The Opening of a New Journey

The "Chairman's" proposed adventure was well worth participating in—this was the decision Punk reached after careful consideration.

Any adventure was bound to come with risks commensurate with its rewards, and the "change" mentioned by the Chairman sounded, by itself, like a harbinger of inevitable bloodshed. For many Legendary powerhouses without ambition, such an "adventure" would surely be something they desperately wished to avoid.

But on the other hand, a newly-promoted Legendary professional as "ambitious" as Punk had neither the capital nor the excuse to keep acting timidly.

Punk understood the warning of the Filth Bird very well. Although the connection between the "Fate Tide" mentioned by the Chairman and the "flickering wheel" in the information remained unknown, the caster could still sense a slowly approaching crisis, like the wind filling the tower before a storm, from the many events occurring one after another across the Faerun plane.

As a newly-promoted Legendary who knew too little about many hidden secrets, the only effective way to survive and develop beneath the shadow of "fate" was to increase his own strength as quickly as possible.

But no matter how beautiful dreams might be, reality would still bare its cruelty without mercy.

For example, Punk truly wanted to seize every moment to continue his research, but he was once again faced with the most awkward and troublesome problem he had never escaped since embarking upon the path of magic—he was short on resources again.

There was no helping it. Spell research at the Legendary tier consumed far too many resources. To master spells one after another, even a caster with the most powerful inheritance still had to pour every last resource into research and experiments like a bottomless pit.

In fact, even before his battle with Aimoda, the treasure he had obtained from the