End of the Magic Era

There was no “standard answer” regarding the mysteries contained within the truth runes. The mysteries were more like a kind of alchemy rune, these things would have different interpretations based on different people, and the thing they understood could be completely different.

The way everyone comprehended the research might be different, but in the end, the research in itself wouldn’t be too different, it would only be a matter of what alchemy field the formula was applied to.

Everyone was in the middle of their research. Lin Yun also didn’t plan on wasting time, his goal was those 108,000 truth runes.

In the future, the alchemists who studied the truth runes all jointly agreed with one thing. Fully comprehending those 108,000 truth runes would lead to the Saint realm.

But this was the only thing everyone was certain of, most alchemists believed that they didn’t need to comprehend all those 108,000 truth runes to be able to advance.

Lin Yun found a free table and took out a bottle of ink and a quill before starting to study the truth rune on the Whisper Crystal. That rune looked like a child’s scribble, it clearly didn’t look like a rune.

But it gave out a harmonious feeling, as if it contained endless truths. With the help of the Magic Array’s computing, the information contained on the surface layer of the truth was instantly cracked and Lin Yun could feel that seemingly ugly and awkward child’s scribble change.

It now became like a rune containing formidable power. After a few seconds, he cracked the mysteries contained within the runes and an intense feeling rose in his mind.

A large amount of data and formulas appeared in his mind and a lot of things he couldn’t comprehend suddenly became clear.

And after the mysteries of these runes were deciphered, the rune’s shape suddenly changed, that ugly scribble took on the shape of a revolving three-dimensional law rune. It only slightly transformed, but the amount of mysteries contained within sharply increased a few dozen times, they were a few dozen times more cryptic.

This time, Lin Yun’s research speed slowed down and it took five minutes for that law rune to be cracked. As the mysteries were exposed, the law rune didn’t change shape, but the mysteries became even more complex, they looked like a most perfect law rune made of sixteen runes.

Lin Yun was a bit dumbfounded as he saw that shape and structure. A law rune formed out of sixteen runes was the most perfect shape a law rune could take.

This would be common sense in the future. There had been no record of who discovered it, or of any powerhouse that formed them, yet Lin Yun could suddenly see one here.

In Bill George’s ruins, he had seen law runes made out of twelve runes. Sometimes, Lin Yun also wondered if that mysterious Bill George also came back from the future.

Law runes formed from sixteen runes was something that Heaven Mages needed to immediately start constructing upon advancing. And later, their laws would all be formed on that foundation.

Seeing this in this era startled Lin Yun. He couldn’t help conjecturing that the sixteen runes law runes were the most perfect concept because of the Whisper Crystal…

Even if the current mages could see them, they had no way to comprehend. It was due to the fact that the ones that could comprehend the Whisper Crystal were almost all Heaven Rank powerhouses and they already had their law rune foundation, they definitely couldn’t see through this even more perfect law rune structure.

In other words, they couldn’t find the method to construct a sixteen runes law rune. After all, the ten runes law rune structure was the one currently circulating, it was also the simplest.

No mage would give up on a stable path to progress on the Heaven realm to research a new law rune construction method.

In any case, at later ranks, the merged law runes would grow stronger and would definitely be stronger than the law runes of that perfect foundation.

Naturally, the most important reason was that it had no impact on research, and it was even impossible to research.

Lin Yun knew the difference, before advancing to the Heaven Rank, the twelve runes law rune construct was already the limit. He needed Extraordinary Power to build an even more perfect law rune foundation.

After advancing to the Heaven Rank, Lin Yun had yet to complete his law runes construct. But he was now facing these truth runes. Lin Yun felt that he could take advantage of the research of truth runes to construct his law rune foundation.

This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Once the Heaven Rank foundation was built, it could no longer be altered.

It was like a computing method. Lin Yun’s computing method was completely different from the current Heaven Rank powerhouses. Not only was it even more powerful, based on the grade of that computing method, he would have to destroy his foundation and start anew if he wanted to get a new computing method.

But that also meant that it would be impossible for him to fall from the Heaven Rank and then advance again.

Lin Yun was terrified, but he didn’t stop his research. He started calculating as if he was possessed, continuously deciphering the mysteries contained within that law rune.

