Grand Wizard Sulla gritted his teeth as he climbed each step, his body bearing tremendous pressure. He had walked the path from the ground of Mage Saint Hall to its entrance countless times before.

He had never paid attention, never paused to stop.

He had thought it was something he could accomplish with ease, but now, as he walked this path again, he discovered that this road he knew so well required such tremendous effort with every step he took.

"The World Stone... only by obtaining the World Stone and polluting it at that instant will my ultimate magic truly be complete." Grand Wizard Sulla gritted his teeth and said. He seemed to think of something and looked up at Locke, saying, "Locke, if you're watching now, or if you'll see this later, either way, you will observe the entire process of my advancement to Second Circle wizard."

"I want to tell you, I was wrong in my previous guess. Although that fellow Uliel had some contingencies and created a prophesied child, even if he gathered all the fortune of this plane, he still cannot defeat me."

"I am the one who bestowed upon this plane thirty Mage Saints and over ten thousand mages. This world has become more complete because of me. I am so important to this world. This medium-scale plane, a world at the minimum standard, is like a pond. I already occupy most of the pond, so even if all the remaining fortune gathered together, how could it oppose me?"

"I alone am an entire Mage system." Grand Wizard Sulla said, "I am the pinnacle of mages, and today I will become a Mage God. In our world, Second Circle wizards are second-time transcenders, but I've studied ancient texts. First Circle wizards essentially correspond to demigods who haven't ignited their divine fire but have already produced divinity in quantities sufficient to support them as demigods."

"And Second Circle wizards correspond to true gods who have ignited their divine fire but haven't yet condensed their divine spark. Not world spirits, not faith spirits worshipped by world natives, nor some kind of elemental spirit, but true gods, true gods that have long disappeared..." 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺

"Therefore, Second Circle wizards are gods." Grand Wizard Sulla said with certainty, "I am a Second Circle wizard in the great world, and in the Mage Plane, calling myself a Mage God is well-deserved."

Grand Wizard Sulla seemed to become extremely excited. He said, "My previous uneasy feelings were completely wrong. I am about to succeed. Just witness my success."

Grand Wizard Sulla gritted his teeth and finally reached the interior of Mage Saint Hall. He pushed open the heavy doors of Mage Saint Hall. The world door seemed to want to close against him forever and thus emitted a force of resistance.

It didn't budge.

"Open for me!" Grand Wizard Sulla forcibly used all his strength to clash with that world door. In this instant, the hearts of all living beings in the entire Mage Plane trembled, and they involuntarily looked toward the direction where the World Hall had descended. Every living being felt an uncomfortable sensation rise in their hearts.

Grand Wizard Sulla's soul also shattered further during the confrontation process, but fortunately... the world door finally opened.

'Bang~'

Behind the world door was a stone resembling moon rock, with a golden sacred ring surrounding it. This was what the world power looked like after being forcibly reduced in dimension and manifested, then gathered together.

Grand Wizard Sulla's eyes revealed extremely joyful expression. "Hahahaha..."

"After years of painstaking effort, I've finally waited for this day. A hundred years of waiting has ultimately become today's harvest. After I, Sulla Plutarch, become a Second Circle wizard, I will definitely reform the Land of Six Towers with all my strength, removing the rotting flesh from the Land of Six Towers and giving it new life."

Grand Wizard Sulla walked over and placed his palm on that World Stone. The World Stone would originally only appear at the world's most core location, that is, the very bottom of the Mage Plane.

That was an area difficult to reach.

The earth's core was extremely dangerous and couldn't be easily reached, which was why the method of using Summon World Hall Incantation was needed to indirectly force out the World Stone.

In a certain sense, the World Stone was the planar core of the entire Mage Plane, the core of the Mage Plane.

Grand Wizard Sulla decisively pressed his palm on it. What was unexpected was that while the world door had been so resistant to Grand Wizard Sulla earlier, at this moment the World Stone wasn't as resistant as he had anticipated.

"That's right. At this moment, the demon system has been almost entirely eliminated by me and can no longer pose a threat, while my Mage system is so prosperous. No matter what other contingencies Uliel has, it's already too late."

"I currently occupy the greatest portion of this world's favor. I am almost equivalent to the spokesman of the world will. As the spokesman, I will imprint my mark on this World Stone, pollute one-third of the World Stone with my soul, and place the polluted World Stone into my ultimate magic prototype. At that instant, my ultimate magic will be complete."

"It will become a magic power source that belongs exclusively to me."

"The characteristic of Second Circle wizards, ultimate magic, also known as magic source!"

"By imprinting a portion of my split soul into the World Stone and having the World Stone combine with my ultimate magic prototype, at that instant, my ultimate magic will become a soul fragment of mine, an existence that, while not within my soul's interior, is indeed part of my soul."

In reality, Locke saw this scene and immediately understood how wizard civilization achieved the second transcendence.

After the first transcendence, after playing with permanent defensive fields and methods to increase the upper limit of soul shells became ineffective, they adopted the method of creating a second soul to form a magic source.

Thus, ultimate magic became the wizard's second soul, just like how his current Abyssal Energy and Forest Sanctuary could be added to himself as external magical pressure.

But the relationship was even more mysterious.

Because whether it was Abyssal Energy or Forest Sanctuary, neither could help him break through the magical pressure limit of 9999.

But ultimate magic, as one's second soul, could accomplish this.

When one's main body's magical pressure stacked together with the second soul's magical pressure, the magical pressure could exceed 9999.

Locke instantly realized why Black Wizard Uliel had said before that even for Second Circle wizards, having one's own power attack one's own power was still a problem and needed to be resolved throughout the entire Second Circle stage.

"Using this method is equivalent to having some of one's power gain a certain degree of separation from one's main body, which creates an exploitable opportunity."

"Of course, I haven't completely understood what ultimate magic is yet, so the relationship between ultimate magic and the main body's soul is likely even more intimate than I imagine. Otherwise, wizards would definitely use other methods for the second transcendence. Since everyone chose this method, it must be because it has its special advantages."

"However, from my current knowledge, I might actually be able to see things that those Second Circle wizards cannot see amid piles of knowledge and materials. There always exists a certain degree of separation between the soul and one's own magic source, objectively speaking."

Locke paused the True Sight Orb's display. "But thinking carefully, ultimate magic seems to have an advantage. Ultimate magic is an artificial construct, an external magic source, which means it's convenient to modify one's ultimate magic."

"All the various technologies possessed by wizard civilization can be applied to ultimate magic for modification without worrying that overly aggressive modifications will threaten the main body, or that too many modifications will cause problems with the main body."

"Any technological development can immediately be applied to one's ultimate magic to observe, with an extremely high error tolerance rate. This is only the benefit I can currently see. There should be advantages I cannot yet perceive." Locke pondered, "But why can a wizard only possess one ultimate magic?"

"That's right, just seeing up to here, it seems Grand Wizard Sulla is about to succeed. What happened afterward?"