Chapter 282: Fancy much? (1/2)

If anyone else heard Ozul saying that, they would probably think that he was overestimating Blaze's talent.

However, Ozul just had a feeling that Blaze had a talent unlike any other. The blue crystal crown on his forehead still felt lifeless to him no matter how hard he looked into it.

What had surprised him was the fact that he couldn't find any similar cases in the history of this continent!

Just like his own condition, Blaze's was one of a kind as well.

What had brought Ozul to have his current evaluation of Blaze was the fact that he hadn't seen him stuck at a rank, not even once throughout all these years!

He was continuously progressing. The speed at which he improved might have varied, but never once did it completely halt. It let Ozul believe that he was nowhere near his limits.

If Blaze didn't face any difficulties even in Rank-8, one could only imagine what his upper limit would be. Although Ozul was just guessing right now, he could confirm his thoughts when Blaze broke through to Rank-9. Only at that time would he be sure of it.

Unlike others, Ozul had no doubt that Blaze would be able to breakthrough to Rank-9 as long as he didn't die.

Taking his eyes off of him, Ozul looked at Raven and also noticed how her Mana had started to become restless. It was a little more jumpy than usual.

He was sure that Raven could feel it too as she looked eager to sit down in a peaceful place to cultivate. She was close to her breakthrough to the End Stage of Rank-8 as well!

However, it looked like she was struggling to find any time for her to cultivate.

”Blaze... deal with everything,” Ozul called Blaze and told him that it was now up to him to deal with everything and then turned towards Raven before he said, ”You can cultivate.”

Raven didn't need as much combat experience as Blaze did, so it wasn't a problem for her to focus on the cultivation instead.

Blaze grumbled under his breath, but he didn't voice out his complaint. He wanted to sit down and cultivate as well. Fighting these Magical Beasts was already starting to bore him to death.

Raven happily tiptoed over to Ozul's side and sat down just a couple of feet beside him before she closed her eyes and immediately started to cultivate. There wasn't a single place in the world where she felt safer than when she was around him, so it wasn't a problem for her to focus on cultivating.

Ozul also kept an eye around so nothing disturbed her. She was at a critical point and interrupting her in the middle might have severe consequences, so he made sure nothing approached her.

The members of the Rogue crew eyed Raven with a strange look in their eyes, they knew how hard it was to concentrate on cultivating out in the open, much less when they were at such a dangerous place.

'This is what they call a heaven-defying genius huh...' the old members sighed as they noticed Mana started to slowly circulate around Raven which meant that she had really started cultivating in the middle of these unpredictable lands.

They could have never achieved the same feat if it was them in the same situation.

Little by little, Raven's aura started to become even more restless, but she was still not there yet.

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- In the Church of Light -

While Ozul had been leading the group deeper into those lands according to the map, Lammert was working all those physicians to the bones.

They weren't allowed to rest more than 3 hours per day, and when they were tired and couldn't even lift up a finger, he would give them the healing potions just so they could recover their stamina!

Such extravagant spending would have made just about anyone cry tears of blood as most of them couldn't even afford those high quality potions for their loved ones who were on their deathbed.

But Lammert didn't care about any of that now that they needed to hurry up.

Physicians weren't the only people he had brought in to help. Blacksmiths were actually the ones who were forced to do the most labor.

They were working day and night. Even the Bishops weren't allowed inside their workplace, so hardly anyone knew what they had been creating there for the past few months.

At this moment, Lammert entered the hall which was occupied by Darcia without even knocking first.

Though he didn't realize it in his hurry, Darcia didn't seem to mind his manner much either.

”What happened?” Darcia asked, noticing the visible excitement on Lammert's face.

”It is done! They finished it!” Lammert exclaimed, making a toothy smirk appear on Darcia's face as well.