Chapter 1263: Chapter 1264: Ancient Ruins
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Crackle, crackle, crackle, crackle...
The Coffin of Hope, heavy and clumsy in craftsmanship.
It lacks many delicate and exquisite techniques, only possessing the most primitive balancing techniques in the Material World, using extremely precious material substances as warfare resistance, with harsh environments and the toughest conditions as the bottom line for response, emphasizing practicality and stability, unlike the war artworks of the Metal Destroyer civilization.
An empty hall, with two Ant Queen-Level Mechanical Puppets standing.
Both designed with humans as models, but clearly both have depleted their energy by now, leaving them unable to combat. With the passage of time, they have petrified, standing like statues.
"Indeed, the design of an Ancient Wizard."
Green murmured, slightly bending over, inputting Magic Power into the concealed Magic Array beneath his feet.
With a "buzz," the Magic Array in the entire hall lit up, layers upon layers of Magic Runes densely arranged, centered around the point where Green stood, instantly forming a gigantic Six-Pointed Star Magic Array.
Beep beep beep beep beep...
Inside the Magic Array, a carrot-shaped sprite of light gradually materialized, chubby and white, staring at Green with big eyes, seemingly confirming Green’s identity.
"Authentication successful, welcome to the Castle of Hope Sky City, esteemed new master, I am Yaoyao, may I ask how you would like Yaoyao to address you?"
The white carrot spread its wings, merely an incarnated sprite of light, flying around Green.
"Young Master Green."
Green, through his Three-Colored Light Eyes, could already perceive the essence of this Yaoyao as the Tri-Color Sprite of this Ancient Sky City, which does not exist by itself but is merely the Magic Array omnipresent here, conjuring the sprite of light.
And just now, the scan from the Magic Array was mostly concentrated on the Scepter of Hope and the Bloodline Sorcery of the Light of Hope within himself.
It seems my guess was correct; this specially crafted Sky City should be the equivalent sacrifice contracted by the Ancient Wizard and the Sovereign of the Light of Hope.
"Hehe, Young Master Green, welcome to become the new master of this Castle of Hope. Before you, twelve powerful intruders broke in over the ages, eleven of whom have left from the Time Casket, returning to the Constant Speed Chrono-Material World; one remains trapped in the Time Wheel of Sky City, attempting to control this Sky City, but was bound by the Sealing Skill set by the Ancient Wizard inside, dying trapped in the Time Wheel."
The white carrot laughed heartily, seemingly talking about something trivial.
Green, having stored the Scepter of Hope into the Dimensional Gap, upon hearing that indeed three batches of Casket Ascenders opened the Coffin of Hope and one was trapped to death in the core of Sky City’s Time Wheel, couldn’t help displaying a surprised expression.
"Take me to the Time Wheel."
"Sure, Young Master Green, please follow me."
Yaoyao said, lightly touching a heavy metal wall, with the Magic Array Runes on the wall spreading like Ripple, in the next moment, the entire wall becomes a metal structure of stripes crisscrossed, interspersed like a Rubik’s Cube, followed by another more spacious hall appearing before Green.
"Gold of dreams."
Green softly murmured.
"Young Master Green, this is the reserve room for Puppet Army designed by Ancient Wizards, but owing to the Ancient Wars, all war puppets in the reserve room were consumed empty. Passing through this war-ready hall is the transmission hub of Sky City."
Yaoyao led the way at the front, an empty hall stretching endlessly, the floor was a metal nearing white ceramic, astonishing Green, a High-Order Wizard who possessed considerable alchemic knowledge.
Although modern wizards have already developed some wizard knowledge areas far beyond ancient wizards, a further leap ahead in this era’s progress. Yet concerning the alchemic domain, it seems the Ancient Wizards are superior to modern wizards notably.
Could it be because, after the Ancient War, many alchemic knowledge of Mechanical Wizards of Sky Cities was severed?
Indeed, after the Ancient War, the surviving Ancient Wizards amalgamated all the remaining Sky Cities, emerging with the Eternal Sky City civilization background, harboring numerous dying True Spirit Wizards on the verge of complete dispersal.
From then on, no new Sky City emerged in the Wizard World, clearly, certain accomplishments concerning Sky City have utterly vanished post-Ancient War.
