Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 2344: Chapter 2345: Brimming

Since the day Dangross was locked in the fireplace, Angel’s daily routine has gradually become fixed.

Most of the time is spent in the Earth Cavern, constantly probing the Mirror Grudge’s abilities and completing the underlying logic of the mirror space. Occasionally, he returns to Star Lake Castle to chat with Dangross and instill the correct worldview for walking in the human world.

The remaining time is spent handling miscellaneous matters in the Wilderness of Dreams.

In the blink of an eye, a week has passed in such days.

During this week, Angel’s harvest was quite abundant. The information in the mirror space has been more than half completed. Although it seems unfinished, only about 10% of the unknown information remains. However, such efficiency has reached its peak. Supplementing this remaining 10% will be considerably more difficult than before, primarily because Mirror Grudge itself may not fully grasp the mirror space. Now he has only two paths: either explore himself or use various ways to pressure Mirror Grudge to discover deeper secrets of the mirror space sooner.

How to specifically operate still requires more time to slowly attempt.

Another ability of Mirror Grudge, death energy transformation, Angel has also improved considerably. However, this is of little value to Angel; improving it is merely incidental. It is rather helpful to Shanni, and Angel has basically handed all the improved information to Shanni.

Apart from that, there are two matters in reality, which can be considered joyful events.

Firstly, Angel took some free afternoon to carefully study Fritz’s "Boiling Blood Red Water." Although he hasn’t searched for materials to refine it, based on the simulated experiments in his mind’s "server," the idea of Boiling Blood Red Water is correct; as long as some errors are rectified, the probability of success is quite high.

The Boiling Blood Red Water has effects similar to the improved version of the Peach Red Potion, which can be used to cleanse bloodline impurities.

This is quite impressive.

Although the improved Peach Red Potion also belongs to low-level potions, its materials are precious, and its consumption has been high for years, causing its price to remain high, even comparable to many intermediate-rank potions.

The materials used in Boiling Blood Red Water are much cheaper than those in the Peach Red Potion. If it can truly succeed, it will definitely become a hot-selling potion.

The matter of Boiling Blood Red Water made Angel sigh deeply.

Undeniably, many times professionals, due to their thinking becoming stagnant over the years, lose their unbridled spirituality. This kind of spirituality often shines in some newcomers.

This time is precisely like that. Fritz, through complete unconventional thinking and a mix of ideas, somehow stumbled upon the general concept of Boiling Blood Red Water.

Of course, according to Fritz’s original intentions, he would never be able to produce it because of the lack of structural knowledge; many ideas were completely presumptive. Even with the help of an Alchemist, Boiling Blood Red Water would likely find it hard to take shape.

But his luck is good; he encountered Angel. With Angel’s proficiency in Alchemy, even if Angel hasn’t extensively delved into Potionology, it’s no problem to help Fritz mend flaws and correct deficiencies. Moreover, because Angel has rarely engaged in Potionology, he can better understand Fritz’s whimsical ideas. Changing to other potion scholars might not necessarily accept Fritz’s notions.

All in all, this time was a magical collision between two relatively unconventional "outsiders," ultimately resulting in a relatively reasonable Boiling Blood Red Water through correction.

However, Fritz currently does not know about this matter.

Angel plans to present the successful formula of Boiling Blood Red Water to Fritz after finding the materials and truly refining it successfully.

If Fritz can seize this opportunity and systematically learn Potionology, perhaps he really has a chance to soar.

Aside from verifying Boiling Blood Red Water, there’s another joyful matter in reality.

Namely, the special energy within The Gate of Void, which has been filling for approximately half a year, has finally become saturated once more.

Perceiving the Witchcraft Slot with the flashing peculiar light of The Gate of Void, Angel couldn’t help recalling the grand drama in the time-space journey within the cage last time. He wonders how this drama will conclude, what Alex’s final outcome will be—did he defeat Tessa the Nun?

Though Angel longs to see the continuation, it should be difficult to encounter Alex again, right? After all, meeting Alex last time was due to Angel disembarking the "time-space train" halfway from The Gate of Void. He neither knew when nor where he disembarked. Therefore, truly activating The Gate of Void might not lead to another encounter with Alex.

