Zero spent the rest of the month doing missions with this group.
He became good friends with Alura, Farley, and Hale.
The others didn't continue to do missions.
Zero decided to check his properties.
He wondered what the stats of his data body was.
[ECHO]: {Name: "Zero #119", Species: Omnipotent Paradox (Data), Energy: ??? GR, Strength: ???, Vitality: ???, Nanites: 0, TE: 1800000, Spirit: 1000000, Soul: 50000}
A month had passed.
It was now time for him to get the next stage of the visualization technique.
As well as a spell model for becoming an official wizard.
Morti gave him the next part of the technique.
Zero would have to buy a spell model using task points.
Zero couldn't use his infinity as his passive spell.
Since the runes were incompatible.
Although he could use the spell whenever he wanted, so that wasn't an issue.
His data body was also quite durable.
To breakthrough to an official wizard.
You needed a few requirements.
You needed to pass 359 Source.
Zero had 1,800,000 TE, which was equivalent to 5,400,000 Source.
Basically he met the requirements to become a rank 9 wizard already.
Even though such a thing was just a legend.
He just lacked the passive spell models.
He could instant breakthrough in this system as long as he had the spell models.
Zero currently had 7800 points given to him from contributing in the missions.
A level 1 spell model cost 10,000 points.
Zero was now officially an acolyte.
So he could do missions himself.
Zero hunted the magical beast for a few days and reached 10,000 points.
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He then was allowed to browse through the selection of level 1 spells.
Zero didn't care much for these spells.
They were quite basic.
He chose a versatile spell.
Flight.
He compressed his sea of consciousness forming a point mass in it.
There were layers to this point mass.
This is where the passive spells would be stacked.
[ECHO]: Analyzing book
[ECHO]: "Time Walker"
[ECHO]: 3: Chapter 14: Official Wizard
Zero carved the 'Flight' spell on the first layer of his point mass.
He had become an official wizard.
He also now had nearly zero task points left.
Thanks to Mysterious Cloak, he gave only the aura of an acolyte.
Generally it would take:
A level 5 aptitude 2 years to become a official wizard.
A level 4 aptitude 5 years to become one.
Level 3 would take a decade.
Level 2 would take a century.
Level 1 would take thousands of years.
Zero luckily didn't have to deal with having a crap aptitude in this system.
Building up the mental energy is the part that took the most time.
Zero planned to wait 2 years before talking with Morti about breaking through.
This way he wouldn't blow his cover.
During these two years he did missions with Farley, Hale, and Alura.
Alura broke through to an official wizard.
She also became a master in potioneering.
Zero wasn't idle these two years.
He tried to use the combined knowledge he had gotten from reading the first level of the library.
This world did have formations.
But it wasn't something an official wizard could ever understand.
For example, the formation used to build the pocket dimension for the academy was 'extremely complex' and was built by a rank 4 wizard.
Zero wanted to study the runes.
But he clearly wasn't allowed into the dimensional seal.
Zero had already limited himself to not messing with the souls of wizards.
Since it might alert them.
But then he thought to himself.
"All I have to do save point, then disguise myself as Morti. Then if I'm caught... I can just reload."
"This way, I can learn the runes for this world."
"There is no risk."
Zero cleared his previous save points.
'Save Point 1'
[ECHO]: {Name: "Disguise Illusion", Level: 2, Type: Target, Element: Mana, Cost: 400, Desc: "Put a diguise over the target."}
Soon he looked just like Morti.
Although since he didn't search through Morti's soul.
He couldn't perfectly mimic him.
He didn't need to speak to anyone though.
Zero walked to the center of the academy.
During the time he was studying here.
He had heard rumors.
So he knew where the seal was exactly.
Zero's body was made of data.
So he could easily phase through the seal.
He was greeted by a few students on his way to the seal.
He just nodded at them and kept walking.
He reached the seal.
It was guarded by two rank 2 wizards.
"Morti? What are you-"
Zero vanished.
And reappeared inside of the seal.
He saw a disk floating on a platform.
It was spinning and wobbling like a record.
On it he saw hieroglyphics.
"Hmm... it is very different."
'Save Point 2'.
He tried lifting the disk off the platform.
He immediately felt his TE draining at a rapid pace.
He allowed it to transport him.
The disk shattered and Zero was yeeted into the abyss.
Normally a person would instantly get suffocated and erased from this.
But Zero was far from ordinary.
He breathed as if it had been a long time since he had such a breath of fresh air.
He breathed the dark energy.
"It's been so long since I've experienced nonexistence!"
'Reload 2'.
Zero immediately appeared right before he picked up the disk.
He began to study each rune.
There was only 1,024 runes.
He made sure to memorize them.
Then the seal was opened and he saw Morti come in.
"Who are you?"
'Reload 1'.
Zero appeared right before he even used the disguise spell.
"A great way to avoid trouble, but still handle my curiosity."
"Maybe my rule of not searching souls doesn't matter... I can just reload."
Zero then planned to search everyone's soul.