Three Blazing Suns

Lohr spent two peaceful days in the main hall and finally completed the full advancement of his Meditation Method.

"Next, all I need to do is wait until I leave the Godland, then I can begin advancing to a First-Circle Wizard."

He looked at the miniature Lava Eruption Sorcery in his Sea of Consciousness, now fully synchronized with the earth-and-fire rune model, and smiled in satisfaction.

"Before that, though, I still need to seize a piece of spatial equipment."

Lohr thought to himself, The higher-ups will release spatial rings in three days. I'll head back to the forest today. I can also gather a few more Divine Power Crystals while I'm at it. Opportunities like this don't come often.

He would not compete for the spatial rings in the hilly region. It was not as if he could not seize one elsewhere, so there was no need to fight his own students over them.

With his plan settled, Lohr picked up his bundle of Divine Power Crystals, left the main hall, and arrived at a newly arranged council hall.

This council hall was laid out almost identically to the one Lohr lived in.

Levan sat at the end of the long table, carefully reading a sheet of parchment.

Hearing footsteps, he looked up. When he saw that it was Lohr, he immediately smiled. "Mentor, what can I do for you?"

"I'm going to the forest to wait for the spatial equipment. I'll leave these divine crystals with you for now." Lohr placed the bundle on the table.

"There's really no need to go through so much trouble, Mentor."

Levan said, "The hilly region is basically all ours. When the time comes, I can just take some people out, retrieve the spatial equipment, and bring it back to you."

He possessed a spatial bracelet with plenty of room inside, so he did not care much about the spatial equipment provided by the Godland.

If Lohr needed it, he could simply give him the Godland's spatial equipment.

"I refuse."

Lohr shook his head, a faint curl appearing at the corner of his lips. "This is the second lesson I want to teach you. Think carefully about why over the next few days. Tell me the answer when you figure it out."

With that, he left the council hall without looking back.

He took teaching Levan very seriously, because it was a promise he had made to that person.

Watching Lohr's departing back, confusion flashed through Levan's eyes.

If his mentor had always refused to accept anything he offered, he would not have been so puzzled.

Yet his mentor had accepted fifteen percent of his Divine Power Crystal share just two days ago, only to refuse the spatial equipment now.

Something about that did not seem right.

"Why exactly?"

Levan no longer had the mood to read the Divine Power Crystal income records. He frowned and began pondering deeply.

"Lord Lohr."

Elsewhere, Lohr walked out of the stone hall. The two apprentices guarding the entrance hurriedly bowed when they saw him emerge.

This was the man Yasen, the tower master, had personally chosen as Lord Levan's mentor. They could not afford to disrespect him.

"Mhm." Lohr nodded, cast a Levitation Spell on himself, and headed straight toward the forest.

Before leaving the camp, he encountered many people. The moment they saw him, they promptly bowed and greeted him respectfully.

Lohr did not pay them much attention. He passed them by and left the camp.

Half an hour later, he entered a pitch-black forest once more.

Unlike when he had left the forest and entered the hilly region, Lohr had no clear destination now that he had returned.

The only thing he knew for certain was that the higher-ups would place the spatial equipment in each of the three regions. As for the exact locations, the rules did not specify them.

"There are still three days left. Since I have nothing better to do, I might as well see if I can get some more Divine Power Crystals."

Lohr spread out his spiritual power and began sensing the surrounding divine power fluctuations.

The Divine Power Crystal fluctuations behind him were the most intense. To his spiritual senses, they shone as dazzlingly as a blazing sun.

"I wonder how many Divine Power Crystals Levan has gathered these past few days. That's absurd." Lohr clicked his tongue inwardly.

But when he recalled that fifteen percent of it was his, the corners of his mouth rose involuntarily.

Blocking out the divine power fluctuations behind him, Lohr carefully sensed the fluctuations within the forest.

"There are relatively strong divine power fluctuations to the southeast and southwest. I'll check the southwest first."

He came to stand beneath a completely black tree, lightly pushed off with his feet, and leaped straight onto its crown.

Then he raced rapidly southwestward, stepping across the treetops.

About eight minutes later, Lohr stood atop a tree, staring through the branches at several familiar faces among the group of more than a hundred people below. He was left somewhat speechless.

