Chapter 225

Chapter 225: The Wall of Unbelievers and the Nibelungen Astrological System

In the past two weeks, the mortal nobles who had just boarded the ship were very excited at the beginning, but later they became extremely tired every day.

Locke discovered that apart from taking a small amount of mortal black bread, Captain Andy seemed to have undergone some modifications to his gastrointestinal system. He had not eaten or slept for two weeks.

Albert, on the other hand, simply brought a lot of delicious food into the Star Ring. He would secretly take it out to eat every time, and then put the leftovers into the Star Ring. He thought that this way there would be no loopholes.

Two weeks later, the mortal ship seemed to be docking at the shore, and Witch Sophia and Witch Gabriel went straight to this small cabin.

Witch Sophia whispered in the cabin, “Everyone has worked hard lately. Because we can’t reveal our identities, we can only use mortal means to reach our destination, which has wasted a lot of time.”

“Please note that we have entered the Blood Curse Tribunal’s territory over the sea since a week ago. Soon, we will reach the Blood Curse Tribunal’s heartland—the Blood Raven Wasteland. It is a cursed plateau.”

“Please be prepared in advance. The power of the curse will invade our bodies at all times and pollute our magic.”

Witch Sophia said, “But this isn’t the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing is that the Blood Curse Court has a Curse Inspector system, just like our Wizard Lord.”

“Every region and every city-state has some Curse Patrolmen, as well as high-level Patrolmen, patrolling different areas. Our goal isn’t to kill these Patrolmen, but to prevent them from discovering us.”

Sophia the Witch, “So it takes a little more effort.”

“Besides, everyone knows that within the heart of the Blood Curse Court lie numerous magical traps, sources of curses, cursed items, and monsters created by out-of-control experiments that have infiltrated the mortal realm.”

“Therefore, we must be extremely careful during the lurking process.”

“Killing those monsters is relatively simple, but it is likely to expose our identities.”

“Also, the most important thing is that the Blood Curse Court recently received five large-scale defense systems—the [Wall of the Faithless]—from a similar dark wizard organization, the [Royal Corpse Court].”

Locke showed a puzzled look.

Obviously, among all the wizards present, he was the only one who did not know what the [Wall of Unbelievers] was.

Witch Sophia explained, “The Wall of the Faithless is a hybrid of the School of Protection and the School of Spiritualism, the [Corpse Court]. It’s a comprehensive defense system created by the combined efforts of all wizard organizations. It can defend against large-scale invasions by wizard enemies, perform strategic spell bombings, and even detect invading enemies. It’s extremely comprehensive.”

“The most troublesome thing is the Wall of No Faith. The Wall of No Faith’s greatest strength is that it can detect intrusions over a large area and respond to formal wizard-level magical pressure.”

“Even a well-hidden official wizard will be detected by the Wall of Faithless’s defense system if he lets his guard down for even a moment. Similarly, only Locke is safe among us, because the Wall of Faithless prioritizes detecting wizards with a mana of 700 or more.”

“And Locke, your current mana is over 500.”

“Albert and Andy, you two are also easily detected. Of course, with the Thousand Faces Potion present, detection will be more difficult.”

Witch Gabriel sneered, “After all, one set of the Faithless Wall costs 100,000 magic stones. Five sets would cost 500,000. This money has caused the Blood Curse Court to bleed heavily. If it weren’t for the Wizard War, they wouldn’t have purchased such an expensive large-scale magical defense system from the [Royal Corpse Court].”

Gabriel scoffed, “Unfortunately, the ultimate control of that system still lies with the Imperial Corpse Court, not the Blood Curse Tribunal. Therefore, the Blood Curse Tribunal cannot upgrade or modify the system on its own, nor can it use that defense system against the Imperial Corpse Court.”

“However, [Yu Hai Ting] is a dark wizard land and the most important dealer of large-scale magical weapon systems. It is considered the top dark wizard force in the southeastern region. Therefore, the vampire elders of the Blood Curse Court can reluctantly accept this condition.”

Witch Gabriel turned serious and said, “Let’s get back to the point. It’s difficult for us to determine the detection range of the Wall of Unbelievers. So once we land on land, we will most likely be within its detection range. Therefore, you must not use any subtle magic on the way.”

“Including Locke.”

Witch Sophia hesitated to speak.

Witch Gabriel said, “This is just in case. What if the wizards of the Blood Curse Court lower the priority detection range from 700 to 500? While that will temporarily increase magical resource consumption, it’s not impossible.”

“But while you’re on the road, you can use magical items, potions, magical plants, etc… as long as you don’t use your own magic.”

