Trial Preparations (Part One)
With one day left before the Trial of the Sun, Fran was holed up in her rented house, making final preparations.
She took out the materials she had obtained from the Adventurers Guild at the market in the Spirit Realm and placed them on the table.
Fran looked at the soft, solid object emitting a bluish light in front of her. She poked it with her finger and made a dent, then watched it bounce back.
She only took this one thing from the Magic Creature's body, because the Magic Creature that swam in the Ocean was enormous, measuring five meters long.
Transporting such a form to the Spirit Realm would cost a fortune in Spirit Crystal, so Fran only wanted what she needed most.
Fran commissioned a Black-Striped Giant Shark, a type of Magic Creature commonly found in the Ocean.
Black-Striped Shark are Magic Creature that live in groups, and the Black-Striped Giant Shark is the elite or leader of the group. Finding this Magic Creature is not difficult, as groups of Black-Striped Shark can be found everywhere on the sea.
Nevertheless, the hunters still went to great lengths to successfully hunt down a Black-Striped Giant Shark- Black-Striped Shark.
Fran continued to look at the soft, bluish-green solid, which had been dug out of the body of the Black-Striped Giant Shark, located just behind its brain.
Its main function is to command the entire Black-Striped Shark formation to attack; this cyan solid emits vibrations that only the Black-Striped Shark can understand.
And this is exactly the ability Fran needs, because that's what's written on the ' Song of the Deep Sea ' sequence.
[Sequence 5: Gain the ability to expand the range of effect in the Ocean. This ability requires the ability to use seawater as a medium to expand the range of effect. Only First Order Magic Creature can meet this requirement...]
The cyan solid form of the Black-Striped Shark before Fran perfectly fulfilled this requirement. If Fran could possess the Black-Striped Shark's abilities, she could reach Sequence Five in the ' Song of the Deep Sea ' sequence, further enhancing her power.
But the question is, how do you insert this thing into your body?
Fran looked at the thing, which was almost as big as her entire head, and knew that there was no way she could fit it into her body by normal means.
"Let's use this method," Fran sighed, and then began the procedure.
She first drank the entire bottle of Infinite Blood Bottle Vial, filling her body with vitality.
Then, facing the mirror, she canceled [Hardened Scale Rock], then used Wind Blade to cut open her front body, and then used her Telekinetic Hand to open it, revealing the internal organs.
As she opened her body, several beams of light appeared on her body. She quickly used [Form Maintenance] to maintain her current state.
"Let's use this." Fran endured the pain, removed her own liver, and then placed it in contact with the blue solid on the table.
It wasn't over yet. Fran used Harmonization Method remotely to melt the blue solid into fine particles, which then adhered to her liver.
During this process, Fran's life force was constantly draining away, and she could still feel pain, but as a Profession, she could endure it.
After seeing that her liver had also turned blue and had increased in size slightly, Fran finally managed to put the liver back into her body.
She used her life force to reconnect the liver back into her body before closing her chest.
If this process had happened in Fran's previous life, she would probably have died from infection. But this is another world, Fran, referring to the modification process here, found that such a crude method was sufficient to complete the Transmutation Surgery.
After all, in Fran's previous life, there were no 'supermen' like Profession.
After the transformation was finished, Fran sat in a chair for a while to recover, because peeling off her body caused her a little bit of pain. Although the attributes enhanced by the Panel allowed her to endure the pain, the pain was still very real.
Once she had caught her breath, Fran began to assess her current condition.
She placed her fingers on the opening in her body. Although she could see no marks on it now, when she touched it with her fingers, she could feel a thin line.
At the same time, Fran looked down at the ground, where there was a large pool of blood left by Fran's violent actions, glistening faintly as before.
Fran tentatively placed her hands on the armrests and tried to stand up. Her body leaned forward slightly, and she easily stood up from the chair.
"It's alright, it hasn't affected my movements at all." Fran jumped up and then squatted down to test what changes had occurred to her body after the modifications.
She now finds that her basic movements are largely unaffected, but she has lost some of her Mental Power Mental Power, which is attached to her liver below her chest.
When she realized how much Mental Power she had left, she couldn't help but frown.
