Each corner of a rune had its own meaning. It could be nature, living creatures, or images. As long as one mastered the basic runes, they could basically reverse the direction of most runes.
Of course, such a method could only give one a general idea of the rune's effect. It would be impossible to completely replicate the rune. A rune had its own writing path. If the writing order was wrong, the final rune would be different.
What Angor needed to do now was not to replicate the rune. He needed to figure out the meaning of the rune.
Reversing a rune was not an easy task. Complicated runes had too many overlapping parts. One had to pick out the overlapping parts bit by bit from the corner of the rune, then understand and expand it.
The night passed.
The wind was still howling outside, and snow was drifting in the air. He looked up, put down his pen, and rubbed his arms that were a little sore after a night's work.
On the desk, there was a stack of paper filled with densely written words in front of him.
Angor took a moment to clear his dizzy head and began his final analysis. "According to my speculation, the runes at the bottom of the well are multiple runes, which should be a magic array. There are more than four digits worth of runes that can be extracted. But … I can only understand about three hundred of them.
"This is the 'Contract Rune' that describes something. This is the 'Stealth Rune' that reveals something. This is the 'Passage Rune' that describes something …" Angor analyzed until he reached the last corner of the rune. "This is the 'Blood Rune' that indicates the activation of the rune."
Angor analyzed the runes one by one. In the end, he came up with a surprising result.
"Using the bloodline of a descendant, one can go to a certain place."
There were still hundreds of runes he could not understand, but he guessed that they were some quantifiers used to describe "a certain place", such as distance, size, spatial coordinates, and so on.
But none of that mattered. What mattered was the sentence he came up with.
"That sentence in the well — 'look up with your soul' — must be left by Lucas. So it's not hard to guess the descendant's bloodline. It should be Lucas' descendant, "Angor thought to himself. As for the last sentence —
It meant that the descendant's bloodline could activate the magic array at the bottom of the well and go to a secret place.
But he had no idea where this secret place was.
His instinct told him that the people from Song of the Deep and Summerdew Ridge were heading to that secret location.
According to Lucas' logbook, Lucas committed suicide by jumping into a well. But why was there no corpse inside the well? Why was there only a magic array? And Lucas' skeleton and this logbook appeared on that strange ship?
Could it be that the magic array in the well was connected to that ship?
He couldn't figure it out, but it didn't matter. He would find out soon enough.
The magic array at the bottom of the well was not a one-way passage. If something went wrong, they could just return to the bottom of the well.
Angor burned the paper on the table and threw it into the wind. Next, he opened the door, sensed Ross' location, and flew there.
There were two things he wanted to talk to Ross about. First, it was about Neet and Sangna. He didn't want to force them to be a couple. He just wanted to remind Ross not to care too much about social class. Second, it was about bloodline. According to Moya's handwritten book, Lucas' children were all dead. Only Moya's child was still alive. If Angor wasn't mistaken, the Ross Family had Lucas' bloodline in them.
And the bloodline of Lucas' descendant was the key to activating the magic array at the bottom of the well.
Using a little trick, Angor successfully extracted a vial of blood from Ross' body. Then, he dispelled the illusion and landed in Shelley Garden without looking back.
The wind was howling outside. Almost everyone was indoors. There was no one in Shelley Garden at all.
When he reached the bottom of the well, he returned to the wall where the magic array was located. Since there was a "Rune of Concealment" inside the array, Angor could only see a part of it in his soul form. There was nothing on the wall at all.
When he ejected his soul, a large number of glowing runes appeared on the wall.
The glowing runes reflected a warm glow on Angor's soul.
Angor quickly looked at the top right corner of the magic array, where there was a pattern that looked like an eyeball trapped inside a pyramid. This was the magic array's activation source.
Angor couldn't hold back his excitement. He took the blood he extracted from Ross and smeared it on the center of the activation source.
The viscous blood was disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye, fusing into the wall.
Next, the magic array on the wall began to shine brightly. At the same time, Angor's storage room seemed to have fallen into the starry sky. Nothing was left behind except the runes on the wall, which served as the brightest focus of the starlight.
The eyeball at the center of the pyramid blinked in a strange manner.
A vortex-shaped passage appeared at the center of the wall.
