CH245 - CH246

CH245

"Deep Blue, analyze my current body stats."

Helag could feel an improvement, but it wasn't a huge leap.

[Helag Merlin

Strength: 25.5

Agility: 25.6

Constitution: 27.2

Spirit: 55.6

Mana: 100%

Talents: Dark Heaven, Bloodline Perception, Advanced Fire Resistance, Dragon Language Mastery, Advanced Magic Affinity ]

"My spiritual power increased by two points."

Helag glanced at the stats panel. The improvement wasn't massive.

The two-point increase was likely due to the World Tree sap.

However, this didn't mean that advancing to the liquid stage was the same as the gaseous stage.

Helag had just entered the liquid stage. Before his advancement, his spiritual power had been stagnant, unable to improve further.

But now that he had reached the liquid stage, his mind felt empty again.

He could continue cultivating his spiritual power through meditation.

Once his mind was filled with liquefied spiritual power, he could advance again, entering the crystallization stage.

Helag let out a sigh of relief. He had finally reached the liquid stage.

Before, he hadn't known when he would be able to advance. It had felt like he was just one step away.

But that one step could hold many people back for years.

Helag adjusted his state, stabilizing his mana, and then opened his eyes.

"My lord, did you break through?"

Helag opened his eyes to find Asna standing beside him, her beautiful eyes filled with concern.

Since Asna was only wearing a bathrobe, and Helag was quite tall, when he looked down, he couldn't help but notice the deep cleavage.

"Yes, I'm now a liquid-stage wizard," Helag replied.

"You're amazing, my lord!" Asna praised.

"There's more where that came from…"

Helag reached out his hand…

***

Shatia, who lived next door, blushed as she listened to the sounds coming from the other room.

The walls were well-insulated, but Shatia, being an elf with naturally keen senses, could hear everything clearly.

Even though Asna was trying to control herself, she couldn't help but let her emotions take over.

Shatia's face remained red throughout the night, feeling increasingly strange as she listened.

The sounds from next door didn't stop until nearly dawn, and Shatia had listened the entire night.

The next day, around noon, Helag carefully got out of bed.

Asna was still fast asleep, exhausted from the night's activities.

After closing the door quietly, Helag noticed that Shatia was also sleeping soundly, as if she had just fallen asleep.

"Do elves enjoy sleeping in too?"

Helag chuckled to himself and left the castle, heading toward Brack's garden.

"Helag, up so early? Didn't you want to rest a bit more?" Brack greeted him with a smile.

"It's already noon, how is that early?"

Helag smiled back and then got to the point. "Mr. Brack, could I borrow the family's messenger?"

"The messenger? Of course," Brack agreed without hesitation.

Helag was now an important figure in the Terchy family, having made significant contributions and with a bright future ahead.

In fact, even the Terchy family needed to maintain a good relationship with Helag now.

Helag was a full-fledged member of the Seranthiel organization, a force that few in the Barrens could afford to offend.

"Do you need the messenger summoned now? I can help with that," Brack offered.

Helag thought for a moment. "Give me a moment. I'll write a letter and be right back."

"Sure, I'm not busy today. I'll be here when you're ready," Brack said.

Helag planned to write a letter to Elisa.

After obtaining the World Tree sap, he had decided to send a drop to Elisa.

Elisa was, after all, his woman, and Helag wouldn't neglect those close to him.

Elisa was almost an ordinary person, with a very short lifespan.

With the World Tree sap, she could gain an additional 300 years of life.

Strictly speaking, Elisa was the one who needed the World Tree sap the most among those close to him.

Since the Kingdom of Doris was located on the far western edge of the continent, and Blackrock Valley was on the far eastern side, the distance between them was too great.

The people from Seranthiel were expected to arrive at Blackrock Valley in about two months, so Helag didn't have time to make the trip himself.

If he entrusted someone else to deliver it, the long journey would be filled with uncertainties.

There was no guarantee the World Tree sap would reach its destination, and if it were stolen, it would cause even more trouble.

After considering all his options, Helag decided that using the Terchy family's messenger was the best choice.

The messenger could deliver items regardless of distance, making it the perfect solution.

