Chapter 1013

"Master Anxi, is this true?"

The person who asked the question was the sage Abnian from the Floating Void City of Ain. His face was flushed with excitement, and he even seemed a little out of control.

Sage Abnian is one of the oldest councilors in the empire. He is over a thousand years old. He has merged two nine-ring seals hundreds of years ago, but failed to master the third one. He has long since given up promotion to the holy soul. The hope of life is now numbered.

If he can be promoted to Holy Soul Wizard, he can live another thousand years!

Not only Abnian, there are many other legendary wizards in the empire who are in a similar situation. The total number of major floating cities and magic academies exceeds double digits.

If you count extraordinary professions other than wizards, there will be even more!

There is a trend in the distribution ratio of extraordinary professions. Below the legendary level, the number of spellcasters is an absolute minority, and the proportion is extremely low; when it reaches the legendary level, the proportion of spellcasters begins to gradually increase; Extraordinary professions are comparable, accounting for nearly half.

Entering the holy rank, the ratio is completely reversed.

Spellcasters, including wizards, mages, and warlocks, are more numerous than other extraordinary professions combined, occupying the mainstream.

The reason for this phenomenon is very simple - talent difference!

Talented people are always a minority. Most of them choose to become wizards, followed by warlocks or church professions. Those with insufficient talents can only fall back to the next best thing and choose non-spellcasting professions such as Iron Guard, Berserker, Gunner, or Shadow Warrior.

As the strength increases and the rank increases, the advantages of talent will become more and more obvious, and the gap in strength will also become larger.

And the most needed thing to break through the holy rank is talent.

Among the more than 30 imperial councilors present, apart from Batura, the two Popes and Margarita, who were powerful saints, half of the remaining people were legendary wizards.

The other half are various extraordinary professions, steel knight, shadow warrior, magic swordsman, great swordsman and so on.

It is much more difficult for them to break through the holy rank than wizards!

One is that the talent is not enough. Many extraordinary professions need to train one element to advance to the legendary element when they are promoted to the holy rank, which is more difficult than integrating the nine-ring seal;

The second is that the strength is not enough, and it is impossible to find a suitable demon soul to forcibly fuse and break through the holy rank. The conflict of fusion is too fierce, and it is almost a narrow escape.

And Anxi Wodas said that the rune circle he invented can solve the second problem.

Assist in the fusion of seals, reduce the conflict of demon souls, and increase the success rate!

Every member of the empire below the holy rank is crazy.

"Master Anxi, can non-wizards really use it?"

"Master, are you not joking?"

"Master Anxi, how much difficulty can this rune circle reduce, and what is the success rate? How long does it take to fuse a nine-ring seal?"

"Master Anxi..."

The members of the empire were chattering, scrambling to ask questions loudly.

A few people couldn't help approaching Anse Wo Daosi, and the scene was chaotic for a while, like a noisy vegetable market.

The holy soul wizards were also shocked!

If what Ansevodos said is true, then this rune circle will be one of the greatest inventions in human history, even surpassing the soul stone, and comparable to the core of Iola!

No!

From the perspective of the empire and all mankind, it is more important than the core of Iola.

Only the most powerful wizards can create and use the Iola Core. After all, it is the privilege of a very few people, and this rune circle can increase the number of human saint-level powerhouses!

The number of holy soul wizards and holy rank powerhouses largely determines the upper limit of a race.

The bigger the base, the higher the peak!

More than 2,500 years since the new era, there have been less than 20 holy soul wizards born in the empire, and only seven holy soul wizards have reached level 30 or above.

Of these seven wizards, one disappeared, one died, and one was expelled.

As for the sorcerers over level 40, only the missing Master Ogulevi was the only one.

If there were a hundred holy soul wizards in the empire, there would definitely be more than seven who reached level 30, and there might be holy soul wizards above level 40 again! Even if there were not, hundreds of holy soul wizards and the same number of holy rank powerhouses could push the overall power of the empire to unimaginable heights.

