Chris carefully read through all the information about the KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! dimension, making the most thorough preparations for the upcoming journey to another world. He hoped that he would be prepared when he stepped into that unknown land.
After consulting the basic information, he began to carefully plan his next move in his mind. At first, he repeatedly weighed between two completely different plans: should he sign up for a few basic magic courses and master a few practical spells before setting off, or should he simply go directly to the hunting area for actual hunting?
After a rigorous analysis and comparison of his own strengths and weaknesses, he reluctantly recognized a reality: his current magic power reserves were too thin and could hardly be put to any practical use; to put it bluntly, he was almost the same as a talentless Squib in Magic Domain. However, there was no end to the road, and he also held another trump card in his hand, which was his strong physique and combat experience as a Third Tier No. Qi Martial Artist.
After making up his mind, he didn't waste any time and immediately used the contacts he accumulated while working in the military to buy a high-quality magic sword. Under the current Empire system, most citizens must undergo systematic militarized training. Practice and become proficient in basic melee combat, firearms shooting skills, and the basic use of at least one cold weapon. In the early stages of implementation, this mandatory law brought Auror Department a lot of troubles and challenges in public security management.
After purchasing a set of sophisticated protective equipment and weapons, Chris took a deep breath and activated the identity terminal watch on his wrist. A light flashed, and a guide Golem appeared in front of him to receive him, and guided him to successfully obtain an exclusive Skill Card.
As expected, Skill Card has clearly recorded his current abilities, including Battle Aura skills, and even his professional skills as Psychic Software Engineer are also included in detail.
Subsequently, Golem sent him a detailed dynamic holographic map, which clearly marked the distribution and density of monsters in each area. These hunting areas were strictly divided according to danger levels, extending from the Zero Tier position to the Third Tier position. Except for them, the trialists who had just been transported in, no other intelligent creatures could be found in this vast area.
In fact, before this global system upgrade and the major news announcing the emperor's return were made public, Edward had already taken action in advance to relocate all the indigenous people in the KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! dimension - including even those Spark Gods who had surrendered.
Today, these aborigines are being gradually and methodically resettled and integrated into the huge social system of the Arcane Empire. As for the entire emptied world, it has been completely transformed into a huge exclusive training ground, specifically for the Empire citizens to hunt monsters and obtain Law of Causality power, in order to steadily improve their strength until they reach the Third Tier level.
In order to realize this grand system, Pheobe demonstrated her outstanding knowledge of bloodline science, and deeply combined the unique bloodline characteristics of the Crimson Demon Clan with the special bloodline given by Adventurer Card when people in the different world change professions. Fusion and improvements. At the same time, Hermione has comprehensively upgraded and reconstructed the underlying system of Law of Causality in the entire world to ensure that it can perfectly adapt to the trial needs of the Empire citizens.
"Which area should I choose as the starting point?" Chris looked at the holographic map and thought silently in his mind. Going directly to the Third Tier area will undoubtedly bring about the fastest leap in strength, but it will also be accompanied by extreme Fatal danger. According to the trial rules he learned in advance, when a trialist encounters life-threatening danger in this area, a specialized rescue force will arrive in time and save him. However, everything has accidents, and the rescue force may not be able to arrive in time due to various emergencies.
"To be on the safe side, let's go to the area at Second Tier first." He secretly made a decision. In that area, even if he encounters a crisis that is difficult to deal with, with his current strength, he will at least be sure to escape unscathed. So, he put away the map and headed towards an area marked with a creature called "Boxing Kangaroo".
After arriving at the destination, he used the real-time detection function of the dynamic map to quickly lock on a lone Boxing Kangaroo and launched a decisive attack. He rushed forward like electricity, holding the magic sword tightly in both hands, and using the inertia of the sprint, he swung a powerful and heavy horizontal slash.
However, what made him feel extremely embarrassed was that the seemingly clumsy Magical Creatures easily escaped this fatal blow with an extremely agile posture. Chris had a wry smile on his lips, and his heart was full of shame. Only then did he realize that he still had huge shortcomings in real life-and-death fighting skills.
Ignoring the trace of anthropomorphic mockery in his opponent's eyes, Chris instantly concentrated his mind and directly activated the dormant Battle Aura in his body. In an instant, a strong force Fierce power roamed through his limbs and bones. He relied on the overwhelming physical advantage brought by Battle Aura to kill the Beast under his sword in a crisp and neat way.
As the monster fell, he clearly felt a mysterious power pouring into his body and flowing through his meridians. He quickly called out Skill Card to check the status, and sure enough, his level had increased. From a strict system classification point of view, his initial level when he entered here was level 0, and the level of the Boxing Kangaroo he had just killed had reached level 34.
