Chapter 368 Pass

There should be some secret key keepsake, right?

After thinking for a while, Heath felt that the reason should be the secret key of the magic array.

This was a commonly used method of magic array arrangement. After the magic array was set up, the Wizard himself would write the runes to break the magic array into some Wizard tools that could be carried with him to make a secret key. Then, when the Wizard himself wanted to pass through the magic array, he would only need to bring the secret key.

Heath could not help but ask Alza, “Are there any tokens or magic tools that your ancestor left behind?”

Alza shook his head. “No, only a map that records this place.”

Heath touched his chin. “That’s really strange…”

Alza was puzzled. “What’s wrong, Wizard Heath?”

Heath explained, “This magic array should be a secret key magic array. You need to bring the secret key to pass through here. I remember you said that the information of the location here was sent back to the family after your ancestor sorted it out. Then, I believe he will bring back the secret key to facilitate the family to recover his inheritance.”

Since this ruin was left behind by the Wizard in order to get the family to take back his inheritance, then the secret key should have been prepared.

Alza thought for a moment and said, “This.. There might have been one before. It was probably lost during the family’s previous disasters. When I found this map in the old house, it was casually left on the side… So…”

Heath said, “Is that so…”

If that was the case, then it was very likely. After all, the Fons family had indeed encountered several disasters in the long river of history, and most of the family’s assets had been lost.

Heath thought for a moment and said, “If that’s the case… then we can only use brute force to crack it.”

Jackman asked, “Are you confident, Brother?”

Everyone present could clearly see the power of the magic array just now. They had never come into contact with these kinds of rule-based runes before. Since they had not even come into contact with the fundamental knowledge… One could imagine how difficult it was to crack the magic array.

Heath said, “Let’s try it first.”

With his current knowledge reserves, it was extremely difficult to crack the magic array. However, if he used the system to extract more relevant knowledge, then it was not impossible to try.

After pausing for a moment, he added, “Before that, I’ll have to try a few more times. Remember to cooperate with me like before.”

Jackman said worriedly, “Do you still need to go over? Heath, you have to think carefully.”

Heath said affirmatively, “I’ll be careful this time.”

He was no longer as clueless about the magic array as before, especially the ability to extract magic power. As long as he took precautions in advance, it would not be as dangerous as before.

He decided to do it.

Heath immediately recovered his mana and made preparations. Just like before, he tied

the rope to Jackman and the others. Then, he cast a flying spell and flew towards the area of the magic array.

There was no difference from before. As he got closer to the area, the mana in Heath’s body disappeared at an extremely fast speed. At the same time, Heath immediately chanted in his heart, ‘Extract.’

[Beep, successful extraction. Obtained (Serra Rune].]

(Beep, successful extraction. Obtained [Fourth Element Vera Rune Structure].] (Beep, successful extraction. Obtained Rune Knowledge…)

Before the magic power was exhausted, Heath immediately motioned for Alza and Jackman to pull him back from the cliff, and then used the Wizard’s Hand to bring him back to the cliff. At the same time, he quickly took out Spiritual Water from his dimensional pocket and consumed it to make up for the loss of magic power in the magic pool. Spiritual Water was a powerful potion that could recover Wizard’s magic power. It was basically a daily item for Wizards, and most Wizards would always have some on hand. Before the exploration of the ruins, Heath had made himself a large amount of Spiritual Water, which filled the entire dimensional pocket. The storage was extremely abundant, so there was no need to care about this little loss.

After filling up the magic pool and taking a short break, Heath got up and floated forward again to extract the knowledge before coming back to rest.

After retrieving the knowledge more than ten times, Heath finally stopped when the system notification could no longer reveal any useful knowledge.

Standing on the cliff, Heath closed his eyes and tidied up.

At this time, his mind was filled with many unfamiliar and irrelevant knowledge. These were all extracted previously. With the addition of these knowledge points, Heath quickly figured out the general structure of the magic array. In particular, he had completely understood the structure of the core area of the magic array.

Although he was still quite a distance away from completely understanding it, it was more or less enough to crack the magic array.

A simple explanation would be like this magic array was a door, and for Heath to open this door, he did not need to understand the entire structure of the door. He only needed to understand the structure of the keyhole.

“Wait for me here. I’ll go crack it.”

“Ah, now? Then you have to be careful…”

Immediately, Heath began to officially crack this magic array.

Similar to what he had experienced before, Heath flew to the area near the magic array and used his spiritual tentacles to cut into the spiritual network of the magic array and crack it.

The slightly troublesome part was that the magic array would draw the Wizard’s own magic power. Therefore, after cracking the magic array for a while, Heath’s magic power would be sucked away and he would not be able to maintain the flying spell and fall from the sky to the cliff.

Although Jackman, Alza, and the Knights were ready at the back, and there was no danger to their lives, they could not continue to crack the magic array.

So after thinking about it, Heath took a rare piecewise method to crack the magic array.

This method was equivalent to cutting the magic array’s core into several parts when cracking the magic array, and then cracking it piece by piece. It was the most common method used to crack some large magic arrays.

There was nothing much to say about the rest of the work. The key to breaking the magic array was knowledge. Now that Heath had enough knowledge, he also had a good understanding of the structure of the magic array. He just needed to follow the instructions step by step.

In less than half an hour, Heath had successfully broken the magic array.

The moment the magic array was unlocked, a huge hexagram suddenly appeared in the void. The complicated patterns suddenly lit up with dazzling rays of light…

In the void above the cliff, a huge hexagram magic array suddenly lit up. A few colorful rays of light shone from the magic array, which was extremely dazzling.

