Colin felt somewhat uncomfortable receiving this honor that he didn't truly deserve.
However, when Nois on the other side looked at Colin's calm face, he inexplicably felt some guilt.
In his view, Colin's expression was calm, but it seemed to reveal a sense of loss of honor between his brows.
Unfortunately, this was indeed an order issued by the Supreme Council, and he had no power to change it.
"This is for you," Nois thought for a moment, suddenly took out the Memory Crystal he had just obtained, engraved the improved Deep Red Marking Technique on it, and handed it to Colin, "Don't tell anyone."
Colin reached out and took it.
"Work hard in your practice," Nois smiled, his figure disappearing in an instant.
In the pitch-black night, he looked back at the blond young man and silently sighed,
"At the mountain's peak, a pole's footprint... Only a few Wizards can reach the top."
...
Time flew by.
A week had passed since Colin returned to Neustadt City.
The city was initially a bit bleak, but after a day or two, it had recovered to seventy or eighty percent, and by today, both the buildings and the populace were no different from before.
Inside the True Knowledge Society Second Rank research lab
Colin stood relaxed, his gaze focused, a sudden point of red light appearing in the air in front of him.
As time passed, the red light expanded bit by bit, a burning sensation rushing towards him.
Then, at a certain moment, the red light in front turned into a human figure burning with flames!
Colin sighed lightly and waved his hand to disperse the Summoned Fire Element.
Even though he had reduced his casting speed as much as possible, he still couldn't figure out the overlapping occurrence that happened when casting the Limit Breaking Fireball Skill and Summoning Fire Element at the same time.
After resting momentarily, Colin exhaled stale air and suddenly summoned Silent Shadow.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh.
Six Silent Shadows silently stood before him, and with a thought from Colin, he summoned Black Mist Armor.
Faint black mist appeared suddenly, covering his body completely in an instant as if he had turned into a dark, fierce Knight.
Two seconds later, Colin dispelled the Black Fog Armor again.
Under his control, the Black Fog Armor started to dissipate bit by bit, starting with the helmet, beginning from the eyebrows. The hard-as-steel Black Fog Armor crumbled into wisps of black mist and dissipated into the air in the blink of an eye.
But Colin knew, just like when summoning Black Fog Armor, most of that mist actually went back to the Silent Shadows.
About two minutes later, the Black Fog Armor on Colin's body had completely vanished.
He closed his eyes slightly, frowning thoughtfully.
When he had advanced to a Second Rank Wizard and could use dual casting of two witchcrafts, he discovered the strange overlapping effect when casting Fireball and Summoning Fire Element simultaneously.
This effect not only significantly increased the speed of casting but also reduced the consumption of Magic Power.
Similarly, in the Black Mist Net Witchcraft, there was a similar overlapping effect.
Summoning Black Mist Armor seemed like a single witchcraft, but it wasn't really so in reality.
In fact, Black Mist Net Witchcraft was the first combined witchcraft Colin encountered, probably the only one.
Like the Temple Ring Binding he got later, strictly speaking, it was only a group of witchcraft, not a combined witchcraft.
Now comparing Black Mist Net Witchcraft with simultaneously casting Fireball and Summoning Fire Element,
Colin realized that perhaps the current Fireball and Summoning Fire Element were indeed the prototype of a combined witchcraft.
And what he was currently contemplating deeply was how to further develop them and how to use the power of Golden Paper to aid them.
As his strength developed, Colin clearly realized that in the combat of High Rank Wizards, as the attacks got more powerful, the witchcraft they used was usually not just single witchcraft.
In other words, after Second Rank, Wizards mostly used combined witchcraft.
The reason was simple, in most cases, the power of combined witchcraft formed from stacking more single witchcraft was greater.
And because of the overlapping effect, in most cases, the Magic Power needed for combined witchcraft temporarily was also less.
Take the previously summoned Black Mist Armor, for instance, its defensive capability was comparable to the single witchcraft Steel Temperature Resistance Force Field, but the Magic Power needed for summoning it was not even a tenth of that required for the Steel Temperature Resistance Force Field.
Of course, Black Mist Armor was an exception.
Aside from the overlapping effect, this was mainly because the Black Mist Armor was the core of Black Mist Net combined witchcraft.
The Magic Power it needed was mostly provided beforehand during the transformation of Silent Shadow.
So during the battle, the Magic Power needed was naturally much less.
All in all, recently, Colin had been trying to integrate Fireball and Summon Fire Element into a unique combined witchcraft.
Although simultaneously casting Fireball and Summoning Fire Element was equivalent to a primitive combined witchcraft.
But this was because of the special change in the soul of an advanced Second Rank Wizard.
If it were any other Wizard, they would still have to honestly cast Fireball first, then use Fireball as a material to cast Summon Fire Element.
Boom!
Flames ignited, and Colin continued to practice and research Fireball and Summon Fire Element.
In his heart, he felt that if he could figure out the specific conditions behind the overlapping effects of Fireball and Summoning Fire Element, with Golden Paper's help, he might integrate it with Black Mist Net Witchcraft and develop a new, powerful witchcraft!