Chapter 2117 White Spawn and Shell <TOC> Chapter 2119 A Familiar Light
Translator: SumTLMan
After the assistants gathered, Regina couldn’t wait to open the alchemy workshop.
The door of the workshop was ajar, and a musty smell wafted from inside. Regina, unfazed, stepped in first, followed by her eight assistants into the workshop.
The vast laboratory suddenly became empty.
Angel turned to leave but was stopped by someone calling his name.
Looking back, he saw Regina, who had first entered the workshop, now standing at the doorframe, looking at him.
“Lady Regina, did you need something else?” Angel asked, puzzled.
Regina waved her hand: “Nothing much, just something I forgot to mention earlier. I don’t know how long the experiment will take, so I thought I should tell you before it starts.”
After a pause, Regina continued: “When you contacted me last time, did Portia talk to you separately about something related to enchantment?”
Angel nodded: “Yes, Lady Portia consulted me about some special rune information.”
“And how did you respond?” Regina’s gaze was intense, her earlier fatigue seemingly vanished.
“She asked about very obscure runes, and I haven’t found any useful information yet.” Angel was telling the truth; he really hadn’t found anything useful.
Regina pondered for a moment: “Good that you didn’t find anything. I hope you won’t find anything in the future either.”
After saying this and noticing Angel’s calm demeanor, she realized, “You already know what she wants to do?”
Angel: “I have some guesses.”
Regina: “Since you’ve guessed, then you should know that what she’s doing is very dangerous. I came here to tell you, it’s best not to help her.”
After sighing, Regina added: “Portia is a more talented alchemist than I am and the person I trust most in the Research Institute. That’s why I know so much about her… The more talented, the greater the sense of oppression. Her eagerness to break free led her astray.”
Regina: “Life alchemy is extremely dangerous. It’s best not to help her or get involved, or you might fall into an endless abyss.”
Angel could see that Regina had no ulterior motive. She sincerely advised him not to assist Portia, doing what she could as Portia’s friend.
After a moment of silence, Angel nodded: “I understand. However, if Lady Portia doesn’t find a breakthrough with me, she will look elsewhere. When determined, she will eventually find a clue.”
Rubbing her temples with a troubled expression, Regina said: “That’s exactly what I’m worried about now.”
“Have you thought about telling Director Muse?” Angel asked.
Regina sighed: “I haven’t mentioned it, but he probably already knows about Portia’s intentions.”
The reason Angel could quickly guess about Portia’s involvement in life alchemy was due to Fingernail Granny’s previous hints. If even she could guess, Director Muse must know.
“Although life alchemy is a forbidden area, it’s not absolutely prohibited. If the top brass of the institute intervenes, it might exacerbate Portia’s thoughts. I agree with this hands-off approach.”
“There’s no other way for now. We can only hope that by delaying her from finding related information, she might gain some other insights during this time,” Regina concluded, looking at Angel. “Regardless, I hope you won’t dance to Portia’s tune.”
Angel: “Naturally.”
Although it was just a verbal promise, Regina still believed in Angel. After all, Angel was excessively young, and he had a long time to find the correct path. There was no need for him to follow the same crooked path as Portia.
“You understand, that’s good. I won’t say more, I’m going to research Mystlight now, hoping for early results,” Regina nodded to Angel, filled with emotions, and walked back into the alchemy workshop.
Angel stood still for a moment, then turned and left.
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The following days were unusually calm. Rhine and Tree Spirit hadn’t come to find him yet, seemingly still digesting the shock brought by the Dream Conch.
Iron Armor Granny and Liana were still immersed in the novelty brought by the Wilderness of Dreams, each doing their own human observation.
Only Wallace came to look for him, hoping to get more monocles from Angel.
It seemed he had taken up a challenge with virtual magic power, planning to bring several apprentices to experiment with using virtual magic power to break through the real-world barriers of magic tricks.
Although Angel hadn’t planned to fully open up, giving a few monocles was no problem.
