Chapter 7 Promotion
Unless they can defeat Duke Bidya like they defeated the Chief Magician of the Fifth Legion, they will send troops to Bidya.

However, unlike the chief magician of the Fifth Legion, Duke Bidya has been a powerful figure in the Sanctuary for more than three hundred years.

His strength is far beyond what the chief magician of the Fifth Legion who had just broken through the Holy Land not long ago could match.

At least, in Locke's opinion, Bidya Territory is still very safe for now.

So, after Locke sent a letter to his family through the Chamber of Commerce in Bidiya, he rented a quiet courtyard and began to practice meditation.

Every day, Locke's time is fully scheduled.

I replaced sleep with meditation to restore my mental strength.

After his mental strength is restored, he will enter the state of "harmony between man and nature" to comprehend the mystery of the "magic of fog" and enhance his mental strength.

After consuming most of his mental energy, he began to analyze the magic spell.

As a Panlong fan, Locke has a more systematic understanding of the Panlong Universe's cultivation system compared to people of this era.

Therefore, compared to those who know nothing, Locke's practice is more targeted.

After being detected to have an affinity for water magic at the age of seven, Locke entered the Magic Academy of the Frost and Snow Empire.

After becoming a first-level water magician, the first magic he came into contact with was the first-level magic "Water Mist".

Later, in addition to meditating and refining magic power, Locke devoted most of his mind to analyzing magic spells.

After all, magic spells are the prototypes of the mysteries of laws that were created by the gods by disassembling the mysteries of laws.

Every magic spell can be seen as a glimpse into the mysteries of a certain law in a certain system of magic.

At the age of sixteen, Locke finally completed the complete analysis of the "Water Mist" magic spell. Through the "Water Mist", he came into contact with a hint of the mystery of the "Fog Hallucination" law.

After several years of research on other similar magics, Locke finally succeeded in comprehending a bit of the mystery of the "Mist Hallucination" law, and through this bit of the "Mist Hallucination" law he comprehended, he developed a trick called "Heavenly Dance Wheel".

It was precisely because Locke comprehended this bit of the mystery of the law that he was able to raise his mental power from level five to the peak of level six in just three years.

Now, the magic spell that Locke is studying is the advanced magic of water mist magic, the third-level magic "Illusion Magic".

Unlike the water mist spell which can only block the enemy's vision by creating fog, the third-level magic "maze spell" can not only block the enemy's vision, but also affect the enemy's sense of direction to a certain extent.

If a person is trapped in a "maze", if he is unlucky, he may keep circling in the range of the maze because his sense of direction is affected until he starves to death.

Because he understood a little about the mystery of the "illusion of fog", Locke was able to study the "magic of illusion" very smoothly.

Almost every day, Locke can feel his progress.

Locke was fascinated by this feeling.

Finally, four months later, Locke's mental power underwent a qualitative change in a state of "harmony between man and nature" and broke through to level seven.

After his mental power reached level seven, Locke's deepest feeling was that in the state of "harmony between man and nature", he could more clearly sense the mysteries of the laws he had comprehended.

Moreover, vaguely, through the superficial understanding of the mysteries of the laws that he had comprehended, he also had a vague sense of the vast and boundless mysteries of the laws.

If Locke had a superb understanding, he could use the little bit of mysteries of the law that he had comprehended as a basis to comprehend more and stronger mysteries of the law. In addition, after his mental power reached the seventh level, Locke made greater progress in analyzing the magic of "Illusion".

Finally, two months later, Locke completely completed his analysis of the "maze technique" and came into contact with more mysteries of the "fog illusion" law.

After Locke fully comprehended the mystery of the "illusion of fog" law related to the "magic of illusion", Locke felt that he was mobilizing the "power of heaven and earth" in the state of "harmony between man and nature", and the amplification effect was twice as strong as before.

For example, if Locke had understood the profound laws of the "Mist Illusion" to the same level as he does now when fighting with the seventh-level knight of the Temple of Light, killing that knight would not be so difficult.

One "Water Dragon Roar" was enough to kill the seventh-level knight.

In the past two months, Locke has been comprehending the mysterious law of "illusion of fog" in the "magic of illusion", and has also completed the liquefaction of his magic power.

In other words, Locke, who is 24 years old this year, has successfully been promoted to a seventh-level great magician.

After coming out of seclusion, Locke inquired about the Fifth Legion, but there was still no news of its reorganization.

According to the Frost Empire's management of the army, if a defeated legion is not reorganized within a year, it means that the legion has been abandoned by the empire.

At this time, the people in the legion have two choices.

The first is to choose to join the other four legions, continue to fight for the Frost and Snow Empire, and use merits to exchange for resources for training.

The second option is to stop joining the army and practice on your own as an individual.

However, even if they are individual soldiers, if they encounter emergency conscription by the empire, they will need to join the army and continue to serve the empire.

It has been seven months since the Fifth Legion was defeated. If the Fifth Legion does not announce its reorganization, Locke will be free again after waiting for another five months.

No, it doesn't take five months, it only takes three months to be sure.

Because reorganizing the legion also requires time to prepare.

Especially the legions with imperial numbers are of paramount importance.

Because this is different from the army used by those nobles to defend their own territories. This is the army used by the Frost Empire to resist the invasion of the Temple of Light, and even counterattack the Temple of Light and expel the Temple of Light from the Wakanda plane.

In order not to violate the laws of the Frost and Snow Empire and become a wanted criminal, Locke stayed in Bidiya for another three months.

After confirming that there was no news about the reorganization of the Fifth Legion, Locke put away the medal representing his identity as a military magician of the Fifth Legion and left the house.

From now on, he is free!
Although after becoming a free man, Locke can no longer obtain more training resources from the Frost and Snow Empire.

But now that Locke’s strength has reached his current level, he no longer lacks any resources.

With the profound laws that Locke has comprehended now, it is enough for him to be promoted directly to the Holy Realm after reaching the peak of the ninth level.

Cultivation resources are not very useful to Locke.

What Locke lacks now is time to practice!
As long as Locke has enough time to practice, he will be 100% able to cultivate to the holy realm and enjoy endless life.

Moreover, this time will not be very long.

(End of this chapter)