Chapter 616: The Ancestor's Gift (5)

Yan Hao had thought that one day, the Qionglin Mages of this generation would have to continue writing the chronicle of the Battle Mages. In these years, the name of Du Zhengyi would appear repeatedly in the vast majority of the paragraphs. Even if Battle Mages were not as skilled at art as humans and could not write with a flourish, the temperaments and personalities of the Great Mages would always be preserved in the fragments of their words.

When recording the chronicle of the Battle Mages, they generally collected the oral accounts of participants, and many parts were faithful descriptions of the scenes. Later generations would vaguely know what kind of great Battle Mage Du Zhengyi was, roughly deducing from the fragments that he was a genius who was harsh in character, had extremely low tolerance for the mistakes of others, had an extremely high self-perception, lacked compassion, had no friends, and was aloof. Only Battle Mages who also revered the primal force of Magic, admired strength, and similarly lacked delicate emotions would like him.

However, it did not matter, because the chronicle of the Battle Mages was only ever read by Battle Mages anyway.

In this book, Luo Qi was also destined to appear. In what might be the most important event in the century-long chapters of this book, the Mind Mage Luo Qi was involved in all of it. Yan Hao had an intuition that he might be the one who would have to provide the oral account of the Seal War when the time came. Because after the actions of these past two days, he could already be certain that he could at most be a second-rate Battle Mage. This kind of mage just happened to have garbage time and could be called by Qionglin to record a statement. He believed that after the older generation of Old Mages retired, there was absolutely no one in Qionglin who would dare to force Du Zhengyi to record a report.

He did not know how he would explain it to Qionglin when the time came, or whether those rigid recorders in Qionglin would believe him if he did.

Luo Qi seemed very afraid of that large spider, or perhaps he just found it disgusting; in any case, he took a deep breath and stepped back. His black cat looked up at him in confusion, perhaps fearing he would starve to death and not wanting to watch him be a picky eater, so it diligently pushed the half-dead spider back to Luo Qi's feet. The spider's hairy eight limbs flailed in the air, and mucus like spider silk flowed from the wound on its back, smearing onto Luo Qi's shoes.

Yan Hao heard a stifled sound from Luo Qi's throat as he tiptoed around the spider. Yan Hao felt to some extent that this was retribution for Luo Qi constantly creating Oreos until everyone was about to vomit, but the crime did not warrant this, right? Besides, any Battle Mage would hope to have a Mind Archmage owe him a favor; helping him would be a small effort. He could save Luo Qi, but just as he was about to act, he suddenly noticed an irrepressible smile on Du Zhengyi's face. This was so horrifying that it tripped up his good intentions to save someone from fire and water. Not only did Du Zhengyi not help Luo Qi, but when Luo Qi grabbed his arm, he shoved Luo Qi in the opposite direction, pushing him back toward the spider.

"Your mother..."

He heard Luo Qi whisper in horror; that definitely was not "Ni Ma." Du Zhengyi's smile deepened, and he stepped to the left, as if using basketball footwork, firmly blocking Luo Qi back next to the spider. Yan Hao was covered in sweat. In the treacherous Seal Land of the Ancestor, their God of War was quietly doing something childish—using his agile and sharp warrior techniques to trap Luo Qi with the spider.

In their world, Luo Qi, the most outstanding Mind Archmage of the next hundred years, had a cowardly look on his face. Yan Hao heard Du Zhengyi still asking the Mind Archmage, "Will you be disobedient again next time?"

"Big Brother, if I'm disobedient, I'm your grandson." The Mind Archmage swore in a breathy voice.

"Can't you just make your cat get lost? Can't you control it?"

"Do you know how vengeful cats are? You be the bad guy!"

Du Zhengyi turned his head and stared at the dumbfounded Yan Hao. Yan Hao paused in fright, and then Du Zhengyi pointed to the spider on the ground, "Don't you see there's a spider there?"

Your mother...

Yan Hao sheepishly used a Decomposition Magic, erasing the spider on the ground without a trace.

"There's more above." Du Zhengyi gave him an order, concise and to the point.

Yan Hao looked up in astonishment and saw that in this room of about sixty square meters, spider webs had appeared on the ceiling and in the corners; at a glance, he saw at least a dozen spiders.

"I don't quite understand you all," Du Zhengyi said. "When you came in to inspect, you saw so many unusual spiders and actually thought it was normal? Is the training of Battle Mages now this poor?"

