Chapter 60: The Laboratory of Ruins (4)

It is clear that Kahn's intention in leaving this armor behind was very clear: to add an insurance policy for future successors.

First of all, this armor will not affect spellcasting, nor will it have weaknesses such as conductivity or heat conductivity, since it is made of metal. For a spell-casting golem like Kahn, this is really easy.

Second, it is immune to spells of level 5 or lower. Of course, being immune doesn't mean that every spell is ineffective. It is not immune to physical, force field, or shock spells. For example, a level 4 lightning spell that hits the body can be immune, but a level 1 magic rocket cannot be immune to the impact.

However, the most important side effect of this armor, which made Christine feel like she could wear it all the time, was that the armor constantly activated the third-level spell "Evasion Detection".

This spell made it difficult for protected creatures or objects to be detected by divination spells, and it also prevented them from being located by magical items such as crystal balls. Spells such as Lie Detection and Alignment Detection were also ineffective.

It is like an ordinary fighter jet becoming an invisible fighter jet after being protected by this spell.

Of course, the effectiveness of this spell depends on the caster, and the higher the level, the stronger the effect. As a being comparable to the Grand Archmage of the ancient Gnosis Empire, Kahn's constant "Evasion Detection" can only be broken by a legendary level, but there are not many legendary mages on the entire continent.

"Oops, I almost forgot," Kristen suddenly remembered something.

"What is it?" Galadriel asked curiously.

"There's another prisoner out there. I'll be right back," Christine said, hurrying out of the Mage Tower.

Three days had passed since she had first entered the tower, explored it, met Galadriel, toured the semi-planar environment, and fainted. As a descendant of the dragon bloodline, Christine could go three days without food, but the bound centaur woman outside had also been hungry for three days.

When Christine returned to the teleportation hall, dressed again and carrying food and water, Terea already looked listless. She was not starving, but the feeling of being hungry all the time was not pleasant.

She had fought before, but how could she break the special ropes? Besides, her four legs were tied together, making it impossible for her to even wriggle her way to the place where the food was stored.

"Eat something," Christine said, untying the rope around Terea's hands and placing some water in front of her.

Terea, who was extremely hungry, immediately grabbed the food and shoved it into her mouth. She even wondered if Christine hadn't shown up for three days because she had accidentally triggered a mechanism in the ruins and died. If that was the case, she feared that she would starve here. Terea had never wished so much for a human not to die.

In the following time, Christine only fed the centaur twice a day and read those precious books from the time of the Nesrur Empire in the library of the Mage Tower.

These books were left behind by Kahn specifically to enable someone with the talent to become an arcane practitioner. Although this elementary knowledge was common in the ancient Nesrur Empire and accessible to any apprentice, it was something that legends of that era could only wish for, but could not obtain.

Even this rudimentary knowledge is the crystallization of the wisdom of the great archmages of the ancient Gnysriel Empire of Magic. It is not something that a present-day mage can deduce and complete from the scattered information unearthed from the ruins. It is no exaggeration to say that it is priceless.

Terea didn't know that the lab in the ruins had been almost completely emptied because she had been captured shortly after teleporting there. She still thought that Christine had been studying the things left behind in it, and that once a mage started researching something, they never stopped, which meant that she didn't know how long she would be tied up here.

Christine had kept Terea here for a reason, because after a week, her blood pulsation symptoms returned.

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From that day on, Terea noticed that Christine had become much nicer to her. At least her hands were no longer tied, and food and water were placed nearby for her to take whenever she wanted. But her four legs were still bound. What made her even more helpless was that because of her body structure, the centaur could not untie them herself, because her arms could not reach.

Besides, even if she could untie herself, what then? Could she run away? Or could a healing shaman force Christian to let her go? Absolutely not. Not to mention the fact that the other person was a mage who fought only with power, Terea was always beaten.

Later, Terea understood that it was no use for the other person to untie her hands. Because she could eat, Christian came twice a day instead of once, which left more time for studying.

For Terea, every time the other person came, she was tortured until the next day. Time passed day by day, and Terea went from struggling to resist to symbolic resistance.

After nearly two months of studying, Christine finally mastered all the knowledge in the library and successfully became an arcane practitioner. At the same time, she figured out the situation of the Mage Tower and the Half-Plane, but she was limited by her current level and could only maintain the status quo.

It was time to leave.