Cantory didn't quite understand at first, but he soon came up with an explanation. He reckoned that Harquess probably wanted to memorize the mageweath and use it as evidence when he found trouble with Felic in the future!
However, no one expected that after the Memory Crystal spun rapidly for a while above the mageweath, it suddenly made a cracking sound, and then exploded with a loud bang. That made Harquess a little dumbfounded. Clearly, the information contained in the mageweath had exceeded the storage limit of the Memory Crystal. That also showed that the level of the mageweath was probably much higher than what he had expected.
Cantory didn't expect the Memory Crystal to fail to preserve the image of the mageweath, and instead explode in an unbelievable manner. Of course, he didn't think that it was originally on the mageweath, and instead felt that it might have been caused by Harquess' mistake in anger.
However, Cantory couldn't say it out loud, and simply persuaded, "Brother Harquess, actually, we don't have to preserve this thing. We just need to find a few people to watch it, and it can be used as evidence."
Hearing Cantory's words, Harquess' eyes lit up, but he didn't leave the mageweath there to be guarded like what Cantory said. Instead, he directly cast eight magic arms. The eight magic arms bombarded the mageweath while everyone watched in bewilderment and shock. Soon, they blasted a circle of deep grooves around the mageweath. Immediately afterwards, the eight magic arms landed on the edge of the mageweath and exerted force all of a sudden. With a loud bang, the entire ground with the mageweath was lifted up.
"Brother Cantory, I'm sorry, I have to go back for an urgent matter. Excuse me!" After saying that, Harquess didn't wait for Cantory to reply, and simply lifted the ground with his eight magic arms before leaping into the air and flying in a certain direction.
Watching Harquess leave, a smile finally appeared on Cantory's face. In his opinion, judging from Harquess' behavior, the Octopus Clan and the Tower of Dusk were probably going to become enemies!
On the other side, Harquess flew all the way while holding the huge stone slab, and arrived above a large lake not far from Hoprah City. In the middle of the lake stood an extremely luxurious palace. The lower part of the palace was submerged in the water, only revealing a huge shadow. Clearly, the building under the water was even more majestic. The palace was none other than the Octopus Clan's Tide Gazing Palace, or rather the embassy of the Octopus Clan in the Gilded Kingdom.
Although the Merfolk could move on land, the environment in the water was obviously more comfortable for them. Hence, the envoys of the other forces and countries stayed in the embassy provided by the Gilded Kingdom, while the Sea Clan still liked to build their palaces in places like lakes.
Therefore, not only did the Octopus Clan have palaces like the Tide Gazing Palace, but several other powerful sea clans also had similar palaces. Anyway, even if there was no natural lake, they could dig out a huge lake with their strength. Hence, Hopra City, the capital of the Gilded Kingdom, was surrounded by dozens of lakes of various sizes, which was considered a peculiar scenery.
Harquess landed on the platform of the Tidegazing Palace like a meteor, and the two guards of the Octopus Clan immediately went to greet him. Seeing that Harquess was actually holding a stone slab, the eyes of the two guards couldn't help but flash with surprise, but they soon suppressed it, and stepped forward to bow respectfully. "Greetings, Your Lordship!"
"Yes." Harquess nodded. After flying for a while, he had more or less calmed down. He then asked, "Have the great lord and the elders returned yet? What are they doing now?"
"Your Lordship, the great lord and the elders have just returned from the Red Sea Palace, and they should still be up," the guard of the Octopus Clan answered respectfully.
Just like the Tidegazing Palace, the Red Sea Palace was the palace of the Giant Shark Clan, another large clan of the Sea Clan. The Octopus Clan dominated the Sea Clan with their inscriptions, while the Giant Shark Clan dominated the ocean with their tyrannical combat power, especially the elite Giant Shark Knights of the Giant Shark Clan. Their pure combat power could be said to be invincible in the Endless Ocean.
When Harquess went to look for Cantory, his father, Hegel, and several elders of the Octopus Clan, were guests in the Red Sea Palace of the Giant Shark Clan. As soon as Harquess returned, he asked his father and the elders if they had returned. He was so anxious that he didn't want to wait any longer.
