blogombal Chapter 19 Concentrating the Star Essence, Breaking Through to the Intermediate Level!
Chapter 19 Concentrating the Star Essence, Breaking Through to the Intermediate Level!
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Lin Ze generously exchanged all of these military merits for the summoning cultivation resources promised by Zhan Kong.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Lin Ze has entered his senior year of high school, getting closer and closer to the college entrance examination and the admission to the magic academy that will determine his fate.
The weather in Bocheng is gradually turning cooler, and the autumn wind sweeps through the fallen leaves, bringing a touch of desolation.
In Zhan Kong's private office at the military headquarters post station.
"Boss Zhan Kong, these are the left ear evidences from the three wolf dens we cleared last week. There were a total of forty-two servant-level one-eyed wolf and one bone-spiked ferocious wolf that was close to the advanced stage."
Lin Ze tossed a bulging, blood-red cloth bag onto Zhan Kong's desk and said calmly.
Zhan Kong didn't even glance at the bag; he simply looked Lin Ze up and down with the eyes of someone looking at a monster.
In just six months, the boy before me seemed to have undergone a complete transformation. Although his face still bore the immaturity of a high school student, his eyes had become extremely sharp, and he exuded a steely killing intent that only those who had fought their way through mountains of corpses and seas of blood possessed.
"You little brat, you're a real killer." Zhan Kong couldn't help but exclaim. "In the past six months, you've killed at least three hundred, if not five hundred, one-eyed demon wolves, right? Those old veterans in the military, now when they hear your code name, their legs turn to jerk."
"If you take someone's money, you have to do their bidding," Lin Ze chuckled, pulling out a chair and sitting down opposite Zhan Kong. "Boss Zhan Kong, let's not beat around the bush. I'm not just here to hand in a mission. The military merits I had with you before, plus the ones I received this time, should be enough to exchange for that thing, right?"
Upon hearing Lin Ze's words, Zhan Kong's smile gradually faded, and his expression became somewhat solemn.
He opened the drawer and carefully took out a sealed box made of an unknown crystal. Inside the box lay a swirling, nebula-like liquid substance radiating extremely pure and immense spiritual energy.
A byproduct of the Milky Way's pulse, the concentrated saliva of the star.
Zhan Kong pushed the box in front of Lin Ze, his tone filled with a hint of shock: "This thing is a top-tier resource specifically designed to assist mages in breaking through the mid-level barrier. It can greatly stabilize the spiritual world and provide enormous energy to break through the stardust barrier."
"You kid, you're only a senior in high school! You've only been awakening magic for less than three years, and you're already preparing to break through to the intermediate level?!"
Although Zhan Kong had long known that Lin Ze was exceptionally talented, he still felt a chill run down his spine when Lin Ze actually asked him for the resources needed to break through to the intermediate level.
This kind of cultivation speed is quite explosive, not to mention in Bo City, even among the geniuses of the top universities in the capital and Shanghai.
"Time waits for no one, Boss Zhan Kong." Lin Ze looked at the Condensing Star Saliva in the box, a burning glint in his eyes. "My summoned beasts have been stuck at a bottleneck for a long time. If they don't break through to the intermediate level, they won't be able to evolve. And... I have a feeling that Bo City might not be able to stay peaceful for much longer."
Upon hearing this, Zhan Kong frowned slightly. As a member of the Military Intelligence Bureau, he had recently noticed some unusual undercurrents; the irritability of the wild demons was indeed beyond reason.
"Fine, I won't ask about your secret." Zhan Kong took a deep breath and slammed the box heavily into Lin Ze's hand. "Take the stuff. Breaking through to the intermediate level is no joke, especially for summoners; the backlash from the mental world is extremely terrifying. Find a completely safe place, adjust your state, and then start."
"Thank you so much, Boss Zhan Kong!"
Lin Ze gripped the crystal box tightly and solemnly thanked Zhan Kong. Over the past six months, Zhan Kong had indeed provided him with tremendous convenience and care, and he would remember this favor.
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Three days later, on the outskirts of Bo City, in a hidden basement where Lin Ze had already set up multiple warning magic arrays.
In the center of the basement, Lin Ze sat cross-legged. Dimo and the Winter Feather Sparrow stood guard on either side of him. They seemed to sense that their master was about to undergo a leap in his life level, and they were extremely quiet and vigilant, even slowing their breathing.
Lin Ze took a deep breath to calm his excited emotions.
He opened the crystal box, and a refreshing fragrance, seemingly capable of cleansing the soul, instantly filled the entire basement. Without the slightest hesitation, Lin Ze tilted his head back and swallowed the drop of the mind-cultivating saliva that swirled like a nebula.
boom!
The moment the star saliva entered his body, Lin Ze felt a deafening roar deep within his brain.
His consciousness was instantly pulled into the mental world.
In that vast void, the moon-white summoning stardust spun at an unprecedentedly violent speed. The seven originally dim stars now resembled seven burning miniature suns, releasing dazzling light.
The concentrated star saliva transformed into a vast yet gentle torrent of energy, which was directly injected into the stardust.
The stardust, which had already reached its saturation limit, went berserk under the stimulation of this external force!
"Break it!"
Lin Ze let out a furious roar in his heart.
He mobilized the steely will he had honed in the life-and-death battles of the past six months, guiding the massive torrent of magical energy into an invisible sword, which crashed fiercely against the rock-solid transparent barrier surrounding the stardust!
boom!
The first impact caused a violent tremor in his mental world, and Lin Ze's physical body coughed up a mouthful of blood, his face instantly turning deathly pale. The tearing sensation from the depths of his soul almost made him faint from the pain.
But he gritted his teeth and desperately held onto the last vestige of clarity in his mind.
"Again!"
The torrent of magical energy surged back, gathering strength once more, and launched a second attack with even greater ferocity!
boom! boom! boom!
The impacts were like a tsunami crashing against rocks. Fine beads of blood began to seep from Lin Ze's seven orifices, his body trembled violently, but the light in his eyes grew brighter and more frenzied.
He could feel the barrier trembling and cracking!
"Three years of honing this sword, today I present it to you! Intermediate level, open it now!!!"
With Lin Ze's final hysterical roar, all the magical energy and will in his spiritual world converged into one point at this moment, launching the final judgment!
Click—!
A crisp, shattering sound, as if some kind of shackle had been completely severed, resounded deep within Lin Ze's soul.
Immediately afterwards, the transparent barrier that had troubled him for so long collapsed!
Rumble!
Freed from the constraints of the barrier, the originally cramped, moon-white stardust expanded and spread wildly in all directions into the void, just like the Big Bang!
As the seven stars expanded, they split and multiplied, transforming into forty-nine even more dazzling and mysterious stars. In a vaster spiritual space, they slowly circulated along some mystical trajectory, weaving together a dreamlike, moon-white nebula!
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