Those who live alone and isolated are either gods or wild beasts.
Leo didn't want to be a god, nor a beast, so communicating appropriately with his friends was the best way.
Two days later, Leo arrived at the Ice Palace. Unlike the Leo Wizard Tower, which was so simple that it didn't even have any furniture, the decoration here was beyond Leo's imagination.
The magnificent ice palace castle was, in Leo's eyes, a beautiful creation that should only exist in fairy tales.
More importantly, there are no mechanical slaves or other flesh-and-blood slaves here; instead, a group of Frost Spirit slaves serve them.
Frost Spirit, similar to Fire Elemental Spirit, are semi-physical, ethereal beings. Their small bodies carry various wine glasses and dishes as they bustle about.
This is a creature that even the most ruthless murderer would feel pity and tenderness upon seeing.
Alice prepared 1,314 dishes for Leo, all of which Leo had never seen before. It was said that the raw materials came from various worlds, and the value of this meal alone exceeded 500 energy crystals.
Compared to the barbecue that Leo hosted for Alice back then...
Needless to say!!!
Even someone as shameless as Leo felt his face burning.
Alice was more like a noble princess living in a castle, enjoying a life of luxury every day, but Leo ended up taking her to eat a meal of cornbread without shells.
Neither of them inquired much about their lives over the years, but Leo clearly sensed that Alice's aura was much stronger than it had been forty years ago.
Alice hasn't wasted these years. Just think about the Alice was once known for; she was destined to be an extraordinary wizard.
And I haven't changed much since forty years ago!
After leaving the Ice Palace, Leo once again buried himself in the laboratory. This time, he wanted to advance two other experiments and improve his strength as soon as possible.
One is a detailed study of the Shadow Talent, and the other is an experiment on the advanced rune array for elemental resistance by Level One Body Refinement Wizard.
During his Body Refinement Wizard Apprentice, Leo already possessed five types of rune arrays: electric shock, Ice, high temperature, Gravity, and healing.
This cultivation method originates from the traditional Body Refinement Wizard cultivation system, and the wizard who proposed this plan was also an exceptionally talented individual.
This cultivation method, which uses rune arrays to stimulate physical evolution, reduces the advancement time for Body Refinement Wizard by 10% to 20% and also increases Body Refinement Wizard advancement probability.
After advancing to the Level One Body Refinement Wizard, one's life level increases, and the physical body can bear more runes and magic arrays.
Leo chose elemental resistance.
Similar to the Ice and High-Temperature Rune Array on the body, but much more refined, because if operated incorrectly, it will reduce the body's perception of elements in the space, severely damaging the body's foundation.
The consequences may seem severe, but the experimental process is actually quite simple. As long as you don't intentionally intend to commit suicide in this way, it's absolutely safe.
Stimulate the body's sensitivity to a single element, calculate the upper and lower limits of elemental resistance, then calculate the mana nodes on the body, adjust the strength of the rune array, and inscribe it on the body.
Broadly speaking, the elements can be categorized into only a few types: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, plus light and darkness.
However, if we divide them according to reality, there are thousands of categories, and under each major category of elements, there are hundreds of more detailed element classifications.
During the Wizard's Expedition, I saw too many worlds, too many strange cultivation methods, and collected thousands of elemental transformation classifications.
It's like a painter mixing paints; the color will be different depending on the mixing ratio.
The same principle applies to elemental types. Combining 90% metal with 10% wood will result in completely different attributes and attack power compared to combining 89% metal with 11% wood.
Leo had previously exchanged 'Element Resistance Experiments' on Knowledge Trading Platform in order to lay the theoretical foundation for adjusting his own multi-element resistance.
He wouldn't rashly inscribe the most basic elemental resistance runes on himself.
What Leo wanted was to have these basic elemental resistance runes and arrays inscribed on his body, so that they could be integrated and combined in the future.
What Leo wanted was a complete set of elemental resistance rune arrays, not just a few individual rune arrays.
It turns out that the Ice and High-Temperature Rune Array he created during his apprenticeship didn't take this into account at all; they were two separate rune arrays. Therefore, Leo had to clear out these two arrays first before creating a complete set.
Gru had inscribed the rune array for Leo according to his own plan, which has caused Leo to have to clear it first and then add it back.
This isn't Gru's fault, because Leo's way of thinking is completely different from that of a normal Body Refinement Wizard.