After Wallace left satisfied, another person came to find him. It was “Redemption of the Dead” Nisi.
These days, old man Nisi noticed that everyone at the Star Pool Ruins was immersed in the monocles. Not knowing the specific effects of the monocles but seeing everyone else addicted, he was especially eager to try, but no one would lend him a monocle. After scratching his head for several days, an itching Nisi came to Angel, hoping to solve the problem from the source.
Faced with Nisi’s ingratiating expression, Angel didn’t hesitate and directly handed him a monocle.
Originally, the five monocles Angel had Tree Spirit bring to the Star Pool Ruins included one for Nisi. However, what Angel didn’t expect was that Liana was also at the Star Pool Ruins at that time, so Nisi’s place was taken by Liana.
Since Angel had planned from the start to let Nisi enter the Wilderness of Dreams, naturally he wouldn’t refuse now. Moreover, Nisi had lent him Iscariot’s notes, a favor Angel still remembered.
Nisi happily ran back to the Star Pool Ruins with the monocle and, after a bit of boasting, also entered the Wilderness of Dreams.
Thus, on top of the Star Pool Ruins, another person was immersed.
For most of these days, Angel’s main activity was deciphering runes. After learning that the runes were encrypted with Valens sorting method and Beluke encryption, his decryption speed became even faster.
He originally thought it would take a week to complete the decryption, but in reality, it only took him five days.
At this very moment, Angel finally completed the restoration of the broken runes on the parchment.
Now, he only had one last task: to inscribe the restored runes onto the knight’s armor.
The key point of restoring the runes was not the runes themselves, but the blood ink required for the inscription. If the blood ink didn’t match the runes, the repair naturally couldn’t proceed.
Angel carefully sniffed the crimson blood on the knight armor and murmured to himself, “Seems like it’s still blood ink boiled from the forehead blood of the brain whale?”
To confirm his guess, Angel scraped a little of the blood-colored powder from the broken runes.
Then he put these blood-colored powders into a dripper engraved with responsive runes for a light reaction. As the blood ink residue was activated by the responsive runes, the dripper immediately flashed with a yellowish-green light, creating circular ripples.
“It’s indeed from the brain whale’s frontal lobe blood.”
As Angel was about to record this light pattern, he noticed that in the final moment, the yellowish-green light suddenly turned dazzling white.
Although it was just for a second, Angel still caught it.
“Could it be a mixture of blood ink?” Angel wondered aloud, “The bright white light behind, should be… Display No. 1108.”
Angel quickly took out the —Blood Ink Exploration Atlas—, flipping to the page corresponding to No. 1108 in the lighting sample spectrum. The smooth page clearly recorded a line of text: blood under the fin of the coastal whitefin whale.
“It really is mixed blood ink.” Angel’s eyes flashed with relief. Fortunately, he had conducted the blood ink detection experiment. If he had relied on his experience, he would have probably misjudged it as the blood from the frontal lobe of the brain whale.
From the lighting sample’s performance, it seemed that the brain whale’s frontal lobe blood was the primary blood, with only a small addition of the coastal whitefin whale’s fin blood as secondary. Even if the effect of the secondary blood was minimal, its absence would mean the blood ink would not meet the standards of the damaged rune on the knight armor. Eventually, even if the repair was successful, it wouldn’t accurately open the hidden room.
After this realization, Angel began preparing the new blend of blood ink.
Unlike the nearly extinct brain whale’s frontal lobe blood, there were plenty of coastal whitefin whales alive in the world, making their blood relatively easy to find.
He remembered that the Promi Alchemy Shop should have some in stock.
Indeed, after asking Baruba, Angel confirmed there was some in stock. He immediately sent Baruba back to the Savage Grottoes to fetch the well-preserved blood from under the fin of the coastal whitefin whale.
With all materials ready, Angel began the blending process.
