After a long while, Richard finally spoke up: "Perhaps we can change our thinking, Stephanie, do you see the small door at the bottom of the side of the Bone Tower?"
"I see, master." Stephanie still looked at her master with confusion. Although there was a small door at the bottom of the bone tower, the two of them couldn't pass through.
Isn't what we are discussing now about how to defeat the Black Knight and enter the tower?
"Have you forgotten your innate magic - shadow transformation? If there is a door here in the Bone Tower, doesn't it prove that there should be a passage or space behind the door?"
Richard saw that Stephanie still couldn't understand what she meant, so he explained with a smile.
"Yes! Why didn't I think of it!" Stephanie's beautiful eyes suddenly flashed with joy, and her eyes smiled into crescent shapes.
She had always regarded her innate witchcraft as a magic to avoid enemy attacks. Due to the inertia of thinking, she did not remember that this witchcraft actually had many other uses.
So, when the two of them chose the Black Knight and went around to the other side of the Bone Tower, Stephanie took Richard's hand and stepped into the shadow world at the same time. In an instant, two blurry figures walked towards the small door of the Bone Tower.
Soon, two blurry grey figures, as if they did not exist in this world, stepped into the white bone door as if they were stepping into a bubble.
After passing through the bone door, Richard and Stephanie discovered that there was indeed a narrow passage about one meter wide. A few meters beyond the passage was a row of stairs that spiraled downward against the wall.
Richard squeezed Stephanie's hand.
Stephanie understood immediately, and the two of them immediately returned to the passage from the shadow world.
I saw that the passage was built with densely packed bones on all sides, but there were still many gaps in the middle. On the wall on one side, there was a phosphorescent lamp with the thigh bone of an unknown creature as a support.
Under the illumination of the dim green phosphorescent lamps, the entire passage was emitting a creepy light green glow.
Richard thought about it and tried to summon the blood and bone puppet again.
But unfortunately, he could sense the blood and bone puppet, but it seemed that the other party was still hindered by the undead creatures and could not respond to Richard's call.
He did not try to summon the vengeful abominations. Given the height and width of the passage, the vengeful abominations were likely to respond to his call and would be stuck in the passage if they came.
Then the next exploration will still require him and Stephania to take the lead.
"Stephanie, Shadow Spider." Richard thought about it and decided to let Stephanie use Shadow Spider as a pathfinder to check the situation first.
Stephanie nodded immediately and began to summon the little spiders from the shadow world. After sensing Stephanie's call, the little creatures that were originally outside the Bone Tower immediately stepped into the shadow world, and then came into the passage one by one as if they could pass through walls.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak!”
After understanding the task assigned by Stephanie, the little spiders in the shadow world quickly went down the stairs to explore.
Soon, Stephana smiled and said, "Master, it's safer down there than we thought. There are no undead creatures. This seems to be the site of the owner of the Bone Tower. There is an alchemy room down there."
"Hey! Let's go. What are we waiting for?" Richard couldn't help but smile. Holding Stephanie's hand, they slowly walked down the stairs.
Following the spiral bone steps, the two men walked not far before arriving at the bottom. What caught their eyes was an alchemy room with an area of over 100 square meters. The equipment inside was very different from the ones Richard used in the Ignis School.
The tools used by the gray dwarves in Toug City were also very different and unique! But what attracted the two people's attention the most was a magic array shining with purple light in the center of the alchemy room. There was a fist-sized purple crystal that rose and fell slowly like a living thing.
Richard looked around and was surprised to find that there were many bookshelves on the edge of the alchemy area, and he could vaguely see a lot of books inside.
Richard walked forward quickly, and suddenly, a transparent barrier appeared in front of him where there was nothing originally. It seemed to be some kind of defensive formation. The barrier was transparent and elastic, and it quickly bounced Richard out.
