Four Crystals, Terrifying Growth, Support from All Sides, and the Fight for a Core Place!

In the Meditation Room.

Ian slowly opened his eyes.

His eyes shone like stars. Everything before him seemed to have changed.

Within his Mental Power Space, a fourth mental power crystal floated quietly, engraved with the runes of Water Curtain Tianhua.

Its faint blue glow played against the three crystals of different colors, each occupying a corner.

"What a huge change!"

Ian marveled.

His mental power had grown by nearly twenty percent, and its quality had improved by at least thirty percent.

Taken together, his mental power had increased by more than fifty percent.

He finally understood what that layer of mental power domain he had seen during the core assessment was.

"The outward manifestation of the mental power field."

At a thought from Ian, something like a veil settled around him, lending him an air of mystery.

He had reached four crystals.

A Wizard's mental power strengthened again at this stage, changing the mental power field until it could manifest outwardly.

In this state,

the field's suppressive effect grew stronger, making it something like a small domain.

It even offered some defense.

"If I run into mind-control Wizardry, mental power attacks, or mental power suppression, I'll have a way to deal with them."

Ian took a deep breath.

He remembered the fight between the two semi-Elementalized Wizards, and the moment one of them had charged at him.

The immense pressure of that Wizard's mental power had made it hard for him to move and left his own mental power sluggish.

If Renard had not intervened in time, Ian would have needed at least several seconds to break free.

Now it was different. He still could not shrug it off completely, but he could buy himself those few seconds and strike back.

His ability to protect himself had improved.

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