Chapter 446 Tree of Life
Generally speaking, the area protected by a powerful legendary magic barrier is called a maze. When you are in the maze, you can feel all kinds of magical effects.
There are generally three kinds of spell barriers in the maze. The first kind is a permanent spell. As long as you enter the maze, you will be attacked by the power of spells. Only after you are promoted to a legend and cast a legendary spell field, you can remove, disrupt, suppress, and interfere with the maze barrier, and remove this spell on a large scale.
Including the time when Fry entered by mistake, Harland has explored this elf maze three times. In addition to creating thick fog, no other spells were triggered in the maze. It seems that this should not be a very offensive maze, and no other permanent spells with strong lethality are arranged.
In addition to permanent offensive spells, some mazes will also set up disabled spell barriers. In this kind of maze, some special spells will be disabled, such as flying, light spirit, etc. Harland led the magician into the maze, but he has not started to test it yet. Whether there are disabled spells in this maze is still an unsolved mystery for the time being. We need to wait until everyone is ready before we can slowly explore it.
The third type of maze barrier is a password-activated spell. As long as you silently recite a special activation password, you can perform various magic effects, such as light spirit, wall-penetrating, giant force, etc. As long as you silently recite the password, the effect is similar to various magical group magic auras.
Generally speaking, there are three kinds of magic barriers mixed in the maze. With each additional magic barrier, it will be more difficult to establish the maze, the spell structure will be more complicated, and it will be more troublesome to crack it.
In order to crack the maze, a legendary wizard created a forbidden magic force field spell that can effectively suppress the maze barrier. Suppressing the magic barrier makes it much easier to crack the maze.
Legendary magic is a secret of each wizard organization. Although the Harland Wizard Association has a lot of background, it has no understanding of the forbidden magic force field spell structure.
Richard has been studying magic for more than 20 years. Although he is lucky, he has obtained the spell inheritance of the Star Alliance and the most precious inheritance of the legendary magic organization Death Tower, the Book of Death. In fact, he has only mastered two legendary magic spell structures.
The first one is naturally the starlight bomb, which is the iconic magic of Shao Gongyuan of the Star Alliance. The grade is already legendary level 4. This magic is recorded in the Starlight Meditation Method. If you don't use the Starlight Necklace, you can only cast it after you are promoted to Legend through the Starlight Meditation Method.
Richard, Sofia, Wendy and others all use the Highland Meditation Method to become magicians. Even if they are promoted to Legend, this spell basically cannot be cast without the Starlight Necklace.
Among the Harland Mage Association, only five people have sensed the star power and used the Starlight Meditation Method to advance to become magicians. Among them, Richard's eldest daughter Margaret has the highest talent and has been promoted to the fourth ring. When Margaret is promoted to Legend, the lethality of this magic must be extraordinary.
The second spell is the legendary undead magic dead resurrection. This magic is a super advanced version of transforming undead. Once used, it can transform the dead within a radius of 30 kilometers into undead, and transform tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of undead at a time. It is a large-scale war magic and a very terrible spell.
To release the resurrection of the dead, a strong negative energy is needed as a basis. Normal legendary magicians cannot release this kind of spell at all.
There are some ideas for legendary spells left. Some are recorded in the Meditation Method No. 4. Richard also has some unique insights. Even in several magic ruins, some incomplete legendary magics have been excavated, but these incomplete legendary magics have not been verified yet and are not mature.
Because the Elf Mystic Lock has no owner and no one is operating it, the password-activated spells are naturally useless. After careful verification by the magician of Harland, it was found that the five spells of flying, dimension door, magic force field, teleportation, and mental detection are prohibited in this mystic lock.
These five spells are very critical spells for the magician's battle. If these five spells cannot be used, the suppression of the mystic lock on the magician will become extremely great. Coupled with the large-scale fog and one or two password-activated spells, as long as there is a seven-ring magician stationed in the mystic lock, it can easily block many high-level magicians of the Harland Mage Association.
Unless Richard does not follow the moral principles of martial arts and directly uses the Starlight Necklace to bombard the maze, he can defeat the opponent in the maze.
After many tests, Richard has known that the maze has no owner.
After entering the maze, everyone began to study the structure of the maze.
