Chapter 430: Ella Clay
Eracle, the main city of the Noldor elves, has been hidden in a magic circle for thousands of years and has never appeared before humans.
Most humans never knew where Eracle was.
Even when Leon brought humans to clean up the surface of Lake Eracle this time, the elves did not close the invisibility circle - it was not because the Noldor elves were too reserved, but because Leon specifically requested it.
Because closing and opening the magic circle is rather troublesome, closing it requires erasing the original runes, and opening it requires re-carving the runes with Wendy's blood.
Li Ang couldn't bear to let Wendy bleed...
However, what was unexpected was that just after the ice on Lake Erakle was cleared, the city of Erakle, which had remained invisible until now, suddenly appeared in front of everyone without any warning.
It was as if the visual deception originally created by the mirror was suddenly smashed by a hammer, and the original scene was fully revealed.
Erakle is a magnificent large castle with vines climbing all over its walls and moss-covered walls made of huge stones, giving it a clean and tidy aesthetic.
The buildings in the city are also amazing. The green tiles and stone walls form a spectacular complex. All the houses are built against the mountain, which seems to have a huge drop in height.
Many skybridges made of giant vines are built between the towering buildings, seemingly connecting everything in the city.
There is a towering magic tower in the center of the city. Its height far exceeds that of the Nobles' Court Tower in Sarleon City. It is at least fifty or sixty meters high, and the top of the tower is always shining with a sapphire blue light.
That was the surge of magic power emitted after the Dragon's Tears were activated, and it was also a sign that the magic circle was functioning normally.
Thousands of people stood by the lake, staring at the fantastic castle in amazement, and the exclamations never stopped.
In fact, all the Noldor elves were also staring in amazement.
The invisibility array has failed!
Is someone sabotaging something?
Wendy was certain that no one would touch the magic tower during this period of time. Those guarding the tower were the elites or elders from various elven families, including at least twenty Twilight Knights.
The magic circle is set up on the top of the tower. No one can go to the top of the tower except the direct descendants of Avadain , and it is unlikely that anyone can go to the top of the tower and cause damage silently.
In other words, only a few former Elf Kings 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 tribe who are qualified to go to the top of the tower. Even Aldarian is not qualified.
But all the elves who were qualified to go to the top of the tower were now at the edge of Lake Erakle—they were all patriarchs or heirs of various tribes, all paying attention to the cleaning of the lake, and no one entered the city at all.
Moreover, the light at the top of the magic tower is very strong, which means that the magic power source of the magic circle is quite sufficient.
But why did the invisibility array fail for no reason?
In fact, Wendy is not too worried about Erakle losing its invisibility. The elves are not facing a war at the moment, and the humans brought by Leon are extremely friendly. Moreover, they were all on the lake or on the lakeside before, and no one had ever approached Erakle - they had not been able to see the city of Erakle before, so of course they would not approach it.
But the risk represented by the failure of the magic circle is much more important than whether it is currently invisible or not - this is the last concrete magic circle mastered by the Noldor elves, and now it cannot function, which means that the last inheritance of elven magic is completely cut off!
Leon asked the humans who came from Changhe City to leave here immediately and go to the forest market under the supervision of the Noldor troops.
People obeyed and talked about the wonders of Eracle along the way, but no one acted presumptuously.
They were brought here by Leon to work and earn money, so of course they would not have any conflicts 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's a little related.
Li Ang guessed that this might be a deliberate attempt to sow discord - humans had just cleared the ice of Lake Erakle when something went wrong with Erakle's magic circle. Maybe it was because of the ring in the lake...
"I have a feeling this has something to do with Eunomia... maybe we should fish out the ring in the lake and take a look."
Leon told Wendy his intuition - the High King's ring was thrown into the center of Lake Erakle and should still be at the bottom of the lake. If the person who did this was neither an elf nor a human, then it could only be a god, because the ring was fused by Kavala using the Code of Eunomia.
"Finding a small ring from the bottom of the lake... I'm afraid no one can do it. Lake Erakle is very deep, and the center of the lake is at least several hundred meters deep! Unless the water is drained, it is unlikely that the ring will see the light of day again."
