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Leyton used Spirit World Travel to return to his hotel room in Tingen City. Bugs Bunny was already asleep, sprawled on the table.
"It seems Spirit World Travel really takes a toll on him! I used to know about motion sickness and seasickness, but I never thought there'd be Spirit World Travel sickness."
Leyton mused inwardly, then walked to the hotel window, drew the curtains, and hung his coat on a nearby coat rack. He lay on the bed and used meditation to recover his depleted spirituality.
Once his spirituality was mostly restored, Leyton slowly got up from the bed. He took out all the ritual materials from his leather briefcase and quickly prepared a ritual to communicate with the Library in the Spirit World Depths.
The Beyonder characteristic and the potion ingredients Leyton needed dropped directly from the passage created by the ritual.
Then, using the established ritual, he reversed the operation, took off the strange seed bottle Bugs Bunny was carrying on his back, and sent it into the Library.
When the ritual ended, Leyton quickly tidied up the room.
"Could it be that every time I take items in or store things in the Library, Mr. Hughes is on the other side helping me? It would be great if the Messenger had hands and feet; it feels a bit too much to always ask Mr. Hughes for help with these things."
Leyton thought of something he hadn't noticed before.
Previously, Leyton had always thought the Library was incredibly intelligent, but after encountering the ill-tempered Mr. Hughes today, Leyton couldn't help but delve deeper into the details he usually overlooked.
"Never mind, I'll prepare for advancement first, and then go ask Mr. Hughes about it." Leyton quickly made up his mind.
He meticulously arranged the extracted materials, took out a pre-prepared glass, and Leyton, following his intuition, began to add the appropriate materials, pour in pure water, and finally add the Mysticism Magister Beyonder characteristic into the glass bottle.
A potion the color of mercury, shimmering with ripples, was concocted, with many brass-colored gleams floating within, outlining mysterious, unknown symbols.
Leyton fumbled in his pocket for a Loen gold coin he had exchanged earlier, flicked it in his hand, and performed a simple divination.
After receiving an affirmative result, Leyton tilted his head back and drank the potion directly. The potion melted upon contact, without the process of sliding down the esophagus.
Leyton only felt his head suddenly ache and grow hazy, as if his soul was being peeled from his body. Countless bizarre, incomprehensible things drilled into his mind.
At this moment, Leyton had the illusion that all the world's secrets were laid bare before him. At this moment, Leyton felt as if he knew everything and could do anything.
In the reality Leyton couldn't perceive, his skin was cracking, his body seemed to decompose into open books, and eyes grew out of his flesh.
Loss of control and madness spread silently.
As Leyton gradually lost himself, the discussions, thoughts, and whispers of a group of people reached Leyton's ears, pulling back his fading self.
Leyton heard these voices discussing the papers he had published, the ideas he had proposed. Each person's acknowledged idea was like an anchor, keeping his self-awareness clear and preventing him from getting lost.
In this state, Leyton could not perceive the passage of time, but he could feel the knowledge in his mind constantly increasing, and his understanding of the world and its rules deepening.
It was not until the potion's transformation of his body and mind was complete that Leyton emerged from this state, his soul and body reuniting.
His body briefly trembled, as if it had experienced something terrifying.
Leyton surveyed the hotel room, and countless pieces of information automatically presented themselves in his mind:
The layout style of the hotel, the age of the furniture, the distribution of dust on the floor, the smell in the room, the angle of light passing through the curtains—every detail was clearly presented in Leyton's mind and analyzed one by one.
"Tsk~ it's a bit uncomfortable; my brain feels like it's constantly operating at high speed."
Leyton murmured softly.
The Sequence 5 Mysticism Magister did not gain new Beyonder abilities, but rather significantly enhanced all his previous Beyonder abilities and increased his learning, thinking, and spellcasting capabilities.
The most important was the Polymath's Imitation ability, which was no longer mere Imitation, but the ability to develop unique secret arts through understanding relevant knowledge. There was no longer a significant difference from the original version; in fact, they could even be stronger than the original.
"That feeling of seemingly comprehending all the world's rules just now was truly captivating. If I hadn't cautiously published two more papers in the newspaper, I feel like this advancement would have been even more difficult."
Leyton recalled the scene of his advancement just now. He had a hunch that the feeling of seemingly comprehending the world's rules was closely related to the Cognizer of Sequence 3, and that would become his biggest obstacle in advancing to Sequence 3.
The ritual required to advance to Mysticism Magister of the Reader Pathway, Sequence 5, is to publish a widely recognized paper.
