151: Chapter 151 Both Breakthrough

"Phew~ Finally reached Silver!"

Feeling the surge of Dou Qi Energy within his body, as if it were about to erupt, Lister let out a long breath, a smile naturally appearing on his face.

Since he arrived in this world, more than two months had passed.

In just over two months, he had gone from a weakling who wasn't even an Apprentice Knight to becoming a Silver Knight; the speed of his breakthrough could not be described as anything but fast.

In fact, even the word 'fast' couldn't clearly express how terrifying his talent was.

After all, most people would need several years to reach this realm, and some might never achieve it in their entire lives.

Actually, his breakthrough speed wasn't that fast at the beginning, clearly limited by the original body's talent. It was only after he worked hard to consume many precious resources that his cultivation speed gradually caught up.

Wasn't this method of piling up resources also a form of hard work?

"Awoo~"

As Lister was carefully experiencing the changes in his body, Baize's cry reached his ears, its beast language filled with sycophantic praise.

Smiling, Lister also gave a great deal of praise for Baize's breakthrough, which Baize enjoyed very much.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~

Accompanied by the sound of the whistling cold wind in their ears, Lister and Baize quietly watched Christina and Lihuo, who were still cultivating.

As time passed second by second, Lihuo was the first to emerge from cultivation. Although it didn't have a heaven-defying talent like Baize, it at least possessed the Flaming Bull Bloodline.

This time, it had cultivated steadily and broke through to Bronze Tier 3, which was considered very good.

On the other side, Christina was now surrounded by multicolored magic energy, and her whole being emitted a sense of goodwill that made people unconsciously feel close to her.

That magic energy was like self-aware Pixies, dancing happily while being rapidly absorbed into Christina's body.

As more and more magic energy was absorbed, Christina's body finally reached a limit.

With a "bang," in Christina's perception, the magic seed in her body exploded, then spun at high speed to condense into a new magic seed.

Compared to the previous magic seed in her body, the current one was several levels higher in both the quality and quantity of energy.

At the same time, her realm successfully advanced from Apprentice Wizard to Official Wizard (Elementary Wizard).

Just as Lister thought it was over, the magic seed in Christina's body continued to rotate frantically, making her body like a giant magic vortex.

Under this powerful suction, magic within a radius of dozens of meters continuously poured into her body.

This continued for about half an hour. Under the gaze of Lister, Baize, and Lihuo, Christina was completely enveloped in multicolored magic, transforming into a Wizard Goddess.

Accompanied by a pleasant roar, the magic energy around Christina suddenly vanished into thin air, dissipating into the atmosphere.

Christina slowly opened her eyes. Her water-blue pupils seemed to be containers holding the entire world, with multicolored magic energy flowing within them.

Seeing this, Lister quickly stepped forward and asked, "Christina, how do you feel?"

"I feel very comfortable, Brother."

Christina showed a relaxed expression while carefully sensing the changes in her body, saying in surprise, "Brother, it seems like... another magic seed has appeared in my body, and it's multicolored."

"Another magic seed!" Lister was instantly surprised. He then took Christina's hand and released his Spiritual Power to sense it carefully.

Christina didn't resist at all and waited quietly.

Normally, if one wanted to use Spiritual Power to sense the energy changes in another person's body from a distance, it would be relatively easy if the other person was an ordinary person.

But if it were a Transcendent, one would need sufficiently strong Spiritual Power to do so, and the difficulty of sensing would change according to the other person's strength.

Lister knew very well that even if his current Spiritual Power was stronger than Christina's, it wasn't by much.

After all, his cultivation was mainly focused on the path of the knight, with less emphasis on Wizardry, and his innate Spiritual Power talent wasn't strong to begin with.

Therefore, compared to sensing from a distance, sensing through physical contact was definitely easier and more accurate.

As his Spiritual Power traveled through Christina's body, his expression became increasingly surprised.

In his perception, there really were two magic seeds in Christina's body.

One was a white magic seed shimmering with golden light, and the other was the one Christina mentioned, a magic seed fused with various colors.