Moreover, judging from Master Anxi's words, this rune circle is not limited to breaking through the holy rank, breaking through the bottleneck of legend, and even superhumans below legend can use it.

A future scene with infinite possibilities unfolds before people's eyes!

Only Ronnie and Hasstaff were calmer.

Ronnie knew about it a long time ago and experienced it himself, while Hestaff just learned about it from Rennes. In order to break through the Holy Soul Wizard, he agreed to give up the autonomy of the trading city-state. In fact, he knew very well that it would be impossible not to give up. Sooner or later, the emperor would take action against the trading city-state. He might as well give up on his own initiative and exchange some benefits with His Majesty.

Ryan has been secretly paying attention to Tuzre.

When the teacher announced the rune circle, Tuzrei, who was always indifferent, couldn't help but change his expression, and cast a surprised look at the teacher.

The eye of the soul saw that his mood swings were very intense, and it was unprecedentedly intense, far beyond the superficial surprise.

Apparently, Ogulev was also shocked by this invention.

"Quiet!"

Ren yelled softly, suppressing the audience with a tyrannical breath, and reprimanded: "All of you are members of the Empire, so how can you be so noisy?"

"Sit down!"

"Listen to the teacher."

Ren's eyes were sharp, and he scanned dozens of imperial councilors.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Every member of the imperial council he saw seemed to have been poured with a basin of ice water. Their excitement calmed down, and they quickly lowered their heads and sat down. But as soon as he sat down, he thought of what Master Anxi had said, and the blood in his chest began to churn again.

Saint rank powerhouse!

This is what they have dreamed of all their lives. Not only can they have the top power in the world, but they can also greatly prolong their lifespan. How can they not be excited?

So, everyone looked at Anxi Wodas eagerly.

Anxi Wodas smiled calmly: "As I said just now, this rune circle can assist in the fusion of seals, and can also increase the success rate of fusion with demon souls. Holding a soul-changing ceremony in the rune circle can stabilize the soul. Structure, reducing conflicts, the effect is extremely significant.”

"Master, isn't it usable by any rank?" A legendary middle-ranked imperial councilor asked.

"good."

Anxi Wodas nodded, "But every time you use the rune circle, you need to consume a lot of materials, worth about 200,000 gold shields."

so expensive!

This is everyone's first reaction.

Then I thought again, if I can break through the bottleneck, what is a mere 200,000 gold shields, it is simply too cheap!

A very young wizard stood up. He was the student and lover of the Queen of Storms, Alamantha. He was just in his early fifties. He had already mastered a nine-ring spell and was trying to integrate the second one. There were not many of them in the entire empire. The peerless genius.

Alamance asked: "Master Anxi, this rune circle..."

Anxi Wodas raised his hand to make him stop first, with a reserved expression on his face, "I named it 'Anxi Wodas Promotion Technique', you can call it 'Promotion Circle'."

"Promoting the magic circle..."

Everyone is chewing on this name, Master Anxi will be famous forever because of it!

Alamantha continued to ask: "Master, I want to know the specific effect of promoting the magic circle? How much success rate can it increase, how much difficulty can it reduce, and how long does it take to fuse a magic seal?"

"Increase by half, decrease by half, half a year."

Anse Woldas answered succinctly.

In the past three months, he let Ronnie use the promotion circle to verify the data obtained when transforming the Hess magic circle, so he was full of confidence.

Wow!

The imperial councilors made a splash again.

It only takes half a year to increase the success rate and reduce the difficulty by half. The effect of promoting the magic circle has far exceeded their expectations! Although there is still a half chance of failure, compared to the difficulty of relying on one's own breakthrough, there is a world of difference.

Alamantha was amazed, and wished he could use the promotion circle immediately.

You must know that the success rate of merging the Nine Rings with his talent is less than 20%, and it takes a long time, three to five years, and he failed once a few years ago.

The fusion seal failed, and the soul was injured, and it would take five to seven years to recover.

One failure is ten years of delay!

