Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 2987: Chapter 2988: Wish Book

Contrary to what Angel imagined, this search for objects is not entirely reliant on luck.

Laplace had directly created hundreds of tiny avatars to assist in the search. These little avatars looked exactly like Laplace, with silver long hair, heterochromatic emerald and amber eyes, and a porcelain doll-like exquisiteness. Even their disdainful gaze was identical, an exact replica of Laplace.

The only difference is that these elf-like tiny avatars have far weaker auras compared to Laplace.

Sensing their energy level, they seemed somewhat similar to the feedback from the previous Sharktooth. Scale.

Around the second or third level apprentice level.

Though their energy levels aren’t high, these tiny avatars can drift along with the tides in the Sea of Void Mirror, expanding the range of their search.

This means that originally, the Heart Space could only roam aimlessly over the Sea of Void Mirror, hoping to find objects by chance.

But now, with these tiny avatars, it’s like having a targeted radar range.

Increasing the efficiency of the search significantly.

However, these tiny avatars have flaws, the smaller ones being: short visual distances; inability to use energy in the Sea of Void Mirror, meaning they can’t fly and can only drift with the tides; the range of information they can transmit in the Sea is greatly diminished, at most within a radius of ten thousand meters, beyond which they cannot be controlled by Laplace.

But these flaws can be compensated for by the number of tiny avatars, their real and greatest downside is: they cannot withstand the tide washing away in the Sea of Void Mirror.

The tiny avatars themselves hold no memories, so the tides can’t wash away their memories, but they can wash away their internal energy.

Once the energy within a tiny avatar is completely washed away, it will utterly vanish.

Generally, a tiny avatar can only last three to five minutes in the Sea of Void Mirror.

So, although the search efficiency has improved, the improvement is limited, merely increasing the odds of getting lucky.

Though this search isn’t entirely based on luck, ultimately it’s still a matter of luck.

Under constant consumption and banishment by the Mirror Spirit’s avatars—namely the tiny avatars—half an hour later, they finally came across an object.

It was a black leather booklet.

Through the tiny avatars’ vision, upon discovering the black leather booklet, Angel immediately maneuvered the heart, moving toward the booklet’s direction.

Unlike the tedious movement when Laplace manipulates, Angel’s maneuver was smooth like flowing water; the limbs connected to the Heart Space felt like four real feet, coordinating perfectly and quickly moving.

From inside looking out, relying solely on the naked eye to observe, the limb movements seemed almost ghostly.

In just a minute, he sprinted to a distance of over two kilometers.

This speed, for everyone present, wasn’t too fast, but given this was in the Sea of Void Mirror, achieving such movement speed, especially against the tide, was terrifying.

More importantly, this wasn’t the limit.

Though Angel’s maneuver was more fluid than Laplace’s, it’s still his first time handling it, so there’s some unfamiliarity. Once familiarized, capable of directing more spiritual power into the black and white light points, the speed will continually increase.

Because the essence of the front and hind limbs is the Mysterious Power, and the Mysterious Power has infinite elevation in practical use.

In the future, if multiple people can divide the work or cooperate on handling the black and white light points, allowing them to accommodate more spiritual power, the speed would also elevate without limit.

Therefore, though the speed now isn’t particularly fast, its potential is quite profound.

In about two and a half minutes, the Heart Space halted near the black leather booklet.

By this time, Angel could vaguely see the writing on the black leather booklet.

He didn’t recognize the script, only faintly felt that the writing seemed imbued with emotional power.

"...Wish Book."

While Angel was still pondering the possible origin of the text, Laplace’s voice echoed beside him.

"Wish Book? Is that what the text on this booklet says?" Angel asked curiously.

"Yes." Laplace nodded, with a slightly peculiar expression: "It’s the script of the Psychic Realm."

Psychic Realm again?

Angel frowned, could it be that this Wish Book also belongs to the boy in the jar?

Thinking about it, it doesn’t seem too far-fetched, after all, they had discovered the gem lid and teapot body in this region previously. The black leather booklet also being within this area as the boy in the jar’s item wouldn’t be too difficult to accept.

Angel didn’t dwell on this thought, refocusing his gaze on the black leather booklet.

"Wish Book... So that’s the meaning of these characters." He mumbled as he manipulated the Heart Space closer: "Though I didn’t systematically learn Hante language, I’ve heard their script expresses dual meaning."

So-called dual meaning can be understood as: a text conveying its literal meaning and also a meaning beyond the text.

This "meaning beyond the text" typically refers to emotions.

For instance, using such dual meaning script to write a letter:

When you ask your lover: "Are you angry about last time?" Your lover replies: "No."

Here, the "No" could be clarified through the letter’s second layer of meaning to ascertain if your lover is truly not angry, or might mean something like "I’m still upset but won’t say it, you need to understand yourself, if you don’t we might end."

Dual meaning script can substantially reduce communication costs.

This can be considered the unique script system of the Psychic Realm, as people who write with genuine emotions can sense it.

This is a form of power of the mind.

To people from other worlds, it seems somewhat transcendent, but in reality, ordinary people in the Psychic Realm can do this. Perhaps it’s the soil of the Psychic Realm that birthed this more expressive mental power.

"Indeed, the script of the Psychic Realm has dual meanings, though it hasn’t broken through the extraordinary limit, but the dual meaning is infused with the power of the mind, so in the tides of the Sea of Void Mirror, it would be washed away... Moreover, a single wave can completely clear it." Laplace said calmly: "But now, the power of the mind on this Wish Book that has gone through multiple waves hasn’t been entirely washed away, only indicating that the power of the mind contained within it has reached an extreme. It has absolutely reached a transcendent level, which is exceedingly rare..."

