Noldo Elves's main city, Alaclay, has been hidden in the magic circle for thousands of years and has never appeared in front of humans.
The vast majority of humans have never known where Alaclay is.
Even when Li Ang brought humans to clean up Lake Alaclay's lake this time, the elves did not turn off the invisible magic circle - this was not because Noldo Elves were too naive, but because Li Ang specifically requested it.
Because closing and opening the magic circle is troublesome, closing requires erasing the original runes, and opening requires re-engraving the runes with Wendy's blood.
Li Ang is reluctant to let Wendy bleed...
However, what is unexpected is that just after the ice layer of Lake Alaclay was cleared, the city of Alaclay, which had always been invisible, suddenly appeared in front of everyone without any warning.
It was like the visual deception originally made of mirrors was suddenly smashed by a hammer, and the original scene was completely revealed.
Alaclay is a magnificent large castle. The walls are covered with vines and the walls made of boulders are covered with moss, but it gives people a clean and tidy aesthetic.
The architecture in the city is also amazing. Green tiles and stone walls form a spectacular building complex. All the houses are built against the mountains, and they look very different.
Many overpasses made of giant vines are erected between tall buildings, seemingly connecting everything in the city.
There is a towering magic tower in the center of the city. Its height is far higher than the Noble Council tower of Lion City, which is at least fifty or sixty meters high. The top of the tower is always shining with sapphire blue light.
That is the surge of magic power emitted by Dragon Tear after it is activated, and it is also a sign of the normal operation of the magic circle.
Thousands of human beings stared at this fantasy castle in stunned silence by the lake, and their screams of exclamation never stopped.
In fact, all Noldo Elves also looked at it with their mouths agape.
The invisible magic circle has failed!
Is someone wreaking havoc?
Wendy can be sure that no one will touch the magic tower during this period - the people guarding the tower are elites or elders of various elf families, including at least twenty Twilight Knight.
The magic circle is arranged on the top of the tower. Except for the direct descendants of Avadain, no one can go to the top of the tower. It is also unlikely that anyone can go to the top of the tower silently and cause damage.
In other words, only a few old Elf King and their descendants, including Wendy, can go to the top of the tower. Currently, there are only seven or eight people in the entire Noldor clan who are qualified to go to the top of the tower. Even Lord Aldarian does not have this qualification.
But these elves who are qualified to go to the top of the tower are now all around Lake Alaclay - they are all the clan leaders or heirs of various clans. They are all paying attention to the cleanup of the lake, and no one has entered the city at all.
Moreover, the light at the top of the magic tower is very strong, which means that the magic source of the magic circle is quite sufficient.
But why did the invisible magic circle fail for no apparent reason?
In fact, Wendy is not too worried about Alaclay losing its invisibility. Currently, the elves are not facing war, and the humans brought by Li Ang are also extremely friendly. Moreover, they were all on the lake or by the lake before, and no one has been close to Alaclay - they have never seen Alaclay city before, and of course they will not get close.
But the risk represented by the failure of the magic circle is much more important than the current invisibility - this is the last concrete magic circle mastered by Noldo Elves, and now it cannot operate, which means that the last inheritance of elven magic is completely cut off!
Li Ang asks the humans who came from Long River City to leave here immediately and go to the forest market to wait under the supervision of the Noldor troops.
People were obedient and did as they were told, just talking about the wonders of Alaclay City all the way, but no one acted arbitrarily.
They were brought here by Li Ang to work and earn money, so of course they would not conflict with their elf employers.
In other words, the failure of the magic circle this time should have nothing to do with these workers.
Or... maybe it has a little bit to do with it.
Li Ang speculates that this may be a deliberate attempt to sow discord - as soon as humans cleared the ice surface of Lake Alaclay, something happened to Alaclay's magic circle, maybe because of the ring in the lake...
"I feel this has something to do with Eunomia... Maybe we should fish out the ring from the lake and have a look."
Li Ang told Wendy about his intuition - Ring of the Supreme King was thrown into the center of Lake Alaclay, and it should still be sinking at the bottom of the lake. If the person who did this is neither an elf nor a human, it can only be a god, because the ring was fused by Kavala with the code of Eunomia.
"Fetching a small ring from the bottom of the lake... I'm afraid no one can do this. Lake Alaclay is very deep, and the center of the lake is at least several hundred meters deep! Unless the water is drained, it should be impossible for the ring to see the light of day again."
