The days passed, one by one.
The people from the Withered Council seemed to have vanished, and there was no news from Robert either.
Ian focused, spending his days on Body Refinement, Meditation, and practicing his Witchcraft.
He carved out nearly half his time to immerse himself in the High Tower's Central Library.
Leveraging his core access privileges in the Magic Potion Department, he was able to consult a vast amount of High Tier materials.
It was all advanced knowledge concerning Energy Compression, Gravity Fields, Spatial Interference, and Rune Structure Stability.
Most of this material was obscure and difficult to understand, filled with complex formulas and abstract model deductions.
Ian devoured them one book at a time, filling three thick notebooks with his notes.
He needed to improve Collapsar Starburst.
The current model was too crude. Its Energy Compression was inefficient, its blast radius was uncontrollable, and its casting wind-up was too long.
