There was no wind, no sound, only a white brilliance that filled the sky.
Elvin stood alone at the border between the sea of humanity's collective unconscious and the spiritual world. It was as if he was standing in space outside a huge planet.
Because of the thirty-six times faster flow of time, the surface of the "planet" was undergoing drastic changes every moment.
At this time, the [Divination Instrument — All-Seeing Eye] had been activated.
If it was like Milan's divination in the past, it would be useless to get some obscure images that were difficult to decipher. Elvin needed more accurate hints, whether it was the coordinates, the time of appearance, the possible owner, or so on. They were all important clues.
And the medium to ensure the effectiveness of the ritual was the members of the school, the creation, the mysterious source, and other things deeply related to it. It was a magnetic pole in the vast world that attracted the school's secret scroll.
The stronger the school, the stronger the "magnetism"!
In other words.
It was not only used for divination, but also for the school's daily development. A wizard school was a product of the "gathering of the masses." The stronger the attraction to its own kind, the faster it would develop until it entered a positive virtuous cycle.
Although according to the extraordinary gathering effect, Elvin, as a superior wizard, was the biggest pole in the material world.
But to be on the safe side, he still gathered all the apprentices who had learned the "Tree of Life Meditation" in the ritual that was like a giant eye presided over by Milan, including Jacob and Kyle, who came later.
He also brought the complete first three volumes of "Flesh and Blood Ritual," the toy box of the "Steel Man" (who once held the fourth volume), his research on "Animating Dead Objects," and all the creations related to the school. He had to maximize the effectiveness of the medium.
The spiritual world was connected to the collective unconscious of all humans, but it was also beyond it. It could be said that all the secrets of the world were reflected here.
Under the effect of the ritual, if the strength of the mysterious connection between the two sides was strong enough, it would send Elvin to the corresponding spiritual world area. As for whether he could get clues in the spiritual world, it would depend on his own ability.
This was also the limit of what Milan could do as a "prophet."
"If such a method doesn't work, my legendary warship will probably remain as a prototype, and the ship spirit after it completes the Transcendent qualitative change will be nowhere in sight."
If he could get the fourth scroll before the battle with Ilya, even if it was only a few months, he was confident that he could create a semi-finished product that could join the battlefield. Moreover, it would be a semi-finished product that strictly followed the [Animate Ship Spirit Spell].
Ordinary craftsmen in the alliance would take three to six years to build a warship from start to finish.
The key to success was to use wood that had been stored for several years and its moisture content had dropped below 20%. The ideal situation was to slowly build a ship with this kind of wood so that the frame and shell of the ship could fit perfectly.
The craftsmen would process different kinds of wood into the corresponding components according to the different parts of the hull, such as the keel, the ribs, the planks, the masts, and so on. Hemp rope, tar, and asphalt were also indispensable. This was a systematic project.
It is common practice to use oak for the keel, pine or fir for the mast, teak for the deck, oak or other hardwoods for the hull, and so on.
Although it could be completed in six months during wartime, only wood that wasn't dry enough or of inferior quality could be used. In such a dark, warm, and humid environment, the strength of the joints of the wood would rapidly decrease. The frame and wood of the ship would loosen, and in the end, the ship would sink with water.
If the craftsmanship was strictly followed, a battleship could be used for fifty years as long as it wasn't destroyed. However, if it was built in an emergency, it would decay in just five years.
However, if a Great Adept were to activate the [Ritual of Transcendence — Animate Hands], it would be enough to use the extraordinary materials that Shilius had spent hundreds of years accumulating — the 'treasure tree' — to build the ship in an extremely short amount of time.
It was just like the Morning Star in the past.
Moreover, Elvin had spent more than a year meticulously preparing the blueprints for the legendary warship. He knew every single component like the back of his hand. This was especially so after he obtained the ability and knowledge of grade 3, where he made many adjustments to the details.
Be it the combat system that determined combat power — the weapon system, the fire control system, the mobile Adept Tower system, the self-defense system, or the navigation system that determined movement — the propulsion system, the navigation system, the communication system, and the sea detection system.
There were also the support systems that ensured the continuity of the warship — the ammunition supply system, the energy supply system, the internal ecosystem system, the medical system, the life service system, and the freshwater and food production system.
He had plans for many of the details, and many of the technologies had been slowly accumulated over the years. He was just short of obtaining the [Animate Ship Spirit Spell] to combine them into one and complete the extraordinary transformation to awaken the ship spirit!
However …
As time slowly passed, Elvin still did not feel the slightest bit of connection with objects of the same origin. It was as if the legacy scrolls were covered by an airtight cover.
