Menilman selected only some of the sturdier sailors. After all, she was an officer of the Imperial Navy of Fars and had no interest in those notorious pirates. She still preferred recruiting from among the common folk.
After Menilman finished her selection, Charlotte began his own "troop production."
In just three days, he completed a huge undertaking that would have taken three Saint Rank experts working without rest for more than ten days.
Not only Menilman, Domitian, and Sabastine—even Archpriest Augsladin and Ban Lamorak, who were already quite familiar with him, were left clicking their tongues in amazement.
In the name of the West Wind Knight Regiment, Charlotte recruited everyone into its ranks. He then selected the most "loyal and reliable" among them and taught them the Beast God Transformation Technique: Over-the-Back Red Bear Warrior Transformation.
Domitian had once said that the Beast God Transformation Technique was a very simple little spell.
After studying it, Charlotte discovered that it truly was a "very simple little spell."
Other paths of Transcendence could be followed all the way upward. That was because the vast majority of transcendental secret arts came from deities, while the very few exceptions came from Great Human Philosophers—for example, Protagoras, Kabbalah, who created Classical Alchemy, and Hermes, who created Classic Alchemy. Each had made remarkable achievements in the transcendent realm.
But Domitian really was just an ordinary Saint Rank expert. Though the secret art he created had "Beast God" in its name, it was merely a little spell that could only bring someone into the first tier of Transcendence.
A human could cultivate the Overback Red Bear Transformation for years, painstakingly achieve success, transform into an Overback Red Bear, and successfully advance to the first tier of Transcendence.
But if he then cultivated the leopard-man transformation, spending several