Wizard: I Can Refine Everything-Chapter 401 - 21 Ancient Battlefield

Chapter 401 -21 Ancient Battlefield

On the walls of this Crystal Tower, faint and intricate energy pathways sprawled like a shattered spider’s web, sparse and broken.

These pathways intersected with each other but eventually split into two. One led to the top of the tower, powering the mist barrier generator. The other merged into the center of the ground floor lobby and then vanished from sight.

Beneath the dark muck formed by dead algae on the floor of the Crystal Tower, who could have imagined that there was a hidden underground chamber?

Richard swung his Magic Wand, and a fierce gust of wind suddenly appeared in the lobby, blowing away all the filth on the ground.

It was only after the muck had been cleared that Richard discovered a door at the center of the lobby.

This door had even eluded Richard’s Spiritual Detection. If he hadn’t opened his Energy Vision, he would have missed it entirely.

Approaching the door, Richard frowned as he looked at the Crystal Door that seemed to merge with the crystal floor,

He had discovered it, but how was he supposed to open this thing?

Before Richard could do anything, however, the door suddenly dissolved into blocks of crystal that scattered to one side, revealing a pitch-black entrance.

It seemed the door had sensed someone above and opened on its own.

“Automatic detection? There must be selection criteria,”

Richard didn’t dwell on it and went straight into the underground chamber.

He wasn’t the least bit worried about any defense mechanisms below because the Crystal Tower’s fragile energy circulation was no longer strong enough to sustain a defense system.

The energy consumption of the mist barrier generator was not low after all.

Richard even hoped that there were some defense measures that hadn’t been dismantled, to make his find more substantial.

Upon entering the underground chamber, as Richard had cleared the dirt from the first floor of the Crystal Tower, there was slightly more light in the chamber, and it was not pitch black.

However, Richard was still not satisfied. With a light wave of his wand, a bright orb flew out of the crystal ball at the head of his Magic Wand, forming a Light Ball.

Under the illumination of the Light Ball, the underground chamber immediately brightened up.

The underground chamber was as empty as the one above, leaving nothing behind. Only with his Energy Vision could Richard see that the floor of the chamber was filled with a web of energy pathways.

These pathways intersected with one another and weren’t just two-dimensional but existed in a sort of three-dimensional volume.

A flicker of excitement crossed Richard’s face; he hadn’t expected this unexpected discovery.

Although he didn’t know much about Pioneer technology,

these energy pathways were complex, clearly something with great utility. Once he had noted down the pathways, they might later be transformed into a Rune…

But before Richard could finish indulging in his thoughts, he noticed that the energy pathways seemed to be activated, suddenly brightening.

In the next instant, Richard felt a bright flash before his eyes, followed by an intense sensation of dizziness.

It was like being drunk, trying to walk a straight line while wearing a kaleidoscope.

As if the entire world had become twisted and deformed.

“Damn it, what kind of defense mechanism is this?”

Richard was certain that he hadn’t suffered a mental attack; this strange sensation was not a distortion of his mind but rather his senses’ perception of the physical space around him.

“This isn’t any defense mechanism!”

Ulysses’ voice rang out in Richard’s ear; Ulysses appeared distorted as if stepping out of a funhouse mirror.

“This is a Transmission Array! When we entered the underground chamber, we activated the Transmission Array hidden in the floor. But the power supply of this Transmission Array is unstable, so the teleportation has become like this.”

“How do we get out of this state?” Richard shouted.

At that moment, an overwhelming sense of nausea almost took over his brain, nearly making him vomit.

Ulysses replied just as loudly, “We can’t escape. We are now in the midst of time-space turmoil. Forcing our way out might bring us into a spatial storm, and then even I couldn’t ensure your safety…”

As he spoke, the world in front of Richard suddenly returned to normal. However, the figure of Ulysses had disappeared from his shoulder.

“Vanished?”

Richard looked at his shoulder, his heart sinking.

If the Transmission Array experienced a teleportation error, the consequences could be severe.

If lucky, the teleported might only merge with environmental objects like rocks or walls. With a wizard’s skills, it would just mean getting a new body; the life would be saved. But if unlucky, one might fall into the crevices of time-space and be torn apart by spatial storms.

Richard took a deep breath to calm himself down.

It was usually Ulysses who concerned himself with Richard’s safety, but today the roles had reversed.

Richard closed his eyes and focused, carefully sensing the consumption of his Power of Faith.

In the doctrines of the Miracle Sect, the Raven God and the Son of God were one. Faith in the Raven God was faith in the Son of God, so both Richard and Ulysses drew from the same pool of Power of Faith.

The main purpose was to utilize the Power of Faith. Compared to Richard, Ulysses had a stronger application of the Power of Faith.

It was also for this reason that as long as Ulysses used Divine Arts, Richard could sense it.

If Ulysses had now fallen into the rifts of time-space, he would be frantically using the Power of Faith to escape the predicament.

But after sensing for a long time, Richard found no consumption of the Power of Faith.

There were two possibilities: one was that Ulysses had been killed outright by the temporal streams before he could use any Divine Arts. The other was that Ulysses was unharmed, merely teleported somewhere else.

