Cultivation, at the very least, while one is still at the ranks of a Great Mage or below, has some similarities to working out.
Muscles are built and expanded because of the micro tears in the muscle fibers, making the muscles stronger and bigger than before.
With Claude being on the brink of death and rapidly recovering, it was as if he made micro tears in his muscles to train them, resulting in his current breakthrough.
It was both a coincidence and logical. Fortune aura cannot make the impossible happen, as it still relies on logic.
An ant could not kill a dragon using their own power, and even Fortune Aura could not change that.
With Claude's breakthrough to the high-cycle Senior Mage, he could sense the Eclipsion Realm urging him to destroy the other large bandit camps.
In the past, Claude would have wanted to continue relying on his own power to make that possible, which means after seeing how powerful a Great Mage was, he would not act rashly again in the meantime.
