The Bottleneck Period

It had been a year since Abel became the king of the Duchy of Camai. Stories about him had spread throughout the Holy Continent, and the Duchy of Camai had become a unique existence.

Yet he had not appeared in public anywhere in the Duchy of Camai for two months. In any other duchy, such a situation would certainly have destabilized the political situation, but that was not at all the case in the Duchy of Camai.

That was because Abel was a wizard—a powerful and terrifying wizard. According to legend, he had killed six high-ranking orc priests and destroyed an orc city at the same time. In a duchy ruled by such a wizard, no matter how many years passed, as long as his death had not been confirmed, no one would dare cause unrest in the Duchy of Camai.

On top of that, the magic contract ensured that everything in the Duchy of Camai remained normal and stable.

Abel was currently sitting on the top floor of his Magic Tower, looking extremely depressed. He had been in the Full State of a level-ten wizard for two whole months. During those two months, he had constantly searched for a way to break through, but no matter what he did, he could not find any sense of progress.

It was not only his wizard level. As a Grand Knight Commander, he had also cultivated his lightning-element Battle Qi to the Full State.

In this regard, he was even more lost than with his wizard advancement, because he could not find any path forward at all.

Although he appeared to be a Grand Knight Commander with single-element Battle Qi, he knew that he was actually a Grand Knight Commander with Dual-Element Battle Qi.

However, because the first type of energy he