Wizard: My skills can be upgraded indefinitely.

Gunnar's body lay on the dark blue crystalline ground, his right arm twisted in a bizarre way.

From the charred hole between his eyebrows, a mixture of dark red brain matter and blood oozed out.

Ian's four-meter-tall body slowly shrank, and the flowing rock texture and jade-like luster receded like the tide, returning to normal.

His skin was pale, and beads of sweat slid down his neck.

He knelt on one knee, breathing heavily, his lungs burning with pain.

The [Furnace Tempering Technique] was still operating at full capacity, repairing minor bone fractures and internal injuries within the body.

That final punch had almost exhausted all his strength.

"Ian, are you alright?"

Gaga emerged from the shadows and landed on his shoulder, its little eyes nervously scanning his entire body.

"fine."

Ian shook his head and struggled to his feet.

His gaze swept over Gunnar's enormous corpse.

The physical strength of a level two body-refining wizard with an undying heart is indeed terrifying.

If it weren't for the Earth Resonance property of the [Rock Bear Potion], which dispersed the impact deep into the platform...

If it weren't for the jade-like luster and self-healing ability provided by the [Furnace Tempering Technique]...

If it weren't for those pale golden crystalline light spots in my spiritual sea, which, despite the suppression of the rules, still maintained a level of cohesion far exceeding that of level one...

He might really die here.

"Loot the spoils, quick!"

Despite his exhaustion, Ian changed into a new robe and began to plunder.

Gunnar's dimensional bag was heavy, containing forty-two flawless magic stones, seven bottles of dark red potions labeled "Undying Tempering Agent," and a palm-sized dark red metal token.

The front of the token is engraved with the emblem of the Undying Heart: a burning heart bound by chains.

The back has a line of small print:

【Endless Sea, Lava Islands, No. 73】

"Outpost coordinates..."

Ian's eyes narrowed slightly, and he threw the token away.

He then unearthed a notebook made of animal hide, which contained some of the secret techniques for body refinement within the Undying Heart, and was quite valuable.

"Killing the one with the Undying Heart will cause considerable trouble."

He muttered to himself.

Once a fourth-level wizard's power is exposed, their revenge will be relentless and relentless.

But thinking about these things now is useless.

In the ruins, it's either you die or I live; there's no room for mercy.

He looked ahead.

The dark blue rift at the entrance to the core area is less than 20 kilometers away.

But the "pressure" permeating the air was so heavy that it made it difficult to breathe.

It's as if countless eyes are watching from the shadows, waiting... for the final selection.

"Walk."

Ian didn't linger. He swallowed a high-level recovery potion, fine-tuned his gravitational field, and shot his body toward the rift like an arrow.

The final journey was more difficult than expected.

The closer you get to the crack, the fewer the suspended broken platforms become.

Instead, there were complete ruins of Protoss buildings.

Broken spires, collapsed halls, crystallized statues...

Everything was frozen in the moment of destruction.

The dark blue energy turbulence surged like a tangible tide, each wave causing a slight tremor in the mind's sea.

"Ian, up ahead..."

Gaga suddenly whispered, her heterochromatic eyes fixed on a spot 300 meters ahead.

Ten kilometers from the rift, the last platform is suspended.

There was a person standing on the platform.

Bazar.

He had his back to the rift, his right hand supporting the blood-stained blade, his left arm hanging limply at his sides, and three deep, bone-revealing claw marks on his chest.

The dark red blood had congealed into a scab, but the edges of the wound had a dark blue sheen.

This is a trace of the corruption of the Protoss rules.

Clearly, he also encountered a living corpse guardian or something more dangerous.

Hearing footsteps, Bazar slowly turned around.

His blood-red eyes swept over Ian, a murderous intent surging deep within his pupils.

"You little beast... you really came."

He grinned, revealing his bloodstained teeth.

Ian stopped, fifty meters from the edge of the platform.

His black eyes looked calmly at Bazar.

It's like looking at a dead person.

"How dare you wait for me here? You're courting death."

"act recklessly?"

Bazar laughed as if he had heard a joke, throwing his head back.

The laughter was like a broken gong, causing the surrounding energy currents to fluctuate slightly.

"What I desire most right now... is to kill you."

He slowly raised the blood-stained blade.

Blood flowed from the blade, but the light was noticeably dimmer.

Under the suppression of the rules, the power of this weapon, formed from second-level talent sorcery, has dropped to the peak of first-level.