In this unique trial system, there is a clear correspondence between levels and positions: levels 0 to 9 belong to the Zero Tier th position, levels 10 to 20 correspond to the First Tier th position, levels 21 to 40 represent the Second Tier th position, and levels 41 to 60 belong to the Third Tier th position.
Chris did not hesitate to add all the attribute points he had just obtained to the magic attribute. As the values changed, he could truly feel that the magic power in his body was filling up little by little. This unprecedented sense of fulfillment made his heart surge with uncontrollable joy. With this joy, he continued on his journey to find his next prey.
This time, he learned from the previous lesson and no longer blindly charged with his sword for melee combat. As the wise emperor once pointed out, it is not advisable to engage in unskilled melee combat like barbarians; a true spellcaster should always maintain a safe distance from the enemy and drown the opponent by pouring out dense spells.
Chris couldn't help but recall the uproar caused in society when His Majesty the Emperor made these remarks in a public interview. At that time, almost all branches of Arcanist who majored in melee combat felt offended and wrote on the Internet one after another Expressed protest. Immediately afterwards, those traditional pure spellcasters immediately stood up to defend the emperor's point of view, insisting that this was the true meaning of magic. In the end, the incident ended with His Majesty the Emperor personally coming out to clarify. He said that it was just an inappropriate joke and sincerely apologized to the public.
Despite this, anyone with a discerning eye can see that His Majesty the Emperor is really not interested in the kind of direct fighting style that involves fists and fists.
Chris took back his thoughts, summoned his own Grimoire, and began to try to activate his unique natal magic. He focused his attention on the long sword in his hand, and cast a spell to increase the movement speed of the sword, giving it a huge kinetic energy in an instant.
With a sharp sound breaking through the air, the long sword flew out like an arrow from the string, and accurately penetrated the Boxing Kangaroo's head before it could even react to what happened.
Later, Chris tried further control. By changing the vector direction of the long sword's movement, he flexibly changed its trajectory in the air. This effect was almost the same as Psychic Energy in performance.
He was like a child who received his favorite toy on Christmas morning, with a pure smile on his face, constantly controlling the sword to fly up and down in mid-air and shuttle left and right, enjoying the joy of controlling power.
However, this refreshing feeling did not last long. A few minutes later, he suddenly felt dizzy and his limbs became weak. He realized that his magic power had completely bottomed out. He felt ashamed again because his magic power was exhausted due to being forgetful for a moment.
He had to rely on Battle Aura to maintain his strength, carefully retreat to a safe hiding place on foot, and wait patiently for his magic power to slowly recover before continuing his hunting plan.
After killing several Boxing Kangaroos one after another and gradually becoming familiar with the rhythm of the battle, Chris gradually became more courageous. He decided to challenge Self and deal with multiple prey at the same time. Although he finally won with his flexible tactics, this battle also exposed his current fatal weakness: he was in urgent need of an effective defensive spell.
He began to conceive in his mind, trying to build an invisible force field around his body. This force field could automatically change the vector direction of all physical attacks coming towards him, thereby achieving the purpose of defense.
At first, he thought that converting such a complex idea into an actual spell would be an extremely difficult process. However, after just a few hours of repeated deductions and attempts, a brand new spell model clearly emerged on the pages of his Grimoire book.
"Is this the hidden advantage of having high willpower?" He murmured to himself in surprise. He recalled the relevant information he had reviewed before, which clearly mentioned that this spellcasting system based on Grimoire would give great preference and feedback to users with firm determination or high willpower.
With reliable defense means as a guarantee, Chris's hunting efficiency has made a qualitative leap. Time passed quietly, and a month passed in the blink of an eye.
"Fireball!" Chris chanted loudly, and instantly condensed a blazing fireball five times the size of a basketball in front of him. The fireball roared into the enemy formation, and the explosion of fire instantly swallowed up hundreds of low-level magic Beast.
"Bottomless Swamp." He then waved his staff, and the originally solid ground in front of him immediately turned into a muddy swamp, trapping a group of Long-Legged Chicken who were trying to take advantage of their speed to charge. This Long-Legged Chicken creature belongs to the Third Tier position and is famous for its amazing running speed, but under the constraints of the swamp, they can only struggle feebly.
"Lightning Strike." As the last spell fell, a dazzling bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck accurately in the center of the swamp, completely turning the trapped Long-Legged Chicken into charcoal.
