Wizard, I have a game board.

Chapter 290 Next Step: Breaking Through the Sixth Ring
"Boom boom boom——"

A short while later, a knock came from outside the study.

Lor waved his hand, releasing a bit of blue-black spacetime elemental power to obscure the scroll of the River of Time opposite the desk.

To prevent the little one from looking at it randomly and getting tormented by this thing.

After he was ready, he said softly, "Come in."

"Yes." The study door was pushed open, and a slightly thin, middle-aged third-ring wizard appeared from behind the door. Upon seeing Lor sitting behind the desk, he bowed respectfully and said, "Greetings, great Speaker Lor."

Legend has it that Speaker Lor is the most mysterious and powerful speaker in the Wizarding Alliance.

Before he was born, the Wizarding Alliance was attacked by a powerful civilization.

It was only thanks to Speaker Lor's heroic efforts in taking away the leader of that powerful civilization that the Wizard Alliance was able to resist their invasion.

He accepted the mission without even checking the reward when he saw the name of the person who issued it after the emergency mission suddenly appeared.

He knew that if he delayed even a moment, the mission could be snatched away by other soul wizards.

To be able to see this extremely mysterious and powerful Speaker in person is something that countless wizards dream of.

"Yes." Lor nodded with a gentle smile and reiterated, "Come in."

"Yes." The middle-aged soul wizard straightened up, stepped into the study, gently closed the door, and walked towards Lor as if on a pilgrimage.

However, after stopping at the desk, he suddenly heard a command that left him bewildered.

“Attack me with all your might using third-circle soul magic,” Lor whispered.

"Huh?" The middle-aged soul wizard involuntarily raised his head slightly, looking directly into Lor's eyes, extremely doubting whether he had misheard.

Attack Speaker Lorre?

This, this, this.
“This is the experiment you need to cooperate with me on.” Lor nodded, giving an affirmative answer.

"As you command." The middle-aged soul wizard stammered, raising his hand shakily, and a thin silver-gray line shot out from his palm.

He didn't understand why Speaker Lor had allowed him to attack without taking any precautions.

Although he was only at the third ring level and could not cause any harm to Speaker Lor's powerful soul, the very act of launching an attack on Speaker Lor made him tremble and hesitate.

But in the next instant, all his hesitation vanished, replaced by a profound shock that reached his very soul.

Because he saw that the soul attack he had just launched suddenly disappeared without a trace, failing to reach Speaker Lor across the desk.

But how could that be possible?
Soul attacks should be impossible to transfer or defend against in any form!
He had sparred with those third-ring space wizards before, and when they encountered him, they could only rely on space jumps to gain the upper hand and defeat him with long-range attacks.

If those guys dare to appear within his attack range, he'll beat them senseless.

What he was seeing at that moment completely overturned his previous understanding.

"Your mission is complete. Go and collect your reward," Lor said with a satisfied smile.

The results of the experiment did not surprise him; the 'any attack' mentioned on the game panel did indeed include soul attacks.

Just now, after the little guy released his soul attack, it was completely absorbed by the illusory image of the boundary wall surrounding him, without even causing the slightest ripple.

"Yes, yes." The middle-aged wizard responded subconsciously and walked out of the study in a daze.

"I wonder what Domenico's expression will be when he finds out about this?" Lor watched the middle-aged soul wizard walk out the door, a slight smile curving his lips.

He avoided that guy for many years after he became a member of the Fifth Ring.

Although Domenico always looked helpless, he knew that the guy was secretly very pleased.

The dignified Speaker Lor could even restrain the Silver Wolf, who possessed a seventh-tier trump card, yet he still had to avoid Domenico. How could he not be smug?
But starting today, everything has changed.

He, Lor, is fearless!

"Perhaps I should host a banquet and invite him over?"

A sudden thought of triumph popped into Lor's mind, but then he shook his head with some regret, "Never mind, inviting that guy separately would be too targeted."

"Inviting all the speakers would delay their reflection of the original container, so it's really unnecessary. Let's just let things take their natural course."

To finally get his head held high was just a small wish in his heart, which wouldn't matter under normal circumstances, but interrupting the other speakers' cultivation for this at this crucial time was obviously going too far.

Just like how, even though the energy furnace has developed to the sixth level, none of the floating cities that once stood in various parts of the Wizarding Plane have appeared now.

