The Lighthouse

The abandoned lighthouse is not far from the coast.

The group walked along the coast and soon arrived at the foot of the lighthouse.

The gray-white tower is covered with cracks left by coastal storms, making one wonder if it would collapse if you just kicked it.

The wooden door at the entrance was severely rotten, even covered in mushrooms. Kanne simply reached out and gave it a gentle push, and the entire door collapsed inward, kicking up a cloud of dust on the ground.

"I didn't break it."

Kanne immediately raised his hands and declared.

Nobody's going to make you pay.

Lawine waved away the dust in front of him and went inside. The interior of the lighthouse was even more dilapidated than the exterior.

The spiral staircase that winds its way up the wall is broken in several places, and the corners are covered with spider webs and seabird feathers. If you look carefully, you might even find a few bird eggs in some unknown crevice.

No matter how you look at it, this lighthouse is a completely dangerous building. Fortunately, all five of them are True Magic, so they don't have to worry about the ceiling suddenly collapsing while they are walking. Furthermore, the problem of the damaged stairs doesn't affect them much. So they used flight True Magic to travel along the central space of the lighthouse to the top.

It's unclear whether it was stolen or not, but the room at the top of the tower that was originally used to hold the lights is now just a rusty metal frame; all the glass is broken, and the biting sea wind blows in without any obstruction.

In the center of the room stood a stone platform about half a person's height.

Although the surface of the stone platform was covered with dust, some dots and lines similar to those on parchment could still be vaguely seen. There was also a groove at the top, just the right size to hold the star map.

"Looks like this is the place."

Frieren reached out and wiped the dust off the stone platform, revealing some previously obscured drawings. After a quick glance, she was suddenly shocked.

"What's wrong, Lady Frieren? What does this drawing mean?"

Fern asked Frieren.

"This seems to be a treasure left behind by Flamme..."

Frieren said hesitantly.

"Flamme?"

Both Kanne and Lawine were stunned.

"Is that the Great Mage Flamme, known as the progenitor of human True Magic?"

"That's right."

Frieren's finger stopped on an inconspicuous pattern on the lower left of the stone platform.

It was a seedling surrounded by stars, with several tiny True Magic patterns etched between its branches and leaves.

"This is Flamme's personal mark; she only leaves it on True Magic artifacts and research records that she personally creates."

"But Lady Frieren, didn't you say that because of the extremely limited number of surviving items, anything involving Lady Flamme should be considered a forgery?"

Fern hadn't forgotten the time she found a magic book with Flamme's name on it in a maze. At the time, she thought she had found a treasure, a "big red" find in her treasure hunt. But Lady Frieren took a look at it and said it was fake. She even warned her that in the future, she should just treat all of Flamme's things as fakes and dispose of them.

"That's true, but the pattern doesn't look like a fake..."

It's clear that Frieren herself is quite conflicted, completely baffled as to why she would see something resembling Flamme in a building that's at most a hundred years old.

Could it be that someone deliberately removed the Flamme mark from other places and attached it here? But what would be the purpose of doing so?

If you can't figure it out, then just stop thinking about it. Anyway, everything will probably come to light once the treasure is found.

So Frieren had Lawine take out the parchment and carefully place it into the groove.

The star map and the stone platform were perfectly fitted together, and then a faint Mana quickly spread along the patterns on the stone platform.

"It really reacted!"

"Kanne said excitedly."

"So all we have to do is wait until tonight, right?"

They initially thought the treasure was likely just some worthless gold and silver, at most a few magic books and broken magical tools, but who would have thought it was something left behind by the great Great Mage Lady Flamme.

"Then let's wait."

Frieren cleaned a corner of the lighthouse, then took out a blanket from somewhere, wrapped it around herself, sat down, and looked up at the sky.

As night fell, the snowstorm that had lasted all afternoon gradually stopped, and countless stars hung in the sky above the Glanz Strait, reflected on the dark sea, as if the entire ocean had become another inverted night sky.

"It's almost time."

Lorenzo determined this based on the positions of the stars.

Frieren placed her hand on the edge of the stone platform and slowly poured Mana into it, causing the patterns on it to light up one by one.

Then a slender beam of blue light rose from the center of the stone platform and shot straight into the depths of the ocean.

It appeared!

Kanne immediately ran to the window.

A building could be vaguely seen in the ocean.

It was a small white stone temple with a semi-circular top and several intricately carved stone pillars standing around it.

"Has that building always been underwater?"

"Lawine asked in surprise."

"It must have been concealed by a concealment True Magic. Before the concealment was lifted, even if someone passed over it, they would only see normal seawater."

Frieren observed the changes in Mana on the sea surface.

"But that building is underwater, how are we supposed to get in?"

Lawine raised a practical question: although Kanne used "water manipulation True Magic," it was clearly impossible to expect her to control such a large volume of water.

Just then, Frieren and Fern looked at Lorenzo together.

Although Kanne and Lawine didn't know why they were looking at him, since Lady Frieren was looking at him too, there must be some reason, so they also stared at Lorenzo.

"Lord Lorenzo, you should have a way to solve this problem, right?"

Fern said to Lorenzo with anticipation, after all, if you encounter a difficult problem, it's always good to seek help from Lady Frieren and Lady Lorenzo.

"It seems I do have a solution."

Lorenzo felt quite uneasy under the gazes of the four women, so he quickly spoke up.

The Neptune Magecraft was recently completed. With the clone created by the Saturn Magecraft, the preparation time for a major Magecraft has been significantly shortened. What used to take one or two months can now be completed in four or five days.

"What are you waiting for? Let's get moving!"

Frieren urged.

"I can't do anything with you. Sit still."