Chapter 858: Research

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

The recovered Johnson returned to the monster ring with joy on its face. Afterward took out the light gems he got today as rewards once again.

There were 142 light gems in total, and Abel spotted 2 sizes. The smaller ones probably belonged to beginner Holy Knights, and he had 32 of them. All the other ones were bigger, and their progress belonged to intermediate Holy Knights.

He placed a smaller one in his hand and looked at it in detail. It was made of 6 pieces of crystals, and the glow he saw was caused by the strange energy they were giving out.

“It feels familiar!” Abel mumbled and gently pressed between his eyes to take out the crystal angel statue.

He began to compare, and their energy felt extremely similar, but there were some differences.

“It has to do with the gods?” Abel mumbled to himself as he put the statue between his eyes again.

However, there was not much he could do. The gods were too out of reach.

He still hadn’t meditated, and he wanted to know if meditating with those light gems could give him something different.

He placed a small light gem in his hand and soon entered into a meditation state. Immediately, he sensed something different.

During normal meditation, mana would turn into magic power after entering the body. Even with a fresh crystal core, its energy needed to be absorbed by the body before turning into magic power.

However, at that moment, the mana entered the light gem before entering his body. By the time it reached its body, it had already become a magic power.

It seems like the light gem had a strange way to absorb the surrounding mana, speeding up the effect of meditation.

No matter how hard a wizard worked, they could only meditate for an hour every 24 hours. Therefore maximizing the effect of meditation was the goal of every wizard.

If a fresh crystal core could double the effect of meditation, the light gems were 5 times as effective.

However, only 5 times was still a little disappointing to Abel since he had to kill a Holy Knight to get one of them. In his current form as a rank 16 wizard without joining the lightnings, going against Holy Knights was almost impossible.

He got a taste of how powerful they were after the fight. He understood why only a rank 17 was capable of taking them down.

Rank 16 spells took a long time to level up unless you maximized everyone’s power. It could not break the high elemental resistance defense of those knights.

Not every elite wizard had the rune word insight for training and level up at such unbelievable speed like Abel.

No one was spoiled enough to use a light gem as meditation. Most wizards would only use them during a bottleneck. Once they sensed enlightenment, the light gem could increase the rate of level up energy emerging.

A novice wizard could use a light gem to become an official wizard. Although their upcoming journey would be harder, light gems had dramatically increased the number of official wizards.

The higher the rank of the light gem, the better its effect. If a rank 5 novice wizard used a light gem from a dead intermediate Holy Knight, their rate of successfully leveling up would dramatically increase, and their upcoming journey would be easier as well.

The light gems in the Central Continent were mostly used as a military resource. Using them as meditation was rarely seen. It could be a huge waste to Sland City to the Central Continent as a whole.

As the Evil Kingdom population grew, many Holy Knights and religious followers were cultivated in a short period of time.

Because of this, on top of a trustworthy source, they thought their operation would go smoothly. If not, they would not be willing to send out so many weaker knights.

This was how Abel had gotten so many light gems.

Getting a light gem on a normal battlefield was a lot more dangerous than what Abel had experienced.

If Abel knew the true value of those gems, he wouldn’t have been so generous on the battlefield today. He could easily finish off those other 40 Holy Knights.

“Can light gems be combined?” An idea suddenly struck.

He immediately emptied his Horadric Cube and jammed 3 small light gems in for combination.

Those 3 light gems vanished in a flash of white light, and a larger one reappeared in the Horadric Cube.

It worked! It was just that he didn’t know how much more powerful this larger one was. He had already done his meditation for the day. He could only try again tomorrow.

Since he had 111 larger light gems, he began to think if he should combine again.

He gave it a go! He took out 3 larger light gems and jammed them into the Horadric Cube for combination. It worked again, and an even larger light gem appeared.

Abel carefully compared the size of those light gems. He could clearly sense their energy difference. If the small light gem’s energy was like a creek, the medium-light gem would be a stream, and the large one would be a river.

Their power difference was almost a few hundred times apart. If Abel didn’t have something as godly as the Horadric Cube, he would need at least a hundred low-rank light gems to make a high-rank light gem.

Abel did not continue to combine more light gems. Before he did that, he would need to test out if they could benefit his training.

After putting away all the light gems, he took out the priest’s spell guide he got from the priest with giant horns.

He couldn’t help shake his head thinking about what happened. He never thought he would be teaming up with a priest.

