CHAPTER 394: CHAPTER 394: SENIOR MAGE REZEN

Savage Beast Realm.

Three Years Later.

From a pool filled with blue liquid possessing an enormous amount of mana, the figure of a handsome man emerged.

From his body, the aura of a first-cycle Senior Mage was emanating.

Finally, after years of constant cultivation, Rezen has risen to the next realm. He is finally a Senior Mage!

In the universe, a Senior Mage is nothing, but in the primitive Savage Beast Realm, this rank is already quite high.

"The Theramis Cultivation Pool indeed did not disappoint. It has helped me reach the Senior Rank, but my swift progress is still thanks to the endless resources I consumed as well as the crystal I obtained from the Guardian."

If Claude was able to become a Senior Mage in just a year with his talent, Rezen, on the other hand, needed around half a decade, along with endless resource consumption and precious treasures.

Rezen’s breakthrough was achieved by using resources rather than talent. After all, not everyone has his farm that can grow Spirit Plants with almost no impurities.

If others taking one Spirit Plant earned them a hundred points of impurities, even if Rezen were to consume a hundred Spirit Plants, he might not even gain a single point of impurity.

"This is also thanks to my Unsullied Body, but now... I cannot rely on it anymore unless I further elevate my physique’s level" Rezen said with a sigh.

The physique he gained from the Krome Underground did not increase his talent or his combat power.

However, it does enable him to consume Spirit Plants higher than his rank. It also made him immune to any poison below the Senior Rank.

But now that he has reached the Senior Rank, his physique has become obsolete unless he improves it.

Fortunately, Rezen already knows the method of improving his physique thanks to Ivy. It’s just that it was currently not something he could do immediately.

Being important to humanity comes with its own disadvantage. Whether it be Elder Priss or the Guardian, they would not allow him to endanger himself.

Rezen himself is not important, but his so-called Innate Magic was indispensable.

"Now that I have reached the Senior Rank, I can extort them again. Until now, I only provided modified Ghost Berries that could corrupt third-cycle Senior Beasts, but in reality, my crops can already grow up to the sixth cycle."

Naturally, Rezen will not show all of his cards. He kept his real capabilities and only showed a nerf version of it.

"Young Master, congratulations!"

As soon as Rezen stepped out of the cultivation pool that was reserved entirely for him, the guards noticed it. Sensing his aura, they immediately congratulated him.

They were happy for Rezen not just superficially but genuinely. They are not ignorant of how Rezen helped humanity.

With his help, any magic beast at and below the third cycle Senior Rank is not a problem. This undoubtedly gave humanity a huge breather, and they are able to fight back better than before.

"Thank you" Rezen replied to them with a smile before his smile fell after seeing a certain someone running towards him.

"Rezen! You finally emerged! Congratulations! You are finally a Senior Mage. I knew I could count on you."

This person was none other than Treen, the Headmaster Tryst’s one and only lover.

As for the reason why Rezen’s expression fell, it was because of the miraculous transformation this friend of his had undergone throughout the years.

In the past, Rezen was far ahead of Treen when it came to cultivation rank, but this lazy bastard actually grew faster than him.

Currently, Treen was actually in the second cycle of the Senior Rank!

A second-cycle Senior Mage! Rezen never expected that Treen would not only become a Senior Mage but he would reach that stage faster than him.

Not only that, but Tree,n from a Spirit Mage transitioned into a Deviant Mage, or rather a ’true mage’.

In truth, due to the lack of talent of most humans and the need for strong mages, Spirit and Body Mages emerged out of necessity.

Since untalented mages find it hard to walk the path of a Deviant or true mage, where the body and soul are both elevated, the Spirit Mages and Body Mages emerged.

They focused on either just the soul or the body. While this made reaching Senior Mage almost impossible, and they basically have no hope of reaching the Great Mage Rank, at the very least, it still does increase their strength and enable them to reach a higher level.

If three years ago, someone had said to Rezen that Treen would become a Senior Mage faster than him while still having a steady foundation, he would simply laugh.

But now, it seems like it was actually Rezen that was laughable.

He didn’t know what happened, but after he and Treen first met Elder Priss, Treen’s talent suddenly blossomed. He became a mage even more talented than Rezen.

When Rezen asked whether the Headmaster or even Elder Priss gave something to him that increased his talent greatly, the answer he received made him want to punch Treen in the guts.

Treen actually said that he didn’t cultivate much, but whenever he was doing the ’deed’ with the Headmaster from then on, his cultivation would skyrocket.

Reaching the Senior Mage Rank that Rezen had to pour blood and sweat by the means of sex? Who would believe that!

At the very least, Rezen doesn’t believe it, but he doesn’t think that Treen would lie to him. It was highly probable that the Headmaster and Elder Priss were doing something behind the scenes.

Rezen has never forgotten Ivy’s words to him about Elder Priss and Treen.

"Thank you, but you are better than me. You became a Senior Mage faster" Rezen said with a hint of bitterness, but Treen simply shook his head.

"No! It’s different! I don’t even know how my cultivation progresses. All I know is that whenever I had sex, my cultivation would increase."

"This is far inferior compared to your hard work. You are the most diligent person I know! That’s why I really admire you."

Sometimes, Treen’s simplemindedness can really hurt people’s souls.

Cultivation increases just by having sex? Who wouldn’t like that?

Compared to working hard and spending all their time cultivating, wouldn’t people opt to choose the pleasure of the flesh if it could also make them stronger?

Rezen almost was not able to stop himself from slapping his friend’s mouth.

"Anyway, let’s go celebrate! My treat!" Treen said generously, but Rezen shook his head.

"Let’s celebrate later. I still need to create more corrupted skulls" Rezen refused.

Corrupted Skulls... that was the name that people coined for his modified ghost berries.

Since Rezen cannot exactly say that they are simply ghost berries that he modified, he just let them be, and his modified ghost berries became corrupted skulls.

With the consumption of humanity, Rezen has to constantly plant the berries. They grew fast thanks to his farm, but human consumption was also fast.

As of the moment, Rezen can barely break even from the growth rate and consumption. If he doesn’t want to be busted and become suddenly unable to provide the corrupted skulls despite being given mana stones, he cannot rest

He must become a diligent farmer and constantly farm the corrupted skulls.

"Come on, you’re always busy! For the past three years, I almost never seen you. Even our classmates from the academy have only met you a few times these years. Let’s have a get-together, and I actually need help."

Hearing the mention of help, Rezen’s ears perked up before he composed himself. This friend of his, to say kindly is pure, to say frankly is quite dumb.

Rezen is 99% sure that the help Treen needs isn’t exactly for an important thing.

"You can say it now, and I will see what I can do to help."

Despite doubting that it was anything important, as a friend, it was still Rezen’s duty to at least hear it out.

In any case, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Since Treen is simple, the things he needs help with are not complex either.

When he asks for help, it is typically not hard to accomplish, but it was rather weird.

"Don’t be like that, let’s just have a simple dinner with Porenz and Theon. It won’t take a long time!"

In Rezen’s batch, there are actually only four of them that survived. Most of their batchmates died when the scarlet portal appeared, and back then, only five survived.

But after Rezen schemed to have Quard killed, now, only four of them remained, and they grew closer, especially since Porenz was straightforward and righteous, while Theon was easygoing and decisive.

Since the four of them are not bad apples, they naturally became rather harmonious. It’s just that, due to being one of humanity’s hope, Rezen has become busy either in cultivation or by farming.

After he started staying with Elder Priss, he had almost no time to meet with them in the past few years