Inspectors

The surging Element Power revealed the enormous gulf between higher lifeforms and lower lifeforms.

And from the Elemental Power raging through the sky at this moment, one could roughly determine which Laws Saine specialized in and had studied.

The Ash Law of the Flame Element still took the lead, with the Law of Light serving as its auxiliary branch.

Beyond that, the Laws Saine had dabbled in included the Dark Element, Death Element, Sound Wave System, Bewitchment System, and more.

As the immense elemental Sea of Fire gradually dispersed from the sky, it was replaced by an Elemental Giant standing eternally in the heavens.

With his true body activated, Saine could clearly feel the changes taking place in every cell of his body, from the inside out.

He wanted to immerse himself in the sensation and examine it closely, but his current surroundings were not actually suitable for a breakthrough.

Moreover, the Azure Flame Holy Tower had produced such a violent elemental disturbance, and the apocalyptic scene of fiery clouds just now had undoubtedly drawn the attention of countless powerful beings to this anomaly.

The magic light net originating from the Azure Flame Holy Tower had promptly blocked the power fluctuations spilling from within and around Saine's body, preventing any harm from coming to the ordinary people beneath the Holy Tower.

But there was no denying the turmoil Saine had brought to this region of the Wizard World.

For that reason, two powerful beings had specifically come calling.

"An unregistered peak Demigod Magician, your advancement has disrupted the balance of this region of the Wizard World!"

"You have violated Supplementary Clause 223 of the Holy Tower and Knights' Hall regulations, as well as Restriction Clause 74 of the Guardian regulations."

One red and one blue, two Level-4 Wizard World powerhouses with their Law True Bodies activated appeared in the skies above the Azure Flame Holy Tower, facing Saine, who had transformed into an Elemental Giant, from afar.

These two Level-4 Wizard World powerhouses could be called "Inspectors."

Their main duty was to maintain the balance of regional affairs and assist the Guardians in handling certain internal matters within the Wizard World.

It could also be said that they were subordinates of the four Guardians, or "reserve Guardians."

Beyond the Inspectors within the Wizard World, the upper echelons of Wizard Civilization had also established the post of "Inspector" within the Wizard Alliance.

Their mission was to oversee all Wizard Alliance Member Planes and prevent violations of Wizard Alliance rules, or even rebellions against the Wizard Alliance!

As a native-born Magician of the Wizard World, Saine's advancement to Level 4 after reaching the Critical Point was perfectly natural.

In theory, it violated no rules at all. After all, he was not a Black Magician!

Yet Saine had indeed violated the Holy Tower regulations.

Because he had not made an appointment and filed an application in advance.

Yes, in the present-day Wizard World, peak Demigod powerhouses who wished to advance to Level 4 had to apply beforehand to the Plane Inspectors in their surrounding region, or directly to the Wizard Alliance.

The purpose of this was to prevent the Elements and Laws stirred up by a newly born Level-4 lifeform during advancement from becoming too immense and causing upheaval in the environment and foundational Laws of the regions surrounding the Wizard World.

At present, newly advanced Level-4-and-above powerhouses of the Wizard World had their breakthrough environments specially arranged for them.

Under normal circumstances, they advanced within Plane Nodes.

This not only allowed them to sense more abundant Law Power and obtain a denser concentration of planar elemental energy, but advancing in specially modified chambers could also reduce the impact on surrounding regions to the absolute minimum.

After all, the Wizard World was a Top-Level Plane where even lifeforms above Level 4 were strictly forbidden from taking action.

The Guardians and the successive upper echelons of the Wizard World had protected their Mother Plane to the utmost extreme.

And that strange regulation requiring lifeforms above Level 4 to apply in advance before advancing had been proposed during the twelfth Wizard Alliance Assembly more than a hundred thousand years ago.

Luluenman actually knew about this as well, but she had never imagined that her excellent disciple had already reached such a Critical Point.

Otherwise, such an oversight would never have happened.

The arrival of the two Inspectors made Saine pause slightly.

He was not unfamiliar with Inspectors.

Back when he had served as dean at the Dark Flame Holy Tower, the Holy Tower Master, Dark Flame Master, had been directly taken away by Wizard World Inspectors after the Plane War ended.

Generally speaking, Wizard World Inspectors were not difficult people to reason with. Nor would they make groundless accusations and abuse their authority to do excessive things.

Because they represented the Plane Will and the fairest rules of the Wizard World.

Wizard World powerhouses with poor character could not become Inspectors.

And that was indeed the case. After the two Inspectors arrived, the female Inspector spoke in a rather stiff tone, but the male Inspector smiled faintly and nodded toward Cuilisi beside Saine.

They clearly knew each other.

As a Level-6 Magician and effectively the strongest Holy Tower Master in the surrounding regions, Cuilisi had naturally dealt with these Inspectors often over the years.

In terms of seniority, these two Level-4 Inspectors were even juniors before Cuilisi.

Saine was the one being directly questioned by the two Inspectors, but since they had not interfered with his current advancement process, the matter apparently could be treated as either serious or trivial.

"May I ask what I should do, then?"

