Chapter 213

Generally speaking, what rules a wizard chooses to study when promoting to Tier 3 is the most private and core secret of a wizard.

This concerns the wizard's future development direction, combat style, and even the upper limit of the entire wizard career.

However, judging from the notoriously bad personality of this Senior Sister Viola, there is no need to think about what rules the other party would choose.

Without a doubt, what Viola chose was the "Pain" rule!

This rule belongs to a relatively niche branch in the wizard world.

It is very peculiar; if used purely for combat, the direct increase in combat power is actually not very large.

Especially if encountering some battle-hardened creatures with wills as strong as steel, the effect that this rule can cause will be further weakened.

However, when facing some special creatures, this rule has exceptionally exaggerated auxiliary effects.

For example, this living Flame Frost Plane before us.

Like this kind of creature that is born strong, lives as long as the plane, and also belongs to the elemental creature type, the other party might have never experienced the feeling of "pain" since its birth.

Its existence is the rule and power itself, overlooking the birth and death of countless living beings within the plane, but never substituting itself into it.

Conversely, when encountering continuous, deep-rooted pain for the first time, this powerful living plane will definitely be affected quite significantly.

Its combat rhythm is disrupted, the mobilization of power becomes sluggish, and even its control over its own rules shows flaws!

After Jie Ming understood this point, he also figured out another thing.

So, the strike of the wizard camp's self-detonation ordered by Master Augustine was not only to cause heavy damage to the other side.

It was even more for a deeper purpose—to let the other side feel the most "initial" pain!

As long as there is the first feeling of pain, as long as a crack named "pain" is left on that indestructible "shell."

Viola can use her laws, like a bone-eating worm, to let this living plane continuously feel this unprecedented torture.

Jie Ming looked at Viola in surprise, his eyes carrying a hint of disbelief.

He never expected that this Senior Sister, who clearly only had the strength of a Tier 3 wizard, occupied such an important strategic position in this level of battle.

But after figuring this out, he couldn't help but complain: "Senior Sister, you have such an important mission, yet you still ran to my side to slack off?"

Viola waved her hand indifferently, saying: "Who said I was slacking off? I have been working hard, okay!"

Pausing, Viola explained to him: "The rule was already successfully influencing the other side at the very beginning. The pain of that living plane is like a precise coordinate; as long as my spiritual power is still there, it will lock onto that big guy forever."

"No matter where I am, as long as I can lock onto the other side, I can continuously apply pain to it. Here, and in the command room, there is actually no difference."

In the process of chatting with Viola, Jie Ming also paid attention to the battle situation on the light screen at all times.

The bombardment between the two behemoths continued, and every collision of energy was enough to make the void tremble.

The ship plane's main cannon completed charging again after a round of cooling.

A destructive light beam, thicker and more solid than before, tore through the void,

accurately blasting onto the huge "lava mouth" of the living Flame Frost Plane.

The terrifying energy erupted instantly, hard-breaking the spewing lava torrent, and even leaving a deep, charred wound on its "lips"!

Under the influence of the pain rule, the living plane suffered even greater pain than before.

The living plane, in pain, let out an even angrier silent roar.

Its "red and blue eyes" rotated rapidly, and two elemental disasters that were completely different but equally deadly collided fiercely toward the ship plane's shield like two entangled giant dragons.

The shield light flashed wildly, and the entire ship plane emitted an unbearable groan, countless wizards quickly adjusted the magic circles at their respective nodes, exhausting all their strength to maintain the energy output.

Looking at the various data displayed on the light screen as well as the changes on the scene, as time passed, Jie Ming's expression became increasingly serious.

Because he found that although Viola's "pain" rule was continuously exerting its effect, the ship plane seemed to be gradually and irreversibly falling into a disadvantage!

The terrifying recovery ability and adaptability of the living plane were gradually appearing.

It began to get used to that kind of pain, and even found a new combat rhythm in the pain!

Its attacks became more violent and more precise!

Viola on the side didn't have any surprised expression, as if she had expected this progress.

She looked at the battle situation on the light screen that was gradually being suppressed, and explained calmly: "Although 'pain' has a very good effect on this kind of creature,"

"I am ultimately still too low-level."

She sighed and continued: "For this kind of high-level creature, if the rule power applied is not strong enough, even if it is affected by not being used to pain at the beginning, it will quickly adapt."

