You are all my wings...

Considering this, she refrained from speaking.

Castiga felt a vague unease, but she didn't know why, so she remained silent.

And so, Leon followed Terena's projected clone and flew into the sky.

Judging from the destination, it is most likely the third core point of the Holy Land, Shengtian Yunduan.

……

They remained silent the entire way.

Lyon was also unsure of Terena's current state, so he didn't say anything.

After flying to an altitude of tens of thousands of meters, a rift spontaneously opened in the void. Terena glanced back at Leon and then flew into it, with Leon following closely behind.

Upon entering this spacetime rift, Leon suddenly felt as if spacetime had been violently twisted, and then a vast sea of ​​clouds shimmering with rainbow light appeared before him.

As you get closer, a crystal-clear and beautiful ancient castle comes into view, appearing and disappearing in the distance.

This place is actually a kingdom in the clouds, with white clouds swirling around it, a clear lake like a mirror, and the air carrying a fresh scent of grass and trees, full of vitality.

Although this is a magical world, in Leon's view at this moment, it is not unreasonable to describe this area as a wonderland.

Terena flew all the way and then landed in the wide square in front of the castle.

The square was paved with large white porcelain-colored stone bricks, which were hard and engraved with various mysterious and profound characters. At a glance, Leon found that his spiritual power had increased, which was quite strange.

He was currently maintaining a state where he could stay for four or five hours or more, so his comprehension was still quite good. He quickly discovered that he could glean some knowledge from the inscriptions on these bricks, and that there were various types of inscriptions. To his surprise, he scanned the bricks everywhere with great eagerness.

"Oh? It seems your talent is higher than I expected."

As Therena turned around, she saw Leon scanning the stone bricks intently. A glint of approval flashed in her eyes.

"Since you are so gifted, we can now get straight to my research topic."

These stone bricks were a place she used specifically to test the intelligence and comprehension of the test subjects. If their comprehension was insufficient, they naturally could not participate in her more in-depth research experiments.

But Lyon before her had clearly exceeded her expectations once again.

"Silver-haired boy, what's your name?"

"Lyon Belron".

Leon initially intended to continue using "nameless," but considering Treina's current state, he decided to reveal her real name and said:

"For certain reasons, I would like to request that only Your Excellency know my name. Is that possible?"

Terena smiled slightly, her indifferent face softening before she said calmly, "Of course, let's begin our experiment."

She didn't lead Leon into the castle. With a casual wave of her hand, thousands of mysterious characters instantly condensed around Leon. Each mysterious character was like a fist-sized cube, yet it seemed to possess vitality, as if it were alive.

To Lyon, it was as if thousands of brightly colored birds of various colors were circling around, which was quite interesting.

"This is a spell I've been researching recently, called the [Mystic Life-Giving] technique. Its core is the convergence and derivation of the mysteries of the two great authorities, spirituality and concepts. As my test subject, your task is to select the ten characters from these thousands of living mystical characters that best match your life essence."

Terena said.

Lyon nodded: "And then what?"

"After making your selection, you need to quickly comprehend the knowledge contained within these ten mysterious characters, and then combine them with your highest talent to form a magical image that you believe represents the ultimate attack. Act quickly."

Terena said coldly:

"With your current talent, as long as you can comprehend and combine it into an attack spell comparable to a tenth-level spell within an hour, you will be considered to have passed my second test and be qualified to become my true test assistant."

Lyon blinked. "What would be the benefits of becoming Your Excellency's actual experimental assistant?"

"You're quite bold, but I don't mind your directness, because what I admire most are people who know how to make rational judgments and act. There are many benefits I can give you: magical knowledge, the secrets of authority, all kinds of treasures. As long as you can think of it, there's nothing I can't give you."

It's quite incongruous for Terena, who appears so childlike, to say such rational and generous things.

Stitches is also a utilitarian, but leans more towards self-interest.

From the perspective of prioritizing reason, Terena is more shrewd.

"Then I shall begin."

Lyon scanned the area, prioritizing the activation of Divine Mode and Vision Mode.

In just a moment, an astonishing scene unfolded: the mysterious, seemingly alive characters that Leon's gaze swept over suddenly shone brightly, as if they were stirring in response to his breath.

It wasn't the ten or so that Terena claimed, but thousands of them, all shimmering with divine light and constantly responding to Leon's breath.

Upon seeing this, even Terena was surprised:

'How come we resonate with each other so much?'

'These mysterious characters are imbued with my life force. According to previous experiments, even the highest number of responses from elves was generally no more than twenty or thirty. How could he respond so perfectly?'

'Could it be that there's some kind of special relationship between him and me that I'm unaware of?'

Chapter 527 Leon: I just find your serious demeanor quite charming.

Thinking of this, Terena frowned and looked at Leon with a hint of doubt and scrutiny in her eyes.

At this moment, Leon was also surprised. He scanned the area and found that all the thousands of mysterious characters were resonating with him, so he couldn't help but ask:

"Your Excellency, it seems I can choose not just ten, but all of them?"

Terena: "Even if you can resonate with a thousand, you can only use ten temporarily in the experiment. If you exceed that, your small body may not be able to withstand the burst."

She paused, as if pondering for a moment, and then said:

"However, since you have this special ability, perhaps you can try to pick a few more. Let's take it one step at a time. It's rare to find a test subject with such high potential as you. There's no need to rush. Let's take it one step at a time. Anyway, even if you can use a few more, you can't possibly control that many at once."

Although she was eager to explore why Leon could resonate with so many mysterious words, her long-standing rigorous habits prevented her from being too eager to undertake any leapfrog experimental steps.

Lyon said thoughtfully, "Your Excellency, I have never seen anything like these mysterious characters before. Are they all your own creations?"