Wendy shook her head to indicate that it was impossible.
Leon knew that Lake Erakle was deep, but he didn't expect it to be so deep. He threw the ring into the lake mainly because it was full of Noldor elves, and even if Kavala or the griffin ran out, at least they couldn't occupy anyone's body.
But if the center of the lake is several hundred meters deep, then really no one will be able to fish it out.
Without modern deep-diving equipment, humans can only reach a depth of about 100 meters by diving with their bare hands - and that is a completely life-threatening act.
The muscles and organs have a limit to their ability to withstand pressure. For a normal person, diving more than 20 meters is already a life-threatening adventure.
The diving ability of the Noldor elves is even weaker than that of humans - their eardrums are more sensitive and are more likely to suffer irreversible damage under high pressure.
Actually, this is a good thing.
In other words, at least this means that no one can get the ring back, and no one can get out of it.
Li Ang originally floated up from Luxin Lake. The center of Luxin Lake was about fifty or sixty meters deep, which made Li Ang unconscious instantly.
And if Kavala or something else gained a physical body through another route and passed through the abyss and came out of this ring, they would surely die instantly under the water pressure at the bottom of the hundreds of meters deep water.
Since it was certain that the ring could not be obtained, Leon and Wendy went into the magic tower to investigate.
The gate of the magic tower has been closed, and there are no signs of damage around it. The guards around the tower also said that no one has entered the tower.
The magic tower of Eracle is the tallest building on the continent of Pendor, estimated to be sixty to seventy meters high.
This is a place used to store knowledge books, historical documents and magical items. Except for the gate and the top, the entire tower is sealed tightly.
The tower has a total of sixteen floors. Except for the ventilation windows on the ground floor and the pavilion on the top floor, there is little light in other floors because fire is prohibited in the tower and it can only be illuminated by night pearls.
From the second floor onwards, the tower was filled with warehouses that never saw the light of day, and a circular staircase that looked like a giant spiral built around the wall.
Documents and books are relatively fragile antiquities and can indeed be preserved longer in an environment away from light.
At the same time, the guards at the bottom of the tower also have an important job - copying books.
They not only guard here, but also protect the knowledge passed down by various ethnic groups. They will rewrite some ancient documents and books, and even engrave extremely important knowledge 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 the Siyuan City Library, and Alina also copied books in the Boshi City Library, and this was once the career that Alina wanted to do most.
The spiral staircase built around the wall is very long, and there are Noldor elves guarding the stairs on each floor.
Twilight Knights were guarding the entrance of each staircase. Even if Wendy brought Leon upstairs, they would still verify it layer by layer.
This is not because the Noldor elves are old-fashioned. After all, they are protecting knowledge and culture, which has nothing to do with status.
This also means that it is impossible for anyone to reach the top of the tower without alerting the guards at all - unless that person is not a human.
It took Li Ang more than twenty minutes of climbing to reach 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".
A 'frame' made of mithril hung down from the highest dome, like many metal wires, forming some mysterious runes as a whole, hollowed out and wrapping the dragon tear.
The runes that wrapped the dragon's tears looked like very thin grooves, very dense, and dark red in color overall. Under the reflection of the royal blue dragon's tears, the red and blue merged into purple rune lines, 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 extended from the Dragon's Tears all the way up to the spire of the tower, and gathered into a point on the dome. It then dispersed in all directions along the "mithril line" carved on the dome and turned into a sapphire blue light curtain again.
Originally, this light curtain would spread to the entire city of Eracle, but now, this light curtain seemed to be cut off and could not spread on the dome, so that the top of the tower became a bright light bulb.
Leon stood at the stairs and watched. He did not go to the top floor, nor did he get close to where Dragon Tears was - he had to respect the elves' traditions.
Although the Noldor elves trusted him and had become his subordinate principality, he himself did not have the blood of Avadain, and being able to see the top floor was already an exception. There was no need for him to break other people's rules by setting foot on the top of the tower.
"I replaced the dragon tears with my own hands more than a year ago, and I activated the magic circle with my own blood. But now there is no problem with the magic circle, and the magic power in the dragon tears is also running well, but it has no effect at all..."
