"Divine beings?!" Colin's pupils shrank slightly.
Since arriving in Neustadt City, life had been very safe and peaceful.
Although from time to time, he would hear about the wars in the distant southern seas... but the southern seas were indeed too remote, and he did not take them to heart.
After all, he was just an insignificant Advanced Apprentice, and such matters would naturally be handled by higher-ranked Wizards.
Even if he knew about them, it wouldn't be of any use. He could only use them as talking points.
But now... had followers of the gods appeared even in Neustadt City?
More than half the people on Litt Street had died silently...
"Junior Brother Colin, remember to stay safe recently," Lillian warned with a serious expression. "Although most of those who died last night were ordinary people, you still need to be cautious."
"Alright, Senior Sister Lillian," Colin replied solemnly, then paused before asking, "So the followers of the gods have not been caught by the Law Enforcement Team yet?"
Lillian shook her head and explained:
"As far as I know, the follower has been discovered... or rather, his body has been discovered. After doing who knows what, that believer committed suicide on the spot, and his soul has already dissipated."
"Dissipated?" Colin was puzzled. "Did it not return to the Divine Country?"
The soul of a believer is a treasure to the Divine, and for a follower who has carried out their tasks with such dedication, to the point of death for their god, it seemed strange that their soul would simply dissipate without even being taken back to the Divine Country...
"It did not return to the Divine Country," Lillian shook her head again. "If it happened in Neustadt City, the Supreme Council would not have failed to notice if the soul of a believer was taken back to the Divine Country."
"At that point, it wouldn't just be a matter of whether the soul of the believer dissipates... even the Divine being might not end up in a favorable situation."
Lillian spoke calmly, but it gave Colin a great sense of security.
The place he could lean on now was no longer the secluded Blackstone Island, but the vast Siya Continent!
And his location was right at the center of Siya Continent, the place of the Wizard Alliance.
Ordinary Divine beings would find it impossible to harm him!
But soon, another thought crossed his mind.
Just last night, half of the people on Litt Street had died.
In the bigger picture, he didn't have to worry about this place falling into the hands of the Divine like Blackstone Island.
But on a smaller scale, considering his own self, he still couldn't afford to let his guard down.
'If only I had already advanced to an Official Wizard...' Colin couldn't help but think.
Half of the people on Litt Street had died, and although, as Lillian said, most of them were ordinary people, such as Knights,
he was still just an Advanced Wizard Apprentice, and it was quite nerve-wracking.
Swoosh, swoosh—
Bobi, who had gone to prepare the red tea, finally returned. It was flying, flapping its wings, with two porcelain cups filled with red tea floating beside it, both flying along with it.
The flying porcelain cups were very stable, even more so than the trays held by ordinary Knight servants.
While Colin was thinking this,
Bobi, perhaps sensing his gaze, suddenly shook nervously.
The two porcelain cups immediately started to waver.
"Bobi!"
Seeing this, Bobi's palms emitted a faint luminescence, its little face turned red with effort as it worked hard to stabilize the teacups.
The porcelain cups shook, but ultimately not a single drop of liquid was spilled.
"Bobi."
Bobi withdrew its hands, looking proudly at the teacups that were about the same size as itself.
But the next second, it snapped back to reality and, glancing at Colin's gaze, immediately returned to its timid ways, tilting its head as it brought over the tea before quickly hiding behind Lillian's hair.
Colin withdrew his gaze and, after exchanging a few more pleasantries with Lillian, stood up to say goodbye and left.
...
Back at home, without any pause, Colin strode into the Meditation Room.
He slowly exhaled Golden Paper.
Particles of pale gold began to gather.
