The Wizard's Secret Journey

Chapter 270 Enforcement Runes (4k)

At 6 a.m., the Black Falcon slowly landed on a street.

When Lynn stepped off the shuttle, Daphne was already waiting outside.

“Here’s the latest inventory list from Tilo’s shop.” Daphne handed Lynn a crystal and asked, “Would you like to sit for a while or head out?”

"It's up to you. I'm here to give it to you." Lynn accepted the crystal and smiled.

His purpose in coming here was not only to hand over some items from the Tilo shop, but also to give Daphne a gift.

Daphne thought for a moment and said, "Then let's just go there."

There are still two hours before the official departure of the St. Michael's Ring Meeting, which is plenty of time. However, her place is an hour away from the meeting point, so it would be better to go a little earlier.

Moreover, Daphne didn't want this "farewell ceremony" to be too long.

“Okay.” Lynn readily agreed and boarded the shuttle with Daphne.

The Black Falcon slowly took off in the thin morning light. Lynn gazed at the familiar Silver Ring City, and the frustration he had felt for not making any progress on the Enforcement Rune for many days eased slightly.

After thinking for a moment, Lynn asked the silent Daphne, "What have you been doing lately?"

"...It's just preparing for the Holy Ring Meeting, and also dealing with some things at the Tilo shop," Daphne replied, trying to make her tone lighter.

She hadn't thought much of it at first, but now that she was on the Black Falcon and heading towards the rendezvous point... Daphne suddenly found herself feeling a little nervous and afraid.

The stories of the Holy Ring Society's death wizards that her mentors and classmates had told her began to surface in her mind one after another.

Daphne became even more nervous, especially considering that she was only at the beginner level and had only just mastered a few basic first-level spells.

'Perhaps I should wait another five years before attending the St. Michael's Ring Meeting,' she couldn't help but think.

But that's simply impossible; the qualification to participate in the First-Order Saintly Ring Gathering is not so easy to obtain. If she misses this opportunity, the legacy left by Uncle Daphne will become invalid, and she will find it difficult to earn the qualification to participate in the First-Order Saintly Ring Gathering on her own again.

'Unless I can advance to the intermediate level in just one year like Lynn did.'

'But that's impossible,' Daphne knew in her heart.

Her talent in cultivation is far inferior to Lynn's. If she were to rely solely on her own cultivation, it would take her at least several years, or even more than ten years, to successfully advance to the first-level intermediate wizard.

A decade or so is not a long time for a first-tier wizard.

But Daphne couldn't help but wonder what level Lynn would be at in a decade or so, and whether he would have broken through to the second tier.

Daphne didn't know, but she knew one thing—

A first-tier wizard's friends are usually only first-tier wizards, and a second-tier wizard's friends are usually only second-tier wizards.

"How's the Tilo shop doing lately?" Lynn followed up on Daphne's answer.

"It's not bad. Once the second branch is stable, I plan to open a new store. However, finding a stable supply channel is a problem."

Tilo's shop mainly sells witch robes, and high-end witch robes in the wizarding world are all handmade, with production capacity directly linked to the witchcraft makers, making them very limited.

The reason why Tilo's shop was able to gain a foothold was because Daphne restored her uncle's old relationship with the sorcerer and found a sorcerer with excellent skills, so that she had enough supplies to expand her branches.

“Take it slow. The Tilo shop is already doing quite well.” Lynn nodded. Although he didn’t manage the Tilo shop’s operations much, the monthly dividends were enough to show that the shop was growing steadily.

“Mmm,” Daphne responded softly.

The two chatted aimlessly for a while and soon arrived at the meeting point.

"Then I'll head over first?" Daphne said.

“Okay.” Lynn nodded.

Daphne turned around and strode towards the airship at the assembly point without pausing.

Lynn watched her enter the airship, then turned around and headed back towards the base.

By this time, the sky was already bright, a rare clear day. Looking through the Silver Ring Fortress, Lynn could see a vast expanse of blue, with white clouds drifting lazily by, and the towering structures below reflecting golden light.

After an unknown amount of time, Lynn suddenly felt a spatial fluctuation coming from the sky behind him.

