Beneath the Red Dragon

Within these crystal cabinets shimmering with the tranquil glow of spells, countless documents and books are placed. Alongside these documents and books, there are also sample exhibits that are similarly set in the crystal cabinets.

Bookmarks are stuck onto these crystal cabinets that isolate from the outside world, as if the ancient mages feared their successors would be too dull to find what they desired amidst the neatly arranged knowledge.

Karon hadn’t started scanning and inspecting the entire space yet when he heard an astonished shout. He turned his head to see Lapus’s slightly trembling figure.

”This, this is,” exclaimed Lapus, the white-haired old mage, whose breathing became hurried, though he was usually calm as a Holy Sanctuary Mage.

”Is it necessary to be so excited over seeing some knowledge?” Karon mumbled to himself, thinking that after hearing about those ancient mad practices, nothing he saw could easily stir him.

He walked over to the side. As he looked at the labels on this crystal cabinet, his pupils involuntarily enlarged dramatically.

”Golem Manufacturing Principles and Overview and Specific Manufacturing Methods for Various Types of Golems,” beneath this major label, there were rows of smaller labels listing names and entries for each golem. Among them was ”Conceptual Principles and Experiments of the Neutron Star Golem.”

”Is this the heritage left by the Magic Empire that once ruled the Endless Plane World?” Karon couldn’t help but lament; this was just the first cabinet. His gaze swept across the row upon row of books and documents-filled cabinets, suddenly having an idea that everything outside was just trash.

In addition to documents and books, the cabinet contained magic crystals recording knowledge as well, which should be backups prepared by the ancient mages just in case.

Karon did not choose the magic crystals but followed the bookmarks to find the record documents on the Neutron Star Golem.

The abilities possessed by the Neutron Star Golem are indescribable with just the word powerful, having not only gravitational spiritual light, thermal energy spiritual light, planetary resonance, among other special attack methods.

Furthermore, the Neutron Star Golem possesses various magical characteristics, such as accretion, gravity control, magic immunity, magnetic tracking, and faster-than-light speeds.

Karon couldn’t help but applaud the mages’ ingenuity, though it’s a pity that he couldn’t meet the most basic prerequisite for the Neutron Star Golem, which is the remnants of a neutron star, the material for constructing the Neutron Star Golem.

Those ancient mages, in order to realize the creation of this golem, captured stellar bodies with powerful forces in the Endless Plane to conduct manufacturing experiments. However, Karon didn’t know if the ancient mages had succeeded in creating the Neutron Star Golem because the documents did not mention it.

Karon temporarily put aside this goal and moved towards the other cabinets.

”Essential Analysis of Energy-Sucking Beasts and Energy-Sucking Trees,” ”Conceptual Inference and Manufacturing Method of Energy Absorption Device,” ”Very well, this is useful,” Karon glanced at it before moving on to the next target.

”Creation and Method Summary of Half-Plane,” ”In-Depth Techniques of Elemental Control,” ”Magic Artifact Amplification Spell Expansion,” ”Technique for Increasing Magic Capacity by Depleting Magic Power,” ”Creation and Types of Magical Constructs from Golems,”

Rows and rows of knowledge in the display windows were more beautiful in Karon’s eyes than the world’s most precious treasures, making him almost want to stop and delve into deep study and learning immediately.

However, the next cabinet always managed to attract his curiosity and desire for discovery.

While walking, Karon felt for the first time the wonderful sensation of knowledge sliding over the cerebral cortex, but he still stopped before one display window and smiled.

This cabinet’s label was extremely simple, containing only a few entries, ”Comparison and Use of Mithra’s Core and Pool of Elements,” ”Manufacturing Method of Stone of Iaen.”

From the documented records, Karon learned that those ancient mages opened a road leading to other crystal wall systems in the cosmos, engaging in communication and research with another powerful mage civilization.

The two sides exchanged a lot of magical knowledge and technology, with these two being among the most important pieces of knowledge.

Karon also knew of the existence of these two wondrous creations, Mithra’s Core, a device that generates power enabling vast cities to hover and mighty mountains to soar into the sky, is the most crucial core of the Floating City.

Whereas the Stone of Iaen is a magical treasure capable of bestowing individuals with various miraculous abilities, ranging from granting night vision to temporarily enhancing a person’s power level, with numerous uses.

And the Pool of Elements, researched by many Magic Princes of the ancient Magic Empire, uses a magical array to gather elements and magic power from the world, becoming akin to a colossal magic furnace.

It provides abundant power and also generates additional resource earnings, with the element crystals covering the ground outside being the result of thousands of years of accumulation by the Pool of Elements.

The Pool of Elements is also the magical creation that mages of this world use to ascend their towers high into the heavens and walk freely.

”Wow, really incredible knowledge, perhaps even the gods would glimpse at this knowledge,” Karon even felt his consciousness had been rendered numb by the shocking knowledge left by ancient mages, now only mechanically using the sub-brain cluster to record this information.

Line after line of knowledge transformed into rows of information, flowing in Karon’s vision, his sub-brain fully operating to integrate this precious knowledge into his mind.

Even though this plane was right here and he could consult this knowledge with the mages anytime in the future, for Karon, what he held in his hands was most stable.

But Karon soon found a troubling place: despite his sub-brain cluster being strong enough after long-term evolution, the knowledge here was too abundant, leaving his sub-brain capacity extremely burdened.

The excessive intake of knowledge information made him feel his sub-brain’s operation occasionally showed signs of sluggishness, like a fevered brain with slowed reactions.

”Although all is very precious knowledge, it seems I painfully need to temporarily choose the knowledge most suitable for myself, then reconsider enhancing the sub-brain after returning,”

Karon recorded the knowledge in this cabinet into his sub-brain, feeling a slight bulging sensation in his brain as if he just completed twenty sets of exercises.

”The next one, I can still hold on,” Karon’s will urged him towards the next target.

”Concept and Experiment of Two Time Devices,” the label on this cabinet was surprisingly brief, without additional smaller entries, though the thickness of the documents inside was no less than other cabinets.

Karon rubbed his slightly sore brow softly and reached out, taking out the documents to browse.

”Mortals can also have imaginations as magnificent as mages. As I once heard from a mortal, perhaps among all origin problems (cosmic origin, life origin), time is the source of our understanding of everything!”

Karon continued browsing through the book, patiently reading on.

”In certain universes, the beings there believe time fundamentally does not exist, that the essence of time is merely the sequencing of events, representing the movement and change of matter,”

”Time is just a concept those beings use to describe such changes, with only space and higher-dimensional space existing, though I do not agree with this viewpoint,”

”However, the closer one approaches the truth, the more interdisciplinary knowledge is required to glimpse the origin, or rather, the more comprehensive one needs to be to discover the universe’s source.”

”So I decided to conduct two experiments, one based on the science methodology of that universe, and another with the mage’s approach, to explore the essence of time.”

Karon sighed, feeling these mages, or perhaps calling them magical scientists, is more fitting! Yet, from this mage’s document, perhaps Karon’s former homeland, those mages have once visited as well!