Knowledge Was Meant to Be Shared!

"President! President Wilton! I... I have something to report!"

Outside the president's laboratory on the top floor of the Rune Society, hurried footsteps suddenly rang out, followed by frantic shouts.

"This had better be important."

The legendary old woman of the Rune Society frowned slightly.

Berlion Rogers, the Hand of the Kingdom, had just sent word through the Magic Web. Watcher's Wall on the kingdom's northern border might truly be in trouble. Several territorial nobles had reported small numbers of wandering White Walkers appearing within their lands. The news made her deeply uneasy...

Fortunately, news from the border was transmitted through the Magic Web, so no time had been wasted on messengers. They still had some time to crack the problem, mass-produce Mana Bombs, and transport them to the border!

White Walkers were monsters that had already occupied the northern part of the continent. They were similar to the zombies from Roger's past-life films and television shows, but far more terrifying!

Zombies had to actively attack people or animals to infect them, but White Walkers were different. As long as enough White Walkers appeared, they would contaminate the surrounding space... Within a contaminated area, every corpse would "come back to life," becoming a combat unit that attacked any living thing.

Watcher's Wall had been built jointly by all the races of the continent to isolate these White Walkers.

If White Walkers appeared south of Watcher's Wall on a large scale, there would no longer be any living creatures in the world.

At the very least, the Dawn Kingdom would be finished!

"The Magic Internet... the Magic Internet just updated a new function called Magic Encyclopedia..."

The assistant hurriedly explained, but before he could finish, Wilton frowned and said, "Sharing knowledge? Everyone can share it and view it? That sounds like something the gods could create, but why would they? No mage would be willing to reveal such things. The more powerful the mage, the less likely they would agree. Otherwise, Black Boxes wouldn't exist today!"

The essence of magic was using runes to construct a Spell Model, then activating it with mana to produce a series of effects.

When mages taught Apprentices, they usually only taught a large number of basic runes and some Spell Models. Only especially close Apprentices or family descendants could obtain deeper knowledge about Spell Models—for example, why certain runes were used, what effects those runes produced, and how runes could be combined.

Without this deeper knowledge, a mage could at most copy something exactly as it was in order to achieve its effects...

Simply put, when a Spell Model could not be analyzed and its builder did not know the principles behind the spell, merely constructing it and injecting mana to use it, while rune structures, energy flows, and everything else remained unknown, it was called a Black Box.

In this world, 99.9% of mages had only learned Black Box Magic. They had not mastered core knowledge and would never be able to create magic on their own.

Wilton, as a Legendary Mage, naturally knew this. In fact, he was also a conservative on this matter.

Now that he had suddenly heard that the Magic Internet's new function intended to reveal all of this and hand it to everyone, how could he possibly remain unmoved!

"You came all this way just to report this?"

The old woman glanced at Wilton without saying much, then turned her gaze back to the Apprentice who had just entered.

The Rune Society mainly researched these basic runes and Black Box Magic. On this matter, he had a completely different mindset from his elder, Wilton, but now was not the time to discuss it...

"N-No!" The Apprentice hurriedly shook his head. "It was Duru... Oh, no, Mr. Duru's Apprentice who just came to say that he found the manufacturing method and principles of Mana Bombs on Magic Encyclopedia..."

"The manufacturing method and principles of Mana Bombs?!"

Almost everyone standing in the laboratory instantly turned their gaze toward him.

The knowledge they so desperately wanted was simply sitting there?

The knowledge they had all thought about until their hair was nearly falling out could be directly viewed on the Magic Web?!

Those runes they had never seen before could now be directly checked to see what they did?!

Even Wilton, a Legendary Mage, could not help but feel ripples stir in his heart... ripples like towering waves.

"Are you sure?!"

Wilton took a deep breath and asked one final question. At the same time, the Rune Society's mages had already reacted, rapidly prayed, activated the Magic Web, opened the newly added function, skillfully searched for Mana Bombs, received the Quick Magic Reading enhancement, and activated Quantum Reading Mode.

Before the Apprentice could even react and answer, they had already finished reading all the information. "It's true. I've read it all. Every rune's function, the rune structure, energy flow, medium materials—everything is there! That rune we've been researching for storing mana actually came from Dragonkind's Dragon-Speech Runes! No wonder it differs from the runes we know!"

Silence!

A needle could have been heard dropping in the laboratory.

After a long while, the remaining mages seemed to snap out of it. They hurriedly opened their own Magic Webs and began reading with rapt attention...

"Perhaps sharing knowledge isn't such a bad thing." The unlucky Duru looked at the information and could not help murmuring.

His path of study had not been smooth. A major reason he had achieved what he had today was that, when he was young, he had obtained some knowledge from ruins. With that knowledge, he had joined the Rune Society and gotten onto the right path... Because of this, he understood better than anyone the circumstances faced by low-level mages.

If they could learn a certain amount of knowledge through this encyclopedia, they would surely be able to go further. Then... many of them would certainly be willing to share in return. When they encountered a subject like Mana Bombs again, perhaps a few minutes of searching would solve problems that many people could not figure out even after years of exploration.

Just like now!

Those Dragon-Speech Runes had been extremely difficult for them even to reproduce, yet now, after reading the analysis, any one of them could handle it. The gap between the two was practically an abyss.

At his sigh, many people around him instantly turned their gazes toward him.

The weakest people present were Mid-Order Mages, whose hearing was far better than that of ordinary people.

His words had reached everyone's ears almost instantly.

Noticing the gazes around him, the unlucky Duru could not help shuddering. "Um, I was just saying. And even if knowledge is to be shared, I would only share my own. I would absolutely never do anything that violates the society's rules."

"No, Duru, I think you're right." The old woman shook her head slightly. "Perhaps sharing knowledge through such a method truly is not bad. Of course, we cannot share blindly. Knowledge is priceless. The efforts of so many of us cannot simply be handed over to everyone for free."

The president of the Rune Society, one of only two Legendary Mages in the royal capital, had actually stepped forward to support his view. Although she had qualified it somewhat, Duru still became utterly excited!