He didn’t know what the Alchemy Box looked like, but it would make sense for the Artifact to be in a special location.
Could it be that the box would be harmed when exposed to light?
Marvin walked around the small room, gradually taking on an odd expression.
This was definitely a strange room.
The walls had been painted with a strange mix of medicine and mercury, and the room was sealed so that no wind or light could enter.
Aside from the small door he had entered through, there was no exit.
In the entire room, besides a small table in the middle, there was nothing else.
“This place feels like a cage…” Marvin muttered.
He slowly walked over to the wooden table and noticed some queer decorative designs on its surface.
He was a bit curious, and thus got closer so that he could inspect them.
But as he drew near, those decorative designs started hovering into the air, turning into an exaggerated smiling face!
Marvin immediately prepared himself for any possible issues!
The bright radiance suddenly spiked in intensity and pricked his eyes, making him lose his sight!
[Blind]!
‘Fuck! This is bad!’
A whistling sound passed by his ear, which he felt like was caused by something rushing for the door.
Marvin sneered.
Even if he lost his sight and the other side was very fast, he could rely on the obvious sound to guess where it was!
Marvin burst over in an instant!
That thing was fast, but Marvin was even faster!
Post-Godly Dexterity!
That shadow was appalled when Marvin managed to reach the front of the door and grab it with his right hand!
“What!”
A somewhat familiar-sounding sharp voice came out from the darkness. “You are courting death! Release me right this instant!”
“I finally got an opportunity to flee from that perverted old hag’s confinement, and now a filthy thief like you actually dares to offend the great me!”
“Unhand me now, foul knave!”
Marvin was startled.
He clearly could feel that he had grabbed something like a box, but that box apparently could actually talk!
What Marvin found even stranger was that the box’s voice sounded a bit familiar.
Although he was still blinded right now, he could already feel it.
This talking box was most likely the rumored Alchemy Box!
A treasure that could make Artifact was quite unusual, as expected!
Marvin grabbed the box in his hands and was now groping its surface.
The box had a very ordinary shape… just like a box, but it seemed to have a pair of soft wings.
No wonder that thing could fly!
However, Marvin’s actions completely infuriated the lively Magic Box. It yelled resentfully, “Where do you think you are touching?!”
“Disgusting thief! Let me go, those aren’t places that you can touch!”
“Ah… It tickles! Aaarrrghhh, I knew it! All the Humans in this godforsaken place are perverts! That old crone was like that, and now this damn thief is also like that!”
“Wuwuwu… Poor Wilson, how could I have such a bad luck!”
Marvin remained silent and stony-faced despite the complaints and sobs of the Magic Box.
He was inwardly searching his memory for where he had heard the voice before when he suddenly shivered.
After a bit of hesitation, he asked, “I wonder if you know a man that like dresses like a peacock?”
The box answered disdainfully, “I’ve lived for over a millennium, so what kind of man I haven’t seen? But… I guess I’ve never seen a man that dresses like a peacock… Who could possibly have such bad taste, anyways…”
“Hold on!” the box shouted.
Marvin clearly noticed a bit of wavering in the Alchemy Box’s voice as it inquired, “The peacock man you’re asking about, does he have this pocket with him that he can pull a lot of strange things out of?”
Marvin thought back to his time in his territory.
During the attack on Sword Harbor, the self-declared “World’s Greatest Alchemist” had reportedly taken out some strange Alchemy items from his pocket.
He was even able to freeze the surface of the sea.
That strange, nameless Alchemist.
His voice seemed to be identical to that of the Magic Box, so Marvin had decided to ask if there was a connection. It wasn’t that Marvin paid special attention to that guy, but his voice was rather distinctive, like that of a really pretentious guy.
Marvin had always felt that there was something really odd about that guy, but he was sure that the memory loss wasn’t fake, and in the end, he’d decided to let him remain in White River Valley.
He’d never expected to hear that voice again in a place like this!
It felt way too miraculous.
Marvin’s sight slowly recovered and he looked at the Magic Box’s outline.
“More or less,” Marvin hesitantly said, “he claimed that he was an Alchemist, but he seems a bit unreliable.”
“You saw him?!” The Magic Box’s voice took on a tone of pleasant surprise.
“He is in my territory. He could be considered…” Marvin frowned, not knowing quite how to describe that peacock guy, before deciding to tell the straightforward truth. “He’s basically an unreliable freeloader that doesn’t do any useful work.”
The Magic Box remained silent.
“What’s the relationship between you two?” Marvin curiously asked.
By now, his sight had fully recovered.
He could clearly see the Magic Box’s delicate outline. It was a simple cube with wings spreading from opposite sides and a silvery-white mirror on the surface.
There was a fleshy face in the mirror, just like a person’s.
The face in the mirror suddenly was choked with sobs again, and it lasted for a while.
After it calmed, it said in a rough voice, “He is my dad… Hell… I thought he already died…”
Marvin was stunned.
…
In a corner of the laboratory, Marvin was sitting next to the Magic Box as he listened to the latter’s tale of hardships and suffering. He even felt some sympathy for the little guy.
