Chapter 939
Antoine's Disappearance and Edgar's Visit
Chapter 939 Antoine's Disappearance and Edgar's Visit
In the Siming Waters, amidst the World Ruins, in this ruin filled with gray rocks, most of the senior researchers from the Institute of Truth have given up, but Antoine is still trying to find evidence of the super planet project in this ruin.
Beside Antoine were two senators, the last three remaining from their group of dozens.
At this moment, the two researchers beside Antoine were also somewhat frightened.
Because when Antoine turned a gray rock disc on the rock of this world ruin, the entire ruin shook, as if the whole world ruin was about to collapse at any moment.
Two researchers grabbed Antoine's hands. "We're carrying special wizard robes. If we get trapped in the World Ruins, we might be stuck between worlds. Antoine, let's go quickly."
Antoine stubbornly shook off their hands, his eyes revealing endless greed and desire, as if there were an infinite treasure ahead of him.
"I wasn't mistaken about this fluctuation; it's getting closer, closer."
“Jax, Vera, you two quickly set up the wave meter and analyze this force fluctuation immediately. Hahaha… There are only five days left. As long as we can find this super planetary plane, Mount Golden Crown, the Senate, the entire Cloud Marsh Wetland, and Locke Augustine will all be shocked by my discovery. This is an achievement that surpasses my achievements in my previous life at the same time.”
Antoine opened his arms, and a kind of unwavering pursuit of truth, which he had never been born with, suddenly surged into his heart.
Two researchers belonging to the Senate faction looked at Antoine with a 'you're crazy' look.
One of the witches tried to pull Antoine's wizard robe away from there.
“The wizard robes we brought with us are unlikely to withstand the collapsing World Ruins, Antoine. The World Ruins are about to collapse. We must hurry.”
Antoine shook her off.
The witch in the crystallization stage swallowed hard.
"Antoine has gone mad, let's go!"
After a brief moment of hesitation and thought, the other wizard nodded.
“Although our Golden Crown Mountain Power Division was our private combat force in the past, and we received rigorous training from childhood, in the face of a situation that could cost us our lives... Antoine, is it really necessary to go to this extent?”
"Let's go, let's get out of here quickly. Antoine is a second-circle wizard, let's worry about our own safety first."
The two immediately decided to leave.
Although this would be tantamount to abandoning comrades, an act that would be absolutely ridiculed and despised by the wizards of the Senate faction, and even they themselves were somewhat hesitant.
At that moment, Antoine glanced at them but did not stop them. He took out a bunch of instruments and, after completing the installation, started the wave meter.
"First, it's reset to zero, then it's compared, that's right... it's this kind of fluctuation..."
A rock fell from Antoine's head, but it was deflected by his Perpetual Defensive Force Field.
At one point, Antoine's pupils suddenly contracted.
"I think I've found it."
Meanwhile, his two companions had already left the World Ruins and were swimming in the vast ocean of Siming Waters, a wizarding land without large landmasses, consisting of a group of islands.
The two finally escaped from the World Ruins. They clung to a small, uninhabited island, then turned to look at it with expressions of helplessness and terror.
The witch who had first suggested abandoning Antoine and retreating turned her head toward the direction of the ruins.
“He’s gone mad. Antoine has gone mad. But it’s not my fault. It’s just a research survey, just a grant defense, there’s no need to be this crazy…”
"It's really not my fault. If we had retreated any later, we wouldn't have been able to leave."
After a long silence, the other wizard reluctantly accepted the reality he was facing.
"Do you think Antoine actually found that superplanet?"
The witch looked at the world ruins that were gradually collapsing in the sea like a high mountain, and a strange expression appeared on her face.
"I don't know. But even if they find it, judging from the scene after the world ruins collapsed, Antoine is probably in grave danger. Among the three of us drinking buddies, he was the only one who seemed to have the most promising future. His ideals were also bigger than ours, and he was more valued by the Senate. Later, we also learned that he was the reincarnation of a third-ring wizard, a super genius descendant that the Fisher family had been planning for five hundred years."
