The Vanished Memories

"Wow, five 'Talent Runes'! Haha, I really am a genius."

After waking up, Xuan Ye found that, because he had simultaneously branded five 'Bright Eyes' Runes, even opening his eyes in the pitch-black stone cave made him feel as though he were going blind. The faint rays of light occasionally seeping through the cracks seemed like flashbangs.

It seemed he would need some time to adjust. He appeared to have completely overlooked the fact that his own foolish meddling had led to this result, and what was even stranger...

He seemed to have completely lost the memory of that special experience after carving the Runes!

Although he himself had completely forgotten what had happened, when he relied on the Soul Database to review the process of carving the Runes and planned to use it as a reference in the future, an unfamiliar scene began to appear before him.

It left him utterly bewildered.

"W-What's going on? The viewpoint in the scene is obviously mine. Is this a fragment of the original owner's memories? Impossible! I dug out those stones myself!"

The scene was completely unfamiliar, yet he had not the slightest impression of it. Xuan Ye was genuinely stunned.

A spell that erased memories?

It didn't seem like it. Besides, Xuan Ye had gained a little understanding of the strange database inside his body. As for all sorts of miscellaneous fragments of data, it would not record them unless he actively put them in. The only things it recorded on its own were the various vast natural forces he had encountered during his journey through the void.

Yet this scene before him had been completely absorbed into it without missing a single detail!

It was just like how he now had no memory at all of drifting through the universe back then. His soul and memories simply could not withstand that enormous amount of data, so he could only retrieve some of it from the Soul Database when needed.

A database that had witnessed the birth and death of stars and the truths of the universe had actually taken in every detail of what seemed to be an ordinary conversation, while he himself had forgotten it all!

Did that mean the experience and memories this time were also beyond what his current soul could bear?

The scene looked perfectly ordinary. Perhaps there were reasons within it that he could not understand.

But had something set its sights on him now? It had even left a mark on him.

A Dragon Envoy?

What the heck~

He raised his hand and examined the clean, simple rune on the back of it, which resembled a tattoo. It lacked the complexity and profundity of magic runes and looked completely ordinary, without any particular sensation. He truly had no idea whether it was a blessing or a curse.

After letting out a somewhat rueful sigh, Xuan Ye temporarily stopped thinking about it. Judging by the power the other party had displayed in that scene, if it truly wanted to harm him, it would probably only need a thought. Since he was powerless to resist, he could only enjoy—cough, cough, accept it.

He had probably been treated as an amusing pet or lab rat. What a sin. The Dragon Clan, huh?

Thinking of this, he pulled out Dean's Dragon Language Primer. Although merely having the book meant he could not learn the standard pronunciation by reading it, he could at least learn to recognize and write the language first.

The physical side of his body had already condensed the first Professional Core. Moreover, because his breakthrough had been too rapid and hasty, he needed to consolidate it properly. He could slow down for the time being. Now that he could settle down, he also needed to put the cultivation of his mental side on the agenda.

Once he entered the cave, he fully displayed his homebody nature. Aside from leaving the cave to eat, drink, and relieve himself, he buried his head in the ocean of knowledge, showing off the full research spirit of a shut-in.

During the day, he focused on absorbing knowledge. When he grew tired of reading, he meditated, occasionally extracting parameters from the Soul Database for verification and comparison.

He had truly transformed from a complete academic failure into a top student. With the vast data in the Soul Database supporting him, Xuan Ye's introduction to magic progressed incredibly quickly. He could directly use that enormous pool of data to simulate rough versions of many magic runes, magic arrays, and magic circuits, saving him countless experimental steps.

Of course, since he had never actually used those things, he could only refine them accurately through practice. For now, he could merely fill in the overall framework and sketch out the outline of each system and method.

Yet even with such an overwhelming advantage, digesting the books Dean had left behind for the Magic Apprentice stage still took him a full two and a half months!

During those two and a half months, on the physical side, he had only used breathing techniques to consolidate his foundation and make up for the hidden dangers caused by forcing through his breakthrough. With the support and stabilizing power of the five Talent Runes on his Professional Core, he had truly made the energy in his body as calm as stagnant water, while his control reached an astonishing level.

On the other hand, in terms of mental cultivation, he had spent two months constantly exhausting his mind by absorbing knowledge and recovering through his improved Basic Meditation. This allowed him to advance directly from the level of a third-level Magic Apprentice to a Seventh-Grade Apprentice!

If the deceased Dean had known about this speed, he would probably have crawled out of the sand in fright. Such soul vitality—was he truly not a Pure Spirit Body? Even the High Elves were not this exaggerated!

