All for an artifact!

Port Nyanzaru, the War Chess Demiplane.

Soren appeared within the demiplane. Since they still could not breach the defenses of the Wizard Tower in the Shadow Plane, the War Chess Demiplane had become their new point of attack. Not only had the Fallen Witch, Corinna, moved her Laboratory here, but Goria had also relocated to the War Chess Demiplane, preparing to breach the Wizard Tower's defenses from within. The Adamantite Golems were almost finished. All three had been assembled, but bringing them into operation still required the Animate Construct spell.

Today.

Both Goria and the Fallen Witch had temporarily set aside their research, because they had something else very important to do today.

They needed to help Soren open a plane channel.

When it came to spellcasting, Soren was undoubtedly a half-baked wizard. There was no helping it; building up a wizard's abilities simply took too much time.

In fact, as a deity, Soren could open a plane channel to the Abyss on his own, but doing so would place a heavy burden on him and consume a great deal of divine power. With his advancement to [Lesser Divinity] still pending, he certainly could not squander his precious divine power. He therefore needed the strength of the two Legendary Witches to open a portal connected to the Abyss. Before that, however, he needed to raise his caster level.

As the Time of Troubles drew ever closer, Soren's choice was undoubtedly to raise his arcanist class level.

A series of notifications appeared before his eyes:

``` "Arcanist class level increased to level 2."

"Gained 33 (Intelligence 25 + (Intelligence 25 - 10) * 0.5) skill points. Hit points increased by 12 (class hit points 4 + (Constitution 25 - 10) * 0.5)."

"Your Arcane Memory ability has improved."

"You have gained