Wizard: Starting with Dealing with Magical Plants

Chapter 221 Composite Contract Runes

"Is this the place?" Ella looked around. The plaza was surrounded by a semi-circular, taller, dilapidated building, like a silent audience watching the altar in the center.

There were no afterimages, no living creatures, only deathly silence.

Roland nodded, holding the flat box, and took the lead in stepping onto the steps at the bottom of the altar.

The steps were covered with a thick layer of dust, making them feel soft and spongy underfoot.

With each step, one could feel the heavy, cold pressure in the air seem to intensify.

Liana followed closely behind, her purifying field shrinking to cover only the three of them as she cautiously probed the subtle changes in the surrounding energy.

Ella remained at the edge of the square, occupying a high vantage point, longbow in hand, vigilantly monitoring her surroundings.

One level, two levels—when Roland stepped onto the fourth step, a sudden change occurred!

Without warning, the stone steps beneath my feet lit up with a dim, grayish-white light!

The light, like mercury, flowed rapidly along the engravings on the stone slab, instantly spreading to the entire fourth step.

At the same time, a powerful force field carrying the meaning of binding and annihilation rose from the steps, enveloping Rolin and Liana.

"Trap!" Liana shouted, slamming her staff on the ground. The purification aura was fully extended, fiercely clashing with the gray-white annihilation field, emitting a sizzling sound!

The halo's radiance dimmed rapidly.

Roland felt his body sink, as if an invisible hand had grabbed his limbs and soul, trying to assimilate him and everything around him into dust.

He immediately used his star power to resist, while simultaneously injecting his mental energy into the flat box.

The flat box seemed to be activated by some kind of resonance, and the runes on its surface shone brightly, emitting a deep and long hum!

The buzzing sound carried a strange rhythm, creating a kind of antagonistic resonance with the gray-white light on the altar steps.

In an instant, the light on the steps flickered, and the binding force field loosened slightly.

It's now!

Rolin suddenly channeled his star power into his feet, and the control of the [Star Stream Aquatic Field] acted on his own and Liana's feet, generating a gentle upward thrust!

Taking advantage of the moment when the force field loosened, the two leaped upwards with great effort, narrowly jumping over the fourth step and landing on the fifth step!

The moment their feet touched the ground, the light and force field of the fourth step suddenly went out, returning to deathly silence, as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.

Both Rolin and Liana caught their breath, sweat beading on their foreheads.

If I had reacted a little slower, or if the flat box hadn't resonated, I probably would have been trapped or even assimilated by that annihilation force field.

"This altar has a defense mechanism, and—it seems to recognize this flat box, or the authority that the flat box represents." Roland looked at the flat box in his hand, whose light was gradually fading, and realized something.

The pale hand must have hidden the key or clue here, and must have also set up a mechanism that only they could safely pass through.

The flat box was one of the tokens of love.

The two became even more cautious and continued upwards.

No more traps were triggered on the fifth and sixth floors.

Finally, they stepped onto the seventh level of the altar, the flat stone platform.

In the center of the stone platform, there was not the treasure chest or dazzling item one might have imagined.

There is only a shallow, bowl-shaped indentation.

At the bottom of the groove, there lay quietly an egg-sized, grayish-white, perfectly smooth object, as if it were made of the finest bone china.

The surface of the object naturally has some extremely fine, dark red lines that resemble blood vessels or nerve veins.

There was no energy fluctuation, no sign of life, and it didn't even have much of a presence.

It lay there, blending into the altar and the entire forgotten graveyard, as if it had been there since time immemorial.

The beam of light from the flat box was now firmly fixed on the grayish-white oval object.

"This is... the key?" Liana looked at the unremarkable oval object with some uncertainty.

Rowling did not touch it rashly.

He first scanned with a detector, and the readings showed no abnormalities.

He then carefully sensed with the Ring of Insight, but still could not detect any energy or spiritual imprint.

This thing seems to be a rather special stone.

But the orientation of the flat box is correct.

What the pale hand painstakingly concealed could not possibly be an ordinary stone.

After thinking for a moment, Luo Lin once again channeled his mental energy into the flat box, and slowly brought the box closer to the grayish-white oval object.

When the flat box is less than an inch away from the oval object, the mutation recurs!

The fine, dark red lines on the surface of the oval object seemed to come alive, slowly wriggling and gleaming!

At the same time, an extremely faint but highly advanced spiritual fluctuation, mixed with death, order, and an indescribable aura of contract or agreement, permeated from within the egg-shaped object!

This fluctuation resonated once again with the buzzing sound emanating from the flat box!

The grayish-white oval object slowly rose from the groove and hovered in mid-air. The dark red patterns on its surface shimmered with light, forming an extremely complex and ever-changing three-dimensional rune phantom!

The phantom existed for less than three seconds before disintegrating and disappearing.

The patterns on the surface of the oval object also faded, and it slowly fell back into the groove.

But the instant the rune phantom appeared, Roland, through his insight into the ring and the echo unit, clearly captured and memorized its complete structure!

It was a highly condensed complex contract rune about location, awakening, binding, and channeling!

Some of the energy logic contained therein bears a striking resemblance to the fragments of descriptions about spatial anchors and energy transmission in the Civilization Stele, but is even more—evil and coercive.

This egg-shaped object is probably not a simple key, but more like a token of a contract or a summoning coordinate!

The Pale Hand wanted to use it in the ritual of the Throat of the Dead to awaken or guide a specific being who had signed an ancient pact with this token!

No wonder they value it so much!

Luo Lin took a deep breath, took out a specially made isolation container, carefully picked up the grayish-white oval object with tweezers, put it into the container, and sealed it.

It feels cold and heavy to the touch, as if holding a small, concentrated piece of death and promise.

The moment the egg-shaped object was removed, the entire altar, and even the entire Forgotten Graveyard, seemed to tremble slightly!

The heavy, deathly stillness in the air seemed to have been broken open, and a very faint, unstable flow began to appear.

"Got the stuff, leave immediately!" Rowling whispered, putting away the container.

The two quickly turned around and descended the stairs. This time, they didn't trigger any traps.

But when they stepped down from the altar and returned to the edge of the plaza to meet Ella, they found that the surrounding environment seemed different from when they arrived.

The shadows on those dilapidated buildings, which were originally just silent backgrounds, seemed to grow even darker.

The dust of oblivion floating in the air began to spin slightly faster.

In the distance, the faint sound of low, slow footsteps could be heard.

more than one!

"Something has been disturbed." Ella's expression turned serious as she nocked an arrow.

"There are many of them, they've come from all directions."

Luo Lin turned the detector to its maximum range, and on the screen, the previously blank area began to show a large number of weak but dense life response signals!

It wasn't the ethereal presence of afterimages, but a more tangible, hostile energy fluctuation!

"Is it a guard? Or some kind of defense mechanism activated by the key taking it away?" Liana gripped her staff tightly.

"No matter what, we can't be trapped here!" Roland quickly determined the direction.

"Going back the way we came is too risky. Let's find another way out! Follow me!"

He chose a direction with relatively sparse life signs and higher terrain, and led the charge.

Ella and Liana followed closely behind.