[One hundred chapters already. Merlin was about to truly set foot upon the path of a Spellcaster! Please bookmark and recommend! Old Moon would write a hundred-chapter reflection, chatting about the things everyone was interested in.]
Wilson Merlin's wedding had practically become the grandest event Pujias City had seen in over a decade.
Nobles large and small throughout the Pugas City-State had all come personally to congratulate Merlin on his wedding. Even those unable to attend due to other matters had sent people in their stead.
Even Earl Sailin had personally appeared at Wilson Castle, offering his blessings to Baron Merlin and his two wives.
This grand feast remained a much-talked-about subject even years later.
"Matrix, activate!" "Ding. Matrix successfully activated. Please establish a task!" "Analyze the 'Earth Guardian' Spell Model." "Ding. Analysis commencing."
Alone in his room, Merlin activated Matrix's analytical and computational functions, beginning to reconstruct Earth Guardian, the earth-element Spell he had obtained from the old man in black robes.
A year had now passed since Merlin married Avril and Shirley. There was good news as well: both women had been pregnant for over nine months.
Over that year, Merlin had not been idle. He had continuously practiced the poses depicted on the Mysterious Relief, and his physical abilities had greatly improved. They were now nearly comparable to those of a Third-Level Elemental Swordsman.
However, the leap from the third level to the fourth seemed like a threshold, exceedingly difficult to cross. Merlin estimated that even if he kept practicing the final pose on the relief, it would likely take several years before his physical abilities could substantially improve and reach the level of a Fourth-Level Elemental Swordsman.
Merlin was a Spellcaster, so he did not place particularly high demands on his physical abilities.