The Wizard's Pursuit of Truth

”Run! It’s an Official Wizard! Damn it!”

The quicker-witted Black Souls were the fastest to flee.

But this was Heart Dream Lake, inside Maple Forest. Trying to escape here, especially in front of an Official Wizard... Wang Ya simply watched as the Illusory Dream Wizard snatched up the scattering Black Souls as easily as catching chicks and stuffed them all into the Black Core.

”This is quite a nice item. It bears the traces of another Official Wizard’s work. I’ve already cleared away all the hidden dangers for you.”

The Illusory Dream Wizard tossed the Black Core to Wang Ya.

He didn’t ask what Wang Ya planned to do with it.

His figure flickered in and out of existence, poised to disappear from the real world at any moment.

”Thank you, Teacher.” Wang Ya bowed slightly, watching as the Illusory Dream Wizard’s figure vanished completely, entering the Dream World.

This was unavoidable. In essence, the Illusory Dream Wizard was a native creature of the Dream World, not a physical being of the real one.

He could not appear in the real world for long and needed to periodically return to the Dream World to replenish his Dream Power.

Wang Ya stared at the Black Core in his hand. The Black Souls inside were much more docile now, huddled together in a corner, looking quite pitiful.

If not for the Illusory Dream Wizard’s intervention, they would have likely flayed and devoured alive anyone who picked up the Black Core.

Their intelligence wasn’t high, very few were even slightly clever, and their emotional states were filled with negativity... What surprised Wang Ya was that all the Black Souls had managed to barely retain their self-awareness and personalities, still possessing joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

Wang Ya felt as if he had grasped something—a way to aid his Dream Infinite Genome.

Perhaps the answer lay in maintaining selfhood through emotion and personality.

...

SPLASH!

The Sea of Spirit was as dim as ever. Thin rays of light shone down from the sky vault, illuminating a corner of the vast ocean below.

The churning, transparent seawater was clearly visible.

Wang Ya successfully sketched the final stroke of the Wizard Rune. As his Spiritual Power rose, the Particle Energy on his body in the real world also fluctuated.

Opening his eyes, he saw his room was a mess. Small objects were scattered everywhere, disturbed by his aura and the fluctuations of Particle Energy.

With the intervention of his Extraordinary Spiritual Power, the unstable fluctuations of his aura gradually settled.

[Prompt: Successfully sketched the seventh Wizard Rune. Spiritual Power Increase: 0.7]

Wang Ya spent another half-day or so bathing his body in benign radiation, uniformly raising his Particle Energy Units, physical stats, and Dream Power to their current limits.

[Current Spiritual Power: 26]

[Particle Energy: 25 Units]

[Dream Power: 22 Units]

[Dream-Recalling Meditation Method: ’Basic Chapter (9/9)’, ’Advanced Chapter (7/12)’]

[Current Active Neurons: 4.7%]

Without hesitation, Wang Ya began analyzing the eighth Wizard Rune.

[Estimated Analysis Time: 75 days]

’Two and a half months.’

Wang Ya’s eyebrow twitched slightly. By completing the ”Death of the Blood Wizard” Wizard Task, he had delayed his assigned mission by about two months.

This was precious time he had earned for himself, intended for preparing various Wizard Experiments.

The next assigned mission would be issued in five days.

There hadn’t been many changes in terms of his Witchcraft; Wang Ya had only managed to master Fury of Hephaestus.

This was a powerful Witchcraft that was a further Sublimation of Fear of the Flame Demon and Flame Demon Roar. With sufficient Particle Energy, it could unleash power exceeding 40 degrees.

High-tier Witchcraft was the limit of ordinary Witchcraft.

It wasn’t that more powerful Witchcraft didn’t exist, but those were the painstaking research of Official Wizards. They could be said to be an extension of their paths—Witchcraft perfectly suited to the corresponding Official Wizard.

If other Wizards learned them, they wouldn’t necessarily be able to unleash the same degree of power.

It also seemed to be related to the process of advancing to an Official Wizard.

Enduring the trial of the Wizard World Will’s direct gaze allowed one to receive the Wizard World’s blessing and undergo an all-around Sublimation—in Particle Energy, physical stats, the very essence of one’s Extraordinary Spiritual Power, and more.

The Witchcraft used by Official Wizards could essentially be considered High-tier Witchcraft, but its power was worlds apart from the High-tier Witchcraft cast by an Extreme Wizard Apprentice.

The Illusory Dream Wizard had mentioned this before.

The standard spell cast by a Level 1 Official Wizard was a Level 1 Sublimation Witchcraft.

However, Witchcraft wasn’t fixed or limited; it also depended on a Wizard’s own research and their understanding of the world.

To measure a Wizard’s strength solely by the power of their Witchcraft was far too simplistic.

A Wizard was a being who pursued truth, understood the world, and explored the self. If one could remain powerful just by relying on some Inheritance Witchcraft, the Wizard Civilization would have long since vanished into the vast Starry Sky Void Sea.

The ways of the ancestors are not absolute, and the Celestial Dao is not to be feared.

Wizards had always been pioneers and innovators. This was a new cultural direction, a new way of thinking, that the ancient Wizards had always guided the civilization toward.

The revolution of the Mechanical Wizards, which buried many Wizard Systems in the dust of history, was the best example of this—and it was a good thing.

High-tier Witchcraft is the limit of conventional Witchcraft, but not the limit of a Wizard’s research.

Level 1 Sublimation Witchcraft, too, was merely a manifestation of Witchcraft’s power reaching a certain threshold.

Wang Ya had also discovered that Fury of Hephaestus wasn’t a very good fit for him; it couldn’t be perfectly integrated into his Flame Demon Witchcraft School.

The same was true for Flame Demon Roar Witchcraft; it was gradually becoming incompatible with the Flame Demon Witchcraft School.

He decided to modify these two Witchcrafts to further strengthen his Flame Demon Witchcraft Stream.