"Everyone thought he would be the most successful among us. But who could have imagined that he would die in the collapse of a world-renowned ancient site."
Another wizard sighed.
"It's all because of that damned plant crystallization technology. I also have a friend from the Advanced Institute of Truth who risked his life to conduct an experiment in order to defeat the plant crystallization research route. As a result, he was seriously injured. I heard that even using a second-level potion couldn't heal the injury to his soul."
……
On the mountaintop watchtower of Quinjol University, the black raven transformed from Lady Six-Eyed Raven Candice suddenly fell from the sky. She displayed a transformation ability that would make even the most skilled transfiguration wizards feel ashamed. In an instant, she transformed from a raven into a human, and even her clothes changed from raven feathers to an elaborate black silk wizard's robe.
Lady Candice looked at Edgar and said, "What about our Well of Wisdom in Quinnjoll?"
Wizard Edgar said, “Teacher, the Fountain of Wisdom has unlocked my potential. My current magic pressure is 19,999, and my power system has been forged. I can break through to become a Star Ring Wizard at any time. Thank you, teacher, for granting me the special privilege of immersing my body in the Fountain of Wisdom for a month.”
"Teacher, I know this has consumed a lot of your resources. However, I can only say that you made the right decision, and I am worth all the effort you have put in."
Mrs. Candice curled the corners of her lips into a smile.
"Edgar, I like your personality. But honestly, you'd be getting a hard time with other mentors. It's always good to be humble. That way, others won't feel so burdened around you."
"Many students have complained to me that they feel like they are being measured by you every day, and ranked by you rudely and secretly. Edgar, mediocrity is a protective color. Nobody likes the feeling that everyone around them is better than them."
Edgar snorted coldly.
"Teacher, you don't need to listen to the meaningless complaints of the weak, the words of losers."
Mrs. Candice was somewhat dumbfounded. She remained silent for a while. Mrs. Candice, who was always modest and humble, and who felt that she still had many shortcomings, found Edgar so unconditionally confident that she found him... very pleasing to the eye.
Mrs. Candice changed the subject.
“Edgar, now that you have everything ready except for the final push, why not try to advance to the Star Ring?” A thoughtful look appeared in the wizard Edgar’s eyes.
“I don’t know, teacher. I feel like I’m about to break through, but I still feel like it’s not perfect enough. I’ve already inserted five extremely powerful magic runes into my Tree of All Things.”
"The Return of All Things to the Tree allows the souls of all things to return to the tree after death, redistributing the energy of death, connecting life and death, and creating an endless cycle of life and death. Next, I only need to increase the capacity of my Furnace of Death in the Return of All Things to the Tree to continuously increase the cycle of life and death, and my power will grow accordingly. With each layer of the Furnace of Death I build, I become stronger. The living will die; this is the law of nature. Therefore, I think I should focus on forging the Furnace of Death... but I still feel it is not perfect enough."
Edgar gritted his teeth.
"I don't know why I feel so unwilling to accept this."
Mrs. Candice curled the corners of her lips into a smile.
“Indeed, Edgar, based on your description, I believe this is a path that leads directly to the Sun Ring Wizard.”
"Although it is still very immature, it is indeed enough."
"Edgar, you truly have talent."
"Edgar. The path you've chosen is truly... promising."
Edgar looked up and saw Mrs. Candice's cold eyes, which suddenly lost some of their warmth.
Edgar immediately sensed that something was wrong.
But he didn't know exactly where the problem was.
He thought about it carefully and realized that what he said was probably not wrong.
Mrs. Candice smiled and said, “Edgar, your obsession with strength is indeed complained about by many students in the lab, but I think it’s a quality of yours. Don’t lose it. Edgar, you’re someone who’s meant to be number one. Never compromise.”
