Path of Light.

Chapter 600 601. The Secret of the Dark Gate

In front of a huge stone door filled with ancient patterns stood six elven magicians...

After they entered the Dark Portal, they finally tracked them down through countless magical veins.

This place is directly below the base of the Dark Portal. Even these magicians had never imagined that there was an even larger underground building complex beneath the huge Dark Portal.

Judging from the patterns and relief features on the surfaces of these buildings, the underground buildings connected to the Dark Portal were probably built by the priests of the Statue of Liberty.

After entering the underground building complex, one can see on the reliefs various glorious scenes of the Statue of Liberty holding the Sword of Light and conquering the land of darkness, as well as scenes of fierce battles between the Holy Expeditionary Force and the Dark Legion, etc.

Of course, these murals could not attract the attention of the magicians. They followed a torrent of mana to the front of the stone door. This torrent of mana was hidden under countless complex patterns. The magicians spent a long time to find this channel of mana.

Now all signs point to this huge stone door...

The magicians have already made all preparations. The leading magician glanced at the magician standing in front and gave an order:

"Eroud, open the door!"

"Okay, teacher." The magician standing in the front immediately agreed.

As the magician used his staff to draw two summoning circles in front of him, two rock golems slowly rose from the center of the circles. The huge rock golems were three meters high, but when standing in front of the stone gate, they were less than one-third of the height of the stone gate.

There were countless light blue magic runes on their sturdy bodies. Mage Elaud gave orders to the rock golems, asking them to push the stone door open with force.

The two rock golems half-crouched in front of the stone door, holding their hands against the stone door, with blue magic runes spinning at high speed all over their bodies. With a cracking sound, the huge stone door finally cracked open under the combined force of the two rock golems.

The gap is not too wide, but it is enough for the elven magicians to pass through the door.

Mage Elaud and another mage walked in through the crack in the door first, and then Mage Elaud's particularly excited voice came from the crack in the door:

"Found it, it's right here!"

When the four magicians outside the stone gate heard these words, they looked at each other and walked into the stone gate impatiently.

The scene inside the stone gate really made them open their mouths in surprise, but they did not dare to take another step inside.

"Is this the source of the magic power of the entire Dark Portal?"

A magician pointed at the magic power center hanging in the air in the stone chamber and exclaimed.

"That's right. I originally thought it would be a magic crystal vein that can provide magic power for such a majestic Dark Portal. I didn't expect that there would be a fallen angel imprisoned here. It turns out that this fallen angel provides energy for the normal operation of the Dark Portal day and night!" The magician who looked the oldest narrowed his eyes and looked at the fallen angel who was firmly fixed to the ground with countless thorium chains in the center of the magic circle in the center of the hall.

As an angel, his body has turned completely black, his wings have become tattered, and he is in a state of extreme old age. Apart from the skeleton of his wings, his body has become skinny. He hunches over on the rocky ground, and sixteen thorium chains are still continuously absorbing power from the fallen angel and transmitting it into the magic center suspended in mid-air.

Just around this magic circle, there are also sixteen liches locked around. These liches are wrapped in chains and their bodies are trapped on sixteen huge stone tablets.

A sacred scepter is inserted on the top of each stone tablet. It seems that the magic pattern array here by the lich has some specific connection with the sixteen magic towers around the expeditionary camp.

"Who was it that actually sealed the fallen angel?" Mage Elaud asked in a low voice as he stood in front of the huge stone gate.

The old magician hesitated for a moment before saying, "I guess the only one who can seal the fallen angel is the goddess in the Statue of Liberty."

This sentence immediately caused the surrounding magicians to widen their eyes.

Instead, Mage Elaud stared at the fallen angel in the center of the magic circle and whispered, "But... it looks like it's in a bad condition now."

The old magician couldn't help but nodded and said with a sigh: "Yes, it is old, and its magic power is on the verge of exhaustion. I don't know how long it can last!"

"Once it dies, will the Dark Portal stop working?" Mage Elaud couldn't help but ask.

The old mage shook his head slightly and sighed:

"The situation may be even worse. It is very likely that the spatial rift at the Dark Portal will continue to collapse... and then affect the Dark Land and the Elf Continent. It is possible that the two planes connected by the Dark Portal will be swallowed by the void..."

A magician was at a loss: "So how can we make up for this? Should we rejuvenate this fallen angel?"

"Replace the source of mana!" The old mage said decisively: "Complete the replacement of the source of mana of the Dark Portal before it dies. Only in this way can we preserve the Dark Portal."

After hearing what the old magician said, the other magicians immediately fell into a desperate and negative mood.

Mage Elaud asked quickly: "Even if we find sixteen young liches? What about this fallen angel?"

The old mage shook his head and said nothing more. Instead, he turned his eyes and asked Elaud: "If you were in charge of this situation, how would you solve it?"

Elaud thought about it seriously, and then replied with a guilty conscience: "If it were me, I would prepare to build an auxiliary mana source here to replace these liches that are about to be annihilated at any time. As for the principle of the auxiliary mana source, I would refer to the working principle of the magic furnace."

The old magician nodded slightly, approving the decision made by Magician Elaud.

"We have a way to provide auxiliary mana sources here, but how do we solve the problem of mana sources needed in the dark land?" the old magician continued to test.

"You mean, for the Dark Portal to function properly, it actually requires the source of mana to provide two kinds of power to the center of the magic circle. One is magical power, which can stabilize half of the Dark Portal on the Elf Continent. The other is dark power, which is used to stabilize the half of the Dark Portal on the Dark Land side!" Mage Elaud explained softly.

