The next day, Sukrad brought 'Lomont' and his disciples to the purple forest and met Fenoa's disciple, Taranna.
"Your Excellency Sukrad, I'm sorry. My teacher has been studying magic arrays related to the Giant Dragon Language behind closed doors, so he won't be seeing anyone. Please forgive me."
"Sir Grandmaster is studying behind closed doors?" Sukrad was originally excited, but he couldn't help but feel disappointed when he heard that. However, when he heard about the magic arrays related to the Giant Dragon Language, he became even more interested. "I brought something that Sir Grandmaster is interested in. Can you go and inform him …"
Taranna revealed a troubled expression. "I'm sorry, Your Excellency. Teacher has instructions …"
At this moment, a voice sounded. "Taranna, Sir Sukrad is a guest from afar. Bring him to the Purple Heart Tree House."
This was Grandmaster Fenoa's voice. Taranna immediately bowed and accepted the order.
Not long after, Sukrad and his disciple followed Taranna to the Purple Heart Tree House. Fenoa's youth surprised Sukrad's disciples, but everyone knew that this handsome elf who looked like he was in his twenties was actually a few dozen times older than their teacher.
"I'm sorry to interrupt Sir Grandmaster's research." Sukrad knew that Fenoa had already given him face by making an exception to meet him, so he kept it short. "A few years ago, I obtained an ancient stone slab. On it, there are runes that seem to be magic arrays. However, they are profound and hard to understand. I haven't made any progress in my research, so I specially came to the Silver Moon Immortal Capital to seek guidance from Sir."
Fenoa took the stone slab that Sukrad handed over and revealed a surprised expression. "These runes … seem to be in an ancient language. However, it isn't the Dragon Language or the legendary Divine Rune Language. I don't know why, but this stone slab gives me an uneasy feeling."
"Uneasy?" Sukrad revealed a doubtful expression. He didn't have this feeling when he was researching. However, the Elf Race was a race that worshipped nature. Their perception of the elements and nature was far beyond that of humans. This might be a breakthrough.
Sukrad didn't show this ancient stone slab along the way, so it was also Chen Rui's first time seeing it. He felt that the strange runes on the stone slab that seemed to contain a mysterious power. Unlike Fenoa, he didn't feel uneasy. He only felt that it was somewhat familiar. It wasn't the words, but it felt familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.
Fenoa was indeed interested in the stone slab. "If Your Excellency Sukrad doesn't mind, you might as well leave the stone slab here for a while. If there are any developments, I will send someone to inform Your Excellency."
This request seemed a little overboard, but Sukrad wasn't surprised at all. That was because the Elf Grandmaster had also helped him solve problems like this whenever he came across a problem. Hence, he immediately agreed, "Of course, I heard that the Grandmaster is researching the Draconic Language related Magic Arrays. I wonder if you can let me take a look?"
"Little guy, you're still as curious as before … Alright." Fenoa took out a piece of paper.
Being addressed as' Elf Grandmaster 'in front of the students made Sukrad's face turn red. However, the last two words made him ignore this awkwardness, and his attention immediately fell on the blueprint.
"This is a hybrid product of Dragon Inscription and magic circle …"
As Fenoa was explaining, Chen Rui, who was behind Sukrad, suddenly said in a low voice, "Dean, the third sub-magic array can at least reduce the activation time by half."
"What did you say?" The Elf Grandmaster's ears twitched.
Hence, a pre-directed script played out. Sukrad introduced the academy teacher "Lomont's" talent to the Elf Grandmaster as if he was showing off. After the Elf Grandmaster's experiment was correct, his interest was piqued, and he requested Sukrad to keep "Lomont" for research. The reward was two highly difficult Magic Array decoding diagrams.
This condition was quite tempting, and Sukrad agreed to it almost without hesitation. After leaving behind the ancient stone slab and "Roman," in order to avoid disturbing the Grandmaster's research, the Vice Dean took the two high-difficulty Magic Arrays' deciphering diagrams and left excitedly with his disciples.
Of course, before the Vice Dean left, he didn't forget to remind Teacher "Lomont" to return to the academy in a month's time, so that he wouldn't miss the opening of the Star Tower. After obtaining Sukrad's approval, Chen Rui would be able to use the additional quota to enter the Star Tower without any obstacles.
"How do you know that Sukrad will definitely ask to see the Magic Array you're researching?"
"Because that little guy's curiosity didn't diminish with age." The Elf Grandmaster's answer made Chen Rui a little speechless, "By the way, Teacher 'Lomont', the third sub-magic array is actually the trigger point of the Dragon Inscription. Are you really sure that you can reduce the transmission time by half?"
"I just need to make appropriate adjustments to the second level of the Dragon Inscription grammar …" As soon as Chen Rui said that, he saw the Elf Grandmaster's fiery eyes and was shocked, "Sir Fenoa, I'll feel pressured if you look at me like that, especially when you're a male elf."
"Your words make me have the urge to report to the Church of Light immediately." Even though Fenoa had good self-restraint, he almost choked, "But you've never mentioned that you're a Dragon Inscription master before."
"This isn't the main point." Chen Rui shrugged, "The main point of me coming here is to improve my mechanics, Sir Grandmaster."
