Bloodline of the Wizard-Chapter 287 - 149 Exploration, Harvest, Space Energy Pearl_2
Chapter 287: Chapter 149 Exploration, Harvest, Space Energy Pearl_2
Just as he was about to put away the Communication Stone, Ronan noticed that Clements had sent another message, this time with a much more serious tone.
"Damien, be careful of the people from other forces you encounter in the Secret Realm.
Normally, plundering fellow wizards in the Secret Realm is tacitly permitted...it’s even considered a more advanced method of harvesting, provided your Strength is strong enough.
I just received news that this exploration might involve intense internal strife...
Be extra cautious."
Ronan’s eyes flickered slightly as he pocketed the Communication Stone, disregarding anything else and focusing on the room before him.
He first walked over to a few shelves and a wardrobe, noting a thin layer of dust on the empty shelves and an equally empty wardrobe.
Ronan tapped the cabinet door lightly with his finger, then moved to the desk to examine the scattered papers and notes.
All were blank without any traces of writing.
They must have been erased by a Spell.
It was evident that the room’s owner had left leisurely, packed up everything, and did not intend to leave anything useful for those who came after.
Ronan spread out his spiritual power, and with his keen ability to sense, he carefully searched the entire room.
In the end, he only found a small cloth pouch the size of a palm and a flat metal box hidden in a small compartment at the foot of the bed.
The herbal powder in the pouch had turned to dust over time.
The metal box contained an unidentified black ointment, which still retained a somewhat sharp and pungent scent.
Presuming these items were left behind accidentally by the room’s owner, Ronan quietly pocketed both items, planning to have experts assess their value after the exploration concluded.
After thoroughly exploring the room, Ronan decided to leave, but he could not find a door anywhere.
While puzzled, he caught sight of a silver dressing mirror on the wall and realized,
"Almost forgot... this place is in the Mirror Court."
Ronan approached the dressing mirror and easily found a row of rune traces along the frame.
After noting them down one by one, he slowly infused them with spiritual power.
After activating five or six runes with no response, the last rune caused the mirror surface to ripple like water waves.
Ronan stepped forward lightly, and found himself now standing in a narrow corridor.
The walls of the corridor were bare, showing marks where items had once been hung. Ronan continued to keep his spiritual power dispersed, touching the walls as he walked.
A few steps in, he finally found a shallow straight indent on one section of the wall.
After some exploration, he successfully opened a "Teleportation Gate" within the indent.
On high alert, he stepped through... and found himself in another room much like the previous ones.
After a while, Ronan exited this room and continued exploring forward.
Following the same procedure, he explored five or six rooms in succession, all yielding nothing.
Ronan wasn’t too disappointed; the absence of risk also meant the absence of reward.
Many things in this world are balanced.
After searching the seventh room, he routinely prepared to leave using the inevitable mirror passage inside.
Unexpectedly, this time when he stepped out of the room, instead of the familiar narrow, monotonous white corridor... he stood at the entrance of a small garden with a fountain.
A low fence circled a beautiful cream-colored little house, with a path paved in broken stones behind him and greenery shading both sides, leading to the unknown, with no sign of the entrance through which he came.
Ronan, more intrigued than alarmed, felt a change.
He stood outside the fence, surveying the garden inside. At first glance, this garden bore resemblance to the many Mysterious Garden Realms he had entered before.
The garden also had wicker tables and chairs, unknown fruit trees, and a hanging swing.
However, the table and chairs held nothing, and everything in the garden seemed more real, likely due to a long period of neglect as the wild grass had completely overtaken the space meant for intended flowers.
Ronan cautiously stepped into the garden, ready for any attack similar to a transparent, distorted humanoid.
But even after circling the entire small garden, nothing happened, nor did he encounter any hidden Space Transmission Arrays.
"Not every Mirror Garden Wizard has such a sinister taste as the owner of the Mysterious Garden..."
Ronan thought to himself, turning towards the direction of the house. freēwēbnovel.com
He smoothly bypassed the fountain and arrived in front of the door of the milky-white small house, politely knocking twice before entering.
Naturally, there was no response.
Pushing the door open, the inside still appeared very ordinary.
Living room, dining room, kitchen... There were even some dishes with items beside the stove near the window.
Ronan walked up, the food in the plates had already decayed into crumbs, next to them were some silverware that hadn’t been distributed...
Ronan’s eyes slightly lit up.
He turned around to observe the entire house from his angle.
Quickly, he sketched out a scene in his mind—the house owner was hosting guests, even baking delicacies personally.
But before they could enjoy, something happened, and the people sitting on the sofas and chairs hurriedly stood up and dispersed...
The state of the house owner when leaving didn’t seem as composed as those from the other rooms he encountered before; it seemed somewhat rushed.
Rushed means there might be something left behind, and that meant Ronan might find something valuable...
Ronan quickly got into action, first thoroughly examining all corners of the first floor.
This floor appeared strictly residential without any remnants of Magic Tools or Spell materials.
Of course, Ronan’s main target was the second floor.
Following the nearly rotten wooden floor step by step upstairs, his footsteps creaked.
The air on the second floor was slightly murky, even carrying a hint of a pungent rotten smell.
Ronan sped up his pace, and when he fully stepped on the second-floor floor, what presented before him was a messily scattered laboratory, filled with hastily abandoned crystal vessels and glass containers, with transparent debris on the floor.
Directly opposite Ronan, on a shattered stone slab, some runes were slowly pulsing.
He quickly walked over and saw the dim runes, almost depleted of energy, continually forming twisted, scattered characters on the remaining corner of the broken slab.
"Failure... Forbidden... Experiment terminated... Ka... Nos..."
Ronan strained to recognize the text on the slab, recording all the characters that appeared, unable to piece together any valuable information for the moment.
Where he stood, there were many broken pieces of the slab underfoot—apparently just a common Spell object used for quick note-taking, deemed unworthy of retrieval and thus destroyed.
But due to incomplete destruction, some content once recorded on this slab reappeared, driven by the chaotic rune formation.
Ronan swiftly collected all the remaining pieces of the slab, and then began scouring the items on the nearby experimental tables.
Unexpectedly, he actually found some valuable materials.
—A box of refined energy stones.
They could also be called Energy Treasure Beads.
Roughly twenty or so, big and small, of various attributes, colorful like a box of beautiful glass balls.
In fact, they are just single-element energies refined using special techniques into crystallized beads.
Refining a high-purity energy stone requires the use of many advanced Magic Stones and might not even succeed.
This is an extremely luxurious alchemy method, and the Alchemy Experiments that utilize such costly materials are usually quite advanced.
From this, it can be deduced that the owner of this small house had a strength level not low, at least a Level 2 Wizard has the qualifications to attempt such alchemy experiments, which still don’t need the material like Energy Treasure Beads.
In this box of energy stones, the most valuable were three Space-related Energy Treasure Beads.
Space-related Energy Treasure Beads can be used to construct artificial Secret Realm Spaces, like Benny’s Mini Secret Realm Space.
To date, the entire Southern region doesn’t have technology like refining Space-related energy into Space Energy Pearls.
These three Space Energy Pearls in Ronan’s hands were extremely valuable.
"The Mirror Garden has been gone for so long, and yet the energy in these beads has not diminished much, still abundant and pure... The refiner’s technique is quite skillful, a true Alchemy Master..."
Ronan silently marveled for a moment, and then secured this find.