“It’s unlocked! It’s unlocked!”

“The magic array is open! It’s the magic array!”

Jackman and Alza on the cliff were extremely excited. They watched the scene without blinking and could not help but cheer.

The light did not last long before it gradually dimmed.

Not long after the light completely dissipated, a series of ‘hu hu’ sounds could be heard. Heath could clearly feel a strong airflow rising up from the depths of the cliff under his feet.

Along with this gust of air, there were a few white dots that rose up at an extremely fast speed. Soon, they were revealed before Heath’s eyes. They were stone slabs.

Each of these stone slabs was about half a meter long and rectangular. They did not look much different from ordinary stone slabs, but what was strange was that each of the stone slabs had facial features that looked like humans. Their mouths maintained the shape of a big smile.

Not long after they rose up, they opened their mouths and shouted at Heath, “Welcome home! Welcome home!”

Heath raised his eyebrows and looked at the slabs under his feet. He recognized these slabs. They were called Flying Stone Slabs. They were a kind of magic substance that was between demonized creatures and ores because they had the ability to float in the air. Therefore, it was often used by Wizards to build floating bridges in some Wizard towers, just like this one.

These stone slabs rose all the way to a height lower than Heath’s. They connected to each other to form a floating bridge, all the way to the opposite cliff.

Heath stepped on the stone bridge, and at the same time, he waved his hand behind him. “That’s enough. Let’s go.”

Alza and Jackman were overjoyed.

“You guys stay here. We’ll go over and take a look first.”

“Yes, Sir.”

Alza ordered the Knights to stay on the cliff. Then, he brought Jackman and flew over, stepping on the cliff like Heath.

Everyone stepped on the stone slabs on the cliff and successfully arrived at the opposite side of the cliff.

The moment they landed, Alza could not help but let out a long sigh. “We’re finally here. It was really not easy…”

Jackman echoed, “Yeah, this is all thanks to Heath. If it weren’t for him, the two of us would have wasted our trip today…”

Rule-based runes were knowledge that Jackman and Alza had never come into contact with before, and the terrifying power of the magic array to extract magic power was something that they could not do anything about. Facing this kind of magic array, they were completely helpless.

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If Heath had not been here today, the two of them might not have been able to do anything with the magic array. In the end, they might have had no choice but to return to seek help from their mentors.

Alza said gratefully, “Wizard Heath, thank you so much.”

Jackman was still fine. He had plenty of time anyway. Even if he returned without any success, it would only be a waste of time. For Alza, this little bit of time was just adding insult to injury.

Heath shook his head. “No need to stand on ceremony. Since we have agreed to advance and retreat together, of course I have to keep my promise.”

“Alright, let’s go in and see what’s behind this door.”

As he spoke, Heath looked to the side of the mountain wall. There was a dark cave entrance just like the other side. At the end of the cave entrance, a tall and big stone door could be vaguely seen.

Bzzt! Bzzt! The dancing flames lit up the path ahead.

Heath and the others held torches and walked over. After passing through a short tunnel, they soon arrived in front of the stone door.

“There won’t be any more trouble, right?”

“Magic traps? Restrictions? Everyone should be careful. Don’t let your guard down. Wizards who fall in front of the treasury are everywhere in the Wizard World.”

Standing in front of the gate, everyone started to hesitate.

Ever since they entered the underground palace, there were basically no traps or traps along the way. However, after they arrived here, they unexpectedly calmed down. Until now, no one had encountered any danger. This inevitably made people suspect that there was some hidden mechanism that had not been discovered.

And because of this, even if everyone used their spiritual power to scan, they discovered that the door was just an ordinary door without any rune structure. They only needed a slight push to push it open, but right now, no one, including Heath, made the first move.

After repeatedly searching for a few times and still finding nothing, Jackman took the initiative to stand out. “Let me do it.”

Heath thought for a moment and said, “Let’s retreat and use the puppet technique to open the door.”

It was a common method to control the puppet to open the door in the ruins. This way, if there was any sudden situation, the puppet could block in front of them and give them space.

However, at this moment, Jackman and Alza were somewhat troubled by Heath’s suggestion.

“Heath, my puppets are only at the Apprentice level. Look…”

“Me too, Wizard Heath. Puppet spells are not my forte, so my usual preparations are…”

The puppet used to open the door could not be an ordinary puppet. After all, if its defense was too weak, it would be no different from a piece of paper. That would be meaningless… If there really was a powerful magic trap inside, the puppet would be instantly torn apart, and the rest of the attacks would still affect the Wizard himself.

Heath said, “It’s okay, I’m prepared.” As he spoke, he asked Jackman and Alza to step back a little. Then, he drew a simple magic array on the ground. Finally, he pressed his hands together in the middle, and then pressed them on the ground.

The magic array on the ground lit up with a dazzling beam of light. With a ‘kacha’ sound, a black bolt of lightning cut through the air above the magic array. Then, the space was distorted, a crack opened up from within.

Boom! Boom! Heavy footsteps sounded. A huge stone giant walked out from the spatial crack that Heath had summoned.

“Stone Golem!” Jackman and Alza said in unison.

The two looked at the Stone Golem in shock. Stone Golems were not particularly rare magical creations in the Wizard World, however, it was rare to be able to control them so meticulously, and to be able to fuse so closely with a Wizard’s soul.

“Let’s retreat.”

Then, Heath brought Jackman and Alza to the edge of the cliff outside and controlled the stone giant to walk towards the door.

The stone giant stretched out its huge hands and pressed them against the door.

Rumble!

With a loud rumble, the door slowly opened…