William scrolled past the System ssages that notified him of each free upgrade, thankful that the process wasn't painful at all, nor was there any visible change to his body. It seed the System was actively suppressing the side-effects of the upgrades so that Riyald wouldn't notice anything odd.
-Knowledge of the Blessing Elent greatly improved: Conditions t for three free upgrades...
-Knowledge of the Death Elent greatly improved: Conditions t for three free upgrades...
-Knowledge of the Necromancy Elent improved: Conditions t for a free upgrade...
The System ssages continued over the next few hours, making William even more eager to listen to Riyald's teachings. He had to admit that his Master was very good at explaining the difficult topics, which seed out of his reach before.
By the end of the lesson, all of his William's Elents that were E and D-Rank were directly improved by two or three levels to B-Rank, while the C-Rank Elents improved by one Rank.
Riyald's understanding of the Seal Elent was minimal, but after he and William spent an hour testing the properties of Seal Mana, even that had improved to B-Rank.
His greatest improvent was to the Ti Elent, which Riyald had studied thoroughly throughout his life.
Not only had the man found a loophole for creating Arrays with many Magic Affinities including the Ti Affinity, but he had also managed to create multiple experintal Artifacts that affected the flow of ti, which was why ti in the Gravitas Ruins flowed four tis more quickly than the outside.
With Riyald's help, William's Ti Affinity rose from the asly E-Rank all the way to A-Rank, saving him thousands of Potential Points. The lesson as a whole had saved William tens of thousands of Potential Points, making him eternally grateful to his Master.
While his Illusion Affinity and Order Affinity remained at their low ranks, William wasn't bothered. Every ti he thought about upgrading the Order Affinity, which was the only Mythical-level Magic he knew, the hairs on the back of his neck would stand up.
For so reason, William felt that if he upgraded the Order Affinity, he would die.
Whether that was at the hands of another or just the side effects from the upgrade, he did not know. Either way, William wouldn't try it until he was confident in his survival.
As usual, the System wasn't helpful in identifying the problem. When William asked, it requested an astonishing one trillion Potential Points, which was the most he had ever seen other than the one ti he made the System angry and it overcharged him every ti he used the Ask Function.
"I hope this has been helpful to you, Disciple William." Riyald said with an amiable smile. His wrinkly face reminded William of a friendly grandpa that you would only see at family reunions, but William knew the man was anything but innocent.
William gave his Master a bow, "Thank you for your teachings, Master."
Riyald nodded in satisfaction, "It's quite late now, and we have remained here much longer than I initially planned. et with the sa ti next week. If your progress is sufficient on the Wind Dial, I may have you assist with one of my experints."
William bade Riyald farewell and started heading back to his room down the corridor. Just a few dozen ters before William reached his usual door, the Artifact Spirit stopped him.
"Disciple William, it's good to see you." the Spirit said as if he hadn't been peeping on William the entire week.
William gave a slight bow, "You too, Sir Reynolds. Is sothing the matter?"
"Well...yes and no. Your snake seems to have grown quite big and can barely fit into your room. I was going to speak with Master about it, but he's too busy."
William rembered the ten-ter-long snake that was resting in his room, suddenly wishing he was still as small as before, where he could wrap around William's arm and sleep all day.
"He is a bit larger than before, isn't he?"
"Yes..." the Artifact Spirit said, "since you're good with Arrays and have the Space Elent, I was hoping you'd fix this problem."
"Can I?" William beca slightly excited.
To be honest, William had also felt that his room was quite small, considering the amount of space he needed to both create an Artifact and store Atticus. If he wanted to keep his sanity, an upgrade to the size of his room was required.
William asked Sir Reynolds about so of the specifics, then opted to create a brand-new room right next to the other one. He didn't want to risk editing the other room and hurt Atticus or damage the disassembled Wind Dial, so this was the next best option.
Not to ntion there was plenty of area in the corridor, so William was sure that Riyald wouldn't mind.
He got to work imdiately, creating many runes of Spatial Expansion and stacking them into improved Perfect Runes.
He didn't use Complete Runes here, not because he didn't trust Riyald who probably already knew, but because they were too difficult and would turn a task that should only take a few minutes into an entire night.
Perfect Runes were nothing to sneeze at, and since his Space Affinity was A-Rank, William could easily weave it into one of the Runes he had seen many tis before in the Guild, Array Hall, or Alchemy Hall from various cities and in the Sect.
William continued to add more Arrays to the mix, improving the stability of the space inside and adding a few extra functions that would limit the amount of peeping that Sir Reynolds could perform.
He didn't want Riyald or Sir Reynolds to notice what he had done, so William opted to set the concealnt functions to activate only during late hours of the night and only for an hour at a ti.
He knew that if Riyald was hellbent on taking away William's privacy, the old man would notice this right away, but it was worth trying. This way he could at least enjoy a little privacy every now and then for a bath or whatnot.
William finished creating the infrastructure for the room, expanding its size to forty thousand square ters. The ceiling stretched sixty ters high, and the floor was made of a grey brick that was actually heated and would never feel cold to the touch.
Rather than a room, it was more like a house fit for giants, but it was exactly what William wanted. He added a few walls here and there to slightly reduce how large the room looked, then put in so standard decorative and functional items.
William spent half an hour on the bed, opting to make it as comfortable as possible, then added a large bathtub out of stone that could withstand high heats. William decided that soti in the future he needed to find a liquid that was hot enough for him to bathe in while comfortable at the sa ti.
A lava bath just wasn't viable, nor did it sll great.
When William finished, he opened a set of double doors to lead back into the corridor, then opened up the door to his other room and called for Atticus to co outside.
The long snake slithered over to William, its purple scales shining vibrantly. Atticus raised his head and opened his mouth to release a light-hearted hiss.
"Welco back, Masssster William."
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