Translator: SumTLMan
The hard requirement for becoming a formal wizard is that one’s energy, physical body, and soul must reach a certain level.
Angel’s soul has long surpassed this level. For him, the originally weakest physical body was unexpectedly and mysteriously completed after this trip to the Nightmare Plane. Although it still needs to be exercised, this time should not be too long.
That is to say, as long as his energy reaches the level, the three hard conditions for promotion to a formal wizard will just be met?
Angel himself was also a little surprised, and the road that seemed endless suddenly seemed to see the end?
Of course, basically every apprentice who reaches third-level can slowly achieve these three hard conditions over time. But whether they can successfully advance to the wizard level ultimately depends on their own foundation.
The accumulation of magical source and the stacking of one’s own foundation both require time. Therefore, these are things to come, so let’s not mention them for now.
Returning to Sanders’ test of Angel’s bloodline, the result seemed not very good, even worse than other inferior bloodlines.
But Sanders was very excited and couldn’t suppress his excitement. In front of Angel, he manipulated the quill and quickly recorded this series of data and his own guesses on the parchment.
Angel peeked at it, and Sanders didn’t care. He even explained the meaning of some data and formulas to Angel while recording them.
This kind of research data usually comes with Sanders’ own insights, which is a very useful experience.
Angel quickly got into it.
—Research on the Origin of Projection Bloodline— Guess 1: The fusion rate of the Projection Bloodline with the main body is more than 95%. Does it count as an external bloodline?
Guess 2: Is the fusion of the Projection Bloodline with the main body just a simple quantitative change?
Guess 3: If it is confirmed that it is just a quantitative change, can a new bloodline be directly integrated in this situation without refining the bloodline?
Guess 4: …
Until the end, Sanders quickly wrote out the final question with his quill: Is this bloodline fusion the most optimized bloodline? Can it be used as a universal topic for research?
As Sanders recorded, Angel gradually gained some understanding of his own bloodline. In fact, it seems to be a bloodline, but it doesn’t seem to be. Assuming that Angel originally had half a tank of water, now he has just turned the water into a full tank.
The tank is still the same tank, and the water is still the same water.
Because the tank and water have not changed, no bloodline talent will be produced.
So, is this considered a bloodline fusion? The answer is difficult to define.
But from Sanders’ conjecture, this fusion of the Projection Bloodline with the original body seems to be extremely beneficial. Since there is no qualitative change, then if the conjecture is correct, it is possible to fuse with other bloodlines.
This means that the time of quantitative change can be saved, allowing the body’s potential to be maximized.
However, all of this is still conjecture. Sanders still needs some means to verify his guess.
And there is also the most important point: is there any hidden disadvantage in the fusion of the Projection Bloodline with the original body?
For example, some wizards can even hide their self-consciousness in a drop of blood, fuse it into someone else’s body, and take possession of the other person when they succeed.
These disadvantages also need to be investigated.
However, to test similar adverse situations, many steps and big data are needed to support. Although this is a correct method, it is actually a clumsy approach.
Sanders can completely avoid doing it himself, he can ask the prophecy-based wizards to make a direct judgment on this matter.
“The hidden risks that may be hidden in the Projection Bloodline, when I return to Savage Grottoes, I will ask Maya to make a judgment.” Sanders said to Angel, and Maya is the only prophecy-based wizard in Savage Grottoes.
Angel nodded: “Can this right hand be…”
Sanders glanced at Angel.
Angel hurriedly said: “No need, no need, I will study this myself!”
Sanders secretly smiled, put the newly recorded topic into the —Mystery of the Nightmare Plane—, and then turned to Angel and said: “The Projection Bloodline, although not very helpful to your improvement, in my opinion, is the most suitable bloodline for you. Although I judge that you should be able to fuse new bloodlines without refining your bloodline, I advise you not to fuse bloodlines before advancing to a formal wizard, after all, many powerful bloodlines can only be injected and fused after you become a formal wizard.”
Angel nodded. He himself is not a bloodline-based wizard, and his pursuit of bloodlines is only one: to be able to advance to a wizard.
Since the current Projection Bloodline has basically met his needs, why bother to force it? After all, he is an illusion-based wizard, and even if he wants to research topics in the future to fill his foundation, the bloodline topic will definitely be ranked last.
Moreover, Angel is a person who would rather lack than indulge, since there are better bloodlines to pursue, why settle for ordinary bloodlines? Once you compromise, if you fail to refine your bloodline in the future, it would be ridiculous.
“As long as you understand, today’s bloodline test for you ends here.” Sanders paused, his gaze shifted to Angel’s right hand: “As for this right hand of yours, at present, only a rough estimate can be made.”
