Chapter 531: Ineffective Aroma

It was a towering and flouris.h.i.+ng tree that reached all the way into the sky. People couldnt see the tip of it, but they still felt their minds soothed as the tree leaves rustled gently in the wind.

Slowly, countless green spots emerged from the tree, and when the tree finally stopped growing, the spots went scattering away like dandelion bristles.

The magic array protecting the area glowed and forced all the s.h.i.+ny spots to come to the ground. Each spot would then enter someones body. Those staying in the golden zone was, of course, the first ones to enjoy the green spots. But this time, instead of the pleasurable and divine sensation, they were immediately tortured by great agony. Someone with weaker endurance was already writhing and rolling on the ground.

The silence in the area was soon replaced by painful screaming.

Even Keely, who usually remain calm and unruffled, was sweating badly as her eyebrows knitted into a twisted frown.

Compared to most people, Angor seemed rather fine.

The green spots basically had no effect on him. These spots were essentially used for purifying impurities hidden in energy ent.i.ties. To wizards, their energy referred to their mana and spiritual power. However, thanks to Singularity Dispersive Meditation, Angors mana capacity was greater than what the green spots could manage. And since the green spots couldnt work against such a large amount of mana reserve, Angor wasnt affected by their power at all.

The spots did affect Angors spirit power just a little. And to Angor, such mild pain was completely manageable since it was almost nothing compared to what the strange wall inside Nightmare Realm brought to him.

The second phase of purification lasted five minutes. People usually used this chance to purify their mana, while Angor had his spirit cleansed instead.

Such an outcome helped Angor gain another level in his spirit capacity. He might be unable to compete with apprentices who majored in spiritual power, but his spirit was already better and purer than most people at the same level.

Naturally, Angors uncommon demeanor raised a lot of attention among the wizards.

Those who watched the garden promotion were all experienced enough to conclude that this boy had found a special channeling method, which allowed him to develop his mana pool beyond the effective threshold of the green spots. This meant Angor was a lot more likely to become a wizard compared to the other apprentices.

Angor was not the only one who managed to stay put under the purification power. But he was the only one who was completely unaffected, whereas the other ones were more or less disturbed.

Thats Mister Phantoms student for you Another miracle, a wizard commented. I think its only a matter of time for this one to become a true wizard now.

Sunders keen eye never failed once. Just think about Sumesh and Flora! Theyre both wizards with great achievements.

Lawson also paid close attention to Angors appearance. Angor studied Montaus Octahedrite Channeling? Thats the best channeling method offered in Brute Cavern, and its possible to go beyond the purification power limit by using it.

Muse nodded nonchalantly. He didnt really care about Angors channeling method since he was still disappointed at failing to catch Angors scandal again.

When the second purification phase ended, something changed on the tree.

A single white flower bloomed on a tree branch and released a mind-soothing aroma that covered the entire Altar of Demise area.

This was the third and the final purification phasethe purification of souls.

Ever since the purification garden was constructed, the third phase had only been activated three times. People already knew that the garden promotion would bring such an opportunity again, and this was the reason why so many apprentices came to Floating Mech City.

To become a real wizard, an apprentice needed a decent aggregation of knowledge as well as several non-bypa.s.sable factors such as ones energy capacity, physical strength, and soul quality.

Energy capacity and bodily strength were both easier to achieve since they only required enough training and time. One could even enhance physical properties overnight by organ implantations or using a proper bloodline.

Compared to these, strengthening ones soul was extremely difficult. There were only a few known potions or other means with such an effect, which were both hard to find and unaffordable for apprentices.

The officials of Floating Mech City openly told everyone that a soul-improving chance was guaranteed inside the purification garden, thus attracting huge groups of apprentices to come.

The sweet aroma released by the Flower of Purification was exactly what they needed right now.

Instantly, the aroma traveled to every corner of the altar plaza and reached everyone. The locations of apprentices would greatly affect the final outcome this time; those in the golden zone could take in most of the aroma, while apprentices in the outer areas could only acquire a decreased amount.

Soon, the magical aroma reached Angors soul s.p.a.ce and found his soul.

Before his soul was cleansed, however, something happened to the Green Velvet first.

