pertwk Chapter 14: Mo Fan advances, Su Chen reaches intermediate level!
Chapter 14: Mo Fan advances, Su Chen reaches intermediate level!
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Half a year passed quietly amidst tedious cultivation and bloody demon hunting.
Although Su Chen's practical experience had become extremely rich over the past six months, and his control over magic had reached a level of perfection, he still adhered to the principle of prudence and would never easily provoke those packs of one-eyed demon wolves.
After all, the total amount of magic energy at the initial level three is limited. Moreover, the one-eyed demon wolf isn't as easy to deal with as imagined; at least, Su Chen felt it was best not to take the risk. Anyway, the giant-eyed blood rats aren't impossible to kill; there are plenty of them, and the income is decent.
The only pity is that Su Chen didn't have a necromancer artifact; otherwise, after killing for over a year, he would have surely obtained one or two spirit essences...
Late at night, in the suburbs of Bocheng.
Su Chen dragged his slightly tired body and pushed open the wooden door of his dilapidated self-built house.
Su Chen took off his blood-smelling trench coat and threw it on the chair, poured himself a glass of water, and drank it all in one gulp.
He opened his mobile banking app and glanced at his balance: 11,560,000 yuan.
More than 11.5 million.
"Sigh, it's been almost two years, dealing with sewer rats every day, and I've only managed to save up this little bit of money." Su Chen looked at the long string of numbers, but instead of the joy of a nouveau riche, he let out a long sigh.
To ordinary people, over ten million is an enormous sum, enough to buy a luxury villa in Bo City and live comfortably for the rest of their lives. But in the world of mages, that amount of money wouldn't even get them a fraction of a top-grade spirit seed.
A regular lightning-type spirit seed starts at over ten million on the market! A top-grade spirit seed with a few special effects can fetch up to twenty million!
"Buying spirit seeds by killing low-level creatures like giant-eyed blood rats is too inefficient," Su Chen rubbed his temples. "I have to go into the wild, hunt one-eyed demon wolves, and even search for rare and precious herbs. But with my current strength, going into the wild is still too risky..."
Just as Su Chen was worrying about money, a crisp, mechanical notification sound suddenly rang out from deep within his mind!
[Ding! Detected a breakthrough in the lightning element cultivation of the bond target, Mo Fan!]
[Mo Fan's current lightning element cultivation level: Initial Stage, Level 2!]
[System passively triggered: The host's binding level will always be two minor levels higher than the bound user's!]
[Initiating a synchronized advancement of the host's cultivation level...]
Holy crap!!!
Su Chen suddenly jumped up from his chair, and the water glass in his hand fell to the ground and shattered with a "crash," but he didn't care about that at all, his whole body was trembling with excitement.
"It's here! It's finally here! Fanzi, you've finally broken through!"
Su Chen had been waiting for this day for more than half a year!
Almost the instant the system notification sound ended, Su Chen felt a massive tsunami raging in his mental world!
The once dazzling purple lightning stardust, which had expanded to the limit of the initial stage, began to shrink and collapse violently under the influence of the system!
It was an extremely painful yet incredibly beautiful experience. Su Chen felt as if his soul was being torn apart and reassembled.
When stardust collapses to an extreme point!
"boom!!!"
A silent explosion resounded in the mental world!
The collapsing stardust exploded instantly, transforming into an even more vast purple nebula!
nebula!
The mark of an intermediate-level mage!
This nebula is more than ten times larger than the previous stardust!
The reserves of magical energy have increased exponentially!
Within that slowly rotating purple nebula, the original seven stars have now split and multiplied, becoming a total of forty-nine!
Forty-nine purple stars, like forty-nine mischievous sprites, frolic and leap through the nebula, exuding a chilling aura of destruction.
"Mid-level...is this the power of an mid-level being?!"
Awesome! Awesome like never before!
The feeling of being filled with a vast ocean of magical energy made Su Chen unable to resist letting out a long roar to the sky.
"System, I love you to death!"
Su Chen could not contain his excitement. He pushed open the door, turned into a black shadow, and rushed towards the deserted and abandoned open space in the suburbs.
He wants to test the magic!
He wanted to see just how strong this free intermediate-level 1 skill really was!
Standing in the empty wilderness, the night wind howled.
Su Chen took a deep breath, his eyes instantly becoming incredibly sharp.
"Thunder Seal!"
With a thought, the seven stars in the spiritual world instantly obeyed the command.
There's no need for deliberate guidance or connection like before. After advancing to the intermediate level, Su Chen's control over beginner-level magic has reached an unbelievable level.
"Buzz!"
Almost at the same fraction of a second that he had the idea to unleash magic, a purple star trail instantly formed beneath his feet!
A single thought, a star trail!
This is a level that many high-level mages can only achieve when casting basic spells, but Su Chen, with the absolute control granted by the system, achieved it at the intermediate level!
"Rage Strike!"
A bolt of lightning, thicker than a thigh, shot out from Su Chen's fingertip, instantly traversing a distance of tens of meters, and slammed into a huge rock.
"BOOM!!!"
The rock shattered instantly, turning into dust that filled the sky. This power was twice as strong as the lightning seal he released when he was at the initial level three!
"That's too fast. This casting speed is like the Grim Reaper's scythe on the battlefield." Su Chen nodded in satisfaction.
But that's not enough. He's here today to test his real killer move!
Intermediate-level lightning magic!
Su Chen closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and began to manipulate the forty-nine stars in the nebula.
The casting of intermediate-level magic requires connecting forty-nine stars into seven star orbits, and then weaving these seven star orbits into a star map!
For a newly promoted intermediate mage, this is an extremely long and error-prone process. They must undergo extensive training before they can use intermediate magic proficiently.
But Su Chen has the system to back him up.
In his mental world, the forty-nine stars seemed to have undergone hundreds of rehearsals, and under his mental guidance, they quickly returned to their positions.
One star trail... two star trails... five star trails... seven star trails!
Seven purple star trails intertwined and overlapped beneath Su Chen's feet, eventually transforming into a purple star map that exuded a terrifying and destructive pressure!
The entire process was smooth and seamless, without the slightest lag.
"thunderbolt!"
Su Chen suddenly opened his eyes, his right hand pointing straight at the sky!
"Boom!!!"
"Boom!!!"
The earth was trembling violently!
The blinding lightning illuminated the surrounding wilderness as if it were daytime, and the deafening thunder seemed to tear one's eardrums apart!
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