"Good morning, Lord Rasputin."

The wizard leader turned, and the gaze from the bottom of the silver-white mask fell on the apprentice.

Richard bowed to the other party.

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After getting close to a certain distance, Richard realized that the silver mask was anything but an alchemical item like the snake staff in his hand.

If it was just a mask used to conceal his identity, even if his face was covered, his body shape would still be easily recognized by acquaintances, but Richard noticed that he could not do this at all: the body shape of the wizarding leader was not "covered" by something, but was constantly adjusting the degree of height, shortness, fat and thinness, making it difficult for people to form a specific impression of physical appearance, and could only roughly distinguish an adult male.

"Did you learn?"

Richard nodded.

"Let's get started."

The wizard leader said succinctly.

He raised the staff in his hand, and the huge empty hall was suddenly filled with clear light. Richard lowered his head, only to find that the ground beneath his feet was covered in fluorescent lines.

The lines spread along a regular and flat route, forming delicate and complex geometric shapes, which are cleverly intertwined and continue to extend around...... The result was a huge circle with a diameter of tens of meters.

Guided by a spirit, he came to some corner of the outermost part of the circle. The apprentice takes a deep breath, closes his eyes, meditates on the "archetype" deep inside, and provides it with magic so that the corresponding spell can be unleashed.

In addition to him, there was a spirit floating in each node of the circle, each casting a different spell as needed. As a rough count, there are dozens of spirits doing the same work as him. In this way, the whole large ritual will be set to work, like the countless gears running inside a machine.

This is the power of the psychic realm, where wizards can summon powerful minions or a large number of helpers to accomplish tasks that wizards from other realms can't do alone.

If someone else wanted to perform such a large ritual, they would need to hire the same number of wizard apprentices. Unlike the many spirits floating in the spirit world like the sands of the Ganges, the human resources of the wizarding world are obviously much more precious.

"Actually, you don't need me at all......" The thought flashed through Richard's mind. With Raspuchin's ability, he would definitely not care about maintaining an extra low-level spirit mana consumption, because this would be a complete gesture for a legendary wizard.

But Richard soon understood that his mission was to provide more than just magic to ritual nodes.

Rasputin provided him with a lot of content using the text he had seen on the light screen before. It is said that this is an excerpt from the Demon Book handed down from the ancient empire.

The so-called "Magic Book", also known as the "Magic Clay Tablet", is a rare item for most wizards, which generally records ancient and powerful secret spells that have not been circulated in the outside world, and the spells released through this special book as a medium will increase their effect and power.

Possessing both precious knowledge and great power, the value of the Demon Dao Book can be imagined. In fact, countless wizards have flocked to the Demon Dao Book, which has always been considered the most precious treasure in the wizarding world, and there is no one.

What's more, the way in which the Demon Dao Book was made was lost hundreds of years, or even thousands of years ago, in other words, all the existing Demon Dao Books are irreplaceable and solitary books. Richard had never seen it, but had only heard rumors about it. Because the fate of those magic books that have not been lost in history are often collected by major wizard schools, organizations, and associations, and will not be known to outsiders.

As for the "Ancient Empires...... The Mayan world has a long history, and there are countless places that can be called "ancient countries", but no matter how powerful and prosperous the empire is, there will be a day when it will fall apart and disappear into history, and only the gods and goddesses will live forever. But when it comes to "Ancient Empire", there is only one point-

The history of the world as the bards were divided into several epochs, and "ancient" refers to a period in which no written record has been found until now. This means that empires were founded before the beginning of all epics, before the "golden age" of the gods in the heavens.

Of course, the empire was destroyed before the beginning of the Silver Age, and everything about that "original country" is now completely submerged in the dust of history.

The Ancient Empire, plus the Demon Dao Book, combined with the two, the value of this Demon Dao Book owned by Raspuchin can already be called a "treasure". Unfortunately, due to the loss of writing from this period, the spells described above could not be used, so he needed the help of Richard's apprentice.

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After that, another week passed. Richard's job, in addition to maintaining large rituals, was to annotate the Book of the Devil's Way in Chinese. Although this otherworldly ancient script is not the same as the Chinese language on Earth, there seem to be similarities in grammatical rules. Unfortunately, it is impossible to deduce the details of the Demon Book from these alone.

But in addition to his own annotations, he also had a large number of other annotations, which were apparently the work of Rasputin before Richard's arrival.

For reference, Richard met with more than twenty experts in paleography and linguistics, as well as annotations written by Rasputin himself. Judging from the date and month marked, Rasputin owned the book for at least ten years.

Up to now, the text on the Demon Dao Book has not been completely deciphered, and there are many errors in the annotations of experts, some of which can even be called absurd. But with the efforts of everyone, when it came to Richard's hands, there was already a general guess about the content recorded in the Demon Dao Book.

The most important part of this revolves around a great being (Rasputin calls it a "demon god").

According to the records in the book, the demon god is the most powerful "spirit" in the spirit world, since the disappearance of the ancient empire, most of the demon gods have fallen, or sleep, but there are still a few survivors who are still active in the dark side of world history.

The Mayan world is truly theistic, so the name "god" is not an exaggeration, but a transcendent status of "supremacy". It is said that they can grant anyone's wishes, and anyone who has signed a contract with the demon god has become a famous figure in history without exception.