Starting with Proficiency Panel-Chapter 498: See the truth in 2 hours (Leisure new book content)
There are two bedrooms upstairs. Li Qing reached out and pressed the bed, feeling its smooth touch.
After going downstairs, Li Qing opened the door on the side of the study, and the stairs stretched straight down.
It was a basement.
After circling around to ensure there was nothing unusual, Li Qing returned to the basement entrance.
He walked down step by step, and the wall lamps along the way lit up one by one, like automatic sensor lights, which made Li Qing quite intrigued.
Upon entering the basement, he saw a table filled with various glass instruments for alchemy purposes, with a magic altar on the other side.
According to the explanation in the book, this should be used for summoning Otherworldly creatures. He glanced at the magic runes on the altar ahead, then Li Qing withdrew, thinking that if he hadn’t misunderstood, there might even be summoning runes for Evil Gods mixed in there.
That’s enough; this Gray Magic Academy really has no taboos. The "Magic Origin" and "Mage Promotion Path" taught before enrollment clearly stated that mages who have learned summoning techniques are forbidden to summon Evil Gods.
If he wants to expand in the future, he can use magic to continuously broaden the space. If he has spare time, he could even turn this two-story small house into a palace.
But all these are too far away for Li Qing; the road to learning and practicing magic is quite difficult. High-Level Magic that involves space, he can only look at with longing eyes now.
Li Qing returned to the hall, plopped down on the sofa for a short rest, and then went to check the kitchen.
Hmm, there’s nothing, not even a single thing, and the cupboard had Ice Element magic runes carved onto it, used for freezing ingredients.
Turning around, he went to the study, where only a few books were placed on the bookshelf.
"Magic Origin," "Magic Rune Introduction," "Formation of Magic Power," "Magic Theory," "Mage Promotion Path," "Basic Meditation Technique."
All are books that could be read from the enrollment notice.
According to the information provided by the badge, Gray Magic Academy has its own library, richly stocked, boasting that even books written by Gods can be found inside.
Teaching area, library, magic research laboratory, and experimental class area.
The entire Gray Magic Academy is divided into four areas.
Well, it’s time to go back.
Li Qing glanced at the tightly closed door of the small house. He stepped forward and grasped the doorknob. As the badge tattoo on his wrist floated and emitted a magic power fluctuation, the doorknob slightly lit up with some unknown magic runes, circled around it, and then stopped. He pushed the door open forcefully.
In front of him wasn’t the lawn outside the safe house, but his less-than-thirty-square-meter small single room, just like he’d just returned from outside.
"I see."
Li Qing suddenly realized that the safe house directly searched through the channel upon returning and linked to the door to find an open channel.
So here’s the problem. If it automatically anchors and searches like this, why would it locate the main door instead of a drawer or wardrobe?
Is it based on his height to choose the most suitable way to open the channel?
Very likely.
With questions in his mind, Li Qing entered the rental house, collapsing onto the bed, filled with an unprecedented sense of security.
In Gray Magic Academy, the environment was too oppressive, making it hard to have an active atmosphere.
It was vastly different from the scene he had imagined, filled with coldness and evil.
After all, what they show on TV with ’Harry Potter’ and such is all a lie. Although magic indeed originates from the hands of the Gods, maybe it wasn’t from a proper God...
Or rather, what Gray Magic Academy has displayed so far isn’t proper magic at all.
Just like the summoning runes carved on that magic altar in the safe house’s basement, they clearly tend toward Hell and the Abyss.
Li Qing snapped back to reality, glanced at the computer screen still on, and was momentarily taken aback.
Now, it’s the first day of the new year, zero minutes past midnight.
In other words, he had stayed in Gray Magic Academy for at least four hours or more, yet in the real world, it was instantly restricted during this time?!
No, that’s not right, the concept is reversed.
It should be that in the mysterious realm of Gray Magic Academy, time is almost stagnant, and not a second had passed in the real world from going in till coming out.
It does not belong to this world.
So, another question arises: does magic exist in this world?
Li Qing went through a series of wild thoughts, ultimately sighing, realizing that he still knew too little, and would need to continue observing later.
Moreover, those guys who entered Gray Magic Academy with him didn’t look like good people at a glance.
Especially that Anna...
Squinting his eyes, Li Qing realized it had been a long time since he had sensed an existence threatening his life. If outside Gray Magic Academy, the other party would likely possess quite dangerous aggressiveness.
He rubbed a fireball and began his routine Meditation.
Four hours later, Li Qing opened his eyes in high spirits. Since the light ball he visualized took shape and started to emit a faint milky white glow, the entire silent, dark Spiritual World seemed to have a touch of brightness.
The feeling of his Spirit being exhausted during the previous visualization and refining lines was gone. On the contrary, after each Meditation session, both his mental and physical states were filled with vitality.
For the next phase, as soon as the glow emitted by the light ball begins to scatter like starlight across the entire Spiritual World, he can start generating a hint of Magic Power.
Quite like the semblance of ’Fake to True.’
Unable to sleep, Li Qing pulled out his phone to scroll through his social feed at random, as expected, a heap of New Year’s Eve posts, either showing off love or showcasing captions.
For Li Qing, he felt like an outsider, quietly watching these people revel.
Sigh.
Born as human, muddling through life, quite sorry about it.
After a slight bout of melancholic contemplation, Li Qing tidied up his mood,
picked up the magic scroll on the ground to take a look. Once bound to the badge, this magic scroll essentially became an e-book solely for reading magic books.
The only thing that delighted Li Qing was that the Magic Beginner’s Manual could still be studied and explored.
Reopening the half-read "Magic Theory," he began to study it in detail, engrossed, until his phone suddenly buzzed.
Buzz~
Li Qing snapped out of it, a slight look of displeasure crossing his face. Who sends a message in the dead of night instead of sleeping?
Even though he didn’t want to pick it up, his curiosity was piqued. It had been a long time since someone had messaged him late at night. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
Picking up his phone and opening it, he raised an eyebrow when he saw who sent the message.
Luo Rui: Brother Qing, Happy New Year, huh? /Laughing/ Laughing!
Surprised and about to set the phone aside without replying, Luo Rui sent another message.