After receiving an early purification in Soul Genesis Garden, the Green Velvet had given birth to a small patch of gra.s.sland that acted as a perfect barrier that protected Angors soul.

As the aroma approached him, Angor could see a number of tiny flowers growing on the gra.s.s, which quickly turned the otherwise empty gra.s.sland into a colorful garden.

As the purification power approached the center, the giant flower bud, which had always been floating quietly above the gra.s.sland, moved a little as if a giant blossom were in the making.

Angor frowned a little as he remembered Felicias words. When examining his soul, Felicia mentioned something like allowing the Green Velvet to fully mature may not be a good thing.

Angor never took those words to heart since the Green Velvet looked pretty far from maturity. But it seemed the purification power unexpectedly quickened its growth.

Angor wasnt sure if Felicia was telling him the truth back then. He a.s.sumed that after the incident when examining his soul, Felicia should have no reason to lie to him. Angor was planning to ask Sunders about it, yet he never found a chance for it.

As he considered the question, the aroma had traveled through the garden and reached his soul.

The aroma slowly entered his soul

And nothing happened.

The visible aroma with the power of purification simply vanished. Precisely speaking, it vanished around the strange scar behind Angors soul.

Whats going on??

Another small lump of aroma entered Angors soul s.p.a.ce probably because it wanted to continue its job. But again, it disappeared and became nothing.

As the other apprentices were enjoying the only drift they received, over ten units of aroma had entered Angors body and were still going.

Another minute had pa.s.sed, with another dozen drifts of aroma sank into Angors soul. Rather than cleansing Angors soul, the aroma kept nouris.h.i.+ng his Green Velvet.

The aroma created by the law of purification was originally the power to cultivate someones soul, and at the same time, the best fertilizer for Green Velvet. Angor could clearly sense that the strange plant in his soul s.p.a.ce, which required at least ten years to attain its full growth, was developing at an insane speed.

Angor watched the flower bud slowly opening up and felt his mind getting anxious.

He opened his eyes and noticed that those around him were all showing painful looks. The one closest to him, Keely, had several thick blood veins pulsing on her forehead.

Opposite them, Jebra looked pretty miserable as he tumbled back and forth on the ground while yelling loudly. As he could no longer keep up his vapor barrier, his bald head was fully exposed for everyone to see.

The other apprentices didnt look any better.

Angor felt his ears troubled by all the terrible screaming coming from everywhere and didnt know what to do next.

He might go to Sunders later and ask about the Green Velvet. But what now?

Should I pretend that Im in pain? Otherwise, people will think that I didnt get anything from the purification. That would be sad.

He made up his mind and made an ahh sound as loudly as he could.

Despite his true intention, it looked more like he just got a brain fart. Luckily, no one was in the right condition to see his foolish act.

He then cleared his throat and decided not to make any sound. He copied Keelys expression by frowning as best as he could so that people would a.s.sume that he was distressed.

Unknown to him, everything was fully recorded by the giant screen.

Again, Angor was lucky enough that only a few people noticed his attempt since Lawson ordered the screen to show the entire Altar of Demise. Among all the suffering apprentices, Angor was not really eye-catching.

These few people included several wizards who always focused on Angors condition, such as Mithra and Muse.

And when they saw Angor feigning his painful scream, they were all at a loss of words at the boys stupid performance.

Sabot escaped from the great embarra.s.sment first by rubbing his temples. So thats why Sunders didnt come He knew that his new student is a little nitwit.

Mithra finally lost it and began to laugh out loud. HA! Such a pity that Yeliya isnt here to watch the boy!

Muse was also smiling joyfully, but with a completely different reasonwhat he recorded just now could be well used to threaten the boy later.

Angors funny act was only a trifle matter that they would soon forget. Compared to this, they all silently noted down a bigger question in their mindsWhy is this boy completely unaffected by soul purification?

The only explanation for this was that Angors soul quality was extremely good and was probably at the same level as some of the strongest soul-manipulator apprentices.

But is that possible?

n.o.body could tell for sure.

In the end, people made a conclusion that Angor had been intentionally training his soul because the boy seemed pretty good at soul ejection.