If that priest knew what Abel had done to the priests in the Holy Continent, would he still lend a helping hand?

This spell guide was definitely the biggest reward Abel has gotten. Although other wizards wouldn’t even bat an eye on this guide if they didn’t want to become a dried-up monster and end their wizard journey, it was the most needed thing for Abel to increase ability in a short period of time.

He had been analyzing the Holy Continent’s priest spell guide, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not revert those spells to their most original form. Things like spells could be extremely different across different continents.

The higher level the spell, the harder it would be to revert.

Reverting the skeleton resurrection spell back in the day was like a walk in the park for Abel. But ever since he reached those beginner priest spells, it had taken him large amounts of time.

He flicked open the spell guide, and things began to make sense. Although the original priest spells still utilized death qi, it was filled with the respect for lives.

Abel always wanted to learn the skeleton Shaman resurrection spell, but the Holy Continent’s main ingredient was a dead wizard, so Abel did not persist.

In the Holy Continent, a priest was an official and glorious occupation, so he could finally learn this spell.

He found a few corpses of hell creatures outside of the Kurast Dock and drew the Skeleton Shaman resurrection spell pattern. Since he had that death qi and life force infused druid soul, he could cast a priest spell in its most original form.

Although it was the first time he drew this spell pattern, he could do so perfectly with the help of that piece of World Stone. Afterward, his druid soul unleashed a wave of death qi into the pattern.

Bang! The corpse blasted open, and a skeleton Sharman holding a magic staff made out of bones emerged from within.

Abel commanded that skeleton to cast a spell through his power of the will, and an ice bolt immediately shot out from its magic staff. Although it was not powerful, it had cast the spell without a magic pattern. It was its nature.

Power was not a problem. There were 20 levels to this spell. Abel could definitely summon a powerful one someday, especially with the skeleton enchantment spell.

Abel wanted to see if this Skeleton Sharman could merge with a spirit wolf as well. If it could, then it could become a wizard with the move in a flash ability specialized in one spell.

This could truly bring his power to a new level. When he leveled up the spell to its limit, he would be able to summon 9 Skeleton Shamans. That was like carrying 9 wizards with the move in a flash ability with him at all time.

Abel held down his excitement and summoned a spirit wolf with his druid soul. He controlled that Skeleton Sharman to jump on the wolf, and it was immediately surrounded by the dark energy of the spirit wolf.

It was just like a spirit guardian. The only thing different was the magic staff on its hand.

Abel looked at it with satisfaction and commanded it to flash a few times. It was just as fast as a spirit guardian knight.

Next was to level up the magic power of this Skeleton Sharman. He had his experience with the spirit guardian knight captain. He knew he just needed to feed it some soul potion, and it would level up. At the same time, the Skeleton Shaman resurrection spell would level up as well.

It had been a long time since Abel had used a soul potion. He had more than 1000 bottles of soul potions piling up, and he only needed no more than 100 to fully level up the Skeleton Shaman resurrection spell.

Since the Snake Sharman Skin and the Jade of Jordan each added an extra level to the spell, he had ended up with a level 22 Skeleton Shaman resurrection spell.

“I’ll call you the Spirit Guardian Wizard!” Abel looked forward and laughed.

The size of the spirit guardian wizard has grown dramatically with the Spirit Wolf under it.

Abel could sense intelligence coming from the soul flame of the spirit guardian wizard. It was a little smarter than the spirit guardian knights, which made sense since the spirit guardian knights were made for close combat, and the spirit guardian wizard was made for long-range spell casting.

Not to mention, those soul potions to the soul could boost intelligence as well, and it had taken vast amounts of it.

“It’s too bad it can only do an ice bolt. That spell is weak even with the maximum power!’ Abel mumbled to himself.

Suddenly an idea struck him “Maybe I can teach it some spells!”

Transferring spell knowledge was not hard. The only challenge was to get the spirit guardian wizard to understand the spell casting process.

First, Abel connected with the spirit guardian wizard’s soul flame with his power of the will. Its soul flame was filled with ice energy and in its center was a perfect ice bolt pattern.

Maybe this was the reason this spirit guardian wizard could cast an ice bolt by nature.

Picking another ice spell would be the best bet, so Abel picked the beginner wizard spell ‘frost nova,’ and large amounts of spell information was transferred to the spirit guardian wizard’s soul flame.

However, its soul flame began flickering. It seemed like it was getting overloaded by the information.

Abel quickly stopped the transfer. It didn’t seem like it would work.