"Creating a new body?"
Not long after, Celine learned of Roy's idea.
"Exactly, you're the only one around me who has personally experienced this...
I wanted to talk to you about how Senior Apprentice Sophia did it back then."
In the room, Roy sat slanted on a stone chair, one hand resting on the armrest, propping his cheek as he inquired.
This was no simple matter.
Although advanced souls could exist independently of matter, they still relied on the essence of the world or the spirituality of believers.
In reality, they still needed something to anchor themselves.
This was why many deities required faith and could fall into decline when faith waned...
"Moreover, a soul of immense scale would find it increasingly difficult to be contained by a mortal body...
This is the secret behind the 'Saint Form' that deities use to walk the mortal world!
Even deities descending to the mortal realm need a body, so of course, living beings on earth also require one...
Otherwise, they would merge into the fabric of the world and be completely devoured by the World's Will!"
Roy pondered these thoughts.
Meanwhile, Celine wore a contemplative expression, as if his question had stirred up memories.
"Senior Apprentice Sophia's body was created using the 'Bloodline Art' combined with the methods of crafting advanced magic automatons, employing the Flesh Cultivation Method.
It was essentially a type of magic puppet."
"A magic puppet?"
Roy suddenly recalled the humanoid angel inside his ring...
Surely, he couldn't just replace his body with that humanoid angel, could he?
Alchemical creations had no inherent gender, but at the moment of their creation, they were assigned 'meaning' based on subjective 'perception' and 'expectation.'
Thus, they began to have gender distinctions.
Souls and magic puppets also had gender distinctions.
It wasn't suitable for him.
"It would be best to use bloodline factors and employ a method similar to cloning to cultivate one."
Celine didn't know Roy's thoughts but still offered useful advice.
"Actually, Senior Apprentice Sophia might not have truly mastered this. Some of it was just copied from books.
If you choose an ordinary human bloodline and cultivate it from scratch through modulation, the starting cost would be at least 100,000 Magic Stones...
Adding various bloodlines or special abilities would increase the cost accordingly.
Great Wizards have long unraveled many bloodline mysteries, and the wizardry passed down isn't difficult to follow."
...
After their detailed discussion, Roy didn't immediately act on it, but he gradually clarified the ideas in his mind.
"Replace the body! Expand the life's potential!
The body of my previous self indeed couldn't keep up with the demands of my current stage.
As my mental strength grows and the Source of Magic continues to expand, these limitations will only become more severe.
If I don't replace it, even if I manage to engrave a first-level wizardry after immense hardship, I might still be confined to the first level!
But if I replace it in time, it would be different.
My soul could grow in a broader realm, and the upper limit would be much higher!
Based on others' experiences...
Whether engraving innate wizardry or learning other wizardry and skills, it would all become easier."
This thought had actually crossed his mind a long time ago.
But it had never been as clear and intense as it was now.
"Of course, it's not practical to completely abandon the brain all at once.
I should follow Sophia's example and start with a brain transplant.
At the very least, I should wait until I reach the third or fourth level before considering completely discarding this brain."
Roy began making preparations for this endeavor.
However, as soon as he started the actual planning, he quickly realized what it meant to spend money like water.
The cultivation chamber, nutrient solution, Bloodline Factors, artificial embryos...
A series of items.
Either they were costly and hard to come by, or they involved complex technologies that were difficult to master.
These were things that concerned the very essence of his life and soul, and even involved his future development. He dared not entrust them to others.
That would essentially mean handing himself over completely to someone else, leaving himself at their mercy.
There was no way to ensure whether the other party might employ some underhanded tactics, or if they did, whether he would be able to detect them.
"This is not like the last time when I asked Kundis to enchant my weapon..."
Fortunately, Roy was now a formal Wizard.
If Sophia could do it in the past, he certainly could too.
He immediately began contacting his teacher's channels, sending out various purchase requests.
Flosf was slightly surprised when he saw this.
"Are you planning to replace your body?"
"Yes, how much will all this cost?"
Roy didn't elaborate further.
"These things will take some time to order, probably around 100,000 Magic Stones."
This was roughly in line with Celine's estimate.
However, after the last time he crafted the Pegasus Wings and the Bloodhoof Kairon Golem, Roy still had over 200,000 Magic Stones on hand.
If necessary, he could even issue extra currency, which would be equivalent to taking on some debt...
Without hesitation, he chose to pay.
Thus, this matter was officially put on the agenda.
After discussing these matters, Flosf didn't rush to end the communication. Instead, he told Roy something else.
"I plan to select a group of human youths and send them to you...
Of course, you can't use them as spare bodies!
They are to be your apprentices."
"Apprentices?" Roy was slightly taken aback. "A first-level Wizard like me isn't qualified to take on apprentices, right? What if I lead them astray?"
Flosf said, "You're just helping me supervise and manage them as an assistant, not as a mentor. What qualifications do you need?"
Roy suddenly understood, realizing that rules are rigid, but people are flexible.
At the same time, he also understood that these were likely accelerated apprentices, prepared for the upcoming war situation.
They were not part of the Wizard Tower's Inheritance Sequence but were instead recruited as tools for expansion.
Flosf continued, "Didn't you want to recruit some craftsmen and capable assistants before?
There are many descendants of immigrants in this world, and their ancestors were considered our own people, so their origins are trustworthy.
If you can select those with Wizard talent from among them and train them to become Elite Apprentices, I will give you corresponding rewards.
Moreover, if you help me with this, decades later when they graduate and leave, the descendants of those apprentices can also be taken care of by other Wizards!
If this method proves feasible, we could even develop an 'Academy' like the Arcane Empire."
"Alright, I'll do my best."
Roy nodded and accepted this "assistant teaching task."
...
A few days later, on November 20th.
Outside the quarry.
A group of people rode in several carriages, traveling along the rugged mountain road.
Before long, they finally reached their destination.
Several boys and girls, around eleven or twelve years old, stepped out of the carriage and looked up at the steps above, which wound their way up to the quarry camp halfway up the massive stone mountain.
They were all dressed in simple gray robes, identical in style and design to those worn by the apprentices of the local Wizard Tower, marking them as low-level apprentices.
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