Angor didn't know if Stirling would ask for anything other than credit points.
However, if Portia really proposed to exchange knowledge of the Life Conversion Mageweath with him, he would have no choice but to ask Stirling …
Yes, he was going to ask Stirling himself.
As for the price, he would be the one paying for it.
After all, Mister Kanter did respond to his "summon" request back at the Sea of Mist. Angor had to return the favor.
"If I need to talk to Stirling later, can I ask Antonio to contact him?"
Antonio nodded. "Of course. I'm sure Mister Stirling will agree."
Antonio wasn't trying to boast. In the past several hundred years, Stirling had never refused anyone from the research department who came to him.
Taking advantage of other wizards was nothing compared to taking advantage of someone from the research department.
If Stirling knew that Angor was looking for him, he would definitely agree.
"Thank you, Mister Kanter."
Antonio put a hand on his chest. "Don't mention it. It's my duty to serve the research department."
Angor thanked Mithra again. Mithra's suggestion seemed to be the most feasible one for now. As expected, Mithra was the right person to ask for help.
Mithra smiled. "Do you want me to help you when you meet with Portia?"
Actually, Angor was only asking for help.
Besides, Portia probably wouldn't mention anything about life alchemy in front of Mithra.
It sounded like a good thing, but Mithra's presence might also alert Portia. People who did bad things on the sly were usually more sensitive than others.
Portia's actions weren't strictly forbidden, but they were still considered taboo by the general public.
Otherwise, Portia wouldn't do it in secret.
Angor considered for a moment and decided to decline Mithra's offer.
He planned to talk to Portia in person.
If Portia didn't agree with him at all, he didn't mind. He already got Stirling's message, so he had other options.
Mithra didn't try to stop Angor from meeting Portia alone. As long as he was sure that Angor did not support Portia's decision, he would not mind meeting her alone.
If Angor wasn't so young, Mithra would try to set him up with Portia. Maybe Portia would give up on her pursuit of life alchemy under the influence of love.
Still, she could try other ways to stop Portia from getting close to Angor even if it was not a good idea to bring Angor and Portia together.
Although he wasn't as good as Dean Muse, he could still give it a try.
Mithra said goodbye to Angor and left the signal tower while thinking about how to deal with Portia.
He didn't leave right away. Instead, he decided to wait for Portia to leave so that he could contact Angor and see how far she went in the forbidden area.
After Mithra left, Antonio left as well. However, before he left, Antonio helped to contact Portia.
It just so happened that Portia was in the City of Floating Mech, so it wouldn't take her long to reach the signal tower.
Angor looked at the empty screen and waited for Portia's arrival.
…
"Can I ask you a question?" Olao looked at Angor with a curious look.
Olao heard a lot of questions during their conversation, but he didn't want to interrupt them. So he waited until now to ask.
Angor glanced at Olao but didn't answer right away. Instead, he turned off the "communication" function on the screen so that their conversation wouldn't reach the other side.
"Sure." Angor nodded.
Olao quickly moved to Angor's side and bent down. "Did you say that life alchemy is a forbidden area?"
"Sort of." Angor took a step back and looked up at Olao. "You better stay away from me. I don't like people looking at my head when they talk."
The three-meter-tall Olao was still looking down at Angor even though he was bending down.
Angor didn't feel that way earlier because there was some distance between them. But now that they were in the same room, he immediately felt uncomfortable.
Olao pressed down on his hat and obediently took a few steps back.
"Why is life alchemy a forbidden area?"
Angor gave Olao a puzzled look. "You're interested in that?"
Olao scratched his hair under the brim of his hat. "It's not that I'm interested … I just remember that Miss Margaret has been looking for the method of life alchemy for a while now. Everyone in Nether City knows about it."
It was exactly because Olao knew this that he was very confused. Ten thousand years ago, Margaret could openly search for the method of life alchemy, but how did it become a forbidden area for alchemy now?
Angor was surprised by Olao's words. "Margaret was looking for a way to make life alchemy? Did you get it wrong? Not life alchemy. It's bio-alchemy, right? "
Bio-alchemy was different from life alchemy.
Although bio-alchemy sounded a little scary, it was actually an extremely rigorous academic closed-loop discipline. Life alchemy, on the other hand, was different. It involved the most basic logic of the world, the forbidden law.
Bio-alchemy focused on modification, while life alchemy focused on creation.
In the words of some religious fanatics, life creation belonged to the domain of "gods", and humans who touched it were considered treason.
Of course, wizards didn't believe in gods. But according to the experiences of countless predecessors, they were sure that the creation of intelligent life would always come into contact with the law of depth. Everything related to the law of depth was absolutely forbidden.
Because of this, Toby's birth was a miracle that could never be replicated.
However …
Wizards didn't dare to touch the forbidden area.
Wizards were people who pursued the truth. For the sake of truth, they would turn into moths flying into flames.
However, if one wanted to touch the absolute forbidden zone, there were two conditions, which were the "entry threshold".
Either you were strong enough to deal with the dangers of the law of depth, or you were knowledgeable enough to analyze the secrets of the law of depth.
Anyone who failed to meet one of the two conditions and tried to reach the forbidden area would meet with a terrible end.
Dying, going mad, mutating, or even disappearing without a trace … These were all the consequences of touching the forbidden area.
