Witch Catherine's avatar vanished from the spot. Clearly, she had other matters to attend to and had no time to wait here for him for twenty-four hours.
Meanwhile, Locke examined his two great magics. Both the Moon of Evolution and the Tree of Prosperity had been washed spotless by the purification pool, with every impurity cleansed away.
As he soaked in the hot spring, he began considering how to make use of this rare opportunity.
This was clearly his teacher's compensation to him, while the trip to the Little Wizard World was his reward. Giving him a subproject under her key individual grant and agreeing to let him enter Golden Crown Mountain's Key Laboratory were acknowledgments of his abilities.
This is a rare chance to reset my build.
Locke pondered.
If I make good use of it, I should be able to eliminate quite a few hidden problems I was forced to leave unresolved in the past, especially those involving abyssal power.
First was the abyssal energy cycle he had acquired during his apprentice days from consuming large quantities of potions in the Beholder Potion series.
Locke tried using the natural aspects of his two great powers, the Tree of Prosperity and the Moon of Evolution, to cleanse the abyssal energy cycle in his eyes. He adjusted the spell model's structure several times, but no matter how he changed it, the situation inside his eyes only grew more complicated.
Natural power mingled with abyssal energy, strengthening the latter instead and causing internal conflicts.
Locke opened his now pitch-black eyes. They were utterly dark, like a demon's eyes.
He immediately washed his eyes with water from the Purification Spring, and only then did they return to normal.
*As I thought, abyssal energy is part of nature too. If I try to