The elf tribe where Sylph was born is a relatively small tribe. There are no legendary magicians in history, nor the Tree of Life. The magic inheritance is relatively simple. Although there is some knowledge of maze construction, which is in the same vein as the elf maze, there is very little knowledge inheritance involving legends. If you want to successfully unlock the maze, you need to gather everyone's ideas and try to unlock the structure of the maze.
The senior members of the Harland Mage Association have a good foundation. Sophia has been promoted to the ninth ring. She has a very high comprehension and an IQ far beyond the ordinary. In Richard's previous life, she was also a natural scientist. In addition, she mastered the advanced mathematics knowledge brought by Richard from the alien universe and made many heavyweight research.
Richard is an eighth-level magician, with a spiritual power slightly superior to that of a legendary magician. Not only does he possess special knowledge of the previous life and other universes, but his intuition is also very accurate, and he is good at summarizing and drawing inferences from one example.
He is not a battle mage, with a brain full of muscles, which is useless at this time.
Although Wendy, Eve and others are not as talented as Richard and Sofia, they all like to use their brains and can come up with some unique insights, which are very helpful for everyone to discuss and spark ideas.
Harland leads the Mage Association, attaches great importance to magic research, and has formed an atmosphere that attaches importance to magic research talents. Many mages have wonderful ideas. After many days of discussion, everyone summarized several methods.
The first is to use energy absorption to absorb the magic energy in the maze in a short period of time, and then the magicians seize the opportunity to destroy the energy supply and spell structure in the maze.
Energy absorption is a seven-ring spell created by Sofia based on the principle of ancient wizards making energy absorption stones. Normally, a seven-ring spell cannot absorb all the magic energy in the maze.
The magic energy in the maze is endless, and in a millisecond, the shortage of magic energy can be replenished to the entire rune circuit.
If the magic energy in the maze cannot be absorbed at one time, even if dozens of high-level magicians release energy absorption together, it will be useless for cracking the maze.
Richard's situation is very special. His mental power is 60 points and his magic power is 1440 points, which is higher than that of the legendary magician. He has also awakened the talent of powerful spells. If Richard uses up his magic power and releases the energy absorption spell with all his strength, it is possible to drain the magic power of the maze lock in an instant. At that time, everyone can seize the opportunity to cut off the magic pattern circuit of the maze lock.
After formulating the plan, Richard used all his magic power to release the energy absorption spell. In an instant, Richard sensed that the colorful magic energy passed through his body and was absorbed into a large number of energy absorption stones. In the blink of an eye, he felt serious dizziness and confusion.
After more than 3,000 years of operation, the materials used to build the maze lock have begun to weather and decay, and the stored magic power is insufficient compared to 3,000 years ago. No one has maintained it for 3,000 years, and the power of the maze lock has begun to decrease.
If it was when the maze lock was first built, with Richard's mental power of 60 points, it might be far from enough to drain the magic power in the maze lock. I am afraid that he will have to wait until he is promoted to the third level of legend and his mental power exceeds 100 points before he can use this method to unlock this large maze lock.
However, no one had maintained or repaired the maze for three thousand years, and about half of the magic power in the maze had been lost. Richard exerted all his strength, and in an instant, a large area of fog dissipated, and everyone could see clearly the situation within a radius of more than ten kilometers in the maze.
Richard briefly drained the magic power in the maze, and Sophia immediately released the magic interference spell to destroy the rune circuit in the maze. Wendy also manipulated the magic conversion device at the same time to lead the magic power in the maze through special magic runes.
In an instant, the maze fell into stagnation and soon lost its use.
After unlocking the maze, Richard shook his dizzy head and saw a giant tree several hundred meters high.
This giant tree was lush and black, estimated to be four or five hundred meters high, and branches appeared from the bottom to the top of a hundred meters. From a close distance, it looked like a cylindrical high-rise building, and from a distance, it looked like a big mushroom.
Richard took everyone closer and found that the diameter of this giant tree was about twelve meters.
Richard was stunned when he saw this huge tree. He asked Wendy: "Is this the tree of life?"
After seeing the tree of life, Wendy was still very excited, with a blush on her face, and nodded.
"It is indeed a tree of life."
Hearing Wendy's whisper, Sylph took a few steps and climbed up the tree of life easily. She muttered something, and drops of water of life flowed out of the giant tree in an instant.
