Level 5 Wizards, Bottlenecks, and Levels

Chapter 456: Level 5 Wizards, Bottlenecks, and Levels

That day, inside the laboratory's meditation chamber.

Benjamin had just finished "consuming" a wisp of Plane Origin imbued with the trait of "forced absorption."

His consciousness slowly detached from the vast sea of cold formulas and complex models concerning energy siphoning, forced stripping, one-way conduction, and the like, returning to reality.

He rubbed his slightly swollen temples, about to regulate his breathing for a moment, when he suddenly froze.

A strange sensation welled up in his heart.

The Ring of Truth in his spiritual world gave a gentle, spontaneous tremor. It was more solid and stable than before, and its resonance with the elements outside had become much clearer.

His total spiritual power had not surged dramatically, but it flowed more smoothly and naturally.

"Is this... Level 5 Wizard?"

Benjamin sensed the changes within himself. He was somewhat surprised, yet it also felt only natural.

The requirements for advancing to a Level 5 Wizard were clear: mastery of at least one law had to reach over 10%, while spiritual power intensity also had to meet the standard.

His mastery of the Spirit Energy Law had long surpassed 20%. Coupled with how extraordinarily powerful his body had become after the training of the Time Afterimage, the mutual influence of essence, qi, and spirit naturally brought his spiritual power intensity up to standard, as naturally as water flowing into a channel.

"Level 5, huh..." Benjamin murmured, his tone calm.

To him, this advancement brought a negligible increase in terms of "actual combat power."

After all, it was still the same old reason: the root of a wizard's power lay in "knowledge."

A rise in level merely meant that the foundation of one's "hardware"—spiritual capacity, upper limit of energy control, law-bearing capacity—had been upgraded, like