aspects of his vocational panel.

Therefore, after a short contemplation, Rein understood that it would be much easier to arrange for someone to collect them later on when his duties were further progressed, and then making the elixir would still be timely.

The other book made Rein's eyes light up because it recorded three types of witchcraft, to be precise, two curses plus one witchcraft.

The first curse was 'Spiritual Fatigue.'

The condition for casting this curse was a bit troublesome.

The first step was to draw a pentagram—in reverse—along with a personal item that had intimate contact with the target of the curse. Of course, if there was access to the target's hair or blood, that would be even better.

Rein had an epiphany after reading the description of the effects of the curse 'Spiritual Fatigue.'

The effect of curse 'Spiritual Fatigue': It reduces the spirit of whoever is cursed, causing them to feel strong fatigue.

This immediately reminded Rein of how he felt the previous night. He suddenly felt extraordinarily tired, almost unable to open his eyes, evidently due to this curse.