Chapter 205: One Year Later

Chapter 205: Chapter 205: One Year Later

After leaving the place that was exactly identical to his consciousness space, Jeremy returned to his original path.

His magic power and Sacred Weapon were unsealed, and the deity’s blessing trial officially began.

The trial was divided into a total of twelve stages, comprehensively testing all aspects.

Jeremy took two months for the first three stages, but the further he went, the higher the difficulty became.

When facing the final stage, he almost lost his life in the abyss of the trial.

If not for the experience accumulated from the previous stages along with the Guardian Heart—the inheritance reward obtained from each stage to protect his heart meridian—he feared he wouldn’t have had the chance to keep his life.

However, the severity of his heavy injuries caused him to fall into a coma for three solid months.

After waking up, he finally began his bloodline awakening, as well as the second blessed Mark.

The process was extremely agonizing, even bordering on an irreversible destruction.

With the complete awakening of his bloodline power, plus the blessing of the supreme god Lavmia, Jeremy’s expectation was the top ten Marks.

Relying on this stubbornness and expectation, he finally awakened smoothly.

The entire trial process combined took nearly a year of time. Currently, Jeremy had just turned 22, and his current realm was... Tier Four Nine-Star.

If the second Mark awakening period hadn’t taken place after the twelve trials, his current progress would definitely be even further than that.

However... the final result of this Mark awakening far exceeded his expectations.

The Mark awakened this time was... the Supreme Mark - No. 0.

That’s right, not from 01 to 305, but transcending that scope, an existence standing above all.

After returning to his own body, the exclusive ability of Spirit Covenant 305, from the simple ability to morph the Sacred Weapon, had been supplemented with an additional layer - [Wordless Domain: Twin Souls Covenant].

Jeremy didn’t think much of it before, but after awakening the new Mark, he realized this ability was never originally the exclusive ability of Spirit Covenant 305, but an ability personally bestowed by Lavmia.

However, under Lavmia’s intervention, [Twin Souls Covenant] could currently also be considered the exclusive ability of 305. But, only he and Sylas could use this twin soul ability, because after all, this was an added blessing given later.

And the exclusive ability of the wordless Mark 0 he awakened this time was: [Decree of Ten Thousand Gods].

The forms of the Sacred Weapon didn’t increase; it merely evolved the original Myriad Words Card into a higher-tier existence - the God-Commanding Card.

Just like its name, the effect of this series’ exclusive ability was: able to command all deities below the supreme tier.

(Note: The ability to mobilize divine power is closely related to one’s own realm; the higher the realm, the stronger the divine power that can be borrowed. Note: An irreversible balance, this ability strictly requires reaching Tier Nine to be used; at the Divine Realm, it is not subject to control.)

And the darkness wordless card chosen to be attached during this Mark awakening existed directly in the form of a deity’s blessing.

Name: [God-Stealing Card.]

(With the support of the God-Stealing Card, you can steal the Mark of any mage you have ever fought against, without time limit, the Mark is yours to choose. Note: After choosing a Mark, if you want to switch, you need to wait three days of cooldown, and the total number of Marks that can be stolen in your lifetime is limited to ten. If the limit is exceeded, a higher-tier Mark will be prioritized, and lower-tier Marks will be deleted. /Cannot copy the opponent’s series’ exclusive ability/ Only effective against human mages.)

Due to the limits of the rules, supreme gods originally couldn’t intervene in mortal affairs in the form of a blessing like other deities.

Lavmia had essentially intervened using coercive power, therefore the blessed Mark was not recorded in the deity realm like the other deities.

It could be said that the existence of supreme gods was not something humans at the current stage could comprehend.

Therefore, Jeremy - who received Lavmia’s blessing, would also be restricted. That was, he couldn’t display Mark No. 0, because this wasn’t within the permitted scope of the rules.

As for the existence of the [God-Stealing Card], it was exactly the countermeasure Lavmia created for this restriction.

As long as this card existed, Jeremy could copy any Mark, truly worthy of being the absolute top priority.

Currently speaking, Jeremy was at Tier Four Nine-Star, only a short step away from Tier Five.

The total number of god-bestowed cards he could use was ten. Among them were six light cards and four wordless darkness cards.

Adding Sylas’s original three skills, the total number of skills he could currently use reached thirteen types.

