"Bang!"

Without warning, a heavy strike slammed violently onto Merlin's body.

"What happened?"

Merlin was shocked. It was clearly incapable to resist such a silent, invisible force. Fortunately, his body had been covered by Enervating Halo, so he was not hurt.

"Thud thud thud."

To Merlin's horror, the attacks did not stop but continued like a thumping heartbeat, each strike stronger than the last. When the third strike struck, Merlin's Enervating Halo finally could not withstand and shattered into pieces.

"Wizard Ossais, is this the Nine Hit Strike?"

Until now, Merlin still did not know how the attacks were released. Without any warning, the silent and invisible attacks had already slammed into his body.

Moreover, every strike was stronger than the last. With every subsequent strike, its power almost doubled.

This was the uniqueness of Occult Mind Spells. They were silent and invisible, hence were incapable of resistance.

Ossais nodded and said, "Yes, this is the Nine Hit Strike! This is the Occult Mind Spell that I've spent decades intensively researching and finally derived. It's the most sophisticated Occult Mind Spell that I've created. The Nine Hit Strike can attack nine times in a row, and the strength of each strike would increase several folds. Although the ability to wield the Nine Hit Strike might differ according to each Wizard's Mind Power, the general effect is mostly the same."

Following Wizard Ossais' explanation, Merlin gradually understood the greatness of Nine Hit Strike.

Even if one only wielded a Seven Hit Strike instead of the Nine Hit Strike, the power was already enough to match a peak Great Wizard. Currently, Wizard Ossais could only wield the Seven Hit Strike. As for the Eight Hit Strike and Nine Hit Strike, they were the strongest attacks derived by Wizard Ossais. Based on his inference, upon achieving Eight Hit Strike and Nine Hit Strike, it would amount to powers that could rival a Legend!

Merlin listened to Wizard Ossais' explanation, and became even more eager to try the Nine Hit Strike. This was a true Occult Mind Spell that was much more powerful than many other spells.

Above all, there was only one requirement to cultivate the Nine Hit Strike, which was to possess a tremendous amount of Mind Power!

This was the Occult Mind Spell that Merlin had sought. It would directly enhance Merlin's abilities. Based on the large amount of Mind Power that Merlin had, there should not be a problem for him to cultivate a Three Hit Strike.

Since the Three Hit Strike had been able to easily break through Merlin's Enervating Halo, its power should be at least equivalent to a peak Eighth-level. Then the Four Hit Strike would be equivalent to an average Ninth-level Spell Caster!

This was the greatness of Nine Hit Strike. If Merlin's Mind Heart was compressed continuously according to Explosion Theory and continued to grow, then when Merlin once again accumulated enough Mind Power to reach the limit of the Seventh-level Mind Heart, he might even attempt to cultivate Four Hit Strike.

Merlin's heart was burning with zealous passion. Almost impatiently, he said to Wizard Ossais, "Nine Hit Strike! This Occult Mind Spell is truly the most sophisticated Mind Occult Spell. Please teach me, Wizard Ossais!"

Merlin presented the highest standard of etiquette toward Wizard Ossais. Although Ossais was not Merlin's teacher, once he imparted these two teachings to him, Merlin considered him no different than a teacher.

Ossais nodded and took a deep breath. He stared at Merlin with a grave expression. In a deep voice, he said, "Wizard Merlin, Nine Hit Strike is my life work. I regard it as the spell with the greatest potential to break through the Mind Power Masters' bottleneck. In the future, if you manage to cultivate Seven Hit Strikes, you must try to cultivate it to become Eight or Nine Hit Strike!"

Eight Hit Strike and Nine Hit Strike represented breaking through the bottleneck of an entirely new threshold which could rival a Legend! Even Wizard Ossais himself had not been able to cultivate Eight Hit Strike or Nine Hit Strike.

Originally, this sophisticated Nine Hit Strike Occult Mind Spell had already reached its limit at Seven Hit Strike. However, in order to break through the bottleneck and with the hope to give birth to an existence powerful enough to rival a Legend, Wizard Ossais spent a lot of time refining Seven Hit Strike, and managed to derive Eight Hit Strike and Nine Hit Strike.

As for whether anyone would be able to successfully cultivate Eight Hit Strike and Nine Hit Strike, even Ossais would not dare to guarantee it. It was merely to provide some hope to Mind Power Masters to break through their limits.

Seeing the hopefulness in Ossais' eyes, Merlin knew that Ossais was very anxious to see the equivalent of a Great Legend arise from among the Mind Power Masters. Therefore, he soberly nodded. "Wizard Ossais, don't worry. If I can cultivate Seven Hit Strike one day, then I'll definitely not give up on cultivating Eight Hit Strike and Nine Hit Strike!"

Wizard Ossais heaved a breath of relief. He smiled. "Well, these are the two most sophisticated Occult Mind Spells that can mightily enhance your abilities. You can go back and practice them properly."

