Chapter 405: Finally Success

Looking at Aleias’s perfect figure, Ace dissipated the distracting thoughts of worry about the Warlock path from his mind and shook his head somewhat helplessly.

“Even I myself am only a Level 2 Life. Worrying now about how to reach the level of a Demigod is thinking a bit too far ahead.”

Aleias had already resonated specially with Ace’s mental imagery dream world. In other words, she had entered a state of soul resonance with Ace. In this special state, True Spirit Ace could adopt a state similar to a Deity descending upon a blood descendant, controlling her body and soul.

The bloodline power cheered, seeming excited for a path similar to that of an Artisan. Ace felt this mass of bloodline power within Aleias and singled out the important part: forging.

Other authorities were diminishing while the authority of forging was constantly strengthening, finally taking the form of a small, exquisite, blood-colored hammer.

True Spirit Ace reached out to the sky. From the sky densely covered with weapon phantoms, a colorful Dream Stone slowly descended. Ace pressed this Dream Stone into the blood-colored hammer and calcined it with Heart Fire. In no time, a crystal-clear crystal hammer was born.

Aleias’s resonance state with Ace’s dream world ended. She regained her consciousness, caught the falling crystal hammer, and asked softly, “What is this?”

True Spirit Ace replied, “This is a Natal Artifact forged from your bloodline essence and the Dream Stone interwoven through resonance with me. I originally intended to choose forgery for you, but you chose creation yourself. Therefore, I respect your choice. The ability of this hammer is ‘Wonder Creation’.”

Aleias tightly grasped this translucent, small crystal hammer and slowly poured mana into it. Dense rune structures emerged within the crystal hammer.

“As long as I have materials, I can re-forge my wonders!”

At this moment, Aleias felt her vitality return, full of confidence.

True Spirit Ace glanced at Aleias. A shadow surged beneath his feet, surprisingly standing up and turning into a new “Ace.”

The new “Ace” walked up to the bewildered Aleias and said, “I am a clone. Your basic magic knowledge is really too poor. From now on, I will specifically tutor you in your studies. Let’s start with a set of exercises.”

With that, Aleias was dragged by the clone to the villa by the Lake of Mana to enjoy the “pleasure” of learning.

True Spirit Ace nodded with satisfaction. Just making Aleias revere him wasn’t enough; he had to completely change her ideology, way of thinking, and knowledge structure for her to become a trustworthy subordinate.

True Spirit Ace adjusted his state and slowly withdrew the dense weapon phantoms from the sky of the mental imagery dream world. He extended his left hand. The earth shook, and a simple and unadorned iron hammer flew out from underground.

True Spirit Ace held this hammer and simultaneously activated the Eye of Truth and Dream Manifestation. The resonance from the soul level made him tremble all over. Ace gained the trust of the “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal” using a Golden Spell similar to the Level 2 Artisan Bloodline.

Following the method Aleias taught him, he slowly covered the core of the “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal” with his own mental core. This was a meticulous project; it took Ace five days to completely master the “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal.”

Gripping this “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal” tightly, Ace’s Golden Spell Eye of Truth and Dream Manifestation ability received a fundamental enhancement, surprisingly reaching the efficacy of a Level 3 Legend within a short time.

At the same time, Ace’s mana was also being consumed greatly. The mana in the brilliant Lake of Mana was decreasing rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

No matter how useful this Quasi-Noble Phantasm was, it couldn’t change the flaw of immense mana consumption.

Ace wasted no more time. He summoned the severed finger of the legendary skeletal giant dragon and the sealed dragon breath. Holding the “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal,” he struck that section of severed bone finger forcefully.

The bone finger made creaking sounds, and cracks actually appeared. With every strike, some runes would flash.

Ace gradually mastered the rhythm. He controlled the frequency, pushing the Eye of Truth to its limit, observing and recording runes related to death and undeath.

The strongest effect of the “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal” was creating Pseudo-Noble Phantasms. The essence of a Pseudo-Noble Phantasm was still a Golden Wonder, which obtained authority close to a real Noble Phantasm through certain special forms.

Ace didn’t exert subjective initiative. He obeyed the authority of the “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal,” fully unleashing its power to slowly deconstruct the bone finger.

If it were a structurally complete Quasi-Noble Phantasm, such striking wouldn’t shatter it. But the bone finger was just a severed section; it didn’t have a complete structure itself, nor was it a Quasi-Noble Phantasm, merely a part of a Level 3 existence.

So, shattering it wasn’t impossible. Ace didn’t feel heartache over the shattering of the bone finger; he had already obtained the relevant golden runes. He copied them into the Root Runes and turned to observe the dragon breath on the other side.

The bone finger contained runes related to undeath, while that dragon breath contained destruction and death—tyrannical negative energy.

True Spirit Ace held the “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal” and struck this dragon breath forcefully. The seal disintegrated almost instantly. The dragon breath exploded and spread. While using Blink Teleportation to dodge the damage of the dragon breath, Ace continued his movements despite getting injured. The “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal” repeatedly struck every dispersed piece of dragon breath.

The Glazed Heart Fire also changed abruptly, turning into a scorching cloud of fire that completely swallowed the dragon breath.

Runes related to death and negative energy appeared one by one. The Eye of Truth in Ace’s eyes operated to the limit, capturing and degrading all the runes. Golden runes fell one by one into the sea of Root Runes deep in the mental imagery dream world, splashing ripples.

Ace held the “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal” high. He had finished deconstructing the runes. His entire True Spirit sank directly to the bottom layer of the mental imagery dream world.

The sea of Root Runes, vast as the starry sky, twinkled like a heavenly river. Above this was the pyramid of runes composed of spell models.

This magnificent rune tower was like a bright moon at the core of the sea of Root Runes. True Spirit Ace put down the “Hammer of the Pseudo-Vassal” and raised both hands high. Golden runes related to death, undeath, negative energy, etc., were copied from the sea of Root Runes, lingering around him.

The rune structure of the Six-Element Ring emerged behind Ace. The Death Element series of runes at the very bottom was compressed out of shape.

He controlled the relevant golden runes to replace and modify the Six-Element Ring bit by bit. The bottom of the Six-Element Ring constantly dispersed and aggregated. Mana was violently disturbed, and the rune structure constantly crumbled and reorganized. Golden-red light permeated bit by bit, and the precarious structure of the element ring gradually tended towards stability.

Finally, Ace embedded the last golden rune related to negative energy into it. The entire Six-Element Ring was dyed with a layer of pale gold, gold on the outside and red on the inside, flashing continuously.

After a few breaths, the light of the Six-Element Ring gradually restrained itself, turning into pure lights of Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Death, and Life—six elements shining in mutual brilliance.

The spell model became smaller and smaller, landing in Ace’s hand. He gently embedded it into the top of the rune pyramid.

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