After the magic array presided over by Xia Lian fully formed, a flurry of system notifications rang out in Shi Feng's ears.
System: Congratulations, Player. You have completed the Tier 3 job change and obtained a Saint Legacy. Legacy completeness reached 85%. You have been granted an Epic Advanced Legacy. You have four hours to construct your Mana Body.
System: Congratulations, Player. You are the first to complete the Tier 3 job change. You have been granted an additional hour to construct your Mana Body.
"Epic?!" Shi Feng couldn't help but gape when he heard the system notification.
This was his first time ever hearing of such a rank. Previously, the highest he had heard of was Gold Rank. A top-tier expert who could achieve a Gold Rank legacy during the Tier 3 job change was one in ten thousand—each one a dominator on maps of level one hundred and above, a headache for every major power.
That was because a Gold Rank Mana Body not only had a high degree of adaptability to harsh environments, but its physical and mental stamina recovery speed was far beyond the norm. The Mana Body could absorb surrounding mana to restore itself, with recovery speeds thirty to sixty percent higher than ordinary people. Such experts could move freely across level-one-hundred neutral maps even without stamina-recovery equipment, and even superpowers would find it nearly impossible to hunt them down.
They were, in essence, a carefree and unfettered bunch.
This was precisely why, once the Divine Realm progressed past level one hundred, the suppression that the great superpowers could exert over free-roaming players plummeted dramatically. It allowed the top adventuring parties to stand up to superpowers, with the Midnight Tea Party being the prime example.
Entry into the Midnight Tea Party was extraordinarily difficult. One of the requirements was achieving a Gold Rank Mana Body during the Tier 3 job change. A group of experts all possessing Gold Rank Mana Bodies could roam freely across level-one-hundred neutral maps, and even superpowers could do nothing about it—not everyone could move about with the freedom that a Gold Rank Mana Body afforded.
As for an Epic Rank Mana Body, he had never even heard of one.
Moreover, the time allotted for constructing the Mana Body was a full five hours. Previously, he had only been given one hour for a Bronze Rank Mana Body, and even a Gold Rank was limited to two hours. Jumping straight to five hours for Epic Rank was an extraordinarily generous amount of time.
The construction of a Mana Body followed a broadly similar process—it all depended on how far the player could take it. But that required a great deal of time for experimentation before the final form could be set.
"You may begin constructing your Mana Body now. Remember, you only have five hours. If your construction fails, the magic array will merely use the mana it has gathered to form the most ordinary Mana Body for you, and all your previous efforts will have been for nothing." After reciting the final incantation, Xia Lian gave Shi Feng a grave reminder.
"I understand!" Shi Feng well knew the gravity of the situation.
Completing the Tier 3 job change already signified that one had become a Tier 3 Class. During the advancement to Tier 3, the origin mana that was drawn forth would automatically reinforce the body. The so-called legacy was simply a means of further refining and enhancing that bodily reinforcement using the origin mana that had been summoned.
Shi Feng immediately turned his attention to the three Mana Structure Diagrams hovering within the magic array.
The three diagrams were entirely different from one another, each more complex and intricate than the last. The simplest among them was several times more complicated than any top-tier Bronze Rank diagram Shi Feng had ever seen. It not only involved magic arrays but also incorporated divine script and extremely precise control of mana.
If an ordinary player were placed before such a diagram, they might be able to mimic it superficially, but the completion rate of their Mana Body would be far from satisfactory.
Legacies might be divided into Bronze, Silver, and Gold, but those were merely further enhancements to the Mana Body. The completion rate of the structure diagram, however, would directly affect the player's combat power going forward.
That was because the diagram's completion rate influenced a player's mastery of magical skills in the future. If the diagram was poor and the mana conductivity of the body was lacking, the completion rate of magical skills would struggle to reach above ninety percent. After Tier 3, all magical skills involved the channeling and manipulation of the player's internal mana, allowing the power of those skills to undergo a qualitative transformation.
This was the reason why many expert players willingly chose a structure diagram that was a tier lower in the same rank.
A lower-tier diagram could still yield a relatively flawless Mana Body that wouldn't hinder future combat performance, and it would also be beneficial for the eventual Tier 4 job change.
It took Shi Feng just over ten minutes to finish examining all three diagrams.
"The advanced diagram is extremely complex—it even requires multi-threaded mana control for guidance—but I have a full five hours. That's more than enough time to attempt it." Shi Feng selected the advanced structure diagram without hesitation and began channeling mana to construct his own Mana Body.
While Mana Bodies of the same rank differed little in environmental adaptability, there could be a considerable gap in recovery capability and bodily defense.