The Nine Rings Seal is also gone.

Switching to other legendary wizards with less talent, resources and conditions are not as good, it may take decades to try to integrate the Nine Rings Seal, and there are only less than ten chances in a lifetime, and to be promoted to the Holy Soul Wizard, you need to master three magic seals. A nine-ring spell.

Anxi Wodas said: "Using the promotion circle does not guarantee success, and it will still fail. However, the magic circle will reduce the degree of trauma to the soul, so the recovery period is relatively short."

He hesitated.

"I haven't conducted a test in this area. According to my estimation, if the fusion of the Nine Rings Seal fails, it will take no more than five years to recover. If the situation is good, maybe three years will be enough."

"Of course, the seal will still be damaged."

The legendary wizards were overwhelmed when they heard that, five years is nothing at all, they can afford it. If there is half the fusion success rate every time, no matter how bad your luck is, it should be successful once three or four times, and it will take about twenty years.

Legendary wizards can live for thousands of years at the longest, and counting the life shortened by the trauma of the soul, there are at least five hundred years left.

That's enough to try dozens of times!

It may take four to five hundred years for wizards with less talent to go from a first-level wizard to a peak nineteenth-level wizard. The human soul will decline around the age of four hundred.

The decline of the soul means that the soul power does not advance but retreats.

Therefore, anyone who wants to be promoted to a holy soul wizard must reach the peak of legend before the age of four hundred, which stops more than ninety-nine percent of wizards.

Master Anxi's promotion circle changed all that.

No matter how old you are at the peak of legend, as long as you are not about to die, you have a chance to attack the Holy Soul Wizard!

From then on, for wizards, the biggest difficulty in becoming a holy soul wizard may no longer be mastering the nine-ring spell, but how to reach the peak of legend as soon as possible, and how to obtain the nine-ring seal.

The nine-ring seal can only be stripped out by a holy demon soul.

Saint-level demon souls are rare in the first place, and it is difficult for legendary wizards to hunt them down, and they must use spells that suit them.

At this time, the Governor of Osian Province, Moserio, stood up.

He asked respectfully: "Master Anxi, you are not a wizard or a spellcaster. Using the promotion circle to fuse the demon soul, is the effect the same as the fusion magic seal?"

"Yes."

Anse Woldas nodded.

This is the result of Ryan's own experiments.

Moserio excitedly said: "Master, your wisdom is comparable to that of a god!"

He had already been a Shadow Assassin at the pinnacle of legend decades ago, but he was stuck at a bottleneck, and so far he has not seen the hope of breaking through the holy rank and becoming the King of Shadows.

Generally, there are two methods. The first is to temper an element into a legendary element, triggering soul transformation. This road is very, very difficult. He has worked hard for decades, and he has practiced a transcendent element countless times. He is still far from advanced, which makes people desperate.

The second is to forcibly fuse the holy-level demon soul, which is more difficult than the previous method, and it is also life-threatening.

Almost no one chooses the second option.

Master Anxi's promotion circle reduces the difficulty and conflict by half of the fusion of demon souls. Even if it fails, the soul will not be seriously injured and life will not be endangered. So, many people are willing to try the second way!

Now there is only one suitable holy rank demon soul left!

By the way, two hundred thousand gold shields are needed.

Not only Moserio was excited, every legendary peak was very excited, and sincerely praised the great invention of Anse Verdos.

"Master Anxi is the greatest wizard in history, and the core of Iola is not as good as the promotion circle!"

"That's right!"

"Promoting the magic circle is the greatest achievement in human history!"

"No, even the elves and giant dragons, in their heyday, have never produced a more powerful invention than the promotion circle. Everyone, the promotion circle will allow our empire, and all of us, to develop the most powerful creation in the new era. Splendid civilization!"

A sound of praise made Anse Wodos feel good, with a look of satisfaction on his face, and he kept stroking his snow-white beard.

But after hearing that someone mentioned elves, he couldn't help but feel a little guilty.

