Chapter 485 – Conditions for Advancing to Legend

On the path to becoming Legendary, Punk was undoubtedly extremely fortunate.

From the memories of Grand Arcanist Vedrasha, Punk not only gained the experience required to advance to Legendary but also obtained methods to increase his chances of success. The former could help him avoid many detours, while the latter… could significantly reduce risks.

Advancing to Legendary! This is a process of qualitative transformation for the soul—a metamorphosis where an ordinary person transitions from merely following the universe’s laws to altering, controlling, and utilizing them. In a sense, the Legendary level represents the realm of laws, the first step for “mortals” to break free from the universe’s constraints with their souls.

This terrifying, immense, and astonishing qualitative transformation naturally comes with unimaginable difficulty in advancement.

Now that Punk aimed to make a sprint toward Legendary, his first step wasn’t to dive headlong into aimless experimental research. What he needed most was to take stock of the resources he possessed and those he lacked.

Then, he must consolidate what he already had and acquire what he didn’t. Only by doing so could he maximize his chances of a successful advancement!

After all, there is only one opportunity to advance to Legendary. Failure… meant certain death. Punk’s most significant cautionary tale was the cheap parents of this body—two Master-Level experts who exhausted all their resources attempting to advance to Legendary, only to perish on this path… Aside from the indispensable factor of luck, Punk believed their lack of access to the System’s methods from the Netheril era to boost success rates was also a key issue.

Reflecting carefully on Vedrasha’s memories of advancing to Legendary, Punk immediately obtained precious intelligence that most Legendary Experts in this era couldn’t possess.

According to research from the Netheril era, the most crucial prerequisite for advancing to Legendary was reaching Level 19 in one’s profession!

This point was self-evident. A baby couldn’t dream of flying before even being born. No matter how glorious and magnificent their future life might be, without fulfilling the simplest condition of “birth,” everything else was futile.

Moreover, one shouldn’t wait until their lifespan was nearly exhausted to attempt advancing to Legendary. Master-Level experts would enter a “senescence” state during the last seven hundred years of their lives, where their power rapidly declined. Attempting to advance to Legendary at that stage… success rates would approach zero infinitely—at least, there had never been any recorded cases since ancient times of a senescent Master-Level expert successfully advancing to Legendary without using powerful auxiliary means…

However, Punk didn’t need to worry about this prerequisite for now. Although he had only recently advanced to Level 19, with his half-Ancient Elf bloodline’s magic affinity and the superhuman aptitude of his Void Soul, consolidating for just two or three hundred years would make him a genuine peak Master-Level expert at Level 19. Moreover, he still had over five thousand four hundred years of lifespan left, so time wasn’t a pressing concern!However, if one merely relies on the two conditions of “level nineteen” and “youth” to attempt a breakthrough to Legendary… the gamble involved would be no different from winning the lottery jackpot five times in a row. Just look at the demons in the Abyss—their situation serves as the greatest testament to this.

In the Abyss, at least trillions of demons reach level nineteen every year, but how many actually advance to Legendary? Relying solely on “level nineteen” to attempt a Legendary breakthrough? The odds of success are less than one in a hundred million. Anyone with even a bit of lifespan or rationality would not choose such a path.

Because the prerequisite of merely being “level nineteen” is far too perilous, the Grand Arcanists of the Netheril era meticulously researched and developed several methods to significantly increase the success rate of advancing to Legendary.

If these methods and their corresponding success rate boosts were listed in a table, the contrast would be striking:

First: Possessing the knowledge and magical control ability to independently refine a well-developed spell—can increase the success rate by five percent!

Second: Familiarizing oneself with the power of laws before advancing to Legendary—can increase the success rate by ten percent!

Third: Having a Legendary-level powerhouse use sufficiently effective Legendary Spells to stabilize the soul during the advancement process—can increase the success rate by ten percent!

Fourth: The advancing individual possesses a monstrous, inhuman level of willpower—can increase the success rate by fifteen percent!

Fifth: Using “specialized auxiliary potions for Legendary advancement” painstakingly developed over hundreds of thousands of years by Radiant Sun Tier Grand Arcanists of the Netheril era, such as—”Iorium Soul Awakening Solvent,” “Maelon’s Spark of Hope,” “Redeemer’s Divinity Neutralizer,” and others!

Consuming these potions specifically designed to assist advancement can generally increase the success rate by fifty percent for the advancing individual!

If all five of these auxiliary methods are employed, a Master-Level powerhouse at the peak of level nineteen can achieve a staggering ninety percent success rate for advancing to Legendary… This success rate is already terrifyingly high. Since the existence of the Multiverse, no one has ever been heard of having a Legendary advancement success rate exceeding ninety percent. Thus, a ninety percent success rate represents the absolute limit of “safety.”

While these five conditions enhance the advancement success rate, they are undoubtedly increasingly demanding, each more stringent than the last!

Refining magic is already difficult—this is a major challenge even for many exceptionally talented spellcasters. For example, Ovakain’s refined spell—that can only be considered “barely functional,” far from being “well-developed”!

Of course, though it is much harder to accomplish than it appears… this condition still offers some hope for ordinary spellcasters. In a sense, it hasn’t reached the level of being completely unattainable.But then look at the other requirements—experiencing the power of laws in advance and asking a Legendary Expert to help stabilize the soul? This is practically impossible in theory! In this era where the River of Fate governs everything, Legendary Experts are practically digging holes to bury themselves alive. Getting them to help another advance to Legendary? Any Legendary bold enough to do this would basically end up on the River of Fate’s blacklist. It might seem simple to lend a hand, but it’s actually a gamble with one’s life—how saintly would a Legendary have to be to treat their own life so carelessly?

And the fourth condition requiring “willpower terrifying enough to be inhuman”—let’s not even go there. That level of willpower wasn’t even possessed by the Grand Arcanist Vedrasha back in the day, let alone ordinary Master-Level mages…………

As for the fifth condition… the one that can boost success rates by fifty percent in one go—the Legendary Advancement Assistance Potion…………

This thing might be even more “dreamlike” than the previous points. In this era, such potions have probably gone completely extinct. If you want to brew one… unless you can find a saintly, insane, and exceptionally wealthy fool of a Legendary Mage to help concoct it, then… you’ll have to obediently gather the materials and brew it yourself.

Setting aside the brewing difficulty and the lost recipes for these potions, just the core ingredients—which often require Legendary-level magical materials—are enough to make any Master-Level expert hesitate!

Take the simplest to brew and most effective “Redeemer’s Divinity Neutralizer”………… its core ingredient is two standard units of “Divinity”!

Good grief! Where would a Master-Level mage even get “Divinity” from!

(End of Chapter)