I Ascend to the Divine Throne through Arcane Means Chapter 23: 22 Phase Training Concluded

Chapter 23: Chapter 22 Phase Training Concluded

About a week had passed since coming back from the Magic Academy of the Feis Royal Family.

Lis had also been leading a fulfilling life during this ti, continuing his weapon practice with Welf and the others during the day, while also picking up so useful Martial Arts. At night, he would return and imrse himself in the laboratory, often staying up late into the night.

Lis’s hard work had not gone without reward, as his pace of weapon training beca faster and faster. He was close to raising all the weapons in his plan to an interdiate proficiency level, and he had learned a bunch of related Martial Arts as well.

New arcane spells had also made considerable progress. Lis had improved two more arcane spells, which were an improved version of the One-Circle Magic “Oily Technique” called “Fueling Technique,” and an improved Three-Ring version based on the Second Circle Magic “Weakening Ray,” called “Ageing Ray.”

One-Circle Arcane “Fueling Technique” took Oily Technique as its foundation, but Lis deliberately adjusted it to enhance the viscosity and flammability of the oil produced. When combined with his most familiar Fire Magic spells, and especially with his Three-Ring Arcane “Blue Ball Skill,” the terrifying blue flas mixed with sticky, flammable oil were simply a nightmare for lee Professionals.

As for the Three-Ring Arcane “Ageing Ray,” it was an unintended product from one of Lis’s experintal Magic Model adjustnts.

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Originally, Lis intended to tweak the “Weakening Ray” to enhance its effects on depleting resilience and elental resistance, but he discovered that the resultant arcane “Ageing Ray” could reduce an enemy’s physical strength upon impact.

After a few tests, Lis found that this effect could weaken an enemy’s agility, strength, and resilience by about 30%, although this reduction might be lessened by certain resistances, such as when applied to Welf, which weakened him by about 5%. Nevertheless, for Lis at present, it was already a very powerful restraining tactic.

Since the effect appeared as if the enemy had suddenly aged by several years, Lis directly nad it “Ageing Ray.”

Although the effect was only temporary, it scared the guard Bill, who served as a test subject, enough to think that Lis had gained the power to deprive him of his life. Begging for rcy, he repeatedly kowtowed, which was sowhat amusing and frustrating for Lis.

Even though two more arcane spells had been successfully improved, Lis didn’t stop pushing forward. After all, the largest ace up a Mage’s sleeve is an insatiable spellbook, ready to offer effective counterasures for any situation.

He had a long way to go!

Seeing that the arcane subsystem seed to have transford into a talent aiding his Magic Model adjustnts without the need to spend Experience Points to luck out as in his past life, he was even more inclined to make the most of his ti.

As ti trickled away, Lis’s weapon training plan approached its end.

With Lis’s ten arrows hitting the 50-ter target one after another, the system’s notification sound arrived as expected.

[…99%….100%!]

[Your bow and arrow weapon proficiency has advanced to interdiate]

[“Interdiate Bow Control”: You have mastered the basic techniques of using a bow, and your power when using bow and arrow has increased significantly]

Lis put down the longbow in his hands and sighed. Finally, his efforts during this period had not been in vain!

Now he lacked only the proficiency of the last interdiate weapon to gain “All Martial Arts Mastery”!

Moreover, through the battles over this period, Lis had fully integrated the combat experience and tactics from his past ga mories with his own skills, making everything perfectly smooth and natural.

It was a true accomplishnt of skill!

Lis felt confident that he could now steadily defeat an unrelenting Dison.

“Young master, hard work pays off!” Seeing Lis put down his bow and arrow, Bill imdiately rushed over from the side, handing Lis a towel he had prepared in advance with a sycophantic complint,

“To think that after only two days of practice, he could hit the target ten tis in a row from such a distance, Young Master Lis truly is a peerless genius! I see the next legendary warrior of the Kingdom is none other than you, young master!”

Lis took the warm towel and gave the guy a sidelong glance.

What was that, being so bold to flatter? The flattery was so over the top that he didn’t believe a word of it; instead, it made him feel so awkward he wanted to throttle the fellow.

“The young master is indeed a genius,” Welf also ca over, nodding sincerely as he spoke.

Over this period of practice, Welf had been amazed not only by Lis’s astonishing learning speed but also because, in between trainings, he had sparred with Lis a few tis. Although he had always held back his power, Lis’s spell power, far surpassing that of mages of the sa level, and his seasoned and unique combat awareness always made Welf feel as if he were facing a top rcenary battle-hardened by countless fights.

Logically speaking, Young Master Lis shouldn’t have had much real combat experience, having always been imrsed in the Magic Academy and laboratories studying spells. But those mature and stable combat skills and the unflustered combat awareness in the face of danger could not be honed without hundreds of battles, and not just simple sparring sessions but real, life-threatening fights.

Welf couldn’t figure out why Lis was so adept at real combat, and he could only attribute it to the young master’s exceptional talent.

Lis handed the bow and arrows to Welf, wiping his sweat as he said, “Let’s call it quits with the training for now; I’m taking a few days off, I have other matters to attend to.”

“Yes, young master,” Welf replied, casually tossing the bow and arrows he received from Lis to a man nad Bill nearby and asked, “So, are we heading back to the mansion now?”

Lis glanced at the sky, judging that it was only around three in the afternoon and after a mont of thought he said:

“You go back first, I have sowhere else I need to be.”

“Don’t you need to co with you?” Welf was taken aback, since he had been Lis’s guard on every outing these past few days.

“No need, you go back too. Tell Joyce there’s no need to prepare dinner for .”

Lis wasn’t worried about his own safety. Although he had been probed a few days ago, he had Welf deliberately observe on several recent outings and they noticed no one was tracking them.

Given that their enemies wouldn’t deploy advanced professionals at the ti, anyone tracking him wouldn’t be able to hide their tracks from Welf, who was an advanced warrior.

This ant that there were unlikely to be any attacks against him any ti soon, allowing him to calmly plan so matters.

Following the experience on Langai Street, before every outdoor training session Lis now purposely changed into ordinary clothes, looking like a regular, handso civilian—a bit of concealnt ant no garnering undue attention.

Being a mage, as long as he wasn’t in mage equipnt, nothing about Lis’s appearance was particularly telling. But Welf was different; his muscular physique and the oppressive air that couldn’t be concealed by a warrior made him as conspicuous as a sore thumb, even in a crowd.

If Lis wanted to do sothing incognito and people recognized Welf the mont they left the house, what would be the point of hiding?

As for the other guards, having them along or not didn’t make much difference. It would be more comfortable for him to go on his own.

After placing so weapons into his storage ring, Lis pushed open the gate and walked out.

His warehouse was located in a small alley on Belle Street, surrounded by ordinary residences and relatively quiet.

Lis checked his bearings; his base in his previous life was in Bright City, with which he was very familiar, so he headed towards his destination.

Objective: The rcenary Guild!