Chapter 478: Chapter 253: Battle Gains and Breakthrough

With Anvis’s touch, a brief introduction about the Councilman’s situation came through on the page, in addition to the image.

[A professional bearing the power of both God of Illusion, Ma’elim, and the Void Raider, So’Chaz, the Yiter Federation Chairman, Inez Star Chaser]

Anvis was unsure if the Councilman, now sealed within the Ancient Secret Scripture, could still hear his words.

However, that did not stop him from unilaterally speaking a few words to the Councilman.

This was the most perilous battle that Anvis had ever experienced; the Councilman’s final strike ignored all protective measures and inflicted serious damage on him.

This caused him to once again profoundly reflect on himself, realizing that this world is filled with countless peculiar abilities and Secret Techniques. Even under the protection of the Ancient Secret Scripture, his situation was far from completely safe.

Just like in the final moment just now, he had become somewhat complacent and underestimated the enemy because the enemy was about to be sealed by the Ancient Secret Scripture, which led to his avatar being instantly killed by the enemy.

Otherwise, even if he could not have dodged in time, he could have dispelled his avatar before the attack actually hit, preventing damage to his soul.

If a similar situation arises again, he must be even more careful in protecting himself. Never let down his guard against the enemy until the dust truly settles.

After self-review, Anvis closed the now restored Ancient Secret Scripture and checked the status of the Mechanical Network once more.

The strength of the Mechanical Network had given him critically important help in this battle. If he had not taken the highest authority of half the Mechanical Network through his prior arrangements, it would have been impossible for him to stop the Councilman’s plans.

Previously, while sealing the Councilman, the Ancient Secret Scripture also stripped away the traces of Ma’elim’s essence that were connected to parts of the Mechanical Network, sealing it as a part of the Councilman’s own power.

Consequently, almost instantaneously, Anvis reclaimed all network permissions, and the fates of the Network Connectors once tainted by Ma’elim’s essence seemed to have returned to normal.

However, Anvis did not believe they would truly fully recover upon awakening.

After all, the strength of the Ancient Secret Scripture was not much better compared to Ma’elim’s power.

Meanwhile, the many Kingdom authorities’ cleanup of the Network Connector headbands was still ongoing.

Just as the Councilman had previously stated, the resplendent power of the Mechanical Network could probably only shine this one night.

With tonight’s precedent set, not to mention whether the two Great Empires would stand by and let the Mechanical Network emerge again, those civilian Professionals probably wouldn’t dare to touch this thing again.

At this moment, the surrounding Sleeping Snow had noticeably diminished.

Glancing at the many Ninth Rank Professionals who were still in a slumber, Anvis suddenly had a new idea.

The Federation Chairman, who not even several Ninth Ranks could handle, had been defeated by him, presenting a great opportunity to promote the Truth Circle.

No sooner thought than done, Anvis skillfully took out a piece of Constant Gold and casually shaped it into a stack of thin gold sheets.

Then, using the power of the Ancient Secret Scripture, he imprinted the emblem of the Truth Circle onto the Constant Gold Thin Sheets and tossed them onto each of the slumbering Ninth Ranks.

When those Ninth Ranks from the outside come over and see this scene, the situation will probably become a bit chaotic.

Watching the splayed Ninth Ranks covered in ‘business cards’, looking like corpses, Anvis returned to the back of his Power Dragon avatar, then swiftly left the battlefield.

Taking advantage of the Mechanical Network not yet completely collapsing, he intends to make one last plunder leveraging the Ancient Secret Scripture itself as the vessel.

As Anvis’s avatar departed, on the side of his main body, feedback from the power of the Ancient Secret Scripture finally began to come through gradually.

Since the Councilman was already filled with Ma’elim’s power at the time of the sealing, the power converted afterward was also much stronger than his normal state.

Within the territory of the distant Silver Moon Kingdom, the power aura of Anvis’s main body, floating in the sky, began to rise smoothly and determinedly.

Due to the sudden turn of events, Anvis didn’t have enough time to set up a break-through site that thoroughly concealed his presence. He could only make an emergency landing on the ground and swiftly placed several protective array plates around him that he carried with him.