The saturation of special energy within The Gate of Void counts as a joyful event, but Angel did not immediately use The Gate of Void.

Because once entering The Gate of Void, external perception will be blocked; therefore, one must find an absolutely safe place. Besides, Angel has other tasks at hand to handle; the Tidal World might summon him back at any time, so currently, he has no plans for a journey.

...

It’s another new day.

Throughout the morning, Angel routinely tormented the Mirror Grudge in the Earth Cavern. Unfortunately, despite using various methods, he could not coerce the Mirror Grudge into revealing new developments regarding the mirror space. It was another day without substantial gains.

The only achievement was Shanni’s.

Today, Shanni followed Angel into the mirror space for the first time. She hid behind Angel, witnessing the terrifying and overwhelming death energy transformation of Mirror Grudge. As a beginner in death energy transformation, the Mirror Grudge’s death energy transformation opened a new door of understanding for Shanni.

After resealing Mirror Grudge in the Soul Collection Bottle, Angel secured the bottle and approached Frode nearby.

After all, since Shanni was confronting the mirror space for the first time, Frode was also worried about her, so he had been waiting outside the Earth Cavern.

When Angel walked over, Shanni was communicating with Frode about her insights this time.

Seeing Angel arrive, Frode signaled to Shanni to comprehend on her own for now, then bowed to Angel: "Thank you for handling Shanni’s matter, my lord."

Angel waved his hand nonchalantly: "It’s nothing. By the way, is there any news on the Mann Badger family crest matter following up?"

Frode nodded: "Yes, just this morning, Drue sent a message stating that the Knights’ Order rushed to the Hai’an Duchy. From the trade exchanges of the Hai’an Duchy, records related to the trade with the Nirvana Continent’s Leidu Province were found, although without Mann Badger family’s transactions. But coincidentally, a week ago, a sea merchant from Leidu Province arrived at Sea Peace Port."

"The Knights’ Order confirmed through this sea merchant that the emblem is indeed the Mann Badger family’s crest."

Receiving consistent confirmation from two different sea merchants, it’s basically confirmed as fact that the Mann Badger family crest is legitimate.

"Good, I know." Angel nodded. Last week, when Nis was arranging tasks in the Task Hall, he had inquired about the progress on this side; now, finally getting evidence also solves the doubts.

After a brief conversation with Frode, Angel returned to Star Lake Castle. After playing hide-and-seek with Mirror Grudge every day, he would spend some time to settle and organize.

Although today’s gains were minimal, each time he entered the mirror space, the act of moving or disturbing things in the mirror space caused much data overflow, and this data counted as a subtle harvest.

After recording various data, Angel leaned back in his chair and flipped through the handbook that specifically records and analyzes the mirror space.

The noonday sunlight streams through the open window, illuminating the handbook, revealing elegant handwriting on each yellowed page, sometimes accompanied by images that make the pages look fully packed.

After flipping through a few pages, Angel’s gaze stops at a three-dimensional drawing.

At first glance, the three-dimensional drawing appears to be an overall model of the Earth Cavern, but within the large framework, there are various dashed and solid lines, with dozens of different shaped regular cubes interwoven and combined, appearing extremely complex.

The intersection of various patterns and lines, the arrangement of solid and dashed lines, creates nearly three hundred distinct energy nodes. Within each of these nodes is a set of independent structure points.

This is Angel’s structure of a single mirrored space of the Earth Cavern.

"The arrangement of the illusion nodes is quite simple, but the relationships between the faces and points are very strange. What exactly is embedded in this?"

Angel murmured softly, pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head.

He placed the handbook on the table, took out an ancient pocket watch from his lining, and after some operations, a holographic tablet hidden in the watch projected in front of Angel.

Through operations on the holographic keyboard, Angel tapped into several backends; in one holographic backend with a black background appeared a complex composition that was identical to the three-dimensional drawing Angel had created in his handbook, except the holographic projection was a true three-dimensional image.

Angel repeatedly adjusted the cubes projected holographically with his hand, constantly recording various data, and the system backend began autonomous calculations.

