After Cooper left, Ronan sat alone on the balcony for a while until a maid carrying freshly brewed tea interrupted his wandering thoughts.
The flashes of thunder and storms outside the "Silver Falcon" airship’s energy shield are indeed terrifying for ordinary people, but the fear displayed by the girl in front of him was mostly pretend.
She was trembling all over, putting on a pitiful appearance. When Ronan’s gaze fell on her, she deliberately raised her ample chest a little higher.
Ronan didn’t drink the tea; he simply waved his hand dismissively and let the girl leave. As she bowed her head respectfully, an unmistakable hint of disappointnt flashed in her eyes.
Ronan cast one last glance at the storm realm’s entrance, resembling the Eye of the Vaulted Sky, then turned his gaze in the direction Cooper had vanished and, with a calm expression, turned around and left.
Just as he stepped into the quiet ditation bedroom, Ronan’s body suddenly shivered slightly.
A faint peculiar expression flashed across his face, and he sat down cross-legged on the spot.
With spiritual power introspection, he saw at the location of his heart a small Holy Tree pattern spinning rapidly.
As the Holy Tree spun, the heart continuously expanded, and the mont the spinning stopped, the heart, which had grown nearly double its normal size, quickly shrunk down like a deflated balloon. Following that, red threads resembling capillaries began to grow around the shrinking heart....
"The first bloodline deduction complete..."
Ronan blinked, manipulated those red threads to extend outward with a touch of luck and anticipation, embedding themselves into his own blood and flesh one by one.
In an instant, Ronan felt his skin suddenly tighten, and under the light of the lighting crystal in the quiet room, his already smooth skin seed to beco more delicate, revealing a moonlight-like color.
"It’s the bloodline of the Moonlight Elf within that has been purified..."
Ronan let out a soft breath and directly cut off the further alteration of his bloodline by the internal red threads. This deduction was formally concluded as a failure.
It wasn’t really disappointing.
The chances of successfully selecting the Ancient Frost Multi-Headed Snake on the first deduction were indeed very small, and he had never been one to be famous for his luck.
Ronan had even prepared for the worst-case scenario, which was exhausting the bloodline origin without achieving the desired result.
Ronan calculated, the entire process of this deduction from start to finish took just under nine months.
He glanced again at the data on his character panel. In the [Talent] section, the bloodline concentration of the "Ancient Frost Multi-Headed Snake" had decreased from the previous six percent to five percent.
"That ans at most five more deductions, and if I’m unsuccessful after five attempts, I will completely lose the Ancient Frost Multi-Headed Snake bloodline..."
This realization did not stir any emotions within Ronan.
If this could allow him to completely break free from the manipulation of "Hekarter" will, it wouldn’t be unacceptable, but the entanglent brought by the "Bosilina Soul Contract" would still require him to find another solution.
Watching the Holy Tree array on his heart continue to operate, Ronan withdrew his focus.
The worse the situation, the more effort must be put into cultivation.
During this period of hard training, Ronan devoted almost all his energy to practicing the [Ancient Star ditation Technique]. With his current spiritual power proficiency, he could complete an initial star disk deduction in approximately two to three days.
Every completion of a deduction added one point to his proficiency level in the [Ancient Star ditation Technique]. When the proficiency reached "entry-level (23/100)", he finally fully understood the core [Magic Control] rune inside the Hiram’s Magic-controlling Bracelet.
Ronan reasonably split the entire [Magic Control] rune into six parts and inscribed them onto his empty six spiritual power crystals.
Currently, he has begun the rune inscription of the first part. Whether he can succeed depends on whether the first step can be executed perfectly as planned. If not, he would have to start over and consider a more detailed splitting plan.
During this period, Ronan experienced the aftereffects of the "Reincarnation Dreams" ntioned by Alazan.
The symptoms manifested specifically as occasional flashes of mories from his seventy-two years of dream experiences during thoughts and ditation.
It doesn’t significantly affect him, and the frequency of symptom occurrence isn’t high, but Alazan still provided a solution—a recipe for an ancient potion called "Awakening Potion".
The na of this potion reminded Ronan of a potion called "Sleeping Potion" that he used to take during his apprenticeship in the Hoddam Tree House District, and the nas of the two potions are amusingly similar. But the grade, embedded knowledge of the formulas, and their understanding of magical potion crafting are worlds apart.
Ronan had carefully discussed the formula with Alazan. Based on his knowledge reserves and Alazan’s profound expertise in magic potion crafting, ninety percent of the materials required by the formula could be replaced with alternatives found in the current Wizard World.
Only a material called "Awakening Snake Venom" couldn’t be substituted.
According to Alazan, The Awakening Snake is not a creature of this world; it’s not considered rare but requires opening a space passage to travel to another world for capture. In Alazan’s era, this was not difficult at all—he even knew of several world coordinates where Awakening Snakes existed.
But for the current Wizard World and Ronan, achieving this would be very challenging.
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