Chapter 109

Twilight City, Red Fox Castle.

A few days passed in a flash.

These days, Xia Xia Mingyu spent his time in wholehearted meditation. He had finished adapting to the surging magic power after absorbing the Fire Magic Crystal and could start taking the next magic crystal.

Secret room.

Xia Xia Mingyu looked at the blue-purple crystal on the ground with electric light flickering on its surface, feeling a bit troubled for a moment.

To absorb magic power, one had to touch the magic crystal with their hands, but touching the Lei Mojing would result in being shocked.

He tried to stretch out his finger to poke the magic crystal, and the current from the contact instantly made his entire palm numb.

Hiss!

Xia Xia Mingyu gasped. If he had to hold it to absorb it, it would probably be on par with the electrotherapy at the Zhangyu Academy on Blue Star.

"How do other mages absorb Lei Mojing?" Doubts arose in his heart.

No, the book mentioned that the quantity of Lei Mojing is almost the rarest among magic crystals, and often once it appears, it is immediately used to manufacture thunder-attribute magic weapons with extremely strong destructive power.

In other words, normal mages, without the premise of an exaggerated magic power absorption rate like his, would never use precious Lei Mojing to improve magic power.

"Make an insulating glove with cotton cloth? That won't work either; you must touch it with your bare hands to absorb magic power..."

Xia Xia Mingyu thought of several methods, but they were all rejected one by one.

"Forget it, just treat it as experiencing an electric shock massage."

To improve his strength as soon as possible, Xia Xia Mingyu gritted his teeth, picked up the Lei Mojing on the ground, and quickly began to meditate.

Zzzzz.

Streams of current flowed from the surface of the magic crystal along his palm and into his body continuously.

Pain, pain, pain!

Xia Xia Mingyu only felt as if countless steel needles were piercing his skin, his muscles were twitching uncontrollably, his teeth were chattering, and his hair even stood on end instantly, turning into a hedgehog head.

"Persist, it won't hurt after meditation."

"Think about how many people in this world are suffering, hungry, and cold. You are only in a little bit of pain now, it's nothing." Xia Xia Mingyu recited silently in his heart.

Moonlight Meditation Technique, activate!

After a bout of self-hypnosis and encouragement, he successfully entered meditation while enduring the pain of the electric shock.

Clusters of blue-purple light slowly transferred from the Lei Mojing to Xia Xia Mingyu's body, eventually wrapping him completely.

When the magic power began to be absorbed, Xia Xia Mingyu noticed that the sharp pain of the electric shock gradually disappeared, replaced by waves of numbness.

Zzzzz.

At the same time, countless blue-purple electric arcs emerged, drowning him completely like a cocoon.

If this scene were seen by people on Blue Star, they would likely shout, "Which fellow Daoist is undergoing tribulation here?"

And Xia Xia Mingyu, wrapped in the "electric cocoon," felt his consciousness gradually become blurred.

Countless hallucinations flashed in his mind.

After escaping the clutches of the brothel, the women worked hard together in the bakery, looking forward to tomorrow.

A farmer kneeling before a statue praying for a bountiful harvest offered him a wisp of wheat.

After becoming pregnant again with her husband's efforts, the former mad farmer woman stroked her belly and chanted his name for protection.

At the bonfire party in countless villages in the Southern Region, the "Hymn of the Sage" was sung by everyone together.

Finally, all hallucinations dissipated, leaving only the deep purple sea of thunder in the sky that drowned everything.

In an instant, countless thick thunderbolts struck the continent below, like an apocalyptic judgment, blowing everything into pitch-black giant craters, and even dragons had to tremble and shrink their necks for this thunder...

What powerful strength!

If only I could possess it too...

Looking at the shocking hallucination before him, Xia Xia Mingyu thought inexplicably.

Afterward, his consciousness completely fell into a blank space.

I don't know how long it had been, but he slowly opened his eyes, looking at the stone wall in front of him, his expression blank.

It wasn't until the crystal in his hand, which had lost its internal light patterns and no longer flickered with electric arcs on its surface, accidentally fell to the floor, making a crisp clattering sound, that he suddenly woke up.

