Wizard: I Have a Game Panel-Chapter 396 - 280: Light at the End of the Tunnel

Betula Continent, top floor of Lor Wizard Tower, inside the study.

"The future..." Lor raised his head and gazed at the River of Time Scroll hanging on the study wall, a rare hint of ease fleeting in his eyes as deep as the endless void.

The second conversation with Blood confirmed some things for him, while also lifting some burdens.

If his past self was like someone walking in a jungle shrouded in dark clouds and thorns.

Then now he felt that those suffocating dark clouds in the sky had parted to reveal a crack, showing the sunlight that had long been hidden behind them.

This warm sunbeam, named hope.

Although the path ahead was still filled with thorns, with the illumination of this warm sunbeam, he was confident that he could carve out a path with his still relatively sharp machete.

No, it wasn’t just him. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

Beside him and behind him, there were countless companions.

The machetes in his companions’ hands might not be as sharp as his, but as long as he chopped down the sturdiest thorns, his companions could follow and chop away the rest of the less sturdy ones.

As long as they all walked in one direction, eventually they would pave a wide road.

"Hope everything goes smoothly." Lor sent out a sincere wish in his heart, then focused all his mind on the River of Time Scroll.

Regardless of whether the players could solve his current dilemma or not, he definitely couldn’t waste the two thousand years granted by the Time Rune to delay.

With this time, his companions could at least sharpen their machetes even further.

When he occasionally felt tired, he would take out the already constructed Time Disruption Witchcraft to review, checking for any misunderstandings, and think up several different experimental plans.

The players’ arrival lasted only two years, so he couldn’t afford to experiment and fail like he did before, then think of new plans afterward.

Although this would waste a lot of unnecessary time, he wouldn’t cut corners on what needed to be done. Who knows, he might gain some breakthroughs?

...

Wizard Calendar, September 30, 4788.

Milton Continent, Pharmaceutical Research Institute, inside a large laboratory.

Wearing a blue-green Honorary Legislator Wizard Robe, the still beautiful Rosa, with a composed expression, gently shook the potion in her hand that emanated a faint blue glow, and walked slowly towards a small cage not far away.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak—"

In the cage, a white mouse ten times larger than usual, exuding a first-tier life aura, immediately squealed in terror upon sight.

It had witnessed countless companions drink this woman’s potion, only to die mysteriously in various terrifying manners.

"Memory erasure." Rosa casually issued a command as she arrived in front of the cage.

This was an auxiliary command of the Soul Contract, capable of temporarily erasing the contractee’s memory, researched by a Third Ring Soul Mage eighty years ago and quickly applied widely in research for its practicality.

As her voice trailed off, the white mouse immediately seemed entranced, no longer squealing in fear, becoming docile, and looking up at Rosa with bewildered eyes.

"Come, drink this potion." Rosa opened the cage and brought the light blue potion to the white mouse’s mouth.

The white mouse, in a daze, opened its mouth and swallowed the potion.

Rosa opened her perception completely, closely watching every change in the white mouse.

Ten seconds...

Thirty seconds...

A minute and twenty-two seconds later, Rosa suddenly observed a very slight increase in the white mouse’s spiritual power, while its life essence showed no transformation.

"Finally..." Rosa’s eyes turned hazy, and she unconsciously caressed the two Honorary Legislator Badges placed on her collar personally by Speaker Lole.

After nearly four thousand years, she finally developed a First Ring Spiritual Power Upper Limit Potion.

There might still be some side effects for now, but as long as it was effective, those side effects would be eliminated eventually.

"In my lifetime, even if I’m lucky enough, I’ll probably only manage to develop a Second Ring Spiritual Power Upper Limit Potion." After a moment of delight, Rosa became somewhat regretful.

The Spiritual Power Upper Limit Breaking Potion can increase a wizard’s spiritual power limit, but that isn’t its main function.

In her vision, its primary role is to increase a wizard’s spiritual power limit by one-seventh, allowing an expansion of the Sea of Consciousness by the same proportion, so the wizard can construct one more spell.

Of course, all of this remains purely theoretical.

Even apprentices’ potions now can only boost the apprentice spiritual power limit by 3%, moving forward each step is extremely difficult.

"I hope I can find a qualified successor before I pass away." Rosa expanded her perception, observing the entire Pharmaceutical Research Institute, and thought to herself, "Under my guidance, they’ll have a much easier path to walk."

To progress down this path requires unparalleled talent in Potionology, an interest in Potionology, and the mental resilience to endure countless failures.

There are so few people who meet all three criteria, and she has yet to find one.

...

Wizard Calendar, May 1, 5003.

Inside a small house about twenty miles from the Lor Wizard Tower.

"I’ve come back again, hahaha!"

A young man wearing a Third Ring Fire and Earth Faction Wizard Robe, exuding only a First Ring aura, looked at the simple furnishing inside the hut with an excited smile, eyes filled with anticipation: "This time I must gather enough Magic Crystals for one breakthrough to the Fourth Ring."

"Once I break through to the Fourth Ring, I’ll directly receive a ten thousand Alliance coin subsidy each month from the Alliance."