If Obiye and Ronaldo had embarked on a path of passive bodily evolution,
then the mage Flynn had taken a proactive path that combined wisdom with Element Power.
Saine had not taken Flynn as a disciple. The little fellow was not even qualified to serve as Saine's apprentice assistant yet.
Flynn's Rank One life level and the dozen-odd spells he had mastered amounted to nothing in Saine's eyes.
True mages of the Wizard World did not confine themselves to fixed moves or Spell Models.
Take Saine as he was now: with merely the most basic Fireball Spell, he could effortlessly alter its Spell Model through his own wisdom and depth of knowledge, allowing Fire Element Magic that had originally taken only the form of a fireball to display hundreds of different forms.
The firebird appearance displayed by the Group Burst Spell was merely one of them.
If each of these counted as a separate spell, it would mean Saine had already developed and mastered several hundred spells.
This was also the greatest difference between mages of the Wizard World and those of the Faelun Continent.
The former possessed limitless malleability and used knowledge to drive their own growth.
The latter, however, followed rigid Spell Models. They knew that something worked, but not why; they mechanically mastered the fixed models inherent to the Magic Net, unchanged for ten thousand years.
Saine had not immediately enhanced Flynn's physique or Mental Strength as he had done for Obiye and Ronaldo.
His understanding of knowledge and the transformation of his values were the first things Saine reshaped in Flynn.
In the short term, this sort of reshaping seemed to yield no results.
But if one looked further ahead... Flynn was actually the little fellow Saine anticipated most.
Life on the second layer of