This was the first time Abel came to Angstrom City as a human. When he came out of the teleportation circle, Grand Duke Edwina, Duke Albert, and Lady Carrie were already waiting for him.
"The great King Abel, welcome!" Said Grand Duke Edwina with a bow to Abel.
She was a little emotional. Abel had grown to the point where she had to personally welcome him. Before, even if Abel was a Grandmaster Blacksmith or a Master Alchemist, she didn't have to personally come to the teleportation circle.
However, things were different now. Abel was the emperor of the most powerful human kingdom. The power of his kingdom had attracted the attention of all races.
Abel came to Angstrom City in public. Even if he didn't announce it publicly, Grand Duke Edwina would still be looking down on the Kingdom of Saint Ellis if she didn't come to greet him.
"The prestigious Grand Duke Edwina, the prestigious Duke Albert, and Lady Carrie, I'm sorry to disturb you!" Abel said with a smile and a bow.
Duke Albert and Lady Carrie also bowed back.
This was a public visit, so Abel chose the public teleportation circle in Angstrom City. It was also the only teleportation circle that humans were allowed to use.
Because of the safety of the elves, only the public teleportation circles in the elves' cities could be used by outsiders. This was because these teleportation circles had strict identity checks.
After greeting each other, Abel was led out of the public teleportation circle by Grand Duke Edwina. There was a silver carriage parked on the side of the road. It was the Grand Duke's private carriage.
The golden crown on Abel's head shone under the sun, showing his noble status. The elves of Angstrom City had already been notified, so they had already gathered on the side of the public teleportation circle.
When Abel appeared, all the elves bowed and greeted the emperor of the human kingdom with the most formal ceremony.
Abel didn't expect to be welcomed like this. He came alone today without any followers. Grand Duke Edwina could have handled this in a more low-key manner, but the elves of Angstrom City were all here to welcome him.
Abel looked around and bowed slightly. He then stepped onto the luxurious carriage prepared for him.
"Grand Duke Edwina, you are too kind!" Abel said softly as he looked out of the carriage window at the elves who were welcoming him.
"Your Majesty Abel, I'm just borrowing your reputation to calm the hearts of the elves of Angstrom City!" Grand Duke Edwina said straightforwardly.
"Aren't the elves very stable?" Abel asked strangely.
As far as he knew, the elves and dwarfs were the least affected by the food disaster.
"Recently, the elves forcefully changed their food and increased their meat consumption. Some of the elves began to panic. They thought that the Goddess of the Moon would hate them if they continued to ask for food from the Double Moon Forest. The elves are very calm on the outside, but there are a lot of movements inside!" Grand Duke Edwina explained to Abel without hiding anything.
Abel nodded to show that he understood. Changing a habit that had lasted for countless years all of a sudden was bound to cause some backlash.
"That's why I gathered all the elves in the city to see how strong the friendship between our city and the Kingdom of Saint Ellis is. It will also completely dispel some of the elves' thoughts!" Grand Duke Edwina continued.
Angstrom City was the first city to become friends with Bakong City in the Duchy of Carmel. At that time, the Duchy of Carmel needed the support of the elves, but now it was the other way around. The elves needed the power of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis to suppress the movements of the elves.
"Grand Duke Edwina, if we do this, the elves can exchange meat with the Kingdom of Saint Ellis for food. Wouldn't that solve some of the problems?" Abel suggested.
"Majesty Abel, it's not about meat or vegetables. Some of the elves have other intentions. Even if we change to vegetables, as long as it's not fruits, the problem will still be the same!" Grand Duke Edwina smiled and rejected Abel's good intentions.
It was only then that Abel realized how much trouble Grand Duke Edwina had in managing this city. Luckily, he had pushed all the administrative matters of the empire to the parliament. Otherwise, he would be just like Grand Duke Edwina, having to worry about this and that every day.
"Majesty Abel, I heard you have been in retreat for a long time. Why did you come to the elves?" Grand Duke Edwina changed the topic.
Since Abel was coming to the elves as a human, he had to go through the elves in advance, which was why Grand Duke Edwina had arranged a welcoming ceremony for him. However, she didn't know why Abel was coming to the elves this time.
