"Ugh!"
Evan clutched his buzzing head and staggered back several steps. Warm blood trickled from his nose.
At the same time, something seemed to have entered his mind. Evan instinctively raised his gun again. "I was careless! That old bastard is a wizard too?!"
Animated Spirit Power was not something ordinary people could resist. Yet when Evan met the old man's gaze, he unexpectedly sensed resistance within the other man's mind. Before he could pull back, however, the two bursts of Spirit Power had already slammed into each other.
Boom!
It felt as though a giant hammer had struck his brain, leaving it ringing incessantly.
His first direct use of Spirit Power after embarking on the Apprentice Wizard path had cost him a small loss. He panted in place for quite a while before recovering, then immediately checked his condition through Data Vision. Apart from a little nosebleed, he was thankfully unharmed.
When he looked up again at the man who had clearly been a wizard yet had disguised himself as a frail old commoner, he found him bleeding from all seven orifices. His eyes were wide open, but he had completely stopped breathing.
"Damn, that was close!" Only upon seeing the old man's state did Evan feel the lingering fear. The consequences of a direct Spirit Power collision were simply too brutal.
Fortunately, his Spirit Power was clearly stronger. After activating his Spirit Power through Leon's meditation method, it had undergone the Extraordinary Transformation of the Knight's Path and been honed for so long that it had reached 0.39. He had firmly stepped into the Intermediate Apprentice level.
Tru's burst of Spirit Power, meanwhile, had been only 0.15—barely enough to count as a Beginner Apprentice. If not for that enormous gap, it was impossible to say who would be