Chapter 2417 Miniature Castle <TOC> Chapter 2419 Bloodline Limit
Translator: SumTLMan
“Angel, you’ve reached the fifth level?” It was Canter who spoke, knowing Angel had arrived when he saw the Authority Eye move.
“Angel is here?” Nisi also snapped back from his teasing.
“Yes, I’m currently at the control node of the fifth level.” Pausing for a moment, Angel directed the Authority Eye towards Nisi: “Does Wizard Nisi need something from me?”
“Just a small matter, but it’s not important, let’s set it aside for now. Have you found any research materials on Soul Armor?” Nisi quickly asked upon learning Angel was on the fifth level.
“I’ve found quite a bit, but I haven’t read them in detail yet. I’ll bring them to you later.”
Hearing this, Nisi let out a long sigh of relief. The information he found on the fourth level was pitifully scarce, and if there was nothing on the fifth level, he would have to start researching Soul Armor from scratch.
“That’s good, that’s good.” Nisi didn’t say thank you, but instead, he took it to heart: “You’ve seen the reason I’m looking for you, the arm of Night Butterfly Witch has been found, I’ll keep it safe for you. Also, Like the Night and I have already picked out an organ suitable for you, do you want to see it?”
Nisi was asking, but he didn’t give Angel time to respond, directly taking the Authority Eye to a metal platform nearby, pointing to a small container:
“This contains a demon horn that has condensed all the petrification power of a dark gold gargoyle. We don’t know what Soul Armor is attached inside yet, but its petrification power can assist you in cultivating petrification sight, as well as many earth spells.”
After introducing this one, Nisi moved to another side: “As you can see, this is a tail, specifically from what demon, Like the Night and I have a slight disagreement. I think it looks a bit like the tail of a Karnas Swamp Ape, Like the Night says it’s the tail of a Tidal Monkey, it’s currently impossible to confirm which one, but both creatures can interfere with the water and earth elements within a certain range, and its tail is expected to inherit related abilities.”
After the tail, Nisi introduced a Bee Stinger’s abdomen, an unknown wild cat’s pseudo ear, and eight legs of a poison spider.
Lastly, Nisi came to a life-sized container, the liquid inside was shaking, but nothing could be seen inside.
“You probably can’t see anything in your field of vision, but actually, this contains a very precious organ. Apart from the value of the Soul Armor, just the rarity of the organ itself, this definitely ranks in the top three in this exhibition room.”
“This is a pair of Hidden Wing Butterfly Scorpion’s wings, their wings are very hard to see with the naked eye, with a wingspan of about three meters wide, flying speed beyond imagination, full-speed flight can even cause sonic booms. Most importantly, the level of preservation of these wings is extremely high, almost as active as when alive, definitely the work of a biological alchemist!”
After the marvel, Nisi looked at Angel:
“These are the options suitable for you, and after transplantation, there’s no need to enter internal circulation, which one do you want?”
Angel pondered for a moment.
Regarding the organs in question, Angel did not have a preference for any particular one, nor did he know what kind of Soul Armor was inside. Speaking of the organs themselves, if there was to be a transplant, it was presumed to only assist in cultivating spells across different disciplines.
If it was just for the function of aiding in the cultivation of cross-discipline spells, Angel personally felt it was optional, as he hadn’t even fully assimilated his illusion powers yet. Starting a new battlefront seemed a bit premature.
After some thought, he said to Nisi, “Let’s go with the Hidden Wing Butterfly Scorpion’s wings.”
“You’re choosing this?” Nisi was momentarily taken aback but quickly collected the wings, “This is a good choice, your taste is commendable.”
Angel simply smiled, without saying much.
If he really had to choose, he guessed the first thing he would exclude would be the wings, mainly because the wings were more about mobility and wind abilities. The former overlapped with gravity lines, and as for the latter… he had no immediate plans for cross-discipline cultivation.
The reason for his choice was purely because it was of higher value. None of the other options had much compatibility with him, and there wasn’t much difference in his choice. So, he opted for something more valuable.
If he couldn’t use it, he could always give it to Nisi. Whether Angel liked it or not wasn’t important, but he could see that Nisi was quite fond of these wings. Nisi was excited when he spoke about them. So, even if it wasn’t used, it wouldn’t go to waste.
There were retrieval restrictions in the fourth level exhibition room; one could only take two items. After taking the Night Butterfly Witch’s arm and the wings, Nisi and the others left the exhibition room.
“By the way, did you encounter that Fire Scale Familiar on the fifth level?” Nisi asked curiously as they stood in the hallway outside the exhibition room.
Angel hesitated for a moment, “I did encounter it, but there were some minor incidents in between.”
