Over the course of two years, Leo made significant discoveries in his research on this Crystal Heart. First, this Crystal Heart can absorb any kind of energy without discrimination, but it absorbs dark attribute energy, or Shadow Energy, at a rate 10% higher than other energies.
Secondly, the absorption rate cannot be increased; it can only be once every ten breaths, with each absorption accounting for 1% of Leo's current total body energy.
In other words, the time it takes to breathe a thousand times is the total amount of mana in Leo's body right now!
Upon discovering this, Leo was thrilled, because as long as he fully mastered the Crystal Heart and perfectly guided its energy to replenish his body, he would solve the problem of insufficient duration of Leo maximum magical power.
But the problem that followed shattered Leo's hopes instantly: he was unable to draw even a single drop of energy from the Crystal Heart.
After numerous attempts, Leo finally concluded that Leo mental strength was insufficient to activate the energy within the Crystal Heart.
When his mental strength faced this Crystal Heart, it was like trying to pry open a tall building with a small wooden stick—completely futile!
Not even the slightest ripple could be stirred!
"So I went into the gold mine and saw the gold mine, but the gold was too heavy, and I couldn't move a single piece?"
"I've been single for thirty years, seen a bunch of beautiful women, women I could have my way with, and then they tell me I'm a eunuch?"
After the teasing, Leo's expression turned serious. "My mental strength isn't enough, so I need to advance to the Level One Elemental Wizard before I can use it?"
It's normal that it can't be used. After all, this is a heart that was planned to be paired with the World Lord. Even if it's still a semi-finished product, it's not something that a mere Level One Body Refinement Wizard Leo can use.
"Or perhaps all the methods I tried before were wrong, and a heart transplant is necessary to use it?"
Leo stared at the Crystal Heart that beat once every ten breaths, lost in thought. If it really required replacing the heart to activate and use it, then Leo was somewhat unwilling.
Furthermore, what if it's not used that way?
"Or perhaps we could find a few Night Slaves and transplant this Crystal Heart into them?"
The idea was immediately extinguished by Leo; the risk of failure far outweighed the potential gains, making it an undesirable experimental direction.
The experiment was once again hampered by his own limitations, so Leo had no choice but to put away the Crystal Heart and wait until his strength improved further.
Actually, the best solution is for Leo to advance to the level of Level One Elemental Wizard, thereby enhancing his mental power; this is the quickest way.
In the past two years, Leo has not only devoted himself to the research of the Crystal Heart, but he has also improved the rune array on his body that stimulates passive enhancement.
The original Electric Shock Rune Array, Low-Temperature Rune Array, High-Temperature Rune Array, and Gravity Rune Array have all been optimized and upgraded.
For example, the original Gravity Rune Array had a maximum multiplier of 15. The reason for setting an upper limit was that the apprentice-level Leo might not be able to control the rune array and might activate a higher multiplier in an instant, killing himself.
Therefore, each time one's strength increases, the original rune array must be upgraded.
This time, Leo directly increased the upper limit of the Gravity Rune Array to fifty times, which is the limit that his Earth human form can withstand. Even if he accidentally activated the maximum multiplier, it wouldn't kill him.
Leo, Level One Body Refinement Wizard, directly activated the Gravity Rune Array to 25 times its normal strength. His body was constantly subjected to 25 times the Gravity suppression, which reduced his attack power to 50% of its original level.
25 times – this is the optimal multiple for stimulating the body to passively improve after repeated trials.
The Electric Shock Rune Array has also doubled its attack power, increasing the original 30 to 50 points of electric shock every ten breaths to 70 to 120 points.
On average, one receives an electric shock with 100 points of attack power every ten breaths.
This feeling is so intense!!!
As for the High-Temperature Rune Array and the Low-Temperature Rune Array, they have also been adjusted by two to three times, so that people can experience the difference between ice and fire at any time.
As for the Healing Rune Array that followed Leo the earliest, it had been improved long before he smuggled himself into the Jeft World. This was a life-saving item, so how could Leo dare to be careless!
The original rune array has been improved, and there are plans to add new rune arrays, but there's not enough time. We can only start after the Tower of Elements is stable!
The tonsils have also undergone corresponding upgrades in their toxic stimulation of cell activity. The simplest way is to take a mildly toxic medication according to the body's tolerance.
Meanwhile, the nuclear radiation's acceleration of cell evolution did not stop; every day, nuclear raw materials continued to fuse with the shadow, and then fuse with the shadow again, further amplifying the evolutionary process.
After completing all these tasks, Leo was finally able to finalize the initial arrangements for advancing to the Level One Body Refinement Wizard.
" Leo, I'm getting ready to go back to the Tower of Elements. Do you want to come with me?"
Just as Leo was preparing to close the lab, Alice's message arrived.
The Wizard World is so vast that even First-Level Wizard would find it difficult to traverse it in a lifetime.
Alice led Leo from the Jeft World back to the Purple Flame Wizard Academy through a spatial passage, and then used a teleportation array from the Purple Flame Wizard Academy to reach the middle of the Wizard World.
