Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 1963: Chapter 1964: Ruins Map

”It really is an independent functional magic pattern!” Angel held the musk deer skin paper filled with traces in his hand, his eyes flashing with deep amazement. It was the first time he had seen this kind of ”grafting” of an independent magic pattern onto a complete defense magic pattern, a technique he had never come across before.

Although he was seeing it for the first time, Angel could see how harmonious and compatible this independent magic pattern was with the defense magic pattern, yet it did not interfere with each other at all, each standing alone.

Even if the independent magic pattern were completely destroyed, it would not affect the defense magic pattern because they were two separate entities, but they could not be considered two different magic patterns since they shared the same trigger magic pattern.

It’s like an external device hooked onto a complete Magical Energy Array, not only does it not affect the Magical Energy Array, but it also has its own exclusive function.

Truly a perfect design that achieves two goals with one effort!

This is not a difficult design method to understand, but coming up with an independent magic pattern that is ”hooked” onto the Magical Energy Array shows how imaginative the person who inscribed the magic pattern must have been.

If this is original, then they are truly a genius!

Even after countless years, as a newcomer, Angel still feels a sense of awe seeing these ancient magic patterns.

Angel marvels repeatedly, his eyes lingering in fascination, greatly admiring this strange magic pattern. However, the Tree Spirit beside him was a bit impatient, and upon hearing that Angel had cracked the mystery, could not help but urge him.

Angel himself was eager to witness the effect of this functional magic pattern, so after marveling for a few minutes, he once again composed himself. He took out the prepared blood ink and carving pen once more.

Earlier, Angel had only calculated on the musk deer skin paper without actually inscribing it, now he needed to complete this final independent magic pattern.

This time, the speed of inscription was very fast. Angel had lifted his pen within two seconds of starting.

Although the time was brief, the independent magic pattern had been successfully reconstructed!

Because this independent magic pattern itself wasn’t seriously damaged, it only lacked one stroke. It didn’t even require a professional magic rune mage, anyone with a little understanding of magic patterns could complete it.

It was because of the simple structure and minimal damage to this independent magic pattern that Angel initially overlooked it.

At that time, he focused on the defense magic pattern and completely neglected this overlooked area.

After patching up this area, Angel stepped back two steps and left the space to the Tree Spirit. Angel could tell that the Tree Spirit was very interested in this relic, so he gave the right to activate the magic pattern back to the Tree Spirit.

The Tree Spirit didn’t hesitate, and after rubbing its palms together excitedly, it extended a tendril of green light from its palm to touch the trigger magic pattern in the Magical Energy Array.

With the infusion of energy, the Magical Energy Array emitted a faint glow once more, and this time, the Tree Spirit clearly felt something different from before.

”Huh, now you can choose which function to activate: one is defense, the other is unknown...” the Tree Spirit received this feedback from the light tendril.

”That unknown function should correspond to this independent magic pattern.” Angel said.

The Tree Spirit’s voice was filled with excitement: ”What could this function be? Could it open the door to the hidden room?”

Angel didn’t speak this time. While repairing the independent magic pattern, he had carefully observed the main pattern’s effect, which pointed to the symbolic meaning of—light.

When the pattern represented ”light,” its meanings could be: brightness, dimness, dawn, guidance, resurrection... etc., but no matter how Angel thought, he found it difficult to imagine how ”light” could open the door to a hidden room.

Could it be that the hidden room is concealed in darkness and requires a special light to open it?

A bit hard to comprehend, but Angel still doubted that this independent magic pattern could open the hidden room door.

The exact effect must be observed after activation.

The Tree Spirit had made a choice at this point, bypassing the defense function through the tendril transmission, and activated the long-awaited unknown function...

With the activation of the unknown function, the Magical Energy Array suddenly lit up with bright light.

At the same time, various colored light mist began to spread outward from the center of the Magical Energy Array.

It was as if some Magical Creature was constrained by the Magical Energy Array on the door, and now they had broken the seal on the Magical Creature, which was struggling to escape from the constraint, emerging from the Magical Energy Array.

Though the momentum appeared grand, neither Angel nor the Tree Spirit showed any trace of fear.

Because they did not feel any danger, these escaped light mists were not Magical Creatures and did not exhibit any aggressive nature. Instead, it seemed to be a special illusion technique, presenting certain imagery through the distribution of different colors.

Different colored light mist underwent harmonious arrangements and combinations, and soon, a scene resembling illusionary imagery appeared in front of them.

While it was said to be an illusion, there were no illusion nodes, it was simply a three-dimensional image construction through light mist.

And what was constructed was a static image.

—A map of the relic.

To be precise, it was a map of three-dimensional distribution, and this map also marked the name of each room.

It was currently rotating in a 360-degree panoramic view, presenting every space on the map right before their eyes.

The moment Angel and the Tree Spirit saw this map, they immediately captured the anomaly. The rooms marked on this map were consistent with their previous explorations, except for one place, which showed an unknown space.

Angel and the Tree Spirit simultaneously locked their gaze on this location—underground level two of the relic.

This was also the room where Angel usually spent the most time in this relic.

The study room.

On the three-dimensional distribution map, the study room was not labelled as the study room, its name was marked as: Bedroom.

This immediately reminded them of Tizarro’s rant on the study room’s sign: ”I don’t need a bedroom, but I want a study room where no one can disturb me.”

Based on their earlier judgment, Tizarro must have later changed what was written on the study room’s sign. They speculated whether Tizarro had discovered something.

Evidence showed their speculation was entirely correct, Tizarro had indeed discovered that the study room was not initially a study room, but in the relic owner’s original layout, it was a bedroom.

Actually, whether it was a study room or a bedroom, this wasn’t important, it was just a name.

But what they focused on was that this room marked as ”Bedroom” was not just one, there was also a room similar in size connected closely to the Bedroom.

”Could this be the hidden—room?!”