The most perfect law rune foundation also meant the most stable, and the most difficult to break through. It would be very hard to dismantle its mysteries.

After no less than five hours, the countless streams of data crazily flickering in Lin Yun’s eyes suddenly calmed down.

After massaging his aching eyes, Lin Yun once again glanced at the Whisper Crystal and discovered that the truth rune he had been working on had long since disappeared, replaced by a new truth rune.

Lin Yun wasn’t in a hurry to study that new truth rune and closed his eyes to start sorting out those mysteries. Countless runes and streams of data flowed and turned into a few formulas. And these new formulas gave rise to a breakthrough in alchemy. A lot of things were a lot more clear.

Lin Yun remembered one of the formulas extremely clearly, it was the Magellan Formula. Three millennia later, the Magellan Formula would be announced to the public, but some pieces would already be researched over two millennia earlier.

The Magellan Formula was praised as a core puppeteering formula, and once announced, all puppeteers would be using that formula as a foundation.

Especially when it came to puppets, the Magellan Formula’s energy generation and exploitation would become a basic theory, just like Newton’s three laws in Lin Yun’s former world. A large number of research and theories would be using it as a foundation.

And this Magellan Formula was actually contained within that truth rune. People would be horrified if they knew about that part of the Magellan Formula.

More importantly, Lin Yun knew even more advanced formulas, but Lin Yun only knew the results of these formulas, just like how ordinary people knew the operation principle and the destructive effect of bombs, yet only an extremely small number of people could craft one.

The mysteries within the truth runes they were researching apparently had a special kind of power. While he was studying it, Lin Yun slowly felt as if he genuinely mastered that knowledge, as if his head was no longer clueless and unable to use the Ice-cold Formula.

Now, Lin Yun felt that he could apply the formulas he had just learnt to alchemy experiments and produce some results.

This kind of rapid increase in strength dazed Lin Yun. The truth runes had been recorded in a special book in Heiss City’s decaying library, unfortunately, the mysteries of the truth runes couldn’t be copied.

The decaying library originally had a copy magic book, an Extraordinary Magic Tool. But that Magic Tool ended up becoming an ordinary book during Noscent’s destruction and all the secrets it contained were lost. It was said that the magic book was made by the genius of the Starry Sky College at his peak, and that it was the only other thing that could contain the 108,000 truth runes aside from the Whisper Crystal.

As for Lin Yun, he was currently unable to copy the truth runes completely.

He lowered his head to look at the few key pieces of data he had written down and slowly recovered from his shock. He had previous read about these but hadn’t personally researched them. After having cracked one of the 108,000 truth runes, Lin Yun felt that he had to have them.

But if he researched them normally, it would take him over five hours to decipher the mysteries contained within. Even if it went smoothly for all of them, just how long would it take?

Moreover, it had been written down that the more one researched truth runes, the more mysteries would be deciphered, and the more difficult the research would be. Aside from that genius of the Starry Sky Tower that would appear a few millennia later, there had been no records of someone learning all 108,000 law runes.

With the base of five hours to study a truth rune, it would take Lin Yun seven to eight hundred years to study all 108,000 truth runes since the difficulty would keep on growing.

That speed was clearly not good, he had to figure out another method, the efficiency of that method was too low.

Lin Yun frowned and was lost in thought, but none of the Artisans here completed the research of a truth rune.

Many of them couldn’t even get past the third step.

The first step of the research of a truth rune was very easy for Artisans, the 2nd step was somewhat troublesome, and if they couldn’t comprehend the 2nd step within a dozen minutes, the truth rune on the Whisper Crystal would change into another one and they would lose their progress.

As long as the research of a truth rune reached the 3rd step within fifteen minutes of its appearance, the truth rune would keep on existing. Or at least, when the individual in question looked, they could see that truth rune while the others would see another truth rune.

This was why truth runes were strange, because no one could truly understand these things. The future genius of the Starry Sky College wouldn’t have fallen when igniting his Godfire and wouldn’t have turned crazy if he had fully comprehended the truth runes.

Lin Yun didn’t continue his research, he instead thought a lot about the records regarding truth runes. He must have read something that would help him increase the speed and efficiency of the research.

