Industrial Revolution of the Mage Lords

Chapter 353 Unknown Star Region

Boom! Snap!
Several huge rumbles of thunder sounded in succession, directly breaking the silence of the cold winter night. A sudden flash of lightning streaked across the sky, almost illuminating the entire night sky above the pioneer leader's head.

Countless people woke up from their sleep and rushed to the window to look out... wondering why there was thunder and lightning in the middle of winter.

Astrologer Melissa also woke up from her shallow meditation state. She walked slowly to the window with a pale face, frowned, and looked at the calm deep night sky without saying a word.

This is not a good sign for the astrologer...

There was a sudden bang on the bedroom door. It didn't take Melissa long to figure out who was coming. "The door's unlocked, Jin."

Wearing a thin coat over his pajamas, Eye of Illusion opened the door barefoot and walked in. "The celestial phenomena are unusual. I'm worried... it will affect your meditation... so I came to check on you."

The astrologers in the arcane spellcasting faction have a much more bizarre way of practicing than ordinary arcane spellcasters. In addition to refining spells in their own magic patterns to improve their rank, they also need to find a star in the real world that represents the direction of their destiny. Using the connection between the star projection and themselves, they can decipher a lot of secret and precious magical knowledge, which can sometimes play a certain role in prediction.

This is also the main reason why most astrologers are hired to serve as royal magic advisors in the southern countries. Compared with elemental mages and arcane mages, this group of "prophets" who can truly help to avoid danger and bring good luck are obviously more popular with princes and nobles.

Melissa sighed softly and whispered, "I'm not affected at all, but the celestial phenomena are indeed unusual. And the teacher hasn't returned from Grizzly Castle yet. I think we should head to the Lord's Castle immediately."

As the few high-level combatants in the territory, Melissa and Jin were completely unable to get along with Chris and others like Benoit did, and quickly immerse themselves in various alchemical experiments and research that interested them.

They also did not have the abundant knowledge reserves like their teacher Duncan, who could chat and laugh with Lord Harvey and his vampire alchemist Mr. Asdalen, and have in-depth exchanges on various obscure and rare magical knowledge and experimental results.

Therefore, when they did not receive any missions from the lord, the two still chose to live in a guest hotel closest to the lord's castle, and were not as active in the Academy of Magical Sciences as the new group of necromancers.

Jin quickly walked to the window and opened it. He shivered at the biting cold wind. "What are we waiting for? Let's use our flying magic to rush over immediately!"

Melissa grabbed his arm and said speechlessly, "Can't you just change your clothes before leaving?"

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Harvey smiled wryly, took the warm towel from Reiner, wiped his face, and explained in a gentle voice, "Indeed, there were some minor problems in the laboratory. I didn't expect it to cause strange celestial changes in the surrounding area..."

The Eye of Illusion secretly turned its head to glance at the two alchemical creatures standing next to Harvey, and found that their originally shiny and new enchanted metal armor had suddenly appeared with many mottled rust marks, as if they had been eroded by a long time.

"Looking at the expressions of the two assistants, I'm afraid there are more than just some minor problems..." Jin couldn't help but mutter a few words under his breath, and was immediately glared at by Melissa.

The astrologer bowed gracefully to Harvey and said, "Since nothing unexpected has happened here, Your Excellency, we will not disturb your meditation and rest..."

The two were about to bow and leave when Harvey suddenly raised his hand and stopped them.

"Wait! Uh...Ms. Astrologer is an astrology spellcaster. I have a problem I encountered during an experiment and I need your help."

The Eye of Illusion was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Sir Harvey, have you forgotten that we are both combat mages?" Magic experiments and theoretical research were not the areas in which the two of them were good at.

Harvey waved with a smile, pulled out a slightly yellowed, flat drawing from the desk, rolled it up slightly, and handed it to the astrologer.

"I know you astrologers have extensively collected and studied the coordinates and orbits of stars..." Harvey pointed to the map in his hand. "So, I'd like you to identify the coordinates of this star map and the corresponding observation area for me."

The astrologer subconsciously took the drawing and slowly unfolded it, and found that an extremely simple star map was drawn on the pure white paper. All the stars were represented by ink dots, and the slightly larger stars were inexplicably connected by thin lines. At first glance, it was obvious that this was not the work of a colleague who was well versed in astrology.

"This... this star map is a bit too crude." The astrologer frowned and examined it repeatedly before saying to Harvey, "Sir, with all due respect... this is probably a randomly fabricated and haphazardly drawn star map. The positions of the main star and surrounding star clusters do not correspond to the coordinates of any known star region."

Although Harvey was mentally prepared, he still felt a sinking feeling in his heart when he heard the astrologer's straightforward words.

The universe within the spiritual anchor was suddenly torn apart, revealing a starry sky... and the coordinates of stars that had never been observed in the real world...

This undoubtedly proved a problem to Harvey - the starry sky that suddenly appeared in the spiritual anchor was not a real projection of the current world, but was most likely from another unknown spatial dimension.

"Are you absolutely certain?" Harvey continued, still unwilling to give up. "How did the astrologers record and collect the coordinates of all the stars in the current world? Wouldn't you have missed some star regions that are difficult to observe?"

The astrologer smiled and shook his head, as if he had expected Harvey to ask such a question, and took out a crystal ball from the storage ring.

"This is a star map recorder, a common auxiliary tool used exclusively by astrologers..." Melissa tapped her fingers lightly, pouring a small amount of magic power into the crystal ball, activating it immediately.

The crystal ball instantly burst into a dazzling light, and a dazzling reflection of the starry sky appeared on the ceiling of the study.

As the astrologer continued to input magic power into the crystal ball, the reflection of the starry sky above changed rapidly, and a series of star fields with accurately recorded coordinates kept flashing before everyone.

"The Star Map Recorder is a resonant magical instrument. As long as any astrologer records and collects new star coordinates and star fields, others can immediately sense them through it..." Melissa paused and said with certainty, "So I can be 100% sure that this star field map has never appeared since astrologers began using recorders to collect star coordinates hundreds of years ago."

Goodness! It turns out the Astrologer had developed the magical world version of the "database" earlier than him, but it was a pity that he had only applied it to resonant instruments like the Star Chart Recorder. What a waste of this advanced technology.

Harvey sighed, took back the drawing that the astrologer handed back to him, and fell silent.

Jin, who was sitting nearby, finally lost his patience and asked, "Sir Harvey, who fabricated this star map? Could it be that some other astrologer in the forum is using forged star maps and projected predictions to deceive you in a transaction?"

Harvey shook his head and explained with a serious expression:

"No, this is what I sensed when I was suddenly pulled into deep meditation during the experiment just now..."

(End of this chapter)