Limestone Tower.
As this was an extremely simple stone tower, it did not have the complete facilities for spells like the Wizard's Pagoda. Of course, it did not have a sea of lava like the Blazing Flame Monarch to continue tempering his spirit.
The efficiency of meditation in such an environment was only 1/4 or 1/5 of the efficiency of the Blazing Flame Monarch. Hence, every day here was an endless torment for Grimm.
In order not to waste his time, Grimm could only spend most of his time in the stone tower on studying and mastering runes from other worlds.
After 11 years of research, the A.I. Chip had finally analysed the 173 unique runes he had brought back from the Knight's Plane. Other than 122 basic runes that were commonly used in the Magus World, there were 35 mutated runes and 16 rare runes.
Now that the form of the runes had been determined, what he needed to do next was to analyse each and every rune in a more thorough manner to uncover the mysteries and knowledge hidden within.
It could be said that these mutated runes and rare runes were the most important to Grimm in his journey to the Knight's Plane. This was because this was a small plane that contained the essence of high-level secret knowledge!
Even though the Knight's Plane was only a small plane, and the secret knowledge was suppressed by the power of the knights, they were able to use the power of a single rune to its fullest.
To put it bluntly, if the green dragons controlling the Knight's Plane were not so biased and released the bloodline restrictions on the power of runes, it would have been impossible for the Sarubo Family to take down the Knight's Plane with less than half a century of rank 1 Magi.
However, there were no 'ifs' in this world!
It was precisely because of the green dragons' greed and pettiness that the natives of the Knight's Plane became so deformed and weak. Against the treacherous and cunning Magi, the knights who had lost their advantage in numbers would not be able to gain an overwhelming advantage.
Hence, it was inevitable that the green dragons would lose the Knight's Plane!
Even if the garden of the green dragons was not found by the Magi, and was instead found by another powerful race, the result would still be the same.
As for the mutated and rare runes that Grimm had obtained from the Knight's Plane, as they had not evolved for a long time, they still retained a portion of the world's laws.
This was what Grimm valued the most!
According to the A.I. Chip's calculations, in the rune system of the Magus World, there were more than a thousand created runes. The combination of these runes formed the Sorcerer World's current prosperous Sorcerer Civilization.
With the continuous optimization, transformation, and innovation of the rune system, the chaos runes created by the ancient Sorcerers had evolved into the witchcraft runes that Sorcerers could use now.
Most of the chaos runes in ancient times were the manifestation of the laws of the world on some powerful creatures before the world's will was born. Therefore, it was not something that ordinary humans could master. Only those great wizards with extraordinary talent could master some of the chaos runes and obtain some extraordinary mysterious power.
It was precisely because of the characteristics of the Chaos Runes that they were so closely integrated with the Origin of the World Laws. Therefore, in ancient times, Magi who had mastered the Chaos Runes possessed terrifying might that could topple mountains and overturn seas.
However, it was too weak for the huge human race to rely on just a few Great Magi to protect them. Hence, in that period of time, many intelligent human sages and sages put their efforts into researching and analyzing the chaos runes.
After years of repeated experiments and fumbling around, there were finally people who relied on the new runes that had mutated from the chaos runes to become new Magi.
Compared to the ancient Magi, the laws that these new Magi grasped were undoubtedly much weaker. However, they relaxed the threshold for humans to advance to become Magi.
Hence, with the accumulation of generations of Magi, countless Magi continuously threw themselves into understanding and analyzing the chaos runes, breaking down and mutating the chaos runes into countless new runes. Although this weakened the power of the runes and made the laws more obscure, it allowed humans to quickly produce a large number of new Magi.
Later on, as the laws of the world became more and more rigorous, the number of Magi who could directly grasp the chaos runes decreased. Instead, there were more and more new Magi. Finally, as the Magi became the rulers of this world, a new Magi civilization was born!
After tens of thousands of years of changes, the current Magi's research, learning, understanding, and mastery were basically the new runes that were analyzed later on. The chaos runes that few Magi could master had become the dust of history, never to be seen again.
