A single night passed quickly.
Jiang Yuan finally figured out most of the Innate Talents brought by this magical awakening.
First, the Mind element talent allowed him to enter an extraordinary state of thought.
In this state, his casting speed reached its peak. He could form a Star Track with a single thought and observe everything around him in minute detail.
Most importantly, this state also enhanced magic.
It could double the base power of his spells.
This was already comparable to the Divine Seal Ode Mo Fan had obtained.
No, that wasn't right.
It was far stronger than Mo Fan's Divine Seal Ode!
As long as he activated this state, it was equivalent to every element receiving the doubled enhancement of Divine Seal Ode!
And this state had another benefit: meditation became faster, and controlling Star Particles became easier.
His meditation speed increased by 50%.
Originally, he could only meditate for ten hours. With the enhancement of a Mortal-grade Stardust Magic Tool, he could meditate for twelve hours.
Now, those twelve hours of meditation were equivalent to eighteen hours.
This Mind element Innate Talent was utterly heaven-defying!
Jiang Yuan also had a guess as to where this Innate Talent had come from.
He had discovered that the calm state in battle, where he could fully exert one hundred percent of his strength, was gone.
It had been replaced by an evolved Overclock state that he could activate and deactivate at will.
That's right, Jiang Yuan called this state Overclock!
Having covered the Mind element, there was also the Lightning element.
Just as he had thought during his awakening, the Lightning element also possessed an Innate Talent!
The Lightning element's Innate Talent was a special domain.
Elemental magic domains usually gathered their own elemental magic energy within the domain and repelled other magical elements, weakening opponents while strengthening oneself.
Jiang Yuan's Lightning element domain, however, was vastly different.
When he activated the domain, a vast electromagnetic field formed around him.
Based on his understanding of electromagnetism, there were far too many things it could accomplish.
For example, he could use electromagnetic induction to scout the area, lock onto targets, and strengthen Lightning element magic.
He could create powerful electromagnetic pulses to interfere with the gathering of nearby magical elements, disrupting spellcasting.
If the electromagnetic field became powerful enough, it could even stir the heavens. At that point, it would become a natural-disaster-level lightning phenomenon!
It was just that Jiang Yuan still could not cast Lightning element magic, so he had no way to test it in practice.
One month later.
With the immense boost from Overclock, Jiang Yuan spent only one month gaining control over the Lightning element and Mind element Star Particles.
Even among the forty-nine Star Particles in his Water element nebula, only the last twenty-seven remained.
In less than another month, he would be able to use intermediate Water element magic as well!
At this moment, the sun had just set.
Jiang Yuan appeared in a park.
Layers of tree shadows stretched beneath the white lights, and only sparse figures could be seen. Since nighttime was the peak period for those sewer-dwelling demons to emerge, the city government had been constantly urging people not to go out at night. As a result, there were barely any people in the park.
It was the perfect place to test magic.
"It's about time." Jiang Yuan swept his gaze around. After confirming that no one was nearby, he began casting magic.
Overclock activated, and his thoughts accelerated beyond measure.
At the same time, a purple Star Track rapidly formed around him.
One thought, Star Track—magic manifested!
Explosive lightning coiled around Jiang Yuan's fingertips, but he did not rush to release it. Instead, he activated another Innate Talent.
Electromagnetic Domain!
Activate!
No fluctuations appeared. The only difference was that some sand on the ground seemed to float into the air.
For this experiment, Jiang Yuan had specifically bought a black iron ball. His gaze now rested on the black iron ball in the distance.
Pointing a finger at the iron ball, Jiang Yuan flicked it lightly. "Thunder Seal."
Lightning flashed, and the park instantly became as bright as day.
Boom!
The explosion erupted as sparks of electricity and fire scattered everywhere!
"This power..." Jiang Yuan pondered for a moment, then deactivated the domain and raised his hand to launch another Thunder Seal.
Then he activated the domain, deactivated Overclock, and used Thunder Seal once more. This time, the time required to connect the Star Track returned to normal.
He compared the changes in power between the three attempts.
The power enhancement of the Electromagnetic Domain had also become clear. Like Overclock, it doubled the base power.
Don't think that doubling was far inferior to a Soul Seed or Heavenly Seed. This was a base power enhancement, on the same level as Divine Seal Ode!
If he obtained another doubled Divine Seal Ode like Mo Fan's, then added a great Heavenly Seed—
That would be (2+2+2)×12=72 times!
And if he continuously strengthened Beginner-level magic to level six or even level seven—
Then the power of Beginner-level magic would nearly rival super-level magic!
Even without a Heavenly Seed, if he got a top-tier Soul Seed—
That would still be (2+2+2)×6=36 times!
His Beginner-level magic would then rival high-level magic!
Even Mo Fan's Lightning element only had twelve times the power!
Jiang Yuan did not know what to say. The excitement in his heart nearly made him shout aloud in celebration.
He hurriedly reentered Overclock to calm himself down.
With this state layered together with the Electromagnetic Domain, he was not merely calm. Even the slightest movement nearby was entirely within his grasp.
"Hmm?" Jiang Yuan sensed that something was wrong in the park. He turned and walked to a pond where people often stopped.
He crouched down and, by the moonlight, spotted an unfamiliar beast footprint by the edge.
The footprint was much smaller than those of ordinary demons. It resembled a human footprint, yet was far rougher.
This footprint had been there for some time. Even after Jiang Yuan scattered Demon-Seeking Powder, he found no additional footprints.
Jiang Yuan spread out the Electromagnetic Domain, extending it to its limit.
Very soon, several tiny pebbles fell from a patch of shrubbery deep within the park.
At some unknown time, a massive hole more than three meters in diameter had been dug there.
Jiang Yuan pushed aside the bushes and extended the Electromagnetic Domain inside. It stretched one or two hundred meters in, yet there was still nothing but dirt, sand, and stones.
"Did it leave?"
Jiang Yuan stared at the dark tunnel entrance in silence.
He wanted to go in and investigate, but the extreme rationality brought by Overclock told him that would not be a wise decision.
That footprint was not from a Giant-eyed Stinky Rat, nor was it from a wolf-type demon. It was humanlike, but not human.
One possibility immediately came to mind.
Those disgusting things every member of the Black Vatican had.
Black Beast Demons.
If Black Beast Demons had appeared in this tunnel, then it proved the tunnel led to caverns where the Black Vatican operated.
That was not strange.
The Black Vatican was made up of nothing good. It was perfectly normal for them to live like rats, cowering in underground tunnels.
Although the Black Vatican did not have any particularly powerful figures in Bocheng, with Mu He serving as the apparent leader, there were actually also the super-level mage Wu Ku and the Black Alchemist secretly pulling strings.
Wu Ku controlled the rainwater covering Bocheng.
The Black Alchemist, meanwhile, mixed Rage Potion into the rainwater, driving the demons into a frenzy.
For his own safety, Jiang Yuan's rationality told him that he absolutely could not enter the underground tunnel alone.
It was time to leave.
Before leaving, Jiang Yuan memorized the location of this entrance.
He had marked many underground tunnel entrances on his map.
He had found these while taking on Demon Hunting Squad missions, and they covered roughly one-third of Bocheng.
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