Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 3202: Chapter 3203: Shi Zhong

Based on the clues given by the indigenous children, Baba Ragon only stayed in Rabbit Town for about fifteen minutes before leaving.

During these fifteen minutes, aside from the group of children, two other people are currently known to have had contact with Baba Ragon.

One is a worker near the entrance to Silver Coral Island, and the other is a library guard.

The former is a worker constructing the surface gathering land, whose job is to transport resources from Silver Coral Island to the surface resource warehouse.

The latter is a guard of the Illusion Technique library.

Led by the indigenous children, they found the worker who was busily transporting wood. From his mouth, they obtained the first clue.

Baba Ragon asked the worker about the situation inside Silver Coral Island.

Upon learning that beneath the pool is an "island secret realm," Baba Ragon showed great curiosity and asked for more information.

However, Baba Ragon only asked and did not really enter Silver Coral Island. This point left Kukurus and Luskania a bit puzzled.

But soon, the puzzle was solved.

They found the second person who had contact with Baba Ragon, the library guard.

From the guard’s mouth, they learned that Baba Ragon was asking about information related to the Immortal Realm. This included its origin, methods to crack it, tools of the realm, etc...

Although the guard himself had not experienced the Immortal Realm, nearby were Silver Coral Island and the World Grinding Day instance, plus a circus instance summoned weekly throughout the realm. So the guard had some understanding of these instances, and his answers gave Baba Ragon a preliminary understanding of the Immortal Realm.

Next, Baba Ragon asked where the Immortal Realm existed?

The guard first confirmed it was Silver Coral Island.

But Baba Ragon directly ruled out going to Silver Coral Island, reasoning that the Little Treasure Tower there has as many as one hundred and twenty floors, but only three challenge opportunities; one must first accumulate to succeed in one go.

And accumulation surely means various Immortal Realm tools.

Baba Ragon does not want to challenge the Little Treasure Tower now; it wants to first experience some simple Immortal Realm instances, gather more information, and more Immortal Realm tools, before heading to Silver Coral Island.

However, the above is actually not Baba Ragon’s true intention.

Most importantly, he found that these people had not seen Luigi, only knew about Glaipnir.

And even Glaipnir had not challenged Silver Coral Island; there might be something fishy here, so Baba Ragon decided to wait, as Silver Coral Island wasn’t going anywhere, and would not run away, so he would not challenge Silver Coral Island for now.

Thus, the guard got information about the World Grinding Day instance.

Baba Ragon shook his head without hesitation; even Glaipnir ordered it to be sealed, indicating extreme danger and difficulty, so there was no need to cause trouble for himself.

The guard thought it over and had no other instances to suggest. The circus summons are random, so he pointed Baba Ragon in another direction: "The surface is constructing gathering land; I’ve heard people say, near gathering land there might be a forest instance for indigenous people. Though it hasn’t appeared yet, it could show up anytime."

After pondering a bit, Baba Ragon decided to take a look at the surface.

His birthplace was near Rabbit Town, and he hasn’t yet checked out the outside world from the surface.

He was very curious about the Crystal Origin of Dreams; staying in one place seemed like a waste, he needed to wander and observe more to further analyze the Dream Crystal Origin.

Moreover, wandering might lead him to newly appeared simple Immortal Realms.

Yet, Baba Ragon did not know, simple Immortal Realms are not something he can encounter just when he wants.

Even when an Immortal Realm descends, even Angel would find it hard to immediately assess its difficulty.

Just like Uriel’s instance, in Angel’s layman view, it didn’t seem too hard. It was merely a music contest, what’s so difficult about that?

But after watching Luigi’s challenge these days, Angel could confirm the instance’s difficulty is extremely high, not even ordinary music masters could beat it.

Currently, in Angel’s view, the only known simple instance is Silver Coral Island.

Unfortunately, Baba Ragon missed this instance due to various reasons.

Of course, another reason might be Baba Ragon worried he couldn’t enter Silver Coral Island; after all, not everyone can go in, purity of heart is crucial.

Baba Ragon bid farewell to the guard and along the passageway headed to the surface gathering land.

After Kukurus learned this from the guard, he immediately chased after him with Luskania.

According to the guard, Baba Ragon had left not half an hour ago, and as long as Baba Ragon was still at the surface gathering land, they’d have the opportunity to encounter him.

