"With the blessing of the Four-Part God, the experiment has entered its mid-stage, and we've finally encountered some difficult problems.
How to construct an external absorption circuit within the human body, to convert external magic power into a high-magic factor that can be easily absorbed by humans, this problem has stumped us for a long time. Perhaps I should go to other temples and seek advice."
Lucelia flipped through the booklet in her hand, interpreting the information for the people around her.
It was dawn, and they were slowly moving towards their next target.
With the sound of pages turning, Lucelia's voice rang out again.
"Navius is truly an expert in human research. With his help, we successfully completed this circuit, although it took us a full six months."
"Wait, six months has already passed in just these two pages?" Simon listened attentively, and following Lucelia's voice, he hurriedly asked.
Lucelia nodded and said, "This manual records the entire process of a successful experiment and the impact it had on the world. It's like half a diary."
He flipped to the front page of the manual, where an unknown text was written. She translated, "Magic Stone Research Process - 2."
"Grandmaster Vita, after the record book is completed, it must be sealed and filed. If you need to take it with you, please copy it yourself."
After the translation, everyone nodded.
After answering Simon's question, Lucelia continued her explanation.
"Simply use precise incantations to arrange the [Conduction], [Transfer], [Rotation], and other spells in order. Use materials with extremely high magical conductivity to inscribe them, and you'll be able to complete it."
As she spoke, Lucelia showed Alka and Simon the order of the spells and the overall arrangement shown below the pages of the manual.
Looking at the formulas, Alka quickly said, "Let's not translate the process for depicting the technique for now. Let's translate something else."
If Simon continued translating, he might immediately enter a research state.
Besides, now wasn't the right time to read this.
Lucelia nodded and flipped back, revealing that she had already read a quarter of the book.
This meant that the entire quarter was dedicated to recording the process for the successful stage just now.
Then she said, "The world has been a bit volatile lately. For unknown reasons, wars have broken out in many places, and even the gods are said to be joining in.
We don't know the truth of this news, but our detectors have indeed detected countless powerful fluctuations.
This has severely disrupted our experiments, significantly slowing our progress. Perhaps we should halt them for a while. How long has it been since I last left the house?"
"But regardless, Vastvar is still under the protection of the gods, and our gods are still guarding this place."
The news about the gods caused everyone on the road to slow down and listen quietly.
"The mid-stage construction has failed 363 times. It's confirmed that a god has joined the battle. The god's power is too great, and the energy transfer caused by the battle has caused a shockwave in the magic power of the entire world.
After a heated debate, the Council has decided to suspend all research on Vastva. We will temporarily sort out the magic veins around Vastva to restore peace."
"Thanks to the blessing of the Four Gods, we have successfully sorted out the surrounding magic veins in less than a year. Now our research continues."
After saying this, Lucilia flipped through a long section of pages, almost to the end.
She paused at the last few pages.
"We've almost completed a semi-finished product. Besides being extremely unstable, its efficiency in drawing mana isn't great either. But we've seen the light of day, and we're almost there."
"A final obstacle still stands in our way. We will resolve it and create the finished product. Once the Mana Condensing Stone is complete, the entire team will receive the gods' blessing, and I'll be promoted to the Eye of Mysticism."
"The war is intensifying, even spreading to Salava. We can already feel the heat of the conflict. This is causing mana to become increasingly volatile, making experiments increasingly difficult. We've already failed 1,360 times due to mana volatility, wasting enough material to build another Sapphire Temple."
At this point, Lucilia flipped through the booklet to the back and put it away.
The others, who had been listening intently, stopped and looked at him.
"That's all?" Jason asked.
Lucillia shook her head. "No, the back is still the experimental records."
Now that the information in the manual had been translated, the people who had been listening for a while began to think about it.
"A war involving gods?" Alka muttered to himself, his mind recollecting the information he had obtained from the church during his earliest days in the Home Sea.
"So this city-state was destroyed in the War of Gods, a war that shattered the world countless years ago."
Simon said that he had also learned this information from his church in his own sea.
"It is said that the war that completely destroyed the world occurred over 30,000 years ago. The current ocean world was then constructed by the four gods on the remains of the world."
"30,000 years ago?" Jason asked in surprise.
