Chapter 142 Soul Talent
“It was a close call. I almost couldn’t get out.”

In the abyss of the source sea, Richard covered his chest, his heart pounding. If Ulises was a little slower, the two of them would be sucked into the space turbulence.

Ulises might survive, but he, a little first-ring wizard, would definitely die.

“Gah, don’t worry, I’m watching.” Ulises landed on Richard’s shoulder and said calmly, “Even if it weren’t for you, I would most likely die if I fell into the space turbulence in my current state.”

After calming down, Richard held up the magic barrier and began to fly upwards carefully.

Through the steam, Richard saw that there was a sacrificial insect and a second-level warrior insect guarding at the entrance of the tunnel where he came down.

“It seems that we can’t go through this passage anymore. If we attract that bug again, we might become a sacrifice.”

There is more than one tunnel leading to the Source Sea Abyss. Although the entrances to other tunnels are far away from Richard’s current location, it is worth spending more magic stones for safety.

After flying in the abyss for a long time, Richard used up the magic power of nearly a hundred magic stones before he found a new entrance to the tunnel.

Re-entering the insect nest from the new tunnel entrance, Richard immediately set about looking for a hiding place.

Half a month later, Richard stood in the new dungeon and carefully took out the two balls of source essence.

Life Essence and Soul Essence are the two top-level ingredients in potions. They do not require any other materials and can achieve 100% effect by swallowing them directly.

The only thing to note is that after swallowing the source essence, the consumer will fall into a deep sleep, and wizards have not figured out the specific reason.

The sleeping period ranges from two or three days to two or three months, which is not very long. During this period of large-scale search of insect nests, it is a good opportunity for Richard to avoid the limelight and hide.

The crypt that Richard is in now is quite hidden, and even the entrance passage is completely blocked by fungi. If it weren’t for the microwave imaging crystal ball, Richard wouldn’t be able to find such a hidden crypt.

“Gah, my dear master.” Ulises stood on Richard’s shoulder and said in a flattering voice, “This soul essence is very helpful to my injuries. In consideration of my helping you find the ruins, how about giving me some?”

Richard glanced at him, weighing the pros and cons in his mind.

These soul essences were not enough to allow Richard to skip the promotion ceremony and directly become a second-ring wizard. At most, they could only increase Richard’s spiritual power to the limit of a first-ring wizard, and the excess could only be wasted.

Moreover, Ulysses did play a great role in this matter. If he doesn’t share some of the credit with him, it will probably be better to have less trouble when encountering such a situation in the future.

This is definitely a bad thing for Richard.

“Ulises, I need to make one thing clear to you.” Richard used magic to suspend the soul essence in the air, “How much soul essence do you need to reach the normal level 2?”

“Gah, if it’s the normal level 2…” Ulysses flew to the soul essence and cut out a part of it with his claws.

“That’s about all.”

Richard looked at the remaining soul essence. Ulysses took nearly one-third of the essence, and he would definitely not waste the remaining part.

“Okay, you can handle that part of the essence yourself.”

In order to determine how much improvement the two source qualities could bring him, Richard took out a crystal ball from his pocket and deliberately tested his current values.

[Spirit: 59.2, Constitution: 75, Magic: 5920, Rating: First Ring Wizard]

After being improved by the incubation fluid, Richard’s physical fitness has increased from 64.7 before the war to points.

After writing down his own data, Richard lay on the platform and swallowed the soul essence into his body.

The next moment, a cool feeling seeped into Richard’s brain from his mouth. The feeling was very comfortable, just like the first sip of ice cola in the dog days of summer.

Then the feeling dissipated, and Richard suddenly felt so sleepy that he couldn’t even open his eyelids.

Richard forced himself to swallow the ball of life essence into his stomach, but before he could feel it any more, his eyes went dark and he fell asleep.

After he fell asleep, Ulysses flew to Richard and devoured the soul essence.

For Ulises, this amount of soul essence was not enough to make him fall into a deep sleep, and it did not hinder him from guarding and checking the missing words at all.

…In his dream, Richard dreamed that he entered the space called the Darkness of the Soul again.

But unlike when he was promoted to a wizard, this time there was a soul tree shining brightly in the dark space.

The tree of souls sprouted and grew leaves before Richard’s eyes, and finally produced a shining fruit.

Looking at the fruit, Richard couldn’t help but walk forward and pick it.

It seemed that this fruit was prepared for him.

The next moment after the fruit was picked, a ray of light suddenly tore through the dark space.

In reality, Richard suddenly opened his eyes and sat up abruptly.

“How long have I slept?”

“Hmm, about a month. Thirty-two days to be exact.”

Richard was still thinking about the fruit. He looked at his hand blankly and suddenly found that there seemed to be something more in his field of vision.

He found that some tiny streams of light suddenly appeared in his hands, and these streams of light spread from his palms to his heart.

And his heart at this moment looked like a glowing light bulb in his field of vision.

“Is this… energy vision?”

Richard turned his head to look at Ulysses and found that the same light streams also appeared on Ulysses’ body. Those light streams extended from each feather inward, constructing an extremely complex energy cycle in the body. The energy contained in this energy cycle far exceeded Richard’s magic return.

“Gah, what are you looking at?”

Ulises felt a sense of being seen through from Richard’s gaze and subconsciously took defensive measures.

At the same time, Richard discovered that the light streams on Ulysses suddenly disappeared.

“Hidden?”

Richard rubbed his eyes, trying to turn off this vision. As he thought about turning off the energy vision, his vision instantly returned to normal.

“Huh, have you awakened your soul talent?” Ulysses flew to Richard and asked curiously.

“Yeah, energy vision.” Richard blinked and tried to open the energy vision again, his tone full of excitement.

There is a chance that using soul essence will awaken soul talent, but he didn’t expect it to happen to him.

“Huh, energy vision? This is a good talent, quite suitable for you wizards.”

Richard nodded. Energy vision was of great help to wizards, both in combat and in research.

After feeling his talent, Richard took out a crystal ball from his pocket and tested his current physical values.

[Spirit 90, Physical 94, Magic 9000, Rating, First Ring Wizard. ]

“My mental strength has increased by thirty points. The source material is indeed the top-level potion material. It has saved me more than a hundred years of meditation!” Richard exclaimed. “And my physical fitness has also increased by nearly twenty points. If I use the passive improvement of the adaptive body, I wonder how long it will take!”

After stretching his body, Richard prepared to count the crystal fragments obtained from the Forerunner ruins.

Those fragments seemed to be made of extraordinary materials and came from the pioneers’ instruments. There might be memory chips or something like that in them, which he had not discovered yet.

But before he could take out the fragment, the communication crystal ball in his pocket suddenly lit up.

“Wizard 7531, you are now urgently recruited.”

(End of this chapter)