The magic power that the supreme deity Mark could store was dozens of times higher than other mages, so Jeremy could currently be said to be invincible within the same realm, and challenging higher levels wasn’t a difficult matter either.

After the trial ended, the passage leading to the deity that Lavmia used her divine power to establish within Jeremy’s consciousness space was also completely closed.

The final sentence Lavmia left behind was roughly that she would wait for his ascension at the Divine Realm.

But Jeremy didn’t think too much about it. After all, cultivating to the realm of a Magic God didn’t mean instantly becoming a deity. After reaching there, one still needed to re-cultivate the soul spirit through twelve tiers, equivalent to tempering the soul’s intensity.

For him to currently want to reach that realm, setting aside whether he could do it or not, in short, it was still too early.

The passage to the deity was closed; after the trial completely concluded, Jeremy left the family’s inheritance land, reported his safety to his parents, and then rested at the Western Ducal estate for a few days.

According to his parents’ words, during this period his cousin Jelius had returned once, but unfortunately only stayed for six months before leaving the West again, heading to another country.

Although they didn’t meet, his cousin had left a large pile of gifts for him and Sylas.

Jeremy expressed his gratitude, genuinely curious about what his cousin was handling to be so busy.

Unfortunately, this was classified; even if he was curious, there wouldn’t be an answer.

After bidding farewell to his parents, Jeremy took the time to process the letters sent from his team members, as well as Princess Thalira and Lomita.

According to the letters’ contents, during this one year, his teammates had consecutively completed their awakening processes.

Evelyn, after smoothly completing the entire trial, currently had a realm of Tier Four Nine-Star.

As for Lucius, he currently possessed three Marks, being the only mage on the continent bearing three Marks.

Because the Fallen God’s darkness Mark was 1, the light Holy Covenant awakened later was 304, the second light Holy Covenant awakened this time, under the influence of the darkness element, was restricted by the darkness element, being downgraded from the anticipated 01 to Holy Covenant 02.

His current realm was Tier Four Nine-Star.

But if he cultivated in the state of the darkness Mark, his speed still rivaled the light element’s Holy Covenant 01, or was even stronger.

Of course, currently, the light element’s Holy Covenant 02 was already outstanding enough, so he hadn’t yet considered unsealing the darkness Mark, which came with a backlash.

Phoenix took six months, awakening Holy Covenant 05, his realm reaching Tier Four Eight-Star.

Leon, although successful, suffered heavy injuries, falling into a very long coma during the process. He had also only just woken up not long ago; his second Mark was Holy Covenant 10, currently at Tier Four Eight-Star.

As for Lomita, she hadn’t started her second awakening, only accepting the inheritance. Her speed was similar to theirs; her current realm had reached Tier Four Nine-Star.

Jeremy opened his Magic Spirit card to check the time.

Because they had exceeded the anticipated suspension time, the start of the third academic year had long passed, so Griffin had registered them under their names normally.

Now one year had passed, and it was currently the summer break of the third year, exactly three days away from the start of the semester.

Waiting until they returned to the academy meant directly skipping the third year, stepping straight into the fourth-year phase.

Three years had passed since he returned to this continent.

Currently, the strength of the empire and other races had also seen a significant improvement. Regarding the evolution of the magical beasts in the Dead Land, the upper echelons had also issued a series of countermeasures; temporarily, there was no need for a junior like him to worry.

The important thing right now was to figure out what the things left behind by the Mermaid Emperor were, and to retrieve the Ashbloom Flower seed.

His teammates’ realms had also met the requirements, and they were currently at the academy, so waiting until they returned to school, they could just directly enter the trial.

After making his decision, Jeremy bid farewell to his parents, and before leaving, he went to check on Sylas’s condition.

During the one year he received the inheritance, Sylas’s state had also improved greatly.

Perhaps because Lavmia’s blessing had taken effect, even the High Cleric of the Divine Temple was astonished by the recovery speed of his soul.

Lavmia had never clearly stated the exact time Sylas would wake up...

Jeremy decided that after completing the Mermaid Race’s trial, he would use the Ashbloom Flower with its miraculous efficacy to try helping Sylas wake up.

Precisely because of this, Jeremy didn’t delay at all; waiting for everything in the West to be settled perfectly, he immediately set off to return to the academy.