You are all my wings...

As soon as he entered, the familiar Bisji pounced on him, hugged Leon, and prepared to kiss him wildly. Leon slapped him and pinned him against the wall, his limbs flailing wildly like a turtle flipping over.

Bisci is a third-order wandering spirit, but due to the familiar contract, she can be easily suppressed by Leon.

"Wow, wow, wow, you're already this cruel after just meeting? Not even a kiss?"

"At least change that lewd expression first."

"How could I be so lewd! In my lifetime, countless priests and knights secretly flirted with me, but I was devoted to cultivation, sacred and pure, and would never deign to pay them any attention!"

"You said it was before death, but the difference between life and death is huge."

"Sigh, I never thought that all my hard work for you would end up being despised. Sure enough, men only use sweet words and endless tenderness before they get a woman's body. Once the novelty wears off, all the vows, the moments of excitement, and the beautiful life are all fake, fake!"

Pfft, Leon couldn't help but laugh:

"What nonsense! You just lost a bet with me and were forced to sell yourself to me."

"Tch, you can't even say it?"

Bisquie broke free from that theatrical pretense.

"Do you know that some things, if you say them too much, become true?"

"Wow, that's not what I thought."

"You better be."

After closing the door, Leon took out the mystery book box.

“Bishge, look at this Astalia cult's secret text. Can you decipher it?”

Bisji flew over, bringing her face close to the book box, observing it closely.

"It seems like it's possible, but it also seems like it's not."

"This ambiguous statement... let me briefly explain the difficulty."

"The difficulty is that I recognize each individual cipher, but when they are combined, it's hard to figure out how to decipher them."

Leon's initial contract with Bisquie was indeed for this day, and he knew she would be able to unravel it.

I didn't expect this lecherous woman to mess up at this crucial moment. It seems I need to provoke her a bit.

"Didn't you say you focused on cultivation during your lifetime? You're only at the top five levels, yet your esoteric knowledge isn't up to par?"

"Although I don't want to admit it, that's really the case."

"It seems I have to admit that I miscalculated."

"What did you miscalculate?"

"The miscalculation was that you were so useless in the first five ranks. Perhaps we should have replaced you with a more capable contracted familiar in the first place."

"Hmph! I'm angry!"

"If you can decipher this secret, I'll let you be angry, and I'll even help you acquire magical items to enhance your soul power."

"Really?"

"Hurry up, stop talking nonsense. Since we don't know how to solve it, we'll test it over and over until we do."

"okay."

Bisji huddled around the box of secret books, studying it with great enthusiasm.

She infused her magic and attempted a solution.

A magical glow, flashing and twinkling.

Leon began clearing out clutter and mail from his home, preparing items and magic arrays for the ascension ceremony.

The secret book box works on a similar principle to a combination lock. The combinations of secret texts are limited, so even if Bisji is unskilled, she shouldn't be unable to unlock it.

Most of the letters were work-related from the Royal Magicians' Guild. Since he had already taken leave, he planned to ignore them for now and read them after completing his promotion.

"Huh? A private letter from a Holy Maiden of the Vatican?"

Opening the mailbox, a large pile of letters fell to the ground.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out that there was a whole stack of letters signed by Burelita.

Lyon remembered that the Holy Maiden of the Church had previously recruited him as her advisor and given him a week to consider it.

He intended to reply later, but entering the underground city unexpectedly delayed him by two weeks.

"Greetings, Your Excellency Leon Belon. I am Birelita von Hesitia, the Third Saint of the Astalia Church. Half of the week has passed since our last inquiry. What has your decision been?"

This is the first one.

“Your Excellency Lyon Belon, four days have passed in a week. Although I have other options, I also greatly admire your talent and cannot bear to consider anything else. If you have a definite answer, I will pay you a visit immediately.”

This is the second letter.

"It's been six days, why hasn't His Excellency Lyon replied yet?"

The third letter.

"So you went to explore the dungeon. Well, we'll talk about it when you get back."

The fourth letter... Could this guy have sent someone to inquire with the magicians' guild?

A terrifying woman, like a stalker.

"Your Excellency Lyon..."

Lyon was too lazy to look through the rest of the letters. There were ten in total, all of them urging and greetings. The writing was elegant, and the wording sometimes carried a hint of temper.

I never expected that Brillita, a saint, would be so willing to put aside her pride and send me a relentless, daily email.

If she lived in Lyon's previous life, she could probably make more than a dozen deadly phone calls in an hour.

The letters were not only written by him personally, but the wording also seemed to inexplicably treat Lyon as an outsider.

Logically speaking, someone in her position should be very careful about the wording and content of her external correspondence, right?

Could it be that she encountered some kind of trouble?

Or does she actually have some hidden fetish?

Well, I still have plenty of time for the Berylita side quest anyway, so I'll focus on my own tasks first and think about the others later.

