Starting with Proficiency Panel-Chapter 657: See the truth in 2 hours (leisure new book content)

Facing the teasing tone of the other person, Li Qing's eye twitched slightly, and finally, he calmly said: "How about we add each other on WeChat?"

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

After exchanging WeChat and having a casual chat for a while, they were about to part when Chen Chencheng suddenly said: "I remember there's a newly released movie that's pretty good, want to go see it?"

Li Qing shook his head instinctively: "I've got things to do when I get back, and besides, it's flu season with the change of seasons, better to avoid gatherings, see ya."

Then he left behind Chen Chencheng, who was stupefied.

After quickly returning home, Li Qing once again confirmed that the system recognition progress jumped to five percent, then he let out a long breath and continued to spread out the parchment and study the book "Magic Theory".

Although Zhuang Xu seemed full of malice, the magic book he wrote was truly full of practical content, and some small techniques for using magic power were quite eye-opening for him.

It turned out magic power could be used in such ways.

It saved him a great deal of time.

With the hood back on, when Li Qing re-entered Gray Magic Academy's safe house to continue reading, he couldn't help but pause when he saw the introduction to the next chapter in the book.

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

Li Qing looked over it several times, inside and out, confirming it repeatedly, finally concluding that this was entirely a multi-level marketing technique.

This chapter was filled with the allure of power; if Li Qing hadn't been through the baptism of online novels, and the overwhelmingly brainless marketing pitches, he might have been led astray.

He was more convinced that Gray Magic Academy was definitely not a legitimate magic academy but rather something that lures people into falling into the abyss.

Damn it...

Li Qing cursed in his heart, temporarily tossing the book 'Magic Theory' aside. After wandering aimlessly in the safe house for a bit, he went upstairs, lay on the bed to meditate for two hours, continued to refine and grow his magic power, then went downstairs, back to his real rented room, and ordered four servings of fried rice.

Feeling stuffed, Li Qing stretched his stomach and returned to the safe house to pick up the 'Demon Summoning' magic in Magic Theory to research.

He couldn't help it; the addiction was too strong.

Demon Summoning still required inscribing an array and then injecting magic power to summon a devil, but if you're proficient, you can directly communicate with magic nodes to connect to the Alternate Space to summon the devil.

But wanting to completely consume what the devil brings is not something he could accept at this point.

For now, he couldn't touch this summoning magic.

Time flowed like water, continuously slipping by as Li Qing immersed himself in magical research, and the day before the Spring Festival holiday, his lower-right corner magic simulation system module recognition progress finally reached one hundred percent.

Then, there was no reaction whatsoever.

Li Qing grinned and continued to place a piece of the latest motherboard on himself to recognize it.

Cpu, memory, motherboard, the basic core components of a computer couldn't be missing.

Estimated the progress; it should be complete after the new year.

As for magic practice, his Mage's Hand magic can now be released within three seconds and maintained for two hours. With increasingly skilled usage, Li Qing could feel the crudeness of Mage's Hand.

It could be more refined and efficient.

But Li Qing didn't dare to attempt any experimental correction or optimization research; though this method was much like deriving a mathematical formula and optimizing code's bloat and fixing bugs, he only had one life.

Magic Theory had stressed several times that without sufficient accumulation of magical knowledge, trying to create or modify a magic haphazardly would likely result in his head exploding like a watermelon.

So now, all he could do was practice magic, meditate, and study other books, asking his questions in each month's magic lecture.

"Master Rosen, I would like to ask: when I cast Mage's Hand, I can sense the twelve magic nodes connecting Mage's Hand, which seem redundant in my view, they are..."

In an early February lecture, Li Qing raised his questions.

Rosenberg was somewhat surprised, saying: "I didn't expect your magical talent to be quite good. It seems humans having the talent to switch professions and become mages at the age of thirty truly is remarkable."

Li Qing chuckled twice, not speaking, anticipating Rosenberg's clarification.

Despite Rosenberg's malicious attitude toward a lot of students, he explained: "The initial creation of Mage's Hand was for the convenience of mages retrieving objects. After optimizing it to be usable and having practical significance, there was no further study."

"Why?" Li Qing couldn't help but ask.

"Why?" Rosenberg laughed, playing with his catfish whiskers, said: "It's just a Level 0 Trick after all; high-level mages look down on it, while the apprentices who need to learn this magic lack the capability. Moreover, creating magic and optimizing a magic is not easy; maybe one day you advance to Legend, with enough experience and knowledge accumulated, you might attempt to optimize a magic, or even create magic of your own."

Paused, he slowly continued: "It looks like you're making good progress. If a mage wants to make some accumulations, I think you should look for the 'Complete Level 0 Tricks' at the library."

"Thank you for the advice, Master!"

Rosenberg was quite pleased with Li Qing's respectful words, nodding slightly, he raised his head and looked at the many people, clapping his hands and said: "Alright everyone, after two more lectures, we will have an apprentice examination, hope you all prepare well."

The sudden announcement made everyone pause even as they were leaving, someone asked: "Master Rosen, may I ask what the content of the apprentice examination is?"

"That's a secret!"

Rosenberg's indistinct features showed a sly smile: "But I can remind you all, the rules of each world are different. If you can't decipher them, then you'll have no choice but to use magic, so go and prepare well."

The smile on his face made Li Qing involuntarily tremble inside, wondering what all this malice was about.

Those profound words made Li Qing even more alert, fearing someone might die during this exam.

He instinctively touched the motherboard he kept next to his chest, then quickly left the classroom. After activating the school badge, he followed its guidance towards the library.

Rosenberg had given him very good advice, since the basic knowledge of magic theory was learned quickly, the next move was to continuously practice magic. The more you use it, the more you qualify to analyze its essence.