"Retreat is useless. I'm stuck at the peak of a rank 15 wizard. Do you have any experience?" Abel helplessly shrugged and asked.
Grand Duke Edwina stared at Abel in shock. A rank 15 wizard? How old was Abel? Was he going to become an elite wizard at 20 years old?
"You need to go out more during your bottleneck. It's good for your understanding of the realm. Perhaps an unintentional feeling will help you level up!" Grand Duke Edwina thought for a moment and said. There really wasn't a good way to break through to the peak state. There were all kinds of legends, but everyone's breakthrough had a certain degree of chance.
No one could say there was a good way, but the best way to break through to the peak state was to learn more.
"Grand Duke Edwina majesty, I'm here because Blue Dragon Emmanuel invited me to use the ancient teleportation circle of the elves to go to the Dragon Abyss!" Abel didn't say anything to Grand Duke Edwina. He just smiled and said.
Grand Duke Edwina wasn't surprised that Abel knew Blue Dragon Emmanuel. Last time, it was Abel who helped the elves when Blue Dragon Emmanuel wanted a dish. After that, a dish would be sent to the Dragon Abyss through the ancient teleportation circle of the city every day.
She was just curious about why Blue Dragon Emmanuel invited Abel to the Dragon Abyss. Only the dragons could enter the Dragon Abyss. Other races, even the elves and dwarves, could only stay outside of the Dragon Abyss.
"Also, I've reached the peak state of rank 15. I want to see Lorraine. Once I become an elite wizard, I won't be able to stay in the Holy Continent for much longer. I have some things to say to Lorraine!" Abel said in embarrassment.
"Majesty Abel, Lorraine is no longer with the elves!" Grand Duke Edwina said hesitantly.
Abel was stunned. Lorraine was the only woman he liked in this world. Although they didn't spend a lot of time together, the days they spent together were the warmest days in this world.
Maybe it was because he had been lacking a sense of security ever since he came to this world. At that time, Lorraine was weak and needed his protection. It was also because of this that he developed feelings for Lorraine.
Maybe Lorraine was still a young girl, but Abel was different. He was an adult in his past life. It was not easy for him to fall in love in this world.
As Abel became more and more powerful, his feelings became more and more introverted. His status and power made it hard for him to fall in love. Especially with his wizard training and exploration of the Dark World, he didn't have time to interact with the common world.
Therefore, he had always treated Lorraine as his partner. As long as Lorraine was still in love with him, he would also protect this relationship.
However, Lorraine had left the elves, and only a quarter of the 20 years Grand Duke Edwina promised had passed.
"Did Lorraine ask for it? Did she choose to leave?" Abel asked coldly.
"Majesty Abel, Lorraine did not want to leave. I asked her to leave!" Grand Duke Edwina lowered her voice.
Suddenly, Abel's energy erupted from his body like a prairie fire. With him as the center, a dragon's energy swept out.
Grand Duke Edwina's face changed. A shield appeared on her body to block this dragon's energy. Her husband, Duke Albert, also did the same.
However, the elves on the side of the road were suppressed by this sudden dragon's energy. The weaker elves had already fallen to the ground, and the stronger ones were struggling to hold on.
The dragon vigor that was suppressed in Abel's mind, which he could only control a small part of during normal times, exploded in his heart with great anger.
He had always regarded Grand Duke Edwina as his most important ally. He didn't hesitate to provide her with large amounts of training potions and the third goddess spring water to help Angstrom City even though he didn't have enough of it.
Why did he do all this? It was because of Lorraine. Grand Duke Edwina was Lorraine's mother, and Angstrom City was Lorraine's home.
This was a betrayal. His only love had been toyed with since he came to this world.
His body and soul had been modified by the dragon crystal for a long time, but this time, he had successfully harmonized with his anger. The dragon's energy in his soul had been perfectly ignited by his body.
Abel had reached the peak of a rank 15 wizard. His state of mind was in a state of turmoil, and the blue dragon's ice crystal breathing technique he had been practicing for the past few months had made his body more like a dragon.
He was so angry that he didn't realize his constitution had increased from 60 to 100. It was almost the constitution of a young dragon.
