He wandered in a lush forest, stopping here and there as if he was trying to learn something or find something.
The wind brushed past the trees, causing the leaves to rustle in the wind.
Angor stopped to listen to the wind. Suddenly, a familiar feeling flashed past his face. He opened his eyes. "Found it."
Angor leaped into the air and landed on a branch of a Dragon Blood Tree that looked like an umbrella.
Shuttling through the branches and leaves, he soon arrived at the center of the canopy.
It was dark here, and they could only see a brown bird's nest at the intersection of the branches in the dim light. In the nest, a little sparrow with light yellow feathers was curled up in the nest.
Angor could tell that the bird was sleeping by the rhythmic movement of its breasts.
"I've finally found you …" He reached his hand into the nest, wanting to grab Little Que 'er. But at this moment, it woke up the sleeping bird. It screamed in fright, flapped its wings, and flew out of the nest.
Angor spent the next two minutes trying to catch up with the bird.
Luckily, the forest wasn't real. It was just an illusion created by Angor. Little Que 'er relied on this illusory realm, so it would never be able to escape.
It wasn't long before he caught Sparrow 'er.
When he touched the bird's feathers, he exerted a little force, and the bird immediately turned into a shadow. Then, a large amount of Mystery energy spread out from the bird.
Angor wandered in the sea of Mystery energy for less than half a minute before it disappeared.
After the mysterious power disappeared, the mountain forest illusion was reduced to an ordinary illusion.
"Twenty-seven seconds this time." Angor noted down the data and sighed. He was the one who created the illusion, yet he still had to search for the "manifestation" himself, and it took him a long time to do so.
Well, he couldn't help it. Mystery always had an "unknown" property.
Angor's illusion only contained a small amount of "Mystery" energy thanks to his talent, which wasn't really "Mystery". However, as long as it had the name "Mystery" in it, it had to be something that fit the description.
Otherwise, everything would be meaningless.
It was like Pandora's Box or Schrodinger's Cat. Before you opened it, you would never know what was inside.
Even if it was an illusion created by himself, he had to find the "manifestation of Mystery" that was independent of the illusion. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to find the "unknown" property of Mystery if he already knew where the "bird" was.
Of course, there was also a situation where he could grasp the whereabouts of the Mysteries from the very beginning. That was, he had a deep understanding of the Mysteries, or he had become a Mystery Alchemist and had come into contact with the Mysteries. In that case, Mystery was nothing but a thin veil in front of his eyes.
A week later.
During this time, Angor created nearly a hundred illusions of different sizes and saw many "manifestations" of Mystery. The Spotted Puppy and the "bird" were just some of them. There were also humanoid manifestations of Mystery. There were also non-living objects like stones, boxes, books, swings, wooden houses, and so on. Even pure elemental objects like a breeze, a puddle of water, or a flame.
Still, they weren't hard to find.
Once, Angor created a snowfield illusion, but he couldn't find any "manifestation of Mystery" even after searching for an entire day.
It would be fine if he made a mistake and didn't find any manifestation of Mystery. However, he could feel a trace of "Mystery" leaking out of the illusion, but he just couldn't find it.
After a long time, Angor gave up in the end. He didn't want to waste time.
During these hundreds of experiments, Angor collected a lot of data, which allowed him to get a general idea of how long the "Mystery" could last in the illusion.
The tighter the logic of the illusion, the higher the level of the illusion, and the longer the duration of the mysterious power released after the 'manifestation' was found.
Among them, basic illusions could last the shortest time, which was about five to ten seconds.
As for illusions with nightmare effects, they could maintain Mystic Energy for a maximum of one minute.
Although one minute was short, in this one minute surrounded by the mysterious force, as long as one tried to comprehend it seriously, there would be countless streams of data and information hitting one's mind. These streams of information contained a lot of "mysterious" content, and "mysterious" itself was all-encompassing, contradictory, and harmonious … With these streams of information, one could even comprehend many things by analogy and understand many things.
However, "understanding" was only Angor's speculation. He believed that one needed to have enough knowledge in order to understand Mystery. Angor didn't know if that was the case.
Angor didn't feel like he was going to understand anything while wandering in the Mystery energy. He was like a sponge, absorbing as much "Mystery" as he could so that he could reach the realm of Mystery one day.