"Is this the power that Third Tier Arcanist has? It's really fascinating," he sighed softly as he looked at his masterpiece. After a whole month of hunting and training without sleep and food, His level has reached the peak of level 60. Not only has he mastered all the combat skills on Skill Card, but his Grimoire also has several new spells that he derived by himself.
"So, can I now declare that my dream has come true?" he asked himself and answered, "No, this is just the beginning."
With a thought in his mind, he controlled Grimoire to mobilize the surrounding airflow, converging into two powerful miniature tornadoes behind him. With the support of the wind, he rose into the sky and flew towards the distance. After finding a safe place to rest, he embarked on a journey back to the real world.
After successfully being promoted to the Third Tier position, Chris clearly felt that his strength improvement had entered a period of stagnation, as if he had hit some kind of invisible bottleneck, and it became extremely difficult to go further. According to the information he had, Empire also controlled some other more advanced dimensions, where trialists could obtain higher levels through hunting.
Edward, with the help of Spark Gods, has incorporated several new worlds into the territory of the Empire. Most of these worlds have similar background settings to those other-world travel novels that emerge on the market every year. In these dimensions, trialists can climb all the way to the level of Sixth Tier by constantly hunting and collecting Law of Causality power.
However, starting from this stage, the difference in talent will gradually play a decisive role. If a person with mediocre innate qualifications like Chris wants to forcefully break through to Fourth Tier, he must work hundreds of times more than ordinary people and experience difficulties and obstacles that ordinary people cannot imagine.
What is even more cruel is that in these high-level trial dimensions, there is no longer any form of safety guarantee mechanism. If you are killed in battle, it is a real death. At that critical moment of life and death, no one will fall from the sky to save the citizens trapped in Extremis; this is the iron law of that dimension, cold and ruthless.
"Let's wait until we have collected the money to buy Potions before making any plans." Chris assessed the situation and made a rational decision.
Afterwards, he officially entered the school for further studies and began to systematically learn how to condense the profound theory of Magic Core. Since he was already accustomed to controlling magic power and accumulated a relatively considerable amount of magic power reserves, this stage of First Tier's learning went quite smoothly.
However, the real challenge is yet to come. He must now take precautions to prepare for the step into Fourth Tier. This requires him to not only master the complex principles of Undetectable Extension Charm to expand the capacity of Magic Core, but also learn the deep skills of how to compress the magic power of gaseous state into liquid state.
"Even with the assistance of Dragon Potion, it is not easy to complete this step, let alone in my current state," he shook his head with a wry smile and said to himself.
"It would be nice if there was another way," he sighed, lost in thought.
"Other ways?" Suddenly, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, as if he had caught a chance in the darkness.
"If I rely solely on my talent, understanding, and Divine Power strength, I have almost no chance of being able to fully understand and successfully engrave Undetectable Extension Charm on my own Magic Core. But what if I can find another way? What if I can make full use of my only current advantage over ordinary people - what about 2 points of willpower?" He thought quickly in his mind.
Following this idea, Chris immediately logged into Academic Network and began frantically searching for relevant academic journals and cutting-edge research. He entered a series of keywords into the search bar: "The inner connection between willpower, magic and the soul", "The feasibility of using willpower to interfere with the operation of magic", and "The principle of concreteness of willpower".
There are indeed some relevant documents on the Internet, but due to his lack of systematic Magical Theory foundation, those papers full of professional terms and complex formulas are like heavenly books to him. In desperation, he can only turn to the artificial intelligence system to let the artificial intelligence convert these obscure contents into easy-to-understand language and extract the core ideas.
After carefully studying the summary report of artificial intelligence, Chris's eyes Blink glowed with excitement. "My idea is completely feasible in theory," he said excitedly. Then he quickly He sorted out his ideas, formed a detailed plan, and solemnly submitted it to the official "Idea Suggestion Box". After the submission was completed, he waited with trepidation for the official's evaluation of the value of this idea.
To his surprise, the evaluation process was extremely long. A full ten minutes passed, and the system still did not give any feedback. This long wait made Chris feel a deep anxiety. He began to Self doubt whether his idea was too ridiculous, or that the idea had already been proposed by others.
However, when he finally received the reply letter, the content in it left him completely stunned. The letter automatically sent by the system clearly stated:
"Your creativity has extremely far-reaching potential impact and may have a significant impact on the development trajectory of the entire Arcanist Civilization. In view of the importance of this idea, Imperial Family has officially extended an invitation to you and hopes that you can attend a more in-depth closed-door discussion."
Chris stared at the screen dumbfounded, unable to close his jaw for a long time. It took a full five minutes for him to recover from the shock. He never imagined that the idea he had in a flash of inspiration would trigger such a huge response, even alarming the core of the highest power.