Black Tower of the Forge, fifth floor, Dorm 21.
Allen opened his eyes, ending an hour of deep Meditation.
In his Sea of Spirit, the sixth brand-new Will Rune on his first Core Matrix was steadily emitting a faint glow, resonating with the other five Runes.
Magic Power surged through his body like a rising tide, and both its total volume and recovery speed had increased slightly.
The difficulty of engraving Will Runes as an Advanced Apprentice far surpassed that of the initial stages. Each Rune was like carving a palace into a spiritual cliff, a process that not only drained his mind but also devoured his resources.
Just completing this sixth Rune had used up over a dozen bottles of High-Level Mental Recovery Potion, not to mention the other cultivation aids.
Relying on painstaking training to build strength bit by bit was too slow. To progress faster, every step up had to be paved with Magic Stones.
