Chapter 911
Historical Interlayers and the War of Historical Materials
Chapter 911 Historical Interlayers and the War of Historical Materials
"Thank you and Lady Helen."
Locke took the clone potion and an unknown potion from the other party. After hesitating for a moment, Locke still took them as the Sea Queen asked.
Instantly, chaotic spiritual energy swirled around his body, like a flurry of butterflies bursting forth and fluttering about. Many of these spiritual energy swirled into golden light and shadow and shot out of his body, while others transformed back into golden light and shadow and returned to Locke's body.
Locke opened his eyes. His pupils, which had almost turned golden from the overactive golden magic, had now returned to normal.
Locke exhaled a breath of stale air.
"Thank you for the potion, Lady Helen. May I ask what kind of potion it is? How much will I need to pay?"
The second-ring family witch servant chuckled.
"What are you saying, Potions Master Augustine? This is a Name Potion."
Locke was stunned.
A simple name potion has this effect.
Just by drinking one bottle, the previously out-of-control golden magic was completely restored to normal, and the enhanced golden magic talent was retained.
Unbelievable.
The Sea Queen's family maid covered her mouth and chuckled, "Amazing, isn't it? So I suggest you, if the Sea Queen doesn't charge you, then don't bring up the matter of fees. Because those fees are likely beyond your means."
"After all, some things can be charged for, or they can be free."
Locke understood what she meant.
For Neptune, this might just be something she casually crafts, much like how she sometimes gives her students perks, such as the Advanced Bloodthirsty Dragon Sunflower Potion to Williams and Gregor.
But if you actually ask about the market price, it might be a price you can't afford.
This can be considered a perk for working for or learning from a high-ring wizard.
The Sea Queen's maid greeted Locke, saying, "Keep up the good work. I rarely see my master so concerned about a student. Perhaps you have a chance to become the Throne's true student."
She turned and left.
After she left, Locke began researching. Now, both his Ancient Tree Fruit clone and his original body are researching various materials and beginning to refine the draft of the Special Funding Project.
After all, this script needs to be written within these two months.
Time is running out.
Meanwhile, his clone, the potion clone, went to the Land of Dragonfall to complete the subsequent contract signing with the Holy Land of the Windbringers.
Three days later, Locke was searching the library for areas where the Black and White Codex might exist.
Although the Russell Throne warned him that it was best not to enter the Cold Mountain Ruins before reaching the Star Ring, he needed the special celestial data of the boundary between light and shadow to complete the Golden Curse.
You need to use the Parallel History Spell to collect data.
Because the astronomical data required by the Golden Curse is relative to oneself, the time of its initiation, and the time one has experienced.
For non-archaeological wizards, the time they need to experience is rigidly predetermined, which means they can only endure the sunrise and sunset in reality.
But what if we could use the Parallel History Spell to create a parallel history...?
That's not necessarily true.
Locke closed the book. "Since we can't go to the Cold Mountain Ruins, let's see if there are other areas where the Black and White Codex might exist at the boundary between darkness and light. If there are, I'll go to that area and use the Parallel History Spell."
Locke's main body and his clone stood facing each other under the same bookshelf in the library, each holding a magic book and deep in thought.
"A way to obtain sufficient solar trajectory data without using the parallel history spell... I haven't thought of it yet, and there's no need to think about it too much. Because if anyone could think of it, someone from Russell's Throne or his previous students would definitely have thought of it."
"The Parallel History Charm is a fourth-circle spell, so it's not surprising that as long as it can be successfully cast, its byproducts will be enough to support me in collecting enough astronomical data to perfect the Golden Charm."
Locke flipped through the documents, his expression turning strange, because he read in a historical biography that a terrible incident had also occurred in the ancient city of Ruins five hundred years ago.
This refers to the incident in which multiple archaeological wizards fought each other.
This information was found in a travelogue, but there is insufficient positive information because I could not find any other information myself.
According to the travelogue, five hundred years ago, a second-circle archaeological wizard who lived in seclusion in the ancient ruins was hunted down by several archaeological wizards, which led to very bad consequences.
However, when I was researching the history of the ancient city, I couldn't find such a piece of history.
