Advancing to Rank One: A Formal Wizard

Upon hearing that,

Wayne thought for a while before speaking. "So,

the Breathing Method is a complete Rank Seven one. The difficult part is contracting a Light Elemental Dragon."

As he spoke,

Wayne sensed that something was off.

"That's not right. You nearly fooled me.

To this day, no knight has contracted a Light Dragon. Where did you get a complete Light Elemental Breathing Method?"

Linus curled his lip. "What are you making such a fuss over? Even if there's no complete Light Elemental Breathing Method,

couldn't there be others?

Because of my own personal circumstances, I compiled this one myself."

Upon hearing that,

Wayne finally understood why it was so cheap. "So,

the reason it's cheap, aside from the difficulty of contracting a Light Elemental Dragon, is because this is

an untested Breathing Method?"

Linus was not the least bit embarrassed. Instead, he spoke as though it were only natural.

"Of course.

What else did you think made it so cheap?"

Seeing this,

Wayne hesitated no longer and directly tossed out three top-grade magic crystals.

Linus caught them steadily,

set them on the table, then chuckled.

"Buy some potions."

Upon hearing that,

Wayne looked speechlessly toward the heavens. "Do you have to be this money-grubbing?

Didn't you already earn three top-grade magic crystals?"

Listening to Wayne,

Linus argued with great conviction. "What do you know? Who would ever complain about having too much money?

Buy it.

Buy it, and I'll make this deal with you."

He paused as he spoke.

"This stuff really works. It's a rankless potion, made from an essence refined from the blood of a Rank Seven Holy Sun Tiger Magic Beast.

Tsk, tsk.

Drink one vial, and you'll never have to worry about your kidneys for the rest of your life!"

Wayne secretly curled his lip. It sounded nice,

but that so-called essence

had probably been refined by the ton. How did Wayne know?

Nonsense.

If a Rank Seven Magic Beast were the main ingredient, could it possibly sell for just one high-grade magic crystal?

After a long pause,

Wayne's face was rosy as he finally spoke with a perfectly serious expression.

"I heard this stuff can make you grow taller.

Is that guaranteed?"

Seeing this, Linus naturally understood Wayne's little trick. He immediately played along and teased him.

"Of course.

Guaranteed to make you grow tall and tall, soft yet firm!"

As he spoke,

he took out a blood-red potion and handed it to Wayne.

Wayne accepted the potion,

then tossed over one high-grade magic crystal. After receiving the Light Elemental Breathing Method booklet from Linus,

he finally turned and hurried away.

Watching Wayne's retreating back, Linus laughed happily.

"Haha,

that kid is pretty shy."

A moment later,

Wayne stepped out of the elevator on the first floor, smacking his lips as he walked.

"Not bad. It tastes pretty good."

Don't ask what it was.

He had bought it already, and leaving it sitting around was still leaving it sitting around.

It definitely wasn't

because he wanted to become a fiercer man!

Time passed,

and in the blink of an eye, ten months had gone by. Over those ten months,

with Aurora around and no longer needing to worry about trivial matters, Wayne

had stopped attending classes.

Instead, he had completely shut himself away and placed his own cultivation above all else.

This day

was the end of the second month of Wayne's second year studying at Imperial Central Academy.

Inside Villa No. 66,

Wayne had completed the final rune imprint for the Rank One Hundred-Blade Formation seven days ago.

Now, all that remained was to assemble it.

Within his sea of consciousness, inside the elemental killing formation on the right,

beside the apprentice-level Ten Blades Array,

Wayne controlled twelve hundred heaven-and-earth runes as they poured down from the lofty sky of his sea of consciousness.

Following the assembly order

that had been etched into his memory over the past seven days, he began nesting the Rank One Hundred-Blade Formation around the Ten Blades Array.

The instant the formation was fully completed, a surge of magic power countless times greater than anything from the apprentice stage

rapidly poured into his body.

