But just as Lin Yun turned around, the little girl lifted her skirt and ran away.
"Hmm?" Lin Yun looked at the little girl's back with a pensive expression.
"What is it?" William Merlin, who was walking in front, froze when he saw Lin Yun stop. He then followed Lin Yun's gaze and said, "Oh, she is Lanruo, the child my elder sister adopted. After my elder sister had an accident in the Raging Flame Plane, no one took care of her. The family would give her some money every month, so she lived here by herself. After a long time, she became a bit withdrawn …"
"Oh …" Lin Yun nodded, not saying much.
The three of them went up to the second floor. There were exactly three rooms, and they were all very clean. The tables and chairs were all spotless, and there wasn't even a single wrinkle on the bed. They couldn't help but be surprised. How could a little girl clean such a big house all by herself? How could it be so clean?
Naturally, this didn't matter to Lin Yun's group.
Mages mostly used meditation to replace sleep, especially mages like Lin Yun and William Merlin. They had already stepped into the High Mage realm. Even if they didn't sleep for a few days, they wouldn't feel too tired. They would recover their mana after meditating a bit.
Thus, most mages weren't too picky about where they rested. Forests, swamps, deserts … As long as it was a safe place, they could meditate.
But today, after Lin Yun entered his room, he didn't immediately start meditating. Instead, he fished something out of his pocket. This was the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel that had been mostly completed in Thousand Sails City.
To Lin Yun, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel was very important.
Perhaps the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel was only half complete now and couldn't even be considered a Superior Magic Tool, but this was only temporary. In Lin Yun's plans, although the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel would reach the True Spirit level at most, as a bridge connecting the ten Magic Arrays, the complete form of the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel would fuse with the ten Magic Arrays and borrow the power of the ten Magic Arrays at any time. At that time, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel would only be at the True Spirit level, and in terms of power, it wouldn't be much inferior to the complete Book of Death.
Naturally, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel in Lin Yun's hands was still far from complete.
After closing the door, Lin Yun rested for a bit before pouring mana into the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel. But this kind of mana injection was different from usual. Usually, when Lin Yun poured mana into a Magic Tool, he would use mana to activate it, so it was sudden and explosive.
But now, Lin Yun had to engrave runes with mana, he had to engrave as many runes as he could on the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel.
The reason the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel was called the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel was because Latour Gold Essence had almost limitless tolerance and could hold almost limitless runes. This was very similar to the Magic Array.
Lin Yun even thought that once the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel reached the True Spirit Rank, wouldn't Anderfa agree to become a Magic Tool Incarnation? At that time, he could discuss with Anderfa and have him use this characteristic to clone a Magic Array. At that time, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel wouldn't just be a bridge for the Magic Array, it would be another form of the Magic Array.
Of course, this was a bit off topic.
After all, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel was only a semi-finished product, it was still far from reaching the True Spirit Rank, let alone becoming another form of the Magic Array.
For now, what Lin Yun had to do was engrave runes.
This was the first step for a Magic Tool to break away from the mortal world and gain spirituality.
Only after completing this step would the Magic Tool undergo a transformation and gain its own spirituality, becoming a Magic Tool Spirit. At that time, the Magic Tool would truly advance to the Spiritual Rank.
This was a very taxing task, and he couldn't afford to make any mistakes. Otherwise, the power of the Magic Tool would be greatly reduced, and the Magic Tool might even be destroyed. Thus, what Lin Yun had to do was to keep his mana output as smooth as possible, letting the mana flow like flowing water as it slowly poured into the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel. One rune after another appeared on the surface of the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel. These were runes engraved with mana, they would fuse with the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel and become the true foundation of this Magic Tool.
One hour, two hours, three hours …
As the hours passed, Lin Yun remained motionless. Even the mana he poured into the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel didn't fluctuate in the slightest. He was like a precise machine.
In the middle of the night, Lin Yun suddenly felt that the mana he was pouring into the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel had met some obstruction.
'Almost there …' Sensing this obstruction, Lin Yun stopped pouring his mana into it.
Because Lin Yun knew that after pouring mana for a few hours, his mana was gradually becoming impure. He had to meditate before he could continue this work.
This was the most troublesome part of the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel.
Only the purest mana could be used to carve runes. It was also because of this that Lin Yun had only completed more than half of the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel from Thousand Sails City to Okland.
