After coming out of the meditation room, Maximus headed to the garden, where his wives and children were staying at the moment, according to the array monitoring.
He saw his wives relaxing, either reading a book, sewing something, eating, cooking, or simply playing with the children.
“Hi, Daddy.”
“Hi, Dad.”
“Good morning, Father.”
When the children saw their father they happily greeted him and came back to playing.
His wives look at him carefully and felt that something was different with their husband.
It seemed like he was more handsome and had a knowledgeable aura, and his previous arrogance was also concealed.
“What happened to you, dear?” Erica asked as he sat next to them.
“Nothing, I just finished training,” Maximus said.
“Oh, what are you doing here then?” she asked.
They had been quite upset with Maximus recently as they had hardly seen him in the past three days.
If they didn’t know he was safe, they would have gone crazy with worry.
“I missed you,” Maximus said sweetly and came to hug them.
He had indeed been busy these past few days.
After the system was updated, he was either testing the changes or doing something else.
Until this day, he had only roughly browsed what was on the system’s intermittent recordings.
After all, who knows how long the system exist, he just watched it roughy, skipping the parts where there is not much information.
Fortunately, he can pinpoint the information he wanted if he concentrates, so he can roughly know what changed in the system.
“Humph,” Erica just harrumphed.
“Well, how about I stay with you today?” Maximus chuckled and said to his wives and the kids who were busy playing.
“Yay!” Most of his children were excited. Playing with their father was always fun.
“Alright, let’s start…”
Maximus played with the children the whole day while bonding with his wives.
After a whole day of bonding and playing, Maximus slept with his wives for the great mission of spreading his seeds to have more children.
Unfortunately, it wasn’t as easy as before, as they were already tier 2, which made giving birth a bit difficult.
So he still needed to work harder.
…
The next day at the breakfast table,
“I will help you train today, so get ready,” Maximus looked at his wives and said.
“What?!” They were puzzled.
They were already adults, so what was there to help?
“Oh, it’s just a bit of guidance. I had an epiphany the other day, and I think it will help with the training.”
“Furthermore, we will go to the arcane continent in less than two months. Although it’s safe there as long as you are in a city, it’s still better to have some strength,” Maximus said in excuse.
After all, could he say that he needed more LP, so they needed to be stronger?
As for the arcane continent being safe?
It is indeed safe as long as you’re inside the city.
The protection array set there will ensure you are not harmed.
Here in the Sunburnt Plateau, however, the castle only has a maximum tier 6 protection.
In the cities of the arcane continent, only a tier 9 being can cause any harm to people inside the city.
So unless you’re so poor that you have to live in the wilderness, it’s very safe.
As for how it is guaranteed, Maximus didn’t know, but it was quite common knowledge among the people living there.
…
After his wives reluctantly agreed, they came to the meditation room that he had just built.
With a tier 6 mana concentration in the room, along with his guidance and various resources, he thought that it would only take a little over a month for them to upgrade to tier 3 nascent mages.
This was much faster than him.
After all, when he first trained, he only had resources worth thousands of GP.
Now, he would use resources worth millions of GP just to train them to tier 3.
If it were not for the consequence of a poor foundation, he could let them upgrade in just a week with resources.
To ensure they had a solid foundation, even if they use a large amount of resources.
Maximus used more than 9,000 LP he had obtained for the day to quickly master the basic knowledge for mage and knight cultivation.
He also upgraded his mentor Insight by the way.
[Mentor insight: Rank 5 Mythic (0/3,000,000)]
Basic Knowledge for Tier 0-3 Mage and Knight Cultivation: Transcendent (Max)
Tier 0-3 Elemental Breath: Transcendent (Max)
Tier 0-3 Moonlight Serenade: Transcendent (Max)
Fortunately, there were only a few books, so he quickly maxed them out.
He also mastered their cultivation manual to teach them better.
Since their cultivation manual was only of high quality compared to his own, which was top quality, he only needed a few hundred LP to upgrade them to transcendent.
“Should we start?” one of his wives asked, unsure of what to do.
“Yes, just meditate like normal, and I will see what I can do,” Maximus nodded and had them start meditating.
He didn’t know if the upgraded mentor insight and cultivation knowledge would be useful.