"Who goes there?"

Within the apprentice group, a bear-form Bloodline apprentice walking at the front twitched his nose. Catching an unfamiliar scent, he warily raised his head toward the treetops ahead.

Behind him, the single-element apprentices immediately formed rune links.

At astonishing speed, they formed red, gold, and green protective barriers, shielding everyone inside, including the bear-form apprentice.

"Not bad reactions." Lohr parted the branches and gave a calm assessment.

He meant it sincerely. Compared to those people who had attacked his magic array three days ago, these people's response to an enemy was indeed far more impressive.

All he could say was that the large-scale Godland training exercise organized by the Alliance higher-ups had been quite effective. The only pity was that the Godland could not withstand such abuse.

Training outside, on the other hand, could not guarantee absolute... or rather, relative fairness. Many wizards had ways to interfere.

Even Fifth-Circle Wizards could not guarantee that they could observe every strange Fusion Spell.

"Greetings, Lord Lohr." ×135

Once they saw that the person hidden among the treetops was Lohr, all the apprentices below relaxed their guard, dispelled their sorcery, and bowed respectfully.

After all, being wary was useless. If he wanted to kill them, a single sorcery would settle it.

"Mhm. Go back." Lohr nodded.

"Yes." The apprentices below all breathed sighs of relief and hurriedly ran toward the edge of the forest.

"Do these people think I'm going to kill them and steal their Divine Power Crystals?"

Seeing the apprentices run faster than one another, Lohr could not help but laugh.

He could now be considered the protector of Levan's faction, and he was taking a fifteen-percent cut. Naturally, he would uphold the rules.

The people below were like crops to him. As long as he did not pull them out by the roots, they would bring him wave after wave of profits.

Under such circumstances, anyone with half a brain knew what choice to make.

"From this perspective, the Alliance higher-ups seem a little... No, that's not right!" A thought suddenly surfaced in Lohr's mind.

Those who entered the Godland were generally Third-Level Apprentices.

At that stage, their sorcery slots were usually already full.

To the higher-ups, apprentices who had exhausted their sorcery slots yet could not break through to become First-Circle Wizards were trash, essentially useless.

In that case, using their lives to temper a number of true elites might indeed be the better choice.

"They aren't stupid. They're ruthless!" After figuring out the higher-ups' intentions, Lohr sighed silently. "Forget it. This has nothing to do with me right now. Gathering more Divine Power Crystals is far more important than thinking about such pointless things."

Three days later.

Lohr looked down at the 197 grams of Divine Power Crystals in his bundle and suddenly felt like giving up.

That was right. This was everything he had gained over the past three days.

Once the amount of divine crystals in his possession reached fifty grams, whenever he approached a place with even slightly noticeable divine power fluctuations, those fluctuations would immediately move elsewhere.

Every one of them was as shrewd as a monkey. It took at least ten-odd minutes to catch up with them.

Moreover, the more Divine Power Crystals he carried, the harder it became to sense the fluctuations of other Divine Power Crystals.

Before he could sense someone else, that person had already sensed him and run away.

With things like this, there was truly nothing he could do.

"Forget it. I'll let the crops do the work." Lohr sat on a branch, too lazy to move any longer.

Another two hours passed when the pitch-black sky suddenly began to tremble violently.

"Crack, crack, crack—"

Three massive Fireballs tore through the sky. Like three blazing suns, they instantly dyed the Dark Godland crimson.

"Whoosh—"

The next moment, the three blazing suns streaked across the heavens and fell in three separate directions.

One blazing sun fell toward the forest region, one toward the hilly region, and the other toward the plains region.

"Two hundred and twenty li. Not bad. It isn't too far."

Lohr stood up again and estimated the distance between himself and the blazing sun that would land in the forest.

Then he raised a hand, cast a Levitation Spell, and raced toward where the blazing sun was falling.

At the same time, thousands of apprentices elsewhere in the forest made the same move as Lohr.

As for the remaining hundred thousand or so apprentices, they silently sighed and remained where they were.

The previous battle over Divine Power Crystals had already made them realize the brutality of the Divine Kingdom Trial and taught them to restrain their desires.