Chapter 2126 Hoopa Coefficient <TOC> Chapter 2128 Formation Disc
Translator: SumTLMan
“Starting with —Culuoli Chronicles Seven—, Culuoli mentioned the Light of Nightmare most frequently, apart from Belos,” Rhine read.
“In the year 5403 of the New Era, Culuoli acquired the Light of Nightmare. According to the records, it was obtained by Belos during a mission for the Orderly Guild, from a peculiar world.” Rhine turned to the part in —Culuoli Chronicles Seven— where the Light of Nightmare was first mentioned and showed it.
“Regarding this peculiar world, Culuoli did not record its name, only that it was extremely dangerous, but later he described some characteristics of this world——Project Reality, Reveal Illusion,” Angel interjected, raising his head and meeting Rhine’s eyes.
Rhine nodded gently: “Unless it’s unexpected, it should be the Nightmare Plane.”
Tree Spirit hesitated, saying, “This might also explain some mysteries of the Star Pool ruins. The creatures from the Nightmare Plane pursued the Light of Nightmare because it originally came from the Nightmare Plane.”
Rhine agreed: “Moreover, from various indications, the Light of Nightmare seems extremely important to the creatures of the Nightmare Plane.”
Tree Spirit added, “It seems we are unlucky, having the ruin with the Light of Nightmare drift near the Savage Grottoes.”
Rhine shook his head: “Even if the ruin drifted elsewhere, the Eternal Night Kingdom is right next to the Paramjit Plateau. We would have inevitably come into direct contact with the creatures of the Nightmare Plane.”
After a pause, Rhine continued, “Let’s put these aside for now and return to Culuoli’s chronicles. In his records, the Orderly Guild lost several legendary hunters in the Nightmare Plane. Belos was lucky, not only did he return safely, but he also brought back the Light of Nightmare.”
“As soon as Culuoli came into contact with the Light of Nightmare, he developed a strong interest in this red light that almost doesn’t deplete itself and has optical properties. He then put aside all other matters and focused entirely on researching the Light of Nightmare.”
Tree Spirit murmured, “After all, Culuoli is a Mysterious Alchemist, his vision must be high. But his great emphasis on the Light of Nightmare shows that it brings not only terrible nightmares. It’s not only useful for creatures of the Nightmare Plane; perhaps it holds other more important values.”
Regarding Tree Spirit’s speculation, Rhine and Angel both agreed, recognizing their limitations. Even if the Light of Nightmare had value, it was not something they could currently ponder and research. If Culuoli, as a Mysterious Alchemist, had not fully studied it, it was even less possible for them at present.
Tree Spirit continued, “However, how did Belos bring the Light of Nightmare back? It corrupts energy, so using spells would not work. Was there a special container?”
Rhine understood Tree Spirit’s implication. If there was a container, it could encapsulate the Light of Nightmare, possibly even affecting the Star Pool Ruins.
But things were not as simple as Tree Spirit thought.
“When Belos brought it back, indeed, there was a container. According to the book, it was a bottle emitting a faint glow.”
Tree Spirit’s eyes brightened: “Where is that bottle now?”
Rhine shrugged: “Gone.”
“Gone? Did it break?”
Rhine shook his head: “Culuoli didn’t know how the bottle disappeared. In his chronicles, he mentioned that not long after the bottle was brought back, it vanished on its own, like a mist, traceless.”
“It’s precisely because the bottle containing the Light of Nightmare disappeared, that the Light of Nightmare escaped, instantly filling the entire ruin… No, what we now call a ruin, but at that time, it was probably just one of Culuoli’s research laboratories.”
As Rhine said this, Tree Spirit and Angel both showed expressions of surprise and doubt.
“Is the Light of Nightmare pervasive throughout the ruins?” Tree Spirit spoke incredulously: “You mean… the Star Pool Ruins…?”
Rhine nodded deeply: “Although it’s not recorded in the books, from various detailed descriptions, it can be almost confirmed that the place where Culuoli conducted his research was indeed at the Star Pool Ruins.”
Angel: “Then what about the ruins I’m currently living in?”
