Of course, Leo didn't have any bad intentions; he was genuinely curious about the energy pool.
Due to issues with his physical training system, he is interested in any form of high energy and is always looking for ways to address his own energy deficiency.
But I never expected that an unconscious action I took back then would come in handy today.
The floor where the energy pool is located is the highest point in the entire academy; apart from the energy pool, there is nothing else on the entire floor.
The entire floor is covered with rune arrays that continuously absorb elemental energy from the air and store it in an energy pool for later use.
In the very center of the room is a small pool, about one meter square, filled with liquefied elemental energy.
Leo glanced at the energy pool; it was still at 50% capacity.
The energy pool consumed a large amount of energy that day in order to help the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard open the spatial rift.
After placing the wizards' corpses on the ground, Leo continued to go out and move the bodies.
Leo stopped his actions only after all the corpses in the academy had been moved to this floor.
Tens of thousands of corpses filled a third of the entire floor.
"You'd better think this through. If the Guardian Wizard find out you've eaten these corpses, they won't let you off the hook."
Seeing Leo constantly fiddling with the corpses, Yaoyao worriedly reminded him again.
Using these corpses to replenish one's own lack of energy and accelerate advancement is the worst possible approach.
"Who said I was going to eat corpses?"
Leo continued working with his hands, calmly refuting Yaoyao's question.
"You brought these corpses here so you could eat them to replenish your energy when you evolve into Indestructible Body after your advancement, right?"
Yaoyao stared wide-eyed in confusion. He shouldn't have misperceived Leo's meaning; in the darkest space of his memory, that was exactly what Leo was thinking.
At that time, Leo had gone mad. In order to avenge Alice, he would stop at nothing. Lacking sufficient energy, he set his sights on these corpses.
The Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard only absorbed their souls; the energy within their bodies remained.
Every wizard is a high-energy aggregate; setting aside the issue of their identity, the corpses of these wizards are indeed the best tonics.
"That's because you're misperceiving it."
Leo did not argue with Yaoyao about this issue, but continued to move the corpses around. Among these corpses, Leo saw the wizards he had seen before, as well as those he knew.
Nigel, who treated him with utmost respect, and Alexander were both there.
It's just that the Gavarci died young; otherwise, there should be one of his corpses here as well.
While shaking the corpses, Leo also removed the witch guide rings from their hands, took out the energy crystals inside, and threw them into the energy pool.
The energy pool can quickly absorb all the energy from the energy crystal.
"Could I have misperceived? That can't be right. We are the same soul, how could we have misperceived each other?"
Yaoyao's eyes became unfocused. He shouldn't have been mistaken; that's what Leo thought at the time.
"Could it be that I really misperceived?"
While Yaoyao was doubting herself, she didn't see the ruthlessness and coldness that flashed in Leo's eyes as he looked at the corpses.
That look didn't seem like someone looking at a fellow corpse; it was more like someone looking at an elixir that could enhance their own power.
This was an expression Leo had never shown before...
After Leo arranged all the corpses, he stood next to the energy pool.
Following the method taught by Alexander, the energy pool was activated to its maximum capacity.
All the runes and magic circles inside the building lit up, continuously increasing their power to draw elemental energy from the air into the energy pool.
"I'm preparing for a promotion. Go and search everything in the academy. We'll split it 40/60; you keep 40%, and I'll take the rest."
Leo said to Yaoyao.
"Okay, okay."
Upon hearing that Leo wanted her to search for treasures, and even the entire academy, Yaoyao vanished instantly.
As for Leo's 40/60 split, that's just whatever he says.
Leo stared Yaoyao in the direction where Yao Yao had disappeared; indifference seemed to be synonymous with Leo.
The pain in his heart was still unbearable, but now he had to face reality.
The reality is that when he and Alice faced the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard, his triple Bloodline Power loosened.
He had finally gotten his chance to advance to the Level Three Elemental Body Refinement Wizard!
But this opportunity came at the cost of Alice's death.
If he could do it all over again, he would never want to wait for such a promotion opportunity in his life.
Keep breathing to adjust your mindset and try to calm yourself down.
Grief is useless and will only disrupt the pace of your promotion.
His mental energy began to be released, manipulating elemental energy outside his body to create the nuclear explosion he desired.
Leo had simulated it countless times in his mind over the past fifty years. It could be said that Leo could complete the advancement at any time if he wanted to.
At the same time, he continuously compressed his Bloodline, pushing himself closer to a deeper level of Bloodline power.
The simultaneous internal and external processes caused Leo's aura to surge continuously.
" Body Refinement Wizard, First Layer Hunter Bloodline, Activated!"
