He removed his own resentment that had built up and condensed it into a Mana Wraith that would control the opening and closing of the Secret Garden.
The Nine-Headed Vines guarding the Mills Garden was also a branch of his main body. Because he had swallowed so many Magic Medicines, his strength was very frightening.
Naturally, because of the Magic Medicine body, he couldn’t deliberately cast spells anymore.
Especially after Lance set up the Universe Magic Pool, he discovered with shock that his ability to absorb Chaos Magic Power had sharply declined.
This greatly infuriated Orica, but he didn’t dare leave this world.
His longevity method still had a flaw and he needed more souls to fuse completely.
This was the truth hidden behind the Secret Garden!
…
The old man’s bellows were getting progressively louder.
His expression while looking at Ivan and Marvin was also starting to become filled with greed.
“Rest assured, this process won’t be very painful.”
“Wait till you become part of my body. You’ll be proud!”
“We will rule over the Universe!”
The last sentence was shouted by all the bloody faces on the plants.
Marvin and Ivan didn’t seem impressed.
The former sighed, “You made two mistakes.”
Orica waved his vines menacingly, spreading them across the area and ready to lash out anytime.
He scowled at Marvin angrily. “What nonsense are you talking about!”
“First of all, you thought Eric died a long time ago. But in reality, he didn’t die,” Marvin said calmly.
“This can’t be!” Orica’s face distorted. “Are you making fun of me? I already crushed his soul!”
“Maybe.” Marvin shrugged. “But why are you hiding here, not daring to go out?” he asked rhetorically.
“The Astral Beast’s body is full of treasures, so why don’t you swallow it?”
“That gradually recovering aura, as a Legend Wizard who is also an expert on the domain of soul, shouldn’t you feel something strange about it?”
Orica snarled in denial, “Absolutely impossible!”
“That was my body! How could it be snatched by a mere Wizard Apprentice!”
He became extremely violent, the barbed vines that filled the sky sweeping over from all sides.
Each vine had countless faces covering it!
These were all distorted and some were even missing facial features!
But they each had a bloody mouth as well as saw-like teeth!
Facing this, the two didn’t cower.
Marvin knew this was merely an illusion.
He could feel that Orica was bluffing. After all, that guy had already fused with the Magic Medicine King, which was only an expert in illusions.
But Marvin didn’t get rid of the illusion.
He had no way to do it, but that wasn’t true of the Elven Prince beside him.
Ivan had previously affirmed that he could handle the Magic Medicine King’s illusions.
He took a step forward while spreading out his palm and a golden light burst out!
The dazzling golden light was bright like the sun and pierced through the entire room.
All the souls began to howl in grief as the vines were ignited.
Orica was utterly frightened. He realized in consternation that the entire space was starting to collapse!
“No! No!”
“What’s this… Why is it like this?”
Ivan gave him a look of pity. “Your body already fused with the Garden of Eden?”
“No wonder the space itself is getting affected.”
“And you think you are unrivalled here? Unfortunately, you are wrong.”
“However powerful the lie, it can still be defeated by the truth.”
“Falsehood is the only foundation you rely on. Now, what will be left once I destroy your foundation?”
The next second, the whole space thoroughly collapsed!
The huge plant was turned to dust under the golden light.
An intense energy condensed in the air as an ugly soul was being stabbed by the bright light.
A sense of loss could be seen on Ivan’s face.
The Magic Medicines assimilated by Orica had already wholly become part of him and couldn’t be recovered anymore.
These tribulations in the Dead Area still weren’t enough to find a medicine to cure the Great Elven King’s injuries.
…
Marvin looked somewhat awed when he saw this.
He had thought that Ivan meant he had some treasures to get rid of illusions, nothing more.
But he hadn’t expected that this guy would pull out a fragment of a Fate Tablet!
A Fate Tablet fragment!
Marvin had handled Ding’s main body, so this was something he was very familiar with. But the Plane Law carved on this fragment was [Truth] and not [Luck]!
It was amazing that the Wood Elven family had such a treasure!
Who knew what the person who held the fragment had thought at the time. That person didn’t use it to ascend to Godhood.
And now, this Fate Tablet fragment had the aura of life. It was close to being incarnated into a living creature.
This meant that this Fate Tablet fragment might become like Ding, and gradually form a flesh body.
A Truth Fairy.
This was something mortals couldn’t imagine.
An ordinary person would definitely choose to ascend upon gaining a Fate Tablet fragment, but clearly, that ancestor of the Wood Elves didn’t choose to do so. He might have been the former Great Elven King, chasing after the traces of the High Elves who left for the distant Eternal Country.
And this Fate Tablet fragment was left behind.
The successive generations of Wood Elven Kings also didn’t choose to ascend to Godhood.
This was very praiseworthy.
Before the Truth Tablet fragment, all illusions were nothing but falsehoods!
Marvin sighed while watching as Orica’s soul was slowly scattered.
