"Haha, I won’t hold you up any longer. I need to take some time to reflect on the insights I’ve gained over the past few days."

"Once I’ve consolidated my thoughts, I’ll go advance to a Level 6 Enchanter."

Lu Cang nodded and backed out the door. "Thank you, Uncle Ai Jin. I wish you a smooth advancement."

The door closed.

Lu Cang held the black Magic Staff...

It was an enormous and long Magic Staff.

Right now, he needed both hands to hold it properly.

Of course, with his current physical strength, he could manage to hold it with one hand.

It was just a bit awkward to grip.

’Looks like this Magic Staff was designed for me to use even when I’m grown up.’

Lu Cang used 「Flesh Reshaping」 to slightly enlarge his hand, making it the size of an adult’s.

And just like that, he could grip it perfectly.

It was indeed perfectly designed for the height and hand size of an adult.

"They really did think far ahead."

As for the necklaces and bracelets, the necklaces provided protection, shielded his Perception, and offered resistance to mental interference.

The bracelet, however, was a bit more special.

It was a Storage Bracelet, but it had the function of rapidly launching the items stored within.

...

After leaving the City in the Circle, Lu Cang’s body flew like a streak of light.

「Source Body·Instant White Flash」

He unleashed himself just like an Instant White Flash!

The perpetual effect allowed Lu Cang’s body to maintain an extreme speed.

He could adjust his speed, and his current pace was just right for long-term travel, likely around two kilometers per second.

When he went faster, it was a momentary burst of extreme speed.

A speed ten times faster than his current one!

How fast he could go depended on the degree of his Magic Transformation.

SWOOSH!

In less than a minute, Lu Cang arrived at the Distant Thousand Caves.

WHOOSH!

In the next instant, Lu Cang landed.

He touched down as lightly as the wind, a Tier Four Dungeon before his eyes.

’I can’t be bothered to go to the Adventurer’s Guild for a quest right now. The rewards aren’t even worth mentioning...’

’Sigh...’

He’d already spent over eight million of his twenty million Gold Coins.

Although most of it was spent on that Divination Master, having only twelve million Gold Coins left made Lu Cang feel a bit insecure.

Lu Cang extended his hand toward the Dungeon before him.

「Sacrifice—50,000 souls」

...

Upon entering the Dungeon, a blood-red sky hung overhead... Tens of thousands of Demons roared and stampeded.

Twelve were Tier Four, Nation Destruction Level.

Lu Cang gathered Magic Power at the tip of his Magic Staff.

"Thunderous Zone, Four-in-a-row."

BOOM!

The entire Space shuddered violently!

An area with a fifteen-kilometer radius, centered on the twelve Nation Destruction Level Demons, suddenly erupted!

RUMBLE— RUMBLE RUMBLE!

Thunder boomed!

Swaths of Demons fell like a tidal wave, and even the twelve Nation Destruction Level Demons convulsed violently, letting out pained roars!

All King Level Demons and below were instantly killed.

As for the Nation Destruction Level Demons, three of them were killed outright.

The remaining nine were also extremely weak.

’So powerful...’

’This is my Large-scale Killing Spell.’

’A larger area of effect naturally means lower killing power.’

’But even so, it still instantly killed Nation Destruction Level Demons... Back then, I had to use 5,000-soul Spirit Bursts to continuously bombard their weak points, and it took twenty hits to kill one.’

’Factoring in Triple Casting, that was a total of sixty shots...’

’And now... a Four-in-a-row Group Attack Skill insta-killed them?’

"Such incredible power."

Lu Cang could feel that the Magic Staff had amplified the Power of his Magic by at least sixfold.

The Enchantment provided about a twofold boost, while the staff’s inherent bonus to Power, Range, and distance that scaled with Skill Proficiency added another threefold boost.

’Is it... a 1% bonus for every level of Skill Proficiency?’

’For a normal person who trains a Magic to around Level 10-20, a 10-20% all-around bonus is certainly great, but not to an insane degree.’

’But for me...’ he thought, ’...that’s a 300% all-around bonus.’

’And as my Mage Level increases, the bonus will only get higher.’

"The remaining nine..."

"Carapaced, vermiform, multi-legged..."

After having studied Demon classification, Lu Cang found that he could now recognize these Demons, and their weak points had become glaringly obvious to him.

Even though he hadn’t seen them in any bestiary, based on the knowledge he’d acquired...

Lu Cang raised his Magic Staff.

He aimed at the creature covered in a carapace.

「Instant White Flash」

BANG!

A thick, four-in-one beam of white light suddenly blasted out!

It instantly and completely penetrated a gap in the carapaced creature’s armor!

"The feedback is good, too..."

Feeling the feedback as the Magic hit the Demon, Lu Cang knew with certainty that the strike had gone straight through its heart.

’It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to call the 「Spiritual Star Ring Staff」 perfect.’

After a few more experiments.

Currently, the amplified Magic Power was at least sixfold, with significant variation depending on the type of Magic—ranging from six to twelve times the normal Power.

The increase in Casting Distance was about twelvefold, with a maximum distance of 160 kilometers. For some shorter-range Magic, the Casting Distance was now around 80 to 120 kilometers.

The Range amplification was threefold for the radius, but that meant it was squared for area and cubed for spatial volume...

’The scale of these improvements is ridiculous.’

Beyond that...

Duration, Casting Speed, the flight Speed of the Magic, and various other properties had all been drastically improved.

Now, Lu Cang was studying how to amplify the Magic he cast from his own body through the Magic Staff.

After all, when his body itself became the Magic, it didn’t pass through the staff.

Equipment in this world didn’t just grant its full, permanent buffs simply by being held...

As for the corpses of these Demons.

Lu Cang couldn’t be bothered to collect them.