Chapter 647 Freud's Research Topics <TOC> Chapter 649 Cat Bus
Translator: SumTLMan
Babaya, Kudou, and Rococo, once they set foot on the path of wizardry, even if they take other wizards as their mentors, they naturally have an inseparable connection with Angel. Therefore, Angel is also willing to spend some time considering their emotions.
Although the path of a wizard is ultimately lonely, it does not mean that they have to choose to eliminate emotions and desires from the beginning. Most wizards still care about their relatives within three generations.
In the end, Angel decided to let them consider the matter themselves.
Whether to keep their relatives close or leave them within the clan, there are pros and cons. Keeping them close allows them to be taken care of at all times, without worrying about losing their parents before they can provide for them, but at the same time living away from the group will make their relatives feel lonely; leaving them in the clan means they won’t be lonely, but they will worry about their distant children, and there is a risk of dying alone if they are not careful.
So, it’s up to them to decide.
After bidding farewell to the Kulakuka clan members, Angel returned to his bedroom. Toby was still in a deep sleep, but at least he wasn’t feverish anymore.
Angel stayed on Phantom Island for half a day more, but Gloria didn’t come looking for him, and Toby showed signs of waking up. He thought about it, put Toby in his chest pocket, and headed towards the Flowing Source.
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Three days later, the sky was bright.
Gloria sat at her desk and gently put down her pen.
The faint sound of the wind blowing across the lake and the splashing sound of fish jumping out of the water reached her ears. If it had been three days ago, Gloria would have been annoyed by these rustling noises. But now, her mind was calm, and she could even leisurely appreciate the symphony of nature.
With a different time, perspective, and mindset, Gloria arrived at a completely different answer.
Gloria smiled, took a short break, and then continued to take out her fountain pen and make the final inference on the paper full of data.
Her writing was fast and uninterrupted. A quarter of an hour later, Gloria took out another bottle of ink. This was the ink of Sun Unicorn Blood, extremely precious, and it was naturally imbued with the power of luck and blessings when used for writing.
If this bottle of blood ink could write the final data, then there would be no need to re-verify, and it would mean that her data derivation was correct and successful.
The color of the Sun Unicorn Blood ink was a sparkling pink.
Rows of data appeared on the paper, flashing with a faint pink light. Gloria’s expression became more and more joyful until finally, the last moment—
Gloria’s wrist paused for a moment, dipped into the Sun Unicorn Blood ink again, and took a deep breath.
Then, she finished writing with a single stroke.
A peculiar rune appeared on the paper.
When the rune appeared, it shone brightly! In Gloria’s eyes, the rune was like a black hole, pulling all the previously calculated data bit by bit into it. Finally, a single rune represented all of Gloria’s understanding of this data.
After a long time, the rune did not disappear, still shimmering faintly on the paper.
This meant that she had succeeded!
She had once again overcome a challenge in the Birth Spell!
According to Gloria’s calculations, there were approximately low, mid and high levels in the Birth Spell.
Levels, in fact, were a way to quantify difficulties. Any subject, even knowledge outside the realm of wizards, had corresponding difficulties. When ordinary people face difficulties, they see them as layers of mountains that need to be climbed and conquered one after another to see the scenery beyond. Wizards, on the other hand, view difficulties from a higher perspective, knowing which path is the shortest and how many mountains need to be climbed. Although they have an idea of what lies ahead, the journey still needs to be taken personally.
Mountains have heights, and difficulties have varying degrees as well.
Generally speaking, the earlier difficulties are easier to solve, mostly testing knowledge accumulation. But in the later stages, especially the last few difficulties, not only are knowledge accumulation and personal comprehension tested, but also the understanding of the corresponding path.
Of course, as long as your knowledge accumulation is deep and comprehensive enough, the corresponding difficulties will be significantly reduced.
Gloria spent thirty years on the Birth Spell, with five difficulties remaining.
Such rapid progress was due to her foundation in the “Genesis Spell,” which had already made significant achievements in the “Path of Creation.” Therefore, Gloria only needed a bit of comprehension and to deepen her knowledge accumulation while constructing the Birth Spell.
However, even so, that little bit of comprehension never seemed to shine in her thoughts.
These last five difficulties had been holding her back for a very long time. Over sixty percent of the time since she began studying the Birth Spell was spent on these five difficulties.
Finally, today, Gloria overcame one of the difficulties.
Even if each of the remaining four difficulties takes her ten or even dozens of years to overcome, Gloria knows that the path is not completely blocked.
There is still hope for the Birth Spell.
Recording the shimmering rune, Gloria stretched lazily. Compared to three days ago, her expression had not only relaxed, but her eyes had also lost their ferocity and uneasiness, returning to a state of pleasure and laziness.
Even the agitated original soul in the Soul Prairie seemed to have quieted down quite a bit.
