Chapter 16: Mysterious Ruins
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Mo Li looked at the "mutant lizard" he killed, and couldn't help but show a self-deprecating smile on his face.
I thought it would be a difficult enemy, but I didn't expect it to be any different from other geodroid lizards. Mo Li couldn't help but be a little disappointed, since this lizard didn't have any special abilities, most of them didn't have anything strange on it.
He thought as he used his knife to pry the crystal off the lizard's body. Just as he was about to put it in the bag, Mo Li suddenly let out a "huh" sound from his mouth.
The bottom half of this crystal seems to be a little different.
He took the crystal in his hand to his eyes and looked at it carefully. The bottom half of the crystal, the part buried in the lizard's flesh, appears to be wrapped in a transparent crystal.
The crystal was only the size of a little finger, and it seemed to have some strange lines engraved on it, and if it weren't for that, Mo Li wouldn't have noticed this thing as transparent as the crystal.
He took out a short knife and cut the crystal in three or two strokes, and then, carefully, picked out the crystal, and looked closely.
It's a talisman.
After looking at it for a while, Mo Li was finally able to confirm that it was a talisman engraved on the crystal, just like the talisman engraved on the rune copper by Orange Rain.
In that case, could this crystal be a crystal?
This is well verified, Mo Li slices a small piece from the corner of the crystal, throws it in his mouth, and swallows it to ignite.
The power of the crystal was activated, and although the illusion shattered and disappeared as soon as a silhouette appeared due to the amount of burning was too small, it was enough to prove that this crystal was a crystal.
In other words, this is - rune crystal?
Moli fell into deep thought. Compared to copper, rune copper increases its power by a greater magnitude, and if the same is done, will the energy of rune crystals also be strengthened on the basis of ordinary crystals, such as staying invisible for a longer period of time, or generating an additional illusion.
If that's the case, maybe this rune crystal should be saved for use in the future when it's dangerous, and maybe it can be the key to a turnaround. But there is also a possibility that this rune crystal is used for another purpose at all, or even for combat at all.
That said, there is considerable uncertainty about the results of using it.
Moli already has a deep understanding of the importance of the Burning Order, and uncertainty is quite fatal to the battle of the puppet. With that in mind, if you leave it for future battles and use this rune crystal, it will probably do more harm than good.
Therefore, he finally decided to burn it now and see what exactly the effect is.
But before swallowing it, Moli first carved the runes on another piece of crystal, drawing on a gourd - he could later give them to Orange Rain to see if he could study anything from them.
With that done, he slowly put the rune crystal into his mouth.
Hopefully it won't explode, he thought.
The technique wraps the crystal and ignites it. There was no explosion.
Not only did it not explode, nothing happened at all.
Mo Li stood stupidly in place for a minute, and finally determined...... I didn't feel any effect.
Could it be the failed work of some spell researcher who somehow got eaten by this lizard?
Come to think of it, it seems that this is the only possibility.
After tossing for a long time, it turned out to be a useless thing, but Mo Li was not too disappointed, but was a little glad that he didn't use it during the battle, if he found out that this thing had no effect when the battle was critical, it would be troublesome.
He picked up the leather bag full of crystals again, checked his direction, and prepared to return the way he came, only to find a ray of sunlight shining on a stone wall around the corner.
Mo Li walked over quickly, only to find that he had come to another exit of the cave, and looking at the sky, it should have been seven or eight o'clock in the morning. Due to the huge rock standing at the exit, the sunlight did not reach the cave until the sun rose a little higher, and the first rays of sunlight came in.
That would be a good thing, and you might have found a shortcut back to Berdel.
Moli bypassed the boulder and was about to discern the direction, but suddenly stopped.
Before his eyes, a behemoth towered impressively.
This is...... What is it?
He looked up as he gasped.
What appeared in front of me was a huge high wall, more than twenty yards high, stretching to the left and right with no end in sight, and the point was that this high wall was actually translucent.
Mo Li walked over slowly, stretched out his hand and touched the wall, and found that it was an extremely familiar touch.
Could this be...... Crystal?!
Is it all made of crystal?!
Mo Li took a few steps back and looked in several directions, and made a new discovery.
This wall does not seem to be artificially built. The evidence lies in the fact that the upper end of the crystal wall is very irregular concave and convex curves, and if you look closely at the wall, it is not so smooth, and in the wall, you can even see a few pieces of rubble mixed in it.
But if this is natural, what is going on here to form something so exaggerated?
Mo Li looked through the crystal wall and wanted to see the scene behind the wall, but the transparency of the crystal wall was really not very high, and after squinting for a while, he could tell what kind of ruins seemed to be behind the wall.
