Chapter 833 - Cooperation (1/2)

Harren sighed again, his face filled with genuine regret. Even if he said those words with a joking tone, he still wanted to get Lin Yun to join the Black Tower.

Harren was not only regretting; his stomach was hurting from regret. The small mage that was selling Meditation Law Sets back then was now an Archmage…

Moreover, his aura was calm and reserved, just like an ancient and unmovable mountain, making people unable to sense his specific rank. They could only feel how terrifying it was within fleeting mana fluctuations. It was absolutely comparable to a 9th Rank Archmage…

And the most terrifying part was that he was definitely not a 9th Rank Archmage!

This was certainly the most frightening part. After all, in the Archmage realm, the 5th Rank was a watershed. The difference between every rank from that point on would become bigger and bigger.

The gap between each rank would be more important than the previous realm.

It’s said that there are six steps in the Archmage realm. The 1st Rank to the 5th Rank makes up the first step.

The 6th Rank is the 2nd, and so on, with the 9th Rank being the 5th step. Being half a step in the Heaven realm was the 6th step, and after that 6th step was the Heaven realm, where one would become an Extraordinary powerhouse and be able to stand above the mortals.

In the process of scaling that flight of stairs, there wouldn’t be an exaggerated gap between people on the same step. At most, some first-rate powerhouses could be invincible within their step, but an extremely small number could achieve that across a step.

Before their eyes was such an individual. Harren was certain that this newly advanced Archmage was that kind of rarely seen genius that could bridge across steps.

‘Damnit, if I had pulled him into the Black Tower early on, the Black Tower would have definitely become the strongest force of the Andlusa Kingdom and might have become even more powerful within a millennium.’

The strength of a force was, to a certain extent, dependent on the strongest powerhouse within it.

A Heaven Rank powerhouse, even one that didn’t do anything, would make his force rapidly develop just with his presence.

‘A powerhouse that is bound to reach the Heaven Rank, and one whose fighting power far exceeds powerhouses of the same level… such a person is wasted on the Merlin Family.

‘The Merlin Family sure is lucky…

Hearing Harren’s joking words and seeing his smile, Lin Yun didn’t jump on the opportunity.

“Sir Harren praises me too much…”

Jouyi happily smiled and ruthlessly gave Harren another blow.

“Sir Harren, you have only seen Sir Mafa’s talent and advancement speed, but you have overlooked something even rarer and more important. Sir Mafa is an alchemist, one that has already risen and become an Artisan!”

Harren’s face distorted when he heard the word Artisan. He felt as if he had actually been stabbed, and he covered his face in pain.

‘Damnit, an Artisan?! There are no more than three Artisans in the entire Andlusa Kingdom! And two of them are hardly ever seen… Who knows which plane they had gone to?

‘This young Artisan is in his twenties!? Is he the reincarnation of a God?

‘Forget it, no matter what price the Black Tower pays, it won’t be enough to make him come to the Black Tower. I’d better just maintain a friendly relationship with him.

Even if Mafa wasn’t a powerhouse, just the word “Artisan” was enough for the Black Tower to do their best to befriend him.

Harren was at a loss, but Jouyi was laughing happily.

‘Mafa’s progress is truly too fast, whether in terms of rank or alchemy abilities. Fortunately, Mafa has forged a very good relationship with us since he was only a Mage.

‘Ha, I still remember when he solved that formula, I truly hadn’t expected him to mature so fast that no one had time to react!

‘If I hadn’t known Mafa from the start, I wouldn’t have believed that he’d reached this stage in such a short period of time.

‘Now, he is already qualified to stand on equal footing, he is qualified to cooperate with the Cloud Tower. It might not be long before he’s someone I have to look up to…

‘He wouldn’t advance to the Heaven Rank before me, right?

‘Impossible, too much time has to be spent at the Archmage realm. He needs time to stabilize, he wouldn’t be able to advance that fast…’

Jouyi was startled as this thought flashed in his mind. What made him feel even more horrified was that he couldn’t be sure.

Jouyi and Harren were both sighing, and they overtly and covertly expressed their kindness towards Lin Yun.