Energy Speculation

Because the magic array was leaking energy, the ruin's gate, which should have been extremely difficult to locate, now gleamed conspicuously atop the snowy peak. Even through the howling blizzard mixed with snowflakes, Punk could recognize at a glance from a great distance that the brightly glowing white spot near the mountaintop was where the "gate" lay.

"It has been quite some time since Smile's believers discovered this damage, hasn't it? Yet such dense Law energy still remains after all this time. It seems this ruin's energy supply is still quite abundant."

Punk raised an eyebrow slightly as he slowly descended from the sky.

Of course, his private remark was merely a simple observation. From the caster's perspective, the ruin retaining abundant energy was not necessarily a bad thing.

After all, based on the knowledge possessed by Archmage Wedraxia, it could be basically confirmed that even during the Netheril era, aside from the legendary "Netherese Nucleus," which could directly draw limitless energy from the void, no magical tower's energy supply device could operate independently for more than a billion years without replenishment and still avoid running dry. Yet this ruin could still provide ample energy to its outermost concealment array after enduring such a vast span of time. The only explanation Punk could think of was that most of its internal defensive facilities and golems had already entered dormancy and ceased operating. However, because the outer concealment array had an excessively high energy-supply priority, even if every other internal function had gone dormant and shut down, the concealment array alone would not have its energy supply reduced.

That made the ruin's apparent "abundant energy" unsurprising. If all the energy of an entire magic tower were supplied to a not particularly advanced concealment array, then in theory, that energy would be