A mage? A spell engineer!

Chapter 310 This Rorschach is a Little Different

Inside the ventricle, the milky white fluid that had been seeping into the stone platform had dried up and disappeared, as if nothing had ever happened.

Only Rorschach stood there, quietly watching the two who were enjoying a baby-like sleep for a while, before walking step by step toward his teacher.

"How did I pass out?" Caroline slowly opened her eyes and found herself still half-lying on the floor.

Caroline immediately sprang back a step, her former composure from the podium gone: "Rorschach! You...you...you!"

"What happened to me?" Rorschach stood up as Caroline regained her senses, his expression unchanged. "You forcibly broke through the spatial blockade of the ventricle. Although you succeeded, you fainted due to the backlash of the ancient elves' magic."

"While I appreciate your willingness to take such a big risk to come here, I don't think it's a very rational thing to do."

Caroline hadn't expected Rorschach to say something like that. She frowned, "It's because you've been up there too long. I was worried something might happen to you."

Rorschach nodded and thanked him again.

Then he knelt down and applied "Resurrection" to Benedict.

Benedict felt a splitting headache and struggled to sit up, lifting the back of his head off the cold ground.

The moment he opened his eyes, he saw the young mage's cold face and immediately said, "Me."

"You have obtained the memories of the Elder of the Spirit Chamber and learned the secrets of the Shadowlands."

"Yes, yes, yes!" The elf then stared warily at the human mage: "How did you know?"

"An unidentified ball of light entered your forehead from the stone basin, and then you fell unconscious. While you were unconscious, you kept talking in your sleep, probably communicating with someone. I suspect it was your ancestor speaking to you."

Benedict accepted Rorschach's explanation and continued, "That's why I want to."

"So you need to open the other rifts from the Shadowlands to the real world, connecting El Isle to Storm City. But now they are sealed by the Lord of Order, and we must open them."

"Right, right, no, 'we'?" Benedict, who had just restarted, suddenly remembered that he was in a semi-captured state by two hostile human mages.

Caroline was also puzzled: "Rorschach, are you planning to help him? He used us and even colluded with Mother Earth."

"At least he is not a believer in Mother Earth now, and the other deceived grey elves are not beyond redemption."

"Open the passage and let the Grey Elf rebels come to the semi-submerged area to see what the Order did with their own people on the sunken ship, and bring the Order's threat into the open."

"Give a rebel army the opportunity to strike directly at the capital of Istani, forcing the kingdom to abandon the colony of El Isle. In this way, the Grey Elves can free El Isle without relying on the gods, and will no longer need to pray to Mother Earth for power."

"At the same time, they will be used to expose the atrocities committed by the Istani on the island of El, and the truth about the collusion between the Order and the Knights."

"Otherwise, the resistance will remain weak in the fight, and they will have to continue to rely on Mother Earth, making it even more difficult to eradicate the worship of evil gods."

"This is the solution I came up with."

"How can the rebels defeat the Knights on their own?"

"The Knights no longer have the protection of Is. Even without Mother Earth, you are nothing more than mortals challenging mortals."

"Of course it's not a fair battle, but as long as you can push the battlefield to the heart of Istani, you've already won."

Benedict was still hesitant: "Will it work?"

"Just do as I say," Rorschach continued to press. "It's better than a cult that's also cooperating with the Istanya authorities."

"You think you've seen the truth—that the cult is using you, and then you cooperate with them, thinking you're using them in return, and you're smug about it."

"To seek the skin of a tiger is to meet a terrible end."

Benedict fell silent. Rorschach pulled an ancient parchment from his robes, which, when activated with magic, turned out to be a map.

He channeled magic into the map and adjusted it with his own will, creating an incredibly detailed map that could be zoomed in and out and its depth adjusted.

"This is the map I found in the stone chamber while you were unconscious. It not only shows the way out of the deep-sea area safely, but also the way to other real worlds."

These entrances are now sealed by the Lord of Order. We must unlock them one by one, which will weaken the power of the Shadow City and reduce its curse of exile.

Rorschach then had the map float in front of him to guide him.

Benedict followed behind Rorschach without saying a word, while Caroline brought up the rear.

Rorschach twisted the stone platform in the center of the room, and the ventricle slowly opened an exit leading to the outside world. It went all the way down, and the three of them exited through the open mouth of the statue.

They were enveloped by Rorschach's domain, slowly floating in the dark and murky air of the deep dive zone, passing other crooked stone statues.

At the same time, a thin mist condensed on the surface of the area, and an illusion effect similar to "Mirror Flower Water Moon" was attached to the outside of this small bubble. The huge fish in the deep-sea area ignored them and brushed past them several times.

Benedict wanted to explore the other statues, but the young wizard in front of him had been taciturn since the beginning, and when he spoke, he did so with an unquestionable tone, making Benedict unable to make any other moves and obediently follow orders.

Caroline looked past the elf and stared at Rorschach. She sensed something was wrong.

"Rorschach, do you remember the spell you were worst at back in the academy?" Caroline asked using the [Telecommunications] spell.

"【Water Creation Technique】".

Correct answer. But normally, the boy would have said more, such as, "You even suspected me of cheating on the exam," or "Why are you suddenly bringing this up now?" In short, this Rorschach is different.

Still using the [Communication] spell, Caroline continued, "What if the Rebels learn the truth about the Order and still decide to cooperate with Mother Earth?"

"The Shadowlands are about to be destroyed." In Caroline's eyes, Rorschach made a prophecy in the tone of stating a fact, and then he said, "Whether the resistance that enters the Shadow City will perish with them depends on their attitude towards the evil god."

When Benedict was silent, his mind worked even faster, and he successfully came up with a question: "Your plan doesn't seem to have taken the Marquis into account."

"Removing the seal on the Lord of Order will also weaken the Marquis's power. I have another way to deal with him. If all goes well, I will defeat him and his Shadow City in a fair fight, like lords against lords."

As the bubble slowly sank, they arrived at the edge of the deep-sea area, where enormous rectangular stone blocks were stacked in groups of three to form a "∏" shape, creating an open boundary.

They were covered in ancient elven runes, shimmering with a soft glow. This was originally a "barrier" to seal off the holy site.

At the bottom of the deep-sea area, there are dark green stripes that sway and drift like seaweed, but upon closer inspection, they are tiny tentacles that are constantly spreading out – the product of the power of Is being hijacked by Mother Earth.

Without touching the ground, Luo Xia led the two of them to a set of stone gates. As he raised his hand, the runes on it changed, revealing a dim yellow sky.

"Let's go, let's break the first seal."

(End of this chapter)