Helag returned to the inner castle, where both Asna and Shatia were still asleep.

He sat at his desk, picked up a quill, and began writing about his experiences over the past few years.

At the end of the letter, he told Elisa about his upcoming entry into the Land of Dawn.

He promised that if he had the chance, he would return to visit.

Once he entered the Land of Dawn, he wouldn't be as restricted as he was in the Barrens.

People from the Barrens were strictly forbidden from entering the Land of Dawn, but those from the Land of Dawn could enter the Barrens freely. It was just that most people had no reason to come to the Barrens, given its poverty and lack of resources.

After finishing the letter, Helag placed a drop of World Tree sap in a small box.

Once everything was ready, he returned to Brack.

Brack wrote down Elisa's information on a piece of paper and chanted a few syllables.

A six-pointed star array appeared in front of them, and the small messenger fairy emerged once again.

"Deliver this letter and this box to Elisa," Brack instructed, handing the items to the messenger.

The fairy glanced at the letter and the box, then accepted them and said, "One magic stone."

Brack handed over a magic stone, and the fairy, satisfied, jumped into the six-pointed star array and disappeared.

Helag had originally planned to send two drops of World Tree sap to Emil and Melissa, but after thinking it over, he realized that since they were ordinary people, living for over a hundred years without aging would surely attract attention.

Until he had enough power to protect them, sending them the World Tree sap would do more harm than good.

***

Meanwhile, in the Kingdom of Doris, in the city of Ryan.

Elisa sat in the courtyard of the city lord's mansion, enjoying the breeze with her eyes closed.

Two maids stood nearby, ready to attend to her needs.

On the small table beside Elisa were several plates of fruit.

As she rested, Elisa absentmindedly fiddled with a ring on her finger—the fireball ring Helag had left her.

Since receiving the ring, Elisa had never used it, as she had never encountered any danger.

But she always wore the ring, even though she had many other rings that were far more beautiful and luxurious.

She knew that the man who had given it to her would probably never return, but deep down, she still held onto a small hope that one day, he would appear before her again.

"Watch out, my lady!" one of the maids suddenly cried out.

Elisa opened her eyes to see a six-pointed star array appear in front of her, and a cute little fairy emerged from it.

"Miss Elisa, this is a letter and a package from Mr. Helag. The delivery is complete, so I'll be off now." The fairy placed the letter and the box on the table before disappearing back into the star array.

CH246

"My lady, are you alright?"

Elisa's knight captain, Levant, rushed over the moment he heard the commotion in the courtyard.

He had been a servant of the Elisa family since childhood and had watched Elisa grow up.

He was both her protector and, in a way, an elder.

As a grand knight, Levant could handle most dangers, and it was rare to encounter wizards in the Kingdom of Doris.

Elisa and her family were under the protection of the Dream Island wizard organization, so no ordinary wizard would dare trouble them unless they had a death wish.

Elisa shook her head. "It's nothing. Helag sent me something."

"Helag?" Levant was surprised.

Though Helag was a powerful wizard, Levant had never liked him.

Elisa nodded. "Yes, nothing to worry about."

Seeing that everything was fine, Levant retreated.

Elisa opened the letter and began reading.

The letter was long, detailing what had happened to Helag since he left Ryan City.

"Liquid-stage wizard…"

Elisa hadn't expected Helag to advance so quickly. When he left, he had only been a wizard apprentice, and now he had become a liquid-stage wizard.

What surprised her even more was learning that this corner of the continent was called the Barrens, and that the wizard organizations here were all exiled.

She had never heard of the Land of Dawn, where much more powerful wizard organizations existed.

Perhaps Dino knew, but he had never told her about it.

Now that Helag had entered Seranthiel in the Land of Dawn, his future was undoubtedly bright, and Elisa was genuinely happy for him.

After finishing the letter, Elisa understood why Helag hadn't had the chance to visit her in the past few years. Any lingering resentment in her heart faded away.

Instead, she felt more worried. From what Helag had described, his journey had been filled with danger and challenges.

And she, with only a small amount of magical power as a first-level wizard apprentice, couldn't help him at all.