Locke pondered, "Recording stories in the form of travelogues is a typical method of historical recording used by archaeological wizards. It was probably to prevent the recorded history from being deliberately erased, or because there was a social environment at the time that prohibited the recording of this history."
"Therefore, the stories recorded in this travelogue may not be false. Archaeological wizards have a lot of magic related to history. The founder even has magic that can strip me of the cause and effect between me and history, making me unable to resonate with a certain period of history and affecting my thoughts and judgments."
The power of the historical aura within Locke began to manifest.
Because of the dynamic nature of history, Locke possessed an extraordinary intuition about it.
This intuition allows him to find his specific goals among countless books.
His intuition told him that the seemingly impossible and absurd stories recorded in the travelogue might actually be true.
As Locke pondered, his historical aura began to take effect, and a sudden flash of inspiration struck him, connecting the story in the travelogue with the historical wars that Warwick had once mentioned.
Was the heinous incident that occurred in the old city five hundred years ago part of the war of historical records?
If so...
Locke's eyes shone brightly in both of his bodies.
If so, the Black and White Codex may have been destroyed during the historical war.
He could not bring out objects that already existed in reality from the parallel history spell, nor could he bring out objects with strong energy reactions or those that were too weak. However, the black and white magic books that were destroyed in reality were originally items that could be brought out of the parallel history.
'There were only one hundred Black and White Magic Books in total, and nearly half of them have already been destroyed. The patriarch wasn't alarmed; the fear of the lineage being severed must be due to this.'
Locke pondered, "For high-ring archaeological wizards, even if all the Black and White Codexes are destroyed, as long as they want their lineage to continue, they can use the Parallel History Charm to retrieve the Black and White Codexes from parallel histories that have been destroyed in this world at this particular time."
Locke looked at the book. "But the information in the travelogue alone is not enough. I need more information."
"More information is needed to activate the Parallel History Spell. The author is... um? Anonymous?"
Locke paused for a moment.
In order to improve the quality of magic books, the library at Mount Golden Crown is extremely sensitive to the author's name and the school they belong to.
Was this thing forcibly shoved in?
Locke's true form found the wizard Ackerman and handed him the travelogue. "Ackerman, look at this book. Do you know its author?"
Wizard Ackerman paused for a moment, then took the book and looked down at it.
"I don't remember this. That shouldn't be the case. Which bookshelf did you get it from?"
Locke gave the number of the bookshelf.
The troll wizard Ackerman scratched his head and said, "I just tidied that bookshelf last month. Impossible, there's no way that bookshelf could have contained this book. I tidy that bookshelf about once every three years, so this travelogue couldn't have come from that bookshelf."
"Besides, there's nothing on it, not even an author's signature."
The Ackerman troll wizard said, "Locke, this thing cannot possibly enter our Golden Crown Mountain library."
“Not just any book can be put into our Jinmianshan Library.”
Locke said helplessly, "But I just took it down from that bookshelf."
The Ackerman troll wizard seemed to realize something. He picked up the travelogue, muttered incantations, and his lips moved repeatedly to each other. Then, the travelogue in his hand began to turn the pages by itself.
A magical model appeared in the travelogue.
The troll wizard Ackerman's face darkened. "I knew it."
“I just used two spell models from our general knowledge school. One was to force a spell to manifest, and the other was to detect the name and information of the spell model.”
"This is a second-circle archaeology spell called [Historical Interlayer]. An archaeology wizard infiltrated our Golden Crown Mountain library and placed it inside."
"The scariest thing is that we don't know when it happened. The other party could be a moon ring wizard or a sun ring wizard."
"The historical interlayer is a second-circle spell model above the lunar ring level."
"This magic can create a special layer that only archaeological wizards with sufficient historical knowledge can discover and see upon approaching it. Ordinary wizards, without historical knowledge, cannot discover it even if they pass by the area where it is stored. This is a magical model that archaeological wizards often use to store items."
The troll wizard Ackerman handed the travelogue to Locke and said, "Since you found it in the library, it's yours. What you do with it is up to you. I've already recorded its information with the True Sight Crystal, and I'll report it to the Academic Committee."
