Wizard Earl

Upgrading the Castia Staff to a Tier 3 enchanted item requires only half the materials needed to craft a new Tier 3 enchanted item, but Connor has only collected about half of that amount so far, far from enough to upgrade the Castia Staff.

In addition, although Connor has barely mastered the alchemy method for strengthening and upgrading the Castiel Staff, he is not yet proficient in the actual operation. He is currently in the stage of accumulating experience through auxiliary chips and simulated refining. If he wants to strengthen and upgrade the Castiel Staff, without considering the material factors, Connor will need at least six months to a year to reach the required level of alchemy skills.

Therefore, level 3 enchanted items are no longer out of reach for Connor, but it will still take time before he can actually own them.

Materializing spirituality is risky, and level three enchanted items take time. Since both paths are blocked, Connor, who wants to improve his strength, only has one path left: magic!

Since he began his training, Connor has only mastered two spells: mental attacks, a unique attack method for mental wizards, and the Abyss Chains, an innate spell from his advanced meditation technique, "Abyss Arcane Arts." He can only be considered average in other spells, as Connor is an alchemist and is more adept at using his powerful enchanted artifacts in combat than in spells.

Therefore, for Connor, magic has always been a major weakness. During his apprenticeship as an alchemist, Connor possessed powerful enchanted items that surpassed those of other wizards of the same level. The powerful abilities of items such as the Castia Staff and the Silver Crown Pendant temporarily masked this weakness in magic. However, after Connor broke through to become a first-level wizard, the advantage of his enchanted items over other wizards of the same level disappeared, and his weakness in magic became glaringly obvious.

Having discovered his weakness in magic, Connor was deeply pained and determined to overcome it. From his vast collection of spells, he carefully selected two. Now, in the forest, Connor, with a black orb of light floating in front of him, was practicing one of those two spells: "Pluto's Dark Body Spell."

The "Pluto Dark Body Technique" is a powerful spell created fifty years ago by Maguire, a second-level dark attribute wizard and leader of the Devout Army, a black wizard organization on the East Hoy continent. He created it based on a spell recorded in a fragment of a dark attribute spellbook found at the Byzantine wizarding ruins of Mount Pluto, combined with his many years of experience cultivating dark attribute energy. In terms of power, the "Pluto Dark Body Technique" can be said to be a combination of offense and defense, capable of both harming opponents and protecting oneself, making it extremely powerful.

With this spell, Maguire was virtually unmatched among wizards of his rank in East Hoy, leading the Devout Army to conquer the underworld of East Hoy and enjoying unparalleled fame. However, as the saying goes, fame brings trouble. At the height of his success, Maguire's dark wizard organization, the Devout Army, was targeted by Jovich, the second-level wizard of the Storm Church stationed in East Hoy. Under Jovich's scheme, not only was the Devout Army wiped out by the Storm Church, but Maguire himself also died at Jovich's hands. Naturally, the "Pluto Dark Body Spell" that he created fell into Jovich's hands.

However, since the spell "Pluto Dark Body Technique" can only be practiced by wizards who cultivate dark energy, while Jovich cultivates the orthodox wind energy of the Storm Church, the spell "Pluto Dark Body Technique" is rather useless to Jovich. It only has reference value and no practical value.

This is why there are rumors in the wizarding world of East Hoy that Jovich used the spell "Pluto Dark Body Technique" to make a deal with a high-ranking executive of East Hoy Company who cultivated dark attribute energy, exchanging "Pluto Dark Body Technique" for a lot of precious cultivation resources.

Of course, Jovic himself has always denied this rumor, but it is an indisputable fact that the spell "Pluto Dark Body Technique" was passed down from the wizards of the East Hoy Company, and Connor obtained a copy of this spell by chance at the Meazza Manor auction house.

Although the spell "Pluto Dark Body Technique" has spread throughout the wizarding world, and many wizards who covet its powerful dark energy cultivation have practiced this spell, it is very difficult to learn and requires a lot of resources. Therefore, very few dark energy cultivators have actually mastered this spell.

Connor chose this spell because although it was difficult to learn, if one had high comprehension, the learning speed would be extremely fast. Although Connor's comprehension was average, the powerful computing ability of the auxiliary chip in his mind could completely make up for this.

And indeed, that was the case. Connor had been practicing the spell "Pluto's Dark Body Technique" for over a month, and with the help of the auxiliary chip, he had reached the threshold for successful mastery. Whether he could ultimately master it and unleash this powerful offensive and defensive spell depended on Connor's performance at this crucial moment.

Seeing that the black ball of light in front of him had shrunk to the size of a fist, Connor knew that the time had come. His eyes flashed with a sharp light, and then he waved his right hand. He stopped chanting the incantation and then raised his head and opened his mouth to swallow the black bald head floating in front of him!

As Connor moved, the fist-sized, dark ball of light, with its restrained radiance, actually flew straight into Connor's mouth and landed in his stomach.

As the black orb entered his stomach, Connor felt a sudden darkness before his eyes, his scalp tingling, and he felt as if he were surrounded by an endless black mist. His powerful mental strength, which he was so proud of as a mental wizard, completely vanished.

Although Connor had vaguely anticipated his current predicament based on the auxiliary chip's calculations, he was still startled and somewhat panicked when he truly felt his mental energy disappear and he could no longer exert any mental power.

However, Connor Ferguson was still Connor Ferguson. After a few seconds of bewildered panic, Connor quickly calmed down and, as planned, took out the potion that Varga had specially prepared for him to practice the "Pluto Dark Body Technique" from his spatial ring and put it in his mouth.