Wizard Bloodline

Before coming to White Stone Castle, Ronan had assumed the so-called "talent transplantation" was a highly secretive technology tightly controlled by the major wizard families of White Stone Castle. He thought that obtaining it would require a significant price or the influence of a third-level wizard like Kosti.

To his surprise, from the mouth of the brown-haired middle-aged man, he learned that while "talent transplantation technology" was indeed controlled by the major wizard families, any wizard who could afford the magic stones could undergo "talent transplantation."

Every year, a large number of ice-specialized wizards came to White Stone Castle for this purpose. Under the operation of the major wizard families, the process of "talent transplantation" had already formed a complete and mature "service chain."

The so-called introduction letter Ronan held was entirely superfluous and unnecessary.

"...However, sir, your timing is unfortunate. During this season, most ice beasts suitable for talent transplantation in White Stone Highlands are hibernating. Each family has limited transplantation slots, and I need to check if there are any vacancies," the brown-haired middle-aged man added.

Ronan glanced at him and asked calmly, "What's your name?"

"Barisha Ababruk," the middle-aged man quickly replied.

Ronan casually tossed him a mid-grade magic stone, saying, "Make it quick; I don't want to wait too long."

Barisha caught the stone with delight and nodded quickly, "Rest assured, sir, you won't have to wait long."

With that, he hurried away.

He indeed didn't keep Ronan waiting long.

Ronan had initially thought it would take at least a few days, but after merely two cups of hot tea at the tavern, Barisha returned.

He handed Ronan several neatly ironed parchment sheets with beautiful handwriting listing some information.

"...Our Ababruk family currently only has a second-level slot available for the Blue Claw Griffon. For first-level slots, we have the Six-Legged Ice Salamander, Frost Wolf, and Arlan Ice Bat."

Ronan listened to Barisha's introduction while perusing the parchment.

The different beasts Barisha introduced represented the different types of talents one could obtain through talent transplantation.

As Ronan reviewed the information, he found that most of these talents were essentially "spell instant-cast"—the ability to instantly cast an ice spell that the bloodline's corresponding beast excelled at.

The different types of talents were essentially just variations in the ice spells that could be instant-cast.

For example, transplanting the Six-Legged Ice Salamander's talent allowed one to instant-cast an ice stream comparable to a first-level spell.

The Frost Wolf's talent was instant-casting "Ice Burst."

The Arlan Ice Bat...

Of course, one talent feature that could be obtained from any beast was a certain degree of increased affinity for ice energy particles.

This meant that if Ronan completed the transplantation, his "non-attribute energy affinity" under [Talent] would likely become "ice attribute energy affinity."

Once the transplanted talent was exhausted, it would return to its original state.

The parchment also specifically noted that the technology could cause certain side effects, such as mental and soul power pollution, regardless of whether the transplantation was successful.

After reviewing all the parchment content, Ronan frowned slightly.

Indeed, the reality was far less promising than the fantasy.

White Stone Castle's "ice talent transplantation technology" offered little power enhancement, and its numerous limitations and side effects almost made Ronan want to abandon the transplantation altogether.

However, considering that the talent's effect, though minor, could still allow him to instant-cast an additional ice spell, augmenting the [Frozen Ground] rune, it could add one or even two more spell anchors to the despair domain, which would be a significant enhancement to the domain's power.

Mental and soul power pollution was troublesome but could be addressed later.

With the Mirror Court's secret realm about to open, any temporary increase in combat power was beneficial, and both Kosti and Benigo had recommended it.

After some thought, Ronan decided to give it a try.

However, having decided on the transplantation, he naturally wanted to choose the best option.

He immediately ruled out first-level beasts, and the only second-level beast option—the Blue Claw Griffon—was a dual-element beast with ice and wind, whose innate spell was also a dual-element spell, making it unsuitable as a spell anchor for the [Frozen Ground] domain.

"Is there really no other choice for second-level beasts?"

Ronan set down the parchment and inquired of Barisha.

