The truth was exactly as Reilo had expected.
It wasn't that scholars had no chance of advancing during battle, but the odds were vanishingly small.
Unlike the Destroyers, scholars advanced mostly through the gradual accumulation of knowledge in their daily lives, triggering qualitative change through quantitative accumulation. Even the rare breakthroughs caused by an explosion of knowledge didn't happen through battle, but were more often stumbled upon by chance in everyday life.
And the one who had just completed his advancement to a Level Five creature was none other than Shanbao, the very opponent he had only recently begun fighting!
As Diba's trusted follower and the chieftain of the Black Rock Clan, Shanbao had long possessed the peak strength of a Level Four creature. For hundreds of years, however, he had been unable to cross the threshold to Great Chieftain. Even Diba had lamented this more than once, saying he would find a suitable opponent for Shanbao in the war against the Academic World.
But no one had expected Diba to be gravely wounded first.
Meanwhile, Shanbao had inadvertently found himself a remarkably unusual human scholar to fight: Xixido, the Humble Scholar.
"Damn it! My luck can't be this bad, can it? This is bad, bad, bad."
Xixido was attempting to seal Shanbao with the Three Thousand Worlds Sealing Art. The moment he sensed the aura inside the 'box,' his eyes widened in shock. He couldn't help swearing, then rolled his eyes in exasperation.
The Three Thousand Worlds Sealing Art was one of the most perfect sealing arts Xixido had ever developed.
Its greatest feature was that it used the 'box' of which he was the observer as its medium, sealing its target within.
Since he encountered a box breach almost every so often in his daily life, causing what