Chapter 481: Decline Before Advancing to the Second Ring
True Sight Crystal displayed the face of Great Wizard Sura. Clearly, Great Wizard Sura had once pressed his own face against the True Sight Crystal and spoken in a low voice. "Is Locke watching this crystal?"
"I've been growing more and more frightened and uneasy lately. I always feel as if I've overlooked something. As my Magic Pressure continues to strike at my soul, advancing has become an unavoidable matter of urgency."
"But the more this happens, the more uneasy I become. I always feel that, in some corner I cannot see, a hostile gaze is watching me."
Great Wizard Sura clutched his hair. He was actually suffering tremendous mental anguish. "I suspect my paranoia has grown more severe, to the point that I'm hallucinating."
Through the True Sight Crystal, Locke sensed that there were probably two reasons for Great Wizard Sura's suffering.
The first was that the Divination School magic was interfering with Great Wizard Sura, weakening his condition as much as possible and sapping his spirit.
But even if that Divination magic could gather the fortune of the entire Mage Plane, it absolutely shouldn't have been able to affect a First Transcender so severely, especially a wizard who had reached the limit of the First Transcender stage.
The second reason was the main one.
After Great Wizard Sura's soul had reached its limit, his magical power continued to strike at it, and his soul had already been severely weakened.
For someone who had reached the limit, power was no longer an accessory on the road to seeking truth. It had become a heavy burden.
It was like a three-year-old child wearing a heavy crown. With the slightest carelessness, he would fall, and the crown would pierce his throat, crush