Mage Adam

James is still in his laboratory, the research has entered the bottleneck stage, and there is no hope of breakthrough in sight.

The academy wasn't stuck with his funding, and his problem wasn't funding. He lacked assistants and research subjects.

As Elliott said, the old group of apprentices who had the same problem as him unfortunately all died, and those who survived were not optimistic about him, and the new apprentices could not meet his requirements, with the exception of Adam.

"But a genius of that level probably won't be interested in my research." James thought with a sigh.

He walked in his black laboratory, stopping under the optical projection from time to time, looking at the unfinished or untested runes without infinite hesitation.

"I'm over seventy years old."

Lifespan is the sword of Damocles that weighs on his head. His talent can be said to be low, and the total amount of spiritual power is scarce. Over the past few decades, due to constant experimentation with new runes, his spiritual power has not even been in accordance with A set of systematic meditations should be constructed. From this level, he is wasting time.

"Eh."

James sat down against the wall and sighed heavily. Unexpectedly, the door of the laboratory suddenly lit up at this time: "Apprentice Adam requests to enter."

James' eyes suddenly lit up with astonishing light, he jumped up from the ground, rushed to the outside and opened the door of the laboratory.

According to memory, Adam came to the door of James' laboratory and swiped his ID card. He was not sure whether James was in the laboratory, but he had no better way to find him. Take a chance.

boom.

The door of the laboratory was roughly opened, James stared at Adam with wide eyes, and asked eagerly: "Did you agree to be my assistant? You agreed, didn't you?"

Adam took a step back, then said, "If the pay satisfies me, yes."

James grabbed Adam, dragged him into the laboratory, and said, "Wait for me!" After speaking, he rushed in quickly, and after a while, he took out a paper contract and handed it to Adam. .

Adam looked down, and the contract wrote the responsibilities of both parties, precautions, and confidentiality agreement. These points are very strict, and there are no loopholes, except for the remuneration.

James said angrily: "The laboratory has 2,000 units of energy stones per month. I need 800 energy stones to maintain daily consumption. The rest is yours!"

In other words, Adam can get a maximum of 1,200 energy stones per month, which is undoubtedly a huge sum of money, much more generous than the daily remuneration of less than one unit per day for new apprentices in the mission hall.

But James immediately changed his tone, and said with some embarrassment: "It's just that we need to make some results in a maximum of three months, otherwise we will be cut off. The approval department has lost patience with my experimental project." , Three months is the deadline they gave me."

Adam nodded. Three months means that he can get paid at least three times. He asked James, "Mr. James, what do you mean by a little result?"

James replied: "A complete and valuable set of meditation methods that can be implemented among apprentices." James immediately added: "In fact, there are complete results in the laboratory, but no one can verify them. After all, It wasn't easy for me to build a set of runes."

Adam is very confident about this. This kind of project that requires massive calculations for demonstration is exactly what he is good at. Building a rune group only needs to occupy a few more threads.

Adam said to James: "If the research is successful, I can no longer sign the results, but I need to have the right to use freely."

James nodded hastily: "Of course, it's totally fine."

After Adam got his consent, he wrote this clause into the contract, and then wrote a monthly amount of one thousand units in the column of remuneration,

Then he handed over the contract to James. James didn't care about the amount of Adam's remuneration. He accepted the contract with ecstasy on his face, and couldn't wait to drag Adam into the black room.

After some operations, he said to Adam: "From now on, you have the right to enter the laboratory freely, but you cannot take the data out of the laboratory."

 …

After that, half a month passed quickly. During this half month, Adam almost completely disappeared from everyone's eyes. He only went between the dormitory and the laboratory between two o'clock every day. Eat it in the lab.

James is undoubtedly a good person. Although Adam is only an assistant and a test product, he still takes good care of Adam. In the past half a month, he did not ask Adam to construct those unproven unstable runes, but to guide him with all his strength. According to his words, Adam’s construction of the basic meditation method is: “This basic meditation method created by Prometheus, the true spirit master, has a stability far beyond all variants. This stability is manifested in the current stage. No matter how apprentices experiment with new methods, it can provide protection for the soul, so that apprentices will not die due to multiple shattering of mental power."