About an hour later, Angel saw the result of a formula-based calculation.

— Spatial Metrics.

Through the computing power of the holographic tablet, he finally parsed out the arrangement of nodes on the outer layer of the mirrored space.

"The arrangement of illusion nodes is distributed based on spatial metrics, not on the normal illusion structure." A flash of understanding crossed Angel’s eyes: Is this the node arrangement he couldn’t comprehend before?

This arrangement is indeed the first of its kind. Angel’s expression showed clear excitement,

This is entirely a new illusion node arrangement course, where the nodes are no longer mutually attractive like before but are in a form of spatial metrics. However, even with spatial metrics, they remain interactive.

Previously, Angel’s understanding of illusion nodes was that in the same large room, 1 and 0 attracted each other, and the arrangement of 1 and 0 constituted the structure of illusion nodes. The current situation, however, is that 1 is in room A, 0 is in room B, and people in two different rooms still maintain a connection, as if there exists a telephone line that links 1 and 0 in room AB.

This is a completely new topic, one that even Sanders hasn’t ventured into.

Angel very much wanted to delve further into the study.

However, the research was bound to be difficult. To construct such illusion nodes for rooms A and B, he must first construct two different rooms A and B, which means... understanding the essence of space and constructing a room means constructing space.

Also, constructing the "telephone line" in rooms A and B that connects 1 and 0, what exactly is this "telephone line," Angel has yet to figure out.

Finally, the mirrored space isn’t limited to just rooms A and B, many spaces need to be arranged, different combinations of 10 need to be fitted together, how to make them compatible is another challenge.

Currently, faced with these three challenges, Angel is still at a stage of lamenting at the ocean’s vastness.

Yet, he isn’t discouraged, though there are many bumps along the way, wizards, in essence, must overcome these various hurdles to reach the shore of truth.

Angel looked at the holographic projection again, exhaled a long breath, then left the calculations in the backend, and put away the holographic tablet.

After closing the handbook, Angel leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes to rest for a few minutes.

Until the sunlight made his eyelids turn red, Angel opened his eyes and stretched lazily.

Mirror Grudge’s consumption today is significant, requiring some time to replenish energy; unable to seek it out further, Angel decided, after some thought, to visit the Wilderness of Dreams.

...

Wilderness of Dreams, New City.

Angel appeared at the loft where Nis was located.

Before entering the Wilderness of Dreams, Angel sensed Nis was online, so he came to share the clues obtained from Frode with Nis.

"Confirmed the badge belongs to the Manbat family?" Nis raised his head after a long while, his eyes were already completely red, yet his hand wouldn’t let go of the paper and pen, clearly still engulfed in frantic calculations.

Angel nodded: "Confirmed. Your eyes... sigh, you’re not in a good state, rest for a while."

Nis waved his hand: "Rest later."

After a pause, Nis sighed emotionally: "I must say, Dororo’s ability is indeed impressive, even across a whole world, eliminating wrong answers."

The recent frenzy of Nis was due to the few answer ranges given by Dororo, which provided great enlightenment to Nis. He has verified that the range specified by Dororo should be hiding the correct coordinates.

Just those few words from Dororo saved Nis half a year’s efforts. How could he not be excited?

And these ranges are not too many, Nis spent these days immersed in calculations, which is why his eyes are red today.

After Nis excitedly talked for quite a while, he suddenly recalled: "Seems like we’re talking about the Manbat family? Oh, right, the Manbat family. Since you’ve confirmed it, I’ll allow those who took the tasks to set sail."

Nis said while quickly sending several messages on the tree cluster.

Angel watched Nis’s actions, completely baffled: "Those who took the task haven’t left? Also, they’re in the Wilderness of Dreams?"

Nis: "Two task teams; one to Sidro Mist Isle, and one to Nirvana Continent. Each team was given a log-in device for communicating at any time."

"The team heading to Sidro Mist Isle has reached Devil’s Coast through various teleportation arrays and set sail a few days ago."

"But the team heading to Nirvana Continent was instructed to wait at White Shell Sea Market until you gave a definite answer. Now since we have it, they can set sail."