Yan Hao's face turned red. The ones who came in to investigate at the time were two Battle Mages and two Lotus Burning Mages. However, those three hadn't made a sound just now, and only he himself had admitted the mistake. Now he was the one being judged, and with so many mages and hostile mages behind him, he was incredibly embarrassed and hurriedly cleaned up the spiders.

Just then, Luo Qi turned his head and smiled at him; perhaps as a reward for him cleaning up the spiders, Luo Qi was very friendly. His bit of urgent emotion seemed to be blown to the ends of the world by a warm spring breeze.

"When they came in, there might not have been this many spiders. It's unlikely they would have ignored so many abnormal spiders."

Yan Hao immediately felt like he had stepped down a level and hurriedly added, "Yes, yes. It shouldn't have been produced by Teleportation, and besides, there is no elevator here..." He saw Luo Qi about to continue speaking and hurriedly stopped himself.

"No need to think about it so complexly. Besides, I absolutely believe that you Battle Mages have a meticulous monitoring ability for magical power; there definitely wasn't any Magic happening just now," Luo Qi said. He had already grabbed his cat, which was baring its fangs at Yan Hao in his arms. "They look like spiders and have the characteristics of spiders, so they are spiders. I think they might have just hatched; they weren't this numerous when you came in. Did you see the speed at which they weave webs?"

"Yes," Yan Hao said hurriedly. "There weren't this many spider webs in the room just now; these gray spider webs are too obvious. But where did this thing run out from? Could it be that the Seal Land also seals this? This thing doesn't have any substantial aggressiveness."

"This might be... one of the lost Progenitor Magics," a trembling voice came from the doorway.

They turned back and saw Zhou Ruisi poking his head in at the door, looking both scared and unable to resist his curiosity. "Do you all not read books usually?"

"Du Zhengyi definitely reads," Luo Qi replied. "But he never wants to share the knowledge of this place with us. Do you know about spiders?"

"I don't know about spiders," Zhou Ruisi said. "But you all shouldn't have seen this creature either, right? This thing that looks like a spider but isn't a spider should be an original creation of the Progenitor Mage, just like your cat."

"Then they definitely can't get the copyright," Luo Qi said.

"It's not about copyright," Zhou Ruisi said. "In the magic system of the Ancient Mages, the highest-level magics are Time Magic, Space Magic, Mind Magic, and Life Magic."

"There is also Life Magic?" Luo Qi asked. "Wait, what is Time Magic?"

"It should be the prototype of human fortune-telling now; it has long been a thing of legend," Zhou Ruisi said. "There have been several papers discussing this, with keywords like 'computability and computational complexity of the future.' Do you want to hear it?"

"No, my head hurts," Luo Qi said. "Let's talk about Life Magic instead."

"Alright then," Zhou Ruisi said. "The Psychic Art we still retain can be considered an inconspicuous subset of the Progenitor's Life Magic. The Progenitor Mages possessed the magic to create worlds and adjust life. They created mages in their own image, and then created... ah, industrious humans, and created countless types of Seal Beasts, from which they picked some to preserve. This kind of spider, I think, is like a magic that adjusts life, because we have all seen spiders outside, and they are still quite different from them. Besides these spiders having armored shells, their reproduction speed and web-weaving speed are also faster than spiders outside; it should be a faster life rhythm. Uh, according to the reproduction speed I just saw, as long as you give them an hour, there shouldn't only be this few. I mean, the door here isn't sealed shut; there should be spider webs everywhere here. Uh, Mage Yan, look, there is another nest of spiders coming out in that corner; they should be the grandchildren generation..."

"What is going on here?" Yan Hao said helplessly. "Could it be that Du Mage activated this place? The Seal Beasts also had their lives activated?"

"How is that possible?" Luo Qi said immediately. "Aren't we here because there are signs of loosening in the seals here? Once spring arrives, insects are always the first to wake up."

"Then is this empty room actually the seal land for spiders? It's a bit different from what I thought," Zhou Ruisi said. "It lacks a bit of ritual. And it is indeed a bit coincidental; how did it happen to hatch just when we walked here?"

"It doesn't necessarily have to be that it just hatched now," Luo Qi said. "You said the Progenitor Mage would create a world, right? The function of these spiders might be the food of this world."

"Food?" Zhou Ruisi shivered. "For whom to eat?"

"You guess." Luo Qi smiled at him, and he shivered again.

(End of chapter)