Chapter 159: Advanced Secrets (3/3)
The Hall of Truth is the highest core area of the Floating City, and it is equivalent to the brain of the Floating City.
The entire Floating City's Lost Lock Core, as well as the Energy Hub Core, extend from the Hall of Truth.
The various levels of the Mage's Guild Headquarters are also in the Hall of Truth.
On the contrary, it is the various logistics institutions that serve the entire floating city that are set up on the surface of the floating city.
Zhao Xu and Antinoya went through several registration procedures, and even he had to take out the mage badge and the Mithril chip before he could be allowed to pass by the spell guards.
This is also the first time that Zhao Xu has been tested by the spell guards at close range.
After Zhao Xu passed the inspection level, he still looked back at the spell guards with resolute faces with a curious expression.
"Don't be curious, you'll be theirs in the future." Antinoya said.
"Me?"
Zhao Xu and Antinoya entered the alchemy elevator, and Zhao Xu was a little surprised when he heard Antinoya's words.
"Mentor, you also have the advanced 'Spell Guard' class?" Zhao Xu asked.
"What do you say?"
Without Zhao Xu continuing to ask, the alchemy elevator had already reached the bottom floor.
Zhao Xu watched the two pure gold gates slowly open, and then walked out, sighing extravagantly by the way.
The two of them then walked down a narrow, eerie corridor covered in a dim magical aura, with no unextinguishable flame lamps that were common in Floating City.
When Zhao Xu became a level 3 mage, he mastered the second-level spell of the Immortal Flame.
All you need to do is sprinkle 50 GP of ruby powder on the corresponding object, and then cast the "Unquenchable Flame" spell on the target.
The object is capable of burning a flame that has no heat but is eternal and will not be extinguished even without oxygen.
Therefore, the last thing that the floating city lacks is this kind of lighting item.
This was also the first time Zhao Xu had seen such a dim corridor in the Floating City, so damp that even the corners of the walls grew green moss, like clusters of green light spots.
"This road can't be opened." Antinoya explained, "Otherwise, you will invite a special attack. ”
"Because of the Morin Stone?" Zhao Xu recalled the connection between the Morin Stone Tablet and the Fire Elemental Plane.
"That's not it, the Morin Stone has long since been expelled from all anomalous powers. It's just that the underground of this corridor is sealed with something. ”
Listening to Antinoya's words, Zhao Xu couldn't help but admire the boldness of the masters of the Mage Association.
Sure enough, everything that feels dangerous has to be sealed under your nose.
Just like the final scroll, it is suppressed at the base of the obelisk.
Even if Zhao Xu wanted to go, Antinoya could only take him through the back door, because the formal process and ritual of entering were too complicated.
"Mentor, why are you coming to see the stele this time?" Zhao Xu finally asked.
Before he was kicked by Antinoya to the Dark Ages of the primeval period, and then came back after a walk, Antinoya was extremely mysterious during the whole process, and didn't say anything to him.
Now that they were about to arrive at the hiding place of the Morin Stone Stele, Zhao Xu finally couldn't help but ask with curiosity in his heart.
"Let the mage explain it to you." Antinoa said simply.
Eventually, the two of them walked for almost ten minutes before passing through the hallway, and it was rare for Antinoa to use no spells during the whole process.
"Proof of it." I saw two guards dressed in pitch black and armored armor stopping the two of them.
Zhao Xu didn't expect it to come to this point, and there were still inspections.
Moreover, he had never seen this kind of person wearing full-body armor in the Floating City before, so he couldn't help but be very curious, and kept looking at the three people in front of him, but he felt that it was too cold.
Armor-piercing is usually taboo for mages, and the arcane failure rate can be distressing, even if you add Mithril.
At this time, Antinoya took out a piece of leather paper with thin gold leaf from her pocket and handed it over.
The heavily hooded mage handed his hand from behind the two armored guards, took the document and looked at it carefully, before nodding and letting them go.
"That mage's hands are a little thin." Zhao Xu said in a low voice.
"It's almost as good as an undead creature like a lich to show you a withered hand." Antinoya said.
Zhao Xu's eyes widened suddenly.
Lich!
As a spellcaster among the undead, the lich can be said to have a great reputation in Arthur, as long as their life boxes are not destroyed, even if they are killed, they can be resurrected in a short time.
As a result, the Lich often serves as the final behind-the-scenes boss in Arthur's heroes.
It's just that the Lich is not usually an evil camp?
Antinoya seemed to guess Zhao Xu's thoughts and explained, "Although there are great lichs in the good camp in the lich group. But the one you just saw is indeed an orderly and evil lich who lost his bet and has to guard the Floating City here for 100 years. ”
Zhao Xu suddenly realized, no wonder that in the checkpoints he encountered earlier, even if those guards were extremely serious, they would take the initiative to pay tribute to Antinoya. When it came to this level, it was cold, and it turned out to be an unkind lich.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu couldn't help but look forward to the Molin Stone Tablet in front of him.
