Chapter 291: Chapter 289: Are They Just Waiting to See Me Make a Fool of Myself?

In the Meditation Room of Serenity.

Benovia was the first to enter, and she went straight to her spot to begin meditation.

Although it wasn’t time yet, and the efficiency wasn’t fivefold, she didn’t know what else to do, so she decided to meditate directly.

When the others arrived, Benovia secretly sensed a little.

It seemed like everyone was at the Tier Two limit.

So is there anyone who reached Tier Three before me?

Benovia was very curious.

But if she wanted to sense carefully, she would inevitably expose her situation at Tier Three.

After hesitating for a moment, she gave up.

"Forget it, let’s just assume I’m the last to advance," Benovia thought, as she entered a deep meditation state with the surge of fivefold magic power.

...

"In two more days, I can probably start ascending too."

Hilia secretly glanced at the others, not feeling any changes in anyone.

"Could I be the first to ascend?"

The girl was a little excited.

She asked Rose in her heart, "Lord Rose, can I ascend in two days?"

Rose nodded, smiling, "Three days from now is a suitable day for ascending. In these two days, don’t practice magic, but try to draw as many scrolls as possible."

Other people ascending with scrolls is costly, but for Hilia, it’s just the cost of materials, a piece of cake.

During this time, besides practicing magic and reaching the Tier Two limit, she’s been drawing scrolls just to use them during the ascension.

"Will Benovia and the others ascend in these two days?" Hilia couldn’t help but ask Rose.

Rose smiled slightly, "Neither tomorrow nor the day after that."

"That’s good."

The girl was delighted in her heart.

...

In the blink of an eye, three days quickly passed. Originally Hilia planned to skip the morning meditation class and ascend after applying to the school, but after thinking, she decided not to skip class. Missing the fivefold meditation efficiency is too wasteful.

So after submitting her application early, she went through the morning meditation as usual, and then returned to the dormitory to inventory her items before starting the ascension trial.

"A familiar place again..."

Hilia observed the numerous metal pillars around her.

"Something seems different. There seems to be a layer of ice inside these metal pillars."

"That’s because your element is Ice Attribute, so it turned out this way."

"Oh."

Hilia summoned a magic puppet, equipped her gear, and began to move forward.

Similar to Benovia, after she moved forward, all the pillars around her flew up, shattering with a boom in the sky, turning into countless fragments rotating around Hilia as the center.

The attack method was also similar to Benovia’s, with pieces of pillars first flying down for Hilia to try her skills, followed by a large-scale demon attack.

For fairness, Rose also mixed some interesting mechanism monsters into Hilia’s ascension.

While Hilia was painfully dealing with it, Rose smiled and said, "Those special demons hidden among the ordinary ones carry magic power and keystones five to ten times higher than the ordinary ones. You should be welcoming them, not facing them with frustration."

Hilia: "..."

After defeating a wave of demons, the girl touched her cheek, forcing a smile, "Like this?"

"Not bad, not bad, keep it up."

Hilia pouted, hummed lightly, and continued to attack the demons seriously, while paying attention to the mechanism monsters among them.

As the pace of demon attacks accelerated, Hilia’s pressure gradually increased, and with possible attacks from above, sweat appeared on her forehead.

The scrolls began to be used, and then more and more were used.

Rose made no action, just watching from the side, not giving Hilia any hints about the mechanism monsters, letting her realize after suffering.

This didn’t help Hilia’s improvement much.

It was purely because he enjoyed watching.

When Hilia was about to be unable to hold on, Rose nodded slightly.

Hmm, the special training during this time was significantly effective. She persisted much longer than Benovia.

When an exploding demon exploded in front of Hilia, blasting her away, Rose said softly, "Alright, that’s about it, Hilia, let me take over."

Hilia didn’t get up, just closed her eyes on the ground, arms and legs spread out, murmuring, "Okay."

This situation really made one want to commit a crime.

So Rose directly entered her... spiritual space, pushing her to the spiritual space and then controlling her body to stand up.

Surging magic power quickly filled Hilia’s body.

"Watch carefully, these are the combination skills optimized for the Ice Element that you should learn after reaching Tier Three."

In front of Rose, an ice wall rose up, which he then compressed, the whole process being ingrained into Hilia’s spirit.

Until today, Hilia could only condense the embryonic form of the advanced magic spell from Ice Wall to Ice Shield Skill, and there was still a considerable distance to skipping a tier to learn magic.

This was due to Hilia meditating rapidly, making it hard for her magic power refinement to exceed 100%, which was not surprising to Rose. The embryonic form was enough.

What truly required skipping a tier to learn was Tier Three; the gap between Tier Two and Three was not huge, but the difference between Tier Three and Four was the largest, making the cost-effectiveness of learning across tiers very high.

The ice wall slowly condensed into a thin ice shield, after which Rose demonstrated how to integrate the Web of Mithril and Withered Silk into the ice shield.

"What I’m showing here is the principle. In the future when you apply it, you need to use it while the ice shield is condensing, so the ice shield is formed directly between the two, to achieve the best effect."

Hilia nodded earnestly.

When the combination skill of the ice shield was completed, several exploding demons rushed over and exploded beside Rose.

The ice shield shook slightly, showing no sign of damage.

Only some shallow marks appeared on the surface.

"Next is the attack-type combination skill..."

If Benovia’s ascension was a spree of unlimited magic regeneration, then Hilia’s was a beginner tutorial under invincible conditions.

Benovia didn’t need Rose to worry like this -- of course, even if he wanted to worry, he couldn’t manage as Hilia did.

Benovia had her own mentor who could directly set all powerful combination skill learning directions for her.

For Hilia, even if she could access the vast magic knowledge base of the Divine Magic Academy, finding suitable knowledge in this ocean was no easier than finding a needle in a haystack.

And for the non-attribute Benovia, the ocean of knowledge was full of golden needles, whichever she picked up could be used.

After the spree, Rose left the final wave of demons to Hilia, and after she easily dealt with it, the ascension trial was over.

Like Benovia, upon coming out, Hilia quickly meditated to stabilize the chaotic magic power.

Rose watched Hilia, reminding her, "It’s almost evening meditation time, pay attention."

He looked at Hilia, wondering if she would do the same as Benovia.

"Okay."

Hilia got up, pausing suddenly.

"Speaking of which, with all that time wasted, am I really the first to ascend?"

The girl was very skeptical.

"Could it be that others ascended long ago, just waiting for me to be the ’first’ and then laugh at me?"

Looking at her cultivation attitude in the first month of school...

The more Hilia thought, the more likely this seemed.

After pondering for a while, Hilia thought of a point.

"Why don’t I pretend I haven’t ascended along with you, my disguise skills are better than yours, ensuring you’ll expose first."

She didn’t notice the smile on Rose’s face behind her.

Interesting indeed.