Witch Gabriel said, “We’ve conducted numerous tests and inspections, confirming that the Wall of Faithless can only detect the magical fluctuations generated by the use of one’s own spells. Even if you can use passive bloodline spells thanks to the Thousand Faces Potion, they won’t trigger the Wall of Faithless’s detection mechanism.”

“Similarly, to further prevent accidents, you will also have to wear this.”

Witch Gabriel took out three colorful gold rings and said, “These are astrology rings. They are sub-connectors of our astrology system, the Nibelungen system.”

“Wear it, and you will be protected by the Nibelungen Astrology System. This can at least further counter the detection accuracy of the five sets of Wall of the Unbeliever in the hands of the Blood Curse Tribunal.”

Locke, Albert, and Andy all accepted the seemingly ordinary round gold ring. Only on the inside of the ring was a short message written: “All the decisions you borrow from time will become fixed when the hourglass turns over.”

However, these words only flashed across the inside of the ring and quickly disappeared.

Witch Gabriel looked at Locke with assurance. “Locke, put it on and you’ll temporarily access our astrology system, a system developed with an investment of at least 300,000 magic stones. It’s the pinnacle of magic within our school’s astrology sub-discipline within the School of Prophecy.”

Witch Gabriel curled her lips. “Currently, the people in charge of operating this system are my students. Although they are in the rear for this operation, they will provide us with full support through the Nibelungen Astrology System.”

The moment Locke put the ring on the middle finger of his left hand, many illusory scenes appeared before his eyes. He looked up and seemed to see the ceiling of a dark room with countless special devices on it, releasing faint light spots, each of which represented a star in the sky.

The pattern formed by the stars at the top of the room is constantly changing.

At the same time, on the chairs floating in the air in the room sat first-class wizard apprentices and even second-class wizard apprentices who were still learning. They were all waving and signaling towards him. There were actually more than twenty of them. Obviously, these were all the first-class wizard apprentices and second-class wizard apprentices in the astrologer direction of Lilith’s Hut.

But what caught Locke’s attention was that Lady Morgana was also included in this system. Although she was not responsible for the main operations, she was obviously one of the main planners of this operation.

Madam Morgana’s voice appeared in the ears of the five people in the mortal cabin at the same time. “Sophia, Gabriel, Albert, Andy, with the four of you taking action, I think killing a formal wizard and dark wizard should be a piece of cake.”

“Locke, you can learn from them. These four are my students.”

Madam Morgana’s voice warned, “Gabriel, something unexpected has occurred. Someone is using a prophecy spell and searching for your location.”

“Interesting! It seems some of the Wall of Unbelievers’ functional indicators are fake. I’m afraid its actual search performance is more than double what’s shown in the data.”

Gabriel and Sophia looked at each other. Fortunately, they had given the sub-ring of the Nibelungen astrology system to Locke and the other two in advance.

Of course, this wasn’t really luck; it was Gabriel who seized the opportunity.

Gabriel has a passive magic called [Arcane Prophecy] which serves as her permanent defensive force field.

Therefore, Gabriel can always sense danger before it happens.

As a price, her permanent defensive force field is not a direct defensive type of magic, which makes her much more vulnerable than an ordinary first-ring wizard.

Lady Morgana’s warning voice appeared beside them. “The Wall of the Faithless is about to be inspected. Also, a Dark Wizard ship patrolling the sea has appeared ahead. Don’t reveal any flaws.”

“Alas, the astrology system of the academy did indeed cost a lot of resources, but after it was developed, it can only be described as mediocre.”

“After all, our academy is not good at this type of magic.”

Among those present, Witch Gabriel, a high-ranking prophet, clearly wasn’t looking too pleased. After all, it was something she was so proud of, and to be directly criticized by Madam Morgana for something so ordinary, she naturally wasn’t happy.

Witch Gabriel could only say to her students who operated the system, “This can be considered your project. If you do it well, you can publish countless high-quality articles. Don’t you always complain to me that I don’t find resources for you?”

“Astrology has no practical application. In various comprehensive evaluations, it is clearly underrated, and resource allocation is irrational.”

Witch Gabriel said coldly, “Now is your chance to behave well, seize the opportunity, and publish an article on the application of astrology in the direction of war.”

“Let those laymen see the superiority of the Nibelungen astrological system.”

The first-class wizard apprentices in the Nibelungen astrology system, that is, the students of Witch Gabriel, immediately expressed that they would seriously manipulate the astrology system to help Teacher Gabriel and Witch Sophia.

Then, the cabin fell into silence.