Nowadays, anything related to viewing or enjoying is irrelevant to the wizarding civilization.

Every talented wizard is doing their utmost, whether it's training or research, just to make their own contribution in the future trial battles.

"Hmm, I should fill the Origin Container and then find the point of convergence between the Origin Container and the Space-Time Domain to advance to the sixth ring." Lor closed his eyes slightly, his mental power sank into his sea of ​​consciousness, crossed the Space-Time Domain, and entered the Space-Time Origin Container.

At this moment, inside the spacetime origin container, in addition to the pitch-black space origin, there was also a touch of azure time origin.

These temporal origins were not retrieved from the Sea of ​​Origin, but rather slowly transformed from a portion of the spatial origin by the spacetime origin container.

Besides his original form, his elemental form is also slowly changing. His originally pure black elemental form is gradually gaining some strange azure blue patterns.

These azure patterns and the jet-black elements look perfectly matched, as if they were meant to be one.

After observing the changes occurring within the Origin Container, Lor directly entered the Origin Sea through the Origin Sea channel within the Origin Container, and day after day, he retrieved the Origin of Space and the Origin of Time, which had only recently emerged and was somewhat sparse.

Although the original container can automatically convert some of the spatial original into the temporal original, it is rather slow. He would naturally not miss the opportunity to obtain the temporal original.

On the other hand, the middle-aged soul wizard who returned to the Soul Wizard Tower did not speak of what he had seen, but remained silent.

Because while Speaker Lor did not forbid him from revealing the information, he also did not allow it.

December 18, 6377 in the Wizarding Calendar.

In the Dean's Laboratory at the Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, Milton Continent.

"Gurgle—gurgle—"

Wearing a green second-ring wizard's robe, Uri, who now looked like a young man, dripped a drop of dark black liquid into a potion bottle that floated in the air in front of him, causing the dark blue potion inside to boil and churn.

As time passed, the originally dark blue potion gradually turned pitch black.

After one hour.

When the potion stopped boiling, Uri grabbed it and walked towards a corner of the laboratory where the mice were kept in cages.

In the southern part of the laboratory, Rosa, who was sitting behind a desk flipping through a parchment scroll, paused her work and looked at her student with great anticipation. After nearly four hundred years of effort, her student had used a unique method to raise the limit of the apprentice's mental strength breakthrough potion from 3% to 4%.

This progress is remarkably fast compared to the previous research process, which was almost at a standstill.

If this experiment is also successful, her students may even have the opportunity to raise the upper limit of the apprentice's mental strength to 15% within three thousand years, exceeding the limit of the potion.

At that time, everyone in the Wizarding League will be able to obtain a new apprentice wizarding position.

A corner of the laboratory where white mice are kept.

"Squeaky-"

As Uri approached, the mice screamed in panic, even those at the third level of life.

There was nothing they could do; the cages that confined them not only trapped their bodies but also restricted their strength.
Even when facing Uli, who was only at the second ring level, they still had no power to resist.

"Snapped--"

Uli snapped his fingers, and all the mice's shrill cries disappeared, replaced by bewildered looks at him.

This means the soul contract has taken effect, and the mice have temporarily lost their previous memories.

"Hmm, you're the one." Uli looked around and finally chose a mouse that was relatively robust compared to the other apprentice-level mice. He opened the cage and poured the black potion into its mouth.

He then activated his full senses, carefully sensing the changes in the white mouse's mental energy.

The white mouse's mental strength instantly broke through the limit of the apprentice level and climbed 1% upward.

One minute later, its mental strength climbed to 102%.
Two minutes later, 103%
Three minutes later, the mouse's mental strength successfully climbed to 104%. Uli's breathing suddenly slowed down, and he looked at it with a tense expression.

If its mental strength increases by another 1%, it will mean that its research has been successful.

Even if there are side effects afterward, it's fine. While other pharmacists at the Pharmaceutical Research Institute may not be able to expand the limits of their mental power to break through the limits of the potions, they are quite adept at eliminating side effects, so he doesn't need to worry about it much.

"Squeaky-"

Another minute passed, and the white mouse hissed weakly, its body covered with strange black lines, looking like it was half dead.

However, its mental strength did not stop growing; instead, it climbed upwards by 1% with great determination.

"boom--"

The next instant, its body exploded, and its dark limbs and blood flew everywhere.