"I had no intention of violating the Holy Tower regulations or the Guardian rules." Saine, maintaining the dual forms of an Elemental Giant and demon true body, could not help asking.

The dual power bodies visible across his surface showed that his condition was not very stable at the moment.

The two Inspectors had not wronged him. If not for senior members of his school, such as Cuilisi and Gagaru, standing guard beside him, who knew how many low-level lifeforms too close to Saine would have been erased while he was unconscious.

Divine might was like a prison. This was also why lifeforms above Level 4 in the Star Realm were revered as "gods."

The male Inspector, radiating scarlet Law of Light, smiled faintly. He stopped the female Inspector from delivering the harsh rebuke she had been about to make, then sent a Magic Scroll flying from his hand as he said, "According to the Holy Tower regulations, you must pay a fine of approximately 1.2 million Magic Coins."

"Please note that this fine is not for us. It will instead be used as funding for basic environmental construction, allocated annually by the Wizard Alliance to Holy Towers across various regions."

"In other words, this money will ultimately be used to repair the damage that your rash advancement has caused to the planar environment of the Wizard World." The male Inspector chuckled.

His friendly attitude was likely related to Saine's grandmaster, Cuilisi, standing beside him.

Even in the Wizard World, there was such a thing as a society built on personal connections.

Spellcasters like Dark Flame Master, who had offended every single person around them, were truly extreme exceptions.

1.2 million Magic Coins was no small sum. At the very least, Saine did not have that much cash on hand.

Cuilisi beside Saine smiled faintly and was just about to say something when Saine directly asked, "I do not have that many Magic Coins for the moment. Can I use something else to settle the debt?"

"Uh, that is not impossible." The male Inspector glanced at Cuilisi, then nodded.

Saine, transformed into a Flame Giant, nodded as well. Then two Divinities flew from his hand.

They were the Great Strength God Divinity and the God of Spring Water Divinity.

The appearance of the yellow and blue Divinities directly stunned everyone nearby senseless.

Luluenman knew that Saine possessed a Water Element Divinity, but where had that unusually attributed Strength Divinity come from?

The two Wizard World Inspectors had clearly not expected Saine to possess treasures like Divinities.

Especially the cold-faced female Inspector—the stunned expression that flashed across her face in that instant made her seem quite adorable.

The male Inspector was the first to recover. Catching the Divinities Saine had thrown over, he chuckled. "Two Heart Cores from early Level-4 lifeforms?"

"The value of these two Heart Cores already exceeds 1.2 million Magic Coins. Of course, they may serve as collateral for now."

"Once you have successfully advanced, you can bring sufficient Magic Coins and redeem them." The male Inspector chuckled, seeming not to doubt Saine's ability to repay the debt in the slightest.

Of course he had no need to doubt it!

With a Level-6 Wizard World powerhouse like Cuilisi as his backing, would Saine truly lack 1.2 million Magic Coins?

Even if Saine did not wish to rely on Cuilisi's strength, once his advancement succeeded, he would naturally have plenty of means to repay it.

Whether it was the basic construction loans needed to build a Holy Tower or the financial rewards granted by the Wizard Alliance to newly advanced Level-4-and-above powerhouses like him, either would be enough to meet Saine's needs.

The two regional Inspectors had appeared here not only because they had noticed the violent disturbance and come to Ask For Saine's fine. Their other duty was to guide Saine safely through his advancement to Level 4!

After all, the emergence of a newly advanced Level-4-and-above powerhouse was a good thing for the entire Wizard World.

Compared with the value contained in a Level-4 powerhouse, a mere fine of 1.2 million Magic Coins was hardly even worth mentioning.

"All right. You can try to draw in your Law True Body somewhat. The two of us will escort you with all our strength to the nearest public Plane Node, where you can complete your advancement," the male Inspector said with a smile.

"There is no need to go to a public Plane Node. Let him advance in my Azure Fire Mountain Range."

"The purity of the Fire Law here is more beneficial to his condensing his true body and comprehending the Laws." Cuilisi spoke at this moment.

Cuilisi's words did not surprise the two Inspectors in the least.

Indeed, compared with a public Plane Node, the Law Node personally suppressed by Cuilisi's Azure Fire Holy Tower was among the finest advancement sites in the entire Wizard World.

Escorted by the two Inspectors and senior members of his school, such as Cuilisi and Gagaru, Saine, maintaining his Law Body, slowly flew toward the most towering Volcano Crater in the Azure Fire Mountain Range.

Before leaving the Azure Flame Holy Tower, Saine turned to Senior Brother Ailide and said, "I was not questioning you, Senior Brother."

"On the contrary, I very much agree with something you said just now."

"On a Plane Battlefield, it truly is not a very rational thing for low-level lifeforms to fight Level-4 lifeforms."

"When a Level-4 lifeform arrives near a battlefield, the best thing low-level lifeforms can do is flee that place with all their might," Saine sighed.

That sigh seemed to contain countless stories.

Ailide glanced at the two Divinities in the Inspector's hands, his cheek twitching slightly. In the end, he said nothing.