The wizard's advancement standard is not only the condition for promotion, but also the upper limit of the wizard's power that can be exerted.

For a Tier 3 wizard to advance to a Tier 4 wizard, besides the spiritual power problem, the rule mastery degree must reach 1%.

Conversely, no matter how much a Tier 3 wizard actually masters the rules, they can at most exert infinitely close to 1%

of rule power.

This is the iron law of the wizard system and the basis for rank division.

"So... you intend to advance to a Tier 4 wizard here?" Jie Ming looked at Viola and instantly understood her plan.

"Yes, and no." Viola first nodded, then shook her head.

Jie Ming looked at her expression and couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, because in those silver-gray eyes, there was a flash of unprecedented,

near-crazy ambition and determination.

She smiled lightly, that smile carrying a trace of excitement, and also a trace of madness that made Jie Ming's heart tremble:

"This time, I intend to advance to a Tier 6 wizard in one go!"

Jie Ming's pupils contracted violently!

He simply couldn't believe his ears.

Crossing Tier 4 and Tier 5 in one go, directly promoting to Tier 6 from Tier 3?!

Even though he had long expected that this Senior Sister of his was probably going to do something big, Jie Ming was still shocked when he really heard her plan.

This is simply a fantasy!

"Impossible... no..." Jie Ming subconsciously wanted to refute, then suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but look at Viola in shock, "You actually have completely mastered the pain rule?!"

Viola didn't answer his question, but slowly took out a magic potion from her clothes.

This magic potion exuded a bright and pure golden light, like holding a small sun, looking dazzling!

In the exquisite crystal bottle, the golden liquid flowed slowly, as if containing the mysteries of the world.

Viola looked at this magic potion, and on that face that was always carrying a trace of teasing and morbidity, a rare trace of helplessness appeared.

She couldn't help but mutter in a low voice: "Just for this thing, I have carried a debt of over a thousand years!"

Jie Ming recognized that magic potion.

He had seen records about it in high-level databases.

That is the "Soul Sublimation Magic Potion."

It is considered the most suitable magic potion for improving spiritual power during advancement in the wizard civilization!

Its effect is exceptionally powerful, capable of forcibly "sublimating" the user's soul to the next, or even the next-next level in a short time without any side effects, allowing it to satisfy the spiritual power requirements for advancement.

Although after the drug effect passes, the user's soul essence will decline back.

But if one can successfully advance during this period, the essence of soul sublimation will be retained, and the upper limit and potential of spiritual power can be effectively and permanently expanded!

Afterward, one only needs to fill the missing spiritual power upper limit through long-term meditation.

This magic potion can satisfy the promotion up to a Tier 6 wizard at most.

So theoretically, if Viola's understanding of the "pain" rule is deep enough, it is indeed possible to complete the earth-shattering leap from Tier 3 to Tier 6 in one go with the help of this magic potion!

However, Jie Ming held a skeptical attitude toward Viola being able to master the "pain" rule completely in advance.

One must know that the mastery of rules, the further one goes, the more difficult it is; even for a genius, it takes a long time to accumulate and have an epiphany.

Viola also honestly expressed: "Although I am indeed a pervert, and my understanding of 'pain' is far beyond ordinary people, the end of the rule is not so easy to touch."

She frankly admitted that there was a small core part of the pain rule that she had not completely understood and mastered.

"However," Viola changed the subject, her eyes flashing with confident light, "this difference is nothing to worry about."

Her gaze cast again toward the living Flame Frost Plane roaring in pain in the light screen.

"The reason lies in it!"

"Like such a special and powerful creature, when it feels pain, it can also provide me with huge benefits in return!"

"Every time it feels pain because of my rule, its massive soul and rules will feed back to me a brand-new understanding of the essence of 'pain,' making my understanding of the 'pain' rule even deeper!"

"The more powerful my rule is, the more painful it becomes! The more painful it is, the more powerful my rule becomes!"

"This is a perfect cycle!"

In other words, the reason why Viola dared to have the idea of directly promoting to a Tier 6 wizard was entirely because she encountered this huge opportunity that was hard to come by.

The living plane before her eyes is not only her enemy, but also the best "supplement" for her to reach the end of the rule!