Chapter 775 - 357: The World Is Calling for Our Help (2)

"Another wizard?"

Luo De was somewhat shocked and quickly entered the next corridor.

"Wizard—Melos, the Soul Binder’s Private Domain"

Luo De couldn’t believe it, and hurriedly looked at the remaining corridors.

However, the doors at the end of the subsequent corridors were labeled ’Library,’ ’Waste Disposal Room,’ and ’Laboratory,’ a total of three zones.

But this was enough to shock everyone.

"There are actually three official wizards living here..."

Avril’s eyes were filled with doubt,

"So who is the owner of this wizard tower?" Avril asked.

"Perhaps none of them are."

Luo De said thoughtfully, "Logically, official wizards shouldn’t live together."

Wizards need private space for meditation, experiments, and secret research, all of which require independent space.

Experiments by two wizards on the same floor could easily interfere with each other, leading to mutual failures of their experiments.

So most wizards inherently separate themselves from others.

Even if there’s a way to solve this problem, official wizards won’t gather like apprentices do.

"Unless there is someone else here who can control them, forcing them to live together," Luo De said.

"Are you saying there’s a higher-level wizard?"

Avril was somewhat puzzled, her eyes scanning the surroundings, "But there are no other passages here..."

Luo De was also considering this issue, glancing around the hall.

"Perhaps the rooms of ordinary wizards are corridors, and the rooms leading to more powerful wizards are teleportation arrays?"

Luo De walked towards the elliptical archway opposite the entrance, "Could this be the passage to the next level?"

"This..."

Avril hesitated and shook her head, "Are you saying this archway is a teleportation array?"

"Yes," Luo De responded.

"It could be... ah, I remember reading about directional transportation gates in records before."

Avril said, "But I’ve never seen one... I’d need to check some materials to be sure."

"Yes, there’s no rush for that,"

Luo De examined the archway, "Even if it’s confirmed to be a teleportation gate, we can’t step inside lightly."

The owner of a wizard tower capable of controlling official wizards must be a powerful being.

Naturally, Luo De wouldn’t intrude into such a being’s residence.

Moreover, all of this is just speculation.

What if the teleportation gate leads somewhere else?

Luo De didn’t want to walk into certain doom.

"Oh right, the black slate."

Luo De suddenly remembered the main goal of coming here.

"Let’s go to the library first."

Luo De immediately turned around, leading Avril and Vivian towards the library corridor.

The library door was similarly restricted.

But compared to the restrictions on the entrance’s stone door, it was much simpler.

Luo De’s mental touch felt some resistance, but with a bit of force, the restriction was pierced through.

Doron led the soldiers to push open the stone door, and inside, the magic lamps automatically lit up.

The wizard’s library was noticeably larger than the apprentice library on the upper floor.

Its width was about ten meters, but its length extended at least thirty meters.

But there was only one stone table and two rows of stone benches; the rest were rows of stone bookshelves.

The bookshelves had some spell rune-like patterns, and one end of the bookshelves was labeled with the knowledge category to which the books belonged.

"Let’s search together and see if there’s any literature on the abyss," Luo De said.

Avril and Vivian nodded, and the three of them each chose a passage, continuously searching forward.

Mystery Basics, Linguistics, Logic and Mathematics, Magic Model Studies, Magic Items Almanac, Theology and Planar Studies, Monsterology and Biology, Alchemy and Craft, History and Biography...

The variety of book categories was very rich, but Luo De did not find the category he wanted even at the end.

At this time, on the other side, Avril spoke up, "I didn’t find any knowledge about the abyss."

"I didn’t find anything here either," Vivian also said.

Luo De thoughtfully said, "It seems there’s no abyss knowledge recorded here, or there’s too little abyss knowledge to form a category."

"There’s planar studies; should we check there?" Avril suggested.

"Okay,"

Luo De nodded, following Avril to the bookshelf beside Theology and Planar Studies.

The three of them each took a bookshelf, starting to search through the books one by one.

"Here’s one, ’Lower Planes—Endless Abyss.’

Avril waved to Luo De.

But Avril didn’t touch it—as Luo De said, nothing here should be touched carelessly.

Luo De understood as well, holding his magic wand to concentrate his mental tendrils, quickly extending them onto the bookshelf.

After some probing, Luo De opened his eyes and said, "There’s some magic power fluctuations protecting the literature from erosion, but they’re not aggressive."

"Okay,"

Avril responded, then carefully picked up the book.

The book was about three centimeters thick, and it certainly couldn’t be finished quickly.

However, there was no suitable place nearby to sit and focus on searching.

Luo De thought for a moment and took out three leather pads from the storage emblem, placing them on the ground, "Let’s just sit on the ground and read."

Avril wasn’t pretentious, sitting cross-legged on the leather pad with the book, she began to read through it.

Meanwhile, Luo De and Vivian continued searching through the bookshelves.

Soon, Vivian also found a planar chronicle titled ’Journey to the 570th Layer of the Bottomless Abyss,’ and sat next to Avril to start reading.

Sitting down shortly after, Luo De found a book titled ’Legends of the Abyssal Blood War’ on the opposite shelf.

The three of them sat in a row, meticulously reading the books under the light of the magic lamps.

After a long time, Avril closed the book in her hands, "What’s recorded here is information about demons and various environments of the abyssal world, but nothing about the black slate."