Compared to the holiness and nobility of the former, the latter was mixed with various sensations—the dominance of fire, the softness of water, the healing of wood, and so on; it was clearly a fusion of multiple natural elements.

If Lister wasn't mistaken, Christina could currently release more than one type of magic. To verify his hypothesis,

Lister let go of her hand, looked at Christina, and said, "Christina, try releasing magic, but only mobilize the energy from that colored magic seed."

"Okay, Brother," Christina obediently agreed. She then picked up the staff beside her and began to circulate the colored magic seed in her body. In an instant, various elemental energies in the air gathered around her, and under the drive of her Spiritual Power, they condensed into elemental magic spheres of different colors.

With a gentle wave of her staff, nearly ten elemental magic spheres shot toward the targets specifically set up not far away.

Boom, boom, boom—!

A series of explosions rang out. Those targets were either burned to ashes by fire, shattered by lightning, or pierced by water; attacks of every element were present.

Seeing this, Lister's face lit up with joy, and he praised, "Christina, you are too amazing!"

It was no wonder Lister reacted this way; Christina's magic talent was simply too heaven-defying.

One must know that although mages and wizards could use magic to condense different elemental energies as their method of attack,

there was an upper limit to this condensation. After all, the feeling of sensing different elemental energies was completely different; one must fully comprehend the essence of that energy.

Therefore, being able to condense three different elemental energies was already considered having extraordinary talent, and five types made one a top-tier genius.

But someone like Christina, who could condense nearly ten types and do so instantaneously, could no longer be described as a genius; she was at a monstrous level in the pursuit of magic cultivation.

Not only that, looking at Christina's appearance and the feeling Lister got from sensing her magic seed just now, releasing these few elemental magic spheres was clearly not her limit.

Moreover, this was only one of Christina's magic seeds; the energy in the other magic seed felt equally extraordinary to Lister.

If he hadn't sensed it wrong, that should be Light element energy, which has an extremely strong suppression effect on evil forces.

Seeing Lister so happy, Christina also showed a joyful expression. Although she hadn't been Lister's sister for long,

through their time together, she had already developed absolute trust and dependence on him. Therefore, as long as it was Lister's praise, she could be happy for a long time.

On the other side, Baize and Lihuo also pounced directly into Christina's arms, crying out to celebrate with her, causing Christina to let out a silver-bell-like laugh.

With a joyful smile on his face, Lister took Christina, Baize, and Lihuo to the outdoor training grounds.

"Congratulations, Lord Lister, on successfully advancing to Silver Knight. Congratulations, Miss Christina, on your strength improving once again."

Red was still the first to step forward with congratulations. Although Christina had never shown what kind of Transcendent energy she was cultivating,

with his rich experience, he could still sense and guess it, though he didn't say it outright.

As Red's congratulations rang out, Locke and the other knights also offered their sincere praise.

Especially those knights with lower strength, who looked at Lister with fanatical eyes and faces full of infinite reverence.

One must know that Lister was not even twenty years old and had already cultivated to become a Silver Knight. Such talent would definitely have a place within the Kingdom.

In this cultivation session, besides Lister's major breakthrough, Red also successfully broke through to Silver Rank 5, and three other knights broke through to Bronze Rank 2.

The knight strength of the entire Ironthorn Territory was in a stage of steady upward progress, making the joy in Lister's heart even greater.

After finishing a day of cultivation, the four of them returned to the castle.

Christina's rest room was located in the family rest area on the second floor of the castle, and it was very large.

Furthermore, so she wouldn't feel lonely alone at night, Lister had Baize and the other little fellows all move into her room.

This feeling of being cared for caused the pain of losing her home and family in Christina's heart to gradually fade.

After washing up, Lister sat on his bed to perform his divination before sleeping.

[Divination 1: Your Artisan in charge, Malo Regan, and Bertha Olivia will taste the forbidden fruit late tonight. Next year, a new child will be born in your territory.]