Wendy had checked everything carefully, and the dazzling light of the dragon's tears turned her face sapphire blue.
"You mean, everything is normal, but the invisibility magic is broken?"
Li Ang frowned.
Wendy turned around and looked at Li Ang, with some confusion in her eyes: "Yes, I can feel that the magic of Dragon Tears is still there. But this magic cannot be released... just like..."
"Just like when you stand in front of the Three Prophets, their spells become ineffective. Is the magic here forbidden?!"
Leon understood what Wendy meant.
This is just like the Forbidden Magic Tower in Sarleon City. The spellcasters inside still have magic or divine powers, but they cannot use them.
"This shouldn't be the case... I know my blood can suppress magic, but this magic circle itself is driven by my blood, how can it also suppress magic?"
Wendy was a little confused.
She knew that she had a physique that could resist magic, there was no doubt about it. After all, the effectiveness of her mobile magic-restraining tower had long been proven.
This invisibility circle was brought from Avadain's hometown to the ship, and then brought here from the ship. It is a magic item made by the Sindarin elves and belongs to Avadain's family.
To activate this thing, you need the blood of the Avadain family, and Avadain itself is a pure Noldor elf, which means that this magic circle will not be affected by the ability to ban magic. Instead, it needs this kind of blood that can ban magic to work.
Li Ang thought about it for a while, and suddenly a strange idea popped up in his mind - magic is probably divided into yin and yang, right?
Our ancestors once put forward a view that everything has yin and yang, perhaps magic is the same?
In Leon's view, conventional magic is a manifestation of energy, and forbidden magic itself is also a powerful manifestation of energy. It is like the positive and negative poles of the same energy - the concrete spells used by Sindarri elves like Maltis are considered the positive pole; Wendy, who possesses powerful forbidden magic abilities, is considered the negative pole.
When the positive and negative are neutralized, the concrete magic performed with a single positive energy will become ineffective or disrupted. This may be the essence of "forbidden magic".
In other words, this magic circle is not purely positive magic. It needs dragon tears to provide positive magic power, and 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 operated continuously for many years. It cannot be a one-time deal like those conventional spells. It is estimated that the energy will continue to circulate in the "line" until it gradually dissipates in the flow process. The energy is not released on a large scale, so it can be maintained for many years with a dragon tear.
If this is true, then the reason why this thing fails is easier to understand - there is no problem with the positive power source, and there is no problem with the runes and the mithril frame, so it can only be that there is a problem with the negative circuit, causing the energy to not function normally.
The negative line is Wendy's blood.
Perhaps Wendy's blood no longer has negative energy, and the rune lines carved with her blood are no longer electrified...
"Wendy... Did Maltis tell you what the magic awakening that the elves are talking about is like?"
Li Ang suddenly asked.
"She just said that when her magic power is fully awakened, she will know it very clearly and will release the magic inadvertently..."
Wendy answered helplessly.
Maltis was indeed not a good teacher. Perhaps she herself lacked systematic theoretical knowledge about magic—after all, she was not a scholar, but a general.
"Then I guess you might really be awakening..."
Leon took out a new silver coin worth one dinar from his pocket - it had Wendy's portrait engraved on it.
The workmanship is delicate and exquisite, and the portrait is lifelike.
Since Leon can get faith from coins, Wendy and Amy can certainly do so, and their efficiency is definitely higher than Leon's...
Because the new silver coin of one dinar was circulated in much larger quantities than the 'King's Coin'.
This is a one-ounce (31-gram) silver alloy, the same size as the Buckley silver coin, but more exquisite, it just doesn't shine like the "King's Coin" - this is not a credit currency, but the actual price of precious metals, which is of course more likely to be widely accepted.
In other words, Wendy may have begun to have the power of faith - Leon asked her to distribute a large amount of new dinars to those workers as an employer, which should be the reason why the magic circle failed...
Leon felt a little strange now - the circulation of the copper dirham was greater than that of the dinar, and the dirham was engraved with Alice...
Will Alice also become a 'horse god'?