The promotion circle is modified from the Hess magic circle.

He and Renn had discussed it long ago, and this secret should not be spread outside, so as not to cause trouble. Although the elves are far away in Auroan, there is no threat to the empire, but this matter publicly damages the reputation of mankind and the empire, so it is better to keep it secret.

"Anxi, congratulations!"

The great sage Congerald congratulated, he was really happy for Anxi and the empire.

The holy soul wizards congratulated each other.

The Prophet Medifer asked: "Anxi, does the promotion of the magic circle have any effect on the holy soul wizard?" This question attracted everyone's attention.

Anxi Wodas thought for a while before replying: "I tried it myself, but the effect is not obvious. Maybe my level is too high. However, for holy soul wizards between the 20th and 30th levels, it should be the same. It can assist the soul transformation ceremony, but the effect is not as obvious as those below the holy rank."

The eyes of the holy soul wizards lit up.

The Duke of Silver Star praised: "Even if it can only increase the success rate of soul transformation by 10%, it is very rare!"

"yes……"

The holy soul wizards all nodded.

The seventh soul transformation of a transcendent is the most difficult, and the eighth is a little easier, but not much easier, and there are still great risks.

The ninth soul change is more difficult than the seventh.

The great sage has been stuck in this bottleneck for hundreds of years and only broke through a few years ago.

"I can't guarantee how much improvement there will be." Anxi Wodas shook his head, but he was full of confidence, "There is still a lot of room for improvement in the promotion of the magic circle. auxiliary effect."

"I look forward to the master's early success!"

The holy soul wizard is full of expectations.

The same is true for non-caster saint-level powerhouses such as Batura, Alayan, and Hesktor. After being promoted to the holy rank, it is too difficult to improve their strength. Every step is extremely difficult and painful. If it is useful to upgrade the magic circle, then they can use it every time they upgrade, and the utilization rate is higher than that of the holy soul wizard, which is an advantage.

After the excitement, people immediately thought of a question.

"Master Anxi."

Elder Nether Halawa got up and asked, "When can we use the promotion circle?"

Anxi Wodas glanced at Ren, and then replied: "The promotion of the magic circle is not due to me alone. Ren has put in a lot of effort and helped a lot. How to use the promotion circle, I have decided Leave it to Ryan to handle."

After speaking, he sat down.

Everyone was stunned, did His Majesty even participate?

Although Master Anxi said before that "with the help of Rennes", everyone thought this was Master Anxi's humble words.

Now that I know it, it seems to be true!

Several holy soul wizards and imperial councilors who knew Rennes better, especially the speaker of Wezeland, couldn't help but think about it.

They didn't get any news before, but Master Anxi suddenly took out the promotion circle.

Guessing from previous examples, it must be related to Rennes behind this, and it is not as simple as the so-called "help". It is possible that Rennes is the inventor who really dominated the promotion circle!

Ren noticed the change in everyone's mind and smiled secretly.

He stood up and said loudly: "Teacher's promotion circle is very important to the empire, no amount of praise and glory can be overstated."

Ren's expression was solemn, he paused for a moment, and continued to announce: "For this reason, in the name of Emperor Orienth, I canonize Ansevodos as the 'Duke of Wezeland' and bestow the 'Sunshine State' peninsula in the New World For the fiefdom, choose a day to hold the canonization ceremony."

Seal the Duke!

Moreover, it is the Sunshine State with the most pleasant climate on the east coast of the New World. Its area is equivalent to a top-ranked imperial province. Every inch of land is valuable. It has a natural harbor. Many cities can be built on both sides of the peninsula, which cannot be found in the entire New World. A few such unique territories!

The duke during the Supreme Council did not have such a good fief.

Either the area is not as good, or the conditions are slightly worse. Looking at the entire history of the empire, no more superior dukedom can be found!

Immediately, everyone was envious.

The imperial councilors of noble origin turned red with envy, but no one doubted that Master Anxi's achievements were worthy of His Majesty's gift.