"I've informed Bernd this morning. The forest dwarf should be on his way now. Before he arrives, I think you have an obligation to explain to me how to adjust the grammar of that inscription."
Before Chen Rui answered, the loud voice of the Dwarf Grandmaster sounded from the voice transmission device in the treehouse, "Fenoa, I'm here. Don't drink all the wine alone!"
Chen Rui looked at the Elf Grandmaster's slightly depressed expression and smiled, "It seems that our dwarf friend came at the right time."
In the following days, Chen Rui put aside all distractions, concentrated, and accepted the guidance of the Elf Grandmaster and the Dwarf Grandmaster. It wasn't just guidance, but also some mutual competitions.
Unknowingly, he had been in the Purple Heart treehouse for almost 10 days. Including the training room rule time of the Super System, it was actually several years. Not only did he study mechanics, but he also studied pharmaceutics. Especially when he encountered a bottleneck in mechanics, changing his focus could avoid continuously hitting a dead end. The pharmaceutics memory crystal in the alchemy civilization also gave Chen Rui a lot of inspiration.
"Ding! Ding! Ding … "The rhythmic knocking sound suddenly stopped. Chen Rui maintained the action of holding the hammer high and looked at the metal block clamped by the tongs. His eyes seemed to be staring.
The 2 Grandmasters who were drinking at the side stopped their glasses and didn't make any sound, lest they disturbed him.
It wasn't the first time this "dementia" state appeared, especially in the past few days, it appeared more and more often.
After the "dementia", Chen Rui would sometimes be depressed, and sometimes he would be thoughtful. Each time was different.
In fact, both Grandmasters knew very well that this was a manifestation of the critical point. Once this threshold could be crossed, a qualitative change could occur.
Although he had failed so many times in the past, it also showed that he was quite close to the peak now. If an average person failed, it would take months or even years to have another realization. Some people couldn't even touch this kind of inspiration in their lifetime. However, Chen Rui had consecutively reached the critical point in just a few days, which made the 2 Grandmasters very surprised.
Although Chen Rui's movements were frozen, the thoughts in his mind were running at high speed. Scenes of his daily hammering, crafting, and editing flashed past like a TV scene.
The mechanic was creating life.
Life, soul, spirituality … Countless concepts and experiences intertwined.
The hammering movements and rhythm of Fenoya and Bernard appeared in front of Chen Rui again. It gradually merged with his own movements, as if he had become Fenoya and Bernard, repeating their every action.
In the eyes of the 2 Grandmasters, after Chen Rui hammered a few times with the hammer in his hand, he returned to his "hesitant" posture.
No, it's still not right. There must be something crucial wrong.
Life! Life? Life?!
That's right, life!
In a sense, every lifeform was equal, but there were no lifeforms in the world that were exactly the same, not even twins.
Chen Rui kept asking himself in his heart.
Even if you can successfully imitate Fenoya, must you be Fenoya?
Since you are not Fenoya, why must you create "life" that only Fenoya can create?
What you need to create is just life, a unique life that belongs to you.
You are Chen Rui, not Fenoya, Bernard, or anyone else.
You have already familiarized yourself with this path based on the experience of countless predecessors, but following the path of predecessors, you have now reached a dead end, or the end, because you are not the "predecessor." You must find your own path. This is the most crucial step. Once you succeed, you will set foot on a new starting point, a starting point that can keep pace with the "predecessors" or even surpass the past.
It was just like what was said in the pharmaceutical memory crystal of the ancient alchemy civilization. The true meaning of alchemy is life, and the true meaning of life lies in creation, not imitation.
In Chen Rui's ears, this sentence was like a flash of light tearing through the night. Chen Rui's constantly changing expression suddenly stopped. He threw the hammer in his hand and laughed.
"Come, two grand masters, let's drink." Chen Rui left the materials and tools on the forging table and went straight to Fenoya and Bernard.
Chen Rui's every move fell into the eyes of the elf grand master, and his narrow eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly. The dwarf grand master also noticed something and laughed heartily, "Come, let's toast!"
The three of them drank and ate without mentioning the topic of mechanics. After three rounds of drinking, Chen Rui stood up and walked toward the center step by step.
"Fenoya, I think we are going to witness a miracle. A mechanic grand master who is no more than 30 years old is about to be born!" The old dwarf's small eyes were glowing, and he took a big gulp of wine.
"Yes, I'm looking forward to it." The elf grand master slowly put down the glass and stared at the young human intently.
However, when the human walked to the forging table, he didn't stop. He kept walking and came to an open space.
A table suddenly appeared in front of the open space. There were rows of test tubes, bottles, and many materials and reagents on the table.
Chen Rui's eyes suddenly showed an unprecedented brilliance, and his hand reached for a bottle.
The next series of smooth movements made the dwarf dumbfounded. He didn't even notice the wine in the glass spilled on his body, "Elf, tell me, are my eyes playing tricks on me?"
The elf grand master was also stunned. After a while, he looked at the black liquid in the potion bottle in Chen Rui's hand and took a sigh of relief, "Our eyes are not playing tricks on us. It's just that a key concept is wrong. A … double grand master who is less than 30 years old."
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