Chapter 542 Rapid Advancement (3)
The entire process of leveling up in "Secret of the Ice" is no different in form from when Gothe was promoted for the first time, but there is a clear difference in intensity:
The last time he was promoted to a level, the mist-like mana vortex would condense a drop of liquid mana every three hundred revolutions.
As for this time, the liquid mana in "The Secret of Ice" requires the mana vortex to rotate five hundred times before a single drop can be released.
Such a high-frequency rotation requires precise control of mental power, continuous consumption of energy, and even the supply speed of magic power are far higher than before.
But Goude is a second-level mage, so this amount of consumption can be fully achieved.
Soon, the twenty drops of ice-blue liquid mana required to advance to the first level had condensed under the mana pool.
Just like twenty suspended micro-ice beads, they form a strong color contrast with the emerald-green wood magic crystal suspended above the mana pool.
The next moment, a gentle but pure inexplicable force rushed straight into Gothe's mind from the void.
This is the "benefits" for the mage when he is promoted. It is specially used to cleanse mental power and sublimate the soul, thereby increasing the intensity of mental power.
This benefit is just a drop in the bucket compared to his already high mental strength of 299.
So it didn’t produce much real feeling at all, it just shook slightly in my mind and then dissipated without a trace.
But it is not useless.
This progress is probably pushing 299 to 299.1, which is better than nothing.
The last step of leveling up is "opening up a level of magic star sea", which Gothe doesn't even need to worry about.
His magic star sea has been opened as early as the first promotion, so it can be skipped directly.
At this point, the practice method of "The Secret of Zhenbing" has officially entered the world of environment.
The first-level expertise is unique, and Gaode has awakened [Adaptive] when he was promoted for the first time.
Even if there is an additional practice method that reaches the first level, new expertise cannot be awakened, and there are no loopholes to exploit.
By spending extra energy and time, what he can gain is an extra amount of magic power and a stronger mental power than ordinary mages, as well as the additional abilities given by the second practice method "The Secret of Ice".
One of the skills in "Secret of Ice" is "Ice Condensation".
This means that the ice mage can enhance his own ice bloodline through ice marrow, thereby quickly improving his mage level. It is also the foundation method of the ice mage system.
Logically speaking, this time the promotion of "Secret of Ice" is completely over.
But Gaode is different.
He is of the Zhenbing bloodline, and is currently the only pure-blooded Ice-born person in the entire Northern Territory, except for Sunaifa.
The Zhenbing bloodline will be fully awakened when it is promoted to a first-level mage.
Just today!
Without any foreshadowing, the Zhenbing bloodline that had been dormant for a long time in Gothe's body suddenly woke up and completely exploded.
An icy force far more powerful than the mana whirlpool surged out from the depths of his blood and swept through his limbs and bones in an instant.
This power is neither legal power nor spiritual power, but pure "power of blood origin".
Wherever it passed, every inch of Gothe's flesh and blood trembled, every meridian was wrapped in cold air, and even his soul seemed to be tempered by ice and became tougher.
Gothe still maintained a cross-legged meditative posture with his eyes not open, but the air around him began to condense into fine ice crystals and a light blue mana halo lingered on the body surface, and the color slowly faded, becoming transparent and cold, and finally turned into an almost transparent color.
The temperature of Gaode's entire body dropped sharply.
His bones, muscles, and blood vessels seemed to be penetrated and strengthened by countless tiny ice crystals, becoming different from before.
This is not the most important change, it is just an appetizer for the awakening of Zhenbing’s bloodline.
The next moment, Gothe suddenly felt a slight numbness under his skin, as if there were countless ice threads swimming around his blood vessels.
Immediately afterwards, a layer of mysterious silver-white lines emerged from his collarbone, like a living ice totem, slowly flowing down his neck, arms, waist and abdomen.
The lines of this secret pattern are delicate but full of mystery and power. Each line seems to be carved by the most skilled master.
The cold air is visible to the naked eye, and even the surrounding air is slightly distorted by the freezing cold.
They stayed on Gothe's skin for about three breaths, as if completing some kind of branding ceremony, and then slowly disappeared under the skin and disappeared.
But the disappearance of the secret pattern is just disappearing, not dissipating.
At the moment when the secret pattern disappeared, Gothe clearly sensed that the ice element energy in the surrounding environment seemed to have suddenly found its home, actively flowing towards his body at an extremely stable and dense speed.