"Congratulations, Duke of Wedzeland!"

"Congratulations, Master!"

Everyone congratulated, and Anxi Wodas got up and smiled in response. In fact, he was more surprised than anyone else. Ren made an agreement with him ten years ago that after ascending to the throne, he would confer a piece of duke land on him as a source of income for Wezeland Floating Void City.

Originally, Rennes had chosen the city of "Molando" in the Sunshine State and the surrounding areas.

I didn't expect Ren to be so generous.

The entire Sunshine State was directly canonized, which is more than five times larger than expected, surpassing any duchy in history!

As for the reason for the canonization mentioned by Ren, Anxi Wodas laughed at himself in his heart. The promotion of the magic circle was mainly transformed by Ren himself, and he was just getting the glory.

Anse Wodos looked at his students, and found that Ren blinked quickly at him, with a smile that only the two of them knew.

He couldn't help but think of the day he officially accepted Ren as a student sixteen years ago. During the apprenticeship ceremony, he gave Ren a unique Wezeland badge with higher authority and more spells. It was the teacher's special care for the student, telling him to keep quiet.

Today, it is the student's turn to take care of the teacher.

Anse Woldas was filled with emotion!

In fact, he is not eager for private land. In the past hundreds of years, he has been plotting for the title of duke and land, just to solve the debt crisis of Wezeland floating city.

Otherwise, I would not have given up my title and territory for more than a thousand years.

Now, he finally got the duchy as he wished, but Wezeland's debts have been settled and the source of income is stable, so the duchy is useless and dispensable. Wezeland is taken care of by the emperor Ren, so it is impossible for him to be short of money in the future.

"Fate is really unpredictable..."

Anse Woldas sighed secretly, but was still very happy.

He will never forget the lesson of giving up the duke title and territory more than a thousand years ago, and it is not easy to reject Rennes' kindness.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Anse Wodos said loudly, this was the first time he called Renn His Majesty, and bowed to salute.

Ren smiled and said, "Duke Wezeland doesn't need to be polite."

After the teacher sat down, he looked at the officials and said, "The promotion circle can only be used by humans, but it cannot be passed on to outsiders. The scope and candidates for using the circle must be strictly controlled."

Everyone nodded slightly.

Human beings are not limited to the Orienth Empire, there are two other great empires, hundreds of kingdoms, principalities, and countless smaller city-states. In other planes, there are also some human subspecies living, and they can also fuse demon souls.

For the future of the empire, the promotion circle must not be revealed!

Everyone quickly reached a consensus.

Ren continued: "I discussed with the teacher before and decided that, in addition to leaving a promotion circle in Wezelan Floating Void City to facilitate the teacher's research and transformation, there can only be one place to build the promotion circle, and that is the Fubaden Palace. "

Everyone is not surprised by this.

Dean Sabra said: "It should be so. There is no safer place in the empire than the palace."

"yes……"

Someone immediately agreed, and couldn't help but look up at the dome of the palace.

Since the upheaval half a month ago, the eight Empire-class Star Destroyers have disappeared, but everyone can see that the most powerful Victory-class Star Destroyer, the Augustus, has been hovering The sky above the Beden Palace.

The entire palace is always guarded by the Fist of the Empire, as well as the Rick Guards, and tens of thousands of Thundercast Heavenly Soldiers, which can be described as impenetrable.

"I plan to build a 'Promotion Temple' behind the Temple of Truth." Ren expressed his thoughts, "The cost of a promotion circle is about 15 million gold shields, and I plan to build ten within five years , all funded by me personally, without using the treasury.”

"Your Majesty is generous!"

Everyone praised, but also a little numb.

The emperor was so rich that he took out another 150 million gold shields. Is money really just a number to him?

"Your Majesty, behind the Temple of Truth is the Aldach Palace. It has been transformed into the Temple of Promotion. It should occupy a large area. Wouldn't that reduce the area of ​​Your Majesty's bedroom?" A member of the southern aristocracy of the empire kindly reminded.