[Divination 2: Among the women saved by Spartacus today, Rachel, the little princess of the Mandi merchant family from Telris, has fallen for him. Isabelle plans to pull the Mandy Family under your command by playing matchmaker for her best friend Rachel and Spartacus.]

[Divination 3: Tomorrow afternoon, over a dozen hungry jackals will try to enter the Ironthorn Territory to find food. They will all be slain on the spot by a knight and Soldier patrol squad.]

[Divination 4: The morning after tomorrow, in Shika Town of Baron Ferguson Bazels Territory, a vendor in the northwest corner will mistakenly sell three blood spirit fruits as ordinary fruits.]

Four pieces of divination information!

Lister showed a look of surprise. He hadn't expected that the divination, which hadn't changed its frequency for so long, would silently gain an extra count.

"Could it be because of my advancement to Silver Knight?"

After thinking about it, Lister felt there was likely no other possibility. After all, the fact that the divination count increased right after his breakthrough was too much of a coincidence.

For him, today was a double blessing.

With a good mood, his eyes quickly scanned the four pieces of divination information.

He wasn't surprised by the first piece of divination information; after all, the relationship between Malo and Bertha was already known to everyone in the Workshop.

Rather, the fact that Malo could hold back until now made Lister look at him with a bit more respect.

Next was the second piece of divination information. After reading it, an ambiguous smile couldn't help but curl on Lister's lips.

Just by going out once, love had come knocking on Spartacus's door, and it was even Isabelle's best friend, the little princess of a great family.

If Isabelle really could bring the Mandy Family under his command, he would truly have to reward her well.

Then there was the third piece of divination information. While not a major event, it showed that the patrol and defense work of the Ironthorn Territory was being done very thoroughly.

At the same time, this also showed that Red's management of the knights was very good; otherwise, in other territories, many patrolling knights and Soldiers would slack off more or less.

In contrast, Red and all the knights and Soldiers executed Lister's orders very well, leaving him very satisfied.

As for the last piece of divination information, if it were in the past, Lister might have been very excited, but now, three blood spirit fruits were no longer enough to move him.

When your pockets are full, you can afford to be bold!

But bold as he was, three blood spirit fruits were still worth taking. Although blood spirit fruits weren't particularly precious,

even small flies are meat. He understood the principle of many small things adding up to a lot, and he quite liked the feeling of getting something for free.

Through the window, Lister glanced at the night sky; it was almost the next day.

Therefore, he didn't go to sleep directly but instead practiced Wizardry, waiting for the arrival of the next day so he could use up his divinations before resting.

Although his talent wasn't as good as Christina's, since consuming the purple soul fruit, he was actually considered quite good among most mages and wizards.

Currently, he had learned many Wizardry techniques from the Wizard Scroll, among which offensive types were few, with most being defensive.

He had no intention of changing this path of prioritizing knight cultivation combined with defensive Wizardry, even after seeing Christina's powerful offensive capabilities today.

Given his current talent, it wasn't suitable for him to learn too many disorganized Wizardry techniques; otherwise, it would slow down his knight cultivation speed.

He understood the principle that biting off more than one can chew is bad, and this didn't mean he wouldn't practice offensive Wizardry in the future; it just wasn't suitable right now.

As a large amount of blue magic gathered around his body, he used his Spiritual Power to guide this magic, slowly covering his entire body to form a Magic Shield that fit his whole body, or more accurately, a Magic Body-Protecting Raiment.

This Magic Body-Protecting Raiment was an experimental variation he made on the original Magic Shield; it could both save magic and better protect the whole body without drawing attention from others.

He had originally just intended to try it out, but he hadn't expected it to actually succeed. Therefore, during this time, he had been becoming Proficient with and strengthening this Magic Body-Protecting Raiment in his Wizardry cultivation.

Now, through his unremitting efforts, the Magic Body-Protecting Raiment had achieved a very strong magic protection effect. At the very least, it shouldn't be as difficult to block Baize's lightning magic skill as it was last time.

After finishing his Wizardry cultivation, Lister performed a new day's divination, but the results didn't yield any useful information.