In Angel’s hopeful eyes, Sanders said: “The power is basically equivalent to the peak apprentice of the bloodline side without activating the power of the bloodline. However, this is just a basic strength test, as for whether there are any other special effects…”
As Sanders said this, his gaze looked at the green runes floating above his right hand: “… It can’t be determined at the moment, I will look up some information during this period, list a more detailed test table, and test it for you again.”
“If you find anything, record it at any time, and I will use it as a reference.”
When Sanders said this, he seemed indifferent, but his heart was extremely cautious. He had some fear of Angel’s right hand. That day, he said he saw a figure with long golden hair merging with Angel’s hand, which was true.
However, he did not tell Angel how terrible his condition was at the time. The aura emitted by the person with the golden hair was the strongest he had ever encountered in his life… even more terrifying than the legendary aura he felt in Nightfall City.
Every time he recalled the feeling, Sanders felt it was a nightmare that was difficult to endure.
For this reason, even though Angel was very cooperative in letting him test the data of his right hand, he refused. At present, he was not even daring to face this right hand.
Moreover, every time he stared at the green rune, he seemed to see a pair of indifferent, crimson eyes. Just like not long ago, when Angel merged with the bloodline, those demonic blood eyes flashed for a moment.
Angel didn’t know the complex thoughts in Sanders’ mind. At this time, he was constantly opening and closing his right hand, adapting to this new power.
Looking at the constantly swinging green rune, Sanders thought for a moment and took out a delicate black glove from the space.
With a touch of phantom energy at his fingertips, he covered the glove embroidered with the Iguro clan emblem.
“Wear this glove, and it can help you cover the green rune,” Sanders said. Then he suddenly realized that he asked Angel to cover the rune purely because he didn’t want to see it, but he didn’t ask for Angel’s opinion. After all, whether to cover this omen sign was purely a personal attitude. Some wizards loved to use omen signs as personal features; others preferred to act low-key.
He didn’t know which type Angel belonged to, and it seemed inappropriate to impose it on him like this.
But since he had already handed it out, taking it back would seem to damage the dignity of being a mentor.
Sanders thought for a moment, prepared to forcefully explain: for example, the green rune might reveal information about the Nightmare Plane…
But before he could say anything, Angel’s eyes lit up, and he took the glove.
“What a solid illusion node, and it uses the power of illusion, how did you do it?” Angel asked with a surprised face.
“Cough, this is a phantom camouflage spell based on the power of illusion. You can wear it and study it yourself,” Sanders said smoothly.
Angel nodded and happily put the glove on his right hand.
Sure enough, as soon as the glove was put on, it covered the green rune, and even the fact that his right hand was a knuckle longer than his left hand was completely concealed.
Visually, it seemed to be the same size as his left hand.
This pleased Angel greatly, and the appearance of the glove was also quite attractive. It was entirely black, but on the back of the hand, there was a pattern of dark silver embroidery: a sword with outstretched wings, thrust into a thorny rose.
He knew this was the family crest of Sanders. Underneath this pattern, there was a row of beautiful cursive letters: The Rose Remains Undefeated, Glory Endures Forever.
It was identical to the Phantom Island pass “coin” Sanders had given him.
While Angel played with the glove, Sanders began collecting various items brought back from Witch Town.
For ordinary items, he simply disposed of them using banishing spells. Magical plants were of no use to him, so he directly handed them over to Angel.
The residual liquid from the water spirit was a high-energy liquid, an extremely versatile substance that could be used or sold. However, Sanders also gave it to Angel, as he didn’t care about the small amount of money.
As for the final Blood Vine Skeleton Woman, it was the most valuable.
However, although it was a wizard-level creature, its soul had been destroyed by Sanders in the Nightmare Plane, so its bones could not extract any bloodline, and its value could only be considered as material worth, probably around six figures.
Sanders took the bones, intending to grind them into bone powder for research materials.
The Bloodvine wrapped around the bones was left to Angel.
However, this Bloodvine was also a wizard-level material, which Angel would find difficult to use at present. Therefore, after inquiring about the price of this Bloodvine on the side, Angel unhesitatingly stored it in his bracelet.
Six figures!
Selling this would allow him to repay Sanders directly!
As for why he didn’t directly use it to offset his debt to Sanders, it was because Sanders said the value of this Bloodvine should be above 200,000, while he only owed Sanders 150,000…
“Alright, the harvest from this Nightmare Plane is quite good. You brought out everything. It seems that the limit of the items you can bring out is at least at the wizard level,” Sanders said with a smile.
“Did I bring everything out?” Angel asked doubtfully, “But… didn’t I fail to bring out that painting?”
“Painting? What painting?”