Chapter 57 Sublimation
Although the days in the Kes Mountains were dull and without any surprises or accidents, for Roland and Hela, such dull days were quite good.

Roland and Hela spent a peaceful year in the lake cabin.

During this year, Roland rebalanced the magic power in his body. The influence of the dark elements was reversed, and his slightly undead organs returned to their original appearance. Among them, his eyes also turned red again.

At the same time, Roland took care of the special trees he planted and through a year of meditation, his strength increased to the limit of the third ring.

As for Hela, she first learned all the extraordinary knowledge of the second-ring necromancy and life that Roland taught her in the first half of the year, and in the second half of the year, she learned how to use positive and negative energy spells. After balancing the positive and negative energy in her body, she was naturally promoted to the third ring.

In addition to his own development, Roland also explored most of the ruins underground.

Since they had found several warehouses, the materials they had collected were enough for Roland and Hela to use.

Therefore, in order to ensure that his advancement to the fourth ring would not be affected by the blessing of the Undead Plane, Roland did not directly use the High Priest's Staff to clear the Undead community he found in the ruins, but chose to take a detour.

After a year of unremitting exploration, Roland has basically mastered the entire ruins, except for a few areas blocked by powerful undead creatures and core areas that cannot be cracked due to lack of strength.

In the large open space in front of the wooden house, Roland was preparing to be promoted to the fourth ring.

In addition to the basic magic circle used to gather and bind elements, Roland also used a large amount of extraordinary materials to refine a large barrel of elemental liquid that is easy to absorb and contains a large amount of elements and energy.

Since a lot of extraordinary materials are used and they are expensive, these elemental liquids are extremely viscous, like a slightly softer solid.

Moreover, the wooden barrels used to store elemental liquids were not made of ordinary wood, as ordinary wood simply could not bear the weight. Instead, they were made of the golden bark that Roland had personally cultivated.

The sublimation of the four rings requires a large amount of elements and energy as fuel.

For school mages, they don't have to worry about the issues of elements and energy. Basically, all the famous schools in the Tower of Truth will specially prepare special venues with abundant elements and energy to meet the needs of school mages for promotion and sublimation.

However, a wild mage without support can only find a way out on his own. Either save money and then apply to the Tower of Truth, or find an environment with rich elements by himself, or prepare extraordinary materials in advance.

Although Roland had a lot of silver points, it would be enough if he found a primary school sect to apply, but this was not safe.

The Tower of Truth is not a good place now. If a wild mage goes there to get promoted and is unlucky enough to be targeted, he might be abducted and become experimental material for some great wizards.

Roland didn't want to gamble.

In addition to the basic preparations, Roland prepared backup plans for various situations that might occur during his first ascension based on his experience in his previous life.

As there were too many materials found in the ruins, Roland spent more than two months carefully preparing more than twenty bottles of alchemical potions to assist sublimation and solve problems that might be encountered in sublimation.

The reason why it took so long was mainly because most of the materials Roland used to refine the alchemical potion were dark element materials.

In previous promotions, Roland could ignore this influence and adjust slowly later. However, this was not the case with the first promotion to the fourth ring. If he was affected during the promotion, it would be too troublesome to adjust again, and the cost would not be small.

Therefore, Roland chose to spend some time neutralizing the dark element content in the alchemical potion.

In addition to these preparations, in order to avoid being affected by external factors, Roland also set up layers of defense and concealment formations around the wooden house over the past year.

Even if a high-level mage came, as long as he was not a space mage, Roland was confident that he could complete his sublimation before he broke through all defenses.

Standing in the open space, Roland activated the magic circle on the ground.

Then, elements from all directions began to converge towards the center of the magic circle. "I'm going to start."

Standing in front of the wooden barrel, Roland looked at Hela not far away and said.

"Ah."

She nodded, then turned around and sat on the ground with her back to him.

Hela is the last line of defense. If you are really unlucky and a high-level spellcaster passes by with malicious intent, Hela will activate a teleportation formation on the periphery and teleport everyone away from this area.

Although this would cause Roland to be disturbed by the power of space, causing his sublimation to tend towards the spatial aspect.

However, it is better to pay a price to reverse this change than to have the sublimation forcibly interrupted.

After Hela turned around, Roland calmly took off all his clothes and entered the barrel naked.

After coming into contact with Roland's skin, the gentle elements and energy began to actively flow into Roland's body.

Roland did not refuse. He actively absorbed the incoming elements and energy, closed his eyes, and began to meditate.

Roland entered a state of deep meditation almost instantly, and came to his soul world, and saw his human-shaped soul.

Under the guidance of meditation, the humanoid soul sat cross-legged in mid-air. Then, a large amount of thick energy emerged out of thin air in its body.

This humanoid soul, which had evolved three times and became increasingly clear, began to sublimate using this energy under the impetus of meditation and Roland's will.

The caster's first soul sublimation begins.

The vague human-shaped soul became clearer and clearer, and its appearance began to evolve into Roland's.

After an unknown amount of time had passed, the soul looked almost exactly like Roland.

Then, the soul that was like a doll suddenly blinked and suddenly became full of spiritual energy.

It was like a doll suddenly came to life.

Roland lowered his head, adjusting to this special body.

His soul was completely under his control at this moment.

Before this, this soul just belonged to him.

Although the feeling was a little strange, Roland knew the importance of it. After quickly adapting, he began the next step of sublimation.

Feeling the protective film outside the soul's body that protected but also restrained its growth, Roland began to control it, trying to actively contact this protective film.

However, it is not easy.

His soul had long been accustomed to this protective film. If Roland wanted to completely remove it, he would have to fight against his own soul instincts.

(End of this chapter)