Starting with Proficiency Panel-Chapter 652: We’ll see the real outcome tomorrow morning (new book content)

Facing the teasing tone from the other side, Li Qing's eye twitched slightly, and finally said calmly, "How about adding each other on WeChat?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Chencheng smiled and didn't refuse, "Sure!"

After exchanging WeChat contacts and chatting a bit more casually, just as they were about to leave, Chen Chencheng suddenly said, "I remember there's a new movie that just came out, want to go see it?"

Li Qing instinctively shook his head, "I have something to do when I get back, besides, with the season changing, there's a lot of flu going around, so it's better not to gather. I'm off."

Leaving Chen Chencheng looking dumbfounded.

After quickly returning home, Li Qing confirmed that the system's recognition progress had jumped to five percent, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and continued to spread out the parchment to study the book "Magic Theory."

Although Zhuang Xu seemed full of malice, the magic book he wrote was indeed full of useful information, with several small tricks for using magic power that opened his eyes.

Turns out magic power can be used this way.

This saved him a great deal of time.

Donning his hood again and entering the safe house of the Gray Magic Academy to continue his studies, when Li Qing saw the introduction to the next chapter in the book, he couldn't help but be stunned.

"If a mage's body is too weak, it will greatly affect the mage's stage advancement, so come and learn to trade with devils. They will transform your bodies, making them unimaginably strong, while also bringing powerful magic..."

Li Qing read it several times, inside and out, confirmed it several times, and finally concluded, this was totally a scam method.

This section's content was filled with the temptation of power. If Li Qing hadn't been influenced by web novels, with nonsensical articles flooding in from all directions, he would have been led astray.

He became more convinced that the Gray Magic Academy was definitely not a proper magic academy, but rather an entity luring people into the abyss.

Damn it...

Li Qing cursed inwardly, temporarily throwing the "Magic Theory" book aside. After wandering aimlessly in the safe house for a while, he went up to the second floor, laid on the bed for two hours of meditation to continue refining and increasing his magic power, then went downstairs to his rented room in reality to order four servings of fried rice.

With a full belly, Li Qing returned to the safe house, picked up "Magic Theory," and began studying the magic of demon summoning.

Can't help it, the addiction is too strong.

Demon summoning still requires drawing an array, then injecting magic power to summon the devil, but if skilled, one can directly communicate with magic nodes to summon the devil from the Alternate Space.

However, consuming everything that the devil brings is not something he can handle right now.

Temporarily can't touch this summoning magic.

Time flowed like water, steadily passing as Li Qing was immersed in magic research. Just before the Spring Festival holiday, the recognition progress of the system module at the bottom right corner finally reached 100%.

Then, there was no response at all.

Li Qing grinned, continuing to place a piece of the latest motherboard on himself and began recognition.

Cpu, memory, motherboard, how can these core components of a computer be missing?

Estimating the progress, it should be done after the New Year.

As for magic practice, he now can cast the Mage's Hand magic in under three seconds and maintain it for two hours. With increasingly proficient use, Li Qing could increasingly feel the crudeness of this magic.

It could be more refined and efficient.

But Li Qing didn't dare attempt any experimental corrective optimization research, although this approach was much like deriving mathematical formulas and optimizing code with bloated levels and bug fixes, he only had one life.

"Magic Theory" had emphasized many times that trying to create or modify a magic without enough accumulated magical knowledge would end with your head likely exploding like a watermelon.

So now, the only option was to continue practicing magic, meditation, and studying other books, all while asking questions during the monthly magic lectures.

"Master Rosen, I'd like to ask, when I cast the Mage's Hand magic, I feel the twelve magic nodes connected to it seem to be doing useless work. They are..."

During a lecture in early February, Li Qing raised his doubts.

Rosenberg was somewhat surprised, "I didn't expect your magic talent to be quite good. It seems that the human talent to transition into a mage at thirty is indeed extraordinary."

Li Qing chuckled twice and said nothing, awaiting Rosenberg's explanation.

Despite Rosenberg being full of malice toward the students, he still explained, "The original purpose of creating the Mage's Hand was for the convenience of mages retrieving objects. After optimizing the magic to be usable and have significant practical meaning, it was never further researched."

"Why?" Li Qing asked unintentionally.

"Why?" Rosenberg laughed, twirling his catfish-like mustache, "After all, it's just a Level 0 trick. Advanced mages don't care for it, and the apprentices who need to learn it lack the ability, and creating or optimizing a magic is not easy. Perhaps one day you advance to legendary status, accumulate enough experience and knowledge, you might try to optimize a magic or create one of your own."

Pausing, he slowly continued, "Seems like your progress is good. For a mage wanting to get ahead, I think you should go to the library and look for the book 'Complete Level 0 Tricks.'

"Thank you for the advice, Master!"

Rosenberg was quite satisfied with Li Qing's respectful words. He nodded slightly, looked up at everyone, and clapped his hands, "Alright everyone, after two more lectures, we'll have an apprentice examination. I hope you're all well-prepared."

The sudden announcement made everyone's outgoing steps pause, someone asked, "Master Rosen, what is the content of the apprentice examination?"

"That's a secret!"

Rosenberg's undefined features revealed a mysterious smile, "But I can remind you, every world's rules are different, if you can't decipher them, then you can only use magic. So, prepare well."

The smile on his face inevitably made Li Qing's heart tremble, wondering what kind of mischief was this malice leading to.

The last meaningful words made Li Qing secretly alert, fearing this examination could be deadly.

Instinctively, he touched the motherboard he kept close to his chest, then quickly left the classroom, activated his school badge, and followed its direction to the library.

Rosenberg gave him a very good suggestion, since he'd finished studying the basic magic theory knowledge, he needed to keep studying magic. The more he used it, the more qualified he'd be to analyze its essence.