Rhine: “In —Culuoli Chronicles Eight—, it’s mentioned that in the year 5404 of the New Era, during the Month of Recovery, Culuoli invited a mysterious rune wizard. Using a special method, near the laboratory filled with the Light of Nightmare, a new alchemy laboratory was constructed; and this newly built alchemy lab is the ruins where Angel is now residing, forming a twin stance with the Star Pool Ruins.”
“This is also why, later, these ruins drifted to the Paramjit Plateau simultaneously with the Star Pool Ruins, and why they are so close. It’s because they form a twin stance, like an invisible bridge constructed between them, moving together.”
Angel: “So, does that mean the Light of Nightmare in this room also comes from the Star Pool Ruins?”
“Yes.” Rhine picked up —Culuoli Chronicles Ten—, pointing to a page from the Month of Frostfall, year 5480: “It’s recorded here that although Culuoli could barely handle the magic creatures and anomalies within the Light of Nightmare, with his strength, he could easily destroy the Star Pool Ruins, so he never dared to enter the Star Pool Ruins.”
“He researched for eighty years and still couldn’t find a way to avoid it. Later, he paid a huge price to obtain a special Mysterious Object from the Orderly Guild, which barely protected him from the erosion of the Light of Nightmare, allowing him to enter the sealed Star Pool Ruins of eighty years.”
“After Culuoli entered the Star Pool Ruins, he naturally prepared to restart the research on the Light of Nightmare.”
“But that Mysterious Object could only protect a certain range.” Rhine looked up at the barrier constructed by Angel: “About the same size as this barrier.”
Rhine’s tone was subtly different when mentioning the barrier. Culuoli, a Mysterious Alchemist, hadn’t found a countermeasure in eighty years, yet Angel found a way to deal with the Light of Nightmare in less than a day, which naturally surprised Rhine. However, even if he had doubts in his mind, he didn’t ask them out loud.
“Because the range was too small, barely protecting him alone, his two followers couldn’t enter the Star Pool Ruins. To compensate for this regret, Culuoli found the mysterious rune wizard who had built the twin stance, and asked him to carve a spatial teleportation rune in the Star Pool Ruins.”
“That teleportation rune connects to this room, conducting the Light of Nightmare here.”
Tree Spirit and Angel simultaneously looked towards the dense red light surrounding them. According to Rhine, somewhere deep within the red light, there might be such a teleportation rune?
“The mysterious rune wizard also carved a special rune in this room beforehand, binding the dispersion of the Light of Nightmare. Since then, Culuoli began his research on the Light of Nightmare here.”
Tree Spirit: “So that’s the truth behind the two ruins and the hidden room… I really want to know, did Culuoli finally figure anything out?”
Rhine shook his head: “There’s no record, perhaps he did, or perhaps not.”
Tree Spirit: “Then his Mysterious Object that could avoid the Light of Nightmare…”
Rhine: “He took it with him.”
“Are there any other pieces of information?” Tree Spirit asked.
“There are some, but they’re not relevant to the current situation. You can read them later yourself.”
Rhine paused, then stood up and looked towards Angel: “Although this room seems to have no problems now, the teleportation rune is hidden somewhere. It could potentially allow creatures from the Nightmare Plane to teleport here at any time, so we must find and control it.”
Concerned about safety, Tree Spirit also said: “Yes, and the Light of Nightmare has a strong attraction to creatures from the Nightmare Plane. Previously, this room was hidden, but now that it’s been opened, Nightmare Plane creatures might smell it and follow the scent.”
Angel also understood this principle and stood up to actively control the movement of the barrier, continuing their previous unfinished action——exploring the hidden room.
They first walked around the workbench, finding nothing unusual, then bypassed the desk and walked straight ahead.
What came into view was a concave-shaped Material Analysis Table.
They had already seen part of the Material Analysis Table when they were flipping through books in front of the desk. As they approached using the barrier, the Material Analysis Table was fully revealed in front of them.
It must be said, this was the most perfect Material Analysis Table Angel had ever seen.
Although the functional modules of the Material Analysis Table were few——a result of the minimalist trend a thousand years ago, the materials used to construct it were extremely precious.
Other experimental tools weren’t as demanding in terms of materials. But for a Material Analysis Table, the unique elements in the materials were needed to establish a certain connection with the object being analyzed, assisting the identification by the Eye of Alchemy, hence the more precious the material, the better.