He turned his head and saw a familiar portal opening in the distant sky, carrying the world invasion fortress, which was carrying wizard apprentices and wizards from the Silver Ring Academy, toward the portal.

Space was torn apart at this moment, and the pitch-black rift exuded an extremely dangerous aura.

Lynn just stared at him, his heart inexplicably touched.

'I think I know where I went wrong when I was building the Enforcement Rune…'

The light was fleeting, and Lynn was afraid it would suddenly disappear, so he steered the Black Falcon to fly even faster!
Soon after, he finally arrived at the Silver Ring headquarters of the Horsens School.

Now he's all alone in the huge base.

Lynn parked the Black Falcon and went straight to the meditation room, where he took out his enforcement warrant.

He skillfully disassembled the enforcement order, revealing the core rune area within, and then took out the Black Moon Rune Plate to carefully observe and compare it.

After a long while, Lynn suddenly realized.

'As expected, these are actually two separate runes; I should have built them separately!'

The Black Moon Enforcement Order has two effects: teleportation and spatial confinement.

Lynn had always believed that both effects were achieved through the same Black Moon rune.

After all, its core rune area is also a complete piece, an irregular rhombus, and the corresponding runes can be displayed when it is engraved on the Black Moon Rune Point Plate.

But now, after careful observation, Lynn discovered that its core rune area was actually a simple combination of two independent black moon runes, rather than a fusion into a new rune!
'It seems I can't rely too much on the Black Moon Rune Plate; I also need to have a thorough understanding of the runes I'm studying,' Lynn silently told himself, before diligently separating the two runes.

Although he was able to inscribe the law enforcement runes onto the Black Moon Rune Plate, he basically relied on rote memorization and did not have a deep understanding of the specific structural details, so he only discovered this now.

In a sense, it was the arrival of the Black Moon Rune Points Disc that allowed Lynn to "slack off" by skipping this step, wanting to first master the rune points and then thoroughly master the Black Moon Runes during the construction process.

Without the Black Moon Rune Pointing Disc, Lynn's current mastery of the Black Moon Runes, honed through several glimpses, would likely have discovered this much sooner.

However, it's not too late. Half a day later, Lynn successfully distinguished the two independent runes and prepared to verify them on the Black Moon Rune Plate.

Rune points are the core of the Black Moon Rune. Only with a core can a Black Moon Rune be complete. Conversely, this also means that a complete Black Moon Rune must have rune points.

Lynn named the two new Black Moon runes "Imprisonment" and "Teleportation".

During the separation process, he also accidentally figured out the connection structure between the two runes. It was a not particularly complex energy circuit, composed of several sub-runes, which could only be effective when paired with the complete Black Moon rune.

The effect is quite simple: it adjusts the energy source.

This structure is useless for the Black Moon runes engraved in the spiritual sea; the wizard can power and activate any Black Moon rune he wants. However, it is very practical for magical artifacts. Lynn can engrave multiple Black Moon runes on a single artifact, such as the Black Falcon, but only needs to build a single power supply system. With this power supply structure, he can activate whichever Black Moon rune he wants.

Having figured this out, Lynn's research progress on law enforcement runes, which are now known as imprisonment and teleportation runes, can be described as rapid.

Just five days later, he successfully engraved the imprisonment rune into his mind.

On this day, in the meditation room.

"Move a little more to the left, then stay still." Lynn instructed the black cat to move to the designated position, then took a deep breath and activated the binding rune!

To the average person, everything appears normal, with no change whatsoever.

However, a wizard who is proficient in spatial knowledge would be astonished to find that the space around the black cat seemed to be compressed by a pair of invisible hands, turning it into an exceptionally solid barrier.

“Try attacking,” Lynn continued, gesturing to the black cat.

The black cat meowed, its entire body instantly arched, and it charged towards the surrounding area!

It moves very fast, leaving afterimages in the air, but it is always confined to a narrow space.

Lynn silently observed for a while, then nodded in satisfaction.

'Ordinary Tier 0 attacks have virtually no effect on the confinement barrier, nor do they increase my energy consumption... At this rate, I can maintain the confinement for at least 30 hours using only my own magic power. Moreover, the main reason for this energy consumption is not the black cat's attack, but rather the elasticity of the space's self-repair mechanism.'

