At the center of the tower.
Charles's power was still rising without pause.
His eyes opened, and everything around him seemed to freeze for an instant before time began to flow again.
Flames burned within his eyes. Wherever he looked, with a mere thought, he could ignite fire.
He raised a hand, and a ball of twisted, scorching flame rapidly gathered, warping even the surrounding space with its heat.
Charles began drawing in immense amounts of magical power from his surroundings. Not only from the surroundings—even from the two complete rules within his soul, he was drawing strength.
Power from the Sea of Rules flowed endlessly into Charles.
His spiritual power was like a violent fishing net, madly devouring the magical power around him.
Fortunately, though the Abyss's magical power was violent, it was incomparably abundant.
Above the tower, Charles's absorption of magical power directly formed a massive vortex.
It was a vortex formed by highly condensed magical power being absorbed.
At the center of the vortex was Charles, crazily devouring that power.
Countless streams of magical power gathered within Charles's body.
The magical power was highly condensed, compressed, and poured into his body.
The unceasing magical power eventually formed an elemental body outside Charles's body.
However, this body was still very small, only the size of an ordinary person. It was merely a phantom, not even truly a body—more like a shadow.
One of the strengths of Fourth Ring wizards was that they would usually condense a true body of power.
A true body of power possessed many characteristics, one of which was having no fatal weak points.
At the same time, a condensed true body of power made a wizard's close-combat abilities extraordinarily powerful.
Likewise, when casting witchcraft through a true body of power, the speed would become