According to the records of magic books, a tree of life with a tree age of ten thousand years can produce a drop of water of life every three years, and it takes about three hundred years to accumulate enough water for a bottle.
For a tree of life with an age of more than three thousand years but less than ten thousand years, it takes six years to produce a drop of water of life, and it takes about six hundred years to accumulate a bottle.
For a tree with an age of less than three thousand years but more than a thousand years, it takes twelve years to produce a drop of water of life, and it takes about one thousand two hundred years to accumulate a bottle of water of life.
The tree of life, which is less than a thousand years old, takes about several decades to produce a drop of water of life.
In a short time, Sylph has taken out all the water of life accumulated over three thousand years.
"I counted, a total of 268 drops. It seems that this tree of life sprouted about 3,500 years ago. The maze should have been built in the middle of the Seven Gods Era, and its main purpose is to protect this tree of life."
Listening to Sylph's quiet narration, Richard had a rough idea in his mind.
The Seven Gods Era was full of fierce battles, and god wars occurred from time to time. It was a real high-magic plane.
According to historical records, the God of Elves was defeated in the middle of the Seven Gods Era, and the legendary elves led the elves to retreat from the Central Continent to the Eastern Continent, leaving the center stage of the Dawn Plane. This maze may be a product of that period.
268 drops of water of life can be synthesized into two bottles of six parts and eight drops. Each drop of water of life is a priceless treasure.
This priceless treasure is only produced by the large elf tribes in the East Continent. Most of it is consumed by the elves. Occasionally, some of it is lost, and it is basically in the hands of the Western Magic Kingdoms such as Markholm, Celtic, and Palmera.
A few years ago, Sophia wanted to leave the territory and go to the Western Magic Kingdom with Richard to see if she could find the water of life to prolong her youth and maintain her beauty.
Unexpectedly, the Harland Territory opened the ruins of the Star Alliance, and Richard, Sophia and others all got this item, thus staying young forever.
The Water of Life is a natural legendary potion. Its most important function is to increase lifespan. In addition, taking a bottle of the Water of Life can also increase various physical attributes. In addition, the Water of Life can also provide great help at the moment of breakthrough.
A bottle of the Water of Life is very valuable. Even in the current Harland Territory, it is difficult to keep it as long as the news is leaked.
Because those who dare to take the Water of Life are basically legendary masters, especially legendary magicians, who have strange means, come and go without a trace, and never confront you head-on.
Even if the Harland Territory is powerful, it can't do anything about the legendary magicians hiding in the dark, so after getting the Water of Life, Richard can only let people take it as soon as possible.
Two bottles of six portions of the Water of Life must be arranged for important people to use.
The natural legendary potion of the Water of Life can only be used in three doses: one bottle, one portion, and one drop.
Every professional can only play the role of increasing lifespan when using the Water of Life for the first time.
In the Harland territory, Richard, Sylph, Sophia, Wendy, and Margaret took a bottle of Water of Life, and their lifespans increased by 200 years. Sutton, Undine, Philip, William, Powell, Soros, and Hayden received one of the bottles. Their lifespans increased by 20 years.
For these twelve people, taking the Water of Life can no longer increase their lifespans.
If the Water of Life is used with maximum efficiency, this treasure should be given to other people in the territory, but the reality is that it is simply impossible.
The twelve people who took the Water of Life last time are already the core layer of the territory, and the rest are not eligible to enjoy it for the time being.
No matter how generous Richard is, he can't give a bottle of Water of Life to his subordinates. If it weren't for the stability of the territory, Richard even wanted to save the Water of Life and leave it to his future descendants.
After discussing with Sylph, Sophia, Undine and others, Richard finally decided to leave one bottle of Water of Life to his second son Rex and another bottle to Sutton to break through the bottleneck of legend.
The remaining six were given to my second cousin Morgan, my cousin Audrey, my cousin-in-law Jennings, the elf wizard Eve, my distant cousin Annie, and my eldest brother-in-law Roger.
The last eight drops of water of life were kept by the Harland Wizard Association for magic research.
As for the others who explored the elf maze, the magicians rewarded them for their academic contributions, and the officers gave them a generous amount of money. After all, ordinary magicians and officers did not make great contributions in unlocking the maze, so the reason they were given some rewards was actually to keep them quiet.