Volume 3: Artifacts Chapter 140: Searching for the Seven-Colored Demon Heart
Luke thought that he could get the upper hand by relying on his relationship with Banat, so he would have more clues about the Seven-Colored Magic Heart than other dragon kings. But he didn't expect that the Seven-Colored Magic Heart had its own ideas, and Banat didn't know where it was.
But...it already knew about the King's Trial, so what was the significance of the test that followed?
Luke, transformed into the Taotie King, flew high in the sky. The territory of Dragon Country was full of natural forests, with mountains and rivers. Rich magic elements gathered above the forest into a colorful halo, and places with high concentrations would form a magic rainbow under the sunlight.
What a magical and beautiful place.
When Luke was wondering how to find the Seven-Colored Magic Heart, he gradually became addicted to the scenery along the way. He finally understood the reason why the dragons had such a lax character. Living in such an environment, it was difficult to muster the energy to struggle.
It's a great place to escape from the world.
While flying aimlessly, Luke suddenly noticed a flash of light in the forest. The light seemed to be shining here on purpose, and Luke immediately dived down towards the light source.
The twilight dragons flying around didn't know what was happening, so they followed Luke and dived. Even in human form, the white dragon Eiffel was still very fast. She flew to the light source first, then flew low over the forest, while deploying a magic circle to continuously release detection magic downwards.
The arrival of the dragons disturbed the animals in the forest. The dragon's might was like a mountain pressing down on them. The animals were frightened and quickly hid in their nests. Some of the timid ones even stiffened and fell to the ground.
The Twilight Dragons fell one by one, and Luke landed in front of the light source.
The glowing object is a gem. It lies on a stone pier, emitting colorful light on its surface. It is heart-shaped, just like a colorful magic heart.
Colorful devil heart?
Luke had never seen the Seven-Colored Magic Heart, but this gem could easily be considered the Seven-Colored Magic Heart. However, Luke knew what the Seven-Colored Magic Heart was, and it should not be so easy for him to get it.
Luke didn't touch the gem, but walked around it first.
The colorful light on the gem flickered rhythmically, dazzling Luke's eyes no matter which direction he walked.
It seemed to be urging Luke to come and get the Seven-Colored Magic Heart.
Knowing that the Seven-Colored Demon Heart was conscious, Luke remained calm.
The more you want me to take it, the more I won’t take it!
"We'll rest here tonight. Eiffel will set up the camp, and Giscabe will go get some food.
I want to study carefully what this gem is."
The Twilight Dragon received the order to do its own thing. Luke stood in front of the gem, connected with Clear Sky through his consciousness, and transmitted what he saw to Clear Sky.
At this time, Qingkong had finished the meeting organized by Dusk and returned to his museum. After receiving Luke's message, he quickly called Jennifer to his own laboratory.
After space expansion, Qingkong's laboratory covers an area of 40,000 square meters, which is divided into more than ten different studios. It houses a large number of world-leading scientific research equipment, some of which are even the only ones in the world.
These studios are arranged around the central experimental station like a Rubik's Cube. Qingkong only needs to stay in the central experimental station to move the required studio to his own space.
Or move the required equipment to where you want to use it.
Qingkong entered the central experimental station and sat down in the central control chair.
He said to Jennifer who was waiting nearby: "I need to do a deep magic property test on a light source. It requires a spectrometer, a deep magic ripple resonator, a light color magic performance locator, and a nano-color identification gun..."
Qingkong listed more than ten kinds of instruments that were needed.
Jennifer opened the central magic control console, found the studio where these instruments were concentrated, used the space transfer function, moved the studio to the central experimental station, and then transferred the instruments needed in other studios.
Plan the layout of the studio and connect all equipment to the laboratory's power system and magic energy supply system.
The lights on the instruments light up, some emit magical waves, and the studio is ready for use.
At this time, Qingkong looked at the gemstone emitting colorful light through Luke's eyes, and then used magic projection to illuminate it into the studio. The consciousness of the two bodies merged into one, and the mental power was unprecedentedly strong.
The spirit orb was summoned by the clear sky, and it emitted light that shone on the magic projection, adding the magic and spiritual information collected in the light into the projection, while making the projected image clearer.