I am Xia Xia Mingyu, I absorbed the Lei Mojing, my rank should have been promoted.

Xia Xia Mingyu quickly sensed the magic power in his body.

How should I put it... it was so immense that it was hard for him to imagine that this was actually the magic power in his body.

It was more than three or four times greater than before, and most importantly, the purity of the magic power was not on the same level at all.

It even seemed that it was no longer blank.

He spread his palm, and with a thought, a cluster of magic power like black flame clouds rose from his palm.

It was just as Lise had said in the past; he had awakened pitch-black magic power!

Looking at the black flame clouds in his hand, Xia Xia Mingyu was filled with emotion.

Heaven knows how much suffering he had endured and how much fatigue he had suffered before he finally broke through the Morning Star rank through his own efforts and successfully promoted to a mage.

However, logically speaking, at this time, he should have awakened his core magic!

Could it be that there is a delay?

Xia Xia Mingyu cupped his chin and thought for a while, deciding to go see what abilities he had gained after promoting to Morning Star.

"Water, freeze."

Black magic power flashed at his fingertips, and in an instant, two magic patterns were drawn in the void, then superimposed.

A piece of clear, solid ice fell to the floor.

He looked down and saw that the protection of the True Illusionist above his head was gone, replaced by a new line of deep purple text—"Sage of Harvest."

Not a mage?!

Xia Xia Mingyu's heart shook, and he hurriedly focused his gaze on the text.

Slowly, more lines of text emerged.

Bountiful Harvest: You can accelerate the growth of crops, making them fruitful, or make barren land fertile and vibrant, and also bring favorable weather.

Hearts' Desire: When people revere you from the bottom of their hearts, you can gather their strength into yourself and release a strike beyond your limits.

Illusion Tricks: You can perform small tricks that make people happy and are slightly dangerous.

Clear and Intelligent: You will be more likely to win others' favor upon first meeting, and will also make people feel trustworthy and reliable.

Out-of-Body Wandering: You can empty your mind and let your body move on its own, and you can also enter a flow state to learn quickly.

Hiss!

After browsing through all the abilities, Xia Xia Mingyu couldn't help but gasp.

This is simply... a leap in improvement!

He finally understood why all the books he read said that there was an unimaginably huge gap between the Transcendent Rank and the Morning Star Rank.

It's not just about awakening true magic power; more importantly, it sublimates all the abilities brought by the previous protection!

Originally, Xia Xia Mingyu was a bit depressed because he hadn't become a mage and thus couldn't awaken his core magic immediately.

But now he was completely relieved.

Hehe, mage? What kind of bull-horse profession is that? I'm not familiar with it at all!

If nothing else, just the "Bountiful Harvest" ability brought by the Sage of Harvest could directly beat the mage protection.

If it were on Blue Star, this ability might not be the best choice.

However, in this world where almost everyone is hungry, and even a Crescent Knight like Dorovai can only bitterly chew black bread, calling "Bountiful Harvest" a miracle is no exaggeration!

Of course, one shouldn't be so absolute. Xia Xia Mingyu felt that he still had to go out for a field trip to see how much magic power it would take to convert into a catty of grain.

By the way, it's also time to leave this secret room.

Xia Xia Mingyu stood up from the ground, stretched forcefully, and then opened the secret room door.

To his surprise, the door was almost full of people.

Miss Anliya, Boge, Rosa, the Luo Yi and Luo Nan brothers, Seris... they were all waiting outside the secret room extremely nervously, and only let out a long sigh of relief after seeing Xia Xia Mingyu open the door with their own eyes.

"Your Highness, you're finally awake!"

Tears flickered in the young girl's azure eyes, and she rushed over, burying her head tightly in Xia Xia Mingyu's chest.

As for the others, they looked at the protection above Xia Xia Mingyu's head with shocked expressions—the deep purple "Sage of Harvest."

A twenty-year-old Morning Star? And a variant profession related to harvest.

"Congratulations to Your Highness for breaking through to the Morning Star rank!"

After coming back to their senses, everyone said in unison.

(End of chapter)