Richard was startled for a moment, but when he looked down at his bone armor and saw that there was no damage, he knew that the main function of this defensive formation was not to attack or counterattack the enemy, but it was purely a blocking formation.
"Master, are you okay?" Stephanie also saw this scene and quickly came over to comfort him.
Richard shook his head, rubbed his chin with one hand, and began to think about how to break this formation.
At present, the energy supply of this formation should be the purple crystal in front of us. Although it is not known whether direct long-range attacks such as death rays can shatter or destroy the stability of this crystal, thereby destroying the energy supply of the barrier.
However, rashly smashing this crystal, which is obviously the core of the energy magic array, is still a very risky act and may bring unpredictable consequences.
For example, causing a big explosion.
Of course, it is also possible that this tower of bones would sound an alarm, allowing all the undead creatures wandering outside to come and kill the two invaders, him and Stephanna.
But no matter which situation it is, it is not a consequence that Richard can bear.
After thinking for a while, Richard turned to Stephanie and said, "Stephanie, take me with you and try the shadow transformation again to see if we can bypass this barrier from the shadow world and enter the alchemy area."
"Yes, Master."
As Stephanie spoke, she stretched out her fair hand to hold Richard's, and began to perform her innate magic - Shadow Transformation.
In an instant, the two figures disappeared in the real world, leaving behind two blurry gray shadows, walking towards the alchemy area.
But what surprised the two was that in the shadow world, they actually saw the transparent barrier that stretched in front of them.
Then, the two of them appeared in the real world again.
"Oh!" Richard couldn't help but feel helpless and admiring.
The level of the wizard who set up this place was so high that he was really far behind. The defensive formation also provided defense directly at the spatial level.
This made Richard even more eager for the items in the alchemy area.
Richard paced back and forth, pondering in silence, while Stephanie helped to look around for possible trigger formations.
"Logically speaking, it's impossible that the wizards here would not have considered leaving any hints for those who come after them before leaving." Richard muttered to himself.
After all, wizards in ancient times loved to be riddle tellers and liked to give riddles to those who came after them to reveal secrets. If the person could answer the question successfully, they would receive certain rewards.
"Master! Come and take a look, there seems to be something different here." At this time, Stephanie on the side seemed to have found something and was waving her arms at Richard.
Richard walked forward quickly and looked in the direction of Stephanie's slender fingers. He saw a unique phosphorescent lamp on the wall. Although it was also made of the thigh bones of living creatures, the material was purer white than other phosphorescent lamps.
"Death is lingering."
After Richard cast a defensive spell on himself again, he reached out and touched the bone lamp holder, and nothing bad happened.
“Crack!”
Sure enough, it could be turned. I saw that the white thigh bone lamp holder had rotated about thirty degrees to the right from upright.
"Sizzle"
A sound similar to that of two rocks rubbing against each other was heard, and a crack suddenly opened in the bone wall on the side, revealing an independent small space.
Richard and Stephanie looked at each other and saw joy in each other's eyes! For safety reasons, Richard observed from outside the gap for a few seconds and found that it seemed to be a meditation room with only a bed, a table and a chair, all made of the skeletons of unknown creatures, and all white.
The only bright color may be a black box on the table.
In the all-white tone, a completely black box is absolutely eye-catching.
It seems that the secret should be in this box.
Richard concentrated most of the energy of death on his right hand. Suddenly, the black airflow on his right hand was so thick that it almost glowed.
At the same time, he transformed the mimic metal into a glove and put it on.
Under Stephanie's nervous gaze, he carefully opened the black box.
“Crack!”
After opening the black box, nothing happened. Richard felt a little relieved, and then he slowly opened the lid.
There was a black notebook placed in the middle, and a piece of colorful silk underneath.
The feeling it gives people is that the importance of notebooks is particularly highlighted.
Richard opened the notebook and saw a ring inside with a raised "D" symbol on it.
At the same time, there is a sentence in the notebook, written in Hutt, the oldest wizarding language.