After hearing from the guards that his father and the others had returned, Harquess immediately didn't want to delay any longer, and simply lifted the huge stone slab and darted into the Tidewatch Palace. Although the Tide Gazing Palace was huge, Harquess was also very anxious. His feet barely touched the ground as he held the stone slab and went straight to the palace where his father lived. If it weren't for the fact that the guards in the palace all knew Harquess, they would probably have thought that someone was going to smash the palace. Otherwise, why would he be carrying such a huge stone slab?
When he arrived in front of his father's palace, Harquess said to the guard at the door, "Go in and report that I have something urgent to see the Senior Lord about."
Due to his father's doting on him, Harquess would at most be reprimanded even if he went in without reporting to his father. However, his father, Hegel, was not the only one who had come to the Gilded Kingdom this time. There was also an existence that he was extremely afraid of. Not only him, but even his father, Hegel, had to be respectful in front of that person.
The guard went in to report, and soon came out. He said to Harquess, "The Senior Lord, please come in …" Before he could finish speaking, he felt a gust of wind blowing in front of him, and Harquess was already nowhere to be seen.
When Harquess arrived at the palace, the Octopus Clan's Hegel was sitting at a table and flipping through the inscriptions of his ancestors. Hearing the sound of Harquess coming in, Hegel didn't even turn his head, and calmly said, "Didn't you go out to play with Cantory? Why are you in such a hurry to see me?"
"Father, there's indeed an urgent matter. I've brought something, take a look at it first!" Harquess said while placing the stone slab heavily on the ground in the middle of the palace. Although the stone slab was not very heavy, it was still a huge burden for him to carry it with eight magic arms. Besides, previously, he had already consumed a lot of mental strength in order to crack the mageweath on the stone slab. It was not easy for him to persist all the way there.
Hearing the sound of the stone slab falling to the ground, Hegel finally retracted his attention from the notes, and turned to look at his son. Seeing the stone slab on the ground, he couldn't help but frown slightly, and say, "What is this? It looks new. You haven't been deceived by the profiteers again, have you?"
Hegel didn't see the mageweath on the stone slab, not because he had poor eyesight, but because Harquess was too exhausted, and had placed the stone slab upside down. On the other hand, Hegel naturally didn't expect his son to have removed the stone slab that was used to pave the street. He could tell that the stone slab was decades old, and thus thought that some profiteer had sold a fake one to his son.
"No, Father, this is …" Harquess finally caught his breath, and only then did he realize that he had placed the stone slab upside down. He had no choice but to smile bitterly, and say, "Father, the one I asked you to see is on the other side, but I don't have the strength to turn it over now, so …"
"Huh?" Only then did Hegel notice that his son's face was full of fatigue, and his mental strength fluctuations were also extremely weak, as if he had just experienced a life-and-death battle. He hurriedly asked, "Who did you fight with? Could it be that kid from the Thunder Eel Clan!?"
The Thunder Eel Clan was another overlord-level sea clan in the Endless Ocean. Unlike the Giant Shark Clan, the Thunder Eel Clan should be considered the mages of the sea clan, as they had the magical talent to manipulate lightning. The Thunder Eel Clan and the Octopus Clan had the most contact with each other due to the fact that their seas were connected.
Since the Octopus Clan had a genius like Harquess, the Thunder Eel Clan was naturally not bad either. There was a genius who was similar to Harquess, but had already stepped into the Sanctuary-realm, named Manson. Geniuses did not necessarily appreciate each other, and they would instead become each other's enemies. Although the Octopus Clan and the Thunder Eel Clan had a good relationship, the geniuses of the two clans, such as Harquess and Manson, would fight almost as soon as they met.
Upon hearing his father's words, Harquess smiled bitterly, and said, "Father, it's not Manson. You'd better look at the other side of that stone slab."
Seeing that his son insisted on letting him look at the stone slab, Hegel didn't say anything else, and simply waved his hand with a doubtful expression, after which the stone slab was turned over. At first, Heigel thought that such an ordinary stone slab couldn't possibly contain anything extraordinary. However, when he saw the mageweath on the stone slab, he immediately became like his son, and was immersed in it.
