Wizard: Starting from the Skill Tree

The core area of the Descent Array has become unrecognizable.

In the Six-Layered Rune Circle, the outer two layers were crushed to powder by the Demon God’s foot. The middle three layers also suffered large-scale fractures from the repeated assaults of Four-Color Divine Light and Shadow Rules, with dark purple rune patterns curling and splitting on the shattered obsidian ground as if burnt veins.

Yet the half-man-tall Shadow Stone Crystal still stands at the center of the array. Though its surface is covered in fine cracks, the flowing liquid brilliance within remains unextinguished.

Inside the crystal, countless exceedingly fine dark purple threads of light slowly circulate by themselves, each cycle accompanied by an extremely faint energy ripple.

Duke walked twice around the crystal and placed his hand on its surface.

The touch was icy cold, but at the moment of Spiritual Power probing in, a complex stream of information surged back along the tendrils of his Spiritual Power.

His pupils contracted slightly; this crystal is not just an Energy Container; it is the informational hub of the entire Descent ritual.

The crystal stores a vast amount of precious data: Salonos’s energy imprint characteristics, the complete foundational rune architecture of the Cross-Plane Faith Channel, and the faith anchor coordinates of all Shadow Council followers.

To any Wizard studying cross-dimensional faith proliferation and Evil God descent mechanisms, these things are far more valuable than the crystal itself.

Duke retrieved pen and paper from his Space Ring and began quickly documenting the vital veins of the rune architecture inside the crystal, recording down the crucial node coordinates and combinations one by one.

Some rune structures were too complex, so he used Spiritual Power to etch them directly into the depths of his memory, to sort them out slowly later on.

When he reached the faith channel structure deep within the crystal core, his fingers suddenly paused, and an idea emerged unprompted from his mind.

Faith Channel.

Salonos receives all Power of Faith from the Shadow Council’s worshippers through this crystal, and the crystal itself is directly linked to Salonos’s core will.

Now Salonos’s projection avatar has been dispersed, the cross-plane rift is gradually closing, yet the faith channel remains uninterrupted—the followers are still there, the crystal is still there, and the foundational rune architecture of the channel is still functioning normally.

The only vacancy is at the other end of the channel, the original reception end for Power of Faith.

Salonos’s will is currently unable to penetrate the closing plane rift to sustain control over this crystal. In other words, the faith channel is currently ownerless.

And within Duke’s body lies a Divine Status.

He stood before the crystal, swiftly recalling the cross-plane faith research literature he had perused in the Six-Ring Tower Library.

Faith theft is not uncommon in the Endless Plane; it is essentially a hijacking operation targeting the foundational rune architecture of faith channels.

Using one’s Divine Status as the new reception end for faith, covering the original faith mark with a higher fate status.

The Wizard Plane has mature research on this, with several Level 4 Mages specifically having published systematic operation plans in this research direction.

For ordinary Level 3 Mages, the operation has a high threshold, as it requires meeting two core conditions: firstly, owning a Divine Status with sufficiently high fate status as the faith reception end; secondly, precisely intervening when a vacancy appears at the upstream reception end of the original faith channel, to complete fate status replacement with the original faith mark.

Most Level 3 Mages do not meet even one condition, but for Duke, the Light Divine Status is the embodiment of the Oracle Plane’s Will, holding influence far greater in the Oracle Plane than Salonos, an external Evil God.

And Salonos’s projection avatar has just been eradicated, leaving the faith channel in a masterless state.

Both conditions are perfectly fulfilled.

Duke pressed his palm against the surface of the Shadow Stone Crystal once again, but this time, it was not for probing but for infusion.

Pale gold light surged from the Light Divine Status, down along the veins of his Spiritual Power, slowly seeping through his fingertips into the crystal’s interior.

The gold light diffused within the liquid brilliance of the crystal, akin to ink dripping into clear water. Initially, only a few extremely fine golden threads meandered through the dark purple ocean of light, gradually coalescing into a thin layer of pale gold sheen over the foundational rune architecture of the faith channel at the crystal’s core.

This step must be exceedingly slow, exceedingly careful.

Cover too fast, and followers’ Spiritual Power would perceive the abnormal change in the faith anchor during prayer.

Cover too slow, and when the rift closes completely, Salonos’s will might reclaim control at the last moment.

Duke’s Spiritual Power akin to an extremely delicate scalpel, inching along the foundational rune patterns of the faith channel, layer by layer peeling away Salonos’s remaining Shadow Marks in the channel, then embedding the pale gold engraving of the Light Divine Status layer by layer.

The entire process lasted quite a while.

When the last trace of Shadow Mark was completely stripped away, and the final layer of pale gold engraving was fully embedded into the rune architecture’s core node, the glow within the entire Shadow Stone Crystal suddenly shimmered.

Dark purple liquid brilliance ebbed away like receding tides, replaced by a layer of extremely faint golden halo slowly spreading outward from the core, like dawn penetrating through clouds.

In Duke’s perception, the faith anchors of thousands of followers trembled slightly at the same moment, then gradually stabilized again.

The tremble was minuscule, so minor that most followers would merely feel they got distracted during prayer. Yet after the tremble, deep in their consciousness, the distant dark purple star had silently changed into a round pale gold sun.

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