223 Preparations (2/2)

Vivian let out a sigh of relief.

It was still good to get along for a while.

Roland's reason for postponing his trip to the capital was simple: to learn Long-Distance Teleportation.

After dinner, he opened the model of this spell in the magic lab and felt a jarring headache as he looked at the densely packed nodes on it.

In the spellbook, there was already a pre-made magic power circulation route, outlined with a thin, light red line. It was reasonable to say that with this circulation roadmap, it should be quite easy. But this wasn't the case, because this route passed through more than three hundred nodes.

In contrast, the number of all the nodes in Language Proficiency, a more difficult spell to learn, was just over two hundred.

However, in Long-Distance Teleportation, there were more than three hundred nodes to pass through alone, and before that, one had to know where each node was, which meant that the spell model had to at least be memorized.

Based on his previous learning experience, Roland felt that it might be a bit difficult for him to learn Long-Distance Teleportation in ten days.

But after actually attempting to learn it, he suddenly realized… it didn't seem too difficult.

Did I get smarter?

Just as this thought came to his mind, he realized the real reason.

The Spatial Specialization specialty.

It reduced the difficulty of learning spatial magic and reduced the mental power and magic power exhaustion incurred when using spatial magic.

For the rest of the day, he invested all of his time and energy in learning the new spell.

He spent twenty-four hours in the magic lab, eating meals that Vivian had to bring over and not seeing anyone, including Hawk.

It took him four days to barely memorize the circulation routes of over three hundred nodes.

It took another four days to manage to run a complete simulation of over three hundred nodes at a time, and then he used mathematical models to infer and discover that one successful Long-Distance Teleportation could drain all of his magic power.

This wasn't right. Long-Distance Teleportation could only be considered a level-four spell, it couldn't possibly consume that much.

He had a full intelligence growth attribute allocation and a piece of equipment to increase his mana cap, and even though he was only at the Elite level now, the amount of mana he had should be about the same as an NPC Archmage, like Tobian the bear-like Mage, for example.

There was no reason why an Archmage would use Long-Distance Teleportation once and be drained of all mana.

So… there was something wrong with this spell model.

It may have deliberately used routes that could successfully cast teleportation, but were more magically draining.

But this was just a guess, and it had to actually be cast successfully to determine if this guess was correct.

Leaving the Magic Tower, Roland went to the outskirts of the city and found an empty and uninhabited location.

Unlike other spells, the side effects of spatial magic were actually immense.

Teleportation was fine, as it was only low-level spatial magic and the distance of the leap was not much, at most a hundred or two hundred meters, causing very little spatial shock.

But Long-Distance Teleportation was different. Hundreds of kilometers, even thousands of kilometers of teleportation distance, caused a very, very strong spatial shock—the farther the distance, the stronger. If it was successfully cast, the spatial shock would calm instantly, but if it failed, the spatial shock set off would turn into a spatial tsunami, directly engulfing everything around it, dragging all matter within the area of influence into the void.

Therefore, Roland had to experiment in a deserted place, so in case of failure, the impact would be minimized.

After confirming that there were no sentient creatures within sight, Roland closed his eyes and concentrated.

Magic power gathered around him and soon condensed into tangible, blue streams of magic power that manifested around him one by one, turning into a magic cage and enveloping him.

Then Roland suddenly opened his eyes, and the streams of magic power around him faded away.

”This is…” Roland frowned. ”Directional Teleportation?”