Angel had seen very expensive Material Analysis Tables in Sky Mechanical City, and as a member of the Research Institute, he even had access to a top-rank one.
But compared to this one, it still fell short.
Furthermore, the runes on this Material Analysis Table were also perfect. Angel could imagine that if he were to identify items on this bench, the rate of information acquisition would definitely increase significantly!
While Angel was happily observing the Material Analysis Table, Tree Spirit and Rhine focused their attention on three items on the bench.
They had vaguely seen something on the Material Analysis Table before. Now, up close, they indeed found three rather odd items.
“What are these three used for?” Tree Spirit didn’t rashly touch them but asked Angel.
In the room, only Angel was an alchemist, and these three items were conveniently placed on the Material Analysis Table, making it most convenient to identify them using the Eye of Alchemy.
Angel then shifted his attention to the three items.
The first was a slender rod made of white porcelain, seamless, but with strange patterns drawn on it.
The second, also pure white, was a metal brick, looking the most unadorned.
The third was a transparent sphere, with silver liquid flowing inside.
At first glance, Angel couldn’t identify the true nature of these three items, and even the materials used were hard to discern.
Since the naked eye couldn’t discern, Angel simply built the model of the Eye of Nalda in his mental space.
As Angel’s eyes emitted a faint light, everything in his view started to become data-fied. When these data-fied information entered the “server” in the mental space, they would begin data coordination and information analysis, eventually yielding the corresponding answers.
This was the real process of identification by the Eye of Alchemy, not baseless, but an analysis combination relying on one’s own foundation.
However, what surprised Angel was that while other objects around were constantly emitting various data, the most important three items barely emitted any data.
Angel understood what this meant.
The materials of these three items, or their construction, were not within Angel’s current realm of knowledge.
Otherwise, there wouldn’t be so little data.
Such scant data also indicated that Angel’s use of the Eye of Nalda this time was almost a failure.
As Angel reluctantly prepared to retract the Eye of Nalda, the Material Analysis Table suddenly generated a large amount of data information. With the changes in the platform, the three previously inert items began to display some information.
Although these pieces of information still couldn’t completely reveal the truth about the three items, they provided an important clue in the “server”.
“Did you find anything?” Tree Spirit, seeing the light fade from Angel’s eyes, understood that he had deactivated the Eye of Alchemy and asked.
Angel remained silent for a while before speaking, his first words not an answer to Tree Spirit’s question, but rather a sigh: “Inside the construction of this Material Analysis Table, there must be even more precious materials. Its enhancement in identification is beyond my imagination!”
Without the platform’s assistance, he would have gotten almost nothing.
After his reflection, Angel shared his analysis: “These three items are probably not meant to be used alone, but are semi-finished products of some alchemy tool.”
“Moreover, these three items have a common origin. That is to say, the final unknown alchemy tool will likely involve all three items.”
Tree Spirit: “These three are semi-finished? But they don’t seem to combine…”
“There must be other semi-finished parts needed for the combination, which I guess are in Culuoli’s hands,” Angel speculated. “The reason these three parts were left behind is probably because Culuoli replaced them.”
Tree Spirit frowned: “Replaced, meaning these three semi-finished items are either flawed or redundant?”
Angel: “Yes.”
Tree Spirit: “Then they’re not of much use.”
Angel: “For now, indeed, they are not.”
Liana extended her hand, picked up the three semi-finished items, and threw them to Angel: “Since they are temporarily useless, you keep them. Maybe in the future, you will find a way to use them.”
Angel did not refuse and stored the three semi-finished items in his bracelet.
He had never seen the materials of these three items before. Even if they couldn’t be used, just studying their material properties was a gain.
They then walked around the Material Analysis Table but found nothing else, so they continued moving forward.
A carpet appeared on the floor.
Above them, an exquisite glass ceiling emerged, with chandeliers containing dimly glowing azure fluorite, completely obscured by the Light of Nightmare.
A few steps further, they were almost at the wall.
At that moment, they saw a row of golden iron railings, forming a circle like a gigantic metal birdcage.
Inside the “birdcage,” they finally found their target: the teleportation formation!
Chapter 2126 Hoopa Coefficient <TOC> Chapter 2128 Formation Disc