This was a bit different from what he had planned.
But he also knew that Ivan chose to use the Truth Tablet because of his apprehensions.
In his opinion, people like Orica were stains that couldn’t be left on this world.
Even if they wanted to keep this Magic Medicine that was full of lies and illusions, Orica’s soul would still be intermixed with it and couldn’t be separated.
That guy was an expert at playing with people’s feelings and there could be some terrible consequences one day if they didn’t eliminate him.
Thus, despite the fact that killing Orica would make his endeavor in looking for a Magic Medicine to cure his father a wasted effort, Ivan still didn’t hesitate to do so.
This former Legend Wizard was no longer worthy of anyone’s respect. He had become a threat to this world.
This filthy soul was bound to perish.
…
Orica’s soul was still struggling to live on.
In front of the Truth Tablet, this Legend Wizard’s soul had displayed amazing tenacity.
Most of his soul energy had already been crushed thoroughly by the Law of Truth.
But there was still a round sphere.
Ivan and Marvin weren’t worried that he’d survive. How long Orica’s soul could last was only a question of time.
But then a huge change took place!
Orica bellowed with his distorted expression, “Go fuck the truth!”
“If you want to kill me, you’ll also have to pay the price!”
In an instant, the remnants of his soul energy condensed together.
Ivan immediately felt uneasy and told Marvin, “Run!”
Marvin noticed the danger at the same time!
This guy wanted them to share his fate!
Ivan had the Truth Tablet, so the other side couldn’t harm him. But the T
ruth Tablet could only protect its user. It wasn’t a conscious Truth Fairy yet!
Marvin used Shadow Escape and fled.
But Orica’s resentful expression followed closely, apparently breaking through the restrictions of space, firmly locked on Marvin’s body.
“Enjoy this soul energy. I might not be able to see you explode, but that scene will most certainly be beautiful!”
Orica laughed his head off as he disappeared.
At the same time, a frightening soul energy poured into Marvin’s body!
He felt like his body was expanding to the limit as he heard the howls of countless ghosts!
‘No good… Will I die in such a depressing way?’
Marvin felt a swelling pain. He was nauseated and felt like throwing up as this thought passed through his mind.
However, a log option appeared before his eyes:
[Open Essence Pool to absorb surplus Essences?]
Chapter 391: Blessing in Disguise
Chapter 391: Blessing in Disguise
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At this critical moment, how could Marvin deal with so much energy?
Despite Ivan rushing over, trying to use the Truth Tablet to disperse the energy, it had already started pouring into Marvin because of Orica’s curse.
His goal was simple. He wanted to take Marvin down with him by using this energy to make him explode!
Marvin was under excruciating pain but he made a quick decision when the option appeared before him.
The next second, something magical happened.
[Essence Pool opened completely, Essence Absorption System activated omnidirectionally…]
[Essence Energy Absorption… Maximum Efficiency]
Marvin was instantly stunned by the change.
He no longer had any disagreeable feelings.
And the general experience on his interface began to skyrocket!
Ivan was extremely worried and asked frantically, “Are you okay? Take the Truth Tablet, quick!”
In order to rescue Marvin, he didn’t hesitate to lend him the most valuable treasure of the Wood Elven Royal Family.
But Marvin answered, “I’m fine.”
“Put away the Truth Tablet.”
His voice was a little strange as he muttered, “It seems to be… A blessing in disguise…”
…
In the quiet valley, a great amount of soul energy seemed to revolve around Marvin, pouring into his body torrentially.
Ivan stored away the Truth Tablet and looked at the scene, flabbergasted.
If it was someone else, even himself… without the Truth Tablet, wouldn’t they explode from all the energy?
But that mysterious guy only had some pain at the start and now looked happier and happier as time went on.
Had his mind been confused by the soul energy?
Ivan was a bit worried.
But there truly didn’t seem to be any problems with Marvin, and adding to Ivan’s confusion, the aura from Marvin’s body was growing more powerful!
It looked like… the soul energy was becoming his nourishment.
…
The sudden change in the situation caught even Marvin off guard.
It was a pity that Orica himself had vanished completely, or else he might have had a chance to die while feeling even more miserable.
He had been so sure that Marvin would die, but he ended up surviving and gaining a lot out of it.
Marvin didn’t know what to say.
But he had an inkling of understanding toward the theory.
Orica made use of the Magic Medicine’s ability to purify the soul energy and use it as power.
This soul energy was a type of Essence.
Others didn’t have a system like Marvin’s and would never be able to absorb these Essences.
But Marvin was different, having both the system and the corresponding Essence Storage Pool.
The Essence Storage Pool was like a bottomless pit, able to absorb an endless amount of Essences.
These Essences would be reflected as general exp.
After no less than ten minutes, the soul energy revolving around Marvin’s body was finally almost exhausted.
Marvin came out unscathed.
