Chapter 531: Spell Surge

Lei En has continued the same energy allocation strategy.

Physical Elements, such as his most relied‑upon Steel Body, True Dragon Body, and Strength, are all extremely powerful, but they have already reached high levels and require a huge amount of soul power to further strengthen; the cost‑effectiveness is low, so it is best to stack them by merging magical souls that share the same Element.

Mystic Elements cannot be stacked, and there are many of them; they have great potential for improvement, can grant extra abilities, and enrich combat options, so they are placed at the top of the priority list.

Psionic Elements are beyond his control; he can only hope for an upgrade during Soul Transformation, which has a very low probability.

There are also some Elements that have either reached their cap and cannot be improved, or are rarely used and have been abandoned outright, so there is no need to waste energy on them.

Lei En thought for a moment and then began to work on upgrades.

First is Rainbow Beam, a spell mastered at Level Two Wizard, which he has raised from the initial one ring to the current five rings; it is one of his most frequently used spells.

His mind focused on the Element icon of Rainbow Beam, and the progress bar beneath lit up.

Lei En did not hesitate and pressed the plus sign after the progress bar.

In an instant, the energy in his soul power pool was released, and the progress bar surged forward. After all, Rainbow Beam was originally only a rare Element; it consumed less than thirty units of energy, yet the progress bar reached its end, the Element icon flashed, and it rose to six rings.

But he did not stop and continued upgrading.

He poured in over forty units of energy, and Rainbow Beam surged, quickly reaching seven rings.

The leaves on the Soul Tree glowed, the Element runes twisted briefly before stabilizing, and Rainbow Beam finally advanced from a rare Element to a Super‑Exceptional Element.

However, the progress bar beneath the Element icon also vanished.

This means the ceiling for Rainbow Beam is seven rings; it cannot be upgraded further.

Lei En felt the brand‑new high‑ring spell; although there were others present, making casting inconvenient, he could still probe its power through the Soul Eye.

Its range reached about one hundred fifty meters, thirty times the distance of the one‑ring version!

The beam's lethality is like the most terrifying blade; when it hits a target without protection, it randomly triggers one of seven negative effects—blindness, petrification, burning, freezing, toxin, confusion, or dizziness—each of which is fatal.

Of course, the extraordinary range and power of his Rainbow Beam, far surpassing ordinary seven‑ring spells, stem from the three Element bonuses of Void Resonance, Key of Doors, and the Rainbow Principle.

Void Resonance grants Super‑Arcane affinity, doubling the potency of all Arcane, while Rainbow spells belong to a rare branch of Arcane.

Key of Doors also carries a Void Resonance.

The legendary Element Rainbow Principle further triples the power of Rainbow spells.

All together, Lei En's Rainbow spell ultimately received a five‑fold boost! This is an enhancement other casters can scarcely imagine; even his most ordinary Rainbow spell becomes terrifyingly powerful.

Lei En lifted his hand, and radiant light streamed between his palms.

"If I fire this Rainbow Beam, its lethality could rival a laser cannon," he said eagerly, but after glancing at the nearby minotaurs, he abandoned the casting.

After reaching seven rings, the casting process of Rainbow Beam changed.

Previously mastered casting techniques, such as rapid casting, ultra‑effective casting, and so on, now require corresponding research and adjustments.

Then Lei En spent another fifty units of energy to raise Electric Blast Orb from six rings to seven rings.

As expected, the seven‑ring Electric Blast Orb also advanced to a Super‑Exceptional Element.

But its ceiling is higher than Rainbow Beam's, and the progress bar remains.

Lei En was not surprised; his teacher had once said that Electric Blast Orb is essentially the lightning‑element version of Fireball, sharing a simple casting principle that is easy to learn but hard to master, yet virtually limitless, capable of reaching nine rings or higher.

Electric Blast Orb is an area‑damage spell; originally its single‑target power exceeded that of Rainbow Beam, but its bonus is limited to a single 'Lightning Form', so its potency fell behind.

Lei En couldn't help but shake his head.

"I've mastered nine Lightning spells but only have one Lightning Form; that's a bit lacking," he muttered, "Moreover, Thunder God's Hammer is powered by the electric energy released through a Lightning Form, which affects the hammer's potency; I need to find a way to obtain another one or two Lightning Forms."

However, Lightning Form, as a rare Super‑Exceptional Element, is something you can only encounter by chance.

"It all comes down to luck," he said.

Lei En continued upgrading his third spell, choosing Random Door.

Currently Random Door is a five‑ring Arcane, also benefitted by Void Resonance and Key of Doors, its teleport distance far exceeds that of ordinary casters' Random Door, reaching up to about five hundred meters.

Random Door is used extremely frequently; Lei En employs it daily and has studied it deeply, and unwittingly progressed from five rings toward six. He poured in a dozen or so units of energy to fill the progress bar, and after reaching six rings kept investing, consuming about sixty units of energy, finally attaining seven rings.

"Reached the limit again," he thought.

Lei En watched the progress bar beneath the Random Door icon disappear, feeling a slight regret.

He loves this spell; whether in daily life or combat, it is extremely useful. The seven‑ring Random Door can teleport over a thousand meters—already sufficient—but he wouldn't mind if it could go even farther.

"Unless I can obtain another Void Resonance, a thousand meters will remain my Random Door's maximum teleport distance," he said.