"Generally, only when text, or language evolves to triple or more layers of meaning do they have a transcendent rank. This Wish Book, with just a few characters, broke through to a transcendent rank, it must be exceptional."

Angel: "This really aligns with the Ancient Tooth Fairy’s perspective, objects appearing in the Sea of Void Mirror are generally unlikely to be ordinary."

As he spoke, Angel had already maneuvered the Heart Space near the black leather booklet. As the Heart Space approached, the Mysterious Power began to play its role.

No changes could be seen from the Heart Wall’s inside, but if viewed from outside the Heart Wall now, it would be evident that the black leather booklet was gradually shrinking.

This was to adapt to the size of the Heart Space.

Just as they must shrink proportionally to enter the interior of the reduced Heart Space upon approaching.

This shrinking, although visible to the naked eye, does not actually affect the physical body of the shrunken person.

For example, the small black book now appears to shrink from the outside. However, if it moves away from the heart area, it will gradually become larger again.

It seems to shrink and grow larger, but in fact, from the Perspective of the small black book as the Origin Point, there is no physical transmutation. It can only be said that strong Observation does not affect the heart.

After all, the heart space contains a kind of illogical power, which is this Mysterious Power.

As the small black book entered the influence range of the heart space, Angel immediately began to operate one of its forelimbs. He slowly lowered the forelimb, and the bag at the end, resembling a Venus flytrap, opened.

The small black book was immediately swept into the bag.

Next, the forelimb slowly rose from the waves, aiming the bag’s opening towards the center of the trumpet flower.

The small black book then slid down and entered the "Physical Collector".

The whole process seemed somewhat tedious, and indeed, it was a bit cumbersome.

However, this cumbersome process is mainly to increase mobility when collecting physical objects.

The original draft design of the trumpet flower fixed its position, leaving almost no mobility in collecting objects. Thus, the forelimbs are needed for assistance.

The forelimbs have great mobility and a wide control range, allowing quick locking onto objects.

Compared to continuously adjusting the trumpet flower’s position, it is more convenient to let the object fall directly into the trumpet flower.

Of course, Angel could also choose to add more mobile tentacles to the trumpet flower, but that’s a matter of design trade-offs.

Seeing the small black book disappear into the trumpet flower, Angel withdrew his spiritual power. He didn’t need to manage it anymore; now it was up to whether the Physical Collector could automatically distribute it, sending the small black book into the heart space.

About ten seconds later, a long pipe protruded from the Heart Wall, extending into the heart space.

Under everyone’s watchful eyes, the small black book slid out from the pipe, falling to the ground.

Seeing this scene, Angel breathed a sigh of relief.

The initial test of the Physical Collector... Success!

...

"Is this the function of the trumpet flower? Filtering from the outside, automatically sending objects inside the heart space. This indeed saves a lot of effort." Glaipnir nodded in approval.

She and Laplace were not too surprised, for them, once they discovered a physical object, they could easily retrieve it, so the trumpet flower function just saved some effort.

But for Angel, he dared not tread lightly into the Sea of Void Mirror. Directly obtaining external items from within is a necessary step.

Otherwise, should he always seek Laplace’s help every time he found an object?

Laplace, at this point, also understood the role of all the light points. Although there were failures, overall, it was astonishing to her.

Angel’s "Alchemy" ability completely exceeded Laplace’s expectations... a capability to continue refining Half-step Mystic Objects and even make patches, Laplace had never imagined, let alone seen!

Angel could be said to have created a Miracle once again!

Laplace even harbored a slight suspicion: could this small body contain a miraculous creature?

Of course, Laplace knew this thought was whimsical. But Angel’s ability to continually create miracles, each unique, already indicated Angel’s potential.

In fact, at this moment, Laplace felt an exquisite emotion: gratitude.

She was grateful that she and Angel... were friends.

She didn’t care about being enemies with anyone, or whether to make friends. But with Angel, it was different.

She did not wish to become Angel’s enemy, and becoming a friend was her fortune.

While Laplace was reflecting internally, on the other side, Angel was contemplating how to improve the Mysterious Concrete Object.

The Physical Collector and the appendages both had room for improvement, but after careful thinking, Angel decided not to modify them for now.

Though there were minor flaws, they were usable, and further improvement would only slightly streamline and beautify them, without significant increase in efficiency.

The real need for improvement lay in the wings.

Angel’s mind swirled with myriad thoughts, and soon, countless design drafts floated up.

Different wings, different structures, numerous gear constructions, all shuffled around in Angel’s mind.

Angel synthesized aesthetics, practicality, and level of difficulty, starting to rank different wing configurations.

He planned to design all these wings and try them.

However, he did not intend to attach wings in the heart space immediately. He planned to test them all first, find the most suitable plan, and then proceed with installation.

And testing required a specimen, which besides the heart space, was... the mirror he just refined.

Which, in reality, was the half-length mirror with both Mysterious Fluctuations and Sturdiness.

...

Angel’s musings didn’t last long, being interrupted by a ghost fire.

Yes, a ghost fire. Or rather, a phosphorus fire.

This is not uncommon in reality, considered a very ordinary natural phenomenon, not involving any Extraordinary Power.

But a ghost fire floating in the heart space, that was not ordinary.

The pale blue flame wavered before Angel.

Through the firelight, Angel could even see some shadows of facial features, as if a ghost were hidden within the unusually colored flames.

For an ordinary person, this might be startling.

But Angel’s emotions remained largely unshaken. For one, he sensed the flame was normal, without any malicious intent; as to the facial features within the flame, it wasn’t a ghost hiding in there, but an intentionally created visual misalignment. The burning of the fire would show boundaries of light and dark, creating a simulation of facial features through the flickering flame and light-shadow changes.

Secondly, he had already discovered the source of the flame.

It was from the small black book he retrieved from the outside world.

The Wish Book!