“That lunatic, do you know how crazy that old hag was? She asked me to transform Artifacts every day… Dammit! Although Wilson is a superior Alchemy Box, it’s not like I can lay golden eggs like a hen when fed!”
“She kept giving me poisons and weird things to “help” me, hoping that I would give her something good…”
“Hmpf… I just gave her a bunch of trash.”
“But she didn’t give up, she persevered and kept giving me nauseating things every day… What Bugbear liver? What Wyvern pancreas? Bat claws and eyeballs… I was going freaking crazy! Losing my damn mind!”
“The worst part was that she kept asking me one thing every day, whether she was the most beautiful woman of all… Naturally, I could only compromise…”
Chapter 605: Specter Barrier
Chapter 605: Specter Barrier
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
Thanks to the Alchemy Box’s outpouring of its grievances, Marvin finally learnt everything.
The Alchemy Box itself was an extremely magical Alchemy Item.
Because it possessed its own will!
From this, it could be seen that its maker, the currently freeloading Alchemist in White River Valley, was really a successful Alchemist, despite all the signs suggesting that he was totally useless.
The peacock guy was named Will, so he had decided that the Magic Box would be called Wilson.
Will regarded the Magic Box Wilson as his masterpiece, even treating it as his son.
Marvin didn’t know if it was a coincidence or not, but he found out from Wilson’s mouth that the powerful Alchemist had l
ost his memory because of some ineffable causes, but he was also a powerhouse who survived the 3rd Era.
The 3rd Era, a distant era, such a dazzling Era!
Despite how much the glory of the Wizards had shone throughout the 4th Era, even after a millennium, all the corners of Feinan were still filled with traces of the 3rd Era.
That Era had some many shining stars. The Great Alchemist Will was one of them.
According to the Magic Box, Will had been known as the King of Alchemy back then, and almost everyone had believed that he could even ascend to Godhood eventually based only on his great understanding of Alchemy.
But everything faded to dust after an unexpected disaster.
And after Will disappeared, Magic Box Wilson passed from hand to hand, before eventually being unfortunate enough to fall into the Snake Witch’s hands.
The only gratifying part was that although the Snake Witch was a Greatmaster Alchemist, she was completely ignorant about the truth of the Alchemy Box.
She didn’t even know that the Alchemy Box was sentient.
The reason for the construction of the airtight room was that she had once read a book about Alchemy Boxes which claimed that such boxes could be harmed by exposure to light or too much airflow. Such exposure could increase the chances for Alchemy rituals conducted with the box to fail.
The Alchemy Boxes came from an era when Alchemy was rather well-developed, and almost all Alchemists had one.
And Magic Box Wilson was definitely at the peak of these.
Despite being tormented by the Snake Witch for so many years, it still didn’t give up hope.
Wilson had just sensed the Snake Witch’s death, and thus, when it saw the door to the sealed room open, it decided that this was the best time to flee.
It couldn’t open the door of the room by itself, so it took advantage of Marvin’s moment of inattention to blind him and try to escape.
Unfortunately, Marvin’s Post-Godly Dexterity had come as a surprise, and the little box ultimately fell into Marvin’s hands.
But after finding out that Will was in White River Valley, the Magic Box changed its mind.
It desired to return to Will’s side.
And after Marvin promised that he wouldn’t “mistreat” it like the Snake Witch did, Magic Box Wilson agreed to follow Marvin for the time being.
Although the Alchemy Box was very powerful, it had been tormented by the Snake Witch for practically an entire Era, so its strength had declined by a lot.
The previous surprise attack on Marvin and the ensuing escape attempt had used the final bit of its strength.
Thus, after both sides finished discussing, Marvin put it in the Origami Space, letting it slumber for the time being.
Once he returned to White River Valley, he would return the Magic Box to that nameless Alchemist.
If that guy really was the outstanding Alchemist from the 3rd Era, then his hunch to let this guy stay in White River Valley would have finally paid off.
…
After the encounter with the Magic Box, Marvin didn’t waste any more time and went straight for what he wanted.
His trip to the Rotten Mushroom Swamp was mainly for a certain spell of the Snake Witch.
The Dark Specters had invaded once in an ancient era, and at that time, people invented a spell to counteract them known as the Ghost Barrier.
This spell had already disappeared from Feinan, but it could still be found in two places.
The first one was the South Wizard Alliance’s final headquarters, hiding in the floating city of Esomia, among towering mountains and precipitous ridges. But unfortunately, Esomia was probably now the most dangerous place in Feinan.
After the Great Calamity, it was uncertain whether even a few Wizards might have managed to survive in Esomia. Although those in Esomia great privileges, to the point that only the highest Wizards in the entire South Wizard Alliance could access the top floor, there were still many ordinary Wizards inside.
After the Great Calamity, Esomia should have enacted their emergency procedures, shutting itself in. If so, even Dark Phoenix’s influence couldn’t have reached that Wizard Plane.