No matter how you look at it, it doesn't necessarily look ordinary.
Immediately after, Zhao Xu followed Antinoya into a hemispherical hall, and there were at least more than a dozen people standing in various corners of the entire room, they raised their heads and glanced at the two of them before continuing to busy their respective work.
And the Morin Stone Tablet that Zhao Xu had seen in the Dark Age still stood in the middle of the hall, but there was still no trace on it.
Didn't Antinoa say, carved something?
Three meters in front of the stele, there is a stone bench that looks the same material.
Could it be that he should sit there?
At this time, one of the mages in charge of the hall stepped forward, bowed slightly to Antinoya, and said, "Miss, I haven't seen you for a long time. ”
Antinoya, on the other hand, waved her hand lightly and pointed at Zhao Xu, "Let him test it, you can explain it to him by the way." ”
The mage looked at Zhao Xu and smiled, revealing his white teeth: "Introduce yourself, Ciel, the person in charge of the awakening ceremony of the Morin Stone Tablet." ”
"Awakening ritual?" Zhao Xu couldn't help but ask.
And the mage Hill immediately understood that Antinoya hadn't explained too much to Zhao Xu in advance, so he said with a hearty smile: "Advanced Profession Awakening Ceremony." ”
"But I don't have level 5, do I?" Zhao Xu had a hint of doubt.
Although he likes to go to the rank route, no matter how it looks, he will not lose anything more than a mage level 5 to be able to obtain a specialty.
"Don't worry, Mr. Midsummer, it is true that only after reaching level 5, as the core seed of the Floating City, will be arranged here for the awakening ceremony, ensuring that it can be awakened and advanced with a probability of more than seventy percent."
"But there are quite a few like you, the core of the core, who will enjoy some special treatment after all. For example, you may be out and about for a long time, and once you reach the level of promotion, it is easy to be promoted directly to the original class and miss the opportunity to advance to the advanced class. ”
"Therefore, Floating City also allows you to obtain the content of advanced professions in advance, so that you can successfully advance to advanced professions even if you travel abroad."
After hearing this, Zhao Xu also understood.
It turns out that not everyone has the other party's awakening advanced ceremony yet.
"Then how do you wake up?" Zhao Xu asked.
Spell Hill bowed his head slightly and looked at Zhao Xu: "It's very simple, as long as you sit on that stone bench, we will launch the ceremony, stimulate energy, and let you start communicating with this Morin stone tablet." ”
"Then the stele will absorb your consciousness and make you feel like you are in a certain space for testing, as long as you pass the test, the stele will arrange you with a suitable progression."
When Zhao Xu heard this, it wasn't that complicated, so he nodded.
Suddenly, Antinoa directly used the "Psychic Link" to communicate with his heart.
Although Zhao Xu didn't understand what Antinoya said at the beginning, he had to use a spell here to whisper, but he still directly connected to the other party's connection request.
"Wait, if that stele is going to make things difficult for you. You will retell to him what you have seen in the past. Antinoya said in a flat tone.
Zhao Xu didn't react for a while.
Repeat it to the stele?
"Heh, this stele has always boasted to me that it was inscribed with magic when it was first born, and it was only when Ernest met him that he became the most powerful mage relying on the contents of the stele."
Zhao Xu immediately reacted: "No, isn't it also blank now?" ”
"He said that Ernest didn't want anyone else to become a mage as powerful as him again, so he deliberately erased the content of the stele."
When Zhao Xu heard this, he couldn't help pouting, this stele is too good to blow, and he really treats himself as the final stele.
"Since you see him in the primeval Dark Age, when it makes things difficult for you and doesn't give you advancements, you can tell it to mock it, and naturally it won't embarrass you anymore."
"This stele has a seventy percent chance of awakening, because it is only the seven adults who can barely look at it. But even if you are within seventy percent, you will be greatly injured by the other party's evil taste methods. ”
"Therefore, in the Floating City, many mages who rely on this stone tablet to advance have a shadow on it."
Zhao Xu suddenly came to his senses, why did Antinoya go around in such a big circle, allowing himself to travel back in time to see with his own eyes the Molin Stone Tablet before he met Ernest.
It turned out that he first established an unbreakable friendship with the stone tablet.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu also looked at the stele with a smile, walked over slowly, and sat on the stone bench of the same material in front of the stele.
"Let's go." Mage Hill shouted at this time.
Suddenly, the seven surrounding mages sat in the seven core positions of the magic circle, and began to coordinate to connect the hub of the entire stone tablet ritual magic circle.
As the triggers, they all dedicated their spell slots as fuel for the circle.
[Adventurer Midsummer, start to connect to the core of "Morin Stone"]
Zhao Xu's eyes flashed with countless lights and shadows for a moment, as if the entire earth began to be peeled away, and the surrounding space began to distort and deform.
In the end, they were all swallowed up by darkness.
A light fell from the dome, shining and warming his whole body.
"This respected big brother, may I ask what advanced career do you want?"
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