“Minor incidents?”
Angel nodded, indicating he had control of the node, and then briefly described the process of encountering the Fire Scale Familiar and the final reversal.
After finishing his story, Angel also inquired with Nisi and Canter about the identity of the misty shsdow.
“A mass of mist and shadow, with stars twinkling inside? Are you sure this is a creature?” Canter asked, echoing the same doubt as Iron Armor Granny.
“I’m sure.” Angel understood that he probably couldn’t get any information from them.
“Is there such a creature? Let me think…” Canter and Nisi both fell into thought.
Seeing that no one was speaking on the mental connection, Angel temporarily blocked the mental connection and signaled Toby and Dangros to take over.
After checking the fifth level magic formation again and confirming that there was no trace of the misty shadow, Angel got up and left the sub-control node.
Leaving the sub-control node, Angel faintly felt as though he had overlooked something…
He left room number 03 and headed to the last room on the fifth level.
Room number 01.
Room number 01 was the most unadorned among all the rooms on the fifth level, devoid of the display of light and shadows or the diffusion of mist, appearing to be the most ordinary room.
In the interior, the number of rooms was remarkably few; there wasn’t even a main hall, but immediately upon traversing a corridor, one could see it diverging into three distinct pathways.
These pathways led to an archive room, a laboratory, and a training area, respectively.
Rooms such as studies and bedrooms were conspicuously absent.
This style of design brought Angel to reminisce about Nausica; he had once visited her abode in Apprentice Town, which was equally streamlined and tidy.
Despite ostensibly comprising only three rooms, Angel was keenly aware that within the training area, a hidden room was cleverly concealed.
He did not head straight for the training area but chose first to explore the archive room. The organization of knowledge evidently took precedence.
The archive room was meticulously organized, devoid of any superfluous material; it housed only various reports from the base’s laboratory. Angel did not inspect these closely but instead duplicated them all through an illusion spell, planning to later transfer them into the Wilderness of Dreams… He recalled that the library in the New City was likely completed by now. Currently empty, it was an ideal repository for these valuable documents.
Angel’s visit to the laboratory was brief; the space was filled with materials for bloodline analysis and several carcasses of sea beasts. The useful parts had been extracted, leaving behind only those elements that could be efficiently utilized by those with the right bloodline knowledge.
Finally, Angel proceeded to the training area.
The training area was eerily empty, seemingly devoid of anything of interest. However, as he walked through its center, Angel felt his blood beginning to simmer.
This training area was connected to a magic formation, capable of simulating various environments. Though the training area was not activated at the moment, Angel could still sense an unusual stirring in his blood, a testament to the residual aura permeating the space.
Number 01 frequently trained here, and even in his absence, the lingering vestiges of his formidable presence could cause ordinary individuals or low-level apprentices to potentially succumb to their injuries on the spot. This inadvertent remnant of Number 01’s aura alone highlighted his exceptional strength as a bloodline wizard.
Feeling the uncontrollable surge within him, Angel grew wary of Number 01. Unlike Numbers 02 and 03, Number 01 was a distinctly orthodox wizard, deeply committed to the pursuit of bloodline truths. Should an encounter with Number 01 become inevitable, Angel’s immediate strategy would be to conceal his presence to avoid detection at all costs.
Crossing the seemingly tranquil but actually tumultuous heart of the training area, Angel reached the other side of the training space.
The wall here appeared indistinguishable from the others at first glance. However, through Angel’s vision, it was a nexus of various runes.
“Concealment, shadow, space, extension, constant…” Angel muttered to himself as he identified the runes within his sight, eventually fixing his gaze on a symbol resembling a simplified wave drawing: “…Activate.”
Channeling pure, primal magic power, Angel directly targeted the “Activate” symbol.
As the runes began to glow sequentially, the previously obscured door, hidden by the magic formation, gradually revealed itself.
Angel did not immediately enter but instead reached out to Eremy to prepare for any potential dangers.
The risks here were not limited to the “misty shadow that might emerge in the hidden room” but also included any traps that could be lying in wait within the hidden room.
After all, Angel cannot see inside the hidden room from the main control node, nor does he know whether there are any traps inside. He treats all unforeseen dangers as real, so as not to be caught off guard when danger does occur.
After making all the preparations, Angel gently pushes open the door. As the door opens, a large amount of white frost mist drifts out from inside.
A biting cold wind echoes over the training field.
After the frost mist has mostly dispersed, Angel then enters.
To his surprise.
There are no traps inside as he had imagined, and neither is there the misty shadow hidden in the mist. Apart from being slightly cold, everything is as usual.
Angel looks around; the hidden room is very small, empty on all sides except for a laboratory bench in the center.
