Chapter 298: Chapter 298: Four-direction Star Lock Magic Barrier

Stier sincerely conceded defeat.

So, Li Wei didn’t press the attack.

The main reason was that Stier was willing to compensate Li Wei.

Li Wei said, "I want the Magic Barrier you used to block the aura of the Fire Spirit."

Stier looked at him in surprise. "You should’ve just said that’s what you wanted! Why did we even have to fight? I would’ve just given it to you!"

Li Wei: "..."

"The problem is, I tried to talk, but you never gave me the chance."

"Besides," Li Wei retorted, "if I hadn’t fought you, would you have handed it over so willingly?"

Stier thought about it and realized he had a point.

If Li Wei had made this request before the fight...

...he definitely wouldn’t have given him the time of day.

He would’ve just told Li Wei to get lost.

But now that Li Wei was making the request...

...he actually felt Li Wei was asking for too little.

People are just perverse.

GLUG GLUG GLUG!

The large crater created by the Cyan Flame Dragon began to fill back in as large bubbles rose from the lava.

A number of Fire Elemental Elves were drawn over by the commotion.

Seeing this, Stier quickly said, "Let’s get inside the Magic Barrier first and talk there. It’ll be dangerous if the Fire Elemental Elves find us."

Li Wei nodded.

Stier opened the Magic Barrier, and the two of them stepped inside.

Once the Magic Barrier closed, it sealed off all auras and concealed their figures. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺

They could see outside from within, but no one outside could see them.

Shortly after the Magic Barrier closed, Li Wei and Stier saw a large number of Fire Elemental Elves appear nearby.

The Fire Elemental Elves themselves weren’t what Stier feared.

Stier could easily unleash the Power of a Tier Four.

Ordinary Fire Elemental Elves posed no threat to him.

The reason Stier was so wary of the Fire Elemental Elves was because of the potential Fire Elemental Lord lurking in the depths of the volcano.

After a while, the Fire Elemental Elves began to disperse.

Only then did Stier breathe a sigh of relief and start talking to Li Wei.

Li Wei asked curiously, "What kind of Magic Barrier is this?"

Stier said, "A Four-direction Star Lock Magic Barrier. It can block the aura and fluctuations of the Fire Spirit, and it also has both concealment and defensive capabilities."

He took out a sphere covered in Magic Arrays and handed it to Li Wei.

"Take it. This is the last one I have on me. You can reuse it by refilling it with Magic Stones."

Li Wei accepted the Barrier Stone.

Most Barrier Spells were composite spells, formed from a combination of multiple types of Magic.

They usually required multiple people Casting in concert to be performed.

The difficulty was too high for a single person to use.

And so, the Barrier Stone was invented.

Barrier Masters and Array Masters worked together to seal a Magic Barrier inside a Barrier Stone.

One only had to activate the Barrier Stone to deploy the Magic Barrier.

The only drawback was that the Magic Barrier within a Barrier Stone was typically limited by the materials used, resulting in a smaller Barrier range.

Its functions were also restricted and couldn’t be adjusted or changed.

Most of the time, however, it was more than enough.

After receiving the Four-sided Star Lock Barrier Stone, Li Wei turned his gaze to the Spirit Gathering Ritual Array arranged in the center of the stone platform.

With a single glance, he could tell that Stier’s technique for arranging the Spirit Gathering Ceremony was rather crude.

There were many areas that could be improved.

"What are you doing?"

Stier asked hurriedly when he saw Li Wei messing with the Spirit Gathering Ceremony he’d arranged.

Although he had previously said he was willing to give the Spirit Gathering Crystal to Li Wei...

...now that the moment was here, he was reluctant to hand it over.

He mainly felt that giving Li Wei a Four-sided Star Lock Barrier Stone was compensation enough.

Giving him a Spirit Gathering Crystal on top of that would be a major loss.

Stier said quickly, "I spent a lot of time carefully arranging this Spirit Gathering Ritual Array. Don’t you dare break it."

