The treasury of the Shannon Royal Family was located in an underground palace. There was a secret treasure room at the front of the palace and an underground cavern at the back.
Angor saw the scroll in the secret treasure room.
There was a very rough map drawn on the leather scroll. The map was divided into many blocks, and each block had a picture of an elemental creature. For example, in the southeast corner, there was a picture of a winged sprite in the area isolated by the dotted line. In the northwest corner, there was a hidden turtle in the dotted line …
This was the map of the Tidal Realm. The elemental creatures on this map represented the different regions of the Tidal Realm.
Angor memorized the map and handed it back to Lochet.
"You don't need it, sir?"
"It's fine. Feng left it for your family anyway."
Since Feng did not reveal any information about the map, Angor could use Narda's Vision to see what Feng left on the scroll.
Name: Map of the Tidal Realm (Omitted)
Creator: Mirafael Feng.
Description: Map of the Tidal Realm's representative creatures.
Effect: Activated by the bloodline of the Shannon Royal Family. With the help of an energy source, you can summon the simulated structure of the corresponding creature.
Note: "Ah, I'm not good at drawing maps. Just look at it."
It was a map, but it was also a special summoning item.
According to the description, the Shannon Royal Family could use their bloodline to summon the elemental creatures drawn on the scroll to defend against enemies.
However, summoning elemental creatures required blood and energy. The royal family of Shannon didn't know what the source of energy was, so every time they summoned an elemental creature, they would use their own blood to summon it. That was why every time they summoned an elemental creature, a royal family member would die.
Angor returned the scroll to Lochet. "Let's go. Take me to where the stalactites are."
Lochet nodded.
Angor noticed that Lochet was a lot quieter than the last time they met.
As far as Angor could remember, Lochet was a talkative man who never got to the point. He would always talk about random things without getting to the point. Sometimes, he would reveal many secrets about the Shannon Royal Family.
However, Lochet didn't talk much these days, which confused Angor a little. Angor didn't ask about it though. Maybe something happened to the Shannon Royal Family recently, which caused Lochet's personality to change.
Angor didn't notice that a pair of red eyes was staring at Lochet from the shadow behind him.
Lochet didn't say anything. He was just too intimidated by Elmi to speak.
Soon, they arrived at the deeper part of the cave.
There was a stone door here that weighed several thousand kilograms. It required the combined strength of several deathguards to push it open.
Out of politeness, he didn't ask Lochet for help. Lochet went to find the men of sacrifice nearby and helped him open the door.
Meanwhile, Angor looked up at the ceiling of the cave.
Although his destination was the depths of one of the stalactites within the door, he knew that this stalactite was winding and winding, and would eventually lead out of the treasury.
If he was not mistaken, the paper door drawn by the Magic Art Sorcerer was hidden in the layer of stone above his head.
Angor was only an apprentice when he first came here. He didn't care about the danger and tried to use his spirit power to check the stone ceiling, which ended up hurting his spirit power.
Now, Angor looked at the ceiling again and saw countless runes hidden in the stone ceiling.
They weren't runes or runes. Instead, they were patterns drawn by a paintbrush.
They didn't emit any energy ripples, but Angor could see through them using Narda's Vision that they formed a dense net that prevented any spirit power from probing inside.
This must be Feng's doing. He used these patterns to hide the door from the outside world.
These patterns also made it so that if anyone wanted to enter the paper door in the stone layer, there was only one way, and that was through the holes in the stalactites.
The door was pushed open while Angor was still thinking.
The inside of the door was almost empty. The only thing inside was a knight's sword hanging under a stalactite.
Sometimes, "liquid" would drip from a stalactite, which contained elemental properties and could imbue ordinary weapons with elemental power.
The royal family of Shannon hung their swords under the stalactites, and they were waiting for the liquid to drip down.
Angor didn't pay much attention to the sword. Instead, he looked at the hole in the center of the stalactite and used his spirit power to reach the paper door.
After making sure the door was intact, he withdrew his spirit power and turned to Lochet. "I'll stay here for a while to find the secret behind the liquid. I hope the king will allow me to do so."
Lochet nodded without hesitation. Angor once saved his daughter's life, and he offered to give the scroll to Angor, but Angor refused. Lochet was sure that Angor wasn't a greedy, evil wizard.
Even if Angor was, they couldn't do anything about it. There was no reason to refuse.
Maintaining a good relationship with a powerful wizard who was also a noble of the empire wouldn't do any harm to the Shannon Royal Family.
"Do you need me to send someone to guard this place, Mister Wizard?" Lochet asked.
Angor shook his head. "No need. My only request is that no one is allowed to enter the underground palace before I leave."
Lochet nodded. He wanted to say something else, but when he saw Angor looking at the stalactites, he decided to leave with Tawny and Tawny.
When Angor regained his senses, he was the only one left in the cavern.
He was going to find an excuse to ask Lochet and his men to leave, but Lochet already left before he could say anything, which saved him a lot of trouble.
Angor looked around the empty cavern and rubbed his chin. "I don't think anyone will notice me, but I should take some precautions."
For the next day, Angor set up a small illusion in the cavern.
It was only a small illusion, but Angor used everything he knew to make it work. The nodes were complicated, and the illusion was based on nightmare illusions. Even a truth-finder wizard wouldn't be able to break it in a short time unless he resorted to brute force.
However, there was a problem with using brute force. It would definitely trigger the pattern left behind by the Magic Art Sorcerer.
Angor didn't know what would happen if he did that, but he knew it wouldn't end well.
Next, Angor placed Toby, who was still sleeping in his chest pocket, into his bracelet.