After exploring the depths of his memories for half an hour, Lin Yun found a few notes recording methods that could help him increase the efficiency of the truth runes’ research.

And it just happened that he could do all of these methods.

One of them was a kind of spell similar to Sharp Mind, but it was a supporting spell specially developed by the Starry Sky College in order to research truth runes. It was named Steel Heart.

After casting it, the spell would block all emotions. It was as if the user was an ice-cold puppet that could only research the countless streams of data and alchemy mysteries. With all emotions removed, the research efficiency doubled.

The addition of a Sharp Mind spell would further increase the research efficiency, and the caster could even use Berserk Transformation since Steel Heart would completely cancel Berserk Transformation’s side effects.

Another method was similar to what the Mosh Family’s Artisans were doing. Using some kind of Magic Tool to decompose the secrets of the truth rune before merging the power of law runes. Then, they only needed to crack the information contained within the law runes and reassemble them according to their original shape. They would still obtain the complete mysteries that way.

The last kind was linked to the Magic Array.

By using the formidable computing ability of the Magic Array, he could take the entire truth rune’s mysteries and turn them into streams of data before researching these data streams, crack them, combine them, before reverse assembling them based on what he inferred in order to obtain all the mysteries contained within the truth runes.

That method seemed very complicated, but it made the puzzle many times simpler. A difficult problem that couldn’t be calculated within a few hours turned into a few hundreds simple problems that could be solved within a few seconds.

And the only Magic Conducting Rune that met this condition was the Magic Array, the strongest Magic conducting Rune.

When he had read them, Lin Yun hadn’t really cared about these methods. Not only had the notes been placed a corner, they were only treated as some supplementary records regarding truth runes. After all, these methods summed up the Starry Sky College’s golden era.

But these methods were only useful when directly studying the truth runes of the Whisper Crystal. With the disappearance of the Whisper Crystal, these methods could only be written down.

Lin Yun hadn’t cared about these methods when he read them, but now that he had advanced to the Heaven Rank and his soul grew stronger, he could remember many of the memories hidden deep within his mind.

He spat out a few law runes and uttered a few strange sounding syllables. A layer of fluctuations enveloped Lin Yun’s head, and Lin Yun instantly felt his head becoming a lot more clear. His calculations were a lot more efficient as he discarded his emotions. Only ice-cold computing remained, it was like he had separated his consciousness and was observing himself from another point of view.

He could recover from that puppet-like ice-cold reasoning state with a simple thought. After entering the Steel Heart state, Lin Yun immediately added Sharp Mind and Berserk Transformation onto himself.

Sure enough, his thought speed rose substantially, a few times faster than usual. But the side effect of the Berserk Transformation magnifying all kinds of emotions couldn’t be felt, because he had no emotion at all under Steel Heart.

Without pausing, he raised his head and started observing another truth rune. It took less than a second for the first layer of mysteries to be broken completely, and three seconds for the second layer of mysteries to be cracked.

The 3rd layer containing the truly powerful mysteries wasn’t cracked as fast. As the Magic Array revolved, countless streams of data poured into the wheel shape, and then that data flood started converging on the surface of that big wheel into the shape of a law rune. It was a 16 runes law rune.

Ten seconds later, that law rune’s transformation was complete and the flood of data the law rune transformed into was so enormous that even Lin Yun’s Magic Array could barely cope with it.

Lin Yun instantly took out the Spell Wheel. After all, the Spell Wheel was a Magic Tool proficient in cracking while the Magic Array was more targeted towards constructing floods of data. Using the Spell Wheel to crack would increase the efficiency a few dozen times, maybe a few hundred times.

But Lin Yun suddenly stopped his movements. The Spell Wheel simply couldn’t directly crack the truth rune.

Under the effect of Steel Heart, Lin Yun couldn’t be surprised or amazed. He couldn’t use the Spell Wheel, so he immediately started cracking with ordinary methods. Yet, his efficiency had risen a few dozen times compared to earlier and he cracked that truth rune in less than half an hour.

After he was done cracking that law rune, he immediately started cracking another law rune. But Lin Yun’s actions made others think that he had just been staring at the Whisper Crystal while occasionally refreshing Sharp Mind and Berserk Transformation.