“Have you studied the Magic Node for Small Fireball?”
Glory’s Light nodded excitedly. “I have! I memorized everything.” He then looked around with some embarrassment.
“Lord Li De, are we doing it right here?”
Solidifying magic required an absolutely quiet place to prevent outsiders from causing disturbances. This was something the Formal Mages who taught them lessons always repeated over and over. To solidify a magic node right here in the main hall was really a bit… questionable.
“Just solidify the Small Fireball spell. I’ll guard you, it won’t be a problem.”
Li De waved his hand, urging him on. “Hurry up, before the potion’s effects wear off.”
Hearing this, Glory’s Light, who had still been hesitating, no longer delayed. He immediately sat down on the sofa and gulped down the Mana-Infused Blood in one swig.
Then he began solidifying the Tier 1 Spell Small Fireball in the way he had learned from the Crimson Mage Tower.
Betty watched Glory’s Light’s movements and yawned in complete boredom. To this Northern Valkyrie, all this magic nonsense was simply too dull.
Seeing Isha clinging to Li De’s side, unwilling to move, she shrugged helplessly and turned to leave without lingering.
She was going to go back and sleep comfortably, and she silently complained in her heart that she would never again listen to any lectures about magic.
Far too sleep inducing.
Vina quietly stretched out her hands to massage his back, while that little girl Isha pressed herself close to Li De, deeply satisfied by the scent drifting to her nose.
Even without saying anything, the two girls felt extraordinarily content and at ease just staying beside Li De.
That kind of psychological dependence was impossible to describe.
The role Li De played in their lives was simply too important. If he hadn’t appeared, the two of them would have lived completely different lives, lives that were destined to be a terrifying nightmare.
Li De himself wasn’t thinking about all that. His mental force spread out as he fixed his gaze tightly on Glory’s Light, observing his every movement closely.
“A familiar mana fluctuation. It seems players don’t enjoy the same privileges as in other games, like instantly learning skills just by tapping a skill book.
They still have to solidify each magic node one by one, the same as the natives of Glory.
Fortunately, it’s like this. Otherwise, these players would probably cause massive disruption to Glory in a very short time.”
The most formidable aspect of the players wasn’t just their ability to respawn infinitely but also their capacity to level up quickly and learn all kinds of skills. But this kind of unsolvable advantage virtually didn’t exist in Glory.
The bug of infinite respawning could be nullified through the Soul Contract.
And as for learning skills, it didn’t differ much from the natives of Glory. Perhaps the system assistance made it a little easier for them, but it was definitely impossible for them to just pick things up effortlessly.
The experimental result at least left Li De reasonably satisfied. If players could grow without limit, that would undoubtedly have a huge impact on him. After all, under his command was a bona fide native faction.
Now, the players were unquestionably pinned to the ground. Although they could respawn endlessly, to grow strong still required tremendous effort. It was impossible to max out in three or five months or a year like in other games.
Thinking this, Li De’s mind began to wander.
From the current situation, Glory hid countless secrets. Especially the fact that after transmigrating into the game, he could even transform his physical body in reality, this was simply unimaginable.
So, what was the original purpose of developing this game? Were the players really just ordinary players?
Why didn’t Earth increase the players’ permissions? Even learning skills had to be the same as the natives of Glory, what was the point of that?
Who was really controlling the game company behind the scenes?
If Glory was a truly existing otherworld, then what gave Earth the right to insert players into it??
This world had gods. Transcendent beings were like nuclear weapons, and gods, countless times more powerful than the Transcendents, would likely be able to trample any nation on Earth with ease.
Perhaps even all of Earth combined wouldn’t be enough to face a single god. According to Glory’s lore, such combat strength clearly exceeded all normal boundaries, even the vast land of the Glory Main Plane resisted the descent of gods, showing how terrifyingly strong they were.
His chaotic thoughts left Li De unable to make sense of it all, and he simply couldn’t figure it out.
He had too little information at this point. He had also ordered the Data Analysis Division to search for information about Glory, but everything was blocked by an invisible force. Over a hundred people couldn’t find a single useful clue.
And the only party capable of pulling that off had to be the authorities themselves.
So he could only try to pay attention to every bit of information and had no way of finding the answer online.
“But regardless of whether it’s a multiversal plane or a magic world, the only truth is to grow stronger yourself.”
Li De’s thoughts slowly returned to focus, ultimately coming back to the most primal concept.
Make yourself strong.
That was the foundation of everything.
No matter what happened in the future, if he became strong enough, there would never be a problem.
If he held power capable of contending with gods, would he still need to worry about all this?
Pwoom~
Beside him, the rich surge of mana radiating from Glory’s Light interrupted Li De’s contemplation. The player who had just drunk the altered Mana-Infused Blood was now experiencing the process essential to becoming a mage.
Constructing a Magic Node.
Li De possessed a mana affinity unimaginable to outsiders, so the process of constructing magic nodes was as effortless to him as pinching something out of thin air. He really had no idea how these average-talented people did it. In his view, it was just extremely simple.
But looking at the tangled, struggling expression on Glory’s Light’s face, he understood that even for a player, it wasn’t so easy.
After all, this was the mage class, the one marked with a ten-star maximum difficulty rating on the official website.
One sun-hour passed, then a second sun-hour…
After a full five sun-hours.
Glory’s Light, who had been sitting with eyes tightly closed, suddenly had an explosion of aura.
A Formal Mage.
He had leveled up.