Chapter 1958 Optimal Solution <TOC> Chapter 1960 A Sudden Rise in Fame
Translator: SumTLMan
Not long ago, Totoro spoke another prophecy, but this time the subject was not a person, but a large door covered with broken runes.
According to Totoro’s description, it was an unconventional prophecy filled with strange scenes.
In the entire prophecy, not a single person appeared. The scene only contained a door continuously self-repairing its broken runes.
From Totoro’s perspective, he saw many mysterious glowing runes emerging from the damaged runes, sprouting like vines on the door’s surface, extending non-stop, constructing numerous mysterious rune meanings, and finally connecting all the broken runes together to form a complete and intact magic formation.
Then, the scene halted, and the future fragments shattered.
Totoro, after watching the entire process, did not understand the significance of the magic formation, and due to the special nature of the runes, he couldn’t even retain the memory of it. However, he knew that Angel was most proficient in alchemy runes. Therefore, he paid close attention to this prophecy.
He had a natural intuition, vaguely feeling that this future fragment might indeed be related to Angel.
Because of this, after much hesitation, he still decided to share the prophecy.
Initially, Angel did not take it seriously, because Totoro could not remember the runes. Even though he saw the process of the runes changing from incomplete to complete, it was actually of no use, and Angel could not analyze anything from it.
Later, Sanders asked Totoro to use illusion magic to recreate the future fragments.
Angel originally thought there was no need to visualize the prophecy, but when Totoro actually followed Sanders’ instructions and used illusion magic to present the scene he saw, everyone discovered the clues.
Although the entire scene only featured a door, and quite an ordinary one at that, almost everyone present recognized it at a glance.
For it was none other than the main entrance to the ruins.
Upon confirming this, everyone immediately realized that Totoro’s prophetic vision might well be linked to the secrets hidden within these ruins… Perhaps, by restoring the incomplete runes on the door, they could uncover the concealed room?
Thus, after disconnecting the mini signal tower, the group approached the door…
Angel was indeed curious about the secrets of the ruins, but at that moment, he was more concerned about Totoro. Before they disconnected the mini signal tower, Totoro had given him a look. It was a calm look, yet Angel read some underlying meaning in it.
It seemed Totoro had more to say.
When Totoro mentioned the Bud, Angel had indicated that Totoro could speak freely without minding the others. Yet, Totoro had chosen to keep silent, possibly deducing that it wasn’t the right moment to reveal certain things. So, what could it be? Angel could only surmise that it was either Totoro’s own secret or something related to Angel himself.
Whichever it was, the fact that it silenced Totoro meant it shouldn’t be taken lightly.
It seemed a private conversation with Totoro was indeed in order.
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When Angel first visited these ruins, he had noticed the runes on the door. However, he hadn’t paid them much mind, as most ruins feature similar markings for warnings, defense, or mechanisms. And to make entry and exit safer, deactivating these runes is a common practice. That’s why, at the time, Angel hadn’t given it much thought.
However, what he didn’t expect was that the place he had been overlooking might just be the key to everything?
Angel didn’t know what changes would occur after the rune on the door was fully restored. However, he considered that if Totoro had brought it up so seriously, it might indeed be related to the secrets of this ruin.
Temporarily setting aside the myriad thoughts in his mind, Angel focused on the rune. He first concentrated his mental power into threads, splitting it in two, with one stream covering the triggering rune on the door surface… Although it was a damaged rune, to avoid errors, it was still necessary to shield the triggering rune.
The other stream of mental power took up an ultra-thin blade, finely manipulated with a phantasmal limb, and gently scraped a bit of powder from the damaged rune.
Then, he placed this fine powder into a specially made dropper device, engraved with responsive runes.
The dropper flickered with a yellow-green light, and circular ripples appeared.
“Is it the 38th display? Oh, there are ripples, so it’s the 1782nd display…” Angel recalled the content of the —Blood Ink Exploration Atlas— and muttered to himself: “It seems that the person who drew the rune on the door chose blood ink made from the Forehead Blood of the Brain Whale, boiled down.”
“Brain whales haven’t been seen in the outer seas for two hundred years, all kept by the people of the Song of the Deep Sea. It’s not easy to get the forehead blood of a brain whale.”
Although it was difficult to obtain the forehead blood of a brain whale, Angel didn’t dwell on it too much. As long as the effect and grade were similar to that of the brain whale’s forehead blood, it could be completed through a third-party fusion solvent.
However, this kind of third-party mixing solvent requires a large amount of materials and must be personally configured by an alchemist. If the cost of hiring an alchemist to mix it is added, the value might exceed the price of the brain whale’s forehead blood. For a rune wizard, it’s actually not worth it.
But as Angel himself is an alchemist, it saved a lot of effort.
Angel walked through the corridor, retrieving the —Blood Ink Exploration Atlas— from the study before heading to the laboratory on the third level. As he preheated the experimental apparatus, he began to look up blood similar to the forehead blood of the brain whale.
About half an hour later, Angel saw a rune in the book resembling an eel carrying lava.
“The values are very close; the heart blood of the Fin-tail Fire Eel should be able to replace the forehead blood of the brain whale.” Although the book recorded as much, Angel recalculated with a formula, arriving at the same conclusion.
Angel also had the heart of a Fin-tail Fire Eel, which he had initially obtained from the Breezy Magic Materials Shop run by Viking.
With all the materials ready, Angel prepared to start concocting the heart blood ink of the Fin-tail Fire Eel.
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While Angel was concocting the blood ink, news of the Star Observing Day had already begun to spread throughout the Southern Region via signal towers.
Although ordinary wizard organizations and the vast majority of wizard families had to wait for the new issue of the Crown Star Church magazine to find out what exactly happened on Star Observing Day, large wizard organizations were almost already aware of the various stories from the day.
Chapter 1958 Optimal Solution <TOC> Chapter 1960 A Sudden Rise in Fame