Barisha shook his head, "This season, you can only capture Blue Claw Griffons in White Stone Highlands. If you're not in a hurry, you could wait three months; there will be more second-level beasts available then."

Ronan couldn't afford to wait three months.

He placed a high-grade magic stone before Barisha and said calmly, "I believe you can find a way. Check with other families for me."

Barisha quickly pocketed the magic stone, glanced around, and leaned in to whisper to Ronan, "The situation with other families is similar to ours. But I can ask a few individual wizards for you."

"Can individual wizards master this technology?"

Ronan was surprised.

Barisha explained, "The core knowledge of 'talent transplantation' was initially shared among all wizard families in White Stone Castle. Some families declined over time, leaving only one or two people remaining in White Stone Castle. These wizards don't need vast resources to support entire families and may occasionally accept one or two 'talent transplantation' requests, so they often have a stockpile of suitable ice beast bloodlines, offering more options."

"Alright, get it done for me."

Barisha assured Ronan it was all in his hands.

Another waiting period followed.

This time, it lasted a month and a half.

During this period, Ronan frequently heard of wizards undergoing "talent transplantation" ceremonies hosted by various families, including the Ring wizards who had accompanied him on the journey.

Reportedly, five had failed.

Ronan discreetly observed these colleagues and noted that those who succeeded showed no significant outward changes.

The only notable difference was the more intense icy aura surrounding them, aligning them more closely with the "genius wizard" identity of single-element affinity.

The Ring wizards quickly left White Stone Castle after their ceremonies, likely due to the high cost of the transplantation technology, investing heavily in themselves to maximize gains from the imminent Mirror Court secret realm opening.

Ronan patiently waited, with no news from Barisha, while the search for "Soraya" continued. Meanwhile, Ronan had nearly completed his collection of second-level ice spell legacies, costing him nearly a thousand high-grade magic stones.

In the highlands' snowy mountains, on a flat, snow-covered peak of a broken mountain, Ronan stood silently.

He stood tall, wearing only a robe transformed from Neman metal, looking somewhat thin against the cold wind, yet exuding an even more cold and ruthless aura.

"After a month and a half, I finally trained my mental power to its limit again," Ronan mused, gazing at the vast snowy mountains, forest, and the sky almost devoid of impurity, as he opened his character panel.

The progress bar behind the strength column stopped at (150%).

Upon reaching this progress point, Ronan could no longer increase his mental power through meditation.

Now, the solid-liquid coexisting mental power orb in his mind had grown to twice its pre-purification size.

Ronan's total mental power had reached about three times that of a typical late first-level wizard approaching second-level.

His mental power naturally emanated, intensifying the air and light's viscosity and distortion, resembling a second-level wizard's aura.

Additionally, Ronan had finally trained his expert-level high-level zero-tier spell, [Ice Blade], to master level, successfully deriving transcendent domain power.

It must be said that advancing a high-level zero-tier spell to master level was far more arduous than a low-level zero-tier spell.

He couldn't imagine what it would be like when he started working on first-level spells.

Pondering this, Ronan's eyes gleamed, and suddenly, mental power surged forth, snow and wind abruptly rising on the mountaintop as massive ice energy particles rolled in.

Mysterious energy surged from Ronan, weaving into a narrow domain of power in the void.

"[Ice Blade - Frozen Blade]!"

Within the domain, a point of icy white light blossomed, quickly extending upward, finally forming a half-meter-long, knife-like, sword-like pure white ice blade!

The ice blade, crystalline and transparent, glinted with a strange light in the cold sunlight.

A faint, terrifying chill and sharpness emanated from the blade, and as it moved, it left clear, shallow black scars in the void.

Ronan manipulated the pure white ice blade to dance, skimming the ground at high speed, leaving a long, shallow black mark in the air.

Silently, a deep cut appeared in the snow, revealing the hardened permafrost beneath, which was quickly filled and sealed by spontaneously forming ice, exuding an unusual sharpness and biting chill.

"Lanney was right.

The transcendent domain power is the sword, and mental power is the hand wielding the sword.

