Chapter 414: Star Magic Stones

Daina couldn’t help but gasp. Ace spoke lightly, but Daina heard the peril in his words. Being beaten until only a head remained—how miserable was that?

One must know that Ace was a Golden Wizard who had suppressed more than a dozen Great Heroes of the Five Northern City-States and forced them to sign a truce. It was unimaginable that he was beaten to just a head by a mysterious existence in the Reflection World.

Seeing everyone’s surprised expressions, Ace said gently, “I have a unique spell that allows flesh regeneration. If any of you becomes the first to achieve the status of Golden Wizard, I can reward him with this unique spell for free.”

Everyone was excited. A unique spell capable of flesh regeneration was definitely a life-saving secret technique. It was just that they were currently only 1-Ring or 2-Ring Wizards, still too far from the 4th Ring.

Arno looked at Ace, hesitating to speak. Ace grabbed Arno’s armored hand and said, “Let’s welcome Official Wizard Bayen back first, then we’ll deal with that matter.”

That night, in the hall of the Magic Castle, Ace gathered all Official Wizards and advanced wizard apprentices to hold a grand welcome banquet, and arranged for Aleias and Bayen’s disciples to enter the Primary Magic School for study.

Seeing Aleias’s frowning expression, Ace took away her Natal Artifact crystal hammer and said to her, “Basic magic knowledge is very important. If you can’t graduate from the Primary Magic School, you will never have the chance to forge your own wonders in your life!”

Aleias looked at Ace, bit her lip, and said, “I will definitely graduate from the magic school!”

Ace threw the crystal hammer into the mental imagery dream world and paid no more attention to Aleias. This was a necessary path. Only through the baptism of magic knowledge and exams could Aleias truly become a High Tower Warlock.

Bayen, along with other Official Wizards, went to the Central High Tower outside the city. He would obtain the status of a councilor of the Magic Council and become a member of the Review Committee, participating in the first review of his life.

Arno followed Ace into the West Tower.

The two stopped in the living room. The moonlight spilled in at night, making the living room appear somewhat serene. Ace snapped his fingers, and several controllable light orbs appeared, making the entire living room as bright as day.

Ace said to Arno, “Wait here first. It might take a few days. I need to conduct preliminary experimental fitting.”

Arno nodded and stood silently in the living room like a statue.

Ace went to the third floor first and pushed open the door of the sealing room. Two ice coffins lay there quietly.

Layers of runes appeared in Ace’s eyes as the Eye of Truth activated, observing the conditions of Ancestar and Ollie. Ancestar was still on the verge of life and death, while Ollie’s soul and body decay were halted by the ice coffin.

“The possibility of converting Ancestar is high, but if I want to save Ollie, my current strength is probably insufficient. She was harmed by Legendary-level power, and my current level is hard put to rescue her. Once out of the ice coffin, Ollie might die instantly.”

While thinking, Ace raised his hand. The temperature of the entire sealing room dropped rapidly. The Golden Element Ring appeared above Ace’s head, the six elements spinning rapidly, and wisps of frost gradually generated in the center.

Sealing chains condensed from frost flew out of the element ring, wrapping around Ollie’s ice coffin. Layers of azure runes flickered, constantly reinforcing the ice coffin.

Ace slowly exhaled a breath of extreme cold onto the ice coffin. The entire ice coffin became like crystal, seemingly even colder.

“With this reinforcement, it should be maintainable for at least fifty years. If I can advance to Level 3 in the future, perhaps I can find a way to remove the invasion of ultimate evil from Ollie.”

Ace snapped his fingers. A huge Hand of Spell appeared, grabbed Ancestar’s ice coffin, and left the third-floor sealing room with Ace, arriving at the laboratory on the second floor.

After the Hand of Spell slowly put down the ice coffin, it turned into over a hundred small Hands of Spell with a bang, constructing a magic circle under Ace’s command.

Regarding undead transformation, whether it was lich transformation or skeletal warrior transformation, Ace had rich experience. But Ancestar was different after all.

First, he was a Level 2 Life, and a rare Virtue Grand Knight at that; second, Ancestar was a subordinate and a comrade-in-arms, not a simple experimental subject.

Even Ace felt slightly nervous. He let out a long breath and cast the dream-derived state spells on himself: Golden Focus and Golden Mechanized Mind.

The two state spells quickly calmed Ace’s mood, and his attention became highly concentrated. With cold indifference in his eyes, he manipulated over a hundred Hands of Spell to construct the magical patterns of the magic circle.

Magical patterns were the skeleton of the magic circle. The entire Undead Knight transformation ritual required four parts: Negative Energy Magic Circle, Soul Fire Transformation Magic Circle, True Spirit Imprisonment Magic Circle, and Undead Magic Circle.

After arranging the magical patterns, Ace floated slowly in mid-air. The Golden Element Ring rose above his head. The six elements rotated constantly, and the black symbolizing death gradually spread.

Golden runes of series such as negative energy, death, and undeath were like mischievous musical notes. Under Ace’s command, they gradually constructed rune arrays one by one. Connected by magical patterns, the rune arrays formed the magic circle.

The Negative Energy Magic Circle was in the center, surrounded by the three magic circles of Soul Fire Transformation, True Spirit Imprisonment, and Undead. After debugging several times, Ace tried activating this composite magic circle a few times.

Undoubtedly, the activation of the magic circle failed.

Ace was not in a hurry. He slowly adjusted the structure of the magic circle, modified the layout of the rune arrays, and fine-tuned the internal structure of key golden runes.

Time passed day by day. After about half a month, the Undead Knight Transformation Magic Circle was finally successfully activated.

An ominous aura, gloom, shadow, and death pervaded the air. That extreme death seemed to breed undeath. The strange state of existence made everyone feel their hearts palpitating.

Arno ran up with heavy steps and stood aside.

Runes flickered in Ace’s eyes. He looked at Arno expressionlessly and said, “Just in time. Go hunt three to five high-level monsters and bring them back. We’ll use them to test the effect of the ritual.”

Hearing this, Arno nodded heavily, quickly left the West Tower, shot into the sky, and flew north. In terms of the number of high-level monsters, the north of the Lar Mountains definitely had the most.

Ace stopped the mana supply to the magic circle and sank his mind into the mental imagery dream world. The entire Lake of Star Mana boiled. Under Ace’s control, the brilliant star mana condensed with all its might, and crystal-clear, brilliant Level 2 Star Magic Stones appeared one by one.

At the same time, the water level of the Lake of Mana dropped at an astonishing speed. By the time the Lake of Mana was close to drying up, Ace had refined over a hundred brilliant Level 2 Star Magic Stones.

Ace opened his eyes. The space gate of the mental imagery dream world manifested behind him. Over a hundred brilliant Level 2 Star Magic Stones slowly emerged, shrouding the entire second-floor laboratory like stars.

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