Chapter 177: Chapter 117: Advancing to Tier 2 Legend, Ten Thousand Realms Slave Market

In the time that followed, Pei Ze threw himself wholeheartedly into increasing his strength.

Every day, besides using Resonance Potions to aid his Meditation, he was busy Engraving Spells.

He also didn’t neglect his training in the All-Knowing Breathing Technique.

In addition, he had to find time to set up Protective Arrays and magic traps for his residence.

You could say that, apart from eating, he was busy twenty-four hours a day.

He even replaced sleep with Meditation.

In this fulfilling yet hectic state, his strength increased steadily and rapidly.

「Star Realm Calendar, Year 14523, August 14th.」

Fueled by the explosive physical enhancement he received after his promotion to Wizard, his progress with the All-Knowing Cultivation Technique surged forward.

After a month of training, Pei Ze successfully broke through to the third level and advanced to become a Tier Two Legendary Knight.

「In the center of the courtyard.」

White steam billowed from the body of Pei Ze, who had just finished his training, and he radiated waves of intense heat.

"All-Knowing, check my current status."

[Spirit: 10.63]

[Physique: 7.51]

"Not bad."

A smile appeared on Pei Ze’s face.

Compared to a month ago, his physique attribute had skyrocketed by nearly three energy levels.

However, the vast majority of this increase came from the physical enhancement brought on by the surge in his Spirit. The improvement from practicing the All-Knowing Breathing Technique was, by contrast, not very significant.

After all, his physique attribute had always far surpassed the progress of the All-Knowing Breathing Technique. Recently, the technique had been the one ’catching up’ to his physique.

’The progress of my breathing technique has slowed noticeably these past few days. It should return to its normal speed soon.’

Pei Ze exhaled a long stream of white vapor, which shot out three or four meters like an arrow before slowly dissipating into the air.

Composing himself, he looked at his Spirit attribute.

Over the past month, he had taken a bottle of Resonance Potion every day to aid his Meditation.

Thanks to this lavish expenditure of resources, his Spirit energy level grew rapidly, increasing by more than five energy levels in just one month.

For other Wizards, this might have been the result of several years of training.

’A Spiritual Power of 10.63 energy levels... For an ordinary Wizard, that’s already close to the Level 1 Vaporization Limit. But for me, I’m not even a third of the way there.’

Pei Ze sighed with mixed feelings.

’I’ve taken thirty bottles of Resonance Potion in a row, and the effects have weakened to the point where each dose only increases my Spiritual Power by about 0.17 energy levels.’

’At this rate, it’ll take at least another five months to reach the Level 1 Vaporization Limit.’

Reaching the Level 1 Vaporization Limit just six months after one’s promotion was a speed that would be considered absolutely terrifying among Level 1 Wizards.

However, Pei Ze still wasn’t satisfied.

His goal, after all, was to break through and become a Second-level Wizard before he turned twenty.

’Oh well. I’ll just do my best.’

Pei Ze looked at his task list.

In the past month, he had mastered over twenty new spells and engraved sixteen of them onto his Spirit Crystal.

He had also added Mage Armor to the list of spells to be engraved.

Pei Ze’s repertoire of spells had now basically taken shape.

As for Elemental Runes, he had analyzed three more: the Flame Rune, the Ice Rune, and the Shadow Rune.

He hadn’t analyzed any new Magic Tattoos, but he had improved the ones he had and added a new ability: Burning!

This ability allowed him to burn the Magic Tattoos on his body to greatly enhance their power.

For example, he could burn the Flash Magic Tattoo, removing its usage limit for a short time.

He could burn the Thunder Burst Magic Tattoo to cast an enhanced Thunder Burst with several times its normal power.

The price for doing this, however, was that the Magic Tattoo would collapse and disappear.

In other words, it was like treating the Magic Tattoo as a consumable, unleashing all its power in a single burst.

’The new ability is nice, but it’s a bit expensive.’

’The materials for a single Subordinate Magic Tattoo cost over a hundred Magic Stone Coins. A mid-grade one probably costs over a thousand. A single use costs hundreds, even a thousand, Magic Stone Coins. This is literally just throwing money at your problems.’

Expensive as it was, the Burning ability of the Magic Tattoos could definitely be used as a trump card.

Pei Ze was more than happy to have another powerful trump card.

’The new metal combination for Silverstar has also been calculated.’

After it evolved into a Tier Two Witchcraft Artifact, the metal combination required to enhance Silverstar was naturally upgraded as well.

Calculating the new metal combination formula had cost Pei Ze a full 65 energy levels of Spiritual Power and included a large quantity of rarer and more valuable metals.

A single standard unit of the metal combination cost over 3,500 Magic Stone Coins—a full five times the previous price.

The crucial part was that Silverstar needed to absorb eighteen standard units of the metal combination to evolve to Tier Three.

That added up to over sixty thousand Magic Stone Coins.

When Pei Ze calculated that number, he felt the corner of his mouth twitch.

The combined value of the gifts he had received previously wasn’t even half of that amount.

His only consolation was that he had inquired about the price of Tier Three Witchcraft Artifacts. Artifacts of that level rarely circulated on the open market; they were the kind of priceless treasures for which there was no ready seller. At most, they might occasionally appear at an auction house.

The last time one had appeared at auction was six months ago. Back then, a Tier Three Witchcraft Artifact of only ordinary quality had sold for a final price of 150,000 Magic Stone Coins.

In contrast, evolving Silverstar into a Tier Three Witchcraft Artifact, including all prior costs, would only require a little over 70,000 Magic Stone Coins—less than half the price of the one at the auction.

More importantly, once successfully evolved, Silverstar would undoubtedly be a top-tier Tier Three Witchcraft Artifact, its quality far surpassing the one sold at auction.

From that perspective, over sixty thousand Magic Stone Coins was practically a bargain.

’Setting up the Protective Arrays and warning traps for the residence these past few days cost me several thousand Magic Stone Coins. I only have about eighteen thousand left now.’