"In a few years, even if you come, I won't want to see you. By then, I'll already be old," Elisa thought to herself.

She wanted to leave Helag with the image of her in her youth and beauty, not her older, withered self.

Elisa sighed after reading the letter, feeling that it was still too short.

There were some things that could never be fully expressed in a letter. They needed to be said face-to-face, over the course of an entire night or day.

She set the letter down and looked at the wooden box, wondering what it contained. The letter hadn't mentioned it.

Elisa opened the box and found a translucent green leaf inside, along with a small folded note.

The note had a message: "Open this when no one else is around."

Seeing this, Elisa quickly closed the box and said softly, "You two may leave."

"Yes, my lady," the two maids responded and quickly left.

Once the courtyard was empty, Elisa reopened the box and unfolded the note.

The note read: "This is World Tree sap. Consuming it will extend your life by 300 years. Remember, this is a precious item. Do not tell anyone about it. After reading this, burn the note."

Elisa was stunned for a moment before crumpling the note in her hand and tossing it into the nearby small fireplace.

She picked up the leaf and murmured, "What a cruel man. I had planned to miss you for a hundred years, and now you're making me miss you for three hundred."

With a soft smile, Elisa opened her lips and ate the World Tree sap.

She closed her eyes, feeling the strange changes happening inside her body.

Already voluptuous and alluring, she seemed to become even more beautiful and radiant.

More importantly, Elisa noticed that her sensitivity to the surrounding energy particles had increased significantly.

Her wizard aptitude had always been poor, and meditation had done little to improve her spiritual power.

The main reason was her weak sensitivity to the energy particles around her, and her body's low efficiency in absorbing and converting them. This made her meditation ineffective, and as a result, her spiritual power never grew.

But now, things were different. Elisa felt an entirely new sensation.

She thought that perhaps she could try meditating again.

Elisa immediately began meditating, using the "Boundless Sea" meditation technique that Dino had taught her. It was a high-level technique from Dream Island, one that most people weren't qualified to learn.

A few hours later, Elisa opened her eyes, her expression filled with excitement.

She had discovered that her meditation practice was now completely different from before—it was actually working.

This realization gave Elisa a new sense of purpose.

Previously, she had been no different from an ordinary person, resigned to living out her life in obscurity.

After meeting Helag, Elisa had wanted to follow him, but she knew deep down that it was impossible.

Wizards and ordinary people were almost two different life forms. Her life was too short, and her youth even shorter.

So, despite her reluctance, she had watched Helag leave, unable to even voice her desire to follow him.

At the time, she had wished her aptitude had been better.

At least then, she could have meditated and cultivated, working hard to become stronger.

With Dream Island supporting her, she wouldn't have lacked resources as long as she could meditate and cultivate.

The main problem had always been her poor aptitude. Meditation had been almost useless for her.

So, Elisa had passively accepted her fate, preparing to live out her life as it was.

But now, everything had changed. The World Tree sap had not only extended her life by 300 years but also improved her constitution.

In fact, the World Tree sap naturally had this effect. It was just that Helag and Asna already had good aptitudes, so the improvement wasn't as noticeable, and they didn't feel any significant changes.

The World Tree sap was something only elves typically had the chance to consume, and elves were born with extremely high magical aptitude. As a result, they wouldn't notice much improvement from the sap.

It was like someone who could already score 100 on a test—adding one more point wouldn't make much of a difference.

But Elisa was different. Her natural aptitude had been very poor.

After consuming the World Tree sap, her cultivation aptitude had been raised to above average.

This kind of improvement brought about a drastic change in her experience, making the difference incredibly obvious to her.

This was something Helag hadn't anticipated—he hadn't expected the World Tree sap to enhance Elisa's aptitude.

A smile appeared on Elisa's lips. She now had a new goal.

That goal was to cultivate hard and become stronger.

The next time she saw Helag, she wanted to surprise him.

Elisa suddenly thought that she might even be able to advance to a full-fledged wizard.

Typically, one had to advance to a full wizard before the age of eighteen.

This was because humans only had a lifespan of about a hundred years, and Amanda's potion burned a person's life force to unlock their potential, allowing them to break through to become a full wizard.