Wendy shook his head and said it was impossible.
Li Ang knew that Lake Alaclay was very deep, but he really didn't expect it to be so deep. He threw the ring into this lake mainly because it was full of Noldo Elves. Even if Kavala or the griffon ran out, at least it would not be able to occupy anyone's body.
But if the center of the lake is hundreds of meters deep, then no one can really fish it out.
In the absence of modern deep-diving equipment, humans can reach a depth of hundreds of meters by diving with bare hands - and that is a completely lifeless behavior.
There are limits to the pressure resistance of muscles and organs. For a normal person, diving more than twenty meters would be considered a life-threatening adventure.
Noldo Elves's diving ability is weaker than that of humans - their eardrums are more sensitive and more susceptible to irreversible damage under high pressure.
In fact, this is also a good thing.
In other words, at least this means that no one can get the ring again, and no one can get out of it.
Li Ang floated up from Luxin Lake. The center of Luxin Lake was about fifty or sixty meters deep, which already made Li Ang unconscious instantly.
And if Kavala or something else gets a physical body and passes through the abyss through another way, and comes out of this ring, hundreds of meters deep underwater, it will definitely burp under the water pressure in an instant.
Now that they were sure they couldn't get the ring, Li Ang and Wendy entered the magic tower to investigate.
The door of the Magic Tower has been closed, and there are no signs of damage around it. The guards around the tower also stated that no one has entered the tower.
The magic tower of Alaclay is the real tallest building on the Pande Continent, with an estimated height of sixty or seventy meters.
This is a place used to store knowledge books, historical documents, and magic items. Except for the gate and the top, all other parts of the entire tower are tightly sealed.
The tower has a total of sixteen floors. Except for the ventilation windows on the ground floor and the pavilion at the top, there is no light on the other floors. Because fire is prohibited in the tower, it can only be illuminated by night pearls.
From the second floor onwards, the tower is full of warehouses that are kept out of sight all year round, as well as a circular staircase that looks like a huge spiral built around the wall.
Documents and books are relatively fragile antiquities, and they can indeed be preserved longer if they are not exposed to light.
At the same time, the guards at the bottom of the tower also perform an important job - copying books.
They are not just guarding here, they are also responsible for protecting the knowledge passed down by various ethnic groups. They will re-copy some ancient documents and classics, and even extremely important knowledge must be engraved on hard metal plates.
This is also an important job for scholars and administrators in libraries in human countries - Emperor Marius once did this job in Siyuan City library, Alina also copied books in Erudition City library, and this was the career Alina wanted to pursue most.
The spiral staircase built around the wall is very long, and there are Noldo Elves guarding the stairs on each floor.
The people guarding the stairs on each floor are Twilight Knight. Even if Wendy takes Li Ang upstairs, they will still verify it step by step.
This is not because Noldo Elves is old-fashioned. After all, they are protecting knowledge and culture, and it has nothing to do with status.
This also means that it is impossible for anyone to get to the top of the tower without alerting the guards at all - unless it is not a person.
After climbing for more than twenty minutes, Li Ang finally reached the top of the tower.
The top of the tower looks like a pointed pavilion supported by four pillars, with a Dragon Tear hanging in the center of the 'pavilion'.
Hanging from the highest dome is a 'shelf' made of Mithril, which is like many metal wires, forming some mysterious runes as a whole, hollowed out and wrapping the Dragon Tear.
The runes wrapping Dragon Tear look like very thin wire troughs, very dense, and the whole body appears dark red. Under the mapping of royal blue Dragon Tear, red and blue merge into purple rune lines, which are exactly the same color as Wendy's eyes.
There should be blood in those rune slots. They formed lines, and all the lines were flowing with purple light.
The light extends upward from Dragon Tear to the spire of the tower, converges to a point on the dome, and then disperses in all directions along the 'Mithril line' carved on the dome, and returns to a sapphire blue light curtain.
Originally, this light curtain would spread to the entire Alaclay city, but now, this light curtain seems to have been cut off, unable to spread out on the dome, so that the top of the tower has turned into a big bright light bulb.
Li Ang stood at the top of the stairs and watched. He did not go to the top floor, nor did he get close to where Dragon Tear was - he wanted to respect the traditions of the elves.
Although the Noldo Elvess trust him and have become his subordinate principality, he himself does not have the blood of Avadain. Being able to see the top floor is already an exception. There is no need to set foot on the top of the tower to break other people's rules.
