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However, that was the normal situation. Lizer, who had his pay-to-win system, was naturally an exception.

He estimated that under normal circumstances, analyzing this knowledge and the corresponding skills would take a few hours at most.

If he could learn this skill, it would be extremely helpful to both Felina and himself.

Especially since Felina did not have a pay-to-win system like he did, she really needed these supports.

In the past, Felina had always helped him selflessly. Now, he could finally help this woman who loved him so deeply.

This greatly satisfied Lizer's macho pride.

Moreover, setting up sorcery formations was a highly lucrative business.

If people knew that Lizer had learned this sorcery formation, there would likely be many apprentices willing to spend a large sum of gold coins to hire him to set it up in their residences.

Of course, Lizer, who was not short of money, would not rely on this to make a profit, but using it to help those around him was perfectly fine.

Given the efficiency of the Internal Affairs Bureau, Lizer expected to receive the materials by tomorrow at the latest.

The Internal Affairs Bureau was far more efficient than the Provincial Department of Education!

The rewards from Gele City and the Provincial Department of Education actually arrived two hours late, only showing up after the Internal Affairs Bureau had already delivered the Zero-Ring Energy Gathering Formation.

Even the usually calm Lizer almost thought the Provincial Department of Education was going to renege on their promise.

Gele City's rewards were three relatively rare zero-ring sorcery spells: Lesser Healing, Thorny Vines, and Boost Resistance. These served to make up for some of the shortcomings Lizer had identified in himself after the practical combat assessment.

Lizer already basically knew the effects of the Zero-Ring Energy Gathering Formation. Despite it only being a zero-ring formation,

The Internal Affairs Bureau had sent over a dozen books in total, including:

Sorcery Formation Theory, Foundations of Sorcery Formations, The History of Sorcery Formations, Sorcery Formations and Rune Combinations, and An Introduction to Common Sorcery Formations, among other foundational knowledge in the field of sorcery formations.

It took Lizer nearly three hours and a cost of 40 gold coins through his system to analyze all this knowledge, but the time he saved could be measured in years.

One characteristic of the Zero-Ring Energy Gathering Formation was that it allowed the user to change specific formation materials to designate the attributes of the energy particles based on the sorcerer apprentice's needs.

Furthermore, as Lizer's proficiency in sorcery formations improved, the effects of these formations would also increase.

This was a pretty good skill!

Lizer simply gritted his teeth and spent nearly a hundred more gold coins to upgrade the newly unlocked major skill, Set Up Sorcery Formation (Zero-Ring), and its branch sub-skill, Zero-Ring Energy Gathering Formation, from the beginner level to the proficient level.

The former provided a minor boost to the effectiveness of the sorcery formations he set up, increasing it by about twenty percent, while the latter directly raised the energy particle concentration amplification of the Zero-Ring Energy Gathering Formation to seventy percent.

Thus, the Zero-Ring Energy Gathering Formation he set up could increase the concentration of designated energy particles in the air to 1.84 times, nearly doubling it.

He could not wait to set up this formation for Felina and Gloria, allowing them to share in his good fortune.

However, he still needed to digest the first-place reward mailed by the Gele City Education Bureau:

Consumed 150 energy points. Successfully analyzed the rare zero-ring sorcery spell, Lesser Healing.

Consumed 400 energy points. Proficiency for the zero-ring sorcery spell Lesser Healing +100. Current proficiency: Beginner 100/100. Ready for upgrade.

Consumed 100 energy points. Zero-ring sorcery spell Lesser Healing upgraded from Beginner to Proficient.

Lesser Healing Proficient 0/100

Note: The healing range has improved from severe injuries to injuries just below severed limbs. The healing speed has increased from slow to relatively fast.

The duration has increased from 30 minutes to 36 minutes, and the spiritual power consumption has decreased from 0.4 to 0.35.

This could be considered an essential spell for a sorcerer's field operations and survival.

Without losing momentum, Lizer spent another 13 gold coins to quickly turn Thorny Vines into a skill and upgraded it from the beginner level to the proficient level.

Thorny Vines Proficient 0/100

Note: Within a sixty-meter radius centered on the sorcerer apprentice, cast vines with a diameter of 1.2 meters at a designated location to entangle and restrict enemies.

The vines possess poisonous thorns that can inject a neurotoxin to slightly intensify the enemy's pain.

The duration has increased to twelve minutes, the vine strength has improved to an energy level of 2.4, and the spiritual power consumption has decreased from 0.5 to 0.45.

Obviously, this sorcery spell had a weakness:

If the enemy's attack strength reached an energy level of 2.4 or higher, they could break the vines and thereby break free from the spell's control.

Of course, with Lizer's current spiritual power bonus of 4.0, the strength of the vines he cast would reach level 4.68.

His Wind's Kiss attack could barely break it, while against a veteran intermediate sorcerer apprentice like Felina, a single bone arrow would shatter it.

Through systematic study, Lizer had basically figured out the bonuses that spiritual power and sorcerer rank provided to sorcery spells. The bonus formula was roughly:

Actual Sorcery Strength = (Skill Energy Level + Spiritual Power x 0.3) x (Rank Amplification Coefficient - Sorcery Ring Level)

He was currently only a junior sorcerer apprentice with a rank coefficient of 1.3. If his spiritual power reached 6 and he advanced to the intermediate rank, his rank amplification coefficient could reach 1.6.

Therefore, spiritual power and sorcerer apprentice rank determined the effectiveness of the sorcery spells cast by a sorcerer.

Finally, Boost Resistance was indeed one of the zero-ring sorcery spells Lizer had wanted the most recently.

Just quickly analyzing it into a skill cost 200 energy points, and then he spent another 10 gold coins to upgrade it to the proficient level, improving its effects by nearly twenty percent.

Boost Resistance Proficient 0/100

Note: Through the reaction between energy particles and the body, a dense protective structure is formed, providing a comprehensive minor boost to all of the recipient's resistance abilities (base increase of 1.2 energy level). Duration: 36 minutes.

Based on Lizer's calculations and simple tests, after casting this spell on himself, any sorcery spell below an energy level of 3.12 would essentially be unable to break his defenses.

In other words, he would be invulnerable to knight-level attacks or ordinary firearms.

This served to greatly make up for Lizer's defensive flaws.

With his physique of 4.0, his inherent resistance was only around an energy level of 1.2. This boosted it by nearly twofold!

As his spiritual power and rank increased, this sorcery spell would become even tougher.

For example, if Gloria cast this spell on him, it could boost his all-around energy level resistance by 3.68.

Having learned the new sorcery formation and rare sorcery spells, Lizer felt that:

If he were to retake the practical combat assessment right now, facing that intermediate sorcerer apprentice-level Black Magic Iron Golem, he should be able to finish it off in two to three minutes.

Lizer, whose strength had progressed by leaps and bounds, was exceptionally excited. However, to him, even the previous rewards from the Internal Affairs Bureau were not the biggest surprise of the day.

He calmed his slightly excited mood, took a deep breath, and finally opened the last box:

On the very top of the box lay an admission guarantee notice, stamped in the bottom right corner with the seal of the Monte Advanced Academy.

This meant that Lizer could be admitted without having to take the entrance qualification exam in June of next year.

However, Monte Advanced Academy ranked fifty-sixth in the Crimson Soul Duchy, with its strongest subject being Life Potioneering, which ranked forty-seventh.

Among the nearly one hundred advanced academies in the Crimson Soul Duchy, it could only be considered average. If given the chance, Lizer would definitely aim for a higher-ranked academy.