Most normal Body Refinement Wizard are like Gru; as long as it's suitable and can increase physical strength, they'll just add to it.
Physical capacity and lack of space are not factors to consider.
The reason you need to consider this is because your abilities are insufficient.
As long as you have enough strength, you can easily inscribe a hundred rune arrays on your body, let alone a few.
As for Leo, he now views his physical body entirely from the perspective of Elemental Wizard. He is more like polishing a complete magical artifact, constantly strengthening the foundation and leaving as much room as possible for future advancement.
When Leo successfully linked the seven elements into a rune array, ten years had passed.
A single rune array is simple, but connecting seven rune arrays together requires a massive amount of computation.
We need to consider the changes in node energy during the connection process, their mutual influence, the impact of the physical body on the magic array after activating Bloodline Power, and the impact on the darkness and light magic arrays when the shadow merges with the body.
It needs to have sufficient redundancy, but also enough to unleash sufficient stimulating power!
Fortunately, Leo completed this enormous challenge in just ten years!
This was completely unexpected for Leo. Leo had originally thought it would take at least twenty years to achieve this, but it only took ten years.
Looking back, saving half the time was to be expected. After all, as Leo's foundation improved and he learned more and more knowledge, his calculation ability became exceptionally good, which meant that Leo's foundation exceeded his expectations.
At this moment, even Leo had to admit his own excellence!
The seven-element linked rune array is superior to a single seven-element resistance rune array in that it saves mana. With just a little mana to activate one rune array, the seven linked rune arrays will be activated alternately, ensuring that Leo's physical body is constantly passively evolving under the stimulation of the seven elemental attacks.
As for Leo wanting to adjust the intensity of various elemental stimuli to combine them into other elemental powers, he could easily do so by simply adjusting the stimulation of mana fluctuations.
As long as Leo has this set of rune arrays, he can simulate the thousands of elemental powers currently known.
As for whether Leo has the time to adjust the proportions little by little to get the proportions of thousands of elements right, that's a question only Leo himself can answer.
Leo just wanted to say that he really didn't have that much time. The best solution was to activate the rune arrays simultaneously to fight against all seven elements at the same time.
This step is sufficient; there's no need for further adjustments.
After inscribing the rune arrays onto his body, Leo did nothing else but record the changes in his body bit by bit, trying to find the fastest point to stimulate his body's evolution.
After two more years of repeated adjustments, Leo finally found the optimal way to stimulate mana levels.
" Metal Element Resistance Rune Array activated 11%, Wood Element Resistance Rune Array activated 10.5%, Water Element Resistance Rune Array activated 10.7%, Fire Element Resistance Rune Array activated 11.2%, Earth Element Resistance Rune Array activated 9.2%, Light Element Resistance Rune Array activated 14%, Darkness Element Resistance Rune Array activated 5%."
"Without nuclear radiation accelerating cell evolution, the body can increase its defense against various elemental attacks by 1 point per year. With the added benefit of nuclear radiation acceleration, the defense against all attributes can be increased to 2 points per year."
"Not bad, not bad."
While the increase in defense value may seem small, the runes Leo activated were also relatively minor. This was certainly not the fastest frequency to stimulate the evolution of his physical body, but in order to ensure simultaneous defense against all attributes, the physical body underwent a comprehensive passive evolution, avoiding any weakness in defense against a single attribute. This was the most advantageous aspect.
Slow, but steady!
Furthermore, as his strength increases, Leo can continuously adjust the activation level of the runes, and at that time, his defense points will also continuously increase.
Leo was quite satisfied with the current situation, as he didn't need to wait until later. Now, he was increasing his elemental attack and defense by 2 points per year. With 38 years until the mandatory expedition mission, it meant that Leo's defense would increase by 76 points by the time the mission began.
Keep in mind that Leo's physical defense at this moment is only between 700 and 900 points, which is 100 points higher than when he was in the Jeft World. In other words, the increase in physical defense over a year is less than that of the rune array group.
After 38 years, the defense increased by 76 points, which means a 10% increase in defense. What more could you ask for?
Leo's nature is to fear death, which was most evident when he unlocked his Bloodline Power; every evolution of his body was aimed at this goal.
Having witnessed countless powerful figures—level two, three, Level Four Stigmata Wizard, and even Level-Five Stigmata Wizard who could be injured simply by looking at them— Leo considered himself a weakling in their presence. Therefore, his only option was to constantly prioritize survival in this terrifying world.
How to save my life?