Chapter 71: Luo Yan’s Hesitation

After thinking over and over again and lying on the bed for a while longer, Luo Yan finally snapped his fingers. With a thud, he jumped off the bed and walked with a clatter to his desk under the moonlight from the window. He pulled open a drawer, took out a small bundle wrapped in black velvet, and a strange expression appeared on his face.

“Hmm… it seems I still have to take it out?” He rubbed his chin with a serious expression. Even at this moment, Luo Yan’s gaze was not entirely certain, because the “thing” he was about to take out was truly of great importance… but it seemed he had no choice but to use this method.

After thinking for a long time and comparing various strengthening methods repeatedly, Luo Yan finally decided to use “Magic Element Tempering” to start strengthening A Dai. After all, this was the strengthening method he was most familiar with and the one that required the least help from others at his current stage. He only needed to prepare the magic circle and didn’t need to rely on anyone else, which could protect his secrets from suspicion to the greatest extent.

—But as mentioned before, this strengthening method was incredibly expensive and required a large amount of Magic Crystal Stones…

Magic Crystal Stones were a special kind of ore. The Magic Elements contained within them were pure and stable, making them very suitable for setting up magic circles and creating various magic items. They could also be absorbed directly to quickly recover Mana, so they were widely used in all fields of the magic world, and the demand for them was always high.

Therefore, on the Amelia Continent, although Magic Crystal Stones were not considered rare minerals, their production was limited due to technical constraints. Combined with the high demand, their price always stayed at a certain level. While they weren’t exactly exorbitant, they were at least not something Luo Yan could afford right now.

Given this situation, Luo Yan naturally needed to find a way. Hmm… alright, don’t misunderstand; Luo Yan didn’t plan to go mining himself. He had actually been prepared for this for a long time. In fact, solving this problem was just a small matter to him—so small that he only needed to prepare a third-tier magic circle!

However, to be honest, although a third-tier magic circle was as simple as could be for Luo Yan, he still couldn’t help but sigh softly when he made the final decision.

Since his rebirth, Luo Yan had secretly brought out many things that would not appear until the future—the “Undead Summon Self-Strengthening Theory” itself was a brand new theory that would only appear many years later—but Luo Yan had never hesitated as much as he did now.

But now, Luo Yan hesitated, truly hesitated, simply because the theory involved in this “extremely simple” magic circle was truly of great importance. It was so significant that it could affect the entire human civilization and even the progress of civilization on the entire Amelia Continent!!

Luo Yan could even imagine that once this magic circle became known to the world, it would likely immediately cause a huge commotion that would affect the whole Amelia Continent. It would drive countless people crazy, leading to trickery, plunder, theft, assassination, open robbery with torches, or even spark wars. It wouldn’t be strange for anything to happen at that time… this was not a speculative exaggeration, but something that had actually happened in the history before his rebirth!!

If possible, Luo Yan hoped to let this theory emerge after his own strength became more powerful.

There was no other reason; it was simply that possessing such a treasure was a crime in itself…

Opening the small black velvet bundle, he poured the object inside onto the table. Two irregular silver-white crystals, about the size of a thumb, rolled out. A strange light then flashed in Luo Yan’s eyes, making his pale face look even paler.

Looking at these two irregular silver crystals, Luo Yan gently rubbed his chin, and his expression became increasingly serious. These two irregular crystals were the Magic Cores collected by Luo Yan’s father, Luo Pei, from the bodies of the Pinecone Bears caught in the previous and current hunts. The magic circle Luo Yan planned to use to solve the problem before him was directly related to them.

[The full name of this magic circle is—the “Magic Core Refining and Synthesis” magic circle!!]

Magic Cores were crystals with similar functions to Magic Crystal Stones. However, Magic Crystal Stones were minerals with stable and pure Magic Elements, while Magic Cores were the energy centers of Magic Beasts, and the Magic Elements within them were relatively more violent and chaotic.

For a Wizard, utilizing the energy in Magic Crystal Stones was very easy, with a utilization rate of over ninety percent. However, utilizing the energy in Magic Cores was not that simple. Not only was the process very complex, but the utilization rate was less than thirty percent. Given this situation, the status of Magic Cores was naturally quite awkward. People viewed them as substitutes for Magic Crystal Stones, but they could not be applied on a large scale. Although people had always tried to develop a way to purify Magic Cores, every single attempt had failed. Over time, Magic Cores gradually became a very useless existence.

The magic circle mastered by Luo Yan was exactly the one designed by a god-gifted genius before his rebirth, which could refine and purify Magic Cores to make their performance infinitely close to that of Magic Crystal Stones. One could imagine what kind of earth-shaking shock this magic circle would bring to the entire magic world if it leaked out… In fact, this “Magic Core Refining and Synthesis” magic circle “should” have been created by a god-gifted genius more than eighty years later. It was called one of the three cornerstones of “Magic-Science Civilization” and was regarded as one of the “greatest inventions in human history”!!

Picking up a Magic Core gently, a glimmer of thought flashed across Luo Yan’s face. He now planned to use purified Magic Cores to replace Magic Crystal Stones. He couldn’t afford the price of Magic Crystal Stones, but Magic Cores were not expensive; it just required an extra step…

After staring at the Pinecone Bear Magic Core for a long time and then looking at A Dai, who was standing still to the side, a light of determination finally flashed in Luo Yan’s eyes, and he nodded heavily.

[Before my rebirth, the strengthening effect was unsatisfactory because of the time limit. This time, I absolutely cannot waste this opportunity!]

The desire for strength and that inexplicable sense of crisis finally made Luo Yan make up his mind. Thus, he immediately took action and grabbed the two second-tier Magic Cores…

—Then, without hesitation, he stuffed them back into the black velvet bundle, threw it into the drawer, and put it back in its place!