[Name: Colin Leonard]
[Rank: Advanced Wizard Apprentice (100/100); Ultimate Knight (100/100)]
[Meditation Method: Tin Ring Meditation Method (1/100)]
[Breathing Skill: Sunlight Breathing Technique Golden; Yili Breathing Method (46/100)]
[Witchcraft: Zero Level Tricks: Slight; Zero Level Witchcraft: Steel Temperature Resistance Field (16/100); Arrow Shooting Skill (Golden); Fireball Skill II (15/100); Swift Skill I (87/100); Flying and Diving Skill (89/100); Silent (65/100); Traceless (78/100); Detect Evil I (18/100); Purification Evil Power I (20/100)]
[Skill: Basic Level Magic Crystal Making—(Bright Crystal Making (Golden); Image Capturing Crystal Making I (89/100); Blood Pattern Transformation Skill I (36/100); Magic Potion Making: Blue Gelatin Making (72/100)]
[Talent: Strong Life I (4/100)]
[Limit Breaking Point: 0]
Looking at the dense array of characters, Colin silently sighed in his heart.
"So many skills, mastering each to the limit... is probably not something that can be accomplished in a short period."
"Even in the most optimistic scenario, at least more than a year is needed."
More than a year...
Colin put away the Golden Paper and stood up, pacing slowly in the Meditation Room.
After inquiring with Atbolde, he had a clearer understanding of cultivating Talent Seeds.
As Atbolde had said, cultivating Talent Seeds is like planting fruit trees, the fruit they eventually bear is the Talent gained after advancement.
The type of fruit is hard to change, whether it's knowledge acquired or Meditation Methods, at most they can only have an insignificant impact.
But the quality of the fruit is easily affected...
If one wants to ensure the quality of their cultivated Talent Seeds, one must master to the limit the knowledge of Meditation Methods, witchcraft, etc., to avoid unmastered knowledge contaminating the Talent Seeds and causing their quality to decline.
Therefore, fully mastering the Meditation Methods, witchcraft, and skills he had learned was an unavoidable process.
But for some reason, he felt a sense of crisis looming deep within.
Litet Street...
Perhaps because of his experience on Blackstone Island, he now wished he could advance to be an Official Wizard today!
"How can I reduce the time?"
Colin paced back and forth in the Meditation Room for a while, then suddenly halted, a light of inspiration flashing through his mind!
He raised his arm and spread his palm, summoning that dark golden wand he hadn't used in a long time—
The Foolishness Scepter!
As he caressed the scepter, it felt like a mix of gold and wood, Colin pondered deeply.
Since Alus could improve the quality of Apprentice's Talent Seeds by temporarily making them forget some of the knowledge they hadn't fully mastered.
Then the Foolishness Scepter naturally could as well!
It's just that the Foolishness Scepter involved permanent forgetting of knowledge... and it wasn't good at precise control.
But to him, such a flaw was not unacceptable.
Based on his experience of using the Foolishness Scepter before, if it was Fireball Skill II (15/100), using the Scepter excessively would regress to Fireball Skill I, and with slight control, he could easily reach numbers like Fireball Skill I (99/100), Fireball Skill I (100/100).
Fireball Skill I (100/100), inarguably meant that Fireball Skill I was mastered completely, hence it didn't affect Talent.
The difference between Fireball Skill I (100/100) and Fireball Skill II (1/100) was just 10 Limit Breaking Points, which was merely 10 Magic Stones.
But if you wanted to upgrade a second time Limit Broken Fireball Skill to its limit, it's not as simple as 10 Magic Stones... It requires lots of time.
Looking at the Golden Paper once more, Colin weighed his options in his heart.
He wasn't planning to use the Foolishness Scepter to downgrade all of his witchcraft by one level, just to select some appropriate ones, to reduce some time.
Reducing by a month meant advancing a month earlier.
Time is the world's most precious treasure, and he naturally understood the reasoning behind 'The later it is, the more things can change.'
Moreover, once he advanced to be an Official Wizard, he could break limits again with some inconsequential Magic Stones.
Although he would be slightly behind in progress compared to before, practicing these witchcraft from a higher realm later on would be much more effective.
It likely wouldn't take long to recover!
Considering this, Colin grew even more tempted.
If done correctly, instead of taking more than a year to cultivate the Talent Seed and advance to be an Official Wizard, now it might only take a few months to attempt the advancement!