He was surrounded by a primitive jungle where seldom was there a trace of humans. The nearby birds and beasts had long been scared away by his presence, leaving only the rustling sound of Wind Waved Silver Birch leaves.

With the power of the array, Anvis confined his aura within a certain range, to prevent the scale of his breakthrough from alerting unforeseen dangers that he might be unable to contend with.

These array plates were acquired by Anvis from the secret stores of Emperor Fidels and the inventory of Sky City, which he then modified a bit. Aside from consuming a tad more energy, their effects were pretty good.

After hastily finishing the preparations, Anvis adopted a meditative pose and guided his mind with the power of the Ancient Secret Scripture, sinking into the breakthrough state.

Without warning, bluish-ice and white-golden flickers intermingled and surfaced on his skin.

With the power of the Ancient Secret Scripture transmitting, Anvis could feel the quality of his spiritual power continuously ascending. A certain bottleneck was silently shattered under the unending surge of power, like ice melting away.

It was as though his will suddenly broke through a layer of fog and became one step closer to the true world.

In an instant, the magic power between heaven and earth formed a massive vortex, spontaneously encircling Anvis, significantly increasing the pressure on the protective array.

If the advancement from a Sixth Rank Professional to a Seventh Rank is the process of completely merging the body with the Spirit Sea, then the journey from Seventh Rank to Eighth Rank is about fully integrating one’s spiritual power with their magic power.

In Ancient Times, Eighth Rank Professionals were also revered as Magic Controllers.

This was because their magic power itself was an extension of their bodies and wills. They didn’t even need to cast spells; merely with their thoughts, they could achieve all kinds of wonders.

Using their own magic power as a fulcrum to leverage the vast magic power between heaven and earth, they could perform all sorts of Superposition Magic that could destroy and recreate worlds.

After Anvis made his breakthrough to the Eighth Rank, the power of the Ancient Secret Scripture continued to propel his strength upwards. Finally, when Anvis’s strength was close to the middle phase of the Eighth Rank, the force eventually gradually ceased.

Feeling an unprecedented sense of power, Anvis gently lifted his right hand. Simultaneously, an almost incandescent Cold Flame soundlessly emerged in his palm.

“If I was to divide my level according to player standards, I am now probably between level 83 to 84, although my basic attributes are already about level 90,” he mused.

Assessing his current strength, Anvis extinguished the Ice Flames and then unfolded his Initial Spells, which had been upgraded to Eighth Rank along with him —[Illusion Light Ice Domain].

Upon his whim, with Anvis as the center, a dome-like area with a radius close to ten kilometers was suddenly enshrouded with a thin layer of white light mist.

In this domain of light mist, Anvis instinctively felt not only an enhancement of its original abilities but also, the most significant change after the Illusion Light Ice Domain broke through to the Eighth Rank was that he now seemed able to instantly appear at any point within the mist.

This was a profound change involving spatial dimensions, also an effect usually obtained by Professionals only after breaking through to the Ninth Rank.

.….….

While Anvis was deep in his efforts to break through to the Eighth Rank, atop the distant Nameless Mountain, Star and Grey Mist both recognized the ultimate outcome, as they observed the vanishing anomaly.

“He still failed,” said Star, his tone tinged with a trace of emotion, as he gazed at the horizon with a complex look.

“I had already warned him that even with his seemingly foolproof plan, his chances of successfully breaking through the Sky Peak Barrier wouldn’t exceed thirty-seven percent.”

“Moreover, in the final moments, he lost half of the control over the Mechanical Network, which made his chances of success even slimmer. The other two Empires would never just watch Ma’elim’s descent either; they would inevitably intervene at the critical juncture.”

Grey Mist likewise shook his head, his expression one of regret.

Due to the intervention of the Stargazer and Anvis’s involvement, he who lost control over the Mechanical Network at the last moment ultimately failed to break through to Ninth Rank Prophet, merely stopping regrettably at an intermediate position between the utmost limit of the Eighth Rank and the Ninth Rank.