Outside the corridor...

"XiaoQi sister." Arnold Ray followed behind Mute Girl XiaoQi and called out softly.

Mute Girl XiaoQi turned slightly and took out a notebook to write two words: (What?)

"What the landlady just said, is it true?" Arnold Ray asked.

...

After listening to Arnold Ray's words, Mute Girl XiaoQi remained silent for a moment before writing two words on the notebook: (It's true.)

Then, she pushed open a wooden door in the middle of the corridor and gestured for Arnold Ray to enter.

Arnold Ray walked in and took a look...

It was a very ordinary room, with an ordinary bed, a wooden wardrobe, a desk, and a chair. There was a window by the wall.

One could say that this was an extremely simple room. It had all the basic necessities for a room, but nothing more.

But for Arnold Ray, it was already perfect in its simplicity.

(Although it may seem a bit old, this will be your room from now on.) Mute Girl XiaoQi wrote on the notebook and handed it to Arnold Ray.

"Thank you~ thank you all~" Arnold Ray replied gratefully.

Mute Girl XiaoQi wrote another line on the notebook quickly: (I will tell you more about the specific matters tomorrow. Rest for now. There is a toilet and a bathroom at the end of the corridor, feel free to use them, just be aware that there are many girls staying here.)

"Thank you, XiaoQi sister, but I want to ask... how many people live here?" Arnold Ray asked.

(Me, Hui Zi, you, and the landlady.)

"Oh..."

Arnold Ray responded. There were many rooms on both sides of the corridor, at least dozens of them, but according to what Mute Girl XiaoQi wrote, only four people lived in these rooms. What was the reason behind so many empty rooms?

(You should rest early. I will come and wake you up tomorrow and teach you about your work.)

"Thank you~"

After saying that, Mute Girl XiaoQi smiled slightly, turned around, and closed the door behind her.

For a moment, the room fell into silence.

Arnold Ray placed his tattered bundle on the desk, arranged the two iron boxes in the corner of the desk, and neatly put the worn clothes from the torn cloth into the wardrobe. Then, he lay down on the clean single bed and quietly looked at the ceiling.

Four walls, plus the ceiling. This kind of place made him smile slightly, feeling an inexplicable sense of security.

Maybe it was because he had never slept in a safe place after the later stages of the war. He had basically treated the cockpit of the Red Eye Machine as his bed, sleeping in it almost every day, always prepared for battle.

Being able to sleep on a white bed with windows like this, his heart felt a trace of satisfaction.

However...

"I can't fall asleep..."

Arnold Ray lay on the bed for a while and realized that he wasn't tired at all. Maybe because he slept so well in the kitchen earlier, he didn't feel like sleeping now.

"I'll meditate..."

Arnold Ray slowly got up, sat on the bed, closed his eyes, and began to try to connect with the elements of nature and utilize them.

This was how a mage trained themselves, absorbing the surrounding elements through meditation and gathering them within their own bodies to cast stronger spells.

In fact, a mage's body was like a magic compression core, not much different.

"Clang~ Clang~ Clang~ Clang~ Clang..."

Suddenly, the room was filled with a large amount of lightning, the steady and dim lightning rays resembling the profound universe, the thunder particles like star clusters, and the electric flashes resembling shooting stars. The entire space became exceptionally magical.

Arnold Ray's palms mixed the primordial energy, and the thunder power flowed between his ten fingers as he formed a ball of thunder plasma."I imitated the thunder plasma ball released by that legendary mecha... What level of spell does it actually count as?" Arnold Ray muttered to himself.

To be honest, when he joined the military, there were very few resources available for him to learn from as a mage. He could only self-study up to the fourth level of magic, so many of the spells he created were made up by himself.

In fact, mages and scientists have similar personalities; they are both brave in discovering new things.

And now, Arnold Ray enjoys studying a particular spell...

"Clang~ Clang~ Clang~ Clang~ Clang~"

Suddenly, the thunder plasma ball in his hand began to compress madly. It compressed into a small dot, and then all the Thunder Energy Clouds in the room were absorbed and converged by this small dot, like a black hole.

After absorbing all the power of thunder, the small dot began to expand and condense...

Finally, it actually formed a small lightning humanoid, about the size of a palm, agilely jumping on his hand. Then with a flip of its little hand, the lightning humanoid stood still and stable in the palm of his hand.

"A self-created spell... Let's temporarily call it the Mythical Magic of Lighting."

Arnold Ray smiled lightly on his face. This was just him releasing all the excess Thunder Energy inside him and attempting to condense it into a form.

Then, he had to keep the spell in a "maintenance" stage, otherwise, the elemental energy would automatically dissipate into the air.

However, Arnold Ray had no idea what he could use this Thunder humanoid for at the moment. It was still in the experimental stage, just for fun.

"Oh well, I'll think about it later."

After finishing his words, Arnold Ray continued to sit upright on the bed, manipulating the Thunder humanoid to dance by the bedside. He himself began to enter a profound state of meditation and cultivation.