Li Wei casually shifted an item within the ritual.

Stier noticed the spirit-gathering effect instantly strengthen by a large margin.

In an instant, he was overwhelmed with embarrassment.

He wished the ground would swallow him whole.

’What the hell? How is this guy so skilled?’

’He just nudged a couple of things, and the effect is already better than the ritual I painstakingly arranged?’

As Stier stewed in his shame, he felt utterly crushed.

’I can’t beat him in a fight, and now I’m getting completely outclassed in setting up a Ritual Array.’

’Stier didn’t even know what he, a student of the Purple Level Class, had to be proud of anymore.’

’Are all the Red Level Class students this terrifying nowadays?’

’It’s been so long since I’ve been out... has the world completely changed?’

A deep suspicion grew in Stier’s heart.

He watched with wide eyes as Li Wei modified the Spirit Gathering Ritual Array.

Stier was still counting on these Spirit Gathering Crystals to break through to Tier Four.

Li Wei adjusted all the flawed parts of the Spirit Gathering Ritual Array.

The spirit-gathering speed instantly increased by forty to fifty percent.

He looked at Stier and said, "The Fire Spirit here is extremely abundant. It can support at least three or four Spirit Gathering Ritual Arrays."

"You don’t have any objections to me setting up another Spirit Gathering Ritual Array, do you?"

Stier quickly shook his head. "No objections."

’It’s not like I’d dare to object right now!’

’I can’t beat him in a fight, and I can’t win an argument against him.’

’What else can I do?’

Seeing that Li Wei no longer seemed to be eyeing his Spirit Gathering Crystal...

...Stier breathed a silent sigh of relief.

Li Wei set up the Spirit Gathering Ritual Array at the edge of the stone platform, closer to the center of the Lava Lake.

He oriented the Spirit Gathering Ritual Array to draw the Fire Spirit from the center of the Lava Lake.

To do this, he even specially modified the design of the Ritual Array.

To Stier, this was an unimaginable feat.

He only knew how to arrange the ritual according to the Array on the Spirit Gathering Ritual Scroll.

He’d never even considered that the design could be changed.

After he finished, Li Wei looked at Stier and said, "You mentioned before that you’d give me the Spirit Gathering Crystal..."

Stier’s heart leaped in alarm. He quickly said, "Hey, I already gave you a Four-sided Star Lock Barrier Stone."

Li Wei asked, "How many Pure Crystals do you have?"

Stier replied quickly, "I prepared ten of them. I was mostly worried the ritual would fail and destroy the Pure Crystal. I didn’t expect it to succeed on the first try."

Li Wei’s eyes lit up. "If you don’t want to give me the Spirit Gathering Crystal, then just give me a few Pure Crystals."

Hearing that, Stier breathed a sigh of relief.

He nodded. "No problem."

Pure Crystals were nothing.

A mere five hundred gold coins each.

Stier took out two Pure Crystals and handed them to Li Wei.

Li Wei accepted them but still wasn’t satisfied.

He said, "The Spirit Gathering Ritual Array you set up was terrible. It had so many flaws it was hard to look at. With your original arrangement, it would have run into problems within an hour at most."

Stier was taken aback. ’Was it really that bad?’

"Look at the difference between now and how it was before," Li Wei said, pointing to the Spirit Gathering Ritual Array.

Stier felt a pang of guilt and looked away, embarrassed.

Li Wei said, "After my modifications, this Spirit Gathering Ceremony can run until the Spirit Gathering Crystal is completely full."

Stier was stunned. ’That’s incredible,’ he thought.

He had never even considered it possible to completely fill a Spirit Gathering Crystal.

His plan had always been to just get what he could.

If he accumulated enough partially-filled Spirit Gathering Crystals, he’d eventually have enough Fire Spirit.

Seeing the change in his expression, Li Wei smiled to himself.

"How about this: I’ll set up the Spirit Gathering Ceremonies for you, and you give me one Pure Crystal for each one."