After three months of driving at high speed in Benji, the two of them finally arrived at the territory of the Tower of Elements.
Alice received orders from the Purple Flame Stigmata Wizard six months in advance, and with the help of a teleportation array, she managed to return to the Purple Flame Wizard Academy from the Tower of Elements in just six months.
Tower of Elements
A wizard once said that the Tower of Elements is larger than the area of a large world.
Leo didn't know how big the large world was; he only knew that the Jeft World was positioned as a micro-world within the wizarding civilization.
Even in a miniature world like Jeft, it took Leo five years to traverse it, even with a level three Benji as his mount.
According to Leo's calculations, the area of Jeft World is slightly larger than that of Earth. As for the large world, which is much larger than the micro world, Leo is not so sure how big it is.
The first thing Leo saw when he looked at the Tower of Elements was that boundless elemental energy surged through the space, raging wildly in the form of an elemental storm.
This is not a natural disaster, but a massive tidal phenomenon caused by countless wizards constantly manipulating spatial elemental energy.
Every wizard can manipulate the elemental forces within space. A few wizards are fine, but once the number reaches a terrifyingly large number of over 100,000, the resulting tidal resonance becomes a disaster.
In other words, if the Wizard World can contain such a violent elemental catastrophe, then in the Jeft World, one doesn't need to do anything and can simply wait for the apocalypse to arrive.
Yet this violent elemental transformation was blocked by an invisible barrier; within the barrier, chaos reigned, while outside, all was calm.
"According to the teacher, this was personally arranged by the Supreme Lord, partly to create a higher concentration of natural elements, and partly to help the wizards adapt to the harsh environment." With Stigmata Wizard as her teacher, many of Alice's ordinary insights were considered secrets by Leo.
" Supreme Lord..."
Leo was drawn to a word Alice uttered; the Stigmata Wizard level was already beyond his reach, let alone higher levels...
Benji, carrying Leo and Alice, crashed into the barrier. The violent elemental energy instantly made Benji unstable, almost causing it to flip over several times and spin in several directions until it activated an energy shield outside its body to alleviate the turbulence.
Alice was prepared and had already activated a protective shield, while Leo, with a slightly deep breath, unleashed his surging physical power, instantly calming the surrounding raging elements.
Once Leo had adapted to the change in elements, her pupils involuntarily dilated when she looked at the new environment.
In the sky, floating islands drifted above, and waterfalls flowing downstream were torn apart by violent forces before they could even fall, turning into beautiful clouds. The clouds reflected the light of stars, and fragmented rainbows intertwined, forming a beautiful spectacle of seven-colored clouds.
"These floating islands are the wizard towers of some Level Three Great Wizard. You are not allowed to approach them without permission. I don't need to elaborate on the consequences of trespassing into a Level Three Great Wizard' wizard tower."
Leo nodded cautiously, his gaze immediately leaving the floating islands. He had no doubt that each of these floating islands was a war fortress, and trespassing was out of the question; he wasn't ready to die yet.
Sitting on the back of Benji, looking down, the environment seems no different from other places, but a closer look reveals the differences.
Like any other lush green mountain, with countless branches swaying in the wind, Leo would have thought these were just ordinary plants if Leo hadn't sensed the high-energy reaction hidden beneath the greenery.
In his energy vision, the entire mountain resembled a volcano ready to erupt at any moment. The high-energy reaction caused Benji to keep his distance, his instincts constantly reminding him that if he flew over it, he would be devoured.
Especially those plants, which seem harmless, but it always feels like all the plants are watching them, and they even adjust their direction to track them as they fly.
Those weren't plants; they were practically ravenous demons, drooling and ready to devour them for lunch.
Almost every mountain I saw gave me this feeling of extreme danger.
"These mountains have long been hollowed out and transformed into wizard towers. Those seemingly ordinary plants are all demonized and highly aggressive," Alice explained.
"Any life form that can live within the Tower of Elements, whether it's a plant, an animal, or a slave, must at least be at level one."
Alice, worried that she hadn't explained things clearly, added another sentence.
This seemingly innocuous addition prompted Benji to accelerate his escape by taking a longer route.
These beasts are terrifying. All the life forms I can sense are at least level one. My senses are everywhere within my range, and I can't detect a single benign being among them; they are all incredibly violent.
An ordinary meadow, with some animals leisurely grazing on it, suddenly flipped over in an instant, turning all the animals upside down, and the new side that appeared was still meadow.
Benji saw it clearly: there were more than fifty level-one or higher ferocious beasts, and they simply vanished without a trace.
"Some wizards prefer to stay underground, which is understandable," Alice continued to explain.
"I understand, I understand."
The understandable result was that Benji flew at a frenzied speed, its three tails spinning so fast they were almost like wheels, feeling the malice coming from above and below—it was like bungee jumping in the mouth of a demon.
Alice had previously mentioned that there was an office located at the edge of the Tower of Elements, and that it would be safe once you flew there.
But why has it taken several days for these so-called peripheral offices to arrive?!