He looked at the amount of general exp on his interface and couldn’t help but gulp.
Ivan walked over, worryingly asking, “How are you?”
Marvin brightly smiled, “Never been better.”
…
More than 500 000 general exp!
This was the most experience he had ever earned since transmigrating!
This was quite the fortuitous windfall. He had originally wanted to find a place to quickly farm exp like Saruha’s Theater.
But he hadn’t thought that without him even making a move, Orica, the embodiment of the Magic Medicine King, would give him such a huge gift before dying.
It was the last boost he needed to become a Ruler of the Night.
Indeed, he had enough experience to level up his Night Walker class again!
He, who was already a Legend in some ways, could finally advance to Ruler of the Night!
But they were still in the Secret Garden at the moment. He needed a peaceful place to advance because the advancement was a kind of ancient and mysterious ritual.
This ritual couldn’t be interrupted, or else his life could be threatened.
Marvin didn’t dare to risk it. Thus, he only allocated the experience to Ranger and Night Walker for now.
This way, both classes would reach level 10!
It was very rare for both the Base Class and the Advanced Class to reach level 10 before becoming a Legend. Most people would make use of their subclasses to get enough levels to advance to Legend.
Marvin had more than enough experience to get there!
With both of his classes reaching that threshold, his HP increased greatly, breaking far past the two thousand mark!
2809 HP!
Even compared with Fighters of the same rank, this could be considered very fierce. Naturally, this had a lot to do with the bonuses from Marvin’s subclasses.
Apart from this, the two classes’ skill points were temporarily left alone. He’d decide on how to allocate them later.
In any case, he would soon advance to Ruler of the Night so he could pay attention to the allocation then.
He wasn’t lacking that fighting strength right now.
What made him more excited were the three Ranger specialties he got for reaching the level cap!
Yes, the Base Class had a maximum of 10 levels, but that didn’t mean that there was no way to overcome this restriction.
The best example Marvin knew of was the Great Elven King Nicholas, who was a level 21 Ranger.
This was a status that hadn’t been reached since ancient times, but he managed to do it. As such, he was one of the most powerful beings in Feinan.
When a class was promoted, the specialties given by the plane would be based on the potential and the development path of the class holder.
Marvin was excited about all three of these specialties:
[Dual Wielding Ruler]: When attacking with two blades, there is a certain chance of temporarily increasing your Curved Dagger Mastery as well as your Blade Techniques by 1 level.
[Melee Ranger]: You gave up on using long-distance attacks, showing that you are a hot-blooded person. Constitution and Strength permanently increased by 1.
[Class Privileges]: When using your class’ skills, the effects will be substantially increased.
…
Those three specialties were all very practical.
Dual Wielding Ruler, Two-Weapon Fighting, and Reckless Dual Wielder were part of a set, all of which passively took effect in battle.
Currently, Marvin’s Curved Dagger Mastery and Blade Technique were both at Greatmaster level. If they were temporarily buffed by the first specialty, they would reach the peak Grandmaster level!
/> At that time, his close-range burst power would suppress all others.
And the second specialty was even more exciting.
Everyone knew how tough it was to get more attribute points.
Although Marvin leveled up, since he hadn’t advanced to Legend yet, he was still considered a level 20 Half-Legend, so he didn’t get any more attribute points from leveling.
Yet this specialty instantly gave him two attribute points!
Thus, his Strength reached 19, just one point away from the first major threshold, while his Constitution reached 17.
As for the last specialty, the description was clear that it would increase the effects of his Ranger skills. Even if it didn’t specify how much it would increase them, it shouldn’t be too little.
…
In contrast, Night Walker didn’t have any bonus specialty reward at level 10.
Night Walker was an Advanced Class after all, so the maximum level was 20. He would get another specialty at level 11.
But now he had a total of 80 Night Walker skill points. If properly allocated, he would get a huge boost to his fighting strength.
For example, the skill that had just appeared, [Night Assault].
This skill’s effect was to condense six Doppelgangers to strike the enemy simultaneously. Each Doppelganger’s firepower would be equal to the main body’s and would last thirty seconds.
This skill was quite powerful.
If not for Marvin intending to make his decisions after advancing to Ruler of the Night, he would have instantly chosen this skill.
…
After spending his exp, Marvin felt filled with power.
He could advance to Ruler of the Night at any time.
The Shadow Diamond was in his hands, as was the Advancement Manual, satisfying the advancement prerequisites. Everything was in order.
The only issue was that he was still in the Secret Garden.
He needed to leave and get somewhere safer first.
With Orica’s disappearance, the Garden of Eden disappeared so there wasn’t much value in the Secret Garden anymore.
The two considered for a moment and prepared to leave.
Leaving the Secret Garden wasn’t as hard now. Orica was already dead and there were many arrays that could be used in the Secret Garden.
Although Ivan was a War Saint, he still had his Elven knowledge.
He would be able to find an array to get them outside.
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