The Witcher: Start with the Lord Marrying a Wife.

Chapter 62: Mental Strength Reaches a Bottleneck

In the castle's training room, David prepared to break through again.

Now that all the matters in the territory that required his presence have been resolved, he handed over the territory's government affairs to Lena and started practicing again.

This time through training with Lena, his Snow Demon Soul was able to break through again.

In order to deal with the threat from the second prince, he must improve his strength to the sixth level as soon as possible, otherwise he will not be able to fight against the second prince at all.

"My current mental strength is at level three."

"I wonder if upgrading the Snow Demon Soul to the fifth level can increase my mental strength." He thought to himself.

Compared with the improvement of the knight's strength, he felt that the improvement of his mental power seemed to have reached a bottleneck. This was the case even with the Snow Demon Secret Medicine, Snow Demon Breathing Method, the fourth-level Snow Demon Soul and the medium ice element talent.

During this period, no matter how he practiced, his mental power could not be enhanced, so he could not see any opportunity to continue to improve his mental power.

He had a feeling that his current mental strength had reached the limit of what the Snow Demon Soul and Snow Demon Breathing Technique could enhance. If he wanted to continue enhancing his mental strength, he had to find a way to transform his mental strength.

This is somewhat similar to the strength of a knight's bloodline and breathing method, just like the limit of a second-level bloodline is a second-level knight, the same goes for the breathing method, the limit of strength that a second-level breathing method can reach is also second-level.

After all, the Snow Demon Breathing Method is not a true meditation method. It may only allow the practitioner to improve his mental power to the third level. It is even possible that the peak of the second level is the limit of the Snow Demon Breathing Method. He can only break through to the third level by relying on the power of the system.

But this time, relying on the power of the system, can he continue to improve his mental power and even break the shackles of the snow demon soul's strength level?

Thoughts flashed through his mind, but eventually all of them were driven away. He closed his eyes, opened the system panel, and silently said in his mind, "Breakthrough."

An invisible force surged into his spiritual world and poured into the soul of the Frost Wolf, making its body more solid, just like a real giant frost wolf!

At this moment, the level of the Frostwolf Soul successfully reached level five.

What followed was the mental feedback from the upgraded level of the Snow Demon's soul, which caused David's mental power to expand again, and his spiritual world was shaken.

"My mental strength has really improved!" David's eyes lit up.

Although the improvement in his mental strength was not great, it gave him hope. Perhaps he could use it to continue improving his mental strength!

Then, he activated the Snow Demon Breathing Technique, and the surrounding ice elemental power gathered and poured into the spiritual world, and began to train his mental strength.

In this way, some time passed.

David opened his eyes, his expression still serious.

But even the fifth-level Snow Demon Soul still couldn't improve his mental power at all. It seemed that he had reached the upper limit of the mental power that the Snow Demon Soul could improve. If he wanted to continue to break through, he might have to look for meditation.

"A wizard's meditation." He sighed.

During this period, he never stopped looking for wizards, but apart from the shadow witch, there was no clue related to any wizards so far.

This made him sigh that the wizards were really too cautious. They were probably hiding in places where the church's power could not penetrate.

In addition, he received news that the Saint of the Silver Moon Holy Light Church and the Holy Light Knights had gone to the North to spread the faith in this chaotic land.

The headquarters of the Church of Holy Light is in the Dawn Empire. Although other kingdoms on the entire Knight Continent also believe in the Church of Holy Light, the influence of the Church of Holy Light in these kingdoms is not as great as imagined.

After all, royal power and divine power are inherently opposed. Unless the king is a devout believer of the Church of Holy Light, no kingdom will allow divine power to spread widely in its own kingdom, thus affecting the royal power's rule over the common people!

The Silver Moon Kingdom is located at the westernmost part of the entire continent, far away from the Dawn Empire.

Therefore, these places are less influenced by the Holy Light Church, and even in many noble territories, the church is not allowed to build churches.

This is also the main reason why David dared to shelter witches in his territory.

As long as this matter is not made public, it will be difficult for the church to discover that there are witches in his territory. It is not difficult to hide it within a certain range.

Of course, even if the existence of the witch was exposed, it would take time for the Silvermoon Holy Light Church to send troops to Frostwolf Ridge, which was enough for him to respond.

However, this time, the Holy Maiden of the Silver Moon Holy Light Church and some Holy Light Knights actually came to the North, obviously wanting to open a gap here, using the war to spread the people's faith and thus cultivate more Holy Light believers.

This is definitely not good news for David. In addition to the threat from the Knights of the Holy Light themselves, it may also alarm the wizards in the north.

If all these wizards chose to flee the North, or even flee the Silvermoon Kingdom, it would become much more difficult for him to find the wizards' traces.

"For the time being, let's focus on improving my knight's strength." David sighed in his heart. He could only put the training of his mental strength aside for the time being.

However, he still needed to continue practicing the two spell-like abilities he had mastered, Frost Breath and Winter Curse. After practicing the Frostwolf Breathing Technique for a while, he left the training room.

Inside the castle.

While Rena was still handling official business at the city hall, David went to see Leah first.

"Liya, how are you?" David asked with concern.

"That's almost it."

Leah said softly, "In two days I will be able to serve Master David."

"Then you still need to rest for a few more days."

"Got it." Leah smiled sweetly.

David turned back to Amy.

Because he had to deal with government affairs these two days, he was basically with Reina and neglected the little witch a little.

Now, he had finished all the things that required his involvement, which was just the right time to compensate the little witch and take the opportunity to upgrade his ice element talent to a high level.

The medium ice element talent has already played a key role in improving his strength. Whether it is the development of the Frost Giant Wolf bloodline or the control of the icy power of the Snow Demon Soul, it is all accomplished by relying on the medium ice element talent. If it is upgraded to a high level, the improvement will be even greater!
That night.

Inside Frostwolf Ridge Manor.

Anne was reading a book under the oil lamp.

During this time, she has been waiting for the Duke of Frostwolf.

Unfortunately, Duke Frostwolf did not show up for a long time, so she could only stay there with peace of mind.

At this time, she was using summoning spells to summon the little black bird, and this was her only means of contacting the outside world.

After summoning the little black bird, she took out the letter in the test tube from the little black bird's body.

"Lucia, the Saint of the Silver Moon Holy Light Church, has come to the North."

“Also coming with us this time are the Holy Light Knights and their deputy leader Hillman.”

Anne's face turned serious when she saw these two names. These two people were much more difficult to deal with than the Bishop of the North.

Especially Hillman, who has the blood of a demon hunter in his body.

The Demon Hunter bloodline is extremely sensitive to fluctuations in magical power, and is a family of wizard hunters born to hunt wizards!

If Hillman were to sense the wizard's magical power within their bodies, they would surely be hunted down by the Church of Holy Light.

"If that's the case, I'll stay here even longer."

"This is the territory of the Duke of Frostwolf. Even the church cannot set foot here at will."

"And this place is close to the Frostwolf Forest. I can quickly summon Xiao Hei and the others to escape into the Frostwolf Forest." Annie thought.

……

Inside Frostwolf Keep.

David still didn't know that a witch was waiting for him.

The shadow witch he had been looking for also appeared in Frostwolf Ridge.

He was in the study at this time, communicating with Amy.

The huge desk kept creaking. The little witch buried her head in the book, too shy to raise her head.

Compared to the tsundere little princess Reina, the little witch could stimulate his excitement more in some ways.

After continuous efforts, the experience value of his ice element talent finally reached the breakthrough requirement.

(End of this chapter)