"This is the defense meeting for the Golden Crown Mountain Special Scholarship. Go ahead. Anyway, you've already been decided as the recipient of this year's Special Scholarship within the institute. Our Quinjoll has been having a relatively average student body lately, so you've gotten a lucky break. This year's Special Scholarship doesn't require a defense meeting; it's yours."
"There, you may gain some special insights and find the things that are currently puzzling you."
Wizard Edgar bowed and said, "Teacher, I wish to begin my research as soon as possible..."
“I don’t like watching the performances of the weak. Every single one of the senior researchers at Golden Crown Mountain is… a weakling.”
Mrs. Candice said, "Locke Augustine will attend this defense."
"Aren't you friends? Why aren't you cheering him on, as a wizard who has already received top-tier funding?"
Edgar the wizard's expression suddenly changed, and he said abruptly, "Then, teacher, I'll go."
……
In the Three Holes World, Locke looked at the giant corn cob in front of him.
The Big Spring Cannon Corn is relatively small, about the size of an adult, and looks like a large corn plant. This magical plant only has one ear of corn.
This corn cob is about a meter long and looks like a missile.
This is a magical plant that I finally completed after a hundred years of using the ancestral evolution enhanced by the Golden Spell in this world.
This is mainly because the concentration gradient of magical tides within the Three Caverns world is simply too low.
Based on the specimens, research data, and related articles on the Big Spring Corn publicly available by the Rose Council that he found on the Water Hyacinth System, Locke reconstructed the Big Spring Corn plant as much as possible.
The Da Chun Pao corn has three key plant factors, and I have restored two of them.
1. Sequential chain-like corn kernel starch factor.
2. Absorb corn silk factors with spiritual energy.
All corn kernels are very hard because their surface is first covered with a cuticle, then with a special pericarp and seed coat that are two-in-one, and then with the gelatinous network-like protein layer inside the kernel, which is present in all corn plants.
Cuticle layer – seed coat – gelatinous protein layer.
When these three elements are combined, they form corn kernels that are almost harder than stones.
The kernels of Da Chun Pao corn possess the three structures mentioned above. They are even harder than ordinary corn kernels due to their outer shell. Inside, there is a special starch that can quickly absorb a large amount of life energy and then expand rapidly.
Because corn kernels are completely sealed, and life energy is stored and absorbed in large quantities...
This is equivalent to pouring a river of water into a completely enclosed room. How could the resulting explosion be small?
In addition, the large number of corn kernels allows it to transform life energy into incredible destructive power in an instant.
The second key plant factor is the Lingxi-absorbed corn silk factor.
Corn silk is actually part of the pistil of corn, specifically the style within the pistil. It is used to receive pollen and can essentially be considered an organ.
But the corn silk of the Da Chun Pao corn, which resembles the tassel of a red-tasseled spear, is not only used for that purpose, but can also absorb spiritual energy and enter the ovary located on the corn cob.
Essentially, the entire corn cob is like an object filled with straws. The corn silks absorb pollen and place it into the ovary on the surface of the corn cob, which is where the corn kernels will eventually grow.
The spiritual corn silk, created by the spiritual energy absorbing corn silk factors, not only absorbs pollen into specific ovaries, but also absorbs spiritual energy and provides it to each corn kernel.
This is equivalent to the Big Spring Cannon Corn being able to transform spiritual energy and infuse it into hundreds or thousands of corn kernels, which are then fired at the enemy at once, annihilating them in an instant.
Therefore, the wizards of the Rose Council would call it an unparalleled attack.
At this moment, Locke put away the Giant Spring Cannon Corn. With this magical plant, he could explore in the future why the Giant Spring Cannon Corn and the Giant Grass Corn would undergo sudden mutations, resulting in the absence of an intermediate state between the two!
Locke saw the Timestone completely collapse, and the entire Three Holes World returned to its normal time flow.
He glanced at the rangers who were contemplating the issue of succession, and then this saintly avatar suddenly collapsed, the power of the plane returning to the Three Caves World.
(End of this chapter)