He was going to crawl inside the stalactite later, but Toby's body was too small to fit inside the bracelet. Since the bracelet had a self-adjusting function, Angor didn't need to worry about Toby getting stuck in the hole.
After putting Toby inside the bracelet, he glanced at Elmi who was hiding in the shadow and wondered if he should put Elmi inside as well.
Elmi's mind was already in a mess under the influence of the Distorted Seed. The only thing it could understand was Angor's words. And thanks to the Distorted Seed, Elmi was able to understand Angor's thoughts even if he didn't say anything.
Elmi finally understood Angor's plan.
It crawled out of Angor's shadow and slowly sank back into the shadow, disappearing without a trace.
Elmi didn't say anything during the whole process, but Angor knew what it was trying to say.
Elmi was trying to tell Angor that it wouldn't be affected by the material world after merging with the shadow.
In other words, even if Angor turned into an ant, Elmi would still be able to hide in the ant's shadow without being restricted by its body size.
"That'll save me a lot of trouble," Angor muttered as he took off his clothes and put them into his bracelet.
Once he was fully naked, he cast a Polymorph spell and turned himself into a long, thin thread.
His current Polymorph spell could only reach the size of a standard pearl. Most wizards could only shrink themselves to the size of a Krakok's body, which was already quite impressive.
Angor used the best Polymorph Larva skin he could get, which was why his Polymorph Larva was much smaller than other wizards.
However, even though he had become the size of a pearl, it was still impossible for him to enter that tiny sand-sized hole.
Since he could only shrink himself to the size of a pearl, he would shrink his head enough to fit into the hole and let his body elongate. As long as his head could fit into the hole, his tail would be able to fit in as well.
That was how the string came to be.
Angor wriggled the string around the hole and adjusted his body size. After making sure everything was fine, he turned into a streak of white light and entered the hole.
…
After a while, the cave grew bigger and bigger. By the time they reached the paper door, the cave was big enough to accommodate the Krakoks.
He didn't enter the door right away. Instead, he stayed half a meter away from the door and transformed himself into a small humanoid to observe the door.
It was indeed just a door drawn on thin paper. There were a large number of strange elemental creatures drawn on the door. There were at least a hundred of them.
Judging from the brush strokes alone, it was almost identical to the one on the map of the Shannon Royal Family.
There was no doubt that Feng was the one who drew the door.
Of course, Feng Luo knew how to draw. Each of the elemental creatures looked real. Not only did they look real, but he also knew that they would jump out of the paper door and attack anyone who tried to get close to the door without any mercy.
However, were these elemental creatures real?
Angor considered for a moment and decided to give it a try.
He turned his mental power into a thread and slowly probed the paper door in front of him.
As soon as the spirit tentacle reached the door, a small, green rat surrounded by electric sparks poked its head out of the door and attacked the spirit tentacle.
The electric sparks turned into long spears and stabbed at the spirit tentacle.
However, before the attack could take effect, a dark shadow jumped out from the ground and blocked the spirit tentacle. The electric spear was blocked by the black shadow. Moreover, the black shadow did not stop there. It quickly spread to the vicinity of the little mouse and turned into a black shadow swamp, completely swallowing the little mouse.
Of course, it was Elmi who had activated his defensive stance.
Elmi didn't seem to want to give up after swallowing the electric rat. It kept moving toward the door.
A dozen more elemental creatures of different sizes and attributes jumped out of the door and attacked Elmi with elemental attacks.
The attacks of these elemental creatures looked majestic, but considering that these elemental creatures were only the size of an index finger, no matter how frightening their attacks were, they were actually at their limits.
Elmi and Angor were also small in size, but the nature of their energy didn't change.
The elemental attacks might affect their weak spirit power, but they couldn't even scratch an itch for their strong bodies.
Elmi used a black shadow to block all of the attacks and even devoured them at the same time.
"That's enough. Come back," Angor said before Elmi could attack the door again.
Elmi didn't say anything. It returned to Angor's side and slowly disappeared into the shadow.
Angor stepped forward.
When he entered the warning line of the paper door, another electric mouse jumped out.
Angor waved a hand, and the rat turned into a strand of static electricity and disappeared.
He sensed the remaining electric energy in the air.
"As I thought, the elemental creatures on the door aren't real. They're just tricks. As long as I have enough energy, I can never kill them all." Angor looked at the lifelike pattern on the door. Maybe this is a barrier set up by the Magic Painter for those who come to the Tidal Realm?
Or is it some kind of hint?
Angor shook his head and stopped thinking about it. He wiped out another wave of elemental creatures and went to the door.
Angor reached out a hand to push the door open.
However, the moment his hand touched the paper door, he did not touch anything solid. Instead, ripples appeared in the space, directly passing through to the other side of the paper door.
"Oh?" Angor raised an eyebrow and stepped through the door.
It was as if he went through a water membrane.
When he appeared again, he was already on the other side of the door.
In front of him was a long and narrow path that only Mini Humans could walk through. Behind him was another paper door.
However, this time, there was no elemental creature pattern on the door. Instead, there was another complicated pattern on the door. It was similar to the one he saw in the stone layer. However, he didn't know what the effect of this pattern was.
Angor knew that he wouldn't be able to find anything in a short time, so he put it aside for now. The most important thing right now was to explore the path ahead.
With that in mind, he turned around and prepared to leave. However, when he turned around, he saw a pattern on the bottom right corner of the door that was completely different from the others.
"Why does it look like words?" Angor muttered and decided to take another look.
He took a closer look and saw that it really was words.
And judging from the style of the words, it was definitely left behind by the Magic Painter.
There was a line of words left on the door in a slightly mocking tone:
Aiya, favored latecomer, do you want to find my treasure? I've already placed it there.
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