Chapter 760
"We couldn't examine this yesterday because of the sudden breakthrough, but now I'm really curious to see what this does . Phloria thought it was a dimensional item, but the Odi had to steal Professor Ellkas's ring to have one, so she was wrong . "
The small ring was covered in glowing blue runes and had a small green mana stone embedded on it . Lith could now recognize a single rune pattern, which made it even more underwhelming .
Such a weak pseudo core that required both runes and a crystal to work couldn't be anything important . Especially since after it had been lost, no one seemed to have ever cared to pick it up, letting it end in the fungal creature's hands .
After checking that there was no self-destruct mechanism, Lith imprinted the ring . Much to his surprise, the enchanted item started to suck upon his mana avidly and its pseudo core grew in both size and power .
"Damn, I'm a moron!" Lith blurted out . "Of course it was weak as fuck, the ring was ownerless for centuries and if not for the runes, its pseudo core would have already dissolved . "
While the ring recovered its strength and its pseudo core stabilized, Lith continued to translate the book about the body-swapping procedure, searching for a way to replace the lost Odi technology with modern magic .
Quylla had been right all along . Normal dictionaries were pretty useless to decipher the Odi's jargon about magic . Thanks to the vocabularies she had written and borrowed to him, however, Lith's and Solus' work progressed smoothly .
Even when they encountered an unknown term, between Quylla's work and their own brain it wouldn't take them long to make sense of it . At some point, Lith took also out the books he had copied from Kalla about Lichhood .
The two procedures were indeed quite similar and the past mages who had strived to achieve eternal life had already solved some of the issues that Lith was now facing .
"If they succeeded, then I can do it too . " Lith said with renewed confidence once he realized that he could blend the two procedures into a new one and maybe obtain something better than the Odi had ever dreamed on .
"Yes, but it will take some time . " Solus pointed out . "Even by using the Odi's book and Kalla's notes as a foundation, it's still a mammoth task . In the little free time you have as a Ranger, we can work on the theoretical field, but putting it into practice will have to wait . "
"That's what I was planning to do anyway . It's not like I'm going to drop dead tomorrow, so there's no rush . The more we travel, the more we learn . Once I'm done with the army, I might visit the Empire and the Desert .
"I'm sure that they have lost ruins and secrets as well . The problem is how to get there without having trouble with the local authorities . To them, I might as well be just a spy . " Lith sighed .
"We'll think about it when the time comes . Now let's get back to the ring . It has already stabilized for a while now . We can use it without the risk of it crumbling due to mana stress . " Solus said .
Lith nodded and took another good look at the small blue thing on his finger . Now that it had the time to self-repair, the ring didn't look so shabby anymore, making Lith's hopes fly high .
It was then that Lith suddenly realized he had no idea how to use it . Huryole's sword was a different matter since its enchantment was so simple that it only needed to be activated to produce air blades against a target .
Lith was sending the ring the mental command for activation, yet nothing happened .
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