Ancient Wizards: A Little Progress Every Day

Dargo casually picked up the dagger, and the moment he touched it, the strange eyeball on the hilt immediately rolled rapidly—

Immediately afterwards, Dago felt an indescribable evil consciousness emanating from the dagger, attempting to seep into his consciousness.

"This is?"

Dargo was slightly surprised and looked up to ask Beatrice a question.

The one who answered was the cold, aloof man beside Beatrice.

"Weapons of Evil Intent"

The cold-faced man said in a deep voice, "It's a very obscure ancient magical artifact, just like the suit I'm wearing."

"It can absorb the evil thoughts of its opponents and transform them into power to strengthen itself, but it needs to be combined with some additional methods to maximize the effect."

As the cold-faced man spoke, he pointed to the black lines covering both sides of his cheeks.

"Weapons of Evil..."

Dago blinked; it was the first time he had ever heard of such a thing.

He was able to absorb the evil thoughts of his opponents to strengthen himself. Recalling the battle between the cold-faced man and the third-circle Voodoo wizard, the gray-black substance that flowed continuously from the Voodoo wizard onto the cold-faced man's armor must have been the so-called "evil thoughts".

The ability to transform the emotional fluctuation of "malice" into tangible power, and even to elevate a second-circle wizard to a level where they can briefly confront a third-circle wizard head-on, makes this weapon of malice truly astonishing.

At this moment, Dago sensed a slight emotional fluctuation coming from Tracy. He subconsciously looked at Tracy and saw that she looked calm. It seemed that she knew something.

Dago's eyes flickered as he carefully examined the oddly shaped dagger in his hand.

The eyeball on the dagger was still rolling around, and the evil consciousness it released was like some evil creature whispering in his ear, constantly provoking his emotions.

If it were an ordinary person, they would probably be misled by this.

But this voice was far inferior to the surging whispers that Dago had heard many times before, whenever the will of "Desperate Winter Dragon Behelight" descended.

The impact on him was negligible, about the same as having a fly buzzing in his ear from time to time.

Dago put down the dagger, and the voice immediately disappeared.

He picked up several pieces of black paper from under the dagger and found that the pure black hides of unknown animals were covered with densely drawn forging diagrams for various pieces of equipment.

All of them together form a magic item set called the "Cowardly Set".

"The blueprints for the evil weapons and armor sets were obtained from the ruins of an ancient wizard. The Peric family suffered a great calamity because of this, and the Voodoo Cult is hunting us down for these blueprints."

Seeing Dago examining the parchment, the stern-faced man explained that Peric was indeed Beatrice's surname.

Dago nodded.

He casually flipped through the forging blueprints for the "Cowardly Set" in his hand. The principles behind the so-called Evil Set were quite different from the design principles of magical artifacts that he was familiar with.

The drawing was covered with dense lines, like the veins and blood vessels of some creature, giving it an evil and disgusting feel. Furthermore, Dago did not find any place to embed the core rune.

For some reason, Dago felt a sense of familiarity.

Upon careful recollection, he suddenly remembered that the strange feather mask he had obtained from the third-ring wizard Darkhead of the Resurrection Society in the Goblin Plains seemed to have the same internal structure.

Is there some connection between the two?

As Dago pondered, as if struck by inspiration, he casually laid out the drawings in front of him one by one, and after a few simple swaps and combinations.

Finally, all the drawings, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, together form a complete pattern.

It was a strangely shaped and ferocious monster.

It has a hunched body, bared teeth and a gap-mouthed mouth, two long, crescent-shaped horns on its head, long and strong limbs, a long tail, and many short, sharp spikes growing on its body.

Once the pattern was pieced together, an aura of chaos, cruelty, and violence immediately enveloped the viewer.

"what!"

Beatrice gasped and instinctively turned to look at the cold-faced man behind her, whose expression was equally shocked.

Judging from their reactions, it seems that even they didn't know that such a secret was hidden in the blueprint. Perhaps they didn't have time to study the blueprint carefully after obtaining it, and were attacked by the Voodoo Cult's wizards.

Dago remained expressionless, examining the monster pattern before him as he asked, "What kind of effect will this malevolent weapon, this set of armor, have on the user?"

"So far, it doesn't seem to have any impact. I just occasionally have nightmares at night. The strength I gained by absorbing evil thoughts will also quickly fade away after a period of time."

Moreover, this absorption has an upper limit and cannot be increased indefinitely.

"How many malevolent weapons did the Perrick family obtain from the ancient ruins in total? What about similar blueprints?"

The cold-faced man hesitated for a moment, glanced at Beatrice in front of him, who was completely oblivious, and then honestly replied, "There are a total of seven evil weapons."

"But two were destroyed in the battle. Apart from the one we gave to you, sir, we still have two more. There are a total of three sets of blueprints. In addition to this 'Greed' set, there is also a 'Gluttony' set and a 'Wrath' set."

"..."

Dago asked several questions in a row, and the stern-faced man answered them all.

After asking the questions, Dagger nodded to indicate that he had accepted the items. The two of them didn't say anything more and hurriedly took their leave, probably because they couldn't wait to go back and study the two sets of blueprints they had.

After the two left, Dagger naturally turned his attention to Tracy.

"You recognize this?"

Tracy sat in her chair, pursed her lips, and said, "It's just a magical weapon created by ancient wizards when they were researching the great demons of the spirit world. It's nothing special."

The Great Demon of the Spirit Realm...

Dago blinked; he had encountered this once before in the Silver Sea.

He had read the relevant information and learned that ancient wizards were generally keen to explore the spirit world and, based on the products of the spirit world, researched and created many strange and wonderful things, many of which are still used among wizards today. One of the most common ones is the communication stone.

It is said that the creation of communication runes was inspired by ancient wizards from another world.

"It turns out that the magic tool set was designed based on the body composition of a powerful spirit creature."

"You don't even know this?"

Tracy chuckled and shook her head, saying, "The higher the level of the magic item set, the more powerful the blueprint it needs to be."

"The so-called magic tool set was originally created primarily to imitate and inherit the power of those powerful ancient, prehistoric, or even primordial spirit world creatures. This is a safer and simpler path than directly modifying bloodlines."

"Some of the designs for the sets are even inspired by certain wizards themselves."

"The outfit Michael is wearing was created based on the body of their Lucien family ancestor, the Witch of Life."

Even the wizard himself could serve as the design blueprint for the set?!

When Dago first encountered this idea, he was deeply moved and shocked.

At this moment, he was able to glimpse the power of the ancient wizards, a small group of figures who stood at the top of the wizarding pyramid in ancient times.

Their strength is so great that they can even rival the Seven Great Demons, gods, ancient overlords, and other ultimate life forms.

"As for this so-called 'Greed Set'..."

Tracy glanced at the drawings Dago had laid out on the floor and said casually, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be an evil suit designed based on the 'greedy demon Mamentos' from the spirit world."