But the killing intent emanating from Bazar was even more intense than before.

Ian didn't want to waste time, so he raised his left hand and loosely clenched his fist.

Three tiny black dots, like grains of rice, silently appeared above the palm.

【Gravity Collapse Sphere】·Triangular Blockade!

The black dots shoot out in a triangular pattern, with a tricky trajectory.

One bullet struck Bazar between the eyebrows, one struck his chest, and a third…

It was shot at the very center of the platform beneath his feet.

Bazar roared, his blood blade swirling wildly, shattering the first two black dots.

But the third one has already been attached to the platform.

hum!

A gravitational singularity with a diameter of thirty meters suddenly erupted.

The platform collapsed inward from the black dot, and the terrifying gravitational turbulence, like an invisible hand, tightly gripped Bazar's legs!

"you……!"

Bazar frantically activated his Blood Boiling Domain, attempting to break free from the gravitational pull.

But Ian didn't give him a chance at all.

He pointed out the Frost Ray with his right index finger.

A fourth black dot gathers on the left hand.

He pointed out the Frost Ray with his right index finger.

A fourth black dot gathers on the left hand.

Dual-line casting, with almost zero interval!

*Swoosh!* *Buzz!*

The pale purple beam of light struck the gravitational singularity simultaneously!

Bazar wildly swung his blood-red blade, the dark red blade light tearing through the air and colliding with the beam of light.

The explosion of ice and fire energy caused his Blood Boiling Domain to fluctuate violently.

The fourth black dot had already silently adhered to the armor on his back.

hum!

The gravitational field erupted for the second time!

Bazar was forcibly pulled towards the center of the collapse, and the blood blade flew out of his hand.

His pupils dilated violently, and dark red scales appeared on his skin.

【Crimson Frenzy】 - Forced activation!

The muscles swelled again, trying to resist the tearing force of gravity.

But Ian's killer move wasn't over yet.

In the moment when Bazar struggled.

A faint golden light suddenly burst forth in Ian's black eyes.

Within the sea of ​​consciousness, those compressed, liquefied light points spun wildly.

Thirty-six floating crystal guardians shot out, as fast as lightning.

In an instant, he covered a distance of thirty meters and accurately pierced thirty-six vital points on Bazar's body!

Between the eyebrows, throat, heart, spine, joints of the limbs...

Puff puff puff!

A series of piercing sounds rang out.

Bazar's forward charge suddenly froze.

He looked down at the barely visible wounds on his body, each one oozing dark red blood.

"you……"

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but no sound came out.

Ian swayed and threw a punch.

Bang!

Bazar's head exploded, splattering red and white fluid all over the ground.

The headless corpse collapsed to the ground, twitched twice, and then fell silent.

Level 2 Body Refining Wizard, "Blood Blade" Bazar... dead.

The whole process took less than five seconds.

Ian slowly exhaled a breath of stale air and withdrew his right hand.

The slight burning sensation from the energy emission still lingered on my fingertips.

"It's all cleaned up."

He muttered to himself, bending down to pick up Bazar's dimensional bag and the blood-stained blade.

The Blood Blade felt heavy in my hand, and the dark red blood flowing from its edge was slowly dissipating.

Without its master to maintain it, this weapon, formed from second-level talent sorcery, will soon disintegrate.

However, the materials themselves are quite valuable.

Ian put everything away and continued flying toward the rift.

Dark blue starlight surged from the depths of the rift, carrying a call of utmost purity.

"Gaga, let's go in."

He took a step forward, his figure disappearing into the crevice.

The moment I passed through the rift, my vision was swallowed up by endless white light.

It wasn't blinding, but a gentle, vast light, carrying the final lament of civilization.

Ian landed in a spacious "hall".

Beneath my feet was a translucent silver floor, reflecting the dazzling starry sky above.

The hall has a diameter of over 10,000 meters and is so high that the top cannot be seen.

The surrounding walls are inlaid with hundreds of millions of dark blue crystals.

Inside each crystal lies a blurry figure.

Protoss.

They remained in a kneeling, praying, and looking up posture.

His face was frozen with a final piety and despair.

In the center of the hall...

A fist-sized "ball of light" was suspended in the air.

The surface of the light cluster was covered with a silvery-white fluid, and countless tiny points of light were flowing inside.

Like a miniature, living starry sky.

"According to the information on the Silver Ring, could this be... the spark of civilization?"

A miniature artificial plane used by the Protoss to upload the consciousness of their people.