Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 1929: Section 1930: Listening to the Heartbeat

No matter whether Angel’s guess is correct or not, it is indeed a reasonable line of thought.

However, they currently have not followed this line of thought to inspect various parts of the ruins. After all, this ruin isn’t too big nor too small, and wanting to inspect every place one by one to find clues to the ”bedroom” will certainly take much more time than simply looking for anomalies.

It should be noted that even Tizarro only modified the copper plaque on the door two hundred years later, which means he didn’t discover anything in the first two hundred years. Even Tizarro took two hundred years, so they might not be able to find it quickly.

Additionally, they are not sure whether the anomaly of the copper plaque is related to the hidden room. If it is just for the title of ”bedroom” and they expend energy, it’s likely to be a futile effort.

Therefore, they did not plan to look for it now. This matter was eventually left for Angel to handle. If nothing unexpected happens, he will live in the ruins for a while in the future, and will have plenty of opportunities to find the answer to the ”copper plaque”.

Since this path of the copper plaque anomaly is not feasible for now, they simply put aside the speculation about the copper plaque and continued to listen to Rhein talking about other doubts.

Rhein thought for a moment and spoke about the second place where the Eye of Truth caused a slight movement in his spiritual sense.

Rhein looked at Angel: ”You should know what the innermost room of the lower level laboratory is, right?”

Angel recalled for a moment: ”It’s filled with old standard alchemy tools, and they’re stacked very chaotically, even the tables are piled up. According to my speculation, these should be tools used by the first owner of the ruins, because Tizarro does not practice alchemy, so he just piled these things in that room.”

Rhein nodded: ”Your speculation is correct, those alchemy tools were indeed piled in there by Tizarro. But, do you know what that room was originally used for?”

Before Angel could answer, Rhein provided the answer: ”It should be a storage room for placing items.”

Rhein recalled the information perceived through the Eye of Truth previously.

In the constantly rewinding time, Rhein discovered a lot of residual information in that room. Among them, there were gases specifically for placement, and a large number of fragmented alchemy storage items, including semi-finished products and finished products.

It was for this reason that Rhein inferred that it was a storage room for placing items.

”What’s the anomaly then?” Tree Spirit asked in puzzlement, having listened to Rhein’s explanation for a long time without hearing any anomalies. A storage room for placing items is very normal for alchemists.

”The anomaly is...” Rhein paused: ”I smelled a mysterious scent in the rift of time.”

”Oh?”

”Do you mean that the original owner of this ruin was refining mysterious objects, a mysterious alchemist?” Tree Spirit asked in amazement. Generally speaking, a storage room for placement, because of the special environmental structure, is usually used for placing the works of alchemists in the process of refinement. If Rhein smelled a mysterious aura here, wouldn’t it mean the original owner was refining mysterious objects?

This is remarkable information. According to Tree Spirit’s millennia of experience, even in the Wizards’ Realm of four regions, mysterious alchemists are extremely rare. Each one will leave a prominent name in the waves of history.

If this information is confirmed, it means that this ruin is very likely to be a laboratory left by a mysterious alchemist!

If that were the case, this ruin cannot be underestimated.

”It might not necessarily be a mysterious alchemist, it could also be that he possesses some kind of mysterious artifact.” Sanders interjected at this time.

While a mysterious object is also very valuable, it is not particularly rare. Except for Tree Spirit, the three of them present actually all have mysterious objects.

”I actually agree more with Sanders’ view. If it were a mysterious level alchemist, that would be too unrealistic. I tend to believe that the other party has mysterious artifacts.” Rhein said at this point, looking at Angel: ”However, I cannot make a correct judgment either. The mysterious level is not within my expertise. If it were Angel, perhaps he could perceive the truth of the aura coming from the temporal rift.”

This is the current consensus in the Southern Domain Wizard World. Perhaps Angel is not the strongest in alchemy technique, but the alchemist closest to the mysterious level must be Angel.

”Unfortunately, even if I applied the Eye of Truth to you, to bear the Eye of Truth, you still need some physical qualities as a foundation. Angel has not yet entered True Knowledge and cannot bear the Eye of Truth.”

After Rhein’s lament, Tree Spirit continued to ask if there were any other findings.

However, Rhein gave a negative answer.

He only discovered these two anomalies. Although these two doubts filled in many unknowns for them, they didn’t seem to have much to do with the hidden room.

For a moment, the trail once again ran cold.

Subsequently, everyone fell into a bout of silence.

Angel thought it was frustration that made everyone helpless, but upon a closer look, he found that Tree Spirit and Sanders were both looking at Rhein, and Rhein had his eyes closed, with an invisible ripple of spiritual power emanating from him.

Rhein’s spiritual ripple carried a natural silent force field; the so-called silence was not about not speaking, but being unable to speak.

They could try to forcefully break through this layer of silent force field, but looking at Rhein’s appearance, he seemed to be pondering something with his eyes closed, so there was no need to disturb him.

This kind of ”forced” silence lasted for about ten minutes.

When Rhein opened his eyes, all the spiritual ripples around him were retracted into his eyes, and the silent force field instantly disappeared. Even so, no one spoke, waiting for Rhein to speak.

Rhein: ”I just went back to the Mirror World for a moment.”

No one asked how Rhein went back there, for it was obvious. Rhein’s body remained here, and his soul did not leave the body. He surely returned to the Mirror World on the mental level through the extension of spiritual power.

Except for Angel, everyone present could actually do this. Once Angel steps into True Knowledge, the quality of his spiritual power will undergo a huge transformation, and then, by exerting himself, he would be able to extend spiritual power tens of miles in one direction.

”I mainly went back to the tower to ask the statue, to see if I could get some answers from its heartbeat.”

Rhein’s words were vague, but everyone knew what he meant, including Angel. Angel had been to Cloud Tower more than once before, so he knew very well that there was a pool in the main hall at the bottom of Cloud Tower, with a statue at the center of the pool, and this statue was of the Silent Deity.

The Silent Deity is a small sect within the Prophecy branch, although not as large as the divisions of ”River of Fate, Wheel of Time, and Strings of the World”, it’s still one of the mainstream sects.

Angel originally didn’t know why Rhein would place a statue of the Silent Deity there, but later he found out from various places that Rhein could ask questions to the statue of the Silent Deity, and by listening to the heartbeat of the statue, achieve effects similar to divination.

Of course, this effect is certainly much lower than the true abilities of a Prophet Wizard, and the ”heartbeat” of the statue can only be captured by Rhein, a Silent Sorcerer proficient in Sonic Spells, so it is not so extraordinary.

Rhein’s main purpose of returning to Cloud Tower via spiritual power this time was to see if he could get some information about the ruins by listening to the heartbeat of the statue.