It was rare to find a place where one could clearly perceive the force of the earth, and he certainly didn’t want to rush back thousands of miles only to return after finding the time.
Ivan pondered for a moment and came up with an idea.
He sensed the force field around him, step by step, he arrived at the spot where gravity was most disordered, before activating the communication mark in the identity token.
“Ivan—-have—have something—quick—-“
“What are you saying? Please repeat that. Sorry, Sorceress Mauline, I am currently trapped in a dangerous place, the mark is severely disrupted, and I can’t break free for the time being. I will contact you once I’m out,” he replied earnestly, then cut off the communication between them, allowing the mark to quiet down.
You can’t blame yourself for poor signal.
“You two, stand guard outside for me,” Ivan instructed as he turned around.
“Just me standing guard is enough,” the old spider said quietly.
“Shut up. What the sorcerer says goes. Disobey, and I’ll chop you,” the Silkworm Queen wouldn’t indulge it, spitting out a burst of green light, shaving off a layer of white fluff from the top of its head.
“I’ll listen, definitely listen.”
With a slight pain atop its head, the old spider hurriedly cast aside other thoughts and carried the Silkworm Queen out of the cave, then dutifully stood guard outside.
Ivan moved to another deep well cave, right above which was the peculiar stalactite pillar that still trembled with the force erupting from within the deep well.
Afterwards, his perception fell upon the stalactite pillar, carefully comprehending the vibrations on it, trying to find a pattern in the vibrations, to discover the secrets of the earth’s force transmission.
His Knight’s Path cultivation had now reached the pinnacle of a Great Knight, with only one threshold away from becoming an Earth Knight, for which comprehending the ‘Earth Breathing’ was necessary.
The so-called ‘Earth Breathing’ is actually the rhythm and pulse of the earth, a way of transmitting force.
After comprehension, it’s necessary to connect the Life Seed with the rhythm of the earth, so that Combat Energy can attract strands of force from the earth, which causes the Combat Energy to undergo another change. This is also the origin of the name ‘Earth Knight.’
Compared to the vague forces near Descending Clouds City, the force of the earth here was not only more direct and genuine but further manifested through the vibration of the stalactite pillar, no doubt a treasure spot for comprehending the Earth Breathing.
Ivan had a strong premonition that this time he would definitely become an Earth Knight.
While he was engaged in comprehending Earth Breathing, someone in the Mongna Ant Land Cottage thousands of miles away was already showing a darker complexion due to his absence.
“How audacious, this Sorcerer Ivan is becoming more and more presumptuous, increasingly disregarding the academy’s rules,” Mauline noted as the severed communication darkened her eyes with a shade of annoyance.
Such tricks couldn’t deceive her. He was simply making excuses not to contact her, thereby evading the duties of the academy, clearly not taking the rules of the academy and the dignity of the Lidia family to heart.
Mauline slightly adjusted her emotions and pushed open the door to the office of the Deputy Dean Teresa.
There were other guests in the office at the moment, two sorcerers from other influential sorcerer families, who also hailed from the Rapid Flow Twin Towers Academy, which, like Mongna Ant Land Cottage, was a part of the Flash Vortex Academy Alliance.
Mauline whispered something to Teresa.
“Sorry, gentlemen, Sorcerer Ivan is currently on an important mission and can’t spare any time. Instead, let me recommend other Enchanters for you, I assure you their Enchantment skills are no less than Sorcerer Ivan,” Teresa said with an unchanging expression, addressing the visitors in the office.
“Deputy Dean Lidia, might we contact Sorcerer Ivan first? We would like to discuss with him personally about repairing the runes sorcery array, which I believe he would find interesting,” one of the sorcerers, named ‘Dorando,’ replied. Then he turned to the sorcerer beside him and said, “It’s a very intriguing, worthwhile sorcery array to explore, don’t you agree, Sorcerer Pense?”
“Right,” Pense paused for a moment, grudgingly nodded his head.
This Sorcerer Dorando was not to be taken lightly. Teresa didn’t want to send him away, but the person she needed to contact was unreachable, which was more than a little irritating to her.
“How about this, the two of you could stay in Mongna Ant Land Cottage for a few more days, and when Sorcerer Ivan is a little less busy, I’ll have him talk with you, how does that sound?”
“I’m not accustomed to waiting for people,” Dorando said.
Hearing this, Teresa’s expression stiffened. She had not expected such a remark and felt even more annoyed.
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“Cough cough, then we’ll stay for a few more days and enjoy the scenery of Mongna Ant Land Cottage. We’ll wait for Sorcerer Ivan to get in touch when he can spare the time, hopefully soon,” Pense quickly intervened, not being someone who was inexperienced, he spoke up to smoothen things over as soon as he sensed trouble.
Dorando also realized that this was not the Rapid Flow Twin Towers Academy and that the Lidia family was no minor clan. As eager as he was, he couldn’t afford to be too presumptuous.
Afterward, Pense pulled Dorando away.
Once the two had left the office, Teresa’s face instantly grew dark.
“Go find out. I want to know where Sorcerer Ivan went and what he did,” she commanded.
“Understood.”
Sorceress Mauline took the order and left.
These two had come in such a hurry, talking about repairing the runes sorcery array and specifically asking for Sorcerer Ivan, there must be something fishy going on.
…
Time flew by, and more than ten days passed.
In the caverns of Gunther’s Great Rift Valley, the power of the earth was once again transmitted from the depths of the well, filling the subterranean cavern with special forces and causing a peculiar stalactite pillar to tremble.
“It’s time,” Ivan said as he looked at the nearby stalactite pillar, his eyes flashing with a unique rhythm.
After all these days of comprehension, he was just a whisker away from truly understanding Earth Breathing. He couldn’t break through the final barrier and didn’t want to wait any longer, so he decisively used a level 6 Light of Wisdom.
Minutes later, the power from the depths began to recede swiftly, and the stalactite pillar gradually ceased its vibrations.
At that moment, however, Ivan firmly grasped the opportunity, pulling a strange power from deep within the earth into his body and into the Life Seed that was like a sphere of energy within him.
The entire Life Seed began to spin rapidly, absorbing combat energy from all over his body and the continuous, faint power.
“Drip!”
After an unknown amount of time, a drop of liquid combat energy finally formed.
Then came the second drop.
The third drop.
——
Until the whole Life Seed had turned to liquid, the combat energy spread once more over the surface of the heart and outwards. Compared to before, the quality of the combat energy had clearly risen a notch.
“The Earth Knight is made, the Knight’s Path has stepped into legend,” Ivan could feel the changes within himself. His body had become much stronger, and upon the Life Seed, alongside the blue halo, there was now an additional, faint yellow glow.
In addition, he had developed a wonderful connection with the earth beneath his feet through the Life Seed. He could hook into a faint power that was unrelated to Earth-type energy particles.
This belonged to the earth’s protection. With this power’s augmentation, his body’s recovery ability, stamina, strength, and defense were all enhanced.