Bill Lyn Black¶
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| Age | About 3,400 years (estimate: same intake as Jie Ming, as of Ch778)20 |
| Wizard level | Fourth-level wizard 12 |
| Status | Alive 20 |
| First appearance | Ch601 |
A soul-discipline prodigy of Jie Ming's own Noren Academy intake, a frail-looking apprentice who took second place on the Limestone Realm leaderboard by vanishing from everyone's notice and memory.12 His soul spells of presence dilution and obscuration make him a ghost scout few wizards two levels above him can see through, and he is honored as a hero for locating an eighth-level beast on a second-line plane.2712 He is also Jie Ming's steady sales partner, the largest distributor of liquid Essence Gold in Noren Workshop territory.1120
Relationships¶
- Oswald: Mentor, a soul-discipline teacher who takes him as direct disciple and suggests commissioning Jie Ming.123
- Jie Ming: Same-year classmate; artifact client, then sales downline for liquid Essence Gold and reconnaissance partner in the coordinated war.21112
- Berta Vera Augusta: Meets her during his withdrawal and sends her after Jie Ming; she uses his backup rendezvous coordinate.1516
Background¶
The same-year classmate of Jie Ming at Noren Academy No. 13, taken as a soul-discipline mentor's direct disciple after an exceptional soul aptitude test.2 He vanished after the talent assessment ceremony and, Jie Ming infers, infiltrated the native coalition's core in the Limestone Realm to take the point tokens of fallen apprentices, scoring 21,965.1 Pale, with short black hair and deep purple eyes.12
Abilities¶
| Ability | Acquired | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Wizard level | Ch51012 | Fourth-level wizard in the coordinated war.12 |
| Presence dilution and memory deflection | Ch601 | Soul studies that drop him from notice and memory for years.12 |
| Mind Barrier Bracer | Ch332-3334 | Jie Ming's illusion-resisting artifact, bought for five hundred thousand merit; holds at five days' consumption where sixth-level standard artifacts shatter, and absorbs a near-seventh-level illusion unnoticed.456 |
| Soul seizure | Ch3346 | Seizes the soul of a fourth-level purple symbiont at a giant beast's core.6 |
| Liquid Essence Gold distribution | Ch3368 | Buys all of Jie Ming's output, pays partly in biological samples and builds a market over decades that reaches the Star Ring Federation arms market.819 |
| Presence obscuration | Ch51012 | Fuses soul suggestion, optical refraction, aura elimination and faint time-perception interference; he dissolves like ink wash.1217 |
Timeline¶
- Ch60: Second on the trial leaderboard with 21,965 points after vanishing from the assessment ceremony.1
- Ch330-333: Commissions a hallucination-resisting artifact for a second-line plane; buys the Mind Barrier Bracer and two sixth-level standard artifacts.234
- Ch333-335: Swallowed by a giant beast; the standard artifacts fail while the bracer holds; seizes the symbiont's soul, sends the eighth-level beast's coordinates to the commander and is honored as a hero when the war ends.567
- Ch336-340: Becomes Jie Ming's liquid Essence Gold distributor; worn half to death handling sales for the fifth-level pool purchase.89
- Ch383-458: Chases endless reorders; hints he has been more than a middleman.1011
- Ch510-512: Shadows Jie Ming outside the command room, proposes parallel reconnaissance with split merit, becomes the ghost scout and is sent back with the lurker intelligence.121314
- Ch525-528: Sends Augusta after Jie Ming; proposes titles ("Golden Ray", "Dark Gold Fist") and rejects them all; submits "encountered a sixth-level wizard, withdrew successfully".151618
- Ch731: His channels carry liquid Essence Gold into the Federation arms market.19
- Ch778: Attends the academy meeting; wants Jie Ming's aptitude enhancement for his future family.20