The church's information did not provide a specific time, only a very vague time description to indicate the long time before the world's destruction.
Simon looked at the group and nodded. "Yes, that's the most likely time, determined by many scholars after research."
"It seems this city was ultimately affected by the divine war," Xia Daiti said with a sigh.
Hearing this, Pororo scratched his forehead and said, "The world is destroyed. Did anyone escape?"
I don't think so.
As they chatted, they arrived at the blue dot on the map. Alka looked at the ruins before them.
The exposed portion of the ruins revealed that it was also the ruins of a temple.
"Is this it?" Jason asked, walking up to take a look.
Alka nodded.
"This ruin is not safe. Proceed with caution."
After all, it was clearly written on the map that one must be at the second stage to explore the treasure.
Although they didn't know exactly where in the second stage they would need to be, they were still strong enough to fight even the Nine Spirals. However, with yesterday's experience behind them, everyone immediately divided up their work. Lusilia began translating the text based on the patterns on the ruins.
Xia Daiti began using silver ripples to explore the underground structure and mark the digging areas.
The others already had shovels ready for excavation.
"This temple is called the Throat of Fury. If we want more information, we have to dig deeper," Lusilia said as she jumped down.
Everyone also began digging.
The entire process proceeded in an orderly manner. After several hours, deep pits had formed around the exposed ruins.
Lucilia also continued translating based on the revealed ruins.
"Although the method of destruction of this ruin is different, its original structure is roughly the same as the temple we excavated yesterday," Xia Daiti said, already having a mental picture of the structure.
"With such a small area, why so many temples?" Pororo asked, somewhat curiously.
Isn't this a complete waste?
Hearing his question, Jason, who was digging, turned and gave him a strange look.
"Because these aren't temples at all? Don't you understand? Although they're called temples, they're actually places for research."
"Really? I hadn't thought about that," Pororo said with a laugh.
"Then you should use that shark brain of yours. You can't just use it to ram or bite things. Besides these more violent uses, you should return it to its original purpose."
Jason said with a smile as he shoveled the dirt.
Hearing this, Pororo stared at Jason.
"Why are you looking at me?"
"I can hear you're scolding me."
"How could that be? What did I scold you for?" Jason said with disdain. Pororo narrowed his eyes slightly, his expression unkind. "Don't be so rude! I just don't want to use my brain, not that I'm stupid. Damn it, take this!"
With that, Pororo leaned forward, leaped down, and launched a punch.
The two of them locked in a tug-of-war. It was clear Jason was no match for Pororo in close combat.
Several ribbons flew over, binding the two and throwing them out together.
After a while, Lucilia deciphered more information.
Alka listened to the information and looked at the map in her hand.
[Azora's Destruction]
[Difficulty: Striker (Phase 2)]
[Popularity: 0]
[Treasure Information: Vastva 1-9 Project, researched by war expert Azora at the Temple of Ragemaw.
His research topic was a large-scale city defense weapon, and the final result was named Azora's Destruction.
Use the secret code to enter the temple's overlapping space, which is the temple's armory. Be careful of defenders.]
Looking at this information.
This means that this temple also has overlapping spaces, but the discrete space here doesn't seem to be a research site, but an armory for storing weapons.
The item is stored in the armory, which means he has already completed it.
So what could the secret code be?
Even the weapon is named Azora. Could this person be a narcissist?
Thinking of this, Alka said, "Lucelia, translate Azora."
Lucelia nodded and opened her mouth to speak the unknown name.
"Magic power has increased!" Julia said.
Everyone immediately prepared.
Unexpectedly, it worked on the first try. This person actually used his own name as a secret code.
However, this time, they weren't teleported into the overlapping dimension.
Instead, a spatial rift appeared before them. Unlike a rift, its edges were perfectly regular. The rift then expanded, transforming into a blue gate.
This was a portal.
Seeing this scene, Alka immediately shouted, "Prepare for battle!"
He remembered the message at the end of the treasure, about the guardians guarding the weapons depot.
Then, along with everyone else, he jumped out of the pit.
The portal's surface rippled like water, and an object emerged from it. It was a cone-shaped structure roughly the size of a human head.
It was a dark red in color, with flaming energy surging from behind, emitting an orange-red glow.