It then entered his sea of consciousness. If an apprentice-level lord wizard had merely been a spring eye,

with a tiny stream slowly gathering,

then now,

advancing to a Rank One formal wizard was like becoming a brook, endless and unceasing, with magic power flowing into his sea of consciousness

like a stream.

It continuously strengthened his sea of consciousness. At the same time, as silent as rain nourishing all things, it also,

as an added effect,

strengthened his spiritual power.

Outside, Aurora and Nia stood some distance from Wayne's physical body, watching countless manifested particles of gold-element magic power

surge into Wayne's body,

unceasingly.

"Young Master has broken through!"

Upon hearing that,

Nia looked at Aurora. "Really?

Sister Aurora!"

Aurora nodded slightly. "That's right. This is the phenomenon of a wizard's advancement.

Whether they are elemental wizards

or lord wizards, when they break through, magic power particles between heaven and earth will manifest

and flow into their bodies.

That represents a successful advancement. The magic power particles will greatly strengthen a wizard's body.

Once it reaches the range corresponding to that rank, they will fully strengthen the wizard's sea of consciousness."

She paused.

"However, such a vast manifestation of magic power is something ordinary people cannot compare to.

Only those whose elemental affinity talent

has reached the highest level will have such a massive quantity of corresponding magic power particles manifest."

Nia nodded slightly.

"I know that. It's like how, after I ate lots and lots of magic crystals,

the range of my domain

has already reached 1.2 million mu. That way, when gathering information, I can gather more,

right?"

Aurora rolled her eyes at Nia. "Are you praising Young Master,

or have you started praising yourself?"

Nia waved her little hand and imitated Wayne's tone.

"Haha, praise everyone, praise everyone!"

Watching Nia wave her hands while dressed in a short-sleeved shirt and shorts,

she was simply a living,

breathing miniature Wayne.

Aurora could not help laughing. "You and Young Master

really look as if you were carved from the same mold, expressions and movements alike."

She paused.

"Alright, Young Master has successfully advanced too. It's time for me to work hard as well.

In about another month,

I should be able to advance to a Rank One Black Iron Knight. I cultivate the knight's path,

which is far simpler than being a wizard. I can't fall behind Young Master."

As she spoke,

she turned and walked downstairs. Nia, however, did not react much.

After all,

before Rank Six, all she needed to do to advance was eat and digest.

She could steadily reach Rank Six that way.

It was just that her digestion could no longer keep up with the supply, so after ten months, she had only become a little fairy at the completion of Rank One cultivation.

A quarter of an hour later,

Wayne opened his eyes and saw Nia sitting cross-legged on a specially made little sofa atop the living room table,

watching him.

"Master, congratulations on your breakthrough!"

Wayne nodded slightly.

"Thank you, Nia!"

As he spoke, he rose to his feet and clenched his fist. The improvement in his physical constitution was within Wayne's expectations,

and it would continue to strengthen later.

But the greater change was in his sea of consciousness. Wayne could clearly sense the Hundred-Blade Formation.

With a light tap of his finger,

he could form the wizard formation. Within a hundred-meter radius, not a blade of grass would remain in an instant.

The allure of transcendent power—

only after stepping into Rank One as a formal wizard did Wayne understand

what it meant to be as far apart as heaven and earth.

Without exaggeration, his current self could easily crush a thousand versions of his former apprentice-level self.

After familiarizing himself with it,

Wayne looked at Nia. "Right,

where's Aurora?

Where did she go?"

Nia giggled. "Hehe, after Sister Aurora saw Master break through,

She had gone off to train,

saying she didn't want to fall behind her master."

Hearing that,

Wayne smiled. "That does suit her nature,

but she's being too hasty.

The Light Elemental Breathing Method she practiced had made her redo all the training from her previous apprenticeship period,

so this pace wasn't slow at all."

That was right.

What Aurora practiced was precisely the Light Elemental Breathing Method Wayne had brought back ten months ago,

and it suited her perfectly.

In just ten short months, she had already advanced from the apprenticeship stage to the level of an advanced knight.

Such a cultivation speed

had already reached the knight-training speed of someone with a high-grade physical talent.