After the magic projection stabilized, Qingkong said to Jennifer, "I need to maintain the image's restoration, and the rest of the data collection will be left to you."
"Don't worry, Miss Qingkong, I will prepare the complete data."
Jennifer picked up a spectrometer similar to a camera and collected 360-degree light information around the magic projection. Then she began to analyze the collected light information in sequence according to the process.
The experiment begins.
Luke, who was connected through his consciousness, stood motionless in front of the gem that was emitting colorful light. This indirect light source collection was prone to errors. He and Qingkong had to maintain mental consistency and high concentration in order to infinitely restore everything they saw.
Luke just stood there while the Twilight dragons built a wooden house for him and the gems, then established a camp and arranged patrols and sentries.
The day passed and night fell.
The colorful Dragon Kingdom is even more beautiful at night.
At this time, in other parts of Dragon Country, the other five dragon kings who participated in the third king trial, like Luke, stood still in front of a colorful gem. However, all the dragon kings touched the gem with their claws, and their bodies became ethereal, as if they were just afterimages left in this space. Only Luke did not move in order to transmit the gem's data.
In the Qingkong Laboratory in Saint Lun City, Jennifer was operating various instruments skillfully and recording the analyzed data. She had been working for more than ten hours without showing any emotion. Following Qingkong as an assistant was her normal work.
After Jennifer finished analyzing the light source, she came to Qingkong with the report.
"Ms. Qingkong, this is the analysis data of the light source and some of my speculations." Jennifer put the thick report in Qingkong's hand, and then expressed her own views: "It can be concluded that this light source stores a lot of magical information, and the amount of information may exceed the total amount of books in the college library.
Based on the structural analysis of some magic signals, I believe that the gems in the projection are not entities, and the light actually comes from an illusionary space. In other words... the magic information in the light has opened up a magical illusion.
If you get too close to the center of the light source, you may be forcibly pulled into the illusion."
Qingkong took the report and looked at it.
It not only contains Jennifer's speculation about the illusion behind the light source, but also some of her speculations about the structure and content of the illusion through magic signals.
"Very interesting report!" Qingkong praised generously: "Do you think the illusion might be a battlefield in an ancient war?"
After receiving Qingkong's approval, Jennifer said happily and confidently, "Yes. I separated a lot of magic elements related to war from the light source information, and they are all very advanced, large-scale spells at the battle level.
Since the end of the ancient war, such intensive battle-level super-large spells have never appeared. Only in ancient wars would such a large-scale use of spells appear , which is also the reason why the amount of magical information in the light source is huge.
A fantasy is usually a story based on something, so I inferred that this fantasy was a battlefield during an ancient war. "
Qingkong agreed with Jennifer's analysis. The data in the report was just as Jennifer said. The amount of information about super-large battle magic was astonishingly large.
Even in ancient wars when divine artifacts existed, magic release on this scale should have been extremely rare.
If the illusion was a battle during the ancient war period, it must have been an extremely brutal battle.
It can also be determined that this light source must have been placed here intentionally by the Seven-Colored Demon Heart, with the purpose of leading Luke into a fantasy world to experience a tragic ancient war. Perhaps there are some tasks in it to test him.
"The magic information of the light source constitutes the illusion, but the light source must have its source." Qingkong flipped through the report in his hand again, then selected a few pages and handed them to Jennifer. "These magic information contain coordinates, which are concentrated in the B369, D984, H894, and P265 color segments. I will increase the information collection of these color segments. See if you can accurately determine the range of the coordinate values."
Jennifer took the report and said, "Yes, Miss Qingkong."
Qingkong and Jennifer returned to work.
It is impossible to analyze the exact coordinates through the magic information in the spectrum. The only way to do it is to infinitely reduce the numerical range. Reducing from 100 square kilometers to 10 square kilometers is already an extremely huge project. For every square kilometer reduced, the amount of work required will increase exponentially.
Luke had no intention of entering the illusion set up by the Seven-Colored Demon Heart.
