Brute Cavern, inside the mirror world.
At the top of the Cloud Tower, there was a locked room.
Inside the room, the windows were tightly shut, making the already gloomy space seem even darker.
The only source of light was a crystal ball embedded in the floor at the center of the room. It emitted a blue light from time to time, which added a touch of coldness to the room.
Under the flickering blue light, one could vaguely see that Rhine was sitting cross-legged beside the crystal ball with his eyes closed.
This tranquil atmosphere had been maintained for several days. Until now, under his tightly shut eyelids, his pupils began to move. About five minutes later, Rhine finally opened his eyes.
"Phew …"
Rhine exhaled a long breath of turbid air. Because of this breath, the silent space also became lively. All the extinguished candlesticks on the wall, in front of the table, and in the fireplace were lit up again.
When the light dispersed the darkness, Rhine looked at the crystal ball in front of him.
The crystal ball was still flickering rhythmically. When the blue light appeared, Rhine reached out his index finger and gently touched the smooth surface of the crystal ball.
A blue stream of information emerged from the crystal ball and flowed into Rhine's finger.
"It's been five days. Let me see if there's anything wrong with the Astral Pool Ruin." Rhine muttered to himself, "Apart from Tree Spirit who sent a mana QQ message and was stopped outside the tower, no one else sent anything."
Rhine's main purpose was to see if Iron Granny sent anything. She was in charge of the Astral Pool Ruin for now. If she did not send any message, it meant the ruin was fine.
As for Tree Spirit's message … it did not wake him up from his meditation. Instead, it was just a mana QQ message, which meant it was not something important. He could deal with it later.
Rhine stood up and walked to a metal device that looked like a silver trumpet. He activated several light arcs in his energy vision. As the light arcs vibrated, the trumpet immediately began to operate.
The light arcs were created by using the path of Mana Drain to communicate information on the energy level. Rhine activated them to send a message to someone.
When everything was done, Rhine sat back down in front of the crystal ball and accidentally glanced at the monocle placed beside it.
Looking at this pair of glasses, Rhine couldn't help but sigh softly.
The reason why he suddenly went into seclusion for the past few days was because of this pair of glasses. During his seclusion, Rein considered Brute Cavern, the dream wasteland, and Angor's future.
Of course, the future was all centered around Angor.
After a few days of contemplation, Rhine had more or less set a tone. Previously, he had spread the news through the Demon Absorbing Road in order to pave the way and release some information in advance.
When the groundwork was more or less done, all the core members would be summoned for a meeting to officially announce their future plans.
Rhine felt a little emotional when he thought about how his peaceful future would suddenly take a different direction. However, he also knew that "change" was the only way to bring Brute Cavern to greater heights. Plus, the dream wasteland was there to support the situation, which would not worsen. As the leader of Brute Cavern, Angor had to do something.
"Angor …" Rein murmured Angor's name in a soft voice. His voice was filled with emotions.
Rhine always thought that he would bring glory to Brute Cavern in a way that no other leader had ever done before. However, he didn't expect this glory to come from Angor, who had only joined Brute Cavern for a few years. How could he not feel emotional?
Rhine himself had studied and practiced prophecy, but even so, he did not think that there was a predestined fate in the world. Otherwise, when he chose the school of prophecy, he would not have abandoned the River of Fate and chosen the Silent God.
But now, Angor's figure appeared in his mind. For the first time, Rhine truly believed that fate did exist. Otherwise, Angor wouldn't have joined Brute Cavern so coincidentally and become so powerful in such a short time. Moreover, Angor also fulfilled Rhine's long-cherished wish.
At Rhine's current level, he rarely felt emotional. But because of Angor's appearance, his emotions began to fluctuate greatly.
He felt both admiration and jealousy … and even a little bit jealousy.
However, the jealousy only lasted for a second before it was forgotten. He knew that Angor's existence was the key to the future development of the empire.
Not only could he not be jealous, but he also needed to eliminate all threats around Angor.
Currently, the biggest threat to Angor was the Germinal Organization.
Rhine's eyes flickered as he pondered for a while.
It had been an hour since Rhine woke up, and he was almost done sorting out his thoughts. Rhine reached a hand toward his monocle and was about to check if Iron Granny was still around so that they could talk about the future.
But Rhine quickly pulled his hand back.
"Forget it. Let's check Tree Spirit's message first. I'll ask Tree Spirit to send some people into the dream wasteland to help with the construction of the new city. "With that in mind, Rhine walked to the window and opened it.
After the window was opened, a pure white pigeon that was originally circling the path of the Devouring Devil slowly descended and landed on the windowsill.
Rhine touched the pigeon, which immediately released a ray of white light and released a large number of illusory white feathers.
At the same time, Tree Spirit's figure appeared in the light.
"Angor has solved the broken runes. We're going to explore the hidden room together."
Tree Spirit's first sentence in the QQ sent Rhine a shock.
Unlike Tree Spirit, Rhine didn't care much about secret exploration. However, it was obvious that Angor's ruin and the Astral Pool Ruin were built by the same person. Rhine also paid attention to the hidden room, hoping to find some useful information.
"However, judging from the current situation, the hidden room is very dangerous. There's Light of Nightmares inside, and my clone can't withstand the corrosion of the Light of Nightmares … If you've forgotten about the Light of Nightmares, call Reeves out and let him explain it to you again."
"We haven't found a way to solve the problem yet.
"You better come here when you get the message."
…
Inside the hidden room.
Tree Spirit's eyes lit up when he saw the desk next to his workbench. "There are a lot of parchments and scrolls here. Maybe they contain information about the hidden room and the Nightmare Light!"