It is no longer the "absorption" that required deliberate guidance in the past, but the "active influx" like the return flow of hundreds of rivers.
The moment these ice elements touched his skin, they were all captured and absorbed by the hidden secret patterns in his body.
They were then converted into pure energy, which automatically poured into his mana pool, promoting the rapid growth of the practice progress of "The Secret of Ice".
He did not even take the initiative to run the practice method, but the practice progress bar of "The Secret of Zhenbing" was beating at a speed visible to the naked eye. This speed was more than three times faster than the efficiency of his own practice.
This is the incredible thing about Zhenbing’s bloodline.
Let bloodline owners do not need to practice hard. Just relying on the secret patterns of the bloodline can automatically absorb the ice elements in the environment and achieve rapid improvement in the mage level.
The secret pattern of Zhenbing...:.. This name automatically appeared in Gaode's consciousness like a brand.
Along with famous names comes a more turbulent torrent of knowledge.
Countless skills in using ice element spells poured into his mind like a bursting tide.
He instantly "learned" how to adjust the frequency of mana output to make the ice cone split when flying out, covering a wider attack range; he also knew how to use the water vapor in the air to increase the power of spells when releasing ice elemental spells... .．． ．
These skills, for an ordinary mage, would be impossible to master without decades of accumulation.
But at this moment, they were directly integrated into Gaode's mind like an "enlightenment".
Every detail is extremely clear, as if he was born to master these skills and cannot forget them even if he wants to.
The entire process of knowledge transfer only takes a blink of an eye.
When the last knowledge point about ice element spells fell, Gothe's understanding of ice spells was already far beyond that of other mages.
But the gift of blood goes far beyond knowledge and continues.
In Gothe's mana pool, the ice-blue liquid mana began to spin crazily under the power of Zhenbing's bloodline.
With every rotation, the color of the liquid mana becomes darker and the texture becomes more solid.
The originally clear liquid state gradually transformed into a colloidal solid form.
When the rotation stopped, the twenty drops of mana had turned into twenty translucent "ice beads".
This is no longer ordinary liquid mana, but a higher-level "Ice Mana".
Gaode can clearly sense that the ice energy contained in Zhenbing's mana is several times richer than the previous liquid mana.
The liquid mana cultivated in "The Secret of Ice" itself has a power increase for ice element spells, which can increase the power by 20%.
The perfect ice mana at this moment can increase the power of ice spells by 50%.
This is also a major reason why Sunaifa is able to defeat the enemy at higher levels and defeat the superior ones.
Before Gao De could appreciate the magical effect of Zhenbing's magic power, several rays of silver light suddenly flew out of his blood, like arrows from the string, heading straight towards his magic star sea.
Gaode's heart moved.
Ice mage's control of spells has always relied on the power of blood.
At this moment, he has been promoted to the first level, and of course he will awaken the corresponding spells.
Although Gaode has mastered more than fifty first-level spells, most of them overlap with the spells that a first-level iceborn mage can awaken.
However, the number of spells was so large that there were still fish that slipped through the net. Therefore, Gothe still obtained three first-level spells that he had not mastered before.
[Ice Arrow] (Plastic Energy System), [Ice Bullet] (Plastic Energy System), [Armor of Igasis] (Protection System).
[Ice Arrow] is similar to the trick [Fire Arrow], and it also has a "slow" effect after hitting the target.
【Ice Bullet】is the ice element version of 【Magic Missile】.
As for the [Armor of Igasis], it covers the surface of one's own body and equipment with a layer of frost to resist damage.
With the blessing of Zhenbing's magic power, the power of these three spells is extremely terrifying.
Just when Gothe thought the bloodline awakening was over, another extremely cold silver light suddenly flew out of the blood.
This light is more condensed than the previous silver light, with an ancient and pure aura.
After flying into the sea of magic stars, it is like a master craftsman with exquisite craftsmanship, quickly pulling the surrounding magic stars, threading the needle and adding bricks and tiles in an extremely complex trajectory.
But in the blink of an eye, a spell model that was completely different from other spell models and full of beauty was formed in the center of the star sea.
"The Perfect Ice Spell!" Gao De suddenly understood in his heart.
Only the Zhenbing bloodline can awaken and obtain the Zhenbing spell. It is an exclusive spell that other mages cannot master even if they obtain the spell formula.
[Ice Butterfly [Ice Perfection Spell]] (Prophecy, Level 1):
You create a glimmering ice butterfly within a distance, in an unoccupied space that you can see.