Led by the Rabbit Girl, they quickly reached the surface gathering land.

However, they did not see Baba Ragon here.

Though Baba Ragon was not nearby, many indigenous people gathered together in the rudimentary gathering land, discussing something with serious expressions.

There were not many indigenous people on the surface, most were constructing the gathering land’s framework; now nearly ninety percent were gathered, evidently something was up.

The Rabbit Girl decided to approach and listen to what they were saying.

Kukurus and Luskania did not refuse; they also wanted to learn about Baba Ragon’s information from the mouths of these indigenous people.

However, when they understood the indigenous people’s words, they were all stunned.

Because, the object of discussion of this group of indigenous people was Baba Ragon!

Based on the indigenous people’s bits of supplement, they learned the whole story.

Baba Ragon indeed came to the surface gathering land, and engaged with the indigenous people here in conversation, still querying about the Immortal Realm issue.

However, before Baba Ragon could ask for any information, a spatial rift suddenly tore open above the gathering land.

At this sight, indigenous people who had encountered Glaipnir wondered if the spatial rift related to Rainbow Sprite?

But soon, they rejected this guess, because the appearance of Rainbow Sprite requires two conditions: the surface gathering land and the rainbow.

Now the gathering land wasn’t built, and the rainbow hadn’t appeared, making Rainbow Sprite’s appearance impossible.

Then what was the rift in mid-air?

Could it be they’d accidentally triggered the keyword of an Immortal Realm while constructing the gathering land? Just like the World Grinding Day instance, bringing out a mushroom attracted the instance?

Amongst the indigenous people, panic guesses were being made when a figure at least three meters tall walked out from the spatial rift.

No one saw the appearance of the newcomer because he wore a black cloaked hood that not only covered his head but entirely enveloped his slender body.

The only visible thing was, the black cloak had various golden darker pattern designs, seeming like some kind of unknown multi-wing dragon embroidered.

After the cloaked figure appeared, its gaze fixated intently on Baba Ragon.

"Dragon species... infant..."

The cloaked figure flashed into appearance beside Baba Ragon.

"You are eligible to enter the Dragon Tomb. Are you willing to go to the Dragon Tomb?"

Baba Ragon was a bit dazed: "What?"

"You just need to answer yes or no. I don’t want to hear anything else," the cloaked person said lightly.

Baba Ragon: "Is this Dragon Tomb a wonderland?"

The cloaked figure didn’t deny it, so Baba Ragon acknowledged it straight away.

He was originally planning to head out in search of a new wonderland, and now that a wonderland had come directly to him, and judging by the name, it seemed to be related to "dragon"?

After pondering for two seconds, Baba Ragon nodded without hesitation: "I’ll go."

The cloaked figure said calmly: "Hidden within the Dragon Tomb are the secrets of dragons; it will be the starting point of your rebirth. As the Tomb Guardian, I will lead you to rekindle the glory of the dragons."

With those words, the cloaked figure grabbed Baba Ragon, and in the next moment, before all the indigenous people’s eyes, dragged Baba Ragon into the crack in mid-air.

As they vanished, the crack slowly closed, as if without ripple or wave.

But the indigenous people who witnessed all of this were frightened, huddling together, asking and discussing among themselves.

Just then, Rabbit Girl brought along Kukurus and Luskania.

Rabbit Girl didn’t know what Kukurus and Luskania thought after hearing the whole story, perhaps they’d feel a little regret for "missing out".

But Rabbit Girl herself was startled.

Others may not know who the person was, but as someone who inherited Laplace’s memories through the Temporal Body, she knew the other person’s identity.

It’s just like Shan of Silver Coral Island, Mushroom Concubine of World Grinding Day, Nafidote of Elf Forest... these all actually belong to Laplace’s quasi-Temporal Bodies because the Forest of Memories was absorbed into the Crystal Origin of Dreams, leading those placed in the Forest of Memories’ quasi-Temporal Bodies to be transformed into special Gifted People by Wonderland’s Authority.

Similarly, this cloaked figure is also a quasi-Temporal Body of Laplace!

His name is Shi Zhong!

Upon learning this news, Rabbit Girl immediately asked Kukurus and others to rest nearby while she herself went offline.