The center of the laboratory bench is empty, but on both sides, it is piled high with various letters, as if someone had deliberately shoveled the letters to either side.
The number of letters is very large, at a glance, there are at least a hundred.
Angel’s gaze first rests on the empty laboratory bench, a fleeting thought seems to drift through his mind, but upon closer reflection, it dissipates without a trace.
He doesn’t delve deeper because, compared to this baseless thought, he is more curious about what is written in these letters.
Approaching the laboratory bench, Angel sorts through all the letters.
After sorting, Angel finds that although there seem to be many letters, they actually come from only four sources.
The first type of letter, despite varying envelope styles and colors, contains paper made from pulp. Angel classifies these pulp letters into one category, and they are quite numerous.
The second type, these letters, all come from a void merchant group named “Chaostream”. Among the hundred or so letters, at least nearly half belong to it, making it the second most numerous.
The third type of letter, Angel finds somewhat familiar, also coming from the Sparkling Trading Group.
The fourth type of letter does not indicate a fixed source but uses a strange beast-shaped symbol instead.
After classifying the letters by their sources, Angel selects a few from each category and briefly looks through them.
The pulp letters are from “x” number within the laboratory, containing gathered information about the Wizarding World in the Southern Region. The time span is vast, and the content records major events of recent years, including information related to Angel himself, such as Shadow Demon City disturbance in the capital of the Shadow Demon Kingdom, the dome event in Eternal Night Kingdom, and the Half-Step Mysterious Object of Black Castle… and so on.
Angel believed that the intelligence about the Southern Region surely wasn’t limited to what he had on hand; there must be more out there. The reason these particular messages were chosen was that they recorded some representative major events.
Aside from the pulp letters, the Chaostream void merchant group sent the most correspondence. After reviewing a few letters, Angel determined the background of the Chaostream.
It seems to be a void merchant group hired by the headquarters of the River Legacy Society, specifically tasked with conveying headquarters’ directives to Number 01.
Such messages involved intelligence strictly within the River Legacy Society.
As for the letters from the Flashing Trading Group, like those addressed to Number 03, they contained information requested by Number 01.
Angel speculated that the Flashing Trading Group might belong to an intelligence organization within the organization?
Lastly, the letter marked with a peculiar beast-shaped symbol, unsigned, documented the recent status of a person referred to as “The Lord of the City.”
Since only one letter was read, the specific identity of “The Lord of the City” remained unknown to Angel.
…
After categorizing the types of letters, Angel began to read them one by one.
The pulp letters, marked with “x”, were merely replicated by illusion magic by Angel, who didn’t scrutinize them on the spot. Mainly, since these letters recorded major events in the Southern Region, their urgency meant they could be deferred.
Regarding the “Chaostream”, “Flashing”, and “Unsigned” letters, Angel pondered for a second and decided to start with those from the Chaostream void merchant group.
He opened the letters one by one.
With the progress of his rapid reading, Angel also gained a general understanding of the origins and history of the Snoke base laboratory.
Soul Armor was a secret project, co-developed by the River Legacy Society and a soul power from the Qwest World. Due to some reasons not described, they couldn’t proceed in the Source World, so it was dispatched to the various Wizarding Worlds.
Regarding the reason why it has never been described, Angel speculates that there might be two reasons. First, the biological specimens in each Wizarding World have their diversity and differences, which require physical testing. Second, it might be related to “living sacrifices.”
The key core of Soul Armor still needs the assistance of the forces from the Qwest World. Since the Qwest World serves as a Soul Plane aiming to influence the material world, it inevitably requires a connection.
Living sacrifices represent the lowest-cost connection.
Merely using ordinary people as living sacrifices can connect to soul forces, bringing down a special Soul Armor Source Liquid.
However, this low-cost connection requires the consumption of a large number of living people. And living sacrifices, even in the cruel Wizarding World of the Southern Region, are considered a taboo among taboos.
Wizards care not about the one or two individuals but fear that once this precedent is set, it will be like a tilting flood, destroying all the dams previously built.
Because the practice of living sacrifices is not only limited to the Qwest World.
Demon gods, evil gods, outer gods, other various sinister extraordinary beings, and even some unknown entities can all bring down their power through similar acts of living sacrifices.
If preventive measures are not taken from the source, then all efforts will turn to dust.
Therefore, living sacrifices are definitely prohibited, even in the Source World. The River Legacy Society dares not engage in such practices in the Source World, so they came to the Four Directions Wizarding World, where the supervisory powers are slightly weaker.
Even in the Four Directions Wizarding World, they dare not make their practices known.
Chapter 2417 Miniature Castle <TOC> Chapter 2419 Bloodline Limit