At the 100,000th step:
“You’re here, Silas!” Ragnar said, greeting the one who had just arrived.
“Ragnar…” Silas replied, his expression sluggish.
“Oh?” Maximus, who was in the middle of telling Lilith a story, looked at them.
“Do you know who that is?” Maximus whispered into Lilith’s ear.
“Uh… It’s Silas.”
Lilith felt embarrassed by Maximus’ closeness and nervously blushed.
“He was originally just an inconspicuous branch member of the Tier 9 Rusthammer Family.”
“But his crazy deeds caught the attention of the apex sovereign in their family.”
“What crazy deed?” Maximus whispered.
“This…” Seeing Maximus getting more presumptuous, she just rolled her eyes in surrender.
“He originally had a trash-tier talent, but his courage and will are out of this world.”
“When he was ten years old, he began spending his whole life in the time chamber like crazy.”
“At first, it was only time dilation of 100X, but day by day, the time dilation increased.”
“Now I’ve heard that he is nearing a hundred years old, and the time dilation he is in, is more than a million times,” Lilith said softly.
“It’s really crazy.” Even Maximus couldn’t imagine the time confusion that would happen for that cazy lifestyle.
Without a strong will, one would not even know what’s true and what’s not.
Curious, he scanned Silas’s status.
[Silas Rusthammer: 97 years old
Tier 4 Elemental Mage
Rank 6 Divine Talent (Heaven’s Reward…)
Mana Amplitude: 100,000X]
As Maximus looked, he was not even shocked by the mana amplitude, which would have taken at least a million years of non-stop study.
He tapped on Heaven’s Reward curiously, after all, only Tier 9 talents can have a special body.
[Heaven’s Reward: An unlimited growable special constitution. A pity of heaven as hard work is rewarded.
Note: “I’ll master anything with enough time with no bottleneck.”]
“Amazing!” Maximus’s eyes lit up.
This is truly an amazing constitution; the only downside is that you’ll learn anything slowly, regardless of how high your talent is.
It’s like the game master locked your experience points to 1 XP regardless of level.
But nonetheless, this constitution had the possibility of surpassing rank 9 talent given enough time.
…
In the 999th step:
95th day later, 5 days before the deadline,
“How far do you think our husband is?” Angeline asked as they sat down.
“It should be about to finish,” Irene confidently said.
“By the way, what chances do you think we have to pass the 1,000th illusion trial?” Luna chimed in.
“Don’t worry, I heard our husband has prepared trump cards for us for the 1,000th trial,” Erica said in a whisper, afraid that others would hear it.
“Oh?” They looked at Erica in puzzlement.
“He didn’t tell me either; he just said that we should take the test one by one.” Erica shrugged her shoulders.
“Then I’ll go first,” Isabella said, seeing that the others were still fatigued.
After all, Isabella had more experience, so she could cope with the trial better.
“Then you should go.”
…
In the 100,000th step:
Just as he was about to continue teasing Lilith, he noticed Isabella stepping onto the 1,000th step.
Earlier, after he knew that his system can directly interfere with the illusion trial.
He secretly instructed Erica vaguely, so as not to leave traces.
[Spiritual Interference Detected!]
After the system informed him, he prepared himself to join in the illusion trial.
“I’ll meditate for a while, Lilith,” Maximus said.
“Hmm,” Lilith just nodded.
…
In Isabella’s Illusion Trial:
In the Imperial City, underground prison.
In a small confinement area, a huge group of men huddled together as if waiting for the verdict.
A rough man in the corner suddenly opened his eyes as if awake.
“So, this is the illusion trial. It’s quite realistic,” Maximus murmured.
He looked at the illusion trial mission.
[Mission: Escape the prison, kill the king]
The mission was rough without any conditions.
But if you think it’s easy, then you would be mistaken.
The king is a Tier 4 sky knight, and he is just a mortal.
With his memory and experience, Maximus could train until he could crush that king.
However, based on the system, this illusion trial seems to target the tester.
He is fine, as he is just a bug in the program; he can live here peacefully until he is invincible.
But Isabella will experience countless bad luck as time goes on.
“First, find Isabella,” Maximus murmured.
This is quite easy, as the system has already marked Isabella’s position.
Maximus began to manipulate the magic particles in the air as he cast a soul spell to hypnotize all the people around.
“It’s quite useful,” Maximus said, looking at them as if waiting for his order.
