Rose Cathedral.
Inside Leon’s room.
After drinking a potion that could slowly increase his mental power intensity, Leon looked at Alicia, who was wearing pajamas and hugging a carrot-shaped pillow in the room.
“Please guard me for a while. Most importantly, keep an eye on me and see if I make any abnormal movements.”
Alicia nodded, raised the pillow above her head with both hands, and said with a serious face, “Mission... accepted!”
“...”
Leon’s eyes twitched. He didn’t know which storybook Alicia had picked up that gesture from, but now when she listened to his instructions, she often raised her hands above her head and acted like that...
“Never mind.”
If anyone else did that, they would look foolish, but for Alicia, it seemed to suit her quite well.
Leon slowly closed his eyes, chanting under his breath:
“God of Sacred Light above, your humblest servant calls to you from these dark depths...”
“...My desire is to accelerate the meditation speed of my Walking Meditation.”
As the words fell, Leon completely immersed his mind into the “Walking Meditation.”
He did not try to perform Sacred Light Meditation at the same time; he only focused on the Walking Meditation.
This was because his current goal was to increase the experience points of Walking Meditation.
If he practiced Sacred Light Meditation simultaneously, the audience feedback provided by Alicia would mostly be concentrated on the Sacred Light Meditation.
Walking Meditation was subtle and inconspicuous, unlike Sacred Light Meditation, which generated “meditation special effects” like sacred light particles.
Therefore, when practicing both meditation methods at once, it was difficult for Walking Meditation to collect audience feedback.
Consequently, it was very hard to increase its experience points.
In fact, Leon was performing Walking Meditation every moment of the day.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of audience feedback, the evaluation of Walking Meditation on the panel had always been low.
Only occasionally would it reach the threshold of a 【Poor】 evaluation, gaining a few single-digit experience points.
A craftsman must sharpen his tools if he is to do his work well.
Previously, Sacred Light Meditation combined with the Lv1 Walking Meditation was enough for Leon’s mental power to grow steadily.
But now, his sea of mental power had expanded. While this made him stronger, it also placed higher demands on his meditation methods.
Upgrading this Divine Art, Walking Meditation, was the most efficient way to achieve a breakthrough at this stage.
With the current linkage of the Radiance Longbow, his immediate combat power had been further enhanced.
Leon felt that he could once again afford to invest in his future.
...
Half the night passed.
Leon slowly opened his eyes, and a flash of light crossed his panel.
【The Meditation Method That Allows Meditation While Walking Lv1 (53/100) → The Meditation Method That Allows Meditation While Walking Lv1 (55/100)】
“In half a night, I could only gain two points of experience. It really is difficult...”
Leon thought to himself.
However, experience points accumulated over time.
At this rate, he could complete the upgrade in about twenty days.
After telling Alicia, who had been guarding him, that she could relax and go to sleep, Leon closed his eyes again, this time running both Walking Meditation and Sacred Light Meditation.
For the second half of the night, he wanted to focus on increasing his mental power intensity.
An unknown amount of time passed before the morning light broke.
Leon slowly opened his eyes and exhaled a breath of turbid air.
“Even after maintaining high-intensity mental consumption for an entire night, I’m still full of energy. The leaf of the Kabbalah Tree of Life is truly extraordinary...”
In the past, after repeatedly multitasking his mind like this, Leon’s mental energy would have certainly been drained by now. He would have been weary, dazed, and his focus would have severely declined.
But now, having consumed the leaf of the Kabbalah Tree of Life, he still possessed abundant focus and didn’t feel the slightest bit of fatigue.
“And this isn’t even the most powerful aspect of that leaf.”
Once he advanced to the Gold rank, the feedback from his life origin to his transcendent power would truly begin to show its worth.
He wondered what kind of enhancement his advancement choice trait would receive then.
Retracting his thoughts and stopping himself from dreaming about things too far in the future, Leon pulled a blanket over Alicia’s stomach, then got out of bed and went to the dining room.
Today’s breakfast was a bowl of pumpkin porridge. Leon took a sip and felt a light, sweet flavor spread leisurely across his tongue.
Leon looked at Old Hunter and asked, “The breakfast tastes different today. Did we change cooks?”
Old Hunter nodded slightly and replied, “Yes. The previous head cook, Madam Luna, resigned to go back and take care of her grandchild after her daughter gave birth.”
“The new cook is named Maryann. She is one of the girls we rescued from the Hartmann manor. She suffered some trauma in the past and has been recovering since you saved her, Young Master.”
Old Hunter paused for a moment and continued in a gentle tone, “When she heard we needed a cook, she volunteered for the position... She said she mainly wanted to personally thank you for saving her life.”
Leon nodded slightly upon hearing this and asked, “How are the other rescued people being settled?”
Old Hunter replied, “Most of them have stayed to live within the castle. With the money you seized from the nobles to manage things, the residents of the castle have been quite accepting of them, and they are getting along harmoniously.”
Leon nodded again.
Allowing those rescued from the noble manors to stay in Eldenborg would definitely have an impact on the city.
It was like immigration; when immigrants arrived in a local’s territory and competed for jobs, they would naturally be disliked and marginalized by the locals.
Fortunately... the nobles in the castle were dead.
By using the wealth seized from their pockets to build roads and create more jobs in the castle, he had prevented the rescued slaves and local residents from fighting tooth and nail over a single livelihood...
Thus, the local residents received benefits and naturally did not marginalize the newcomers.
And the rescued people could live peacefully within the castle.
“As expected, all problems are economic and developmental problems,” Leon sighed.
The castle’s failure to develop before was entirely the fault of those nobles.
Fortunately, they had all been sent to the gallows.
“Young Master, a letter from the imperial capital.”
At that moment, Ratahn walked into the dining room, holding a letter in his hands.
“The imperial capital?” Leon took the letter, feeling puzzled. Was it from his family?
He opened the letter and found that the sender was not his brothers or sister, but—Aaron Cassius.
His Highness Prince Aaron, the second prince of the Cassius Royal Family.
“To my dear best friend, the once-in-a-century Divine Art genius, the creator of 《Hearthstone Spire Slay》, the glorious son of the Prime Minister's family, and the powerful priest who beat Sylvia into a dead dog in public—Leon Douglas!”
“Recently, war has broken out between the Heron Empire and Nightmare, and a martial law decree has been issued in the capital.”
“The Nightingale Tavern, Jacob Fishing Grounds, Guga Swordsmanship Hall, and other places in the city have all been closed.”
“I am bored to death here in the capital, so I have decided—my dear friend, I shall travel to Eldenborg to reunite with you!”
?
That Second Prince Aaron was so bored in the capital that he was coming to Eldenborg to find him?
Leon’s head was filled with question marks.
No, why was this troublemaker coming to find him instead of staying in the capital?
Besides, didn’t the Sage King know about this? Why didn’t he stop him?
Leon was just about to write a letter to dissuade this little devil and ask him to reconsider coming to Eldenborg.
After all, there was nothing fun here, and his small temple of Eldenborg couldn't handle a troublemaker like Aaron running wild.
However, when he flipped to the back of the letter, he saw Prince Aaron had written:
“By the time you receive this letter, I should already be on my way.”
“Perhaps we shall meet tomorrow.”
“I have also prepared a gift from the capital for you. I guarantee this gift will leave you absolutely surprised!”
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