I, a cultivator, have ended up in the wizarding world

Chapter 936 Relics

Jemin entrusted the task of cleaning up the mess to the Black Giant priests, instructing them to lead the legion to continue clearing the battlefield and taking prisoners.

He then nodded to Karl, indicating that he should lead the way.

While the other wizards were fighting, Jemin also asked Karl about the locations of a few ruins. After learning that Karl knew the specific locations of the ruins, Jemin decided to go and explore them.

Carl walked ahead at a considerable speed; in fact, if he hadn't been keeping pace with Jack, he probably would have been even faster.

Jack followed beside Jemin, his gaze occasionally sweeping over the hills and valleys that had been flattened by the aftershocks of the battle.

Even the aftershocks of the battle just now were enough to drastically alter the terrain of this forbidden area.

The three traversed a wasteland scorched black by energy, eventually arriving at an inconspicuous mountain hollow.

Deep in the mountain valley, a cave entrance dug diagonally downwards appears on the rock wall.

The entrance to the cave is small, only wide enough for two people to walk side by side. There are obvious traces of artificial excavation on the edges, but it has been mostly covered by wind, sand and vegetation.

Carl stood at the entrance of the cave and glanced back at Jemin: "This is the largest ruin I know of. But like I said before, don't get your hopes up too high. After all these years, even if they only moved a little bit each time, it's basically all gone now."

Jemin didn't reply, but bent down and crawled into the hole.

As the passage extends downwards, the chisel marks on the wall gradually change from rough to fine, and the texture of the rock wall transitions from ordinary mountain rock to a kind of polished dark gray stone.

At the end of the passage is a spacious underground space, about several hundred square meters in size, with an arched ceiling made of uniformly sized stone slabs.

The ground was littered with gravel and dust, and the walls were marked with rows of neat grooves and bracket marks.

Judging from these traces, there should have originally been a large number of shelves or various equipment placed here.

Jack looked around, somewhat disappointed. "It's definitely been emptied out."

Karl nodded: "Actually, when we first discovered this site, many things were already gone. They might have been taken away by the previous civilization when they left, or they might have been destroyed by later alien beasts."

"In short, there is very little of value, and we have basically already looted everything, and studied everything that could be studied."

But Jemin didn't say anything.

He walked to a wall, squatted down, and gently ran his finger across the stone slab.

The True Delusion-Piercing Eye slowly rotated deep within the pupil, analyzing the microscopic structure of the stone slab one by one.

Then the corners of his mouth turned up slightly.

"You said you've studied everything that could be studied?" he asked without turning his head.

“Yes,” Carl walked over to him. “Including these stones, the researchers have studied them many times before. These slabs are just ordinary sedimentary rock, with the same composition as the surrounding rock layers, nothing special. We even scanned them with various detection methods, but there was nothing special about them.”

"To the person observing this thing, it's really nothing special; it's just an ordinary rock." Jemin stood up and turned to look at the two of them.

The two could clearly sense the excitement in Jemin's eyes: "Looking at it this way, the structure of these stone slabs is indeed not complicated, but they have a very interesting characteristic."

"What characteristics?" Karl frowned.

Jemin raised his hand and pressed it against the stone wall, a gray light spreading from his palm: "Talking without words is too troublesome. I'll do an experiment, you can see."

With that, Jemin released the Void Ember Return to Origin Hand.

A greyish-white light enveloped the wall in front of us; wherever the light swept across, the shattered stone slabs pieced themselves back together, and the cracks disappeared.

A few breaths later, the wall was restored to its original state.

But Jemin turned and went into the next room, where the walls were still dilapidated and rubble was scattered all over the floor.

"See?" Jemin said. "The power I just released was enough to restore the entire ruin to its original state. But only the wall I observed was restored; the others remain damaged. Because no one observed those walls, they remain in their damaged state. But this one, I observed it, so it responded to my power."

"That's what makes these stones special. As long as no one observes them, they will remain in the same state as when they were built, forever unchanged. Moreover, without observation, no indirect physical detection method can detect their existence."

Jack was stunned, and Carl frowned as well.

"You mean—" Carl began, "that these building materials themselves exhibit some kind of observer effect?"

"right."

Carl and Jack exchanged a glance, both seeing shock in each other's eyes.

Upon making such a good discovery right away, Jemin's voice became much lighter: "This also means that there must be many important relics yet to be discovered. Because as long as no one physically locates them, they will remain unobserved and undetectable by any reconnaissance methods."

"This—the discovery of these ruins is indeed based on the terrain changes caused by the battles between the strange beasts."

Karl stroked his chin and recalled, "But there was nothing we could do about it, after all, the density of monsters in this area was too high before."

"The energy levels are too high and complex; some conventional search methods are simply unusable."

"However, because the items found in these ruins were not of very high value, the excavation of this area was relaxed later."

"But even if we confirm there are a lot of relics here, how do we find them?" Jack asked. "Since we can't find them through reconnaissance, we can't just rely on luck and dig blindly, can we?"

Jemin laughed.

"It's simple. Use the most basic method," Jemin said. "Dig away the entire ground, bit by bit."

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Jack did not witness the entire process that followed.

Because Karl and he received a new mission: to continue gathering the remaining humans in the Jack dimension and bring them to a safe area.

Jemin remained in the forbidden area, continuously summoning new legions of black giants and dragon-blooded mushroom men.

The entire forbidden area has been turned into a huge construction site.

The black giants smashed the ground with their fists, the dragon-blooded mushroom people carried the rubble to a distance, and the tentacle tree fleet, which had not yet made an appearance, also became the movers.

Five years later, Carl and Jack finally completed their mission of gathering all of humanity.

When Jack stood on the high ground at the edge of the forbidden area and looked at the scene before him, he was stunned.

The forbidden area in front of him was no longer the same as he remembered; it had become a huge basin.

The basin's edges are so clean they look as if they were cut by a giant knife, with vertical walls and a depth of several thousand meters.

With Jack's eyesight, he could see certain areas in the distance of the basin, where densely packed building ruins resembled an overturned anthill, layer upon layer, stretching from the edge all the way to the center.

"Holy crap!"

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