Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 1958: Chapter 1959: Cranial Blood of the Brainwhale

Just not long ago, Dororo made another prophecy, and the protagonist of this prophecy was not a person, but a door covered with broken magic patterns.

According to Dororo’s description, it was an unconventional prophecy filled with strange images.

Throughout the prophecy, no person appeared, and the image only showed a door with broken magic patterns constantly repairing itself.

In Dororo’s perspective, he saw many mysterious glowing lines generated from the incomplete magic patterns, spreading like sprouting vines, continuously extending over the door, constructing countless hidden meanings of magic patterns, finally connecting all the broken magic patterns together to form a flawless magical energy array.

Then, the image stopped, and the future fragment shattered.

After Dororo had seen the whole process, even though he did not understand the meaning of the magical energy array, and due to the special nature of the magic patterns, he couldn’t even remember them. But he knew that Angel was best at alchemy magic patterns. Therefore, he paid great attention to this prophecy.

He had a natural spiritual sense, vaguely feeling that this future fragment might indeed be related to Angel.

For that reason, after hesitating repeatedly, he still spoke up about this prophecy.

When Angel heard this, he initially didn’t mind because Dororo couldn’t remember the magic patterns; even if he saw the process of the magic patterns going from broken to complete, it was actually useless, and Angel couldn’t analyze anything from it.

Later, Sanders asked Dororo to use the Light Shadow Technique to conjure up the future fragment.

Angel originally thought that there was no need to conjure the prophecy until Dororo, following Sanders’ instructions, presented the scene he saw with the Light Shadow Technique, and everyone noticed the clue.

Although the entire scene showed only one door, and this door was very ordinary, almost everyone recognized this door the moment they saw it.

Because, this was precisely the door of the ruins’ entrance and exit.

After confirming this news, everyone immediately realized that perhaps the prophecy Dororo saw might have something to do with the hidden secrets of the relic... Maybe, after completing the broken magic patterns on the door, they could find that hidden room?

Thus, after disconnecting the mini signal tower, everyone came to this door...

Angel was actually very interested in the secrets of this relic, but at this moment, he was more concerned about Dororo. Before they disconnected the mini signal tower, Dororo glanced at him, that glance was very calm, but Angel read some hidden meaning in it.

It seemed Dororo had something more to say.

When Dororo mentioned the sprouting matter, Angel indicated that Dororo could speak freely without worrying about others. But Dororo still chose to keep it secret earlier, was it because he judged that the matter shouldn’t be mentioned in the current situation? Then what could this matter be? The answers Angel could think of were either Dororo’s own secret or something related to Angel.

Regardless of which one, anything that could silence Dororo shouldn’t be underestimated.

It seems they really need to find an opportunity to talk alone with Dororo.

...

When Angel first came to this relic, he actually noticed the magic patterns on the door. However, he didn’t pay much attention because most relics have similar magic patterns, usually for alarm, defense, mechanisms, etc. To make entering and exiting the relic safer, turning off the magic patterns on the door is a common choice. For that reason, Angel didn’t think much of it at the time.

However, what he hadn’t expected was that the place he had ignored might be the key to everything?

Exactly what changes would occur after supplementing the magic patterns on this door, Angel did not know. However, in his view, the fact that Dororo proposed so solemnly might indeed be related to the secret of this relic.

Angel temporarily put aside the distractions in his mind and focused on the magic patterns. First, he concentrated his spiritual power into threads, dividing them into two, with one spiritual power covering the trigger magic patterns on the door... Although these were broken magic patterns, to avoid errors, the trigger magic patterns still needed to be blocked.

With the other spiritual power, he picked up an extremely thin blade, assisted by a phantom limb for precise manipulation, and gently scraped a bit of powder from the broken magic patterns.

Following that, he placed the fine dust into a specially designed siphon device, which led it into a dripper inscribed with responding magic patterns.

The dripper shimmered with yellowish-green light and produced concentric circular ripples.

”Is it Number 38 display? Hmm, there are ripples, that indicates 1782 number display...” Angel recalled the contents of the ”Blood Ink Responding Guide,” muttering to himself, ”It seems that the person who drew the magic patterns on the door back then chose blood ink made from the skull blood of a brain whale.”

”Brain whales couldn’t be seen in the Outer Sea two hundred years ago, all were domesticated by the people from the Song of the Deep Sea. It’s quite difficult to obtain the skull blood of a brain whale.”

Although acquiring the skull blood of a brain whale was very difficult, Angel wasn’t too troubled. As long as the effect and grade were similar to the brain whale’s skull blood, the magic patterns could be completed through third-party blending.

However, this kind of third-party harmonizing solvent requires a large amount of material, and it must be configured by an alchemist personally. If you add the cost of hiring an alchemist for configuration, the value might exceed that of the brain whale’s skull blood. For a Magic Rune Mage, it’s actually not worth it.

But since Angel himself is an Alchemist, it saved him a lot of effort.

Angel passed through the corridor, retrieved the ”Blood Ink Responding Guide” from the study, then went to the laboratory on the lower third floor, preheating the experimental equipment while researching blood similar to the brain whale’s skull blood.

About half an hour later, Angel saw a pattern of a lava-back eel in the book.

”All values are very close, the heart blood of the fin-tailed fire eel should be able to replace the brain whale’s skull blood.” Although it was recorded as such in the book, Angel still recalculated using formulas, and the results were the same as he expected.

Angel also had the heart of the fin-tailed fire eel in his possession, obtained from the Breeze Demonic Material Shop in Viking.

With all the materials complete, Angel prepared to begin brewing the heart blood ink of the fin-tailed fire eel.

...

While Angel was brewing the blood ink, the news of the Star-Gazing Day had already begun spreading all over the Southern Domain through the signal towers.

Although ordinary Witcher organizations and most Wizard Families would have to wait for the new issue of the Crown Star Church magazine to know what specifically had happened on the Star-Gazing Day, major Witcher organizations almost all knew the various stories of the Star-Gazing Day by now.