The ice butterfly exists for the duration (eight hours), but disappears if you teleport or if you travel to another plane of existence.
When the Ice Butterfly exists, you name an important landmark, such as a city, mountain, castle, or battlefield. As long as this place is in the same plane of existence as you, and someone must have visited there in history and marked it on the map. When you move towards the Ice Butterfly, it will move away from you towards the landmark at the same speed as you move, always 1.5 meters away from you.
This landmark does not exist on any map, so this spell will not work.
If you do not move in the direction of the ice butterfly, it will remain in your eyes until you do so.
When the last trace of silvery white light disappeared from the sea of magic stars, Gothe finally slowly opened his eyes.
The remaining icy blue halo in his eyes gradually dissipated like ripples, replaced by the clarity of the past.
There was just an imperceptible coldness deep in his eyes.
That is the mark of Zhenbing's bloodline.
All the abnormalities have disappeared, and the temperature of his body surface has returned to normal.
But... Gothe looked down at his right hand, lightly snapped his fingers, and a frost flower appeared on his fingertips.
This frost flower is completely white, with a faint icy blue sheen on the edges of its petals.
The texture of each petal is as clear as a carefully carved work of art, and there is still a hint of coldness lingering on the surface.
It is not cast through any spell, it does not mobilize the Perfect Ice mana in the mana pool, and it does not trigger any spell model.
It is purely a product of the natural condensation of Gaode's ability to control the ice elements in the surrounding environment by relying on his body instinct.
This is the hidden power given to him by Zhenbing's bloodline, the ability to control the ice element and the resistance to cold and ice element spells.
It is a pity that most of this part of the bonus is covered by [Intermediate Ice Blessed Body]. The two are not superimposed, but take the maximum value of the upper limit of the ability.
But no matter what, the other benefits brought by the awakening of Zhenbing's bloodline are enough to boost Gao De's spirit.
Next, he no longer has to worry about "The Secret of Zhenbing" and can refocus all his attention on the main practice "Aoki Sutra of Immortality".
Although "The Secret of Zhenbing" and Zhenbing's bloodline are strong, the infinite potential and possibility of infinite progress of Yugathila are unmatched by any bloodline or other cultivation methods.
At least in Gaode's eyes, this is the case.
The goal of returning to the north during this trip was finally accomplished.
The progress on the spell side is equally gratifying.
With hard work during this period, he has constructed nine second-level spell models.
This progress is actually a bit slow for Gaode, mainly because he puts more energy into learning runes.
Drawing basic runes consumes a lot of mental energy.
This results in a somewhat limited amount of mental energy left to construct spell models.
Of course, this slowness is just a comparison with himself. In fact, his achievements in this month are already at a speed that is unimaginable to ordinary people.
Gothe has plenty of time to return to the north this time, so he is not in a hurry. He can complete all the planned goals in an orderly manner before going to the Plantagenet Dynasty.
This month has passed, Ibrahimovic eats well and drinks well, and coupled with Gothe's continuous blood feeding, both his ability to control the energy of the astral world and his relationship with Gothe have stabilized.
In addition, the retreat practice of "The Secret of Zhenbing" came to an end, Gothe thought about it for a while, and decided to leave the Forest of Flora and return to Phoenix.
After all, the practice of "Aoki Immortality Sutra" still relies heavily on the abundant magic power provided by high-level spiritual lands.
At present, only the core spiritual land in Phoenix can meet this demand.
At least for now, the spiritual land opened up by Yugathira is barely enough for planting trees, but it is really not enough for him to practice.
Having made up his mind, Gothe immediately set off with Ibrahimovic.
After returning to Phoenix, he continued to take bone, blood and thorn slurry to assist in his practice.
But this time he focused more on the construction of the spell model.
So just twenty days later, Gothe digested all the magic potions he drank.
There are a total of nineteen new second-level spell models, and it took more than two months to successfully build them all.
This allowed the number of second-level spells that Gothe mastered to break through to twenty-eight in one fell swoop, which certainly did not satisfy Gothe.
But at least it is enough to support him to participate in the upcoming Military Mage Magic Competition.
In this level of magic competition, the level and variety of spells have a great impact on the outcome.
Even if his strength is much higher than that of the same level, if he still relies on first-level spells to fight, it will be difficult to guarantee absolute victory in the face of the opponent's endless second-level spells.