However, the passage was extremely small. It was less than half a meter wide. Also, the runes on the wall were still flickering, as if they were trying to tell him something.
When Angor returned to his body, he could still see the vortex. He tried throwing a magic crystal into the vortex. The runes on the wall brightened a little, and the vortex grew bigger.
So it's running out of energy?
Angor began to feed the vortex. Each time he threw in a magic crystal, the runes on the wall would brighten a little, and the vortex would grow bigger. At the same time, the starlight around him grew brighter.
When Angor threw in about twenty magic crystals, the vortex finally grew big enough for him to enter.
Behind the whirlpool was pitch-black, and nothing could be seen.
Angor reached his spirit feelers into the vortex while throwing in more crystals. It was also dark inside. But when his spirit feelers reached a certain distance, he saw a beam of white light.
The white light corresponded to the exit of a passage.
"My spirit feelers sensed the property of space in the darkness. This must be something like a plane passageway," Angor thought. Angor pondered. But the exit was close enough for a mortal to enter with his or her mortal body.
After making sure he was safe, he took a deep breath and stepped into the vortex with a nervous heart.
The tunnel wasn't long. Angor raised his guard as soon as he reached the beam of white light. However, from the moment he left the exit to the moment he landed, he did not encounter any danger. However, as soon as he came out, he smelled a very familiar salty smell.
It was the smell of seawater.
There was also the smell of rotten wood.
Angor heard a clear sound when he touched the ground, but he didn't feel anything solid. The floating and falling sound reminded him of the days he spent on The Limpet.
Was he on the ship now?
The surroundings were pitch-black, but the faint sound of water flowing could be heard. However, it was extremely subtle, like the sound of water splashing when it came into contact with something.
Angor took out a fluorescent lamp from his bracelet.
The room was instantly brightened up. When he saw his surroundings, he frowned.
His previous guess had come true.
He was on the same ship as The Limpet, the one he encountered in the Mist Zone. Also, he was standing in the last place he saw — the captain's cabin.
The skeleton without a head was still sitting firmly on the captain's seat.
He could even see a white area on the table, which was clearly different from the rest of the room. That was where Lucas' logbook was kept. That was why the table was much cleaner than the rest of the room.
As the wooden planks under his feet creaked, he walked past the desk and arrived at the window behind the headless skeleton. He wanted to see if he was still in the Mist Zone at Devil's Water.
He used Cleanse to remove the dust on the window.
It was also dark outside. With the help of the fluorescent lamps, Angor could only vaguely see what was happening on the deck.
The deck was empty except for a few holes. It was exactly the same as what he saw on The Limpet.
He couldn't see the front of the ship, but from the back, he could see the semicircular feathers that looked like a peacock spreading its tail. Judging from these signs, this was the "Feather Fan", the ship that Lucas had taken when he went out to sea.
But this wasn't the Mist Zone.
There was no light outside. This obviously wasn't the foggy area. Although there wasn't much light in the foggy area, the moon could still be faintly seen at night.
More importantly, he sensed seawater below the ship. But it seemed to have lost its vitality. It was like stagnant water, and the salty smell was much stronger than the outside world.
Angor decided to take a look outside to see where this place was. Was this the place Song of the Deep and Summerdew Ridge were looking for?
But before that, he had something else to do. He had to make sure he didn't have a way out.
The fluorescent lamp illuminated the captain's room. Angor looked around but didn't see any magic array. He thought for a moment and chanted Spirit Mantra. His soul left his body.
When he looked around with his soul, he still couldn't find the magic array.
He didn't feel too discouraged after returning to his body. He didn't see any magic array here, but he was sure that the one at the bottom of Shelley Garden wasn't a one-way passage.
According to what he knew, there had to be a magic array that led back to this place. But he needed to find it first.
Before leaving this place, he planned to search the captain's room again.
When they first saw this ship in the foggy area, they had used scouting puppets to board the ship just in case. There were many places that they didn't check carefully. For example, the drawer.
He walked to the desk where he found the ship's logbook and followed the clues to find his way here.
He wondered what he would find in the drawer.
He opened the drawer and smelled something rotten.
It was empty. There was only a piece of parchment stuffed inside, which looked exactly like the one he found in Lucas' Logbook.
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