Angor's biggest wish was to create a "manifestation of Mystery" that wouldn't disappear, something that could last forever. However, one minute was already the best he could do.
If he could create a "permanent Mystery illusion" one day, he would consider it a real "Mystery item".
…
That was all he could do to test how to fuse Mystery into illusions.
The next experiment was to see if Mystery could be combined with alchemy.
From his bracelet, he took out a piece of Blue Desolation Wood, which was sturdy and resistant to energy. It was a common, untiered magic material.
Angor was already familiar with alchemy techniques. In a few seconds, a miniature garden appeared on his palm.
At the same time, he also integrated a basic illusion that was rich with a sense of mystery into this miniature garden. There were only two illusion nodes in total, and they seemed to be stable for now.
However, he still needed to test whether the Mystery energy could be used successfully.
Since it was just a random creation, Angor didn't set up any power source when crafting it. He had to inject his own energy to activate it.
Next, he injected a stream of pure mana into the wooden garden.
In the blink of an eye, the training field had turned into a garden where all kinds of flowers competed in beauty. Angor walked in the garden while the petals danced in the air, and the fragrance filled his entire body.
Angor walked around the garden several times without finding the "manifestation of Mystery". He would sense Mystery energy around him from time to time, but he just couldn't find it.
Angor wondered if he ran into something similar to the "Snowfield Illusion" again.
When he was about to give up, he suddenly remembered something. Hundreds of flowers were blooming here, and the fragrance of the flowers was too strong. Perhaps the 'mysterious manifestation' was hiding itself through such a method of confusion?
With that in mind, Angor decided to block the fragrance.
As he made this decision, the rich floral fragrance in the surroundings disappeared in an instant. Angor continued to walk around the garden. When he reached a certain corner, he suddenly stopped.
A faint, sweet scent reached his nose.
His eyes lit up when he smelled the fragrance.
The flower fragrance in the illusion was created by deceiving one's sense of smell. In fact, it was just an illusion. However, even though he had blocked out the fragrance of the flowers, there was still a fragrance lingering at the tip of his nose. Obviously, this was something outside the illusion of the little garden that he had constructed.
Something that was beyond the illusion of the small garden must be the manifestation of the mystery!
Angor wondered if it was the "manifestation" of Mystery this time, or the flower that was the source of the fragrance.
Finally, Angor found an inconspicuous white flower hidden in the grass at the foot of the hill. This little white flower was the source of the fragrance.
When Angor touched the flower with his finger, it began to sway. The fragrance and Mystery energy it released were twice as strong as before.
Angor squeezed a little, and the flower was crushed into pieces. At the same time, a large amount of Mystery energy gushed out.
The Mystery energy lasted for 15 seconds before it disappeared.
As soon as the Mystery energy disappeared, he was freed from the illusion.
According to this experiment, an illusion with a sense of mystery could be attached to alchemy materials. The illusions could only last for a short time, but they were still longer than the ones he used directly.
For example, the garden illusion was a very basic one that didn't require too much logic.
At first, Angor estimated that the illusion could only last for five to ten seconds. However, it lasted for more than 15 seconds, which was much better than he expected.
Angor assumed that the Blue Desolation Wood's ability to conduct energy had improved the illusion a little bit.
Since he had doubts, he might as well keep experimenting.
In the next few days, Angor experimented with 14 different types of magic materials, which amounted to more than 50.
These demonic materials were representative and unranked demonic materials.
According to Angor's experiment, any magic material that reacted positively to energy could increase the duration of Mystery energy. However, only magical materials that could increase the energy radiation could increase the duration of Mystery Power to the greatest extent. They could increase the duration of Mystery Power by about two times.
Now that Angor knew what kind of magic materials he needed, he could choose the right ones for his alchemy.
After several days of seclusion, he was surrounded by all kinds of small, delicate objects. For example, a miniature garden, monster sculptures, ornaments of flowers and birds, and so on.
These were basically low-grade alchemy products, but if they were to be sold, each of them could be sold for dozens of magical crystals.
However, Angor wasn't in the mood to sell them. He left them in the training ground and headed to his alchemy lab.
Now that he had enough basic tests, it was time to put them into practice.
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