Naturally, the Legend Wizards wouldn’t be influenced by Chaos Magic Power, but all the people at their side would have turned into monsters, which would likely have struck a huge blow to the Legendary Wizards of Esomia.
Who knows what Esomia might look like now? Based on the information in the game, the floating city of Esomia was an instanced zone. This suggested that there would be enemies to fight within the city.
Although Marvin was confident, he still didn’t plan to challenge the power left behind by South Wizard Alliance.
As for the 2nd place where the spell could be found, it was naturally the Snake Witch’s cabin.
Although this place was also dangerous, it was relatively simpler to get the spell here.
The Snake Witch usually put her finished spell scrolls in the library, along with her books.
Marvin entered the library and saw a row of bookcases with old books.
There were a lot of them, and they had all originated from the 3rd Era.
Marvin also had many books in his hands, which he had gotten from the Dragon Library. But the problem was that these books were related to the Dragon Race and not about mankind.
Marvin approached the Snake Witch’s books and started sweeping them away unceremoniously without a trace of respect!
Knowledge is power!
At least in the case of Magic Books.
As he cleaned the place up, Marvin thought to himself that after this event, he would go back to White River Valley and establish a new library.
He already had a large pile of books from the Chromatic Dragon Temple’s Dragon Library, and now he had gotten many more shelves of books from the Snake Witch’s library. These books concerned Magic Power, Alchemy, and other important resources for casters.
It would help accelerate White River Valley’s inexorable rise.
…
As he swept through the entire library, Marvin found a book that he was looking for called –The Origins of Dark Specters and How to Defend Against Them–.
The book was written in an Ancient Common, which, as was evident from the characters, was the precursor to the modern version of Common.
By reading this book, powerful casters could understand the workings of the Ghost Barrier spell. Marvin checked and found out that he truly wasn’t caster material and simply couldn’t make sense of the contents…
He could only give up on that for the moment.
But at the very least, he did manage to find some flattened scrolls at the end of the book.
These scrolls were very old, certainly predating the 4th Era, but there was no damage to them at all, which could be considered rather amazing.
These scrolls contained spells that weren’t considered particularly powerful, but they had been specifically designed to counter something.
These were the [Ghost Barrier] scrolls!
Chapter 606: The Hermit
Chapter 606: The Hermit
Translator: Translation Nation Editor: Translation Nation
Marvin had gotten quite a rich harvest from the trip to the Rotten Mushroom Swamp, so his previous fight with the Snake Witch wasn’t in vain.
When Marvin left the cabin and made his way out of the swamp, his injuries were still aching. This made him sigh at the Snake Witch’s vindictiveness and the power of the God Restraining Seal.
But although he didn’t take the time to look through them, he still noticed that some of the books in the Snake Witch’s library were about God Restraining Seals.
These things were very valuable, and although the current White River Valley had no suitable people to use them, Marvin had a feeling that soon, *that* person would come back.
He had a feeling that when Wayne returned from the Wilds, as a powerful Seer who managed to survive his early years, he should be able to walk a path of Mag
ic that his predecessors could never have imagined.
Marvin had already prepared everything for him in White River Valley. It was all only awaiting his return.
And that feeling was getting stronger, he felt sure that it would happen soon.
And once the brothers were reunited, Marvin’s workload would become a lot lighter.
Madeline and that other Legend Wizard were puppets of the Book of Nalu, so they could hardly take care of the most important matters.
Thinking of this, Marvin couldn’t help but sigh again. The Book of Nalu’s power was frightening, able to even take away the mind of a Legend powerhouse. If Marvin didn’t have the Wisdom Chapter, then he might not have dared to use the Book of Nalu even now.
…
Marvin already accomplished most of his goals in his trip to this part of the Underdark.
Sodom’s Blades were in his hands and he’d found the Ghost Barrier scrolls, so even if they didn’t manage to kill the Final Ghost Mother, they should still be able to escape unscathed.
A Boss like the Final Ghost Mother was basically world-class. It would be a very difficult proposition to eliminate her with the current power available to the Underdark.
Even with the help of Marvin and Jessica, it would be very difficult for the Underdark’s denizens to prevail. But Marvin had to try, because the invasion of the Dark Specters not only affected the Underdark, but was also linked inextricably to Rocky Mountain, and even the rest of Feinan. If they let the Dark Specters flood out unchecked, this plague would become a bigger threat to Feinan than the Evil Spirits!
Naturally, there was still one more destination in this trip to the southern reaches of the Underdark.
Not far from the courtyard was a quiet ravine.
Within the ravine was a powerful hermit, that hardly anyone had ever seen.
But Marvin knew of his origins.
He had an Oddity which was called the [Demon Subduing Sword]. It had to be known that this was translated directly from Ancient Common, which meant that this weapon’s origins were very old.
In fact, that hermit was closely related to the Dark Specters.
They had come to Feinan from the same world.
The Dark Specter clan was like a swarm of locusts wandering throughout the Universe. After finding an untouched plane, they would dig in and start unbridledly infecting, invading, and plundering, before finally swallowing the entire plane whole.
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