Merlin now mastered the two most sophisticated Occult Mind Spells, so he was quite eager to cultivate them. He bade Wizard Ossais his leave and returned to his accommodation to immerse himself in the cultivation.

…

Three months passed in the blink of an eye. Wizard Mogan and Wizard Yatho were also exchanging their experiences of consolidating a Maxim. Both of them were ordinary Legends who only consolidated a single Maxim.

Wizard Mogan had begun to attempt consolidating a second Maxim but he had not been successful. There were no shortcuts to consolidating a Maxim other than plundering the Elemental Origin of a dimension. Otherwise, the process required a long time and tireless effort to slowly consolidate the Maxim bit by bit.

This was a long, drawn-out process and was considered normal, spanning hundreds and thousands of years.

After Wizard Mogan and Wizard Yatho were done exchanging their experiences in consolidating a Maxim, they looked toward the direction Merlin was in. With some hesitation, Wizard Mogan said, "It has been three months, but there hasn't been any news from Merlin. I wonder if he has successfully cultivated the Occult Mind Spells?"

In the Yatho Dimension, only Wizard Yatho could monitor every place.

Wizard Yatho gently closed his eyes. Then, he shook his head. "Still no change. Wait for a little while more. It has only been three months!"

"Three months is a long time. I'm going to bring Merlin to Arcane City. That's a place that a prodigy like him should be!"

Wizard Mogan squinted and said in a grave expression.

On the other hand, Wizard Yatho sucked in a deep breath and his gaze turned uncertain. He murmured, "Mogan, you must think this through. Are you really going to use your one and only recommendation to send Merlin to Arcane City?"

Every Legend had one quota to recommend a genius Spell Caster to Arcane City. Hence, this recommendation was considered extremely precious. After so many years, Wizard Mogan had not used up this recommendation. Right now, he intended to use this quota to recommend Merlin into Arcane City, which spoke volumes of Wizard Mogan's esteem for Merlin.

Wizard Mogan nodded unconcernedly. "Hehe, having just a single recommendation is probably very important to others but many Legends don't even have the chance to use that single quota. That is because they've never met a talented Spell Caster who's worthy of using that recommendation! Merlin is the most talented Spell Caster that I've ever met. He has the potential to become a Great Legend. Sending him into Arcane City will greatly shorten the time frame to become a Legend. This is also my final assistance to him as his teacher! Moreover, if met with a disciple like Merlin, which Legend would be reluctant to use his recommendation?"

"True, I'm quite envious that you've found such a talented disciple like Merlin. Although I have very high esteem for Asher, he's still far from meeting my expectations, let alone for me to use my recommendation to send him to Arcane City!"

Wizard Yatho said with frustration. He also regarded Asher with esteem but did not intend to use his recommendation to send Asher to Arcane City.

After all, Arcane City was the holy ground in the hearts of all the Spell Casters. The three great Arcane Cities constituted the heart of the Spell Caster civilization. Only with these three great Arcane Cities, the Spell Caster world could continuously give birth to incredible Great Wizards and formidable Great Legends!

"Asher? If he becomes a Ninth-level Spell Caster and performs outstandingly, Yatho, you can also consider sending him to Arcane City. Perhaps, his future would change depending on your move. Even if he doesn't become the most demonic Spell Caster, maybe there's still hope for him to become a Great Legend!"

Wizard Mogan said with a grin, but Wizard Yatho did not seem convinced and did not answer. After all, no matter how powerful a Legendary Wizard was, they only had one recommendation each, so it was highly important to him.

"Hehe, Wizard Mogan, you don't have to rush to use your recommendation. With Merlin's talent, sooner or later he'll shake the entire Spell Caster civilization. Hence, there's a big chance that he would be voluntarily absorbed by Arcane City. After all, the purpose of the existence of Arcane City is to absorb the most talented prodigies in the Spell Caster world!"

Wizard Mogan also knew that Arcane City would voluntarily absorb true geniuses. However, the chance of that happening was too minuscule, so he would not risk allowing Merlin to stumble around blindly.

In addition, if Merlin was to be voluntarily absorbed by Arcane City, then obviously Wizard Mogan would not occupy an important position in Merlin's heart. On the other hand, if he offered the greatest help to Merlin when he was still weak, then in the future if Merlin had succeeded, he would return Wizard Mogan's favor.

However, right now, there was still no change from Merlin, so Wizard Mogan could only continue to wait patiently.

…

"Boom!"

There was another explosion. In Merlin's Awareness, the Mind Heart underwent continuous explosion and consolidation. In fact, even Merlim himself did not know how many times it had exploded or consolidated.

Nonetheless, every time he exploded and consolidated the Mind Heart, he could clearly feel that the Mind Heart was continuously being compressed.

This time, however, after the explosion, the Mind Heart did not produce any reaction.

"Finally, it's compressed to the limit!"

Merlin slowly opened his eyes, and his eyes sparkled with brilliance. After such a long period of meditation, he had finally compressed the Seventh-level Mind Heart to its limit.