Chapter 757: [Fire Wine]

This was a V-shaped symbol composed of three small circles, two on top and one on the bottom, connected by straight lines.

Very ordinary.

Even very common.

This symbol was the three small circles representing 'Fire Wine'.

Fire Wine, also known as 'Water of Life', represented the self of life, spirit, and flesh.

Simply put, it was something similar to the base water used in brewing potions.

It's just that this was usually made from alcohol extracted from wine.

That was explained a bit too complexly.

But it didn't matter, because this thing was just a very ordinary item.

So the reason Lan Qingyou was stunned wasn't this Fire Wine symbol.

But something deeper, something that could connect everything.

So after glancing left and right, she flew straight up into the sky.

As she continued to climb, the environment around Lan Qingyou also changed from a clear blue sky to vast white clouds.

With this flight, Lan Qingyou directly flew to an altitude of about a thousand meters.

It was a position even higher than Eureka's hovering altitude.

After feeling it was about right, she then stopped and looked back down.

Although the clouds in the sky were thick, for her Demon Eye, this bit of thickness was nothing.

Of course, the most important thing was because there were quite a few relatively strong mana emitters below.

Among them, the most intuitive one was that massive magic array.

Previously, Lan Qingyou hadn't examined the magic array so intuitively from this kind of altitude.

But looking at it now, she realized that what she previously thought seemed to be absurdly wrong.

Before, during her research, Lan Qingyou always thought of using a core to make up for the core.

But after looking down at the full view, she realized that although the place she had damaged with a stone seemed to be the core.

In actuality, it wasn't much of a core at all.

Or rather, this Time Magic Array fundamentally didn't have such a thing as a core.

It was entirely because when Ursula examined the rough outline of the magic array back then, she couldn't find the core, so she mistakenly thought the place Lan Qingyou smashed was the core.

This was a perfect mistake.

Causing Lan Qingyou to waste a lot of time researching in the wrong direction.

But it didn't matter. At least, under the circumstances of being clear about this point, Lan Qingyou wasn't angry.

After all, this is how research is; wrong information will only give birth to wrong directions.

Knowing this now wasn't considered late at all.

After all, in research, this kind of thing is the most common.

It's just that because witches have Demon Eyes, they can naturally avoid some minefields compared to other researchers.

"Mhm mhm... It's known that the missing part is the inverted triangle representing water, so the triangle representing fire right in front is corresponding."

"Then the trident-like symbol in the middle representing silver is used to neutralize."

"The spiral on the right, the stars in the bottom left corner, along with the sun and moon..."

"It always feels like something is still missing..."

Through her Demon Eye, Lan Qingyou repeatedly examined those symbols below, then used what she had learned to correspond and dissect them.

While dissecting, Lan Qingyou also recorded something in her small notebook.

However, just like she said.

After repeatedly looking at it, she always felt that something was missing from this magic array.

"No... it's not that something is missing, it's that there are some places I haven't completely figured out what they are..."

Lan Qingyou shook her head.

She had also said before that the drawing and research of a magic array were entirely based on the creator's experience, financial resources at the time, ideology, and even mood.

In other words, if you want to replicate someone else's magic array, or learn something from someone else's magic array.

Then the first thing you need to do is to deconstruct the creator's intentions.

It's just like writing a book report.

That joke about 'expressing the author's homesickness' is actually a solid reflection when researching magic arrays.

However, under the circumstances of not even knowing who the creator was, Lan Qingyou could only make reasonable speculations by deconstructing the symbols on the magic array.

Sun, moon, stars, water, fire, minerals...

Not a single one was missing from this magic array.

Inversion conversion, energy-saving recovery...

These things were also arranged very reasonably.

But it was precisely because of this that Lan Qingyou felt strange.

Because she could understand every symbol and every circuit.

Some people say, isn't it a good thing to be able to understand?

It definitely is.

But the bad part was exactly here.

Imagine it. An originally unseen thing could be completely understood under the circumstances of having a solid foundation...

Then the problem arises: why is the symbol that should represent 'time' missing?

According to the Basic Symbology she learned, there was no symbol representing time in it.

In other words, if one wanted to construct this Time Magic Array, the author would need to conceptualize a new symbol themselves.

Although this kind of seemingly start-from-scratch construction seemed very troublesome, in reality, it wasn't.

The 'Power of 'I Reckon'' would play a huge role at such a time.

So a mature master of drawing magic arrays wouldn't have any difficulties in this regard.

Then, under the circumstances that there were no symbols she didn't know, this magic array could still operate normally.

Then it could only be that the other party used a symbol she already knew as a substitute.

"Hm..."

Thinking of this, Lan Qingyou lowered her head and groaned.

Subsequently, her eyes unconsciously looked towards the magic array emitting mana on the ground again.

Speaking of which, she had seen the symbol for 'Fire Wine' while climbing earlier.

Although this symbol was indeed so ordinary that it wasn't worth researching at all.

But thinking carefully about it now, this fundamentally shouldn't be something that could appear in a magic array of this nature, right?

After all, in this kind of magic array involving the attribute of time, a symbol representing the 'self' would be of no use.

Unless this 'Fire Wine' representing the self was used as a substitute...

"Hm!!!"

Thinking of this, Lan Qingyou suddenly widened her eyes.

You don't say! You really don't say!

This possibility truly existed!

And it was very high!

Thus... Lan Qingyou turned her magic broom around and slowly flew a full circle in the air.

After rotating a full three hundred and sixty degrees without any blind spots, she discovered that apart from that one Fire Wine over there, this symbol was nowhere else to be found.

In other words, there was only one of this symbol in the entire massive magic array?

One had to know that although in the drawing of a magic array, some symbols would indeed only be used once.

But these symbols were mostly just used as a transition for two or more other symbols.

For example, between the water and fire symbols seen earlier, there was a symbol representing silver acting as a transition.

But this Fire Wine was different.

Because there was absolutely nothing around it that could be associated with it.

"In other words, the author of this magic array placing this thing in this location is itself a powerful signal..."