"Hmm... maybe not," he mused.

Lei En stroked his chin; regarding spacetime—the Arcane use of mysterious energy—three legendary Elements are known: the Time‑related 'Hourglass of Time', the Space‑related 'Space Sovereign', and the dual‑affinity 'Key of Doors'.

Each of the three legendary Elements excels in its own domain, yet Key of Doors is the most mysterious.

Although it only carries a single Void Resonance affinity, its bonus is weaker than the other two legendary Elements, each ring upgrade grants an Arcane, and in terms of potency and effect, Key of Doors clearly outperforms the rest.

This time Key of Doors reached seven rings and additionally granted the All‑Seeing Eye.

Lei En already has a premonition that when it advances to eight and nine rings, Key of Doors will surely bring him even more surprises.

"But the All‑Seeing Eye... sounds a bit perverse," he thought, images from past lives'. JPG and. AVI flashing through his mind; he quickly brushed them aside and decided on a new name.

"Let's just call it 'All‑Seeing Eye'," he decided.

Lei En checked the soul power pool, saw two hundred forty units of energy remaining, and proceeded to upgrade his fourth spell, choosing Mirror Image.

The progress bar surged quickly, consuming considerably more energy than anticipated.

Mirror Image, after all, is a Super‑Exceptional Element; moving from five to seven rings consumed a total of one hundred twenty units of energy, remaining a Super‑Exceptional Element. From five to six rings, the number of images rose from three to four; from six to seven rings, it increased by two more.

Void Resonance and Key of Doors' synergy added two extra images.

Thus, Lei En's seven‑ring Mirror Image can duplicate eight images, each lasting fifteen minutes, and their attributes rose from half of the original to roughly sixty percent.

He was quite satisfied with this.

If Mirror Image were upgraded another ring, it could duplicate ten images, reaching the level of Master Luin of that era. That legendary Arcane master's Mirror Image left a deep impression on him; even when he teamed up with O Xiliya, they could only flee in panic.

There were still over one hundred twenty units of energy in the soul power pool; Lei En thought for a moment, chose not to upgrade any more spells, and instead invested it into Blood Frenzy.

This is an Element that inevitably activates in his battles; Tier‑three Blood Frenzy can amplify his strength fourfold.

Each level up boosts power by half.

As energy quickly drained, Blood Frenzy was strengthened to level five, reaching a fivefold power boost. The progress bar under the Element icon remained, showing it could still be upgraded.

Lei En tried to strengthen it a bit, and was instantly startled.

After pouring in seven or eight units of energy, the progress bar for level-five Blood Frenzy actually rose only one notch!

He immediately understood that continuing to strengthen Blood Frenzy would cause it to advance; as expected, it would advance to the Legendary Element "Infinite Frenzy".

"This requires over seven hundred units of energy, more than raising the Wish Spell to the seventh ring..."

"Forget it, let's look later."

The soul power pool was nearly empty, with over sixty units of energy left; Lei En decided to keep it as a reserve, usable as the casting cost for the Wish Spell.

Advancing to Legendary Mid-stage, reaching level thirteen Wizard, the energy ring in the phone interface turned back into a single circle with only twenty units of energy. Yet this 20% of energy is actually greater than the total soul power of a level twelve Wizard, very durable, and after this round of enhancement, his power surged by an unknown amount!

Lei En stood up and walked to the tall stone gate of the pyramid, appearing to continue studying the runes on it; the minotaurs did not notice anything unusual.

In fact, he was using the All-Seeing Eye to observe the stripe-patterned viper inside through the door.

At the same time, he was also thinking about how to obtain the divine fire.

Opening the door is easy—just a push—and killing this giant serpent is not hard, but after killing it, how can he extract the divine fire from its body and carry it away under the minotaurs' noses?

Degico is a Legendary High-rank Sunwalker, having lived for several hundred years; even without having seen the divine fire, he could guess it must be the most important thing of the Sun God.

He and the minotaurs of the Sun-Chaser tribe will certainly stop him.

Looking back, Degico's invitation to come to the Dying Sun Plane was tantamount to inviting a wolf into the house. Knowing the Sun God's problem, he not only didn't think of solving it, but instead wanted to take the divine fire, leaving Him utterly hopeless of resurrection—this was most unkind.

But in the face of a piece of divine fire, who could be without selfish motives?

Lei En had his back to the minotaurs, his eyes flickering, his complexion somewhat complicated.

The Sun God has fallen for over ten thousand years; the remaining mortal followers are few, and after painstakingly accumulating a great deal of divinity, resurrection seemed possible—yet this stripe-patterned viper ruined the plan. Most of the divinity it consumed was transformed into the flesh of its massive serpent body, impossible to recover.

Even if the stripe-patterned viper were slain, the trickle of divinity returning from its soul would be far insufficient to ignite the divine fire.

Lei En surmised that the divinity needed for the Sun God's resurrection was originally insufficient; this plan's interruption could delay it by who knows how many years.

After all the twists and turns, His followers will only dwindle further.

Nor will there be another ten thousand years for Him to re-accumulate divinity; under this vicious cycle, the hope of eventual resurrection is extremely slim.

Since resurrection is destined to be impossible, the divine fire might as well be cheap for me.

(End of chapter)