"With your current soul condition, using this lowest-grade Miracle advancement array to assist your advancement would give you an extremely small chance of success. It would be a complete waste of time and resources."
"If you wanted to advance smoothly, you would at least need to construct an intermediate advancement array. If you wanted to use this advancement to resolve most of the lingering problems with your soul, it would be best to choose an even more advanced advancement array."
Alazan presented Dago with two options. The first sought only a smooth advancement, while the second would ensure his advancement while also perfectly resolving the issue of his lingering aftereffects.
However, even the resources required to implement the basic option were more than ten times what Dago had originally anticipated.
Dago remembered that the last time he had worried over Magic Stones was when he had been a wandering wizard in the Treehouse District of Aina Town. Who would have thought that, after all the twists and turns, he would still have to become a "wage slave" to save up for his future even after becoming a Third-Ring Wizard?
After leaving his private secret realm, he flew straight upward along the dim, bottomless waterfall abyss. Along the way, he saw wizards from the same Deep Sea School flying out from even deeper below. Perhaps behind every waterfall in this area lay a separate secret realm.
Once he emerged from the abyssal waterfall, a white void stretched around the circular lake.
Following the guidance of the Spirit Mirror Lake Book, Dago found a nearby spot, softly chanting a Spell while swiftly drawing a special pattern in the void with the Spirit Mirror Lake Spell Ring on the ring finger of his right hand.
Very quickly, ripples like faint water waves spread