Moreover, it was not just the fourth scroll. Even the fifth scroll was the same. It was as if they had been sealed by someone.
He could not help but gradually become anxious. This was not only related to the warship construction plan, but also the future of the Adept path.
However, just as Elvin was about to give up and return to the material world, without any warning, his body was wrapped in an eye-like light and suddenly sank down into the spiritual world.
Falling into a half-awake state, Elvin's eyes flashed past the ancient battlefield, the dead and barren desert, the dark and damp huge mushroom forest, the vibrant forest, and the twisted ancient god city.
Ring ring ring …
After an unknown amount of time, Elvin suddenly woke up completely and raised his head to look at the place where he was.
All he could see were very familiar trees in the high latitudes of the Old Continent. At the end of his line of sight was a huge black building. Then, the dark sky was clear, and only a few … pumpkins floated by occasionally?!
Moreover, it was the kind of carved pumpkin with orange light coming out of the hole.
After confirming that there was no problem with his connection with the beacon anchorage and that he could return at any time, Elvin was relieved and muttered to himself, "Didn't I not find the two legacy scrolls? Where is this place? "
In any case, this was a hint from the [Omniscient Eye]. Elvin decided to take a look first.
Whoosh!
In just a few steps, he had already arrived in front of the eye-catching huge building.
This was a building in the style of the "Dark Millennium" era. It was a typical centralized layout with a hall as the center, two central axes in the layout, and four tall pointed towers.
He had heard Sir Katarov in the painting of the curse describe the history that had been covered up.
In the dark history from 1,500 years ago to the end of the Renaissance 500 years ago, the Church of the Seven Gods was famous for being conservative, stubborn, and unreasonable. They used all kinds of dogmas and rules to firmly imprison the minds of the people.
At that time, not to mention the ordinary civilians, even most of the nobles were illiterate. Even the officials did not have any habit of recording history. They had no achievements in art, architecture, sculpture, and so on.
There was also a large-scale epidemic that almost destroyed half of the world. This was the deepest memory left by the "Dark Millennium".
It was not until 500 years ago that the "Dark Millennium" came to an end with the rise of the "Dark Millennium".
However, the Church of the Seven Gods, in order to prevent the sorcerers who possessed top-notch knowledge from benefiting from the backlash of the world, launched the largest sorcerer hunt in recorded history. The hunt lasted for nearly two hundred years, expelling, killing, and imprisoning most of the sorcerers of the Old Continent.
Standing in front of the arched door, Elvin softly read the spiritual text on the brass door plate, "The Great Library of Turin!"
Speaking of the mysterious side represented by the wizards in the Old Continent and the New Continent, Elvin believed that he had some understanding of it. However, this building that shone with a strong witchcraft aura gave him a heartfelt sense of strangeness.
Besides.
Because the spiritual world was a higher dimension than the material world, humans entered it in the spiritual state, but they did not have the ability to observe and process the higher dimensions.
Therefore, in the eyes of humans, everything that existed here was full of compression, displacement, and symbolism. What you saw and felt might not be the real thing. It might just be an insignificant corner of a huge iceberg floating on the surface of the water.
It could be said that apart from the spirit world's sun and the spirit world's sea, the external appearance of everything had already been processed by the world's rules. It was formed by the energy of the spirit world and the residue deposited in the collective unconscious of the material world after syncing with each other.
The origins of all kinds of things could come from the real history, or it could just be the imagination of some people, or even a thought of some powerful existence. Of course, it could also be that the natives of the spiritual world had nothing to do with the material world.
However, this building was different. It gave people the feeling that it had undergone a qualitative change after a superior wizard returned to his original state. If it was taken to the real world, it would definitely look the same. There would be no change at all.
And one of the meanings of this characteristic in the spiritual world was: power!
At the same time.
In the hall of the main building, sitting behind a desk piled with all kinds of books, a gorgeous lady with curly hair and retro clothes was holding a small mirror in her hand. Suddenly, she seemed to have sensed something.
Her head did not move, but the face in the mirror suddenly turned around and looked at the door.
Tap … Tap … Tap …
Along with the crisp sound of footsteps, the dozens of mirrors hanging on the walls of the hall reflected the lady's figure, but none of them had the same movement.
The next moment.
Bang!
In front of Elvin, who was slightly hesitating, the arched door of the "Great Library of Turin" was suddenly opened from the inside.
A beautiful lady quietly appeared behind the door. Her facial features were delicate like a carefully carved doll. Holding an ivory folding fan, she slightly nodded at him.
"Strange wizard, welcome to the great library managed by the Turin Witch Union."
Elvin's heart skipped a beat.
"Witch?"
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