Chapter 678: Advancement Ceremony

“In the blink of an eye, Brother Saul is already advancing to third-rank!”

Silver butterflies danced gracefully around.

But Penny’s chattering mouth sometimes really didn’t match her elegant dance moves and sprite-like appearance.

“I still remember when I first met Brother Saul, he was just a first-level little apprentice. At that time I was thinking, this little wizard’s dreams look so special, I really want to eat them up!”

Saul mocked, “Fortunately you didn’t act rashly back then. At that time I might not have had the power to rescue you from the dreamscape… wait, so you had already recovered your previous memories long ago, right?”

“Ah? Ahahaha…” Penny started playing dumb.

She landed on the edge of the wizard tower’s circular platform, looking ahead.

Outside Rhine City—a name Saul had casually given to his settlement—over a hundred low-rank wizards were busily working.

Some of these hundred-plus wizards were sent by Herbert and Pei’er, but more came from the Stargate Council of Iskaper.

It had to be said that sometimes power was truly fascinating. With just one order, they had so many wizards put aside all their work and research to come to the dangerous Borderland to set up advancement formations for Saul alone.

But Saul only reflected on this briefly before stopping such thoughts.

Regardless of how many people came to set up the advancement formation, whether he could smoothly withstand the first wave of crisis after opening doors would still depend on himself.

If one’s own strength wasn’t sufficient, even being forcibly pushed up would result in being quickly crushed by the ensuing power.

The person presiding over this formation was an acquaintance.

Corey, expressionless and wearing a gorgeous blue puffy dress, stood on a temporarily cast high platform looking down.

From time to time she would guide certain wizards to improve their work.

Third-rank advancement magical formations were extremely complex and normally required a third-rank wizard to preside.

But the Stargate Council found it inconvenient to send another third-rank wizard, while Herbert and Pei’er, besides providing resources and being present, wouldn’t personally take action.

This was also to avoid suspicion.

So this difficult task ultimately fell to Corey, who was currently closest to third-rank.

As for Saul, the protagonist, he only needed to personally inspect everything once after the advancement formation was completed.

The rest of the time, he needed to maintain perfect condition and abundant energy.

At this moment, Saul saw Corey look up at him.

He raised his hand in greeting, and she nodded lightly before returning to work.

“Brother Saul, this little wizard is also nice, like a cute doll. Do you like her?”

Penny was being mischievous again.

“I like you more.” Saul ended Penny’s teasing with one sentence.

Footsteps came from behind. He turned to see Byron climbing the last step to the tower top.

“Which day is the advancement ceremony scheduled for?” Byron asked.

“If nothing unexpected happens, five days from now.” For some reason, seeing his senior always made Saul somewhat uneasy, but no matter how he thought about it, he couldn’t figure out where this unease came from.

“It’s been a while since I asked—how are your inertization experiments progressing, Senior Byron?”

Byron considered briefly before answering, “Small-scale inertization can now be completed in the laboratory. But once the quantity increases, the original experiments can’t achieve the effect. It should be that after the inertization quantity increases, the required energy consumption grows exponentially. Currently there’s no suitable consumable energy source that can provide corresponding energy in a short time.”

He paused here. “Well, not currently, but I’ll continue searching for suitable materials and conducting experiments.”

Saul also knew such experiments often took years to measure. Being able to complete small-scale purification was already quite good.

Like last time when he quickly inertized the pollution energy near the Storm Eye to create an escape opportunity for Kismet, he had used Byron’s provided method.

It was just that Kismet was disappointing—given an opportunity, he actually used it to space out?

After criticizing Kismet, Saul refocused to give Byron a small suggestion.

“Senior, actually there are still differences between small laboratory experiments and large-scale practical application scenarios. For instance, if we don’t pursue complete purification of pollution but rather aim to reduce pollution to levels the wizard’s body can withstand, that would also count as completing inertization.”

Byron’s eyes lit up. “Good idea. I was too focused on perfection before. Following your thinking, I now have a way to complete large-scale inertization. However, this method is one-time use—I still need to continue searching for other suitable energy supply materials.”

Just as Saul was about to ask what one-time material was so powerful, he sensed a strong mental power fluctuation from behind.

He turned to look and saw it was Pei’er, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time, coming on the wind.

This time she still didn’t land on the wizard tower, but descended near Corey.

However, after landing, she nodded lightly in the wizard tower’s direction.

As if she was using this action to tell Saul that she would wait for him.

…

The Wind Sprite, who originally didn’t need to participate, added one more verification of the formation before Saul’s inspection.

She used her actions to show how much importance she placed on the advancement ceremony.

However, it seemed somewhat strange to outsiders that Pei’er had specifically come to help Saul check the formation, yet the two never spoke and even maintained distances of no less than ten meters.

But the strange relationship between the two didn’t affect the advancement ceremony’s progress.

Five days later, Herbert brought over a dozen wizards to Rhine Lake again.

At this time, Saul had also completed three rounds of formation inspection.

Although Corey had once been Saul’s competitor, she had always been dedicated and thorough in formation arrangement, without any corners cut.

Of course, as compensation, she had also gained all the knowledge points of this advancement assistance formation.

It was just that this formation required consuming considerable resources. Without the massive backing of the Stargate Council, ordinary wizards wouldn’t know how many years they’d need to accumulate such resources.

The ceremony was about to begin.

Saul rode Diu Diu from the Purity Wizard Tower, crossed Rhine Lake, and landed at the giant formation’s center.

This formation had a diameter of a hundred meters. Almost every basic structure and every magical rune was equipped with corresponding magical materials.

The entire formation was one meter below ground level, while the excavated sand and soil had been processed into pillars serving as the formation’s energy supply points.

Each pillar was inscribed with formation patterns and embedded with large amounts of magic crystals.

Looking at such magnificent splendor, if Saul didn’t know this magical formation was prepared for him, he would have wanted to sneak forward and steal some resources.

Many people also surrounded the formation.

These included wizards and apprentices settled in the Rhine Lake settlement, the hundred-plus wizards who had come to help build the advancement formation, and Saul’s “friends”—Jiajia Gu and Brando had also come.

Including Senior Byron, who stood with the consciousness bodies.

Third-rank advancement might not be seen once in a hundred years.

Although these people were just observers, they might comprehend certain knowledge from it, helping improve their own strength.

So everyone with connections to Saul and those who had contributed to the formation chose to stay and watch.

Corey still stood on the high platform where she had presided over the formation arrangement.

Looking at Saul, she finally couldn’t help showing a trace of envy.

However, when she spoke, the complex emotions in her heart had already disappeared.

“Saul, we’ll activate the formation from outside. Once all energy towers light up, you can receive the magic power transmitted by the entire formation.”

Saul nodded. They had already gone through the formation operation process several times, but facing Corey’s reminder again, Saul wasn’t impatient.

The energy towers were the pillars in the formation. These pillars would gather the entire wizard tower’s power and transmit it to Saul in the center.

Saul needed to control these forces to completely push open the doors within his body.

Silence fell all around.

Even Pei’er and Herbert stared at Saul without blinking.

“Begin!”

(End of Chapter)

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