Through spiritual synchronization, she transmitted the events happening in the Crystal Origin of Dreams to Laplace.

...

"The events unfolded like this." Laplace looked at Angel.

After listening to the whole story, Angel felt somewhat mystified.

He always thought that trigger conditions for special wonderlands like Silver Coral Island or World Grinding Day were a merged concept or an artifact.

But now it seems, not only that, but even living beings themselves can trigger conditions for special wonderlands?

According to Laplace’s narrative, the reason Baba Ragon triggered the "Dragon Tomb" instance was because he himself is a dragon.

According to this conjecture, if there were an "Ant Forest" instance afterward, wouldn’t an ant entering trigger it? Or if there were an instance like "Tooth Fairy’s Tale," the Tooth Fairy entering directly would trigger it?

This uncontrollable trigger method gives Angel a slight headache.

He was just ready to roll out the log-in device when such a thing happened.

Should these issues also be considered when promoting in the future?

Angel rubbed his somewhat swollen temples and decided to set aside these issues for now. At present, most special NPCs are related to the Forest of Memories.

When it’s really time to promote the log-in device, he will let Laplace search if the Forest of Memories has any quasi-Temporal Bodies related to these races, and then decide if promotion is necessary.

After temporarily halting his thoughts, Angel looked at Laplace: "Can we talk about Shi Zhong?"

From Rabbit Girl’s eagerness to go offline to transmit the message, along with Laplace’s knitted brows, Angel had a premonition that Shi Zhong might be another difficult character like Mushroom Concubine among the quasi-Temporal Bodies.

Laplace pondered briefly and said: "Shi Zhong... is very special. He comes from the Abyss and is a Half-Blood Demon possessing immense power."

Half-Blood Demon, a hybrid born from Abyssal Natives and demons, though in the Abyss, these Half-Blood Demons are also derogatorily called mongrels. Whether in the real demons’ or natives’ eyes, they are considered inauspicious.

Most Half-Blood Demons pursue immense power and become the subjects of demons; however, some retain their humanity and lean more toward natives.

But since most Half-Blood Demons’ power is low, even retaining some humanity does little to change the natives’ situation.

Of course, not all Half-Blood Demons are weak; there are strong ones too.

Just like Angel knew... Master Ye.

During the Lassudral confrontation, Master Ye, who broke open the barrier and ascended to the chief seat, possessed power so formidable it’s horrifying, currently unparalleled among the Southern Domain’s revealed peak combat forces.

So, knowing Shi Zhong possessed formidable power as a Half-Blood Demon, Angel’s first thought was about Master Ye.

Could this Shi Zhong be another Master Ye? Or could he actually be Master Ye?

With Laplace’s narration, Angel realized he was mistaken... Shi Zhong had no connection to Master Ye.

Indeed, Shi Zhong was a Half-Blood Demon coming from the Abyss, but the Phase Face he belonged to wasn’t the Southern Domain Wizard World’s corresponding ’Barren Face,’ but the one rivaling the West Continent Wizard World — ’Face of Greed.’

Shi Zhong was quite renowned in the Face of Greed eight thousand years ago, dubbed the—Dragon Hunter.

The reason for this title was because his rise started with hunting Abyssal Dragon Species.

Initially, he hunted Dragonfish with thin Bloodlines, then gradually started targeting Draconic Beasts, accumulating power little by little, and eventually rose to fame by hunting a true-blooded Abyssal Dragon.

Although at that time, Shi Zhong only hunted a less than thousand-year-old Abyssal Dragon infant, it still shook the entire Face of Greed.

Face of Greed differs from Barren Face; it features a ’Ancient One’ stronger than Demon Gods, who belongs to the Abyss Dragon Clan.

Following this, Shi Zhong was rejected by the Abyss Dragon Clan.

Pursued and besieged.

During the pursuit, Shi Zhong grew stronger and even used the terrain to kill an adult dragon.

Sadly, he ultimately died in a siege.

The place he died was near an ice lake, where the ice lake reflected Shi Zhong’s death, and memory fragments entered the Sea of Void Mirror, which Laplace obtained.

Laplace was curious about Shi Zhong’s formidable strength and crafted a quasi-Temporal Body using the Forest of Memories.

Through the quasi-Temporal Body, Laplace eventually unveiled Shi Zhong’s secret...