Chapter 658: Mysterious Great Arcanist, Redundant Structured Multi-Ring Coexisting Spell Components

Sure enough, when Niya opened the booklet, found one of the pages, and pointed to the text on it, she said to Xia Duo: "It's him! A Great Arcanist from Morien Tower over 200 years ago!"

Xia Duo took the booklet to himself. This was a book recording the biographies of Great Arcanists throughout history. He had read it before, but apart from when he was first learning to read, he did not have the habit of repeatedly reading biographies; he basically just looked through them once in the Library and moved on.

He had read quite a few biographies, and that was where his vague impression came from.

According to this book, this Great Arcanist Aoshi mysteriously disappeared not long after becoming the person in charge of Morien Tower. Afterward, Morien Tower was taken over by a Senior Arcanist, and a year later, that Senior Arcanist successfully became a Great Arcanist and received the recognition of the other Mage Towers of the Seven Towers.

Although it was only a simple introduction of a few sentences, looking at it now, the details revealed were not few.

A Great Arcanist mysteriously disappeared, and immediately after, another Great Arcanist emerged; if this were a Mage Tower outside the Seven Towers, it likely would not have been so easy.

As for that mysteriously disappeared Aoshi, whether he truly disappeared, died in some accident, or deliberately went into hiding, there was no accurate account.

It was indeed very mysterious.

Xia Duo was even more expectant of the contents inside this Fielder Spellbook. Fielder was very likely a student of that mysteriously disappeared Great Arcanist Aoshi from history, and since Fielder himself had no fame in history, could it be related to his mysteriously disappeared teacher?

Thinking of this, he asked Niya again, "Are there any records regarding that Great Arcanist Aoshi's students?"

Niya had also thought of this question. Judging from that passage on the first page of the Fielder Spellbook, Aoshi should have had more than one student besides Fielder; Fielder was just the most talented among them.

But the Great Arcanist Aoshi in history had no records of his students at all. Either the Great Arcanist Aoshi in history and Fielder's teacher Aoshi were not the same person, or someone had deliberately erased the relevant information.

Niya felt the latter was more likely. She told Xia Duo her speculation, and excitement radiated from both of their eyes. Both of them cast their gazes in unison toward the Fielder Spellbook lying quietly in the lead box on the experimental table.

The mystery of history might be unveiled today!

"Open it and take a look!" Niya urged Xia Duo.

Even though the Outer Structure (primary Protection) of the Spellbook had been cracked, and Xia Duo had successfully linked with the Spellbook and cut off the Energy Circulation, Niya still did not want to rashly touch a Spellbook that was not under her Permission Level.

It was most appropriate for Xia Duo, the one with the Permission Level, to open it himself.

Xia Duo naturally did not want to delay, so he hurriedly turned the first page. However, the secrecy he had imagined did not appear, because from the second page on, it began to record Spells.

The Inner Page of the Spellbook was not ordinary paper, but a specially treated packaging material capable of preserving the planar Mithril Component representing the operating laws of the Spell, and providing a relatively unified energy supply port.

This method was similar to a photo album on Earth; the photos were the energy circuits of each Spell, existing in the form of planar Mithril Components. The difference was—

A page in a photo album might hold several photos, but on an Inner Page of a Spellbook, one page could only save one Spell. No matter what Ring the Spell was, even if it was a 0 Ring Spell, if one wanted to save it in the Spellbook, one page could only save one.

As it happened, the second page of the Fielder Spellbook was a 0 Ring Spell called 【Create Water】. Xia Duo had also created a Spell of the same name during his Apprentice stage, so when he saw this Spell, it was as if he were looking at his own research notes.

The design concept of this Spell was similar to Xia Duo's, but there were slight differences in the specific details compared to Xia Duo's 【Create Water】.

And in the blank space of the Inner Page, there was Fielder's handwriting—

"The first Spell created in my life, the path of Arcane, starts from here. Recorded first as a memento!"

The Spell had no other detailed description, only an incomplete Arcane Geometry Diagram (lacking energy supply elements) revealed by the Mithril Component fused into the Inner Page.

But on the third page (sheet), this Spell named 【Levitation】 not only had an extremely complex Arcane Geometry Diagram, but the blank space also had long passages of professional descriptions, including the back of the page being filled with text.

Xia Duo took a rough look; it mainly expounded on the Principles of the Spell and the ideas for Ascending Ring.

Yes, this Spell named 【Levitation】 was actually a composite Spell containing multiple Rings from 0 Ring to 6 Ring existing simultaneously. Depending on the need, one could only activate the specific Ring elements within it, such as only activating the 2 Ring 【Levitation】 or the 6 Ring 【Levitation】, and so on.

This could be considered standard for a high-quality Spellbook, though generally, Advanced Rank Mages rarely did this; recording commonly used Rings was enough. Although material consumption increased, the production difficulty was greatly reduced.

Generally, only Arcanists would show off their skills in this regard. Of course, this kind of showing off also had its practical use, which was that the Inner Pages of the Spellbook could record more Spells; after all, no Spellbook had infinite storage capacity.

Using limited storage space to store a potentially infinite number of Spells required using one's brain a bit more.

Continuing on, Xia Duo flipped through a few more pages. He discovered that apart from the 【Create Water】 at the very beginning, the other recorded Spells were also composite Spells, containing elements of multiple Rings.

If the foundation was at 0 Ring, it started from 0 Ring; if the foundation was at 2 Ring, it started from 2 Ring, up to 6 Ring.

It seemed that after Fielder obtained this Spellbook and recorded Spells to fill the Inner Pages, he likely only mastered up to 6 Ring Spells at most.

And as he flipped, Xia Duo also gradually realized that this Fielder was likely an academic Arcanist who delved deep into the field of Transmutation Spell theory.

But whether academic or professional, Magic itself represented power; it was truly unreasonable not to be famous.

This made Xia Duo even more interested in this Arcanist Fielder. Next, whenever he encountered an Inner Page recording a Spell, he would just glance at it to see if there was any content other than Magic; if not, he would immediately skip it.

But how much could an Arcanist's Spellbook record besides Magic? Apart from occasionally mentioning the origin of a Spell or the teachings of his teacher Aoshi, there was no other "useless" content on the Fielder Spellbook.

Until Xia Duo finished flipping through all the Inner Pages that recorded Spells, he did not discover any great secrets. However, those occasionally mentioned "useless" contents did make the images of Fielder and Aoshi that Xia Duo had imagined in his mind more fleshed out.

A new page did not record any Spells, but text appeared on it, which made Xia Duo's spirit involuntarily stir. After flipping for so long, he had finally reached it!

It was written on it—