77: Chapter 77 Breakthrough to the Peak of the Fourth Tier
Time flew by.
Over an hour later.
Lin Fan stood on a tree branch several meters high.
The undying robe enveloped his entire body, and the omniscient mask concealed his face.
He was looking at his system panel.
"Ding, Daily Quest complete!"
"Ding, Weekly Quest complete!"
Magic Beasts hunted: 35/5
"Ding, Reward: 70 experience points!"
"supreme path system (Glitch Version)"
"Host: Lin Fan"
"Level: 15"
"Upgrade Experience: 470/100 (Glitch)"
"Rank: Peak Tier 3 Mage"
"Elements: Space, Lightning"
Beneath the omniscient mask, Lin Fan's eyes were filled with excitement.
In just over an hour, he had killed a total of 34 Magic Beasts.
Adding the weekly quest reward, plus the 60 points he had left over, he now had a total of 470 experience points.
It was enough to level up four times in a row.
Lin Fan did not hesitate in the slightest and used 400 experience points to level up immediately.
"Ding! System upgrade! Level 15 → Level 16 → Level 17 → Level 18 → Level 19!"
"Peak Tier 3 → Early Tier 4 → Mid Tier 4 → Late Tier 4 → Peak Tier 4!"
Boom...!
Lin Fan's soul sea exploded from within.
The magic power inside his body erupted like a volcano.
He soared directly from the peak of Tier 3 all the way to the peak of Tier 4!
The violent power kicked up a gale.
A tornado formed with him at the center, and the magic power in the air became frantically restless.
The power was so great that the tree branch beneath his feet, which was over two meters thick, crumbled instantly.
Lin Fan fell from mid-air.
Thud!
His feet hit the ground, causing it to crack upon impact, and his robe snapped violently in the wind.
Lin Fan slowly raised his hands.
Feeling the surging power within his body, it was as if he had just woken up from a grand dream.
He was ten times, no, a hundred times stronger than he had been at the peak of Tier 3!
"So this is... the power of a Tier 4 Mage."
"supreme path system (Glitch Version)"
"Host: Lin Fan"
"Level: 19"
"Upgrade Experience: 70/100 (Glitch)"
"Rank: Peak Tier 4 Mage"
"Elements: Space, Lightning"
Lin Fan immersed himself in this power.
It was as if he had stepped into an entirely new world.
This was Tier 4.
A realm that eighty percent of the mages in the world would never reach in their entire lives.
Although it was only one major rank higher than Tier 3, the gap was like a chasm.
Countless mages were stuck at this bottleneck.
It required not only talent but also astronomical amounts of resources.
Yet Lin Fan had reached it so easily just by killing a group of weak Magic Beasts.
If other mages knew, they would probably be jealous enough to cough up blood.
This was just too unfair!
Lin Fan waved his hand.
In the next second, starlight flashed like a shower of light, instantly forming two massive constellations above his head.
It only took one second.
This was the hallmark of Tier 4... a soul sea capable of supporting the starlight needed for two constellations, allowing the casting of Tier 4 spells!
Lin Fan looked at the two purple constellations above his head, which were radiating violent pressure, and smiled with satisfaction.
Sure enough.
The moment he broke through to Tier 4, the system directly helped him master the constellations; the speed was terrifying to the extreme.
You have to know.
After a normal mage breaks through to a new realm, they must first slowly master the newly born starlight in their soul sea, then relearn how to connect Star Patterns and combine them into constellations.
This process.
Usually takes weeks or even months, and the cultivation speed is pitifully slow.
Only after they finally learn it can they start to get faster little by little.
But Lin Fan was different.
With the system, he skipped all those long, tedious steps!
As expected of the supreme path system!
After admiring it for a moment, Lin Fan retracted the starlight, and the two constellations dissipated along with the violent lightning-type pressure.
At this moment, his soul sea had expanded significantly after breaking through to Tier 4.
It was enough to hold a total of one hundred Star Patterns of both elements.
The amount of magic power he could store was even more terrifying.
He couldn't even imagine how many spells he would have to cast to exhaust his magic power.
Of course, this only applied to low-tier spells.
When using Tier 4 spells of the same level, the magic consumption would still be very fast.
Lin Fan retracted the starlight.
He turned and looked in a certain direction deep in the forest.
It was exactly where he had encountered the Red-Eyed Bear last time.
He had said that once he broke through to Tier 4, he would return for revenge.
Now.
He had done it; it was time to kill that bear!
Today's hunting was about done.
He planned to deal with the bear before heading back to the city.
This time.
Lin Fan did not use Void Walk to go deep into the forest.
He wanted to test just how strong his physical body had become after breaking through to Tier 4.
With that thought, Lin Fan bent his knees slightly and leaped.
Boom!
The ground beneath his feet exploded instantly.
The next second.
Lin Fan was already flying above the forest.
He had actually vaulted directly over the tops of the towering trees in the forest!
"Whoa!"
Lin Fan couldn't help but exclaim in wonder.
Looking out, the entire forest was endless, filled with trees of varying heights, like a green ocean.
"This is so awesome!"
His body surged forward and then descended in the air, easily covering hundreds of meters.
A few seconds later, Lin Fan landed back in the forest.
Boom!
His feet hit the ground, causing another deafening explosion.
Mud splattered, and a huge crater formed with him at the center.
"Alright, the landing was a bit rough; I'll have to practice that later."
Lin Fan muttered to himself.
He was fine, of course.
But the surrounding environment was a sorry sight.
If any mages below Tier 4 had been nearby, they would definitely have been injured by the shockwave.
Lin Fan looked around, trying to judge how far he had jumped.
Last time, he had used Void Walk and gone too far, which was why he had encountered such a powerful Magic Beast.
As expected.
He couldn't recognize this place at all; all the trees looked the same.
There was no other way, so Lin Fan had to release his perception to search for his target.
Although he felt he hadn't jumped too far, the deafening sound of his landing just now must have traveled very far.
If that bear was within a kilometer, it would definitely have heard it.
After stepping into Tier 4.
Lin Fan's perception was like an invisible ripple, covering a range of several hundred meters.
He could vaguely perceive every movement within that circle.
"Hm? What's that?"
His perception caught something approaching at high speed about five hundred meters ahead.
Lin Fan frowned.
Although he couldn't see exactly what it was, he could at least judge its size and shape.
No matter how he looked at it, it didn't look like the bear he was hunting.
It was even smaller than a human!
"But it's fast; what on earth is it?"
Five hundred meters...
Four hundred and fifty meters...
Three hundred and twenty meters...
One hundred and sixty meters...
Seventy meters...
The speed was astonishing; in just half a minute, it had charged from five hundred meters away to right in front of him!
When it was twenty meters away.
Lin Fan withdrew his perception and looked directly ahead with his naked eyes.
He saw a red energy ball the size of a tire smashing through trees and shooting toward him at a frantic speed!
Lin Fan: "..."
Who was shooting energy balls around in the forest for no reason?
What if they hurt someone!
Although he was a bit bewildered.
Lin Fan didn't dare to take the energy ball head-on; who knew how powerful it was.
His figure flashed, leaving an afterimage in place, and he dodged it easily.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
The energy ball grazed past him.
It smashed through trees along the way and exploded with a roar.
"Just how terrifying is this power?!"
Lin Fan was incredulous.
"Roar...!!"