To verify which possibility it was, Richard immediately tried to open a Secret Realm Rift.

Both he and Ulysses possessed spatial beacons of the Secret Realm. As long as Ulysses was unharmed, he would definitely enter the Secret Realm to meet with Richard at the first opportunity.

“Hmm?”

Richard gazed at the collapsing Secret Realm Rift beside him, his mind sinking into thought.

The rift couldn’t be opened; the environment exhibited extremely intense Energy disturbances, and the spatial structure was highly unstable, significantly affecting the stability of the Secret Realm Rift.

“No wonder the transmission encountered issues.”

Richard turned and briefly surveyed his surroundings; he was in a location akin to the basement of a Crystal Tower. However, unlike the Crystal Tower in the Poison Swamp, the energy circuits in this basement were far more glaring, and the contained Energy was several levels stronger than that of the Crystal Tower in the Poison Swamp.

“Let’s go outside and see.”

Richard rose into the air, and as the door on the ceiling automatically opened, a dry breeze brushed against his face, feeling warm.

“Something’s off.”

Richard’s heart sank; the Green Forest World environment was known to be vibrant and moist. The air humidity there typically created conditions ripe for mushrooms to flourish. But the wind outside this underground chamber was dry.

Where had this Transmission Array taken him? Hopefully, it hadn’t thrown him into the Inner World.

Moreover, as the Crystal Door opened, a strong wave of Energy Radiation immediately entered the basement.

This kind of radiation was almost equivalent to a Magic Power impact of two hundred Energy Levels and specialized in Penetration. If a One Ring Wizard were to come here, within a few hours, they’d be reduced to a puddle of filthy water.

These waves of Energy Radiation would drain his Magic Power at an astonishing rate, then shatter the Life Core of every single cell in his body.

But fortunately, Richard was a Three Rings Wizard. With his Physique, even without protection, the Energy Radiation on the outside would only accelerate the metabolism of his skin.

The biggest issue it would cause would be having to scrub a bit more during a bath.

However, to be cautious, Richard activated his Magic Barrier before leaving the basement.

And upon stepping outside, the scene that greeted him was indeed beyond his expectations.

Outside the basement, lay the first floor of a dilapidated tower. Yet through the Crystal, Richard could clearly see that beyond the Crystal Tower stretched a vast desert.

“No way, did it really take me to the Inner World?”

Richard watched the scene before him in stunned silence; the desert appeared nothing like a scene from the Green Forest World’s surface. freewebnσvel.cøm

However, after some testing, Richard quickly confirmed that this place was not the Inner World.

Because the rules of this world had not changed.

If he were in the Inner World right now, the world’s rules should have altered.

Moreover, if nothing unexpected occurred, the Inner World should be completely under the control of the World Tree. To the World Tree, these waves of Energy Radiation should be excellent nourishment, not something to be wasted so freely.

That left only one possibility.

“Is this the Ancient Battlefield?” Richard murmured to himself.

The Snake King once mentioned that only the Poison Swamp and the Ancient Battlefield on the surface world were not under the World Tree’s seed control. Considering the environment of this godforsaken place, it fit well with what Richard imagined the Ancient Battlefield to be.

“Well, this teleportation worked out pretty well, saved me the trouble of searching,” Richard comforted himself internally.

He did intend to visit the Ancient Battlefield, and being teleported here had saved him a great deal of effort.

Exiting the tower, the intense Energy Radiation even caused ripples to form on Richard’s Magic Shield.

The radiation outside the tower was more than double that inside.

Richard frowned slightly, “What is this powerful Energy Radiation hiding in this desert?”

After a glance at the sun, Richard barely determined the cardinal directions. But looking around, all he saw was a vast expanse of yellow sand.

Only in the northwest direction was there a faint shadow.

There seemed to be a colossal structure in that direction.

After pondering for a moment, Richard decided to move towards the colossal structure.

“Let’s check that place first; Ulysses is likely to head in that direction too.”

…

On another side of the Ancient Battlefield, Ulysses, ablaze with Black Flame, flew out of the basement. Below him, a melted Crystal entrance starkly appeared on the ground.

“Dammit,” Ulysses cursed, “it’s strange, the door would open when Richard was here, but why won’t it open just for me alone? Discriminating against a raven, huh?”

Once out of the basement, Ulysses sensed the surrounding environment.

“Such strong Energy Radiation, what kind of godforsaken place is this?”

He tried to open the Secret Realm Rift, but the result was the same as Richard’s.

“Weird, with the spatial structure so unstable and the Energy Radiation so strong, could it be that the Transmission Array sent me to the so-called Ancient Battlefield the serpent mentioned?”

Ulysses flew out of the tower, looking at the endless sea of sand around him, and became even more convinced of his own thoughts.

“Lousy luck, to be teleported to a place like this. Hopefully, there isn’t…”

Before Ulysses could finish speaking, he suddenly saw several blue-glowing Crystal Floating Cannons flying towards him from a distance.

[Target anomaly detected][Target anomaly detected #%@#@￥]

Upon spotting Ulysses, the Floating Cannons trembled slightly, as if the ravages of time had caused malfunctions in their systems.

Then, their color snapped to red.

[Engage annihilation mode]