The Dragon's Vigor rushed out like a storm, and Lady Carrie, who was in the back carriage, felt it the most clearly because she was the closest to it.
"Bang!" Lady Carrie fell down in the carriage. Her face was pale.
This was why the elves had to protect the dragons. Dragons were the natural nemesis of the Druil. The powerful dragon's energy could cause the Druil's summon beast contract to backfire. If the elven Druil was under the dragon's energy for too long, it could lose its summon beast forever. The backfire could also cause damage to its soul.
"Your Majesty Abel, stop! Let me explain!" Duke Albert yelled.
He knew what kind of chaos the dragon's energy would cause in the elven city. He was also worried about his wife, Grand Duke Edwina, making such a stupid mistake.
Grand Duke Edwina was stunned. She just wanted to test Abel's feelings. This was every mother's instinct when it came to her daughter's marriage. She didn't want to separate Abel and Loraine, but Abel's status was too high. It was so high that she couldn't be at ease anymore.
She knew how messy the private lives of human nobles were. Other than their wives, they would also have many lovers. She needed to know if Abel's feelings were still the same. If Abel had lost his initial feelings, she would keep Lorraine's information a secret forever.
She just didn't expect Abel's reaction to be this big. Abel's dragon's energy was so powerful that it could suppress all Druil below elite rank.
Duke Albert's voice made Abel calm down a little. He retracted his dragon's energy. That explosion was the first time he lost his cool in a long time.
Ever since he obtained the world stone fragment, he was able to deal with any problem calmly. It was very rare for him to lose his composure due to anger.
"Lorraine's talent is too good, so the elves have decided to send her to the Moon Goddess Temple in the Central Continent for her future. It would be better for her to receive her inheritance!" Duke Albert quickly added.
"Where is the Central Continent?" Abel lowered his voice.
"When you become an elite wizard, you can go there through the super teleportation circle. Lorraine heard that you are already an intermediate wizard and will soon go to the Central Continent, so she decided to go there. She will wait for you there!" Duke Albert replied.
Abel couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief. He just realized how important Lorraine was to him. Even the world stone fragment couldn't keep him calm. Suddenly, his face changed.
"Duke Albert majesty, please prepare a courtyard for me immediately!" He lowered his voice.
Duke Albert didn't know what Abel meant, but he immediately sensed a sense of leveling up from Abel's body.
"Stop!" Grand Duke Edwina yelled.
She then jumped down from the carriage. The surrounding elves had just woken up from the dragon's energy when they saw Grand Duke Edwina rushing into the elven noble's courtyard.
"This courtyard has been taken over by the Grand Ducal Palace. All elves, leave in 10 breaths!" Grand Duke Edwina's voice echoed throughout the elven noble's courtyard.
Soon, the 10 elves left the courtyard as fast as they could. Afterward, Abel's figure appeared in the courtyard in a flash of white light.
Abel didn't have time to talk to Grand Duke Edwina. The only thing he could do was to take out the soul of the Druil. This was the most important step for him to become an elite wizard. If he missed this opportunity, he didn't know when he would get another one.
Grand Duke Edwina also knew how important this was to Abel, so she quickly left the courtyard and left it to Abel.
She didn't want to ruin Abel's leveling up because of her. She also didn't know if it was a good thing for Abel to level up because of her.
This was because most intermediate wizards would need tens of years or even tens of years to slowly train themselves after reaching rank 15. Only after their spirit and magic power had been honed to perfection would they look for an opportunity to level up.
For example, Grand Duke Edwina didn't remind Abel why he went out alone without a wizard to protect him. She didn't believe a wizard could level up so soon after filling up their ranks.
Abel's leveling up today was indeed caused by his emotional ups and downs. In this world, other than Family Harry and Family Bennett, he didn't even have many friends.
This was almost impossible for a person who wanted to become an emperor. To become an emperor, one needed to balance the relationships between a large number of nobles and gain their support.
However, Abel didn't need to do that. He swept across the empire with his strongest power and became the emperor.
In the noble's courtyard, Abel's mind had already sunk into the leveling up qi. The soul of the Druil was not idle. A mana gathering circle was set up around him, followed by a barrier circle.
