Wizard starting from shoeing donkeys

Chapter 1634: Chapter 565: Divine Artifact

Without any hesitation, Rein walked towards the ruined palace.

Suddenly, a black plant resembling a pitcher plant beside him suddenly opened two sharp black leaves and fiercely bit down towards Rein’s calf.

But in the next instant, a metallic spike rose up from the ground in advance, piercing through its wide-open mouth and swiftly shredding it to pieces.

This small disturbance did not affect Rein’s pace in the slightest. He continued to walk forward, neither too fast nor too slow...

However, Rein shifted his gaze slightly, because he noticed that after the black pitcher plant turned into wisps of faint black smoke, it slowly drifted towards the direction of the palace.

”The Fiend Demon has a certain attractive effect on evil qi.”

”Just like the natural resonance between avatars formed by other demon powers,” Rein thought to himself as he silently watched this scene.

With some thoughts crossing his mind, Rein continued to walk inside.

Along the way, he was continuously attacked by plants corrupted by the Fiend Demon, but at his current level of power, these things naturally posed no threat to him and couldn’t even slightly hinder his advance.

Until he reached the palace doors, the evil qi ahead had visibly formed a faint black vortex shield, hovering above the palace.

If someone below the level of epic were to come here, Rein was certain that the dense evil qi alone would rapidly cause them to mutate.

He looked inside through the broken palace doors.

Inside, there was a colorful vortex shield, confining Solson Gren as he lay inside.

Above the vortex shield, the strange weapon, which Rein suspected to be the Key of Time, was slowly rotating, and releasing threads of crystalline and elegant smoke-like energy downward.

Though the black evil qi still surrounded the last emperor, his eyes were tightly closed with a peaceful expression, vastly different from his previous fierce demeanor.

However, Rein carefully looked around and didn’t find the Goblin Princess Amora Gren’s figure. It was unclear whether her spiritual body had dissipated or was hidden somewhere.

But likely, it had dissipated.

After observing for a while, Rein focused his attention on the Key of Time above the Goblin Last Emperor Solson Gren’s head.

This time, the Key of Time was not an illusion but some sort of real existence, with the lower end vertical like a sword and the upper end forming a hollow ring.

At the very bottom of the ring, there was a remaining bit of bright, crystal-like sand.

Rein could sense that these tiny crystal particles seemed to possess some kind of magical power.

And it seemed it was precisely these crystal-like sands that were restraining Solson Gren or rather, the Fiend Demon.

”...the number of crystal particles inside seems to be slightly less than when Amora first appeared,” Rein thought carefully, recalling.

He then closed his eyes again, and, through his immense spiritual power, carefully sensed once more.

”Indeed, there are thirty-two crystal particles left.”

”If one represents a day, it corresponds to a bit over a month.”

”But isn’t the Key of Time in front of me already a real entity?”

”Why did the Goblin Princess Amora leave a message for me to find the real Key of Time?”

Rein slightly frowned, concentrated on pondering for a while, and then shook his head again.

For a moment, he couldn’t figure it out.

After a moment.

Seemingly having made some decision, Rein looked at the Key of Time ahead again, and his gaze was much firmer. He reached out his hand and slowly extended it.

Earlier, he had contemplated for a long time, and there was always a feeling within him that the key to everything seemed to be in the Key of Time before his eyes.

Although this object was crucial for imprisoning the Fiend Demon, it was even more key to unraveling mysteries.

Rein decided to lightly touch it.

Because at Rein’s level, some ideas or thoughts can no longer be described as spontaneous whims.

In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that at the level of a Full Moon Wizard, many thoughts are akin to divination, guided by intuition.

As Rein’s fingers lightly touched the ’Key of Time’, his eyes suddenly widened!

In his mind, a surging stream of information poured in, and images like a slideshow appeared in Rein’s mind...

...

After a long time, Rein finally opened his eyes, filled with shock, and murmured, ”So that’s it...”

It turns out, this is not the ancient legendary Divine Artifact ’Key of Time’, but one of the ’Key of Time’s sub-keys, with only a small fraction of the true Divine Artifact ’Key of Time’s’ effects.

But it also has the effect of returning life or a single object to a previous moment in time.

”Can it interfere with the laws of time on a small scale?” Rein examined the sub-key of the Key of Time in surprise.

Something involving the laws of time can naturally be called a Divine Artifact, even if it is just a sub-key.

It’s not hard to imagine how magnificent the true Divine Artifact Key of Time would be!

However, even for a sub-key, wielding such a power naturally comes at a cost.

And the cost is not insignificant!

Besides requiring the caster to have powerful spiritual power as support, at least that of a Full Moon Wizard, each condensation of a Time Sand grain will consume a day of the caster’s life.

Furthermore, the strength of the target also affects the effect’s feasibility.

The stronger the adversary, the more Time Sand grains are needed to achieve the same effect.

”But even with such a Divine Artifact, is it still impossible to defeat the Fiend Demon?” Rein pondered another problem.