Wizard: Starting from the Skill Tree

The repulsive force between the two rules continued to accumulate under the suppression of the spiritual power lever. The energy density at the convergence node surged rapidly, and Duke could feel the fusion magic forming in his palm becoming unstable at an alarming speed.

The orange-red of the Fireball Technique and the gray-white of the Rock Spike Technique fused into a bizarre light sphere interwoven with fiery red and earthy yellow. The surface of the sphere rippled with tiny bubbles, each bursting to release a ring of minute energy shockwaves.

The repulsive force was still climbing.

Duke’s spiritual power lever began to tremble slightly under the immense pressure, but he did not loosen his grip.

The manual clearly marked that the critical value of repulsive force in the fusion of two rules was about seventy percent of the load limit of the spiritual power lever. However, the intensity of his six-element compound spiritual crystal far exceeded that of wizards of the same level, and seventy percent pressure was still within his controllable range.

He gritted his teeth and pushed the last trace of spiritual power upwards, abruptly releasing the fusion magic from the convergence node just before the repulsive force reached the critical point.

The light sphere, interwoven with fiery red and earthy yellow, left his hand and carved a trail of alternating brightness and darkness in the air, heading towards a preset Level 2 spell target in the distance.

At the moment the light sphere hit the target, Duke instinctively took a step back as metallic yellow sand surrounded him, forming a Yellow Sand Barrier.

Then the explosion occurred.

An extremely deep rumbling came from the point of impact, causing the entire ground of the Light God Court to tremble slightly.

The fiery red and earthy yellow lights intertwined at the explosion’s center, forming an ever-expanding hemispherical light cluster. Inside the cluster, the explosive force of the Flame Rules and the impact force of the Earth Rules were released simultaneously during a brief coexistence period, resulting in an energy overlay effect far exceeding a single-rule attack.

The shockwave spread outward from the explosion’s epicenter, reducing grass blades to powder and hurling gravel meters high, filling the air with a pungent mixture of scorched and molten rock.

The light cluster and shockwave lingered for a dozen breaths before gradually dissipating. Once everything calmed down, Duke stood in silence for a moment, observing the scene in front of him.

The ground where the target stood now held a giant crater, both in depth and diameter, far surpassing the previous obsidian pit.

The surface of the crater wall was not smooth but presented a peculiar composite form.

In some areas, the rock had melted from the intense heat into obsidian-like glass, while other areas were shattered into a dense mesh of gravel by tremendous impact, with the two destructive effects intersecting distinctly on the crater wall yet closely linked.

At the deep crater bottom, dark red magma slowly seeped out, remnants of high temperatures from the Flame Rules at the explosion’s core area.

Duke walked to the crater edge and scanned the residual rule fluctuations at the crater bottom with spiritual power.

The residual energy of the Flame Rules and Earth Rules intertwined into a very complex rule field at the crater bottom. Even after the explosion, the residual energies of the two rules did not dissipate immediately, but continued to repel, collide, and annihilate each other at the crater bottom, with each collision stirring a faint spatial ripple in the air.

The longer the residual rule field persists, the deeper the fusion, and the stronger the energy overlay effect released during the explosion.

[Fire Rules: LV1 (23/10000)]

[Earth Rules: LV1 (15/10000)]

A single rule fusion attack simultaneously propelled the growth of proficiency in both rules.

Gazing at these two lines of data, Duke pondered that if he simultaneously fused three rules, a single attack could boost the proficiency of all three rules.

Fuse six, and then the proficiency of all six rules would increase simultaneously.

For an ordinary wizard, the difficulty of rule fusion increases exponentially with the number fused; even fusing two requires extremely high talent.

But for Duke, though each increase in fusion quantity significantly heightens difficulty, the skill proficiency enhancement mechanism allows him to advance methodically.

Each practice session raises proficiency a little, deepens rule enlightenment a bit more, and weakens the repulsive force slightly.

Someday, two-rule fusion will turn into three-rule fusion, three into four, until all six rules can stably fuse within a single magic framework.

Of course, such thoughts are premature for now.

Even just fusing two rules put immense pressure on his spiritual power, with the suppression process at the convergence node greatly burdening his spiritual power.

Moreover, the fusion just now wasn’t perfect. He slightly misadjusted the output ratio when suppressing repulsive force, causing the fusion light sphere to become unstable before release, detonating much earlier than he anticipated.

If he hadn’t staggered back and maximized his defenses in advance, the shockwave from the explosion might have affected him.

Crouching at the crater’s edge, Duke meticulously recorded every crucial data point from the recent test.

That fusion involved just two rules, yet the repulsive force was so great he needed vast spiritual power to suppress it. Without the six-element high-level elemental affinity talent reducing natural rule repulsion, he couldn’t have succeeded in fusing two rules on the first try, even with the skill tree mechanism’s aid.

Nevertheless, Duke confirmed that he indeed has hope of replicating Jin Mo’s Four-Color Divine Light attack.

Once he can fuse six rules power to form a Six-Color Divine Light attack, no equal-tier opponent could withstand it.

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A year quietly passed amidst repeated practice.

In the desolate testing ground of the Light God Court, the original crater from the fusion of the Fireball Technique and Rock Spike Technique had long been covered by larger, deeper craters.

Duke could no longer remember how many fusion magics he cast over the year. Starting with two-rule combinations like Flames and Shadows, Flames and Earth, Flames and Light, he tested each group, optimized each group, and meticulously recorded data for each group.

The repulsive force coefficient of each combination, optimal output ratio, energy threshold of the convergence node, post-fusion stability decay curve, all were densely charted in a notebook. As one notebook filled, he replaced it with a new one, and then another as each new one filled. Several filled notebooks already filled his desk drawer.

The leap from two-rule fusion to three-rule fusion is the hardest step. Adding one more rule into the fusion framework increases repulsive force not additively but exponentially.

Three rules at the convergence node generate three pairs of repulsive relationships, each needing separate suppression via the spiritual power lever. And when all three act simultaneously at one node, the lever’s pressure capacity almost reaches its limit.

On Duke’s first attempt at three-rule fusion, the convergence node lost control and exploded at compression instant, hurling him tens of meters.

He didn’t rush to try again but instead closely analyzed the experiment data multiple times, readjusting the output ratio and compression sequence of the three rules. Compressing the pair with minimal repulsion first, then using this initially fused dual-rules as an anchor to connect the third rule; compressing stepwise rather than simultaneously, he finally found a breakthrough.

Four-rule fusion was even more challenging.

Duke spent several months in repeated attempts before successfully compressing and stably fusing the Flame, Shadow, Light, and Earth rules into the convergence node for the first time one afternoon.

Now, standing at the test ground’s center, Duke raised his hand, and four beams of rule light radiated from his fingers, intertwining in his palm.

The Four-Color Divine Light slowly rotated in his palm, tranquil and obedient, like a tamed miniature sun.

Watching the light mass in his palm, Duke slightly moved his fingers, and the light intelligently swirled around his fingertip before settling back in his palm.

Along his palm lines, the edges of Four-Color Divine Light trickled as dark red, inky black, pale gold, and earthy yellow hues continuously shifted their proportions, yet always maintained a stable fusion state without any sign of losing control.

Duke successfully fused four rules into the Four-Color Divine Light and could now manipulate it freely.

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