Locke took the travelogue.
Is there any way to find out the author of this travelogue?
The Ackerman troll wizard was silent for a moment, then took out a bottle of powder from his astral ring. He sprinkled the powder on the cover of the travelogue, blew on it gently, and then inhaled the powder through his nose.
The Ackerman troll wizard muttered incantations to himself.
Locke stood quietly to the side.
After a while, the Ackerman troll wizard opened his eyes, and Locke asked, "Ackerman?"
The Ackerman troll wizard shook his head slightly at Locke.
“I just tried it using the generalist school of magic – [Dominic’s Nose]. If I have seen this person, I should be able to remember him by his scent. If I have come into contact with objects related to him, I should also be able to remember him by his scent, or have objects or books written by him appear in my mind that correspond to his spiritual aura.”
"But I found nothing."
The Ackerman troll wizard was somewhat annoyed.
"I've read countless books in my life. If this archaeological wizard has ever written a magic book, I'm very likely to have read it. Am I just ignorant, or does this archaeological wizard not write books himself?"
Wizard Ackerman was somewhat frustrated. As a generalist wizard, his greatest fear was that he might be ignorant in some area.
This was a huge blow to him.
Locke comforted him, saying, "Archaeological wizards are always adept at concealing their tracks. Perhaps he used some kind of magical barrier to prevent you from probing him on a spiritual level."
The Ackerman troll wizard's eyes also turned serious at this moment. He had been nonchalant at first, but now he was very serious.
He couldn't even be sure if it was during his time as the librarian that the archaeological wizard had placed one of his travelogues on that shelf.
"Locke, did you only recently improve your historical agility?"
Locke nodded. There was no doubt about that. Besides, his top-tier grant project would likely require data on the sun's orbit over the past century at the boundary between light and darkness.
To obtain this, one would likely need to start with this travelogue, since it was the magic book that I had searched for in the library for three days and was most likely related to the Black and White Magic Book.
Locke said, "I recently improved my Historical Abilities."
The Ackerman troll wizard pondered, "If your history existed in the past, you should have discovered it long ago. In that case, this book might have been in this library for a long time."
"But after all, Locke, you're an archaeological wizard too. You archaeological wizards are best at finding clues and uncovering secrets. I'm just a living encyclopedia, while you're the tracking expert."
Locke was completely bewildered.
I?
The Ackerman troll wizard looked at Locke with an air of entitlement and said, "Yes, it's you. I won't report this situation for now. I'll report it after you figure it out, Locke."
Wizard Ackerman explained, “It seems to do me no good by reporting this now except to give the higher-ups a reason to deduct my pay, develop distrust of me, or even fire me. I’m not even sure if it existed during the tenure of other librarians.”
The Ackerman troll wizard looked helpless.
"For a generalist scholar, the Historical Interstitial Charm is simply beyond my comprehension. I don't have historical acumen, so where am I supposed to sense the historical interstitial realm and find this book? Locke, I finally managed to get this job in the wizarding world. You're my friend, you can't just watch me lose it..."
Locke was somewhat speechless.
I never expected that searching for information in the library would lead me to such a big problem.
The troll wizard Ackerman, intending to bribe Locke, whispered, "If you help me, I can help you too. Recently, quite a few people have come to ask me about information on the magic plant crystallization technology. So I currently have a lot of cutting-edge information on hand. If you need it, I can keep you up to the forefront of this technology at any time."
Locke shook his head slightly. It wasn't that he didn't think highly of the technology; otherwise, he wouldn't have recommended his student Williams to try and benefit from it.
However, he has indeed already embarked on his own path, with the questions of atavism and the prosperity of the Xia Dynasty to study.
I have no other energy to waste.
As for the so-called opportunity to gain access to a district or apply for projects, I don't care.
Because everyone has their own path.
I will not easily change my mind.
If you always follow in other people's footsteps, you'll be too passive. Just like the brandy wizard, who has changed his research direction so many times this year.
I have no intention of inhaling other people's exhaust fumes.
The next chapter will be updated tomorrow.
(End of this chapter)