Chapter 40: Promotion to the sixth level
Has Ariade's question been answered? God knows.
In short, Chongyang won the duel gorgeously, allowing all the divisions of the Ninth Division present to see the strength of the airborne chief. The previous impression or prejudice of "just relying on family power to ascend to power" was instantly erased at this moment.
The amazement of his subordinates, the change of attitude such as awe is not much of a concern for Chongyang. He only said hello to Helen, got the Dragon's Blood Ring, a bet that Hawso had pledged in advance, and went back to his lodgings without leaving a moment.
Rank 6!
In Chongyang's mind, it was all what the Fire Demon had said before the battle: as long as he got this energy crystal ring, he would be able to increase his magic level overnight. Plus, you can transform it into a valuable storage ring!
......
After returning to his residence, he rested and meditated for a period of time according to the instructions of the fire demon, replenishing the mana consumed in the duel, and at the same time relaxing his mind and body, so as to achieve the most relaxed state of body and mind as much as possible.
"When instilling magic power, you must not resist in any way, and you must do your best to cooperate with my spells. Otherwise, it is possible that it will not be able to completely trigger the absorption of magic or even open the elemental channel. The Flame Demon said hoarsely.
Different from when treating magic deficiency, Chongyang not only passively accepts, but also cooperates with magic infusion to refine, absorb, and fuse the pure fire energy magic power that enters the body...... can turn into its own magic.
In terms of the quality of mana, there is no need to worry, the purity of the mana energy that has been condensed by the essence of the environment for tens of millions of years is so high that it even surpasses the level of mana obtained by the vast majority of ordinary magicians through self-cultivation. This is the true creation of heaven and earth, and it is by no means comparable to the flow of the Demonic Beast Crystal Nucleus that contains incomparable energy.
Chongyang listened to the Yan Demon's admonition, and his heart was not impatient, and he relaxed again and again, trying to reach the level required by the Yan Demon.
Time passed, and soon it was late at night.
"You're pretty much done, now stay in a shallow meditative state, and we'll start right away. ”
Chongyang sat on the bed, his hands naturally hanging down, and his eyes closed.
Just above his head, the manifest flame demon manipulated the bright red dragon's blood ring to levitate, wrapped it in a ball of blood-colored flames, and slowly, extracted the energy contained in it in a unique and mysterious way, forming an incomparably deep bright red substance like a liquid.
If there was a substance, the bright red mana energy emitted surging mana fluctuations, but under the deliberate suppression of the fire demon, the mana fluctuations became smaller and smaller, almost to the point of infinitely approaching zero, almost completely suppressing its unstable nature. At first, the slight ripples on the surface of the "liquid" that can be seen with the naked eye gradually disappear and condense into a pearl-like roundness and flawlessness.
The Fire Demon refines the magical energy into "water droplets", from a few, to dozens, to hundreds...... Countless blood-red "dewdrops" were formed, which surrounded Chongyang on all sides.
"Attention, I'm going to indoctrinate it. The fire demon reminded Chongyang with his eyes closed, and then manipulated part of the magic energy "dewdrops" to touch Chongyang's body, arms, legs, feet, abdomen, and chest...... All over the body.
Chongyang felt a burning sensation in various parts of his body, but it was within the tolerance range. According to what the Flame Demon had said beforehand, he let go of his physical and mental vigilance, and accepted the external energy that gradually poured into his body with a state of mind that accommodated a hundred rivers.
Slowly, the blood-colored "dewdrops" melted on Chongyang's body surface, turning into subtle lines, outlining his whole body, forming an incomparably complex blood-colored vein, which made Chongyang's whole person terrifying and hideous, somewhat similar to the appearance of his elemental armament.
"Woo ......" As the speed of energy infusion increased, Chongyang began to feel pain. It is not an ordinary skin pain, but a subtle pain that comes from the elemental channels in the body, which seems to be itchy but not itchy.
On the one hand, he had to relax his whole body in order to receive the energy smoothly. On the other hand, it is necessary to concentrate and nervously transform the energy infused into one's own fire magic. It is very difficult to find a given balance between these two seemingly contradictory things.
The Flame Demon is highly skilled, and it happens to maintain the infusion speed at the limit that Chongyang can accept. The blood-colored "dewdrops" extracted from the dragon's blood crystal quickly decreased drop by drop, and before the blood veins formed by the previous drop disappeared, the next drop continued to touch Chongyang's body, and so on.