Abel's presence disappeared as the two circles were activated. However, a giant black hole appeared in the sky. Flying Flame flew out first, followed by Snow White, and finally, Johnson, who was wearing a full set of white lightning armor and holding a lightning spear, walked out.
Flying Flame and Snow White covered the entire courtyard with their presence, while Johnson held a lightning spear and looked around vigilantly. Johnson was 10 meters tall, so this noble's courtyard was completely under its gaze.
"Command, the Grand Ducal Palace Druil guards are to come here immediately. Drive away all elves within a mile radius. Kill anyone who dares to come close!" Grand Duke Edwina loudly announced her command through the city's magic circle control board.
Abel was the emperor of the Kingdom of Saint Ellis. Wizards had no power to resist when they leveled up. If something happened to him here, the crazy Kingdom of Saint Ellis would use their sky ships to wash this city with blood.
Also, Abel was the man that Lorraine approved of. Although Grand Duke Edwina was a little suspicious of Abel, she still took his safety very seriously.
The entire Angstrom City began to move. It was no longer the time to save energy. 40 Druil guards were teleported to the scene by the city's large circle. They scattered around Abel's courtyard and violently drove away all elves within a mile radius.
Afterward, Angstrom City's large circle was fully activated. Any creature that dared to appear around Abel's courtyard would be suppressed by this large circle.
This was the limit of what Grand Duke Edwina could do. She had mobilized all the resources she could.
At this moment, Abel was sitting cross-legged on a futon under the double protection of the mana gathering circle and the barrier circle. His wizard core was undergoing an earth-shattering change.
The wizard core was the source of a wizard's mana. It was as important to a wizard as a combat qi core was to a Knight.
At this moment, the wizard core was absorbing the leveling up qi and mana from the outside world. The wizard core was like a greedy beast, madly absorbing these two types of energy.
Leveling up from rank 15 to rank 16 was the most important process for a wizard. It was also a qualitative leap, so the leveling up qi this time was extremely strong. As time passed, the leveling up qi became stronger and stronger.
At the same time, this small mana gathering tower could no longer satisfy Abel's leveling up needs. As time passed, more and more mana was needed.
At this moment, the Druil soul once again controlled a strand of power of the will and took out a large mana gathering circle from Valaya's ring. However, this large mana gathering circle could not be set up directly.
However, the Druil soul used the most direct method. It contacted the commander spirit in the headmaster's identity card.
Soon, another 50 small war puppets were taken out from Valaya's ring. Under the control of the commander spirit, these puppets quickly placed the magic circle modules in the required positions.
"Albert, have you heard of the power of the will being used during leveling up?" Grand Duke Edwina asked Duke Albert. She felt like she was too ignorant. She looked at the busy little war puppets in front of her and asked.
"Edwina, did something strange happen to His Majesty Abel?" Duke Albert sighed.
They had seen how many miracles Abel had done with their own eyes. A Grandmaster Blacksmith, a Master Alchemist, the emperor of a human kingdom, and now a 19-year-old elite wizard. What was strange about him using the power of the will during leveling up?
"Everything that happened today, keep it a secret!" Grand Duke Edwina lowered her voice and commanded the Druil around her.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" The Druil bowed.
They knew this man was the emperor of a human kingdom, so it was not strange for him to be a top secret.
Grand Duke Edwina looked at the large mana gathering circle in the yard and suddenly thought of something. She yelled, "One more mile, and get rid of all the elves!"
The mana environment created by the large mana gathering circle in such a small yard would definitely cause mana to leak out. Therefore, the safest way was to expand the circle.
As the Druil soul controlled a strand of power of the will to activate the large mana gathering circle, a strong suction force emerged from the circle. A funnel-shaped air current appeared in the sky.
At the same time, Grand Duke Edwina received a warning from the city's large magic circle. Of course, she would not stop the large mana gathering circle from activating. Not only that, but she also directed the city's large magic circle to gather all the mana around Angstrom City so that the large mana gathering circle could work better.
Inside the magic circle, the wizard core in Abel's body began to emit white light as the level-up qi and mana continued to pour in. All the wizard patterns drawn from rank 1 to rank 15 began to leave the wizard core with strands of white light.
