Chapter 13. What Wizards Seek Is Truth, Not Eternal Life
If one were to ask what the most valuable thing in a wizard’s legacy is, knowledge would undoubtedly be one of the answers.
Suppressing the joy in his heart, Su Nan quickly walked to the bookshelf, his eyes swiftly scanning the books.
“Construction Science,” “Materials Science,” “Structure of Life Energy,” “Fundamentals of Enchanted Runes,” “Principles of Puppet Mechanics,” “Basic Puppet Construction,” “Puppets and Golems.”
Over 80% of the books were rted to puppet manufacturing.
It was clear that the owner of this ce was deeply passionate about this craft, bordering on obsession.
It was no wonder that he had created the Iron-Eating Beast puppet creature.
However, where did this wizard apprentice go afterwards?
Su Nan felt a faint suspicion in his heart. After thinking for a moment, he turned to the desk.The solid wood desk was covered with a thickyer of dust, and there was nothing on it. Su Nan opened the drawers below. The first few drawers were empty, only thest drawer contained two diaries, a ring, and two boxes.
Su Nan took out the top diary and opened the cover.
The slightly yellowed first page had only a single line of words:
[Ang·Main, recorded on Starlight Calendar 1124.]
Starlight Calendar 1124, that was about 125 years ago.
“The appearance of the Iron-Eating Beast in the ckstone Mine Area seems to have been just over a hundred years ago.”
Su Nan pondered, continuing to turn the pages.
The paper of the diary, he didn’t know what material it was made of, but it had survived for so long and remained intact.
[Starlight Calendar 1124, April 12]
[Today, I finished the exploration of the ckstone Iron Mine. As I expected, the reserves of this mine are quite rich. Now my puppet experiments have enough materials to use. This is good news. I’ve decided to build aboratory deep in the mine shaft as my future retreat.]
[Starlight Calendar 1126, February 8]
[The ckrock Beast experiment has finally achieved a crucial breakthrough! Soon, I will be able to sessfully refine my own puppet creature! ]
“So that puppet is called the ckrock Beast.” Su Nan raised his eyebrows.
[Starlight Calendar 1127, March 15]
[Hahaha, sess! I have finally sessfully refined the first ckrock Beast! This is my own puppet creature. I am indeed a genius! ]
[But thebat strength of the ckrock Beast is still not good. Compared to a formal knight, it is much inferior. There are still many areas that need improvement. I need to collect morebat data.]
[It just so happens that there are a lot of knights outside. Let them be the opponents of the ckrock Beast. What a bunch of lucky guys.]
[Starlight Calendar 1128, June 10]
[The improvement experiment is going well. The ckrock Beast now has abat strength levelparable to that of a junior knight. Unfortunately, that cowardly lord abandoned this mine. I have to find new targets for providingbat data. Perhaps the ck Scale Lizardmen to the north are a good choice.]
Each page of the diary contained only a few lines of words.
And the time spans were rtivelyrge, with the shortest interval being more than half a year.n/?/vel/b//jn dot c//om
Theter entries mostly contained the progress of the ckrock Beast’s improvement experiment.
asionally, there were some entries about meditation, magic learning, and going out to collect materials.
From the lines, it was not difficult to see that this wizard apprentice named Ang was somewhat arrogant and reclusive, and disliked contact with the outside world.
It was worth mentioning that he was a third-rank wizard apprentice.
On the resource-poor Starlight Continent, in the Element Desert, to be promoted to third-rank wizard apprentice before the age of a hundred was undoubtedly a testament to Ang’s genius, giving him the capital for his arrogance.
However, with the passage of time, Ang gradually shifted his focus from puppet research to cultivation. The tone of the diary also noticeably became more anxious and confused.
[Starlight Calendar 1162, September 20]
[My spiritual power seems to have reached a bottleneck. It has not increased significantly in the past six months. Perhaps I should seek external help.]
[Starlight Calendar 1163, January 4]
[Good luck. I found a form for an Evil Illusion Potion. If I can create an Evil Illusion Potion, it will definitely solve the problem of my stagnant spiritual power! ]
[Starlight Calendar 1165, May 19]
[Damn it! Why can’t I find all the ingredients for the form? I have already found the locations where the ingredients grow ording to the records in the book, but why can’t I find them? Is there an error in the records? ]
[Starlight Calendar 1167, February 6]
[So that’s it. Element loss, a sharp reduction in the concentration of energy particles. The continent we are on has be a wastnd. No wonder I haven’t met any other wizard apprentices in all these years… No, I will not give up. If I can’t find all the ingredients, then I will try other substitutes. I don’t believe that my intelligence can’t solve this problem! ]
[Starlight Calendar 1169, April 4]
[Experiment failed.]
[Starlight Calendar 1170, February 9]
[Experiment failed.]
(Repetitive experimental failure records)
[Starlight Calendar 1192, March 16]
[No, no matter how much I extract and purify the low-grade materials, the effect will not be able to rece high-grade materials. This potion has no chance of being sessfully created! ]
[Damn it! I’m not willing to give up! ]
In the following dozen pages, the entries were filled with anger and curses against the world, bitterness, despair, and unwillingness to ept the future that was shrouded in darkness.
It wasn’t until after Starlight Calendar 1200 that Ang, as if he had a sudden awakening, regained hisposure. The tone of the entries changed.
[Starlight Calendar 1200, December 3]
[I can feel my life force gradually fading away. It seems that I don’t have long to live.]
[If I undergo biological modification, perhaps I can live longer. But this is not my strong suit. And I don’t want to make myself inhuman for the sake of survival. No, perhaps it is because that kind of modification willpletely deprive me of the hope of bing a wizard. If I can’t be a wizard, what’s the point of living longer?]
[What wizards seek is truth, not eternal life.]
[Starlight Calendar 1202, May 5]
[Death is getting closer. I can almost smell the decay of my body.]
[The good news is that I found a legend about the Starlight Tower in an ancient book. It is said that it was left behind by an ancient wizard. Perhaps there I can find a way to be a wizard. This is my only hope now.]
[I’ve decided. I will go find the Starlight Tower!]
Starlight Tower!
Su Nan’s expression shifted.
In his limited memories of the previous life’s game, the Starlight Tower seemed to be one of the only three wizard legacies on the Starlight Continent in the 1.0 version!
Not the kind ofboratory left behind by a wizard apprentice like this one, but a true legacy left by a wizard.
It was thest bit of kindness left to this continent by the wizards who had conquered the multiverse thousands of years ago.
Such a ce would undoubtedly contain a wealth of valuable knowledge and materials, without even thinking about it.
If he could find the Starlight Tower, bing a wizard would definitely no longer be a problem!
Su Nan’s heart was filled with excitement, and he quickly turned to the next page. But what greeted his eyes was a nk page.
“Gone?”
Su Nan continued to turn the pages, but they were all nk.
It was obvious that after Ang·Main went out to search for the Starlight Tower, he never returned.
Did he finally find the Starlight Tower?
Su Nan guessed that the answer was most likely no.
Otherwise, in the past 50 years, thisboratory wouldn’t have been left untouched.
Thinking about it, Su Nan couldn’t help but feel a sense of pity.
With Ang·Main’s talent and ability, if he had been alive in the wizard era thousands of years ago, he would have surely be a powerful wizard.
Unfortunately, he was born in the wrong era. He could only squander his entire life and die with a sense of bitterness.
“A wizard’s wastnd.”