However, all Elemental Magi knew that when one's strength and knowledge had accumulated to a certain extent, in order to understand the power of the laws faster, the chaos runes would undoubtedly be a hundred or even a thousand times stronger than the new runes. Unfortunately, in the current Magus World, obtaining an ancient chaos rune was harder than ascending to the heavens.
The large Magi organizations and forces might have some chaos runes in their treasure vaults, but they would never selflessly take them out for all Magi to study and analyze. Instead, they would treasure them and hide them within their organizations, only allowing high-ranked Magi and core Magi to study and study them.
According to many powerful Magi in the Witchcraft Manual, the study and analysis of these chaos runes were extremely difficult, and the time taken was abnormally long. Even if it was the same chaos rune, if two powerful Magi tried to analyze it at the same time, the knowledge and experience obtained would be completely different, and they could only be used by themselves.
This also meant that even if someone selflessly took out the results of their research, others could only use it as a reference and could not directly use it.
It was because of this special situation that the chaos runes were abandoned by the majority of low-ranked Magi.
However, as long as a Magus had the ability to analyze a part of the chaos runes, they would be able to integrate the knowledge and experience obtained into their own power system, thus forming a completely different and unique Magus.
Although there were many Magi created new Magi every year, these Magi that integrated the power of the chaos runes were undoubtedly powerful and had shocking effects. There were even quite a few Magi who, because of a certain powerful spell, founded a new school of Magi!
Grimm had been a Magus for 11 years, but the number of runes he had collected so far was only 327. Without exception, they were the most commonly used runes. To him, the mutated and rare runes he had collected from the Knight's Plane might not have gone through countless generations of evolution and modification like the runes in the Magus World.
If he could study them thoroughly, he might be able to analyze a part of the World's laws.
The A.I. Chip had sorted out the 35 mutated runes and 16 rare runes and divided them into six main branches: Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, Light, and Dark. They were then further divided into the branches of Acid, Chaos, Cold, Darkness, Death, Lightning, Evil, Fear, Flame, Force Field, Language, Light, Spirit, and Sound.
If he were to study all of these runes, the A.I. Chip had given him a time span of 67 years. This meant that if Grimm wanted to study them thoroughly, he would have to do nothing for 67 years and focus on studying these runes from another world, which he did not know if they were useful or not.
With such a long investment, if he could not integrate the runes he analysed into his own abilities, it would be a huge blow to any Magus!
Hence, Grimm only pondered for a moment before choosing to analyse the runes related to his innate ability.
There were 3 runes related to fire, 1 mutated rune and 2 rare runes.
Analysing the mutated rune would take at least 41 days, and analysing the 2 rare runes would take 78 and 82 days respectively. This was because he had the innate ability of fire and the A.I. Chip, which was his trump card. If it had been any other Magus, they would have needed years, or even decades, to slowly explore and experiment.
Since he had nothing else to do in the stone tower, Grimm used the A.I. Chip's free time to analyse the mutated fire rune.
He really wanted to know if these runes that he had risked his life to bring back from another plane could help him!
As soon as Grimm gave the order, a strange rune made of crimson flames appeared in the depths of his mind and began to slowly revolve. Every time Grimm's consciousness focused on it, he would feel a strange fuzzy feeling in his mind.
In his previous life on Earth, any text that was based on runes could only carry a simple and crude meaning. However, in this mysterious world with high magic, when words had energy, they became extremely meaningful. Apart from using complicated runes to carry information, they could also use the strange distribution and changes of energy to reveal information hidden by the world …
For example, the mutated fire rune that floated in Grimm's mind was obviously just some strange twisted lines that he had drawn based on the runes of another world. However, it had mysteriously touched upon the laws of fire in this world, causing its surface to flicker with a golden lustre, giving anyone who looked at it a warm feeling.
This feeling came from within, and not from the outside!
When Grimm looked at the rune, he could naturally feel a warm feeling in his heart. This was not a spell that was imposed on him by the outside world.
This mysterious power made him feel intoxicated, and he could not help but immerse his consciousness within, silently comprehending the changes in the aura of the flames.
As he used the power of his spirit to slowly experience it, the A.I. Chip projected a strong blue light onto the mutated fire rune, analysing it in detail, calculating and summarising every single change within it …
However, at this moment, the stone tower's defensive spell formation continuously sent him warning signals through a special frequency.
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