These wizard patterns were distributed to every part of Abel's body and slowly changed his body. However, his body had already far surpassed the body of an elite wizard, so this change only strengthened his body's affinity with the elements.
Without all the wizard patterns, the wizard core was in an extremely dangerous state. Abel's wizard core was already a lot bigger than a normal wizard's, so this kind of extreme instability was even more serious.
Large amounts of promotion aura and mana were forcefully stuffed into the wizard core, causing the wizard core to be in an extremely unstable state. Countless wizards had failed their promotion due to the explosion of their crystal core during this step.
Therefore, the balance of leveling up energy and mana in the wizard core was very important. The wizard needed to use his power of the will to adjust the balance between the two.
Abel's main soul almost instinctively ignited the data analysis ability of the world stone fragment. The leveling up energy and mana values were converted into data.
Leveling up energy: 979
Mana: 990
Very clear data showed how the two types of energy in Abel's body affected his wizard core and made it unstable.
He used his power of the will to slightly suppress the influx of mana, and the data immediately changed slightly.
Leveling up energy: 981
Mana: 981
After the leveling up energy and mana had reached a balance, the wizard core returned to its stable state.
Slowly, more and more leveling up energy and mana went in, and the wizard core's storage had almost reached its limit. Abel knew the next step was to condense the wizard core so that it could support a rank 16 wizard pattern.
This meant that the first hurdle was over, and now it was time for the second hurdle.
Condensing the wizard core was to condense the already saturated wizard core again and let the leveling up energy and mana merge with the wizard core to increase the quality of the wizard core.
This process was very difficult. It required the wizard to constantly use his power of the will to compress the wizard core. The final level of condensation would affect the wizard's level when he became an elite wizard in the future.
This was why some wizards could not level up after rank 16. They could be stuck at the bottleneck of rank 16 for hundreds of years until they died of old age.
One of the most important reasons was that a wizard's core could not be condensed enough to support the drawing of a rank 17 wizard pattern. If an intermediate wizard didn't have a good foundation when they became an elite wizard, the process of condensing a wizard's core would be countless times more difficult.
Abel's inheritance was better than most wizards in the Holy Continent. He had inherited the lightning clan's inheritance. At least there was a rank 18 elite wizard like Wizard Dunn in the Holy Continent, which showed how good their inheritance was.
The condensation of a Wizard's core depended on how strong one's power of the Will was. When the power of the Will was exerting pressure on the Wizard's core, the pressure was determined by the power of the Will.
This was also the reason why most adepts who had reached rank 15 would have to train their Spirit for countless years before they could find another chance to advance.
Abel's power of the will was very strong. This was his advantage. He knew this in his heart, so he was confident that he could condense his wizard core to the ideal state.
His power of the Will turned into a mountain and pressed down on his Wizard Core. The promotion energy and mana from the Wizard Core combined and pressed into the Wizard Core. The Wizard Core trembled slightly.
He sensed the status of his wizard core, but the mountain of power of the Will had no effect on his wizard core. He was a bit disappointed. With the data analysis ability of the world stone, he could clearly sense that the wizard core had not reached its most solid state. There was still a lot of room for it to solidify.
He couldn't help but regret that he did not train his power of the will first before leveling up.
He seemed to have forgotten that this leveling up was an accident. He had entered the process of leveling up too early.
This was why Grand Duke Edwina was half happy and half worried about the promotion qi. It was a good thing, but this leveling up was too important. It was related to his future achievements as a wizard.
"No, I can't level up like this!" Abel screamed in his heart. He didn't want to be a normal elite wizard. He wanted to be like Wizard Dunn and reach rank 18 in his lifetime.
At the same time, he didn't want to become a real blue dragon and sleep for hundreds of years to increase his power. He was a human. He couldn't accept the way the dragons leveled up.
A flash of determination flashed in his eyes. It was either success or death. If he didn't take the risk now, he would be ordinary in the future. He couldn't accept this.
"Doesn't it only take 2 hours for an intermediate wizard to level up to an elite wizard? It's been 3 hours. Why isn't His Majesty done yet? "Grand Duke Edwina said hesitantly to herself and to herself.
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