This was of great help to Adam. Compared with working alone behind closed doors, James, who has more experience in this area, saved him from many detours. In less than half a month, the basic meditation method has already begun. After finishing, Adam could feel that his fragile soul was covered with a layer of armor, and the amount of ether that could be neutralized was more.

James was very satisfied. Adam's talent once again exceeded his expectations. You must know that in order to initially complete the meditation method, you need at least a thousand pieces of armor. An ordinary apprentice, such as him, can only build Three to five slices only.

James didn't know that this wasn't just a difference in mental power, but also a difference in computing power. For an ordinary person, he can only build one rune at a time, but Adam has the talent of multitasking. Multiple threads perform tasks at the same time to build a single rune, and then only need to combine the threads together.

Half a month later, James confirmed that Adam could withstand the negative state caused by the broken runes in his mental power. He turned on an optical projector and said to Adam: "Now, you try to build this set of runes. It replaces the mage's armor, be careful not to force it, if you feel a conflict in your mental power or a fluctuation in your soul, stop immediately."

Adam set his sights on this new set of runes. It is still composed of nine runes, but the structure of each rune is more complicated than before, but this complexity does not show harmony. Adam feels that there is no need to experiment. This set of runes must be a failure.

But empirical evidence cannot rely on feelings. Only by experimenting in person can we find the problem, so Adam started the construction without hesitation.

James said nervously from the side: "Compared with the original Mage Armor, this set has added the enhancement of mental power characteristics on the basis. If successful, the Mage Armor will become aggressive."

"Step by step, remove the original nail bit by bit...Stop! God, what are you doing!"

James was horrified to find that Adam's initially condensed mental strength collapsed in an instant, and the dissipated energy seemed to blow a gust of wind in the laboratory, blowing all the papers away!

James didn't have time to take care of the messy laboratory, he regretted endlessly in his heart, Adam's calmness confused him, he thought Adam would take it easy, but the current situation is clearly that Adam broke the mage's armor once, This can take a huge toll on the spirit.

He ran towards the door in panic, wanting to apply for treatment, Adam is his last hope, nothing will happen!

At this moment, Adam's nonchalant voice sounded: "As far as a single rune is concerned, it has a higher complexity than the original version, but the joints of the runes are rough, there are redundant structures, and they cannot be self-consistent after combination..."

The running figure of James freezes, his body does not move and his head turns to Adam a little bit, and he said stiffly: "Are you okay?"

Adam said calmly: "Don't worry, it's not difficult for me. And this kind of experiment is too inefficient, I can probably do it at the same time..." Adam thought about how to allocate computing power and mental power to get The optimal solution, and then said: "Construct four different meditation methods at the same time."

"Four, four? Different? Untouched meditation can be constructed?"

"Well, that's right, it's mainly because I'm not familiar with the new runes, otherwise I can go faster." Adam confirmed.

James looked at Adam in amazement: "Is this multitasking?" James had reason to be amazed, multitasking is a talent, and it will not be automatically obtained because of the total amount of mental power or the improvement of the mage level. This situation can only make the mage think faster about one thing.

"Yes." Adam said.

This kind of monster is really enviable. It would be great if I was the one with this talent. thought James.

Adam has been building rune groups while speaking, and the problems drawn from a single combination may not necessarily apply to the whole, and it is possible that this problem will be automatically solved when it is put on the whole.

James silently put the three optical projectors next to Adam again. Looking at the serious Adam, he felt unprecedented hope, "Maybe this time it will really succeed!"

 …

The experiment is boring, and the demonstration is a blow to confidence and belief time and time again. In the blink of an eye, two months passed by, and Adam and James went crazy. They did not return to their residence during this period. James also has to teach once a week, and Adam has completely become an otaku.

However, there is still no way to obtain even a harmonious, self-consistent and universal meditation method.

There were only ten days left before the three-month period, and James looked a lot older, and his hair became grizzled from the youthful appearance when he first saw him.