The so-called "Odach Palace" is the emperor's bedroom.

The Rick Palace is located in the middle of the Fuberden Palace, with the square in front, the Lotus Palace in the southwest corner, and the Temple of Truth in the southeast corner.

To the north of the Rick Palace, the area that occupies half of the entire palace is the "Odach Palace", which is the place where the emperor lived and lived. There are martial arts training grounds, meditation rooms, and royal gardens here, which have been sealed for more than a thousand years. , many palaces have been in disrepair for a long time and are close to abandoned.

"I don't need such a big bedroom."

Ren waved his hand, "Using the central axis of the palace as the boundary, the Aldach Palace is divided into two sides, and the abandoned palace in the east half is completely demolished for the construction of the promotion temple, and enough space is left around the temple for Surveillance area to prevent the enemy from sneaking in."

"Just leave the west half to me. I will repair Aldach Palace at my own expense, but I won't waste too much money, just keep it safe."

Ren made a decision in an unquestionable tone.

"Your Majesty is holy!"

The elders and members of the empire shouted in unison, and many of them were sincere and happy that the empire had a wise emperor.

"Using the promotion circle consumes materials. If there is sufficient energy source, you can save about one-third of the materials." Ren said unhurriedly: "I have already started to arrange the magic torch in the palace. combined with the Light of Destruction rune circle, and installed the core of Iola."

"Promoting the magic circle of the temple can also use the energy of the core of Iola."

"It saves everyone a lot of money."

Ren's words made many people breathe a sigh of relief. Two hundred thousand gold shields are not a small amount for many imperial councilors, and they need to be accumulated for many years.

And use the promotion circle more than once, it is expected to be five or six times, or even dozens of times.

It costs 200,000 gold shields every time, which is simply unaffordable.

"Well……"

Ryan showed a thoughtful look on his face, as if he was considering some important decision, and no one dared to disturb him. A few minutes later, Ren finally made up his mind and said: "Seniors, in order to promote the rapid growth of the empire's extraordinary power, I think that some discounts can be provided to those in need."

"What discount?" The Duke of Silver Star suddenly became interested.

"In the next hundred years, as long as the people of the empire use the promotion circle, the first five times will be free of charge and will be paid by the national treasury."

Before Renn finished speaking, cheers erupted among the imperial councilors. He pressed his hand and continued: "After using it five times, from the sixth to the fifteenth time, the cost will be halved. After more than fifteen times, It’s all at your own expense.”

"If you want to use the promotion circle before reaching the legendary peak, no matter how many times you want to use it, you must pay the full cost of the materials."

"The lower the rank, the higher the price, which just creates income for the treasury."

Ryan finished.

Immediately, a member of the empire flattered: "Your Majesty's generosity makes even the gods feel ashamed!"

Although there is suspicion of flattery, it has won the approval of most people.

They sincerely support the emperor!

The elders of the empire glanced at each other, and naturally no one would object. Anyone who dares to raise a question at this time, as long as it spreads, will definitely become the public enemy of the legendary superhumans of the empire.

"We agree with His Majesty's decision." Anse Wodos expressed support on behalf of the Senate.

Ryan smiled.

"After the promotion temple is completed, the legendary peaks of the empire can submit applications to the Lotus Palace. I will personally review the qualifications and arrange the time and order of using the magic circle. I have the final decision." He added, "If If necessary, I will make some pointers."

The eye of the soul is the best mentor, and everyone will be convinced in the future!

The elders and councilors of the empire guessed the emperor's intentions, but no one objected. His Majesty paid for the construction of the promotion temple, and he could use it for whoever he said, and no one had the right to dictate.

"Everything is up to His Majesty." Everyone said in unison.

"That's it."

Ren nodded, mastering the promotion channel, this is the purpose of his painstaking efforts. From then on, all transcendents in the empire who wanted to be promoted to the holy rank had to submit to the golden throne.

All the heroes of the world are in my hands!