And this was under the condition that the other party had condensed the physical core first!

One had to understand that because magic and martial cultivation conflicted with each other, after condensing one side's core first, the cultivation speed of the other side would drop drastically!

Xuan Ye, however, knew nothing about this. That did not stop him from feeling pleased with himself and thinking that his progress was pretty good.

After tossing the final book, the guide Analysis of the Characteristics of Self-Use Spell Guidance Scrolls and Spell Trigger Scrolls, into his Spatial Bag, Xuan Ye could not help but sigh.

No wonder so few people truly practiced Dual Cultivation of Magic and Martial Arts. The knowledge requirements for mages were simply too high. He was only at the apprentice stage, yet even with his cheat, it had taken him two and a half months to chew through this basic knowledge. Who knew how long it would take to apply it flexibly?

No wonder they said that among practitioners of the same profession, the weakest were mages, and the strongest were also mages!

They were talking about those who merely possessed a realm but did not know how to make use of it, right?

No wonder even the deceased Aitiya, who had possessed such monstrous talent and had completely opened the Light Star Palace and condensed her core, was weaker in spell-based combat than Dean, who had not condensed a core.

She mainly provided Blessings and auras, or used them in conjunction with Combat Skills.

Dean, however, was merely at the apprentice level. Because he had fully mastered the knowledge and power available to apprentices, he had unleashed astonishingly powerful attack magic when he possessed sufficient spellcasting materials.

Now that Xuan Ye had also reached the mental level of a Seventh-Grade Apprentice, Dean's bag still had a little more than two portions of the spellcasting materials for 'Chain Fireball'. Yet he was completely confident that he could not use it properly.

His main problem was that he had no confidence in using the Guidance Scroll. From the book he had just finished reading, he learned that a Guidance Scroll was an auxiliary magical item that mages used to cast spells beyond their abilities or spells they found extremely difficult to control. It differed greatly from Trigger Scrolls, which were usable by all professions and could be activated simply by tearing them open.

Every school's Guidance Scroll required a unique method to guide it. Unfortunately, his Spatial Bag contained no information on such scrolls. Perhaps because it involved his mentor's secrets of spellcasting, the method was passed down orally.

Xuan Ye had spent half a day trying to decipher it, yet still could not find a way.

Well, out of curiosity, Xuan Ye had still figured out and mastered several small spells he could use, such as Flash Spell.

At the same time, after entering the Seventh-Grade Apprentice level and becoming a High-level Magic Apprentice, Xuan Ye had gained a new understanding of the essence and nature of magic. He was no longer an outsider merely watching the excitement from afar.

That was because he was now about to embark on the path of opening his first Earth Star Palace. The so-called six elemental Star Palaces did not mean that one could master an entire school of magic by mastering each Star Palace. In fact, from the apprentice level onward, as long as one thoroughly understood the complex spell models, one could cast magic of all six elements. The main function of a Star Palace was to enhance one's affinity with a single element.

For example, it could increase power, reduce or even eliminate the need for spellcasting materials, reduce incantation syllables or even allow instant casting, and let the Star Palace projection outline the corresponding spell model on its own.

When Dean had used that carpet bombing, he had not merely possessed all the necessary spellcasting materials. He had also used both his hands and mouth, chanting while sketching the model before him with his fingers. If he had reached the Formal Mage realm and opened the Fire Star Palace at the time, he could have relied on the Star Palace projection to speed up the construction of the model.

Xuan Ye was also quite envious of such flashy spells. Unfortunately, his first choice of Star Palace had still instinctively followed the Earth Star Palace suggested by his pathetic father, preparing him to become a Barrier Master first.

Thinking of this, Xuan Ye could only swallow his tears. Who had told him to possess a Bloodline Power that placed such a heavy burden on his body? Still, he was somewhat looking forward to how much the five 'Bright Eyes' Talent Runes would enhance his Eyes of Lawbreaking.

For now, he could only take things one step at a time. Hmph, a Barrier Master or whatever would never stop me. If I were stopped by a mere Barrier Master, how would I be any different from a salted fish...

The book's title has been changed, and 'Eyes of Lawbreaking' has replaced 'Eyes of Lawbreaking.' There is nothing but tears to say about it. This is already my fourth book, and the first title of every book has been killed off. The main reason is that the recommendation click-through rate was a little poor. If both collections and recommendations were low, it could be a quality issue, but if the clicks were low, then it could only be the title. I'm hopeless at naming things, ORZ.

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