Lynn released the restraints and then looked at the silver-white puppet beside him. This was a puppet he had recreated using new puppet runes combined with the black, rotten monster from before.

Thanks to his involvement, the new puppet's appearance had virtually no relation to the dark, rotten monster. It was humanoid, genderless, but exceptionally tall, standing at 2.5 meters.

Its skin was a silvery-white, like moonlight, and its muscles were full and its lines were exceptionally smooth, like a cheetah ready to pounce.

Its strength has reached the advanced level of the first tier.

Lynn's heart stirred, and he cast a spatial confinement spell on the silver-white puppet, then gave the order.

"Now, unleash a full-force, sustained attack."

Rumbling--

The silver puppet made a much bigger commotion than the black cat, and Lynn was no longer as calm as before.

Although the spatial confinement barrier remains sturdy and shows no signs of breaking, its consumption has increased significantly!

"At this rate of energy consumption, without considering refueling along the way, I can only last for a maximum of 5 hours, far exceeding the 1 hour required to use the enforcement order."

Five hours is not a short time, but this was only under the circumstances of trapping a first-tier high-level wizard. If it were a second-tier wizard, it's hard to say how much their strength would be reduced.

It's sizzling!

Lynn conjured dazzling lightning in his hand and shot it toward the spatial confinement that trapped the silver-white puppet!

zizi——

Silvery lightning flashed endlessly in the air, but it couldn't shake the spatial barrier around the silvery puppet at all, only increasing Lynn's energy expenditure.

'If attacked by two first-tier wizards, it would probably only last for three hours.'

Lynn frowned, then chuckled. Perhaps the expectations he had placed on the black cat when it was imprisoned were too high, and now he was dissatisfied even after 3 hours?

Keep in mind that this involved imprisoning two wizards of equal rank for a full three hours!

Based on this alone, Lynn can now be considered invincible among his peers!
However, what truly determines the effectiveness of a binding rune is its strength.

Even if it lasts a long time, if it breaks easily when faced with a second-tier attack, it's just a useless item for Lynn.

However, when he activated the binding runes in his mental sea, he could clearly feel that the spatial barrier he created was more solid and powerful than the spatial barrier created by activating the enforcement order, so he was not too worried.

Lynn paused his thoughts and began to seriously test the strength of the spatial barrier.

And this test took a whole day.

The reason it took so long was not only because Lynn spent some time recovering his magic power, but also because Lynn tested it repeatedly.

The reason for the repeated testing was that the strength of the spatial barrier far exceeded Lynn's imagination!
The strength of the spatial barrier created by using the Imprisonment Rune can actually reach the second-level advanced level, and it's not just barely reaching that level, but a normal second-level advanced level strength!
Keep in mind that Lynn is only a first-tier high-level wizard!
The reason why it can reach the second-level advanced stage is because Lynn discovered that the strength of the spatial barrier constructed by the imprisonment rune is directly proportional to the input magic power.

The strength of the second-level advanced magic was measured when he completely exhausted all his magic power in one go.

Such a situation is not practical in actual combat, but the spatial barrier that Lynn built by consuming half of his magic power can still reach the medium strength of the second ring, albeit barely. However, it is enough to save one's life.

The spatial barrier constructed by the Direct Drive Imprisonment Rune is superior to the spatial barrier constructed by the Drive Enforcement Order in all aspects. Even a second-tier novice wizard with some knowledge of space would most likely not be able to destroy the imprisonment quickly.

The ordinary, and most commonly used, level two, initial-level spatial confinement technique that Lynn felt he used most often required about one-tenth of his own magic power to be consumed.

The remaining nine-tenths of his magic power, just like Lynn tested before, was enough to trap a first-tier high-level wizard for a full five hours... and probably a second-tier wizard for at least twenty minutes.

If we take into account that we can replenish our magic power along the way, this process will last even longer.

The effect was clearly quite terrifying.

'Unfortunately, it can only imprison... I still lack a powerful enough means of attack.' Lynn thought greedily.

He firmly believed that the best defense is a good offense.

'However, if attacking is impossible, fleeing is also a good option.'

Lynn stopped testing and began to continue trying to inscribe the teleportation rune.

(End of this chapter)