With a Second-Level Witch familiar with the Snow Spirit World leading the way, Saine and Lunna's travels proved far more efficient than when the two of them traveled alone.
Many of the Snow Spirit World's unique natural sights and places where special energies converged would have been difficult for Saine and Lunna to find amid snow-filled ravines and gaps between cliffs without someone familiar with the land to guide them.
Perhaps because they had spent quite a while together, Saine and Marylian began speaking more often.
Magicians always found common ground easily with other magicians.
Saine was greatly interested in the ice-element witchcraft and special body-tempering abilities Marylian possessed. After spending some time with Saine and Lunna, however, Marylian was astonished to discover that Saine was the truly rare subject of passive evolutionary research.
"You don't have even a trace of battle qi in your body, yet your physical strength is more outrageous than that of some Level-2 Knights. What exactly is going on?" Marylian asked in surprise.
The Azure Fire Body Tempering Mysteries Saine had mastered originated from the Azure Blaze Sect to which he belonged.
As the sect's highest Element Profound Truths, Saine naturally could not simply hand them over to Marylian.
Likewise, the Frozen Ice Body Tempering Mysteries Marylian had mastered were one of the unique inherited arts of her own lineage.
Saine did not know just how profound the Frozen Ice Body Tempering Mysteries Marylian wielded were, but their pursuit of Truth Arcana still led the two magicians, after spending some time together, to reveal a little of their respective body-refinement knowledge through academic exchange.
This sort of academic exchange was a fairly normal means of communication between magicians in Wizard Civilization and could not be considered a betrayal of sect secrets.
When Saine attended masquerade