Back then, Ivo had disappeared without a trace. Angor accidentally found him later and confirmed that Ivo had lost all his memories and turned into a "plot NPC" in an item out of order. But he had to admit that Ivo didn't end well.
Because the research department knew how terrible the forbidden area was, they kept reminding their members to stay away from it.
However, it didn't mean that there were no restrictions.
Some genius Magi would often take the wrong path when they found it difficult to see the path ahead.
Whether it was Ivo Sprit back then or Portia now, it was the same.
Olao considered for a moment and answered, "I'm sure it's not bio-alchemy. It's life alchemy."
Angor was surprised for a second, but he quickly calmed himself down.
The answer surprised him, but it also made sense.
"Did something happen to the alchemy circle during the past ten thousand years?"
Angor considered. "The alchemy circle from ten thousand years ago and the current one didn't deviate from each other in terms of research and development. However, the overall background is still a little different. "
"Ten thousand years ago, the southern wizarding region wasn't cut off from the other three realms. There were still ways to reach the origin world. At the same time, there were many legendary wizards." Angor paused. "Miracle Wizards would occasionally show up in the southern wizarding region.
Life alchemy is a challenge, but it's not a forbidden area. "
The existence of legendary wizards and the absence of legendary wizards were two completely different situations. Legendary Sorcerers represented powerful strength and an incomparably deep foundation of knowledge.
And the threshold for exploring life alchemy just so happened to be strength as the sail and knowledge as the beacon.
With such conditions, exploring life alchemy naturally wouldn't be a forbidden area. At most, it was an ordinary forbidden area. People were advised not to enter it, but no one would stop them if they did.
Olao seemed to have understood something. "I see. So the current alchemy circle isn't as good as it used to be?"
"Different environments will lead to different developments," Angor replied.
Angor's words sounded formal, but in fact, he had already stated the key points: "environment" and "development".
Environment referred to the overall situation. As for "development", it meant a big step forward. Whether it was right or wrong, it was at least a step forward.
Angor didn't think too highly of the past. Jon's enlightening lessons gave him a more rational mind.
Comparing the good and the bad was meaningless. Everything was just another template for the development of civilization.
He once talked with Froste and learned many secrets. For example, even if the other three realms didn't cut off their connection with the origin world, they still didn't make any decent progress in alchemy.
Therefore, the existence of life alchemy wasn't the standard to judge the quality of an alchemy circle.
Even in the origin world, life alchemy was a field that very few people would explore. It was the domain of true geniuses.
"Well, I'm more curious about Margaret's progress in life alchemy." Angor looked at Olao.
"I don't know about that. But as far as I know, Miss Margaret didn't find the method of life alchemy before the disaster at Nether City. "
Angor frowned. "She didn't find it? She didn't find the Substance Transmutation magic array? "
Angor was sure that Margaret was an enchantment alchemist ten thousand years ago. All the alchemy books he found in Margaret's room in Nether City all proved this.
Since Margaret was an enchantment alchemist, Angor knew that the life alchemy she was looking for was the Substance Transmutation magic array.
This was also what Portia wanted Angor to help her find. However, Portia didn't know about the magic array. She only wanted Angor to help her find the relevant runes, not the magic array.
"I'm sure Miss Margaret didn't find it," Olao confirmed again.
His words made Angor fall into deep thought.
In the alchemy books he found in Nether City, there were records of magic arrays … and there was more than one.
Angor knew that when the Nightmare Realm reflected the real world, many things would change drastically.
For example, the Wise Lord in Nether City was just a greedy Three-Eyed Blue Demon without any intelligence.
Another example was the Moonlit Chamber in the real world, which was where Augustine and Margaret met. However, the chamber in the Nightmare Realm had undergone a terrible change. According to Augustine, he once visited Nether City in the Nightmare Realm, but he didn't dare to enter the Moonlit Chamber. He couldn't even get close to it.
The Nightmare Realm reflected reality, but it was much higher than reality.
Angor knew that matter and life would be distorted horribly in the Nightmare Realm. But he didn't know that even knowledge could be changed.
Margaret didn't find the method of life alchemy, but Angor already found the relevant Substance Transmutation magic array in Basics of Alchemy in the Nightmare Realm.
And that was only the "basics" of alchemy.
There was more than just Basic Alchemy in his memory.
The more he learned about the Nightmare Realm, the more strange it felt to him. Where did this great power that could distort reality come from?
Angor even wondered if the Nightmare Realm was the "Mystery" itself.
After all, he had only seen this kind of illogical power in Mystery items.
But it was unlikely that the entire Nightmare Realm was a Mystery.
Angor thought for a long time but couldn't find any reasonable explanation. He shook his head and got rid of these complicated thoughts.
He was just a weak wizard. If he tried to think about a world that was way beyond his level, people would only laugh at him.
Besides, high-level knowledge always had high-level traps.
The best way was to stop thinking about it so that he wouldn't fall into a trap.
Several minutes after Angor gave up on thinking about the Nightmare Realm, the screen suddenly trembled.
A witch wearing a Witch's Veil appeared on the screen.
The veil was very thin, and Angor could clearly see the witch's smile under it.
"We meet again, little brother Angor."
It was a familiar voice and a familiar name.
Without a doubt, it was Portia.
(End of Chapter)
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