"I personally replaced the Dragon Tear more than a year ago. I also activated the magic circle with my own blood. But now there is no problem with the magic circle. The magic power in Dragon Tear is also running very well, but it has no effect at all..."
Wendy had checked everything carefully, and Dragon Tear's dazzling light reflected her face in royal blue.
"You mean, everything is normal, but the invisibility magic has failed?"
Li Ang frowned.
Wendy turned back to look at Li Ang, with some confusion in his eyes. "Yes, I can feel that the magic power of Dragon Tear is still there. But the magic power cannot be released... just like..."
"Just like their spells will be ineffective when you stand in front of Three Prophets, the magic here is banned?!"
Li Ang understands what Wendy means.
This is like Lion City and Magic Suppression Tower. The caster in it still has magic power or Divine Art, but cannot use it.
"This shouldn't be... I know that my blood can ban demons, but this magic circle is powered by my blood. How can it be banned by demons?"
Wendy is a little confused.
She knew that she had a forbidden demon constitution, there was no doubt about it, after all, her ability to move Magic Suppression Tower had long been proven.
And this invisible magic circle was brought to the ship by Avadain from his hometown, and then brought here from the ship. This is a magic item made by Sindar Elves, and it belongs to Avadain's family.
The activation of this thing requires the blood of the Avadain family, and Avadain itself is pure Noldo Elves, which means that this magic circle will not be affected by the ability to ban magic, but requires the blood that can ban magic to operate.
Li Ang thought for a while, and suddenly a strange idea came to his mind - magic is probably divided into yin and yang, right?
Celestial Dynasty's ancestors once put forward the idea that everything has yin and yang, maybe magic too?
In Li Ang's view, regular magic is a manifestation of energy, and the forbidden magic itself is also a powerful manifestation of energy. This is like the positive and negative poles of energy of the same nature - the embodied spells used by Sindar Elves like Maltis are considered the positive pole; those like Wendy, who have powerful magic forbidden abilities, are considered the negative pole.
When the positive and negative are neutralized, the embodied magic used with a single positive energy will be ineffective or disrupted. This may be the essence of 'forbidden magic'.
In other words, this magic circle is not purely positive magic. It requires Dragon Tear to provide positive magic, and it also requires the blood of Avadain's direct descendants to provide negative lines - this is a long-term flow of energy, not a one-time release.
After all, this is a magic circle that needs to be continuously operated for many years. It cannot be bought and sold like those conventional magic spells. It is estimated that the energy will continue to circulate in the 'circuit' and will not stop until it gradually escapes during the flow process. The energy is not released on a large scale, so it can be sustained for many years with one Dragon Tear.
If this is the case, then the reason for the failure of this thing is relatively easy to understand - there is no problem with the positive power source, and there is no problem with the runes and the Mithril frame. Then there can only be a problem with the negative line, causing the energy to fail to operate normally.
The negative line is the blood of Wendy.
It's probably because Wendy's blood no longer has negative energy, and the rune lines carved with her blood are no longer energized...
"Wendy... What exactly does the awakening of magic power that the elves talk about look like? Did Maltis tell you about it?"
Li Ang suddenly asked.
"She just said that when the magic power is fully awakened, she will know it clearly and will release the magic inadvertently..."
Wendy answered helplessly.
Maltis is indeed not a good teacher. She probably also lacks systematic theoretical knowledge about magic - after all, she is not a scholar, but a general.
"Then I guess you may really be awakening..."
Li Ang took out a new silver coin of One Dinar from his body - it had the face of Wendy engraved on it.
The workmanship is meticulous and exquisite, and the portrait is lifelike.
Since Li Ang himself can gain faith from coins, Wendy and Amy can certainly do the same, and the efficiency is definitely higher than Li Ang...
Because the new silver coin of One Dinar has a much larger circulation than the 'King Coin'.
This is one ounce (about 31 grams) of silver alloy, the same size as the Barkley silver coin, but more exquisite, but it will not shine like the 'King Coin' - this is not a credit currency, but a real price of precious metals, which is of course easier to be widely accepted.
In other words, Wendy may have begun to possess Faith Power - Li Ang asked her to act as an employer and distribute a large amount of new dinars to the workers. This should be the reason why the magic circle failed...
Li Ang feels a bit strange now - the circulation of copper coins Dirham is larger than that of dinars, and Dirham is engraved with Alice...
Will Alice also become a 'horse god'?