"Yvette, would you like to step outside and take a break?"
Her companion beside her kindly suggested.
"No, I want to stay."
The young maid stubbornly shook her head.
Even though her cheeks were flushed red, with mist rising above her head, she still didn’t want to leave.
This was her job and responsibility.
...
The whirlwind cloud phenomenon in the sky lasted only half an hour before it disappeared.
But within the Green Hot Spring Manor, beside Gauss, this event lasted much longer than most present had imagined.
In the blink of an eye.
Four days had already passed.
Gauss was still surrounded by a mist, but it had thinned significantly, and the visible breakthrough was nearing its end.
The maids in the courtyard could now withstand the gradually retracting aura.
"Hasn’t Lord Gauss finished yet?"
Outside the courtyard, maids about to change shifts whispered among themselves.
"It’s been four days already."
"If I soaked in a hot spring for four days, my skin would be all wrinkled, yet Lord Gauss seems to look even better."
"Of course, I’ve heard Lord Gauss’s skin is impenetrable to blades and swords, just like a Giant Dragon, difficult to injure, with boundless energy."
"I’ve heard that Lord Gauss is only twenty."
"Doesn’t that make him younger than me?"
In their idle moments when not working, the maids spent most of their time discussing everything about Gauss.
Some of it was from hearsay, and some from their own imagination.
In their mundane lives, Gauss’s arrival was a significant event worth remembering, something they could tell their grandchildren about one day.
"Keep it down! Stop talking."
Soon, a maid came out of the courtyard, reminding them to stop chatting.
In the center of the courtyard, Gauss had reached the final stages.
His consciousness gradually became clear.
The once broken magic cup had been remolded, and the newly formed cup was one size smaller in volume than before, but the glossiness, beauty, and the magic power it emitted were incomparable to before.
Many powerful things often have an inherent unique beauty.
Like an invisible rule that makes them tend towards beauty.
The magic power within Gauss’s body became extremely dense, flowing throughout his body, finally circulating inside the cup before returning to his body.
Beside the cup, the Light Saber was also renewed.
Gauss slowly opened his eyes.
"The breakthrough is over."
He stood up from the still warm spring water.
"Splash!"
The spring water flowed down his firm, jade-like skin.
"Primary Profession Magic Envoy level increased to: 6!"
"Secondary Profession Sword Soul level increased to: 4!"
Gauss clenched his fist, the joints cracking with a popping sound.
He felt his physical and mental state had reached a zenith, his entire being radiant.
Especially the magic power within, fully under control!
It was as docile as a clingy kitten, at his command.
"Boom!"
Is this the power of a Master Level...
Gauss exhaled deeply.
He had anticipated this process for so long.
From today, he shed the first elite phase, stepping proudly into the Master Level.
"Haha—"
Thinking about this, he couldn’t help but burst into a hearty laugh.
Reflecting on his adventure journey was no easy feat, and he finally arrived on this stage.
The entire world seemed renewed.
In this moment of joy, he didn’t suppress his excitement.
"Master...Master Gauss!"
The young maid beside him nearly fainted, her face flushed as if it might bleed.
"What’s the matter?"
Gauss tilted his head, looking down at her, confused.
"Cl-clothes!"
The maid handed him a clean robe.
Gauss looked down to see that his original bathrobe had vanished over the days of intense soaking.
"I apologize."
Gauss quickly took the clothes and put them on.
He was no exhibitionist.
As he stepped out of the hot spring, the maids immediately started bustling about.
They brought out the prepared dishes to the pavilion’s dining table in the courtyard.
Gauss was just starting to feel hungry.
So he sat down naturally.
"Thank you."
He wasn’t overly polite.
Had it not been for the replenishment before the breakthrough and the continuous absorption of nutrients from the hot spring during the process, he might have been drained dry.
Now, though awake, he was indeed very hungry inside.
He quickly began to eat.
A plate of carefully prepared nutritional dishes was soon cleared, and the kitchen continued cooking.
As Gauss ate, replenishing his somewhat parched body, he observed the changes in his attribute panel.
This breakthrough had given him significant enhancements in all attributes.
Strength: 13→14
Agility: 11→12
Constitution: 12→13
Intelligence: 16(15)→17(16)
Perception: 10→12
Charm: 13(12)→14(13)
Across the attribute values, he had accumulated a total increase of 7 points.
Among them, the relatively low Perception Attribute had a significant breakthrough.
Even though Intelligence only gained 1 point in value, it was already high enough, and this breakthrough equaled several points’ worth of lower value attributes combined.
Furthermore, he could feel that the attribute breakthrough was just one of the benefits of advancing to the Master Level.