After making sure nothing would go wrong in Bohan, "Lai" immediately set up a large number of magic traps in her inn room and took along some alchemy devices dyed golden yellow.
She specifically used spirit crystals to assimilate these alchemy devices into a state that allowed them to enter the Spirit Realm, then brought them in with her.
As always, she arrived in her own room within the Radiance Domain.
After taking in the room's decorations, she immediately headed to the Divine Temple. It was empty, with no one inside.
"Lai" knew this did not mean the other members of the Sect had already left. Their missions were simply different from hers.
She looked at the glowing divine statue in the temple and asked slowly:
"Can I leave now?"
"You still need to wait a while. Trials that reward Spirit Realm professionals all work this way. Before they begin, you spend some time in a safe space."
The safe space clearly referred to the Gray Space Fran had passed through during her Spirit Realm promotion trial.
"Even when it isn't a promotion trial? Seriously?"
After becoming a Formal Mage, the knight "Lai" had never looked further into how many kinds of Spirit Realm trials there were or exactly how they worked.
"The Spirit Realm does not permit domain lords to privately establish trials of the First Order or above. Any trial involving First Order power must follow the Spirit Realm's procedures."
"Lai" understood at once. This was probably the Spirit Realm's way of keeping all Spirit Realm professionals firmly in its grasp, ensuring none of those professions could become independent of it.
A trial like the first one Fran had encountered had probably been established privately by the lord of some Spirit Realm domain. During the apprentice stage, however,