Above the Black Lake, Shawn guided the water python as it carried the soaking, unconscious Pheobe ashore.
He was not particularly surprised that Harry and Draco had been the first to find the merpeople's village.
His comprehensive surveillance showed that the other champions were also very close to it.
He had created this ring-shaped water-screen "live broadcast" using some of his accumulated level 1 faith value, combined with the principles behind magical Projection Orbs.
Though it had been a spur-of-the-moment idea, it also served as a little experiment, indirectly confirming the results of his recent studies.
The results looked quite good.
Helga truly lived up to her status as a demigod wizard. She had a unique and profound understanding of how to harness faith.
From the Demigod Insights, Shawn had not only learned more sophisticated ways to harness level 3 faith, but could now also begin using level 1 and level 2 faith directly, just as he was doing now.
He no longer needed to convert it through the "system" first, as he had before.
Shawn felt that once he had fully absorbed those insights, he could almost match the power of using the "system" to harness faith directly.
That would effectively free him from eighty or ninety percent of the "system's" restrictions!
If he could gather all the materials to craft a Faith Collector of his own, he could collect faith without restraint!
Previously, even though he had stopped deliberately collecting faith, his spreading fame and growing prestige meant that-
He had still unwittingly collected a great deal of level 1 and level 2 faith.
There must have been tens of thousands of units of level 1 faith and several thousand of level 2 faith in the "system."
As Shawn's cultivation advanced, he increasingly felt that this was actually