From the advancement process just now, Leyton also understood that the key to this ritual was to gain widespread recognition, which was equivalent to gaining a portion of anchors in advance.
Although not as stable as anchors from faith, it only needed to last through the advancement process.
Leyton also had to thank the Great Emperor for leaving a way out for people, not moving too many things to this era. Of course, Leyton thought the reason Roselle didn't do this was that his previous knowledge was not comprehensive enough.
Leyton, leveraging his cooperation with the Church of the Earth Mother, published a paper on grafting technology in the Tower academic journal controlled by the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom.
To ensure the effect of the ritual, Leyton also published two research papers on psychology. Of course, all of them were copied from papers and materials he had read in some magazines before, using memory charms.
Leyton felt that his ritual preparations had already far exceeded those of an ordinary Polymath, but there was still a great risk during the advancement just now.
"Because I rarely saw descriptions of losing control due to consuming potions in novels, I underestimated the risk and difficulty of advancement."
Leyton sighed inwardly, having a new assessment of the risks of advancement.
The events of these two days had a great impact on Leyton's mindset, but Leyton himself felt that this should be a good thing, indicating that he was integrating more into this world.
After the advancement was complete, Leyton slightly calmed the somewhat restless spirituality within him. Then, in his mind, he meditated and outlined the image of a circle.
As his spirituality rippled like water, a fragmented circle composed of gears and chains appeared behind him.
Leyton's consciousness once again arrived at the Library located in the Spirit World Depths. As soon as Leyton's figure appeared in the Library, a book seemingly cast from gold pounced onto Leyton.
Leyton took down this somewhat glaring book. The patterns on the book were very familiar, and there was also a slight connection belonging to a contract.
"Messenger? How did you become like this?"
Leyton spoke with some surprise.
"Praise my Lord! Because I carried that drop of divine blood, I underwent a life-level metamorphosis!"
The golden, seemingly cast-gold Book Messenger actually tore a mouth on its cover and could even speak.
Leyton's eyebrows twitched. The art style of this book was a bit strange, like a product of corruption.
"It can indeed be considered a product of corruption. The Sun's divine blood was too noisy, and this book was affected a bit, but after I educated it, it has already converted to my Lord."
Mr. Hughes appeared beside him and provided the answer.
Leyton was about to ask Mr. Hughes why he answered his inner doubts as soon as he appeared.
But the Mysticism Magister's instinct immediately began to deduce based on the information he knew:
The Spirit World itself is a product of information Convergence. He had just advanced, and his spirituality was unstable, so as soon as a thought arose in his mind, the corresponding information would surface and then be captured by Mr. Hughes.
"Not bad, you've finally learned to think for yourself!" Mr. Hughes praised.
Leyton was momentarily speechless. Although he indeed didn't like to actively think about profound problems, it wasn't to the extent of not using his brain at all!
"Compared to thinking about problems yourself, you prefer to get answers from others."
Mr. Hughes spoke again.
"Don't expose my flaws!" Leyton originally wanted to complain a bit inwardly, but remembering the characteristics of the Spirit World, he forcibly held back.
"Due to the influence of the potion, I can't help but think inwardly about everything I see now. My brain is constantly in operation."
Leyton sighed helplessly.
"Isn't that very good?" Mr. Hughes retorted.
Leyton felt that this was indeed very good for people of the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom, but not very friendly to himself, who was accustomed to the knowledge infusion of the Hidden Sage.
"Mr. Hughes, that drop of Eternal Blazing Sun's divine blood?" Leyton wanted to change the subject.
Before Leyton could finish speaking, Mr. Hughes waved his right hand from under his robe, and a thumb-sized dark glass bottle fell from a nearby bookshelf onto Leyton's front.
Inside the glass, there seemed to be a miniature Sun, illuminating the dark glass bottle to almost transparency.
"I've put some seals on it. You can take it out now. You can use it to make charms or as a portable lamp, but it's in a sealed state. You can only use it to make one charm per day at most. If it's a more powerful charm, you'll need to let it rest for a few days first."
Mr. Hughes explained, gesturing for Leyton to take the divine blood. Finally, he added:
"Don't be exposed to its light for too long, or you'll still be affected."
Leyton saw a deep look of disdain on Mr. Hughes's face; he seemed to intensely dislike anything tainted with the aura of the Eternal Blazing Sun.
Leyton suddenly remembered Mr. Hughes saying he had "educated" his Messenger earlier, and Leyton thought this education might have been a physical one.
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