Leon tossed the letter aside and began setting up the magic circle for the promotion and class change ceremony.

The auxiliary materials were inexpensive, costing only 14 gold coins.

Of course, "not expensive" is relative.

This amount is enough for an average person to live on for half a lifetime.

It can only be said that anything involving the extraordinary will experience rapid inflation.

He hasn't spent the money to upgrade his equipment for the next exploration yet. He plans to wait until he meets the guild's mage, and if the mage's skills are good, he can ask him to upgrade other equipment as well. This way, he can save some money and use it for other crucial occasions.

The core material for this ceremony is, of course, the elemental magic ring from the secret book box.

This thing's inherent elemental balancing properties are also useful later in the story.

Learning opportunities for advancement in conventional professions are not difficult to find.

However, the ritual knowledge of rare professions falls into the category of secret knowledge and can only be obtained by entering specific factions.

Fortunately, Leon had experience from his previous life, so the knowledge of the first few stages of the ritual was not complicated, and he remembered them all.

Once he reached the fifth or sixth level, the rituals became extremely complex. He hadn't made a point of memorizing them while playing the game, and he would need to rely on the knowledge of certain powerful figures in the future.

Because it was simple, he completed the setup in just over an hour.

A common six-pointed star array, with magical items that can activate elemental magic effects placed at each corner.

There are two empty spaces in the formation; one is for an Ascendant, and the other is for placing an Elemental Magic Ring.

The edges of the array's vertical and horizontal lines are inscribed with mysterious characters written in the blood of the Minotaur.

The Minotaur possesses full resistance to magic, and its blood is perfectly suited as writing material for the mysterious script.

"Bishji, how's the progress on the puzzle?"

"I've tested dozens of arrangements, and I should be able to figure it out after another half of them."

Bored while waiting, Leon simply took out the Ice Slowing Horn and began to meditate, trying to resonate with the magical imagery of the Ice Slowing Magic in order to grasp its essence.

The cool, frictiony sensation made his meditation feel exceptionally relaxed and comfortable.

He seemed to have dived deep into the depths of his soul.

The mental fatigue from the continuous activities over the past ten days with only a little sleep was immediately relieved.

Without realizing it, he entered a state of deep meditation.

Breathing becomes barely perceptible.

This is extremely rare.

It is a meditative state that magicians dream of.

Even Leon, a master of various magical imagery, had never been able to enter a deep meditative state during meditation practice before.

By being in this deep meditation for a long time, one's understanding, cognition, control, and overall level of magical imagery will naturally and continuously improve, and there will be few bottlenecks.

Conversely, once one's mastery of various magical imagery reaches a certain level, it becomes easier to enter into deep meditation.

The two complement each other.

After five years of accumulating magical imagery, and the two weeks of exploration in the dungeon, numerous battles, overcoming crises, suppressing powerful enemies, applying magic, summoning magical power in combat skills, the relaxation of returning home, and the stimulation of the icy unicorn, he unknowingly touched upon this strange meditative state.

……

Two hours later.

"Phew, it's finally solved."

Bisji looked on with an expression of utter exhaustion as she stared at the slowly opening secret book box in front of her.

The elemental magic ring and a file lay quietly inside the book box.

"What's Lyon doing?"

It was only then that she noticed that Leon was setting up a magic circle in the living room.

"Deep meditation? This kid seems to have gained quite a bit from this dungeon exploration. Sigh, it's really frustrating to compare yourself to others... Wait, I'm already a ghost."

Bisji is sour.

She was a priestess in her previous life, a profession that involved casting spells, and she was also blessed by the gods, making it a pretty good profession among spellcasters.

In the realm of magic, he also has his own unique insights.

"By the way, speaking of which, Leon hasn't asked about Hamra yet, has he? I wonder what kind of reward he'll give me. It has to be ten times better than the cemetery package! Otherwise, I'll lick his face until he calls me 'Mom'!"

Bisji realized that she had found Hamra's trail.

"Huh, this file."

She took out the secret files of the Astalia cult from the book box.

"Bishji, don't look around, the consequences will be very serious."

Bisci turned her head and found that Leon had broken out of his meditative state, and his golden pupils seemed to emit a mysterious light in the darkness.

"So handsome... Oh wait, when did you come out of deep meditation?"

"Before you open the secret book box."

"That's not right, I just saw you were still in that state."

"You'll understand when you can enter deep meditation... Oh, sorry, I forgot you're a ghost and can't meditate anymore."

"I'm angry!"

Chapter 44 Promotion and Job Change

Leon took out the Elemental Ring and placed it in his palm.

This thing is a naturally formed ring-shaped object with a deep color and a surface texture similar to glass. Through the surface medium, you can see that there are subtle magical lights flowing silently inside from time to time, which is quite like the starry sky on a cloudy day.