"Based on the values on the Panel, my Mental Power is only around 30 points now, which is almost the Mental Power among Second Order Mage. This modification really consumes Mental Power."
However, Fran wasn't too panicked, because unlike those mages from the Transmutation School, her Mental Power could be directly increased by combining multiple Profession.
"After I complete the Trial of the Sun, I'll create a second-tier mage Profession."
Fran then tidied up the scene of her rough Transmutation Surgery, washed the used glass bottles and put them aside, then sat down in a chair.
After she finished dressing, she took out a yellow rhombus-shaped crystal from her pocket. This was an alchemical artifact required for the spell [Heart of Quicksand], which she had obtained with the Silver Alchemy Award.
Fran would have been absolutely unable to accomplish this within seven days, even with her extraordinary alchemy skills, as she had not yet come into contact with second-tier alchemy.
If she were given a month to practice from scratch, she might be able to make it on her own, but that time is clearly not enough, and Fran needs a second-tier spell as a backup.
So after obtaining the spell, Fran specifically asked Iris to help her refine it.
Iris only thought about it for a moment before agreeing. She then took the silver paper from Fran's hand and handed over the silver artifact along with it a day later.
Fran held the yellow, prismatic crystal above her head. She could clearly see tiny black dots inside, which kept changing position as she moved her hand.
Even now, Fran can't help but marvel at how exquisite this alchemical creation is. If she had more time, she would have loved to try making one herself, following the steps outlined in the instructions.
Fran put the yellow rhombus-shaped crystal down. Now that she had completed all her preparations, she was ready to face the Trial.
"I have completed all the preparations... Are those Proxy of God preparing now? This is a task given to them by God, they should be preparing as diligently as I am, right?"
It is now late at night on the sacred island of the Church of the Goddess of Ocean Currents, but at the top of the island, there is still a room that is not shrouded in darkness.
The interior was lit as if it were daytime, with the surrounding walls emitting a white glow. On the ceiling, there was a luminous object embedded in the ceiling, surrounded by a band of gold decorations.
Heather is currently in this room, playing cards with her bodyguard Valerie —yes, playing cards.
"Haha! I won again!"
Heather threw down the two cards in her hand and onto the deck, excitedly standing up abruptly.
Seeing Heather's state, Valerie instinctively held her head, shook it, and said:
"Your Highness, let's stop here for today. Tomorrow you'll be going to the Spirit Realm to carry out the Lord of Ocean Currents ' mission, and it's far too late now."
Heather turned to look out the window and saw that the cathedral outside had also darkened. She knew it was getting late and it was time to rest, but...
Heather's initially happy expression immediately fell, and she complained:
"How time flies! I wish I could go back to the day I first received the mission from the Deity..."
After receiving this mission from the Spirit Realm from the Divine Statue of the Lord of Ocean Currents Heather, Heather completely relaxed.
She used the excuse of preparing for a mission for the Deity to deceive the higher-ups within the Sect, thus avoiding having to go to the main Divine Temple daily to pray and preside over activities...
During those seven days, aside from avoiding going out and wandering the streets to prevent being discovered by the higher-ups, Heather spent the rest of her time having a blast in her room.
Only now did she realize that tomorrow was the day of the mission; time really flies...
"Ugh, I have to sit in the Divine Temple for three hours every day, and then I have to go hungry for an hour before eating..."
Listening to Heather's complaints, Valerie smiled faintly on the ground. She didn't expose Heather's behavior because she also felt that Heather was usually very tired and just needed to relax at this time.
"Your Highness, you haven't prepared at all these past few days. Aren't you afraid that when the other Deity ' Proxy are fully prepared, you'll make a fool of yourself?" Valerie joked.
"I've contacted Proxy from other Sect via communications, and none of them have done anything worthwhile..."
Heather immediately retorted, but Valerie just smiled and let it go.
She believed that these Proxy were indeed unprepared, and with so many Proxy working together, the other side had no chance of passing such Trial.
That's why she spent several days playing with Heather and didn't let Heather do any preparation. She genuinely felt that hindering this Trial of the Sun was too easy for the Proxy of the Deity.