Chapter 1154 - Shadowsteel
Chapter 1154 Shadowsteel
Fire Throne. The fifth floor of the tower.
Inside a secret laboratory.
Greem stood before an intricate alchemy platform, silently examining the Shadow Diamond placed in front of him.
The Shadow Diamond no longer looked dark and black as it used to. Instead, it was bright and brilliant like an ordinary crystal.
However, the light reflecting from the diamond was not only unable to illuminate the room, but it even caused the brightly lit room to appear darker than usual. It was almost as if a veil had been placed over the light source.
Delicate patterns and lines had been carved on top of the Shadow Diamond. Tiny, intricate designs now covered the entirety of the gem, without any empty spaces at all.
It was Greem’s handiwork after one month of tireless effort!
Mysterious runes of complicated and elegant patterns could be seen on all four walls, the ceiling, and the floor. Together, they formed a small space with its own system of operation, utterly separate from the rest of the tower.
This way, anything that happened inside the room could not be detected through divination or scrying spells!
It was a magical room that Alice had personally designed for Greem. It was the ‘prison’ used to trap the Libram of Wisdom.
It couldn’t be helped. The Orb of Shadows might be a Fifth Grade artifact, but it did not belong to any one person.
A simple Fate spell could obscure it from the senses of all the Dark Witches.
However, the Libram of Wisdom was different. It was an artifact with an actual owner!
With the endless supply of power from God of Wisdom Hierro, the artifact could escape at any time. Greem had to find a way to cut off the connection between the Libram and its owner and keep it in his hands at all times.
Greem’s only option had been to ask Alice to construct this small spatial domain cut off from the rest of the world. That was how he had managed to cause the Libram of Wisdom to remain dormant all this while.
A loud eruption rang out in the room. Greem’s towering figure appeared in a corner with a flash of fire.
This room was isolated from the outside. There were no paths in or out. The only way in was to teleport using fixed spatial coordinates. However, only Greem knew the coordinates of this room. Even Alice and Mary were kept in the dark.
That stifled any chance of leaked information!
After entering the room, Greem coughed violently for a while. Finally, he carefully sat down before the stone table and opened the Libram of Wisdom lightly.
“Gods are omnipotent!”
This simple line was the only thing written on the very first page!
Gods are omnipotent. Hmph! If the gods were so powerful, why was there still evil and corruption in this world? Hmph! Liars and tricksters.
Greem remarked in disdain in his mind. He tried to flip to the second page.
However, regardless of how he rubbed the corner of the page, it was as if all the pages were stuck together. He could not move them at all.
“Dammit! What is happening? Is the artifact I tried so hard to get my hands on an incomplete artifact? Chip, run an analysis.” After several failed attempts, Greem could only shut the door and let the Chip out.
[Beep. Detecting unusual aggregate of faith energy. Analysis suggests that unlocking said faith energy requires the host to either achieve resonance or proceed based on the settings of the faith energy.]
“Achieve resonance? What does that mean?”
[To become a faithful believer of the God of Wisdom. As long as the host’s mental wave matches the faith energy resonance of the God of Wisdom, the host will be able to read the Libram of Wisdom without any obstruction!]
“Dammit, you are telling me to convert? We adepts don’t believe in any gods except for ourselves!”
[Self-worship is an alternative faith of sorts! If the host does not intend to convert belief, the host can refer to the book Gulliver’s Self Hypnosis.”
An awkward smile appeared on Greem’s face.
Gulliver was an adept who called himself ‘The Arcane Trickster.’ He had a fondness for researching the divine magic of the gods.
He had dicovered that the believers of the gods did not require too much supernatural knowledge to be able to unleash devastating high-grade divine magic under the blessing of the gods. That made it far easier for god believers to grow in power compared to the adepts, with far less risk.
For the sake of obtaining such easy power, Gulliver took an unusual path and developed a method of self-hypnosis. It allowed the user to temporarily disguise themselves as a believer of a god, thereby tricking the god and obtaining the right to use certain divine spells.
If you could only trick a single god, there would only be so many spells you could obtain on a daily basis.
However, Gulliver was a genius in his own right. Through his powerful abilities, he was able to cheat as many as a dozen gods simultaneously.
His magical abilities, in addition to all these free divine spells, allowed him to make a name for himself as an up and coming genius. The Gulliver’s Self Hypnosis that he wrote became an interesting book that most high-grade adepts had to read!