" Body Refinement Wizard, Second Layer Thunderstorm Giant Bloodline, Activated!"
The raging Bloodline Power, compressed to its extreme, instantly activated Leo's two Bloodline, transforming him into Thunderstorm Giant nearly twelve meters tall.
Its body glowed a crimson red as if burning, and the entire floor echoed with a sound like a raging river—the sound of the surging blood in the Thunderstorm Giant's veins.
The Thunderstorm Giant continuously suppressed its Bloodline Power while concentrating on controlling the mental energy in front of it.
A series of electric currents have appeared in the air, and a distorted magnetic field is emerging.
Inside the academy, Yaoyao used the medium of shadow to wander among the towers. He no longer had the excitement and joy he had in front of Leo. His depressed mood made him lose interest in searching for treasures, which he used to love the most.
Leo was already in enough pain, but he couldn't show that he was in even more pain. He had to give Leo some encouragement so that Leo could cheer up again.
Was Leo the only one grieving over the deaths of Alice and Benji?
He and Leo shared the same soul; Leo's sorrow was his sorrow, how could he not be heartbroken?
He had no interest in treasure hunting; he would simply stuff whatever he saw into his Shadow Space, and if the Shadow Space couldn't hold it all, he would put it in his secret little treasury.
Sensing the increasingly powerful aura emanating from the central tower of the academy, Yaoyao knew that Leo was about to advance in his cultivation.
"Sigh, it's not that Alice can't be resurrected, but the hope is too slim. Leo's strength isn't enough, and we can't tell him."
"Sigh, life is just too hard."
Suddenly, Yaoyao stopped moving, her whole body trembling as she closed her eyes slightly. She felt a surge of powerful energy flowing from Leo's body.
Yaoyao's body contained no elemental energy; it only contained Leo's soul. The increased power he felt came from Leo's soul growing stronger.
"You've been successfully promoted to level three."
Yaoyao showed no surprise and said calmly.
If Alice and Benji were still alive, then Leo's advancement to level three would definitely be a grand celebration, after all, he had become Great Wizard.
But with this outcome, who can possibly feel anything?
The soul continues to grow stronger, already several times stronger than at level two, yet there is still no sign of it stopping.
"As expected of a level three cultivator, they've grown so much stronger. If I had this level of strength back then, I probably... could have..."
"Sigh, it's too late to say anything now."
Yaoyao stopped at the window of a tall tower, looking at the energy tornadoes that were constantly rising in the distance and sighed deeply.
As Yaoyao sighed, Leo inside the tower unleashed unprecedented energy.
Not far in front of him, a ball of electricity swirled rapidly. This was a powerful magnetic field generator that Leo had set up based on the direction of blood flow in his body. The dense electric field was enough to deter anyone who wanted to investigate information about witchcraft.
These currents completely formed current clusters, making it impossible to see any of the original flow of current.
My mental strength has officially broken through 200 points and is rapidly approaching 300 points!
At the same time, the Bloodline Power within the body has broken through three shackles, and endless power surges from the deepest part of the body, constantly impacting every cell in the body.
The Bloodline Power continuously transforms the body, and the power of spirit continuously strengthens the soul.
The speed at which his strength increased far exceeded Leo's expectations. He had no prior experience in advancing together with others, and the only experience he had came from the wizarding books of the Beast Blood Boiling Stigmata Wizard.
However, he did not expect that when both advanced together, the speed at which their strength increased would be so rapid.
Leo was like driving a sports car with malfunctioning brakes at high speed on the highway; a slight misstep and the car would explode.
"Hmph, you think you can stump me with such a small problem?"
Leo's face was contorted from struggling to control the two surging forces, but he showed no fear or dread; instead, he displayed a crazed side.
He wasn't afraid of his strength increasing too quickly; he was afraid of not increasing it enough.
Its eyes were bloodshot as it stared at the ball of electricity before it, and a low growl, seemingly from the depths of hell, escaped its throat.
" Body Refinement Wizard, Third Layer Vengeance Giant Bloodline, Activated!"
"Boom"
With a loud bang, Leo, who had just been Thunderstorm Giant, instantly expanded, his body seemingly filled with a large amount of air.
In just a few breaths, the Thunderstorm Giant, which had just approached twelve meters in height, had transformed into a terrifying giant over thirty meters tall.
But this was not the giant's limit. Amidst the giant's painful roars, the sounds of bones breaking and reforming, muscles being torn and reconnecting and growing could be heard continuously from within his body.
Energy from the air is flowing back into the giant's body, fueling his evolution.
The entire layer of runic array greedily absorbed all the energy in the air and then provided it to the evolving giant.