Chapter 100: Spirit World
Noisy, disordered murmurs buzzed in Jia Na's ears. In just an instant, the sound stopped. As billions of thread-like colored lines constantly swept past her, accompanied by an uncontrollable sense of weightlessness, an ethereal bell chime continuously echoed within Jia Na's soul. “This is—the Spirit World.”
Because of her Soul Projection talent, Jia Na had visited the Spirit World multiple times through Contract Witchcraft. However, due to the Spirit World's rejection, the amount of time Jia Na could stay in the Spirit World each time depended on the abundance of her soul power.
Therefore, she came and went in a hurry. The rapid depletion of her soul power meant Jia Na had no time to observe the scenery of the Spirit World.
And now, looking at the boundless dark night in front of her, adorned with billions of stars, and the colorful magic currents surrounding different starlight, in just a moment, Jia Na was attracted by the colorful multidimensional plane projections refracted from the magic currents.
"Master? Is that you?"
Just as Jia Na's consciousness was continuously sinking into the starlight, suddenly, a clear voice interrupted her attention.
Following the sound, she saw a creature resembling a huge snow-white parrot-goose from Jia Na's perspective.
It was flapping its wings, constantly approaching Jia Na's location.
"Afu?"
"It really is Master! Master, did you come to Heavenly Mountain specifically to see me?"
"Heavenly Mountain? No, aren't I in the Spirit World now?"
Clang—Clang—Clang—The ethereal bell chime interrupted Jia Na's thoughts again. Her vision shifted, and in an instant, Jia Na, who had just been in the boundless star sea, entered a milky white light the next second.
"The Saint is coming, Master, quickly hide!"
Clang—Clang—Clang—The bell rang again. In a daze, amidst the dazzling holy light like daylight, a humanoid creature with two pure white wings on its back vaguely appeared in Jia Na's field of vision, not clearly visible.
However, her constantly jumping spiritual instinct kept warning Jia Na that the terrifying aura carried by this winged humanoid creature in front of her was completely comparable to a First-Level Wizard within the academy. "Who is there—"
Her consciousness quickly sank, accompanied by a strong sense of weightlessness again. The scene in Jia Na's vision once again returned to darkness.
"Clatter!"
The wand rolled onto the floor from the experimental table. Hearing the sound, Jia Na, who had been sitting on the stool with her eyes closed, suddenly opened them.
"System, open the character panel."
"Name: Jia Na-Roland
Profession: First-Level Wizard Apprentice
Professional Level: Level 10
Wizard Talent: Spiritual Body Shuttle (A-grade - temporarily unable to upgrade), Plant Affinity (B-grade - upgrade progress 15%)
Authority Law: Growth Law Fragment (unlock conditions not met)
Wizard Skills: —
Witchcraft Tricks: .
Constitution: 6.1
Spirit: 19.3
Strength: 5.3
Agility: 5.9
Perception: 6.7
Charm: 9.9
Comprehension: 10.7
Luck: 7.6"
"Spiritual Body Shuttle?"
Looking at the talent information on the character panel, Jia Na closed her eyes again. As her consciousness passed through the sea of spirit to the depths of her soul, looking at the solidified talent on the Wizard tree shining with starlight-like brilliance, Jia Na's consciousness involuntarily extended a tendril and connected it to the Wizard Talent.
"Spiritual Body Shuttle: ① Consciousness can transform into a spiritual body form, using Spirit World coordinates to travel across multiple planes without consuming soul power; ② In a spiritual body state, you will be judged as a Spirit World creature and will not be rejected by the will of the Spirit World plane; ③ In a spiritual body state, you can retain some of the host's abilities from the prime material plane."
"Is this the legendary A-grade Talent?"
Her consciousness disconnected, and after exiting the sea of spirit, Jia Na reopened her eyes. The uncontrollable curve of her lips was enough to show how happy Jia Na was at this moment.
"It wasn't in vain that I worked so hard for so long."
Among the people Jia Na knew, the number of apprentices with A-grade Talent could be counted on two hands.
Just like David-Berg with A-grade 【Magic Rune】 talent, and Pading-Green, a Black Bone Forest Apprentice with A-grade 【Phantom Perception】. In addition to one or two people in the second and third years of White Coral Academy, there were no apprentices with A-grade Talent in Jia Na's year.
After all, Turin is just a poor and remote third-level Wizard Gathering Place. Here, even apprentices with B-grade Talent are considered to have excellent potential, let alone rare A-grade Talent apprentices.
Apprentices with this kind of aptitude would have been snatched up by other higher-ranked large third-level Wizard Gathering Places early on during enrollment. Third-level Wizard Gathering Places like Turin, which are not ranked high, can only survive in the cracks, fully utilizing their geographical advantage to forcefully retain students so as not to fall too far behind.
However, playing the victim is not a long-term solution. For example, in Jia Na's year, regardless of bloodline, solely based on Wizard Talent, Jia Na, with her double B-grade Talent, can be called the ceiling of aptitude for this year.
Top-tier students with A-grade Talent are even pre-booked before they reach White Coral Academy, making it impossible to snatch them.
She gently exhaled. After understanding the talent information, Jia Na's gaze once again fell on the line of remarks after the 【Spiritual Body Shuttle】 entry on the character panel.
"Temporarily unable to upgrade? Is this also because of the Wizard level cap?"
Looking at the 【Spiritual Body Shuttle】 entry which could no longer be selected, Jia Na's gaze moved to the 【Plant Affinity】 behind it.
"The 【Plant Affinity】 talent entry can still be selected. Then, according to the original plan, let's start upgrading my second talent."
In order to find the reason why the Authority Law - 【Growth Law Fragment】 could not be activated, while fully increasing her Wizard level, Jia Na also planned to try to improve her 【Plant Affinity】 talent, thus seeking a method to activate the Law through multiple avenues.
Sitting on a mountain of gold but unable to touch it, this was something Jia Na had to solve.
After all, this concerned Jia Na's choice when she would be promoted to Wizard in the future. If the mystery could be solved earlier, it would mean that Jia Na was one step closer to her goal of being promoted to Wizard.
"Next, it's spirit—"
After closing the character panel, Jia Na, who picked up the wand that had rolled onto the floor, couldn't help but begin to formulate her next plan.
"Talent upgrade, level upgrade, spirit upgrade, as the decomposed goals for advancing to Second-level Apprentice, I have successfully completed the first two so far. Next, as long as I focus on raising my spirit to 20 points, I will have completed my first small goal since enrollment."
"And after officially advancing to Second-level Wizard Apprentice, the existing Witchcraft needs to be fully upgraded, and the ritual materials for the second Contract Summoning and Elf Summoning need to be prepared in advance—as well as the aptitude screening before obtaining the Dordogne advanced study qualification."