However, just as these severed limbs and blood were about to fly out of the cage, they were stopped by a pale green light shield.

The other mice watching this scene were terrified, each huddled in a corner of their cage, trembling and not daring to make a sound.

"Haha, mentor, I succeeded again!" Uli ignored the other mice and immediately turned to Rosa, who was sitting behind a desk in the distance, to report the good news.

"Hmm, not bad." Rosa forcibly suppressed her joy, a faint smile appearing on her face, as if all of this was within her expectations.

"Mentor, to what extent do you think I need to expand the apprentice's mental strength limit breakthrough potion to obtain the honorary councilor badge?" Uli blinked and asked with slight hesitation.

He had wanted to ask about this for a long time, but since he wasn't sure if he could continue doing so after breaking through the limit for the first time, he was too embarrassed to ask.

But now that he has broken through the limit for the second time, increasing the expansion limit of the apprentice's mental strength limit-breaking potion from 3% to 5%, he feels it's time to ask.

He needs a specific number to have a better understanding of the situation.

"Well, if you can raise the cap to 10%, you'll definitely get the Honorary Councilor badge."

Rosa pondered for a moment and then said deceptively, "If it only reaches 8%, I'm 50% confident I can get you an honorary councilor badge."

"As for lower, the chances of getting an honorary member's badge will gradually decrease."

In fact, as long as Uli increases the apprentice's mental strength limit to 6% beyond the potion's expansion limit, she is fully confident that she can apply for the honorary councilor badge for him.

But this thing is obviously a huge motivation for Uli. We applied for it for him early on, in case he slacks off.
Therefore, she decided to delay a bit. Unless Uli's experimental progress or cultivation progress stagnates and it is confirmed that he cannot break through to the fourth ring on his own, there is no need to rush.

"Is that so?" Uli nodded thoughtfully, then asked hopefully, "Mentor, can I also have that person put the honorary councilor badge on me then?"

He is now very confident that he can increase the upper limit of his apprentice's mental power to 10% within a thousand years, breaking through the potion's expansion limit, and obtaining the honorary councilor badge is practically a certainty.

Therefore, his focus naturally shifted from receiving the honorary member badge to requesting which speaker would wear the honorary member badge on him.

"That depends on whether that person is available," Rosa said helplessly, spreading her hands.

If possible, she would naturally like to grant the student's request directly, since this would also boost Uli's motivation.

But no one in the entire Wizarding Alliance could change that person's will. At most, she could send a message, but she couldn't make any guarantees at all.

"I see." Uli glanced at the badge on Rosa's collar, looking slightly disappointed.

What an honor it is to have Speaker Lorre personally pin the honorary member badge on him!
Throughout the entire Wizarding Alliance, apart from the mentor, there has never been another honorary councilor to receive this honor, because that person is always immersed in cultivation and almost always misses the time for awarding honorary councilors.

He naturally wanted to follow in his mentor's footsteps and obtain that glory that countless wizards could only dream of, but now it seemed that the chances were slim.

This is undoubtedly a very regrettable thing.

“However, I can be sure of one thing.” Seeing this, Rosa immediately reassured her, “The more you raise your limits, the greater the chance that I can get that person to help me.”

If she can't guarantee it, can't she at least make empty promises?

On the other hand, if Uri decides to raise the potion expansion cap to 15% before applying for the honorary councilor badge, she is indeed very confident that she can invite that person.

After all, a 15% expansion cap would give all wizards an extra spell slot, a contribution no less than the mental power limit breakthrough potion she created.

"Okay, I will do my best." Wu nodded vigorously, his expression becoming firm again.

Rosa's smile widened as she watched with satisfaction as her student excitedly ran to the lab bench to continue fiddling with the reagents.

She secretly decided that as long as Uri increased the potion's upper limit to 10%, she would send a request message to Speaker Lor.

Whether it works or not, we should at least give it a try.

December 2, 6457 in the Wizarding Calendar.

On the continent of Betura, at the top floor of the Lor Wizard Tower, in the study.

"Finally, it's full." Lor looked at the Spacetime Origin Container, which was completely filled with the Origin of Spacetime, and breathed a sigh of relief. "Next step: find the point of convergence between the Origin Container and the Domain, and break through to the sixth ring!"

(End of this chapter)