766 Dragon-slaughtering War Banner Part 2 (2/2)

After all, she was only grade-6 and would not be able to utilize the full powers of Seven Night.

In the magic tower, Lex was in the midst of her meditation when she suddenly felt that the magic chords in her body were growing gradually. After this continued for ten straight hours, she could finally feel her magic chords becoming vibrant and beginning to evolve.

A layer of faint golden color wrapped around her six-colored magic chords. This was her clan's secret technique, it allowed her not to be disrupted whether she was training in combat or magic.

This golden aura tangled together with the magic chords, restricting them from growing further. Lex had already accumulated to a very high level, so the golden aura began to seep into the magic chords under her control.

All of a sudden, Lex began to hallucinate and saw the six elements around her enter her body. She almost lost her consciousness momentarily.

”Stop!” Lex shouted. The golden aura vibrated intensively. The illusions vanished and Lex regained control over her senses.

The six-colored magic chords were extending out of her body from within and it looked like they were about to break through her skin.

With the addition of this golden aura, there were now seven colors to Lex's magic chords. This was a secret technique known only to the Grukos clan. If Lex had chosen to train in swordsmanship, the sword aura that she could forge would have been unconquerable.

It was also because of this secret technique that Grand Emperor Chanake was able to defeat more than ten strong foes from the Holy See.

After the seven-colored magic chords grew out, that was when they began to absorb the elemental powers of the magic tower. The thirty-six small magic arrays placed at the six corners of the magic tower were finally activated and began to provide Lex with elemental power.

The six major elements that were in harmony were being absorbed by the magic chords. As a result, the magic chords grew tough and large. Lex was like a gigantic octopus in the ocean with her seven limbs.

If not for the fact that there were so many magic arrays in the magic tower with six high-level magic nuclei mounted in each array, Lex's magic chords would not have been able to absorb sufficient elemental power.

Any mage that desired to advance to sorcerer needed an environment like the magic tower.

Lex felt incredibly comfortable. In comparison, she had a tough and painful time when she advanced to a grand mage back then. This time around, the growth of her magic chords transformed her body at the same time.

The six major elements were interchanging within her body continuously, forming a perfect harmony. Such a transformation to her body ensured that Lex would not have to worry about the retaliation of spells when she cast spells of grade-7 and below in the future. Technically, a sorcerer's body was no longer the same as a normal human. It would be extremely difficult for them if they wished to bear offspring.

If Lex had not known that Saleen possessed magic chord medicine that would allow her to conceive, she would have suffered a blow which might have rendered all her efforts useless. With Saleen's promise, she was able to put aside this concern, even if it meant having to spend up to eight-hundred-thousand gold coins.

In comparison to a child, eight-hundred-thousand gold coins were nothing.

The stability in her heart and how much she had accumulated thus far allowed Lex to have a much easier time advancing than Saleen. The seven-colored magic chords were absorbing the elemental powers hungrily. Magic chords that were fluid-like at first began to withdraw back into her body, ready to merge with it.

Lex forced the magic chords to stay outside her body for a while more. She needed stronger magic chords in order to raise her fighting abilities.

An ordinary mage's magic chords would allow them to cast spells of the same grade twelve times. Lex knew that the size of Saleen's magic chords were at least twice of hers. Every mage wished that their magic chords would become stronger so that they would be able to save time and money in their training.

Take Saleen for example, who was able to train twice as long as others. By the time he used up all his magic chords, the number of times he would have trained in spells of the same grade was twenty-four while other mages would only manage to train twelve times.

The seven-colored magic chords danced around Lex's body as they grew bigger and more powerful. The thirty-six small magic arrays around the corners of the magic tower began to produce even thicker elemental powers. The colors of the high-level magic nuclei dimmed. Lex's preparations were already sufficient, except that she had an extra magic chord and was trying to expand her mass. The amount of energy required was too much even for so many high-level magic nuclei.

Pah…

Finally, one of the high-level magic nuclei in one of the magic arrays could no longer withstand the absorption of the magic chords and had broken into pieces.