It was quite dark. It wasn't a little scary, but rather a chilling sight. Hundreds of monster corpses lay around, dead and actively burning.In the middle of the corpses were two people sitting tightly together, unwilling to part.One of these people was a woman with jet-black, long, tied-up hair and jet-black eyes, wearing a sorceress's hat, carrying a staff in her hand and a sword at her waist. The woman was incredibly beautiful, looking just like Estelle, and her clothes were covered in blood.This person was Desmond's sister, Claire Luna Moon.She was none other than the woman known as the [Holy Sorceress], one of the most powerful female sorceresses in history.Right next to her, leaning his head against the stone wall, stood a man with jet-black short hair and a pair of black eyes, carrying a sword on each side of his waist, with a spear right beside him, wearing something like a monk's robe. He was seriously handsome and, like the woman beside him, covered in blood.This person

Castiel and Claire knew exactly what this was, which is why Castiel had stopped his attacks and practically teleported directly in front of his sister.Castiel had dispersed every piece of qi within his body, except for his own life qi.At that very moment, the ancient dragon had breathed fire from its mouth. A magnificent fire that seems endless.The enormous fire began advancing towards the pair like a sea of flames.At that moment, Castiel's solid wall of qi collided with the sea of flames itself.Castiel was merely trying to buy his sister a little time. Even a single second was more precious than millions of red diamonds, especially when that second concerned two lives and the little brother those two lives were trying to help.If he could hold out for one more second, everything could be resolved. One attack from his sister Claire would be far more powerful than five hundred attacks from him.This was the difference between these high-level wizards and cultivators.Wizards spent

The art was worth exactly fifty million gold pieces.Desmond frankly didn't know why the system needed gold or what logic lay behind it, but it suited him just fine. Fifty million gold pieces weren't enough for such a technology.This art was truly priceless.It could be said that whatever Desmond did, it was a secret he must never tell anyone.Of course, he didn't wait too long and bought the technique outright.As soon as he did, a golden book appeared in his inventory. When Desmond took the book out, he noticed that, unlike the other items he had obtained from the system, this item did not have an energy or aura emanating from it."Huh... The skills must work differently," Desmond muttered to himself.After holding the book in his hand for about fifteen seconds, a system window appeared before him, which he hadn't quite expected:[Do you wish to acquire the Flame Art skill? This process will be quite exhausting.]Desmond smiled as he read the system window in front of him and imme

Desmond suddenly opened his eyes in astonishment. His mana seemed to gather around his heart as if it had a mind of its own. It was a strange feeling.What he didn't realise was that this was due to one of the potions he had drunk, which had granted him superior mana control abilities.This wasn't exactly a skill, meaning it couldn't be classified under [Skills]. Still, despite all this, one thing was clear: the difficulty of controlling the mana in his body had reached its lowest point.Desmond had consumed a great deal of potions and pills in a very short time. It would even be accurate to say his stomach was full.During this time, his mana control had increased, his body's cycle had improved, the mana he used to create spells had decreased considerably, and many other things had happened.Finally, when he closed his eyes again and refocused on his mana, he realised that the concrete yet abstract image forming around the first magic circle, that blueprint, was slowly but surely tak

A week had passed. For a whole week, Desmond had constantly browsed the jewellery shop without stopping and bought the best jewellery sets he could find.Although he would normally have wanted to buy many more sets, he ultimately settled on just four.The first was a necklace and brooch set made of half red diamonds and half jade diamonds.The second set consisted of two rings and two earrings made of pure black gold.The third was a set consisting of two separate diamonds known as pure orange pumpking.The fourth was a necklace and brooch set made of pure, 100% Blue Moon Diamond.All four sets were expensive, but the first and fourth sets were definitely the most expensive. Of course, red diamonds were very expensive, but Blue Moon Diamonds were probably the only type of diamond more expensive than them.The only reason for this was that even red diamonds were much easier to find than Blue Moon Diamonds. In short, the Blue Moon Diamond was one of the three rarest types of diamonds in