The Mighty Dragons Are Dead

Chapter 800: Chapter 0797: Magic Power Lines (Second Update)
 

“Brother, the magic power of this whirlpool is very special,” Ach said while employing the Eye of Magic Power to carefully observe the Great Whirlpool.

Liszt also used the Eye of Magic to observe, and indeed, as Ach had said, this huge, mysterious, and almost stationary Great Whirlpool possessed a special magic structure.

Ordinary seawater doesn’t reveal much in terms of magic traces when viewed with the Eye of Magic, but the Great Whirlpool was filled with bluish-white light of the Water Attribute. Additionally, the closer one got to the center of the whirlpool, the brighter the Magic Radiance became; the blue light gradually being obscured by white light. What was most peculiar was that the light seemed to have layers of discontinuity.

It was a special optical phenomenon, as if a large number of broken crystals had been placed at the center of the whirlpool, disrupting the path of the light and leaving it utterly incoherent.

“What is the reason for this?”

“I don’t know.”

“Then let me ride a dragon to employ the Dragon Eye Trajectory and have a peek!” Liszt said immediately.

“Be careful, brother. The magic power of this Great Whirlpool is extraordinary. Ach can feel it. It is even difficult to control the seawater at the edge, let alone the center,” Ach warned.

“Don’t worry, I will observe from the sky and will not go near the sea surface.”

He called out for Leo.

Being frequently disturbed from his rest by Liszt, Leo was somewhat displeased: “Oh ho!” It had recently been frustrated due to the absence of the Dodo Island Volcano, limiting its strength growth, so naturally, it was in a bad mood.

“Cooperate well, and I’ll reward you with a Magic Potion upon return!”

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Mounting the Dragon Tooth Platform, Liszt quickly flew above the Great Whirlpool. As he employed the Dragon Eye Trajectory, the world took on a different kind of clear visual effect.

Every flow of seawater was filled with a dynamic beauty.

The lines of magic power were skillfully delineated back and forth, painting an extraordinary Great Whirlpool that resembled an intricately carved sculpture. Within the chaotic array of magical colors, a mysterious order faintly emerged. As he climbed higher, the Great Whirlpool shrank continuously, revealing its complete appearance to him.

It was an irregular-shaped oval whirlpool with its edges somewhat reminiscent of the Milky Way Galaxy, with spiraling extensions. The magic radiance of the extensions was somewhat brighter, but the brightest was at the vortex center, almost like a huge silver-white mini-sun.

However,

within the mini-sun, there were clear fractures—those were the breaks in the magic power.

“Very strange, what exactly is this structure? It seems like the fractures are arranged in a huge Magic Array?” Having communicated with Ach for years, Liszt was not unfamiliar with Magic Arrays. The more he observed, the more he was convinced that this was a huge Magic Array, with the extensions and the center complementing each other, each fracture a component of the Magic Array.

Without realizing it, he took out a notebook and quill pen from his Space Ring and began to sketch the scene he saw, detail by detail.

A moment later,

the sketch was complete, capturing the major lines of the Magic Array in proportion.

Only then did he put away his pen and paper and descend toward the whirlpool’s center to observe the central point up close. If he dispelled the Dragon Eye Trajectory and looked with the naked eye, it was a profound, pitch-black passageway, with the sea around the whirlpool sloping parabolically towards the center.

By the time he reached the center, the parabola was nearly a straight line.

Nonetheless, the water continued to spiral downwards forming a circular deep well with a diameter of about one kilometer, so deep the bottom couldn’t be seen.

Once again employing the Dragon Eye Trajectory, the Whirlpool Deep Well was immediately covered in dense Magic Power, with the fractures distributed at the well’s location, stacking, intersecting, and paralleling each other, appearing both complex and orderly. Liszt took out his paper and pen once more and depicted this structure.

The two drawings of magic power lines essentially captured the magical composition of the Great Whirlpool.

Taking a deep breath, Liszt controlled Leo to leave the center of the whirlpool. Without having clarified the situation, he dared not venture carelessly into the Whirlpool Deep Well.

Indeed, there was an urge to dive in and unravel the mystery, but the overpowering instinct to survive always governed Liszt, making him exercise caution in every respect.

Thud!

Jumping down from the bow of the Flame Number, Liszt handed two drawings to Ach, “Take a look at the magic structure of the Great Whirlpool. I feel like it’s a massive magic array… I don’t know if it’s a naturally formed magic array or one set up by some ancient archmage.”

Ach took the drawings and quickly became engrossed in them.

As time ticked by, she still didn’t lift her head, not even to find a seat. She took out a notebook, continuously copied the drawings, and modified the lines. From time to time, she would set down her pen, step out to observe the Great Whirlpool using her Eye of Magic Power, then return to continue with her revisions.

After a long while,

Ach said again, “Brother, Ach wants to look at the Great Whirlpool from the sky.”

“No problem.” Liszt called out Leo, promised ten Magic Potions as a reward, and successfully rode Leo into the sky with Ach above the Great Whirlpool.

“Brother, you conjure the Dragon Eye Trajectory and help Ach examine the details.”

“You say it, I’ll explain it for you.”

“What does the edge of the well at 65 degrees to the left look like, those two intersecting fracture lines?”

“Twisting and turning, with a notch in the middle, at the point where the light suddenly breaks. If you focus on this point and look up about a finger’s length, do you see it? There’s actually another notch hidden under the light.”

“Hmm, Ach understands now. What about the trajectory of the two parallel fracture lines on the well wall at the 72-degree direction, a finger’s length inward?”

One query, one explanation.

A full half hour was consumed, and the sun was setting in the west, with evening approaching.

It wasn’t until then that Ach, still not completely satisfied, asked Liszt to take her back to the Flame Number, now far away from the Great Whirlpool. After eating some fruit, while Liszt was feasting happily with Lucy and Ruth, the twins, she continued to delve into the study of the massive magic array, whose origin was still unknown.

It had been confirmed to be a magic array, only the information encoded within the magic array had yet to be deciphered.

When it was night, Ach had Liszt take her up into the sky again to observe the magic structure of the Great Whirlpool in the darkness. Her Eye of Magic Power was indeed Super Magic, but its effectiveness was only about on par with Liszt’s Eye of Magic and not very strong, certainly no match for the Dragon Eye Trajectory.

However, Liszt described in great detail what he saw, allowing Ach to refine her depiction of the magic array bit by bit.

By the middle of the night, as Liszt was teasing Nami, who wasn’t very spirited, Ach finally lifted her head and said, “Brother, Ach has deciphered the Great Whirlpool. It’s a naturally formed magic array—it’s a Magic Teleportation Array!”

“A Magic Teleportation Array?”

Liszt couldn’t help exclaiming.

The news was simply too explosive for him to remain indifferent, “Are you saying that this Great Whirlpool is the Magic Teleportation Array I’ve been searching for, or rather, that the Teleportation Array prevalent during the era of the Moon Empire truly exists?”

Ach nodded earnestly, “Mhmm!”

…

Meanwhile,

At an unknown location, several campfires were lit. Injured knights returned from the forest with a few game animals, handing them to the crippled individuals cooking porridge by the campfire.

Near another campfire, two magicians adorned in Magic Cloaks were fiddling with a compass-like device that had already cracked open.

The leading knight threw down his prey, walked over to the magicians, and spoke, “Lord Granney, is the Magic Platform fixed yet? We must make contact with His Highness as soon as possible!”

Granney responded loudly, “Not yet, I need a Crystal, if not an actual Crystal then a substitute!”