After walking a while, the two arrived again before a heavy metal wall.
"Young Master Green, please provide necessary energy here. Due to the overly ancient history of the Magic Array here, it has lost energy replenishment, unable to function."
Following suit, Green input his Magic Power into this wall, a profuse of Magic Runes were illuminated by Green’s abundant Magic Power.
Yaoyao opened this Dream Gold wall once more, revealing an equally vast hall, but inside there was only a colossal gate frame of hundred meters height.
"Oh? So this is the transmission gate of the Ancient Wizards?"
After Green flew over, the Three-Colored Light Eyes gazing, observing for a little while with amazement, shook his head with a sigh: "Just the most primitive spatial folding application, energy loss is over ten times more than modern wizards relying on Lever of Destiny rule and has a vast distance restriction."
"Young Master Green, through here, we can effortlessly reach any location in this Sky City, additionally the Sector One, Sector 92, Sector 93, due to the destruction of the Magic Array energy, self-defending soldiers were consumed completely, being vastly destroyed by intruders who stole the artifacts left by the Sovereign of the Light of Hope inside."
Ugh...
Slightly regrettable, the legacy of the Sovereign of the Light of Hope, apparently is not limited to self-condensed ramifications.
Inputting Magic Power, Green stepped into the transmission gate, with a burst of agitated spatial compression stretched extendedly, temporarily dazed ahead, emerged from a heavy wall.
"Hm? This life form residue, presumably the Matrix Creator then? The depletion of the magic array energy within Sky City is also directly related with it. However, ultimately it still perished inside the Sealing Array set by Ancient Wizards, it undoubtedly underestimated the Wisdom of the Wizards."
A shriveled large green insect with wrinkled skin, two metallicized antennas on its head, deceased here for countless years.
Yet the Magic Array designed by the Ancient Wizards for intruders still, due to the perpetually absorbed energy from the Dimensional Esophagus by the Sky City, executed its coarse, grotesque, but absolutely functional basic confinement ability.
This large green insect in life must have been a soft-bodied creature, as a definitive Level-6 Peak existence, the designer of the Matrix and Matrix Hub, whose wisdom and power might rival Green at this moment, even surpass!
Even now dead, yet still floats in mid-air, seemingly weightless.
In beneath its corpse, a dream gold essence floor several meters thick, corroded a hollow by the arrays within Sealing Array, through the aperture, faintly visible is this Sky City’s internal mechanical operation space.
An optical arm of at least hundreds of thousands of meters, spinning at a frequency of one round per minute, resembling entirely in frequency with the time scales of the Wizard World’s eternal mechanical clock.
"It came here intending merely to attempt mastering this Sky City via energy center?"
Green looked at Yaoyao, querying with an eerie tone.
Yaoyao thought for a brief moment.
"Here is the apex art of Ancient Wizards in calculating time velocity, the entire Castle of Hope Sky City, covered by Gold of Dreams, used for shuttle between reality and illusion, has a peculiar connection with the eternal mechanical clock, perhaps..."
The entire Sky City reality and virtual suspension!
Incredibly, Green was dumbfounded, nearly exclaiming out loud.
Ancient Wizards, perceived by Green as surely utterly surpassed by modern wizard knowledge accumulation, could achieve thus far!
By contrast, the sacred corpse statue by the Plane Supervisor is insignificant, utterly negligible!
Indeed, such great beings as Antonio, had even ventured into the Dimensional Gap!
Henceforth, despite modern wizards in larger knowledge dissemination development direction already completely surpassing ancient wizards, the Ancient Wizards truly are not as Green once thought, entirely inferior compared to modern wizards.
For many Ancient Wizard knowledge traditions, have utterly lost post-Ancient War triumph...
Through the hidden ruins of the Secluded Ground of Hexuota, through this Sky City, Green could already faintly perceive the Wizard World in Ancient Times, which surely had its glorious climax period, emphasizing practicality and resource accumulation, creating miracles in a dark thriving prosperous era.
"It sought from here the summoning coordinate of the Wizard World’s eternal mechanical clock, but regrettably, the Scepter of Hope was not within the Wizard World’s eternal mechanical clock, it failed."
This guy, could it be intending to return to its civilization via the Time Casket after, to invade the Ancient Wizarding World!?
Genius, often perishing amidst their own madness.