Richard read it out word by word: "If you want to know the secrets here, please practice the following apprentice-level meditation method and wear the ring on your hand."
As expected, all the ancient wizards were Riddlers! This one was even more ruthless. Anyone who could come here must be a formal wizard. How could he choose to relearn meditation?
Re-cultivating the meditation method may mean that the core that has already been built in the spiritual sea needs to be shattered and discarded, which will not only cause serious damage to oneself, but also reduce the strength to the level of a third-level wizard apprentice.
Richard smiled bitterly and shook his head. Who could do that?
But within a second, Richard's face showed ecstasy, which immediately made Stephanie beside him puzzled.
After all, it was Richard who read out those words just now, and she heard it clearly from the side.
"Stephanie, I can now confirm that the owner of this place is the legendary necromancer Rodrigo!" Richard excitedly grabbed Stephanie's arm and said in a trembling voice.
"Because the apprentice meditation method recorded in the notebook is the Rodrigo Meditation Method!"
Stephanie's eyes lit up immediately, and she said happily, "That's great! Master, it's worth our journey."
"Master, please put on the ring."
Richard hesitated for a moment and thought carefully about Rodrigo's life in his mind. There seemed to be no rumors about him being reincarnated as a lich, nor any legend about him turning into a spirit.
After ruling out the possibility of various evil witchcraft such as possession, Richard slowly put the strange ring on the ring finger of his right hand.
When Richard concentrated his mind on this peculiarly shaped ring, suddenly, a strange space appeared in his consciousness.
It was about the size of a cube, and there was nothing inside except a hexagonal diamond-shaped crystal.
As Richard's mind moved, the crystal suddenly appeared in the real space, on Richard's right hand.
"This shape seems to be a recording crystal?" Stephanie saw a crystal suddenly appear in Richard's hand and couldn't help but look at it carefully. She immediately recognized that it was a recording crystal.
Although the time when the legendary necromancer Rodrigo dominated the continent is very long ago, it is surprising that the shapes of the recording crystals are similar.
Richard nodded, acknowledging Stephanie's judgment.
After thinking about it, Richard immersed his consciousness into this recording crystal.
Two minutes later, Richard looked at Stephanie with a smile on his face and said, "I am now considered half an apprentice of Master Rodrigo."
"Here are the first three levels of Rodrigo's Meditation Method, which are enough for me to cultivate to the level of a third-level wizard. As long as I wear this ring, I can enter the alchemy area next to it directly."
"There are some experimental records of Mr. Rodrigo, as well as several improved first and second level witchcraft."
"Great, Master!" Stephanie was initially surprised as to why Richard called Rodrigo his mentor. It turned out that her master had inherited his legacy! Hey! That's not right!
The master just said half? "By the way, why did you say half an apprentice?" Stephanie asked in confusion.
"Haha, that's because half of the inheritance is here, and the other half is in another place. I remember I mentioned it to you last time. It's in the Ivers Forest at the junction of the Vitrol Continent Business Alliance and the Death Prairie." Richard was in a good mood and answered Stephanie's doubts with a smile.
"I see!" Stephanie nodded.
After thinking about it, Richard decided to practice meditation immediately. He had saved so many energy points just for this moment! "Stephanie, I'm going to practice meditation."
"Okay, master." Stephanie was no longer surprised by her master Richard's peculiar abilities.
Basically, any witchcraft can be quickly learned and mastered by its master after seeing it once, and meditation is no exception! [Found that the host is practicing the second level of Rodrigo's meditation method. Yes/No to consume energy to gain inspiration for practicing the second level of Rodrigo's meditation method? ]
Richard immediately dragged the slider to the far right and selected "Yes!"
In an instant, Richard came to an illusory dream as if his soul had left his body. This time the scene in the dream was in an empty cave. There were four fire pots burning in the four directions of the cave, and he was possessed by a vague human figure.
(End of this chapter)