So, which plan should he choose?
Isaac, flush with cash, immediately flipped to the last page of the list and started with the most expensive and best options!
They were only Tier 1 cultivation plans. No matter how expensive they were, how costly could they possibly be?
Demon God Incarnation: 300,000 Gold Coins (Note: The knowledge in this plan is extremely precious. No materials provided.)
Demon Lord: 100,000 Gold Coins (Note: The knowledge in this plan is extremely precious. No materials provided.)
Outer God: 300,000–1,000,000 Gold Coins (Note: The knowledge in this plan is extremely precious. No materials provided.)
Isaac: "..."
After a moment of silence, Isaac immediately flipped back to the first page. He couldn't afford them. He really couldn't afford them...
"Phew~"
Looking at the uniform three-digit prices on the first page, Isaac found them incomparably dear, dearer than ever before!
So cheap!
After sighing over it for a moment, he gathered his thoughts and began selecting carefully. In the end, he settled on two plans—the Hand of Demonic Path and the Hand of Demon God.
The Hand of Demonic Path would develop it in the direction of spellcasting. Through different devouring rituals, it could obtain the Talent Wizardry of different magical creatures. The drawback was that the rituals had a relatively low success rate, and even if they succeeded, it was still very possible that no Talent Wizardry would be devoured.
In other words, there was an element of gambling involved.
And that was its greatest flaw. If one was unlucky, one might never devour a single spell in an entire lifetime!
However, that was not really a problem for Isaac. To him, its only drawback was that this cultivation plan only provided knowledge and no materials. It cost a full seven hundred Gold Coins, with no materials included at all!
Since different magical creatures provided different spells, their prices naturally varied as well. The most valuable item in the entire devouring ritual was the magical creature's heart; the other materials were all common junk.
So rather than offend people by giving them this rubbish, they might as well give nothing.
Though that was pretty offensive too. At the very least, Isaac did not think highly of it!
Even if they were common, they were still worth several Gold Coins!
What a rip-off!
Still, to be fair, although the Hand of Demonic Path depended somewhat on luck, it was indeed quite powerful. Many magical creatures possessed excellent Talent Wizardry. Wizards might all strive toward versatility, but they were still human, and their energy was always limited.
This cultivation method could save wizards a great deal of effort, allowing them to devote it to researching other things.
As long as one was lucky, it had tremendous potential in both the early and later stages!
Compared to the Hand of Demonic Path, however, the Hand of Demon God was far inferior in the early stages. It was practically useless at first, doing nothing but accumulating power before gradually erupting in the later stages.
Interestingly, its earliest explosive period was at the High Wizard stage...
Before then, the Hand of God needed to have its mystique strengthened again and again through rituals. Once its wielder broke through to High Wizard, the God Ascension Ritual could be used to transform it in one stroke into the powerful Hand of Demon God!
At that point, it would possess the authority of two to three designated domains!
It was undeniably powerful, but it was also expensive. Whether the rituals that strengthened its mystique or the God Ascension Ritual, their materials were all costly!
The Hand of Demon God's power was burned out of money.
Even more fucked up, just like the Hand of Demonic Path, the cultivation ritual for every stage had to be purchased separately...
The Hand of Demon God itself cost one thousand Gold Coins.
As for what came after...
Isaac did not dare look, but it was definitely more expensive than one thousand!
"Ah~" Isaac let out a heavy sigh and closed the list.
Then he summoned the Tower Spirit and bought both plans!
Children made choices. Adults took them all!
He had money now, anyway!
Buy the fucking things!
No one said they were mutually exclusive, so what was there to be scared of?
Aside from those two rituals, Isaac also bought quite a few materials, as well as an advancement ritual. Although it would still be some time before his next advancement, there was no harm in preparing early.
His path had long since been decided. The ritual he chose this time was called the Witch's Pleasure Banquet, still focused on the starry sky and mystique.
The boosts granted by each advancement ritual were very minor, almost negligible. Only by stacking them would they become appreciable.
After that round of shopping, more than four thousand of the five thousand Gold Coins he had just received vanished like running water...
Yet Isaac did not feel too heartbroken. Perhaps because he had not earned it through his own hard work...
With the shopping finished, all that remained was to wait for delivery.
Although the Truth Association had created an "online shopping system" similar to Lake Town's, it ultimately lacked the Cottage in the Woods' power to connect myriad worlds. Like online shopping platforms from his previous life, it only handled purchases online and shipped the goods offline.
It was even worse than those online shopping platforms. The Truth Association's platform had a rather high threshold for users. First, one had to be a Truth Wizard, which eliminated countless people. Second, one needed savings of at least ten thousand Gold Coins, which eliminated another batch.
Finally, one also needed a Mage Tower!
A proper Mage Tower with a Tower Spirit!
The first two requirements could still be met by plenty of people if they gritted their teeth, at worst selling off some possessions.
But a Mage Tower...
Those were truly difficult to obtain, especially one with a Tower Spirit!
That was the core of the Truth Association's core!
Not just any random nobody could buy one.
Isaac, however, had no complaints about that. Here, he could buy things through his big sister's account; when he returned, he could shop in Lake Town. No matter how strict the requirements were, they could not stop him.
He just wondered how efficient the delivery would be~
After placing the order, Isaac stopped thinking about it. It would take a day or two anyway, and during that time, he could study his legends.
The most unique aspect of a Legendary Wizard was that they possessed three blank Magic Books at every level. Writing different content in them could grant different wizardry, even entire systems of wizardry!
Of Isaac's three Magic Books, two had already been filled with words. One was the Flesh Lair he had traded for with the Lord of Myriad Flesh, while the other contained the fairy tale "Cinderella" copied from his previous life.
After he copied the tale of "Cinderella" into the Magic Book, it began spreading through the territory. At first, it was only circulated around the castle, but after Caesar learned that Isaac had become a wizard, he mobilized the family's power to spread it across the entire territory in an extremely short time. It had even begun faintly spreading into neighboring territories.
Thus, after gaining such an enormous audience, Isaac's first legend had finally finished gestating!
"Riiip!"
The sound of flesh tearing rang out. The Demonic Claw, wrapped in blackish-purple muscles twisted together like ancient tree roots, emerged from the back of Isaac's head. It opened before him, and three Magic Books appeared from its palm.
One was blank and completely still. One was wreathed in dark crimson blood energy. The last was wrapped in specks of starlight; when he focused on it, he could even hear faint wishes drifting from within~
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