Advancing to the Sixth Ring

Far North, I am the Wasteland.

Richard swung his Staff, branding the final deep-blue Rune into the Void.

As the Rune system was completed, an enormous three-dimensional Magic Array suddenly flashed into existence within the Void.

Tens of millions of Runes spread across an area ten kilometers wide, making the space in this region even more stable.

Every school had its own ritual for advancing to the Sixth Ring, each with its own distinctive features.

As the final step in the evolution of non-civilized creatures, Sixth-level creatures were powerhouses even in the Astral Realm.

Creatures that evolved physically gained the ability to establish their own races upon becoming Sixth-level creatures. Meanwhile, creatures that evolved spiritually could hardly still be called any particular kind of creature. They could almost be described as personifications of phenomena, incarnations of natural disasters.

Wizard Dimension had noticed the unique stage of Sixth-level creatures long ago.

After the Wizard War ended, the leaders of the five schools conducted an in-depth study of the rituals for this level.

In the end, they concluded that the process of advancing into a sixth-level creature was extraordinarily special. This process would greatly affect a creature's capabilities after reaching the sixth level.

Nothing like this had ever occurred in any previous advancement.

Put simply, advancing to the sixth level was like allocating stat points.

The ritual was the stat allocation plan.

Without research, if one advanced based solely on some intuition or unreliable information, then the stat allocation plan was essentially random.

But with sufficient research, a creature could use the Promotion Ceremony to allocate those points wherever it wanted.

Richard was a Wizard Dimension who had evolved physically, so for his choice of ritual, he naturally chose the Physique Crown's ritual.

Although the Physique Crown's ritual was not particularly mature