Lacius and Hars calmly watched Kanon's struggle.

  The potion Lacius just fed Kanon will cause the mana inside a blessed to stagnate while also slightly paralyzing their body. The weaker the blessed, the lohe duration it could cause their energy to stagnate.

  But as the resources used to craft that potion are incredibly precious, he hasn't had the time or resources to increase his mastery.

  Coupled with how the recipe he created is also still in its infancy, to the point it only has aremely short shelf life. So, although the potion hasn't shown a of failure, Lacius still o check whether the effect he intended has taken pce.

  After making sure the potion had taken effect, Lacius calmly pressed his hand on Kanon's abdomen. He gathered the mana inside his body and slowly ied Kanon with it.

  Uivating blessed power, which has bee the instinct of every blessed, releasing pure mana and trolling them to enter someone else's body requires some training and also extreme trol over their own energy.

  The moment Lacius's maered Kanon's body, his expression slightly torted in pain. But, Lacius ig and tio send his energy into Kanon.

  While sweating from the extreme focus required to trol his mana, Lacius trolled his energy to circute inside Kanon's body.

  The circution path he used has some traces from An's trainihod. However, it has beeremely modified and barely has any simirity with An's method.

  Halfway through cirg his energy inside Kanon's body, Lacius said to Hars, "Prepare the healing potion."

  Hars took several vials of potions from a drawer and opened one of them.

  When Kanon's expression distorted in pain as blood began to seep out of the skin in his arms, Hars poured a vial of healing potion into Kanon's mouth.

  Seeing blood seeping out of Kanon's skin, Lacius mentally crossed another possible energy circution path and circuted his energy inside of Kanon once more. This time, he used a slightly different energy circution.

  For the first few mihis energy circution didn't cause aive symptoms in Kanon. But, when Lacius trolled his energy to pass through the path around Kanon's neck, his eyes began to widen as blood began to seep out from the eye socket.

  Lacius stopped trolling his energy, while Hars fed Kanon several vials of healing potions.

  The two secutive experiments caused Lacius to feel quite tired. So, he sat on a chair and slightly dozed off while menting the power of time over his old body.

  On the side, Hars also sat down and slightly closed his eyes.

  ***

  While Lacius and Hars rested, the potion's effect had already worn off.

  Kanon saw the two old men around him had rested and tried to trol his energy that had stopped being stagnant.

  For the first few minutes, his attempt at moving his energy came to no avail as Lacius's experiments had caused the energy inside Kanon's body to turn chaotic. Kanon only barely able to trol a small amount of earth after attempting to do so for five whole minutes.

  What a pity, Kanon's small movemeered Lacius's sight and he used his power to nullify Kanon's blessed power. Every time Kanon tried to pull a stone from the ground, Lacius used his blessed power to push the stone back.

  While pying 'whack a mole' with Kanon, Lacius regained his vigor and tinued his experiment.

  When he saw Lacius standing up, Kanon began to scream at the top of his lungs.

  Ign Kanon's scream, Lacius ied his energy into Kanon's body and circuted it once more.

  Every time Kanon seems like he is on the verge of death, Hars calmly fed Known with potions or poured a vial of potion on Kanon's wound.

  Although the healing potions require a lot of expeerial to craft, and have a much weaker effect than the healing power of a blessed. But, Lacius simply make his target chug more of those potions.

  Among all the potions he has crafted, Lacius has been fog on refining the recipe for healing potion the most. Right now, he already has several recipes for healing potions, which use different materials to achieve simir results.

  Lacius tinued his experiment for a week straight while taking turns with Hars to stop Kanon from fleeing.

  He only stopped when Kanon's body couldn't st any longer. Even after being fed with hundreds of healing potions, Kanon's body has been riddled with wounds to the point he could barely breathe.

  When Lacius saw Kanon who had turned into a corpse, he shrugged and asked Hars to se the table.

  Hars brought Kanon's corpse away and asked, "Do I another blessed?"

  Lacius shook his head, "There is no need for now. I've found what I'm looking for."

  After years of experiments, he has almost found a method suitable for earth elements blessed to advaheir level. Currently, he only cks a suitable pce for the trainihod.

  The ge that An used as his training pce is unsuitable for the method Lacius has just created. Because, uhe trainihod An has created, the trainihod he has created is intended for earth element blessed.

  That means he must search for a pce where a lot of energy is gathered on the ground instead of in the air.

  After ing his boratory, Lacius passed through several corridors in the pad arrived at a room.

  Ihe room, a massive topographic map has been id on top of a table.

  Most of the locations are quite vague with only a few marks to symbolize the approximate location of a mountain, rivers, caves, and other natural ndscapes.

  Except for the location of cities and the area around them that has been drawn with some details. Only the location that has been marked as a pce with precious resources like a magical ore vein, or forest full of magical herbs has quite a detailed map.

  Lacius stared at the map while pting, 'Based on my guess, the pce that's suitable for my trainihod should be either deep underground, at the core of a mountain, or in a pce with many magic ores.'

  'But, I am still not sure whie is the most suitable. Furthermore, whether it's deep underground, the core of a mountain, or a magic ores vein, any one of them will require a lot of resources and mao visit.' Lacius sighed as he ehose blessed with wind power. They have it easy thanks to the ge that blow winds with enough energy density.

