Wizard: Starting from the Skill Tree-Chapter 466: Soul Soothing Holy Contract

The promotion from a Level 1 Mage to a Level 2 Mage is a particularly important juncture, with many wizards getting stuck at this stage for their entire lives.

The biggest issue among these is the resource problem; advancing to a Level 2 Mage requires a massive amount of resources, and merely acquiring an Energy Well demands the accumulation of considerable wealth over time.

Coupled with the extremely high difficulty of advancing to a Level 2 Mage and the high success and failure rate, one must prepare everything possible to increase the probability of successful advancement.

The Soul Soothing Holy Contract is undoubtedly an extremely suitable treasure, able to form a powerful stable force field within the spiritual power mind, greatly enhancing the stability of the Spiritual Sea.

This would make the promotion process nearly worry-free, and even if the promotion fails, it wouldn’t cause much damage, leaving room for another attempt.

Most wizards must prepare all aspects of resources in advance to ensure the success rate of promoting to a Level 2 Mage.

They do not have the luxury of a second chance; it’s not about attempting advancement once and trying again if it doesn’t work out; such a margin for error doesn’t exist.

Duke immediately took a fancy to the Soul Soothing Holy Contract, even though he was just promoting from Liquidation to a Crystalized Wizard.

However, his crystalization process was different from other wizards, with difficulty even higher than promoting to Level 2 Mage.

For Duke, this item was practically a necessity, ensuring a substantial boost to the success probability of crystalization.

One of the core challenges in his current promotion is maintaining the stability of the six attribute energy systems during the condensation of the Spiritual Power Crystal, preventing the collapse of the Spiritual Sea due to internal conflict.

The stable force field provided by the Soul Soothing Holy Contract just happens to solve this crucial issue, offering critical margin for error and assurance.

Compared with the Heart-Tempting Fruit, which merely increases a few points of spiritual power, the value of the Soul Soothing Holy Contract for Duke is on an entirely different level.

The Heart-Tempting Fruit is optional, whereas the Soul Soothing Holy Contract is almost a necessity.

Other witchcraft artifacts, materials, and knowledge cannot compare in importance to this page at this stage.

The only problem was whether Duke’s contribution points were enough; he had 180,000 contribution points, which was certainly a lot for a Level 1 Mage.

But there was no guarantee that would be enough to secure it at auction, as there might be other wizards who had amassed contribution points for a long time.

The Black Sail contribution points are non-transferable and non-tradable; such behavior, if discovered, would be severely punished.

This is what makes contribution points unique, unlike Magic Stones, which can be earned through profit; contribution points can only be obtained through participation in various Black Sail tasks and activities.

As one’s level increases, the importance of contribution points will become progressively apparent.

Because, after reaching a certain level, many resources can’t just be bought with Magic Stones.

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Seven days later.

Duke punctually immersed his spiritual power into the Black Sail Badge, entering the Black Sail Treasure Vault.

Once inside, with a thought, he arrived at the auction venue.

There were no physical forms here, only anonymous flickering light points representing the participants, resembling stars in the night sky.

In the center of the space, a huge light screen clearly listed all the auction items and their real-time changing prices, immersing the entire space in a silent tension and expectation.

The auction was announced by a cold, emotionless

thought stream, carried out efficiently and quietly, with all bids completed instantly via thought.

The initial auction items were fiercely contested, such as the Level 3 Void Hound Skeleton and the Heart of Lava Blood Marrow, with their prices pushed up all the way, eventually selling for exorbitant prices exceeding 100,000 contribution points, causing many light points to flicker violently, displaying the bidders’ excitement or regret.

Duke remained like a silent observer, quietly waiting.

Finally, it was the turn for auction item number 33, the Heart-Tempting Fruit.

"Heart-Tempting Fruit, the starting bid is 8000 contribution points, bidding starts now."

The numbers on the light screen began to jump:

8500...9000...10000...12000...

Seeing the price climbing all the way up, Duke simply abandoned the idea of bidding.

He needed to reserve all his contribution points for the auction of the Soul Soothing Holy Contract; it would be silly if he found himself short by 20,000 or 30,000 points because of bidding on the Heart-Tempting Fruit.

However, Duke still had a chance to secure a Heart-Tempting Fruit because there were not just one but five Heart-Tempting Fruits inserted into the auction sequence throughout the event.

The final price of the first Heart-Tempting Fruit settled at 22,000 contribution points; no one continued to bid, and it was thus sold.

The auction continued, with Duke always waiting, also observing the sale prices of each auction item.

Even if he didn’t bid, this information was actually valuable intelligence, giving him a rough idea of their value.

Although auction prices are influenced by some factors, the overall picture is usually not too far off.

After a somewhat lengthy auction process, it was finally time for the Soul Soothing Holy Contract, and Duke instantly perked up.

"Auction item number 139, Soul Soothing Holy Contract page, starting bid 25000 contribution points, start."

Almost instantly upon starting, the price began to soar.

30000...40000...55000...70000!

This divine item, guaranteeing success rates for advancement, attracted far more attention than the Heart-Tempting Fruit.

After the price exceeded eighty thousand, the rate of increase slowed a bit, but it was still rising steadily.

82000...85000...88000...

Seeing the timing was about right, Duke directly inputted a price:

contribution points.

This round figure acted as a threshold, instantly dimming two competing light points, causing them to exit the competition, though three light points still persisted.

[102000]

[105000]

[108000]

Without changing expression, Duke again made a substantial increase:

[120000 contribution points.]

As soon as this price appeared, the entire consciousness space seemed to fall silent for a moment.

Among the remaining three light points, two completely extinguished, while the last one hesitated for a long time before seemingly going all in and pushing the price up to 140000.

An increase of twenty thousand contribution points in one breath wasn’t because the wizard was so generous, but rather, they put everything they had into it; otherwise, they wouldn’t have hesitated so long.

Glancing at this price, Duke leisurely raised it once more:

contribution points.

Three thousand points was the smallest increment, clearly indicating he saw the other side had no more resources.

At such a time, there was no need to overbid; contribution points weren’t easy to come by, with every bit saved counting.

As expected, after Duke placed his bid, the other party gave up on continuing to auction for the Soul Soothing Holy Contract, unable to match the bid.

This is another restriction of contribution points; if you don’t have them, you really don’t have them, and there’s nowhere to borrow from.