Among them, only Erica and Hazel were Great Mages, while the rest were Official Mages.
As his wives started, the mana in the room surged toward them.
As he looked at them, using his high mentor insight and basic knowledge.
Maximus could easily identify the more efficient mana routes based on their physique perfectly.
“Good, stop for now,” Maximus was satisfied with his test.
He then took out Tier 1 and 2 Rapid Elixir Potions.
These potions could quickly gather mana from the surroundings and converge it to the user.
Although they looked simple, they were pretty expensive, costing a few million GP each.
Apparently, each drop of the potion was filled with complex arrays, which were unconventional and just thinking about it you will know that it’s not cheap.
“Take this and start again. You start, Erica,” he said.
“Alright,” Erica obediently followed her husband’s instructions.
His other wives stood on the side, looking puzzled, unsure of what their husband was going to do.
As Erica took the potion, a rapid movement of mana coursed through her.
ƥαṇdαs ηθνε| Erica panicked a little as the mana moved too fast for her to control.
One wrong move and it could be disastrous.
Not knowing what to do, she trusted her husband and attempted to control the rapid mana.
“Circulate the mana along the pathways I constructed,” Maximus silently advised.
With transcendent mastery, he created a Tier 0 soul spell that formed soul pathways, softening and guiding the passage of mana flowing through his wife.
Controlling the surging mana was like taming a raging river.
With Maximus’ mentor’s insight and follow-up knowledge, he could determine the gentlest lands and the most efficient ways for the mana to flow.
Following her husband’s guidance, Erica quickly directed the surging mana into the soul pathways.
To her surprise, although the mana surged violently and seemed uncontrollable, with her husband’s guidance, she felt like she was gracefully dancing with the waves.
After a few minutes, the surging mana subsided within Erica.
“Huh!” Erica breathed a sigh of relief as if she had survived a calamity.
“That was too dangerous,” Erica looked at her husband angrily.
“It’s alright. You see, you’re safe and sound,” Maximus smiled with relief.
Although he was confident he could save his wife even if something went wrong, he didn’t want to see them get hurt.
Fortunately, the Mentor Insight and the transcendent Tier 0 soul spell worked wonders.
He had only thought that his soul spell could serve as a guide, but he didn’t expect it to soften the mana and make it easier to absorb.
“How do you feel? How is your strength?” Maximus asked, curious to see the extent of the rapid elixir potion’s impact.
“I don’t know, but I feel three times stronger,” Erica was also shocked by her improvement.
“Oh?” Maximus was curious and scanned his wife, Erica, with his system.
[Erica: Fit 97
Soul: Great Mage Level 3
Body: Official Knight Level 2
Mana Compatibility: Rank 3 Rare
Gastronomic Aptitude: Rank 6 Divine
…]
“What…?” Maximus said inwardly.
He was not shocked by the improvement of his wife from Great Mage Level 1 to Level 3.
What shocked him was the additional discovery that his wife had a Tier 6 Divine potential for gastronomy.
It was his first time scanning them since the system updated.
He had thought that only his panel changed, but now he could see their specific potential in all fields.
Besides the Gastronomic Aptitude, which stood out like a sore thumb, all of her potential in other fields was either trash or common.
After browsing through his system’s intermittent recordings, he came to know that this was also one of the criteria for the fit value to break through 89 and reach 90.
Even if they were goddesses, without a field in which their potential reached at least Rank 6 Divine, no matter what he did, they would not meet the system’s required fit value.
Apparently, without a high attunement to the world, the system couldn’t utilize the so-called family bond to absorb this world’s excess time energy.
So their natural beauty, character, and, most importantly, potential were the main criteria of the system.
As for why only Mana Compatibility and tier of strength are included in the daily generation of LP and not this type of talent?
It was because this talent was untapped and was only used as a display.
If the system was a leverage that absorbs Life Points, then the tier of strength would indicate how strong the leverage is in absorbing time energy.
Mana compatibility would be the environment where it absorbs time energy.𝔬𝐕𝗅xt.𝗇t
Higher mana compatibility means more quantity of time energy to absorb.
And this Aptitude which had nothing to do with mana is the technique on how the leverage absorbs the time energy.
So without corresponding knowledge to utilize this Aptitude it was useless and thus it’s not included in the generation of LP.