But fortunately …
He wasn't far from completing it.
Lin Yun held the half-finished Ten Thousand Spell Wheel in his hand and carefully activated it with mana. He looked at the colorful runes floating on its surface and inwardly calculated that he would need at most ten days to finish engraving the runes. At that time, he would have to look for a powerful magic gem.
Lin Yun originally wanted to directly use the Elemental Amber on the Spiritual Magic Staff.
But he gave up after trying for a while.
First, it was because the Elemental Amber had already fused with the Spiritual Magic Staff and had been contaminated with the Spiritual Magic Staff's aura for thousands of years. Using it to craft the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel might cause some unexpected problems.
Second, the Elemental Amber's characteristic was mana storage. This in itself determined that a Ten Thousand Spell Wheel crafted with the Elemental Amber as its core would be used for mana storage and spell activation. It wouldn't be of much help when it came to spell amplification and the spell combination he valued the most.
'Looks like I should pay attention to Okland's alchemy market …' Lin Yun remembered that William Merlin had told him that Okland's Black Horn Auction was also held once every three months. The next one should be in a week.
'Should I go take a look then?'
He could also conveniently investigate Okland's alchemy market. In any case, the Gilded Rose would expand to Okland in the future, so he might as well investigate for Faleau and the others.
After making up his mind, Lin Yun put the half-finished Ten Thousand Spell Wheel back in his pocket.
After three hours of meditation, the sky was already bright.
Lin Yun came out of his room and was about to call William Merlin and Xiuban out to eat breakfast when he suddenly smelled the aroma of food.
"This …" Lin Yun sniffed. The aroma was coming from the dining room. When he went downstairs, he saw the little girl strenuously carrying a pile of plates to the dining table. The breakfast on the table was very rich, and it could be seen with one glance that it wasn't prepared for her alone.
"Lanruo, is this our breakfast?" William Merlin was actually very happy. He casually picked up a piece of golden bread and put it in his mouth as he asked in a muffled voice.
"Yes." The little girl's voice was very soft, no different from a mosquito. Moreover, it looked like she was a bit afraid of William Merlin. She hurriedly nodded before hiding in the kitchen.
"Then I won't be polite …" William Merlin didn't really care. He had been busy the whole day yesterday, and he had fought with Ross twice in a row. He was already starving, so he casually found a place to sit down and started wolfing down the breakfast on the table.
"Eat slowly." Lin Yun shook his head and tore the bread into pieces before dipping it in butter and putting it in his mouth. But his eyes were still looking at the kitchen in the distance.
"What's wrong?" This was the second time William Merlin asked.
Nothing could be done about it …
William was too familiar with this younger cousin of his. He looked very easy to get along with and always had a faint smile on his face, but in reality, after getting to know him, one would find out that this younger cousin was very cold-blooded. Apart from things related to his own interests, he was indifferent to almost everything else.
Sometimes, William Merlin even felt that even if the entire world was destroyed, as long as he was fine, he would still look at everything with a smile.
In fact, William Merlin could clearly see that after this younger cousin entered the Merlin Family, he hadn't paid attention to anyone, including Patriarch Ofran, the genius Ross Merlin, and even Stan Watson, who had died at his hands.
But …
This younger cousin had already paid attention to Lanruo twice in a row …
"It's nothing …" Lin Yun shook his head. He didn't tell William Merlin that this girl named Lanruo wasn't as simple as outsiders thought.
"That little girl Lanruo is truly pitiful …" William Merlin looked at the kitchen in the distance and couldn't help sighing. "She was abandoned by her parents when she was very young. Later on, my older sister met her by chance. My older sister liked her very much and brought her back to the Merlin Family, taking care of her like a younger sister. She lived a good life for a while, but something happened to my older sister in the Raging Flame Plane, and Lanruo had no one to take care of her …"
"Originally, I wanted to send Lanruo to Okland Magic School and let her learn some magic knowledge to see if she could become a mage in the future. But I hadn't expected that Lanruo wouldn't have the slightest bit of talent in magic. She couldn't even complete the most basic meditation. In the end, I had no choice but to leave her here. Just this already put a lot of pressure on me. You should know that those old guys in the family don't have any humanity. In their eyes, rather than raising a little girl with no talent in magic, it would be better to raise a hunting dog …"
"Haha, they'll regret it later."
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