Terena nodded: "That's right, they are all my own created mystical scripts. Afterwards, I will imbue them with life through the [Mystical Life-Giving] technique, so that these mystical scripts can possess the inherent power to naturally enhance magical imagery."

Lyon's eyes flickered slightly as he said, "So, the purpose of your experiment is actually to test whether these mysterious characters can continue to enhance the magical imagery when applied to other people in this way? And most people failed in your previous experiments, so we need someone with higher talent to try?"

Terena glanced at Leon with surprise: "Your talent is even higher than I expected. So let's cut the small talk and make your choice quickly."

Immediately, Leon followed Terena's instructions and found ten of the thousands of floating mysterious characters, casually absorbing them in front of him.

Because to him, the resonance of each one was about the same, with almost no difference, so he just picked them randomly according to his mood without carefully comparing them.

In addition, he could see that these mysterious characters contained knowledge of civilization, spirituality, and spacetime. He was not good at civilization, but he had a fairly deep understanding of the other two categories.

Therefore, the selection process only took a few seconds.

After that, he quickly activated all the modes to comprehend the magical imagery contained within these mysterious characters.

A moment later, the first mysterious character suddenly floated into his body like a drop of ink.

As the mysterious script was absorbed, Leon noticed that his mental strength had increased slightly.

It rose by about 2 points.

It wasn't much, but its quality was exceptional, and it resonated perfectly with his own soul, allowing him to digest it quickly.

Not only that, he also seemed to glimpse some of Terena's memories in them, very much like a slideshow that had been flipped through, but there were indeed some solid and real images.

"What's going on?"

Leon looked at Terena:

"Your Excellency, how did these mysterious characters become part of my body?"

Terena's long, slender eyebrows froze, and she felt something was off: "Normally, this kind of phenomenon should not occur at all."

"What is the abnormal situation?"

"Leon asked."

Terena was silent for a moment, then coughed lightly: "Perhaps it was just an accident. Try again."

Huh?

Is it possible that the mysterious script being integrated into her body is something Terena finds difficult to talk about?

Or is there some other reason that's not convenient to say?

Lyon then tried to comprehend it again.

A few minutes later, another mysterious character slipped out and dripped into Lyon's skin, merging into it.

This mysterious script represents another kind of profound knowledge of civilization, related to the laws of a great individual civilization. It is similar to the first one, belonging to the same type of profound knowledge, but it is still a bit short of constituting a mystery.

After the mysterious script merged into his body, he once again felt the pleasure of his spiritual power increasing, and saw more silhouettes of memories that seemed to be related to Terena.

However, due to the limited quantity, Leon did not see many scenes that caught his eye this time; most of them were just messy fragments of memories.

Lyon knew that Therena would never let the test subjects see their memories, so she probably didn't know about the things he saw in her memories.

My mental strength has increased by 2 points this time, which is very good.

After digesting the mysterious script in a few seconds, Leon looked up at Terena: "Your Excellency, it seems that every time I comprehend the magical imagery and corresponding knowledge contained within these mysterious scripts, I am passively absorbed into them."

Terena stretched out her slender, fair arms and hugged her chest, looking thoughtful.

"Did you experience any strange reactions after inhaling it?"

"My mental strength has increased somewhat."

"Nothing else?"

Lyon shook his head. "No more."

A strange light flashed in Terena's eyes as she stared intently at Leon, her tone still cold: "But my supernatural senses tell me that you seem to have been hiding something just now."

Lyon felt a chill run down his spine. It seemed that even Terena, at the fourteenth level, could easily see through a lie.

However, there was a hint of uncertainty in her words just now, which shows that her basic skills as a con artist still allow her to avoid being easily exposed as a lie.

But just in case, we still need to cover up the lie properly.

Thinking of this, Leon said, "Okay, there's actually another very subtle reaction, but I'm not sure if it's good or bad, so I haven't explained it."

"Oh? What exactly was the reaction?"

Terena raised an eyebrow.

“I saw some images that had nothing to do with magical imagery, but the images were very fragmented and I couldn’t figure out what they were.”

Lyon said.

"Well, this time you didn't hide anything."

Terena fell silent again, seemingly deep in thought.

Looking at her small face, Leon couldn't help but think that her serious expression was quite cute, and indeed very similar to her future self.

Terena suddenly looked up and met Leon's gaze: "What's with that look you're giving me?"

"Nothing much, I just think it's very attractive and charming for you to think about problems seriously."

Lyon said frankly.

"..."

Terena narrowed her eyes: "Young man, continue your experiment. This time I will focus on observing your process of comprehending the mysterious script. Don't mention anything in front of me again that was inefficient and irrational, understand?"

[Goddess Therina's favorability +1%... Spacetime distortion detected, corrected, current favorability is 97%]

The moment the favorability rating was restored, Terena's eyes suddenly trembled slightly, and then a strange feeling surged into her heart.

My mom has another problem.

As the title says, she has been having gastrointestinal discomfort for the past few days. Today I took her for a checkup. At the town hospital, they suspected intestinal obstruction.

If any of my old readers from the previous book know that my mother had cerebral infarction and surgery last July, she should know that she also had heart valve surgery in Guangzhou ten years ago. Her physical condition was relatively poor, so the town hospital did not dare to perform enemas and told us to go to the county hospital.

After going to the county hospital in the afternoon, I underwent various tests, and the doctor suspected that I had a gastrointestinal tumor.

After a more thorough examination with contrast-enhanced CT scans, it was confirmed that there was a tumor in the intestine that needed to be removed.

What's more complicated is that she has several underlying medical conditions, and they are quite serious, so the doctor said that the risks would be higher if she were to have surgery...