  Because he is afraid to waste too much time, Lacius decided to take a three-pronged approach while fog on one of them.

  When a new day arrived, he issued a new order that asked people to explore caves that lead to the core of a mountain or deep underground. Ahat succeeds will be granted a le and a huge fortune.

  When the order Lacius gave was annouo every human city and vilge, it caused a huge sensation.

  Since many people have begun to awaken their blessed power, not all blessed have the opportunity to bee a hat stood above the masses.

  Those blessed who felt their potential had been wasted by cooping ihe city began to form a group to travel in the wilderness with the hope of entering a suitable cave.

  Meanwhile, after Lacius had sent that order, he rode a horse and traveled to a pce that had been marked on the map to tain a lot of magical ores.

  Based on the report he collected, the ores at that pce actually are incredibly durable and have the ability to cause the surrounding space to bee heavier.

  When he arrived oe together with Hars and several others blessed, Lacius could feel his body turn heavy.

  He took ahat tained a magic metal and brought it a few hundred meters away.

  Although the heaviness had decreased, he could still feel his body being heavier than usual.

  'It seems this odd heaviness is indeed caused by the magic metal.' Lacius returo the pce where he took the ore and tried to circute his energy following the trainihod he had created.

  After one cycle, he was barely able to absorb a small portion of energy. Although the amount is small and doesn't have the ability to push him to a higher level, Lacius is still gd. His success at abs energy means his trainihod is correct.

  As for the small amount of energy absorbed, he guessed the energy would be dehe deeper he was. So, Lacius gathered a group of people and made them open a path on the ore vein as deep as possible.

  After the two order to look for caves and mine a magic ore vein, Lacius also begins to recruit talented blessed with earth power and water power in preparation for the part of his pn.

  His three secutive orders have caused the situation in the Sacred Kingdom which has just stabilized after the destru of the temple, to fall into chaos once more.

  This made Lacius waste a lot of time and effort to stabilize the situation and make sure his pn wouldn't go south.

  While dealing with the problem in his kingdom and waited for the people to finish digging deep into the ore vein. Lacius once again began experimenting.

  This time, he tried to create a trainihod suitable for blessed with water elements.

  Because Lacius couldn't feel the energy ier as well as he could sense energy ihe earth. This time, Hars is the one leading the experiment, while Lacius helps and guides him on the side.

  After spending three years and killing dozens of low level blessed with water elements in their experiment, both of them finally created a method for blessed with water elements to increase their life level.

  During the time spent on the experiment, Lacius also received several reports regarding the location of several caves which he immediately visited.

  After testing the amount of energy gained ihose pces, Lacius found the amount of energy was barely suffit for the trainihod. But, it's still not enough for his pn. This means he only bet on the magic ore veins that's still being cleared.

  Thankfully, the requirement to use the water element trainihod isn't as difficult as the one for earth elements. Lacius and Hars simply brought a few guards aed every water body in the surrounding area. After visiting more thay rivers ahey finally found a suitable pce.

  The pce they found is a massive river that has an incredibly turbulent flow of water.

  As the water flows are simply too turbulent, Hars only train by abs the energy from water he river bank. Even so, the amount of energy he absorbed is quite siderable.

  Lacius ied a tiny bit of pure energy into Hars's body and sehe increase in Hars's strength. He calcuted that Hars should be able to reach his current level in about five to eight years.

  After ting their age, Lacius began to worry. 'By the time Hars reached my level, he should be arouy five years old.'

  'I hate to admit it, but we are running out of time.' The feeling that both he and his only friend are slowly walking toward their end makes Lacius feel anxious.

  After anding several guards to protect Hars as he trained on the river, Lacius left and began to prepare another pn while visiting the ore vein he had requested to be cleared.

  Upon arriving at the ore veins, he walked through the path leading deep into the ground and started cirg the energy inside him.

  After cirg his energy once, Lacius stopped and pared the energy with the other cave that led deep underground or the core of a mountain.

  pared to the other pces he has visited, Lacius found the speed of energy increased while training ihe ore vein is at least five times faster.

  'This should be enough.' Lacius said and quickly returo the Winter City.

  Once he arrived, Lacius gathered several blessed with earth and water element power. Most of those blessed are only at Level 0 while only three people have reached Level 1.

  He gave them the trainihod he had ied and said it could strehem. Lacius also promised those who have reached a certain level of strength return to Winter City and be awarded nobility.

  Amidst the hopeful stare of those blessed, he sends them to the ore vein and river while being apanied by guards who are absolutely loyal to him. Those guards will make sure none of the blessed will escape or spread the teique.

  What he does might seem generous, but Lacius's goal is actually simple and crude.

  Currently, he rong blessed to be an experiment material.

  Tsukiko's corpse is his only ce to reach a higher level. He o increase his uanding of blessed power before he could fidently begin studying her corpse. Otherwise, Lacius is afraid his ce of reag the level will disappear.

  Actually, except for Tsukiko who has reached a higher level, there is also Yuma which he could pull into the experiment. But, after he has killed Tsukiko, Yuma should've hated him. This makes the ce for cooperatioweeo be quite low.

  It's not like he hasn't thought of capturing or killing Yuma. But, Yuma's strength and the creator's favor for him made Lacius have some reservation.

  Although he isn't sure how strong the creator is. But just their ability to pull him into the sky and locate every demons is beyond what a blessed could do.

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