The power that a transcendent domain can unleash is largely determined by the strength of the mental power driving the domain."

Ronan pondered the spell damage caused by [Frozen Blade], his mind racing with thoughts.

Having only recently comprehended the [Frozen Blade] transcendent domain, with a mastery level in the double digits, the power released was already close to what he had achieved months ago during the Seventh Ring selection with [Ice Orb - Desperate Freeze] or [Frost Ray - Ice Veins]!

This was the significant difference in mental power intensity.

Ronan manipulated the pure white ice blade to dance rapidly around him, and within a 500-meter radius centered on him, the void was quickly covered in dense, shallow black scars left by [Frozen Blade].

Eventually, the ice blade's speed became so fast that even mental power couldn't capture it, and the naked eye could only see the constant emergence and disappearance of shallow black scars in the void.

[Ice Blade] was a continuous consumption spell. Once summoned, as long as it wasn't destroyed and mental power was sufficient, it could persist and attack.

The spell's control process gave Ronan a sense of wielding a "flying sword."

At a certain moment, the pure white ice blade suddenly stopped, transitioning from extreme motion to extreme stillness, floating quietly before Ronan.

Gazing at the pure white ice blade, Ronan's eyes flickered, and once again, countless mysterious energies surged from within him.

[Desperate Freeze]!

[Ice Veins]!

Two more transcendent domains formed around Ronan!

Following this, an ice sphere exuding a strong aura of despair, cold air condensed like blue and white plant roots growing around Ronan, and the pure white ice blade radiating extreme cold and sharpness.

Three master-level spells, each containing transcendent domain power, began to slowly rotate around Ronan.

Ronan's eyes gradually turned pure ice blue, all emotions and distractions frozen, quickly sinking to the bottom of his heart's lake.

The rotation speed of the three spells increased, faster and faster.

The transcendent domain powers they emitted during this rotation seemed to mix and merge, expanding, with cold air permeating, despair spreading, and sharpness engulfing.

Ice and snow formed an upward-spiraling storm, growing taller and larger.

Ronan stood at the center of this icy tornado, enveloped in icy blue, white hair and robe dancing together!

Just as the icy tornado grew to nearly reach the sky, and the three transcendent domain powers within seemed to be on the verge of forming an inexplicable connection—

"Boom!"

The three master-level spells, each carrying different domain auras, exploded simultaneously, collapsing the tornado and unleashing a tsunami of extreme cold ice waves across the small mountaintop, triggering a heavy snowfall.

"Crackling—"

Thick snowflakes mixed with fist-sized hailstones fell continuously but were crushed by Ronan's naturally emanating powerful mental power before they could approach him.

Ronan stood alone amidst the hailstorm, the ice blue in his eyes slowly melting.

"Still not quite there."

Ronan reflected, having just exited the [Lake of No Thoughts] state, his brain, enhanced by six "Murphy Tira's Kiss," as cool and clear as the surrounding world.

"But my line of thinking should be correct.

These three transcendent domain powers all belong to the ice element. Though their effects differ, fusion is entirely possible.

The reason for fusion failure might be... the disparity in mastery levels?"

Ronan pondered continuously.

His inspiration came from dual domain stacking.

If simple domain stacking could achieve 1+1>2 effects, then the effect of domain fusion should be even more terrifying!

Currently mastering three transcendent domain powers of the same element, Ronan harbored grand ambitions, skipping dual domain fusion to directly attempt triple domain fusion!

"Pause [Desperate Freeze] training for now, until I bring [Ice Veins] and the recently comprehended [Frozen Blade] mastery levels up.

If the understanding of the three domains is balanced, perhaps I can achieve the desired result."

"If it still doesn't work, I'll lower the difficulty and honestly start with dual domain fusion."

Ronan thought, dispersing the wind and snow, preparing to return to White Stone Castle.

Just then, a message arrived from the communication stone in his spatial ring.

From Barisha.

After a quick check, Ronan's eyes gleamed with excitement.

"Finally, there's progress on the talent transplantation front!"

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