"Pass token, please!"
"No pass token detected, no matching appearance detected, no standard divine power detected, intruder, defensive mode activated!"
He then immediately launched an attack in the direction of Alka and the others above.
The portal's surface continued to ripple, and one cone-shaped construct after another, identical to the original, flew out.
However, these objects appeared shaky, some still without their outer shells, and some even had parts missing.
From their appearance, it was clear that these constructs couldn't exert the same power as the first one to fly out.
The only flawless one was the one in front of them.
A flaming energy bomb flew towards them, sending Alka tumbling to the side.
The red energy bomb burned a deep crater in the ground, and the earth was instantly crystallized by the insane energy.
"Don't get hit."
Getting hit by this would either kill or cripple you, but thankfully, the attack didn't seem to be fast.
More aircraft flew out.
They began to attack around the group.
Arka flung out several blue cards.
These cards exploded in midair, ejecting one aquamarine chain after another, binding the floating aircraft.
Because everyone dodged quickly, the aircraft transformed their energy bombs into beams of light.
A penetrating energy bomb flew out, and Jason's shot accurately shot down a flying construct.
More and more orange-red energy beams were fired, forcing everyone to disperse, dodging the various attacks.
Arka finally understood why the difficulty was set at level two: it was because all the flying constructs floating above were firing at levels with power at level two.
Without reaching the second stage, even dodging might be difficult.
"Boom!"
Thunder roared.
Bororo, his body shrouded in lightning, began waving his hands through the air.
One lightning bolt after another shot out like sharp arrows.
But his aim was clearly poor; none of them hit. However, as the lightning bursts began, a faint electric current surged around them.
This current was very effective, slowing down the aircraft.
As Alka dodged, he threw a silver card, splitting a craft in half.
A mirror surfaced on his face.
Mirrors resembling cards appeared around him, engraved with unknown spells, and then attached to each person.
As the mirrors shattered, a protective shield appeared around them.
Julia dodged and sang loudly, the ribbons that shot out from behind her, attacking the aircraft in the sky.
The gentle, free-flowing song, like the wind, accelerated everyone's speed, allowing them to dodge with greater ease and avoid any awkwardness.
Alka suddenly transformed himself into the Dream Death God and quickly arrived beside Juanlu.
He swung his scythe, destroying the flying constructs that flew around him and dragging him away.
Then he shouted loudly to Pororo, "Spread the lightning and stop them."
With that, the Dream Catcher emerged from his chest, and a large amount of pink mist filled the air.
This time, it no longer remained on the ground, but enveloped everyone.
A dense electric current spread, and then the machines in the sky suddenly shook.
Especially those structures, their internal components exposed, began to smoke in mid-air, and some even exploded.
"Ah!" Hearing the screams, Alka vanished once more, using the Dream Reaper's Blink ability to reappear beside Matresa.
Swinging his scythe, he destroyed the surrounding aircraft and immediately dragged her to Juanlu's side.
"Sorry, I don't know..."
"It's okay. I'm just too weak. I'm holding everyone back," Matlisa said softly.
Arka had never imagined that Matlisa, despite her strength, wasn't actually very good at fighting.
She seemed to have never dealt with an attack from the sky before and seemed a little flustered.
Thinking back to the area Matlisa was in and where she had grown up, Arka could understand, yet also felt a little annoyed that she had never considered that.
Living in a place like that, just having creatures was already a blessing, let alone fighting.
She had probably only practiced fighting against her own people.
Arka had been a little too careless.
A large number of golden beams of attack began to rain down from the sky, disrupting the attacks of the surrounding aircraft.
"How much longer will Simon have?" Xiadaiti asked loudly. She saw more and more aircraft emerging from the portal, constantly emerging, as if it were endless.
Many were already injured, and the enemy was too numerous and could still fly.
A construct floated in Simon's hands, and he was rapidly analyzing it.
In an effort to resolve the problem once and for all.
"Almost there, buy me a little more time. These aircraft rely on vision to identify enemies, not magical scanning."
He loudly announced his findings.
Hearing this, the triangular gem on the halo on Xia Daiti's forehead spun rapidly.
She reached out and clenched her hand.
The entire area immediately plunged into darkness.