After bidding farewell to the God of Gamblers and the God of Thieves in Renault Star City, Saine returned to the Wizard World once more.
This time, he was determined to complete the upgrade of the Staff of Ashes.
Just as Saine immersed himself in experimentation again, two major pieces of good news arrived in the Wizard World in quick succession.
First came an extremely subtle, suppressed Dominator disturbance from within the Western Islands.
Immediately afterward, changes in a Dominator's aura came from the direction of the Bairen Empire.
The fluctuations from the Western Islands had, more precisely, originated from the Black Domain.
Black Knight Woerta had successfully advanced.
It was said that when Woerta advanced, the Spring and Winter Guardians of the Wizard World had both arrived.
The change in Dominator aura from the Bairen Empire, meanwhile, had come from the famed Empire God General Roland.
Likewise, the Summer and Autumn Guardians had arrived together, assisting Roland through his transformation toward the Level-8 Life Level.
It seemed that after the Civilization War ended, it was not only the Wizard World's creatures above Level 4 that had ushered in a wave of breakthroughs.
Quite a few Dominator-class beings had also been reborn anew.
The breakthroughs of two Level-8 knights had undoubtedly stirred immense excitement among the Wizard World's knight community!
By now, many wondered when the Wizard World's next Level-8 True Spirit Magician would break through.
Would it be Master Victor?
Following victory in the Civilization War against the Galente Federation, no magician of the Wizard World had benefited more than that pure Mechanical True Spirit.
Saine had yet to even lay hands on the Galente Federation's Civilization Supreme Treasure—the Endless Light Device. Naturally, he also lacked both the ability and the time to analyze and study the technological