Although he had a mortal body without even a bit of mana, with his transcendent mastery, manipulating a bit of magic particle without mana is easy.
“Open the door,” Maximus ordered.
The guard opened the door absentmindedly.
“Clothes,” Maximus said, looking at his prisoner clothes.
After a while, a guard brought up a spare uniform.
“Now it’s ready,” Maximus thought.
“Follow me!” Maximus said as he strode toward Isabella’s position.
…
In another prison, a girl was standing silently as she looked at the other prisoners lying flat.
“Hmph,” Isabella snorted.
After she woke up, she was surrounded by this bunch.
Fortunately, although she had a mortal body, with her fighting skills, knocking a bunch of people is not a problem.
“What trump card do you have, Maximus…” Isabella thought as if waiting for something.
As she was imagining things, a bunch of footsteps came from outside.
“Another one?” Isabella thought that it was another bunch of people who targeted her.
As Isabella positioned herself to fight, she saw the one who came out.
“Maximus?!”
“Surprise?” Maximus teased.
“How did you come here?”
Originally, Isabella thought that it would be something that could indirectly help her in the illusion trial, but who knew Maximus came directly.
“Will there be any problem?”
“No.”
Seeing that Maximus did not explain further, Isabella didn’t ask more.
Although Maximus knew that they were loyal to him, the existence of the system was better kept hidden.
As for the illusion trial, giving away that he was here, the system had already fixed that.
With the existence comparable to at least a Tier 10 artifact, although the system can’t modify any entities beyond it, his soul-bound wives’ illusion trial is easily modifiable.
When people outside watch Isabella’s trial, all they could see was her completing the task methodically.
Unfortunately, his wives couldn’t obtain the trial blessing if the illusion trial mission was not completed.
Otherwise, he could just let his system to terminate this illusion trial.
“Let’s go!” Maximus said as he took her hand.
“Do you know my mission?” Isabella asked as they were walking.
“Isn’t it killing the king?” Maximus smiled.
“Uh, fine,” Isabella didn’t bother more as she observed the surroundings.
Isabella noticed that the people following them were absentminded.
“Did you use a spell?”
“Right.”
“But how can you use a spell without mana?”
“It’s easy. As long as your mastery of the spell is enough, you can cast the spell with just your soul power.”
“Oh, By the way, how do you plan to kill the king?”
Although Maximus can use spells, with the strength of the king, it’s not enough.
“I’ll show you why explosion is an art,” Maximus grinned.
…
Outside the underground prison, Maximus and Isabella walked out casually.
As for the hypnotized guards, they were back to work as if nothing happened.
“By the way, help me buy these,” Maximus conjured a list of materials by bending light particles using magic energy.
“Alright,” Although Isabella was puzzled about why he needed a bunch of mortal things, she still nodded.
“By the way, we don’t have money,” Maximus remembered.
“Why don’t we rob?” Isabella advised with a grin.
Although they only have mortal bodies, their experience is still there, so robbing some noble or merchant should be easy.
“Don’t be troublesome; I can use spells, remember?”
Certainly, Tier 0 spell is only effective against mortals.
So, he can’t be too unscrupulous.
…
After a few hours of investigation, they came across their target, a suspected Greedy Grain Merchant.
“These ones should have a lot of fat,” Maximus said, looking at the luxurious mansion.
“Let’s get in,” Isabella said excitedly.
This is her first time robbing this openly.
Maximus smiled and cast a Tier 0 invisibility spell on their bodies.
As they navigated the mansion, they came to a hidden safe.
“How do we open this?” Isabella asked, looking at the massive door.
“Let me,” Maximus cast an tier 0 open lock spell as he pushed open the door.
He could use all these spells as they were already at transcendent mastery.
It’s an individual spell, so it only cost him less than 100 Life points each.𝗈𝓋𝐞xt.𝗰𝑀
This is another wonderful function of the life points.
It can directly upgrade mastery to transcendent with enough life points.
For others without enough comprehension and talent, it would be impossible even with time.
*Creak*
As the door opened, a bunch of chests full of gold coins greeted their eyes.
“How rich,” Isabella was shocked.
“Tsk, it’s really greedy,” Maximus muttered.
You know when he first transmigrated, he only had a few thousand gold coins as a count.
However here, there are at least 10,000 gold coins which is too much for a merchant.
“With this, we can start with the plan.”