About two hours later, a new bottle of blood ink appeared in Angel’s hands. Based on the feedback during blending, Angel could confirm that the effect of this blood ink was to increase the energy capacity of ocean spells.
This didn’t mean that the repaired rune was related to water spells, but that it was likely carved by an ocean wizard. When an ocean wizard used this blood ink for carving, the process would be much more efficient.
Of course, it was also possible that the person who carved the rune was not an ocean wizard, and they simply used whatever blood ink they had on hand.
After all, unless it was for repairing a rune or some special runes, blood ink was generally universal for rune carving.
Angel didn’t speculate whether the creator of the ruin was an ocean wizard, as it wasn’t important. The ruin was almost certainly from an outer realm and had no connection to the ocean lineage of the Southern Region’s Wizarding World.
After blending the blood ink, Angel carefully began repairing the rune.
To ensure no mistakes, Angel proceeded very slowly. Yet, in less than half a day, he successfully repaired the rune.
With a flash of light, the rune on the knight armor began to shine brightly.
This extremely special short-range teleportation rune was now in a preheated state. With just a little energy input from Angel, it could be fully activated, transporting him into the unknown hidden room.
However, Angel didn’t immediately activate the rune.
Nobody knew what was in the hidden room, whether it was dangerous, or if the original alchemist had never left. So, to be safe, Angel decided not to rush.
He went to the entrance of the ruin and, using a fragment of Tree Spirit, called him over.
Soon, Tree Spirit, emitting a white light, emerged from the trunk: “I was just watching a match, what do you need me for all of a sudden?”
“A match?” Angel was taken aback.
“The Stone Pillar Coliseum, two Sin Hunters dueling. I must say, the power system of the Sin Hunters is quite interesting. Currently, it seems even stronger than the effects of virtual magic power. Moreover, from the battle situation of the Sin Hunters, it appears they haven’t reached their limit yet,” Tree Spirit commented.
After expressing admiration, Tree Spirit turned its gaze towards Angel. He was doing well in the Wilderness of Dreams, and wondered why Angel suddenly called him back to reality. Monocles also had a limit on the number of logins, right? In these few days, the number of times others used them was at most in single digits, but he was about to exhaust nearly a hundred login times.
Angel: “I wonder how Rhine is doing now…”
Tree Spirit waved his hand and looked at Angel with a meaningful gaze: “He is in deep contemplation, and probably won’t come out until he has figured it out. You should know what he is pondering over.”
The Dream Conch stimulated Rhine, and he must be contemplating the future development of the Dream Conch, the Wilderness of Dreams, and the Savage Grottoes.
“If you have anything to say, you can tell me. Although I haven’t completely come out of it yet, I’m definitely doing much better than Rhine.” Tree Spirit proudly lifted its chin. However, it suddenly paused, seemingly recalling something. The proud expression quickly disappeared, replaced by a nervous look towards Angel: “You don’t have any more significant news to drop, do you? The Wilderness of Dreams and the Dream Conch are already enough, I can’t digest anything else right now.”
Tree Spirit was genuinely frightened, remembering that Angel often brought extremely good news, but even good news needed time to be digested…
Observing Tree Spirit’s complex expression, Angel contemplated for a while. From a certain perspective, the matter of the hidden room could also be considered significant news.
However, it had been foreshadowed for a long time, so Tree Spirit might not be too surprised.
Thinking this, Angel finally spoke: “It’s about the hidden room. I have completed the restoration of the broken rune on the knight armor…”
Hearing Angel’s words, Tree Spirit breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the hidden room was also big news, in the eyes of Tree Spirit, it was minor compared to the Wilderness of Dreams and the Dream Conch.
However, minor as it might seem, the significance was extraordinary.
There might be some secrets hidden in the hidden room, even information related to the Star Pool Ruins.
Considering this, Tree Spirit said without hesitation: “I will go with you!”
Chapter 2117 White Spawn and Shell <TOC> Chapter 2119 A Familiar Light