He could also see behind the wall, the terrain descending steeply, and in the distance, there seemed to be several ruined brass-colored buildings, and there seemed to be large wreckage of something.
His curiosity had been thoroughly piqued, and he thought about it, pulled out his sodium and swallowed it, and ran along the crystal wall.
Moli wanted to take a detour behind the wall to see what was there.
With the blessing of Nak's ability, he ran as fast as a galloping horse, but after running like this for more than ten minutes, the crystal wall still had no end in sight. Moreover, he gradually discovered that this long crystal wall had a curve.
He vaguely guessed something, but to verify it, he continued to run forward, and after about another twenty minutes, Moli found himself back to the starting point.
As he expected, the crystal wall formed an extremely large circle.
This circle just encloses the ruins inside, and there is no entrance to it.
Mo Li thought again, since it was a circle, and the terrain inside was downward, it meant that this crystal wall was surrounded by a huge pit.
Thinking of the wreckage inside, this pit should have been formed by an unusually violent explosion, and this crystal wall should also be formed by melting the rock due to the force of the explosion!
Mo Li estimated that the diameter of the crater was about six thousand yards, and as far as he knew, neither divine magic nor blood magic was capable of causing such great damage.
But this terrifying power has once appeared on this continent - during the Seven-Day War, the Celestial Fire rained down on the floating island of the Conjurercer's Guild slaughtered the armies of the Morningstar Empire and the Vimilia family, and left a testament to its terrifying power in that place.
Until now, one can still find a series of huge craters in the rocky ground, the largest of which is more than a thousand yards in diameter, and has now been turned into a small lake.
In other words, the ruins that Mo Li saw now were probably left behind by the Conjuring Masters Association.
If this is really a relic left by the Conjurer's Guild, its importance to the sorcerer is self-evident, and it is even more necessary to find a way to get in.
The first thing he thought of was to cut through the crystal wall with a knife, digging a hole that he could drill through, but after trying it, he found that this crystal was much harder than the normal one, and no matter how hard Mo Li used, the blade could only slip on it, and it could not penetrate a single bit.
Mo Li took a few steps back, looked up at the height of the crystal wall, and began to consider whether he could jump directly into it.
He swallowed the rune copper and sodium, lit it, ran and jumped. Copper could make him stronger, sodium could make him faster, and with the blessing of the two elements, Moli reached a height of ten yards in one jump.
But he was only halfway up the crystal wall, and he stepped on the almost vertical wall, and quickly took two steps forward, and crossed a distance of seven or eight yards, the top of the wall was in front of him, and he was only three yards away at most.
He reached out and tried his best to reach forward, but when his fingertips were still a yard from the top of the wall, his body stopped rising and fell down.
Just a little bit.
Moli tried a few more times, but each time it was just a fraction of a second. After much trial and error, he had discovered that his limit was twenty yards, but the lowest part of the crystal wall was twenty-one yards.
If the burning efficiency of rune copper is increased by half by half, he will be able to jump over it.
But how can the combustion efficiency be so easy to improve? The rune copper that Orange Rain has studied for a long time can only be increased by half at the beginning, and after referring to the "Principle of Mathematics" in the Technique Carving Stone, the combustion efficiency is only increased by 15%.
Mo Li thought so, and at the same time once again called the technique to wrap the rune copper, and slowly ignited, he was not ready to try again, this was just an unconscious act in thought, but he suddenly found that this time the burning was a little different from the previous - there was one more technique for wrapping the rune copper!
This new technique did not increase the efficiency of combustion, or even participated in the combustion at all, it was like a swimming fish, slowly swimming around the burning core in circles and circles.
Moli swallowed sodium and iron and ignited it, discovering that the technique was still there. And when all the combustion was extinguished, the technique was gone.
It occurred to him that this strange technique must have appeared as he burned sodium and ran along the crystal wall. It's just that his attention has been on the crystal wall and ruins, so he didn't notice it.
And before that, he burned that strange rune crystal. Could it have been that rune crystal that originally belonged to the ruins, but later fell to the edge of the cave in the explosion and was eaten by the crystal lizard?
If so, then the rune crystal is most likely the work of a sorcerer.
Could it be that the spell was created by the rune crystal, and why did it appear when it was burning, but it didn't see any effect?
Unconsciously, his attention shifted to the rune crystal and this strange technique, and the matter of the crystal wall and the ruins was left behind him.
It can only be said that today's unexpected things have come together.
Mo Li simply sat down against the crystal wall. Swallow a piece of ordinary copper and burn it slowly while starting from scratch and thinking about the whole burning process.
Gradually, he found his way of thinking.