Chapter 187: Chapter 86: Advancement to Level Six: Divine Kingdom Skill Tree
But the advantage of a Player was once again on display.
He used the Door Closing Spell he’d acquired early on to shut the Divine Kingdom Gate.
Zorn had boarded, and he promptly welded the door shut.
From now on, the Calamity Divine Kingdom would belong to him and him alone.
Grabbing a handful of Divine Kingdom Sand, he watched the grains slowly trickle through the gaps between his fingers.
Zorn let out a soft breath.
’Next, all I need to do is have a stable breakthrough and advance to Level 6 here.’
Just as he was looking for a suitable spot,
"Master, there’s a situation outside. A lot of strange threads have appeared in the Forest."
Vanessa’s prayer suddenly echoed within his Spiritual Realm.
"Hm?"
Zorn’s thoughts stirred.
’It’s that Puppet Master. He detected the fluctuations here after all.’
He traveled through the Divine Kingdom Passage and arrived at the Magical Castle.
Zorn looked out into the distance.
Sure enough, within the surrounding forest of towering, majestic redwood trees,
eerie black threads snaked through the undergrowth like cold, black serpents. They wove through the weeds, dense thickets, towering trunks, and thick canopy of leaves, constantly searching as they advanced.
Clearly, they were searching for something.
The eerie threads searched with meticulous care, like cold-blooded serpents.
But at this moment, the Steam Magical Castle was shrouded in mist.
Its gray fog camouflage was already complete.
Not to mention that the Magical Castle, possessing the Magic Ring Tree Origin, was a world unto itself.
Those strange puppet threads slithered past the vicinity of the Magical Cottage without detecting a thing.
’That Level 7 Puppet Master has spread his threads all over town and released numerous Puppet·Eye Demon Spiders. If he were just practicing his Skills or trying to break through a Level, he wouldn’t be exploring this area or meddling here.’
’But he didn’t just come over; he’s conducting a detailed search. Now that’s interesting.’
As he mulled this over, Zorn retracted his gaze and looked at Vanessa and Alvin, who were beside him.
He slowly began to speak.
"You two will enter the Divine Kingdom with me."
"If those puppet threads discover your tracks while I’m breaking through, it will be troublesome."
"A Level 7 Puppet Master is no joke."
"Yes, Master!"
The two of them responded piously.
Through the Divine Kingdom Gate, the three of them entered the Divine Kingdom.
Even if the Puppet Master discovered the Steam Magical Castle, he wouldn’t be able to open the Divine Kingdom Gate.
Zorn’s breakthrough and advancement inside the Divine Kingdom would not be disturbed.
Once Zorn completed his advancement to Level 6, if that Puppet Master was still around, Zorn wouldn’t be holding back.
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「Calamity Divine Kingdom」
After finding a good spot,
Zorn began to release his Spiritual Realm to resonate with the breathing of the Divine Kingdom.
Egunus’s flesh-and-blood Sequence inherently possessed a deep resonance with the Calamity Divine Kingdom.
Achieving deep resonance with the Divine Kingdom for the first time was an effective way to trigger a breakthrough.
This was true even for a critical milestone breakthrough like the one from Level 5 to Level 6.
If he were outside, relying on his own power for the milestone breakthrough from Level 5 to Level 6 would consume a considerable number of Calamity Sacred Marks—perhaps even many Immortal Calamity Sacred Marks.
For a Player, consuming even a single wisp of an Immortal Sacred Mark was a trade that came at a massive loss.
Freeloading off the Divine Kingdom’s power to achieve a critical breakthrough was a common tactic among Players.
And this was also one of the effective breakthrough methods for the great Evil Spirit boss, Zorn Corick.
Having long since accumulated more than enough power, Zorn completed his resonance with the Divine Kingdom. The thick barrier between the Lower Rank Level and the Middle Rank Level began to weaken, scoured by the power of the Divine Kingdom.
A full day and night passed.
Only then did Zorn feel the opportunity for a breakthrough.
Then, he pushed just a little.
CRACK... CRACK...
His Level 5 began its metamorphosis into Level 6.
At the same time, the framework of his Lower Rank Level Evil Spirit Wizard Sequence also began its metamorphosis into a Middle Rank Level framework.
The greatest difference between the Lower Rank Level and the Middle Rank Level lay with the Holy Witch Spirit.
Zorn had always referred to himself as the Lord of Holy Witch.
But at the Lower Rank Level, he could only manifest the power of the Holy Witch Spirit on the plane of the soul and Sequence volition.
Simply put, it meant he could only cast spells and didn’t look much different from an ordinary Caster Mage.
But upon entering the Middle Rank Level,
not only could the Evil Spirit Wizard’s soul, will, and Sequence Spirituality attune to the Holy Witch Spirit,
but Zorn’s Evil Spirit Body would also gradually transform into a Holy Witch Spirit Body.
In other words,
once he stepped into the Middle Rank Level, an Evil Spirit Wizard would become a Holy Witch Spirit, no longer bound by a physical body of flesh and blood.
And as a Holy Witch Spirit,
Zorn would naturally master many mysterious and bizarre Spirit Witch techniques, such as Natural Voidification, Spirit Realm Walking, and Penetrating Reality.
At this point, the powerful late-blooming nature of the Evil Spirit Wizard became apparent.
Middle Rank Fighting Masters were still treading an ever-darkening and narrowing path of physical combat.
Meanwhile, Middle Rank Casters were already leaning toward all sorts of powerful methods from the mystical and Extraordinary side of things.
And Holy Spirit Wizards were the cream of the crop.
They could explore many mysterious layered worlds, and even enter more distant astral worlds.
As he broke through,
the outline of Zorn’s body began to turn ethereal.
Within the Divine Kingdom, the remaining Spiritual Root Sources in the ancient statues began to flow out, drawn toward Zorn.
Looking out, across the entire vast Divine Kingdom, countless spiritual sparks seeped out from the statues in all directions, forming a spiraling river of stars that converged on Zorn.
Even Vanessa and Alvin, who were cultivating inside the Divine Kingdom, stopped their training.
Their eyes widened as they meticulously observed the incredible scene before them.
Once the Sequence framework completed its metamorphosis to the Middle Rank Level, the Sequence Experience Zorn had accumulated over the winter continued to push his Sequence Level’s transformation.
Seizing the moment when his Sequence Level had just stabilized, before his Level 6 Witchcraft could awaken,
Zorn flipped his hand and took out the Forbidden Skill Potion he had long prepared.
Previously, Zorn had used these Forbidden Skill Potions to obtain powerful Exclusive Forbidden Curses.
This time, while absorbing the Divine Kingdom Forbidden Curses, Zorn could also consume these powerful Forbidden Skill Potions to further enhance their unique traits.
Turning the Divine Kingdom’s Forbidden Curses into Exclusive Forbidden Curses would make their effects even more powerful.
And this was one of the uses for an Exclusive Forbidden Potion.
As the Forbidden Skill Potions were used one after another,
Zorn could feel the Divine Kingdom’s Forbidden Curses fusing with the power of the Forbidden Skill Potions.
Soon,
three Exclusive Forbidden Curses, unique to the Divine Kingdom’s Skill system, materialized within Zorn’s Perception.
And they appeared in the even more powerful form of an Exclusive·Forbidden Curse Skill Tree.