The old mage clapped his hands lightly and praised Elaud:

"That's it……"

Mage Elaud continued:
"Magic crystals can be converted into magical power as a source of mana. As long as there are enough magic crystals, the Dark Portal on the Elf Continent can be maintained. However, the Dark Portal on the Dark Land may need a large amount of pure soul crystals to convert into dark power as a source of mana. We can raise a large number of magic crystals right now, but soul crystals are relatively rare in the magic market."

"Soul Crystal, of course we have to find a way here in the Dark Land..." a magician couldn't help but speak.

The other magicians also began to interject:
"Then... we may have to find a few liches. I think this is the most troublesome thing! Although the fallen angel looks very old and weak, I know he will not die!" "I heard that there are traces of liches in the depths of the dark land, but it is still a bit difficult for the six of us to catch a lich in the depths of the dark land!"

"..."

Inside the underground core of the Dark Portal, six elven magicians stood in front of the huge stone door and started a discussion.

They studied the area around the Dark Portal for about two months and finally found the reason why the Dark Portal was gradually collapsing and entered the internal structure of the Dark Portal.

The magicians discovered that the source of mana that provided magic power to all the magic patterns and arrays of the Dark Portal was on the verge of exhaustion.

The magicians searched for the cause and found that it was not the magic circle that caused the collapse of the Dark Portal, but the exhaustion of the magic power source of the Dark Portal itself. The fallen angel sealed in the magic circle was too old, and his power showed signs of exhaustion. The sixteen liches around the magic circle with him also had all their magic power absorbed by the magic circle. Now they appear to have turned into sixteen huge skeletons.

How to replenish the Dark Portal with new mana sources has become the biggest problem that troubles the six magicians.

……

Recently, most of the supplies at the Dark Gate Expeditionary Camp were carried over from the Golfito Military Headquarters by the half-elf warriors of the Mine Guard.

The Silver Moon Elves had no intention of delivering those military supplies and daily necessities to the expeditionary camp.

Every week, Roy would bring a group of half-elf warriors to the Statue of Liberty in Golfito Canyon and take away a batch of supplies.

This time he also walked out of the Dark Portal with a large group of half-elf warriors. These half-elf warriors were surrounded by thick dark air, and more dark air continued to drift out from the gaps in their magic armor. Each half-elf warrior looked like he had walked out of thick smoke.

Seeing these half-blood elf warriors in such a mess, the Silver Moon Elf warriors they met along the way all took the initiative to get out of the way...

Roy, however, calmly greeted the captains of the Silver Moon Elf warriors, and then led the half-elf warriors through the side corridor of the temple.

Seeing some Silver Moon Elf warriors avoiding them and almost sticking their bodies to the stone wall, holding their breath and waiting for these half-blood elf warriors to pass, Vitas couldn't help but whispered to Roy:
"Boss, are we overdoing it?"

Roy glanced at him and told him to shut up.

Roy then led this team of half-elf warriors out of the Statue of Liberty.

……

They walked out of the canyon and came to the lake outside Golfito Canyon, boarded the magic airship, took out the dark magic beast materials they carried with them, and stored them in the cabin under the deck of the magic airship.

Viscount Felec followed Roy throughout the entire process, checking the number of these dark beasts. He even recorded the defects on the materials of each dark beast very carefully in a notebook.

Roy transported the Warcraft materials bought from the wanderer camp to Golfito Canyon through the Dark Portal.

Then they will soon be sold out by Viscount Felec in different categories. Unexpectedly, these dark monster materials are very popular in the magic market.

Currently, dark magic materials almost all appear in the magic market of Murayaki City, so Murayaki City has also attracted a group of magic scholars who study dark magic.

This group of magic scholars have only been able to conduct research on magic theory. Due to the lack of dark magic materials, many magic experiments cannot be carried out...

Now, a batch of dark magic materials suddenly appeared in Murayaki City. They were like a group of sharks that smelled blood, and quickly appeared in the magic district of Murayaki City...

Viscount Felec discovered that it might be the priests of the Statue of Liberty in Golfito Canyon who caused the scarcity of dark magic materials in the Elven Continent...

The Statue of Liberty has been guarding the Dark Portal for a long time, and it was these priests who blocked the Dark Portal.

Dark creatures cannot come to the Elf Continent through the Dark Portal, and the elves basically have no way to enter the dark land to hunt dark creatures.

Therefore, in the magic market, there has always been a huge gap in dark magic beast materials.

It can even be said that some dark magic beast materials are simply blank in the magic market of the Elf Continent.

The appearance of dark magic beast materials in the magic market immediately attracted the attention of magicians, and dark magic beast materials were really profitable...

When trading magic materials, for some unknown reason, the name 'Boss Roy' suddenly became known in the trading circles of Murayaki City.

The magic merchants all heard that these dark magic materials belonged to Boss Roy, but no magic merchant had ever seen Boss Roy.

……

Viscount Felec had been on the magic airship for a long time and had become very familiar with these half-elf crew members, and had gradually come to understand Roy's mine guard group.

He discovered that the wealth of the mine guards actually came from the Partington plane.

Although all military equipment and supplies were currently provided by the Golfito Military Headquarters, before this, the Mine Guards had raised all their own military equipment and supplies. What surprised him the most was that the Mine Guards were actually very rich. Their half-elf warriors all wore top-grade magic armor, used magic weapons of excellent quality, and even took newly modified magic airships when they went out...

"Boss, this batch of our goods has been reserved by the Murayaki City Magic Guild."

Viscount Felec also called Roy "Boss" along with other half-elf warriors.

"Let them pay with magic crystals, or they can exchange them with life tree juice." Roy watched all the dark magic beast materials being stored in the warehouse, then turned to Viscount Felec and gave him instructions.

“That’s what we did with the last batch.”

Viscount Feleck said.

Roy nodded and walked out of the cargo hold with Viscount Feleck...

(End of this chapter)