Locke obviously noticed that something seemed to be sweeping over his head. At this moment, he felt uneasy and felt as if something bad was going to happen to him.

“What is this?”

Locke did not use any magic power, but he currently had the ability to read the Mordo language. At this moment, he saw crystal skulls floating in the air one after another. It seemed that no one could see these crystal skulls except himself.

But the One Ring Witch, as well as Albert and Andy, clearly felt that something was coming into the air.

Locke’s eyes were filled with rapid thought. “Is this an invisible skull, a spiritual manifestation, or a projection? Hmm… It feels more like a projection combined with a spiritual manifestation spell from the psychic school. The real bodies of these crystal skulls shouldn’t be here; they’re just patrolling here.”

“No, I can’t appear to be looking at them.” Locke immediately pretended to look at Albert, and took out a dice from his pocket, pretending that he wanted to gamble with Albert.

Albert was stunned for a moment, then his eyes lit up with genuine interest. “Play dice? What are you betting on? Let’s bet on the cargo we have on the ship. I want some of your female elf slaves.”

Albert licked his tongue, looking eager.

For a moment, Locke couldn’t tell whether this was Albert’s true character.

But the two of them acted very well. The crystal skulls rotated above their heads for a moment, as if judging something, and then turned around and passed through the wall to investigate other cabins.

Fifteen minutes later, a crystal skull suddenly passed through the wall and entered the room again. It saw Locke and Albert gambling fiercely at a table. The two were obviously drunk and the stakes were getting higher and higher.

Andy and Sophia were trying to persuade the two men to stop gambling, while Gabriel looked very angry with Albert.

The crystal skull then dissipated, and the feeling of unease that lingered in everyone’s heart disappeared.

The five people paused for a moment, but Witch Gabriel signaled them with her eyes to continue and not to say anything unnecessary.

Because even if the Wall of Unbelievers has left here, there is still a dark wizard ship outside, and they may have magic that can hear their whispers.

However, if you use magic to shield, the opponent’s curse patrol will use special means to detect it.

Of course, the Blood Curse Court’s detection methods, unless they are purchased from outside, are just average.

Dark wizard organizations like this are generally very powerful in the field of magic they are good at. After all, they have the advantage of low morals and can conduct human experiments at will, which is indeed desirable.

The rest are really just average.

In the heart of the Blood Curse Court, deep in a cursed academy above the Blood Raven Wasteland, a group of dark wizards stayed inside a closed stone chamber, surrounded by countless crystal agate skulls. These crystal agate skulls hung above their heads and beside them, as if forming an invisible wall.

This group of dark wizards were communicating with each other.

“We previously detected a magical pressure signal from a suspected official wizard in that area, but when we used the Eye of the Unbeliever to investigate, we didn’t find any suspicious individuals.”

“Have you used prophetic magic to investigate?”

“Well, we’ve connected to the source of the Wall of Unbelievers and gained countless pieces of information from the ocean of souls of tens of millions of Unbelievers in the past, thus obtaining prophetic resources. However, we haven’t discovered any abnormalities through our prophetic spells. Humph, the prophetic magic of those Yu Haiting guys is just that, after all. They’re not professionals.”

“Should we raise the level of concern for that area? Or should we murder all outsiders in that area?”

“Wait a minute, this is bad. We’ve been tricked. A regular wizard from Lilith’s hut is attacking us from another direction. He’s planted a high-level magical plant, the [Giant Whale Magic Flower], in the city southwest of us! Wherever that magical plant appears, an ecological disaster will occur! It must be the magic flower’s companion spell, the first-level [Ecological Destruction]!”

“What! We have an important project in that direction. Immediately notify the nearby senior curse masters to stop it.”

…

On the other side, there was a dark wizard ship in front of the mortal ship where Locke and his crew were. They originally wanted to stop this smuggling ship.

After all, no matter whether there is any problem with this smuggling ship, since they have seen it, they can just eat it up.

But at this moment, the dark wizard ship suddenly changed its mind, set sail, and began to sail in one direction.

On the deck, many dark wizard apprentices were running. “A single-use high-level magical plant, the Giant Whale Magic Flower, has landed in our heartland. Hurry back and provide support!”

“Oh my god, it’s that horrible thing again. Wherever that thing lands, it will quickly drain all the valuables and nutrients from that land. Then it will explode all at once, releasing countless flower seeds. When the flower seeds land in that area, all kinds of flowers will grow. The entire magical ecological environment will be completely destroyed, and the magical tidal energy will be completely drained.”

“Those hypocritical white wizards, we are just their killers, they want to completely destroy our territory!”

(End of this chapter)