Seeing that his father had begun to study the mageweath, Harquess also got a little excited. As the great lord of the Octopus Clan, Hegel's attainments in the field of inscription were naturally incomparable to Harquess', and his mental strength was also much greater. Hence, in Harquess's opinion, although the mageweath could stump him, it would definitely be cracked by his father soon.
However, as time passed, Hegel still did not come out of that state, which made Harquess feel less and less hopeful. At the same time, a sense of panic gradually rose in Harquess's heart. If even his father couldn't crack the mageweath, how terrifying would Lin Li's attainments in inscription be!?
More than 10 minutes passed quickly, and finally, Hegel suddenly groaned and staggered two steps back with a pale face. Harquess snapped back to his senses, and hurriedly stepped forward to support his father. "Father, this mageweath …"
Hegel slowed down a little, and after stabilizing himself, he said to Harquess, "Harquess, where did you get this mageweath? Why do I see that it clearly has traces of your drawing, but it's far beyond your realm?"
Hegel had naturally noticed long ago that the mageweath on the stone slab had traces of his son's drawing. Hence, in the beginning, he thought that his son had made some breakthrough, and thus brought the mageweath for him to evaluate. However, as soon as he delved deeper into it, he discovered that the level of the mageweath was far beyond what his son could draw.
Harquess didn't dare to hide anything, and simply told him about how he and Cantory had met Lin Li in the market, and then asked Lin Li to compete in inscription knowledge. Of course, he didn't say that he took the initiative to provoke Lin Li, and instead said that he saw that Lin Li's inscription was good, so he wanted to spar with him.
After that, Harquess couldn't help but ask his father again, "Father, what level do you think this mageweath is at? Why did the other party just sprinkle some ink on it and cause such a huge change in my mageweath?"
However, after hearing his son's question, Hegel could only shake his head with a bitter smile, and say, "I think we'd better invite Elder Quito and Elder Kazar over for this mageweath. Maybe they'll be able to see the mystery within it."
Harquess was immediately dumbfounded. The key was not to invite the two elders over, but rather, his father actually said that the two elders might be able to see something! In that case, what level is this mageweath at? Why did the mageweath become so terrifying just by sprinkling some ink on it when I've only drawn a Master-level mageweath!?
While Harquess was in a daze, Hegel didn't waste any time, and immediately asked someone to invite Elder Quito and Elder Kazar over. By the time Harquess snapped back to his senses, the two elders had already arrived in front of the stone slab. However, just like Hegel, the two elders were immersed in the study of the mageweath, and it only took them more than 10 minutes to snap out of that state at the same time. They both looked exhausted.
"Great Lord, I think we'd better invite Elder Hayes over. This mageweath is not something we can decipher at all," Elder Quito said with a bitter expression. He had already heard about the origin of the stone slab, and when he thought about how the Octopus Clan, which was proficient in inscription, was stumped by a human inscriber, he didn't feel good at all.
Elder Kazar, who was next to him, also sighed, and said, "However, I reckon that even Grand Elder Hayes may not be able to decipher this mageweath. Based on my experience, I'm afraid this mageweath is at the peak of the Guru-level."
"What? The peak of the Guru-level!?" Harquess felt that it was unbelievable. How old is that human inscriber? How could he be a Guru of Inscription!?
The Octopus Clan was considered a long-lived clan, and they generally had a lifespan of 1,000 years. Harquess was a young man, but he was already more than 300 years old, and he had more than 200 years of inscription research. Given Harquess' talent, he was already a rare genius in the Octopus Clan for more than 10,000 years to reach the level of a Master of Inscription. However, that human inscriber was only in his early twenties. Even if he had started learning inscription in his mother's womb, it would only take him more than 20 years to reach the level of a Guru!
None of the four people who had suffered from the mageweath dared to look at it again, because they would be attracted to it as soon as they looked at it. With their current mental strength, they could no longer withstand such a terrifying consumption. If they were just ordinary people, they might not be able to understand it, but the Octopus Clan had the blood of inscription flowing in their veins. Such a profound mageweath would attract them straight to the depths of their souls, and would instead cause them greater harm.
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