"The mana has reached saturation, now it's time to forcibly activate the new elemental channel, relax and be patient!" the fire demon admonished again.
Chongyang heard the voice, but he didn't even have the room to nod his head in response, and he was preoccupied with absorbing and fusing external energy. Immediately afterwards, there was a sudden burning pain in his body, like a red-hot knife, which slashed at the depths of flesh and blood very abruptly!
"Painful ......" Chongyang shook all over his body, his muscles instinctively stimulated contraction, and suddenly, he felt even more terrible pain, all over his body!
In an instant, it was as if the whole person was torn into countless pieces, and the pain went to the bone marrow.
Fortunately, Chongyang reacted in time with a tenacious will, he resisted the instinctive reaction of his body, relaxed again, and eliminated most of the pain.
This startling round caused a large amount of cold sweat to break out on his forehead, cool, wet, and slid down his cheeks, neck and neck.
And that's just the beginning.
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Midnight passed. Chongyang, who was constantly suffering from the forcible activation of the elemental channel, and had been fighting against his instinctive body reactions, looked very tired because of the intense consumption of his mind. And the sweat flowing up and down his body has already soaked the entire pajamas, and even flowed onto the sheets.
It's so hard...... Sure enough, forcibly promoted to a level, this kind of good thing process, is not so easy to bear.
Chongyang smiled bitterly in his heart. From the beginning of the Aurora Elixir, he realized that the so-called lucky situation often has to pay a price to bear. If you look deeper: when you meet the fire demon, you almost die. When cultivating the elemental armament, I didn't know how many times I died in the meditation space...... Even the cultivation of the "Flame Demon Heart Sutra" suffered a lot of torture.
It's all very hard.
However, there are always some habits to get used to.
The Flame Demon above Chongyang's head continued to cast spells with precision while staring at the disciple who was too tenacious to snort in pain, and the face in the flames had a faint smile.
"Do you want to increase the speed even further? If I increase the infusion intensity, the speed of activating the elemental channel will be doubled, but your pain will also be doubled, but the duration will be doubled accordingly. ”
Chongyang heard the words of the flame demon, and nodded slightly without thinking for a few seconds.
Let the pain come harder!
......
In the end, when the dawn sun shot the first rays of brilliance into the room, the Flame Demon instilled all the magical energy into Chongyang, opened a new elemental channel to reach the sixth-level magician level, and completed the entire rapid promotion process.
The exhausted Chongyang did not feel the joy of the overnight upgrade, so he fell asleep in bed.
I don't know how long it took.
Chongyang was woken up by the hunger in his stomach and the ringing of the doorbell. He rubbed his blurry sleepy eyes, got up from the bed a little groggily, patted his cheeks, pressed his temples, and then walked slowly towards the door when he was a little sober.
"Mr. Chongyang, are you sick again?"
Helen blinked at the tired black-haired youth. Over her shoulder, she could see that it was very dark outside, and it was evident that it was approaching nightfall.
"Well, it's a little uncomfortable......" Chongyang didn't expect that he had slept for a day.
"That's why I didn't come to work yesterday. Helen nodded, worried, "It's because ...... For the sake of the duel?"
At the scene, there was no sign of injury in Chongyang. But with such a powerful magic, maybe there will be some overdraft, or specific sequelae?
Chongyang did not appear in the department the next day, and there were similar speculations circulating in the department.
Slow down......
Chongyang frowned: "You said yesterday?"
"Well......" Helen replied, then realizing that something was wrong, "Mr. Chongyang, are you ......?"
Slept more than a day and didn't know it yet?
The situation is even more serious than imagined! How can you let go of such a Mr. Chongyang and leave it alone! After Helen figured out the situation, her motherhood as a woman flares up again, and she insists on going into the house to take care of Chongyang, no matter how Chongyang justifies it, she is not willing to leave.
"Go take a shower, I'll change the sheets for you, and then you go to bed and lie down, and I'll cook dinner!" Helen commanded with a grim brow and stern eyes in a manly tone.
What else can Chongyang do?
"Really, Mr. Chongyang can't take care of himself. Not only in the division, but also at home......" Helen said as she gathered the sheets, and then realized that she had said something unconsciously, and her face turned red.
After taking a bath, Chongyang slept on the new bed made by the woman herself, listening to the faint sound from the direction of the kitchen, the sound of chopping vegetables, and the sound of the oven opening and closing......
In my heart, there is a taste of helplessness and peace.