Witch Special

The area between Orc Canyon and Silent City was practically a wilderness. Aside from the various demonic plants that could be found everywhere, there wasn't anything worth lingering in. Lin Zhenxi rode on a magic broom, while Norni took flight. The two of them quickly passed through the thorny plants and flew straight towards the towering tower that gradually appeared within their sight.

As they approached the Silent City, a huge, dark-looking city appeared before their eyes.

It was a complex city, half above ground and half underground, but it had clearly been abandoned for a long time, now filled with ruins and dilapidated buildings. Although it looked extremely dilapidated, considering that the history of this ancient city could be traced back to the Dragon Wars a thousand years ago, it was not difficult to understand why it had become like this.

At the beginning, a large area of ​​the Demon Realm was ruled by the dragon clan led by the Exploding Dragon King Bakar, and the apostle Luke also served as a builder under the Exploding Dragon King. He built the Silent City for the Exploding Dragon King, which could open up the road from the Demon Realm to the Heaven Realm. This gave the Exploding Dragon King a way to retreat after he was defeated in the war with other apostles, avoiding his direct destruction.

Then, the silent builder was abandoned at the last moment, left in the silent city he built to await the pursuit of the other apostles. After discovering Luke's construction talent, the second apostle, Held, did not kill this remnant of the dragon army, but instead asked him to rebuild the demon world.

After that, Luke has been silently completing the task of rebuilding the demon world, but because he is alone, the work progress is very slow.

Now that we understand the background of this place, the dilapidated state of Silent City is understandable. After all, this place was built for the Exploding Dragon King and his army of dragons, who had been gone for a thousand years. Since then, it has been abandoned.

Looking down from Lin Zhenxi and Norni's high-altitude perspective, the Silent City is a huge circular area surrounded by thick walls. This wall uses an unknown material and looks very solid. Even after thousands of years of baptism, it is still intact.

Within the ruins of the walled city, one could still vaguely see the original layout of some buildings, such as a large circular area at the heart of the city, surrounded by buildings that formed a structure similar to the Roman Colosseum. In the center of this circular area, a huge blue crystal floated. This was likely the Silent City's energy hub, or at least one of its parts.

At the end of the field of vision, there stands a majestic tower. This tower is inserted straight into the dark clouds of the demon world that seem to never dissipate. It is impossible to see how high it is from below, and its outer wall has been completely integrated with the wall of the Silent City. I am afraid that the entire wall of the Silent City is providing stability for it, which makes the height of this tower even more unpredictable.

Being able to invest so much money to build a tall tower, could this tower be the legendary road to heaven?

It is very likely, because the people from Arad and the Heavenly Alliance said that they reached the Demon Realm through the outer stairs of the giant tower, which means that it was this giant tower that connected the Heavenly Realm and the Demon Realm, two worlds in different dimensions, and became a bridge in between.

If that's true, it's so romantic!

Lin Zhenxi looked at the majestic tower from afar in the air, feeling the industrial beauty that came towards him, and was a little obsessed for a moment.

Who says witches have to pursue a life of magic? Before becoming a witch, Lin Zhenxi was a prospective university student who had received twelve years of science education, majoring in science and achieving excellent grades. If she hadn't found a flyer recruiting special envoys the summer after the college entrance exam, she might have been a researcher at a research institute by now.

Lin Zhenxi's upbringing had always made him unconsciously examine magic from a scientific perspective, and then solve practical problems he encountered using methods that ordinary magicians wouldn't consider. For example, he used a magic item assembly line, and also used magic to create purely physical phenomena.

And now, what appeared before Lin Zhenxi was actually an industrial city in the magical world. This was so cool to her. You know, when Lin Zhenxi first designed her floating city, she actually wanted to design it like this, but due to her lack of knowledge, the floating city she built was still dominated by magic, and only the energy part used products related to science.

We've come to the right place! Lin Zhenxi thought happily.

