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Facing the teasing tone, Li Qing's eyes twitched slightly, and finally, he 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 casually for a while, when they were about to leave, Chen Chencheng suddenly said, "I remember there's a movie that just premiered. Want to go see it?"

Li Qing instinctively shook his head, "I have some things to do when I get back, besides, there are too many flus going around with the changing seasons, better not gather. I'm off."

Then he left Chen Chencheng, who was left bewildered.

After quickly returning home, Li Qing confirmed once more that the system identification progress had jumped to five percent, and then he exhaled a long sigh of relief and continued to unfold the parchment to study "Magic Theory."

Although Zhuang Xu seemed full of malice, the magic book he authored was truly packed with valuable information. Some small tricks for using magic power were quite eye-opening.

It turns out magic power can be utilized this way.

It saved him a great deal of time.

When he donned the hood again to enter the safe house at the Gray Magic Academy and continued studying, Li Qing couldn't help but be stunned 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 advancement, so, come learn to trade with devils. They will transform your bodies, making you unimaginably strong, while also granting you powerful magic..."

Li Qing read it several times, inside and out, confirming it multiple times, and finally concluded that this was downright a complete scam.

The entire section was filled with the temptation of power. If Li Qing hadn't been through the baptism of online novels, inundated by brainless articles from marketing accounts, he truly might have been led astray.

He was even more certain that the Gray Magic Academy was definitely not an legitimate magic academy, but rather something that lures people into falling into the abyss.

For heaven's sake...

Li Qing cursed inwardly, temporarily tossing aside the "Magic Theory" book and after wandering aimlessly around the safe house, he headed to the second floor, laying on the bed for two hours of meditation, continuing to refine and increase his magic power, then went downstairs to his real rented room and ordered four servings of fried rice.

With a full belly, Li Qing resumed to the safe house, picked up "Demon Summoning" from Magic Theory, and started researching.

No choice, the urge was too strong.

Demon Summoning still required the depiction of an array, followed by the infusion of magic power for summoning, but if proficient, one could summon the devil directly by communicating with magic nodes to the alternate space.

However, consuming everything the devil brings was still not something he could handle now.

Temporarily cannot touch this summoning magic.

Time flowed like water, continually passing in Li Qing's immersion in magic research. On the day before the Spring Festival holiday, the identification progress of the Magic Simulation System module at the bottom right finally reached one hundred percent.

Then, there was no reaction at all.

Li Qing grinned, continuing to place a piece of the latest model of the motherboard on his body, then conducted identification.

Cpu, memory, motherboard, the basic core components that make up a computer shouldn't be lacking.

After calculating the progress, it should be completed after the New Year.

As for magic practice, he can now cast the Mage's Hand magic within three seconds and sustain it for two hours. With increasingly skilled use, Li Qing felt the crudeness of the Mage's Hand magic more and more.

It should be more refined, more efficient.

But Li Qing did not dare to attempt correction and optimization research, though such a way seemed like mathematical derivation and code optimization with redundancy and bug fixes, he only had one life.

Magic Theory already emphasized many times that if one tries to create or modify a magic without accumulating sufficient magical knowledge, the likely outcome would be having their head explode like a watermelon.

Hence, for now, he only practices magic, meditates, studies other books, and asks his doubts during the monthly magic course.

"Master Rosen, I want to ask about when I cast the Mage's Hand magic, I can feel that the twelve magic nodes connecting the Mage's Hand all seem to do useless work to me, each of them is..."

At a lecture in early February, Li Qing brought up his doubts.

Rosenberg was somewhat surprised, "I didn't expect your magic talent to be quite good, it seems that humans being able to transform into a mage at thirty is indeed unparalleled."

Li Qing chuckled twice without speaking, waiting for Rosenberg's explanation.

Despite his malice towards many students, Rosenberg explained, "The original purpose of creating Mage's Hand was for the convenience of mages in picking up objects. After optimizing the magic to be usable and somewhat practical, there was never further research."

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

"Why?" Rosenberg laughed, twirling his catfish whiskers, "After all, this is just a Level 0 trick. High-level mages don't care for it, and the apprentices who need to learn this magic don't have the capability, plus creating and optimizing a magic isn't easy. Maybe one day you advance to a legend, with enough experience and knowledge, you might try to optimize a magic or create one of your own."

Pausing, he slowly said, "It seems your progress is good, so for a mage to accumulate, I think you should go to the library to find the 'Complete Level 0 Tricks' magic book."

"Thank you for the reminder, Master!"

Rosenberg was quite satisfied with Li Qing's respectful words, nodding slightly, looking towards the crowd, clapping his hands, "Alright everyone, after two more lectures we'll conduct an apprentice exam, I hope you're well prepared."

The sudden announcement stopped the crowd in their tracks, someone asked, "Master Rosen, may I ask what the contents of the apprentice exam are?"

"That's a secret!"

With a hint of a mysterious smile on his foggy features, Rosenberg said, "But I can give you a hint: the rules of each world are different. If you can't decipher them, you'll only be able to use magic, so you'd better prepare well."

The smile on his face involuntarily made Li Qing's heart tremble. What was all this malice about?

Those last few words, full of meaning, made Li Qing shiver inwardly, fearing someone might die in this exam.

Subconsciously touching the motherboard placed close to his chest, then quickly exiting the classroom, activating his badge and, following its guidance, heading towards the library.

Rosenberg had given him very good advice; since he had finished learning the basic knowledge of magic theory, he should continue to study magic. Only by using it more could he have the qualifications to analyze its essence.