Angor also felt a little excited when he saw the pile of parchments on the desk.
Knowledge was the most important thing in the wizarding world.
There must be a lot of parchments here. Some of them were bound to contain a lot of information. Even if they only recorded some experimental data, it would still be valuable knowledge. Compared to the Star Iron he found earlier, they were definitely more valuable.
He controlled his force field and slowly moved it toward the desk.
Perhaps the Nightmare Light was already the biggest threat, so there was no need to set up other traps. So they didn't run into any danger on their way.
As the Forcefield moved closer, Angor could see more things.
In front of them, there was not only a desk full of parchment, but also a concave metal platform about three meters in front of the desk.
That was … the Storage Analysis Platform!
The Storage Analysis Platform was a special tool used to help identify objects. It contained a large amount of elements that could be used to identify objects. It was an extension of Narda's Vision. Basically, every alchemist would have one.
The previous owner of this ruin, Tizarro, suspected that there might be a hidden room in the ruin because his laboratory was missing a Storage Analysis Platform.
Now, Tizarro's suspicion was confirmed. The Storage Analysis Platform was indeed hidden in a hidden room.
Also, it was worth mentioning that there were a few dark shadows on the analysis table. They seemed to be the things left behind by the previous owner and were not taken away.
Angor took a closer look and confirmed that they weren't materials. They were tools of some kind.
"Let's check it out later." Angor didn't go to the Storage Analysis Platform right away. Instead, he sat down on a vine chair made by Tree Spirit and picked up the parchment on the desk.
It was a piece of parchment that was obviously cut into small pieces to be used for sewing.
However, something went wrong. The parchment was not sewn together. Instead, it was scattered on the desk.
Angor frowned as soon as he saw it.
It wasn't that the parchment contained something shocking. It was just that there were too many symbols on it that Angor couldn't recognize, as well as formulas formed by those symbols. The arrangement of the symbols was very messy. It seemed the recorder got stuck in some kind of deadlock and left a large, messy piece of paper.
As for the symbols that Angor recognized, he couldn't make sense of them either.
The only thing he was sure of was that this was the record of an alchemy experiment.
Since he couldn't understand it, Angor put it aside and picked up another parchment. However, it was the same as the previous one. Messy formulas and complicated symbols …
He flipped through several pieces of parchment on the table, but all of them were the same. He couldn't understand anything.
But he did find something.
The most obvious drawings represented the state of the ruin's owner before he left. He was doing some kind of difficult alchemy experiment.
Angor couldn't tell what kind of experiment it was for now.
Since he didn't get anything useful from the parchment, Angor turned his attention to a pile of paper bound books. These specially made paper bound books were placed neatly and beautifully bound. It was unlikely that they were messy experiment records that he could not understand.
"Take a look at this one."
Tree Spirit, who was sitting on the other side of Angor's desk, suddenly pointed at a pile of paperback books beside him.
"I just looked through them. They're all about alchemy. I think they'll be useful to you." Tree Spirit went through this pile at first, but he gave up when he found that they were all about alchemy. Angor didn't know alchemy, so these books were useless to him.
Angor nodded. The three things he wanted to know the most right now were the hidden room, the Light of Nightmare, and the ruin's creator.
Now that he was sure that the ruin's creator was an alchemist, he might be able to learn something from these books.
Angor picked up a random book and was about to open it when he saw Tree Spirit was reading a book with a green cover. Tree Spirit didn't even blink as if he was absorbed in it.
One of Culotte's Chronicles.
That's the name on the cover. Maybe it's an autobiography or a diary?
Tree Spirit noticed Angor's curious look and explained with a smile, "It's a handwritten diary with a clear date. I think it was written by the owner of the hidden room."
Tree Spirit showed Angor the page. Angor could clearly see the date on the upper right corner of the page: Year 5298 of the New Calendar.
About two thousand years had passed since then.
It matched the age of the antique equipment in the laboratory very well.
If Angor wasn't mistaken, this alchemist named Culotte might be the creator of the ruin.
"Did you find anything?" Angor asked.
Tree Spirit shook his head. "Not yet. They're all trivial things. Most of the stories aren't about Culotte, but someone named Belos. From some of the details, I think this Culotte really wanted to bully Belos. I wonder what their relationship is. "
Since Tree Spirit was already reading One of Culotte's Chronicles, Angor didn't bother with the diary. Instead, he looked at the paper bound book in his hand.
He turned to the title page and saw a line of elegant, cursive characters: Culotte.
After reading the name, Angor was sure that Cuolo was the owner of the ruin.
There was only a name on the title page and nothing else. Angor had to keep reading if he wanted to know more.
When he reached the second page, he was stunned.
It was indeed related to alchemy, but it wasn't what he expected. It wasn't a book about alchemy, nor was it an alchemy record. It was … a hand-drawn illustrated handbook.
The illustrated handbook on the first page was an elegant mirror with gold-olive patterns in the style of nobles.
Culotte outlined the essence of the mirror with a few simple strokes. It looked like a vanity mirror with a handle used by noble ladies.
At the bottom of the illustrated handbook, Culotte recorded the information about the mirror in his elegant handwriting.
The name of the mirror was "Voice of Oblivion".
Below the name was "Huppa Coefficient: 2".
Below that was a record that the Voice of Oblivion was currently in the possession of a Heartbreak Witch.
Next was the effect of the Voice of Oblivion: "If you repeatedly recite a name in front of this mirror, you will completely forget everything about it. It also works on objects. "
In the end, Kullo added a few personal comments, or "remarks."
"If you repeatedly recite your name, you'll slowly feel that your name is unfamiliar."
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