Based on the coalition's fragmentary accounts, Lin Zhenxi understood that while they had reached the Demon Realm from the Celestial Realm through the tower before them, the interior of the tower was a completely enclosed area, and they had found no way to enter. If so, the true secret of the Silent City must lie within this towering tower. After all, the Silent City before them was a complete ruin, and apart from the tower, Lin Zhenxi couldn't imagine where else Apostle Luke could reside.

If Lin Zhenxi had come with the Golden Clown, she wouldn't have to face this problem now. But she insisted on waiting, and the Golden Clown was very busy, so he gave Lin Zhenxi a card and left. Now, although Lin Zhenxi held the card given by the Golden Clown, she couldn't find the real Silent City. She could only rely on guessing to find the gate leading to the Silent City.

There were actually two possible locations before Lin Zhenxi. One was the giant tower in the distance, which was the most likely. However, the circular plaza and the azure crystal floating in the center were right under Lin Zhenxi's nose. It looked quite conspicuous, so Lin Zhenxi decided to investigate first.

Noelni is now Lin Zhenxi's follower. She follows Lin Zhenxi wherever he goes. So when she saw Lin Zhenxi landing, she also floated down.

The two of them landed together in the center of the circular plaza, beneath the giant blue crystal that was quietly floating in the air.

Lin Zhenxi looked up at the seemingly transparent crystal. He could only sense a surge of magical energy flowing within it, but he couldn't discern the path of that energy's flow. The crystal's outer layer seemed to be covered by a shell, obscuring all of Lin Zhenxi's perception methods. Both mental probes and magical detection were ineffective.

Simple means were ineffective, so Lin Zhenxi had no choice but to lower his head to look at the base under the giant magic crystal, where a magic circle was also engraved.

Perhaps because different worlds use different methods to depict magic circles, Lin Zhenxi couldn't understand the magic circle beneath her feet, which was composed entirely of lines of varying lengths and thicknesses. This magic circle didn't even have a single rune, only circular lines. This was clearly a completely new way of drawing magic circles that Lin Zhenxi had never encountered before.

Interestingly, Lin Zhenxi took out the Witch's Book and turned on the automatic analysis function of the Witch's Book called "Portrait", and then performed a very detailed scan of the magic circle under his feet, which covered a large area.

This is a very inconspicuous function among the many functions of the Witch's Book. It can help Lin Zhenxi analyze the mysteries she does not understand. As long as the mystery of the scanned object does not exceed that of Lin Zhenxi herself, a special page can be formed in the Witch's Book, describing in detail the mystery involved in the scanned object.

Lin Zhenxi used to use this function frequently, but as her knowledge of magic grew, she rarely encountered magical items that she could not understand at all. Even if she did, the mystery was far beyond hers and she could not understand it at all, so she actually had not used this function for a long time.

After all, this function sounds powerful, but in fact it has a fatal flaw, that is, it requires close observation, and the scanning distance is quite limited. If its effective range can reach the visual field, it will be the most powerful observation method in Lin Zhenxi's hands.

Also, the scanning speed is quite slow.

Just as Lin Zhenxi was holding the Witch's Book and scanning the magic circle on the ground, the huge magic crystal above their heads suddenly produced a subtle magical fluctuation. Lin Zhenxi and Noelni immediately raised their heads, nervously looking at the crystal, which seemed to have undergone some changes.

The surface of the crystal became moist, as if covered in a film of water. Then, this film of water began to converge in one direction, quickly gathering together and forming a blue, slime-like mass clinging to the surface of the crystal.

Then, a little girl's head with a small white flower on her head emerged from the slime.

No, to be precise, this ball of slime is the real body of this little girl. She is a slime of an absurdly high level that can already transform into a human form.

"Who are you? What are you doing under my house?" asked the slime girl in a very pleasant voice.

It can actually talk!

Humanoid slimes are rare enough, but they're not completely unheard of. Some slimes possess the innate ability of "mimicry," allowing them to transform into other forms, even mimicking the smallest details with uncanny fidelity. However, this mimicry only superficially; the slime's inner essence remains unchanged. Lin Zhenxi had never even heard of a slime like the one before her, possessing such high intelligence and even the ability to speak.

My eyes have been opened.