If that was an ancient battlefield, and I was unfamiliar with , who knew what would happen. And I didn't know what the Seven-Colored Demon Heart was going to test. If I didn't have the right major, wouldn't it be a waste of energy and time?
When it comes to trials that are beyond his control, Luke prefers to trust science.
Everything has a source. Now that the Seven-Colored Demonic Heart has revealed its trace, we can find a way to find its location.
If during the period of locating the Seven-Colored Demon Heart, a Dragon King passed the test of the illusion, it would mean that I have no chance of becoming the King of the Dragon Kingdom.
Luke patiently collected information about the light source. When he got tired, he would go out of the camp and walk around, looking for a small river to fish. After relaxing, he would come back to stare at the glowing gems.
The Twilight Dragons had nothing to do, so they focused their energy on building a camp.
They built wooden houses for each dragon, constructed a circle of wooden stake walls around the camp, dug ponds to raise fish caught by the king, and transplanted flowers and plants, turning the camp into a small village.
Time just passes day by day.
On the clear sky side, as the amount of data collected increases, the coordinate range is shrinking little by little.
Every time Luke got the coordinate range, he would compare it with the Dragon Country map.
The Colorful Demon Heart cannot just stay anywhere. It must stay in a place where the magic elements are extremely dense in order to hide the magic energy it emits.
The most notable feature of the dense magic in Dragon Country is the magic rainbow.
Some bored players have counted the number of magic rainbows in Dragon Country, a total of 1,423, and marked the location of each magic rainbow.
As the coordinate range found by Qingkong further narrowed, Luke finally found the location of the Seven-Colored Demon Heart.
Magic Rainbow No. 697 is located on the southern foot of Violin Mountain in the northeast of Longguo.
Now that he had discovered the location of the Seven-Colored Demon Heart, Luke immediately took off from the village with his Twilight Dragons and rushed toward the northeast.
Violin Mountain is the name given by players to this nameless hill, because it looks like an overturned violin with the head facing south, which is where the Colorful Demon Heart hides.
After Luke arrived at Violin Mountain, he immediately ordered the Twilight Dragons to surround the entire southern slope of the mountain, and then jointly release a barrier to seal off the entire area in order to catch the turtle in the jar.
After everything was ready, Luke took a stroll along the southern slope of Violin Mountain.
As he walked, he released detection spell waves under his feet and said, "Seven-Colored Demon Heart, you didn't expect that I could find your lair directly. Did you come out on your own initiative? Or did I dig you out?"
Luke could feel that the magic energy here was very strong, and he was even more certain that the Seven-Colored Demon Heart was here. It was to maintain the trial illusion, so there was such a strong movement of magic energy here.
Therefore, it is not difficult to lock the colorful magic.
"How did you find this place? King Taotie."
Just as Luke finished speaking, a mud dwarf emerged from the ground, raised his head and questioned.
"This is my secret!" Luke said with a mysterious smile, "Of course, if you come to me on your own initiative, I can tell you this secret."
The Colorful Demon Heart was very depressed.
The other dragon kings were all being tested in their own illusions, but this Taotie King just stared at the illusion gem all day long and refused to touch it.
Then he suddenly flew to his home and stepped on his doorstep.
How is this done?
Long Country is so big, how come you suddenly came to us?
The Colorful Demon Heart said stubbornly: "You must accept the trial before you can possess me!"
"No, no, no. The rules say: I have passed the test if I bring you to the King's Lair. But the rules don't specify how I can find you."
"I just didn't consider this. Now I tell you, you can only get me if you pass the illusion trial."
Luke said with a smile: "There is no substitute in the rules. And your ancient war illusion, is it to test the leadership ability of the trial-takers?
Let me tell you, a person’s leadership ability does not lie in how well he performs within the rules, but in whether he can use conditions outside the rules to lead the team to achieve its goals.
Moreover, you used a war a thousand years ago to elect the king of Dragon Kingdom a thousand years later. Do you think nothing happened in a thousand years?
Just be a good magic tool, and don't worry about the king if you don't have his wisdom."
Luke's face tightened as he laughed. The sudden pressure frightened the little man so much that the dirt on his body fell off, and a heart-shaped gem emitting colorful light lay on the ground.