“Sure enough, Toby is my lucky star.” A glimmer appeared in Gloria’s eyes. Ever since Toby arrived, all sorts of troubles seemed to vanish.
Pausing for a moment, Gloria revealed a wicked smile at the corner of her mouth: “It seems I need to find an opportunity to get closer to Toby. Why not go find him and train him a little along the way?”
After a few days of seclusion, the door to Gloria’s magic cottage finally opened.
Goode had already sent several dark shadow servants to wait outside.
“Have you seen Toby?” Gloria opened the door and asked the dark shadow servants standing outside.
“Lady Gloria, it seems that Young Master Pat has taken Toby back to the Flowing Source,” an unnumbered dark shadow servant stepped forward and replied.
“Flowing Source?” Gloria repeated with confusion, feeling that the name sounded somewhat familiar.
“Alternate Dimension Laboratory?” After listening to the explanation from the dark shadow servant, Gloria raised an eyebrow: “So it’s that place. I heard a rumor a long time ago that a certain person has been hiding in the Flowing Source?”
The dark shadow servant remained silent.
Gloria waved her hand: “I’m not trying to pry into the news of your Savage Grottoes. It’s not a new thing that the person is hiding in the Flowing Source. Forget it, I’m in a good mood today, so I won’t argue with you.”
After waving off the dark shadow servants, Gloria originally planned to go to the Flowing Source to visit that person.
But on second thought, Angel went to the Flowing Source because he had an alchemy laboratory there. He was probably busy with alchemy at the moment, so it wouldn’t be good to disturb him now.
After considering it, Gloria stopped and returned to her magic cottage instead.
Thinking of Angel doing alchemy reminded Gloria of the brooch he had given her.
Speaking of which, that brooch had been sitting on the table for almost four days, and she hadn’t even taken a close look at it yet. Now that she had some free time, Gloria wanted to see what kind of surprise Angel could bring her.
Back at the table, Gloria picked up the brooch Angel had named “Dream Twins.”
This streamlined, All-Mithril material, combined with transparent, finely crushed Spirit Water Diamonds and the lifelike carving of Toby’s “twin,” still took Gloria’s breath away with its beauty, even though it wasn’t her first time seeing it.
Especially the eyes of the “Twin Toby,” adorned with a pigment ground from Demon Pigeon Bloodstone and a touch of Purple Tassel Dye, added two incredibly expressive glints to the silver-white Mithril carving.
Just from its appearance, Gloria was very fond of it.
Even if the illusion created by this brooch wasn’t to her liking, Gloria was willing to keep it. After all, the materials used for this brooch were genuine entry-level magic materials, so even as an ornament on her chest, it wouldn’t be out of place.
Having examined the front, Gloria turned to look at the back of the brooch.
On the reverse side is a clasp mechanism for a power source. Currently, a magic crystal has been installed on this brooch. As long as the energy within the magic crystal is channeled, the brooch can exert its effects.
Just as Gloria was preparing to test the specifics of the brooch, she suddenly exclaimed: “Huh?”
She was just about to channel the energy from the magic crystal but hadn’t fully succeeded when she felt a brief energy reaction in an extremely hidden spot on the reverse side.
Gloria looked carefully but couldn’t detect anything suspicious with her naked eye.
She reached out her hand in doubt, probing towards that hidden area. Soon, she felt an odd embossed sensation on her fingertip as if it was some kind of relief.
“What is Angel doing with a relief here?” Gloria wondered.
The strangest thing was that no matter how Gloria touched it, she couldn’t mentally map out the specific pattern of the relief, as if it would change irregularly.
Although she didn’t know what the relief was, Gloria could roughly guess its purpose.
The surface of the relief was absorbing the energy that had previously escaped from the magic crystal, revealing the relief through this faint energy and causing it to change.
In other words, inputting energy would cause it to change, right?
With her boldness, Gloria directly input a surge of energy into the relief.
As the energy was input, the relief changed more significantly, and Gloria finally saw what the relief was hiding—a pattern.
To be precise, it was a pattern of a lionheart entwined with thorns.
And that relief, perhaps a method by Angel, such as a rune? However, using such a concealed rune just to hide a pattern like this?
Gloria was puzzled for a moment, but after carefully thinking about it, she seemed to have an epiphany.
It should be a mark, right?
Each work of every alchemist in Sky Mechanical City has its unique mark. Even Midora, the “Magic Potion” of pharmacology, has his own magic potion bottle. Once the bottle is opened, the unique mark will dissipate with the air, making it difficult to counterfeit.
Of course, it’s not just alchemist masters; the vast majority of alchemists have their marks. Even without marks, there are other anti-counterfeiting measures.
Chapter 647 Freud's Research Topics <TOC> Chapter 649 Cat Bus