“700,000 Aether Stones, just a step away from reaching a million Aether Stones, bing a millionaire. Exciting,” Levi felt a small surge of excitement within him.


    With 700,000 Aether Stones, he could do many things.


    Of course, he wouldn’t spend this money recklessly.


    On the one hand, he needed to purchase various wizard knowledge.


    On the other hand, he needed to prepare for the construction of his own wizard tower.


    Building a wizard tower in the true sense was a massive project that required a vast amount of Aether Stones. From construction blueprints, main project materials, to various energy conversion arrays, control arrays, practice arrays, defensive arrays, transmission arrays, spatial arrays, and more, it all required a considerable amount of money and involved various professional fields.


    Many wizards subcontracted different parts of their wizard towers to specialized wizard tower construction organizations.


    Thinking about building his own wizard tower, Levi immediately had a new goal to strive for.


    This was simr to buying a house in his past life; without a bit of pressure, lifecked motivation, and one might as well lie t.In addition to Aether Stones, there were some spell books in y’s storage bags. Following the principle of collecting and enriching his knowledge base, Levi took them all.


    Most of them were low-level spells, but what caught Levi’s attention were three third-circle spell crystal balls.


    These three third-circle spells were “Water Doppelganger,” “Water Screen Prison,” and “Venomous Body.” Two of them, “Water Doppelganger” and “Water Screen Prison,” were even solidified as innate spells, making them formidable. Thest one, ‘Venomous Body,” was a spell that incorporated venom into the caster’s body, enabling toxin-infused attacks.


    "Not even a third-circle wizard tool. This old guy is really stingy,” Levi shook his head, unable to help but sigh.


    y, relying on his powerful physique, didn’t even bother preparing a third-circle wizard tool.


    "What’s this?”


    In a corner, Levi discovered a rare book cherished by y.


    "The Tomb of Fireflies.”


    Levi looked at the cover; the author of the book was not mentioned. He opened the ancient book, finding a memory te sandwiched in the first page.


    Levi probed with his spiritual force and discovered that the memory te contained y’s reading notes and research logs.


    After a quick scan, a pleasant surprise appeared on Levi’s face.


    Within the memory te was recorded a body-refining technique that y had created himself.


    Named “Mixed Venom True Form,” y created this body-refining technique bybining the third-circle spell “Venomous Body” with the knowledge from “The Tomb of Fireflies.”


    y, with limited elemental talent, aimed to enhance his strength through body refinement.


    "The Tomb of Fireflies” was a book y obtained in a tomb in the mundane world about three hundred years ago when he was still a mortal. He carried this book into the wizard world, and throughout his life, he researched the Imowledge within it.


    The memory te was the culmination of y’s wisdom throughout his life, making it invaluable and his most precious possession.


    Through “The Tomb of Fireflies,” Levi glimpsed a whole new world.


    It was said that in the Land of Darkness, there existed a ne known as Othar.


    This ne once gave birth to a glorious human civilization, simr to the wizard civilization, where noble spellcasters known as Arcanists thrived.


    Later, it established a vast human empire that ruled over the entire ne—the Otharian Empire. At its peak, the Otharian Empire boasted several powerful Arcanistsparable to Grand Wizards.


    The ruler of the Otharian Empire was even proimed the Arcane Emperor, iming an affinity close to that of a divine being.


    Had it continued to flourish, the Otharian Empire might have evolved aprehensive arcane system, akin to the wizard civilization, progressing to a realmparable to Legendary Wizards.


    However, the glory of the Otharian Empire was short-lived, disappearing due to a catastrophic event. A disaster swept through the empire, brought about by terrifying monsters invading from the Land of Darkness.


    These monsters were predominantly insect-like creatures, possessing peculiar and eerie abilities. The Arcanists of the Otharian Empire referred to these insects as “Terror Bugs.”


    The Terror Bugs exhibited bizarre abilities, with twelve monarchs among them, known as “King Bugs,” and a singr entity referred to as the “Mother Bug.”


    The nascent arcane civilization had not yet fully developed when it was extinguished by the civilization of the Terror Bugs. Although the human civilization of the Otharian Empire left a spark in the subterranean world, the arcane legacy was iplete, leading to a continuous decline.


    In the era of the book’spiler, most surviving arcanists wereparable to low and intermediate-level wizards. High-level arcanists,parable to primordial soul wizards, were almost extinct.


    Until a prodigious arcanist discovered a new transcendent path.


    Bug Luminist, also referred to as the Totemist.


    What was a Bug Luminist?


    This arcanist believed that onlv Terror Bugs could stand against Terror Bugs.


    Embracing these creatures into oneself, harnessing their power tobat them, defined a Bug Luminist.


    If one couldn’t defeat the enemy, one could join it.


    With the currently iplete arcane system, there was no doubt it couldn’t contend with the pinnacle of the Terror Bug civilization..