The Truth of Magic

275 the entrance of the cave (2/2)

the next morning, when zhao xu came online again, antonya informed him that he had passed the review.

But before he went in, the Association still sent out a team of people to tell Zhao Xu about the details of the scavenger pit and the recent changes.

And brought him some unfortunate news.

It meant that the demiplane had evolved again in the early hours of the night, and anyone who entered it would be affected by the effects of mage’s disintegration.

So the magic items and scrolls that the Association had prepared for Zhao Xu were all below level 5, and he had no choice but to give them up.

In fact, Zhao Xu couldn’t even bring his basic Howard’s convenient bag into the space.

After confirming the risks with Zhao Xu, the officials from the Association handed over the teleportation key that they had made at the last minute.

And Zhao Xu had no choice but to hand over all the magic items he had to Antonya because of the new rule that had appeared last night.

this was also the first time he realized that everything was fake, and that only his own strength could guarantee everything.

originally, a divine artifact was a good barrier against mage’s disjunction. It was a pity that the demiplane itself still had the god of death’s divine fragment, so Antonya didn’t give Zhao Xu any more God equipment.

He didn’t want to be the first one to attract hatred.

Even Lux and the artificial death in this dimension used to be her underlings, so it wasn’t a big problem. That was why Zhao Xu dared to take Lux with him.

after zhao xu greeted antonya, he immediately activated the one-time-use teleportation key in his hand.

At this moment, the key that led to that dimension exploded with white light and swept Zhao Xu inside.

In the end, when Zhao Xu opened his eyes, he realized that he was in the middle of a dense forest. the sunlight even passed through the mottled leaves and fell on his cloak.

And the entrance to the scavenger beast mine was hidden in this forest.

“Master, if you were to go through me, you would probably be heading straight for that mine. however, if we rely on this group of people, i’m afraid that being able to reach this place is already an amazing feat.”

At this moment, the sunlight in the sky had already passed through the leaves and was shining on Zhao Xu’s body.

According to what the people from the Association said, the forest that Zhao Xu was seeing was actually just an illusion, and it could be considered an expansion.

Only the underground city after the ” scavenger beast pit ” was the real adventure in the half-plane, and Wang Ningwei and asvich were currently trapped there.

Zhao Xu was also looking around vigilantly. This wasn’t some sort of situation where he was just waiting for the enemy to attack.

it was because the forest itself could be arranged, so it was normal for special forces to appear at any time.

lacus, if you don’t have any clues, I’ll cast my spells or start looking for them. zhao xu said.

“En, master, head straight to your right, in the direction of the tallest tree. That ‘scavenger beast pit’ should be over there. I can feel that aura.” said lux.

When he heard this, Zhao Xu nodded and started walking towards the right.

The reason this dimension was called the “scavenger pit” was mainly that this half-dimension was created to domesticate scavengers, because their bodies were several key magic materials.

it was only later when there was an alternative for magic materials that this base for rearing carrion beasts was abandoned.

Later on, this place slowly became the prison of the once powerful country.

It wasn’t until one day, when the prison of this interdimensional space welcomed the future death god, that the interdimensional space became famous for a while.

” master, i heard that in the underground city, if you go through the torture that the grim reaper experienced in the past, you can get the reward of ‘iron will’. ” Lacus suddenly said to Zhao Xu.

“Lacus, the people from the Association told me that it’s not 100% true. Moreover, those cruel tortures are too cruel. There’s no need for that.” zhao xu said.

zhao xu’s pace wasn’t slow at all. he kept going through the forest in front of him, as well as the stone forest and even the stream that he was blocking from time to time.

the entire process was very calm and peaceful. in the end, zhao xu noticed an open hole in the ground and he stopped right in front of it.

zhao xu walked closer to take a look.

however, he found that there was a string of mysterious incantations at the entrance of the hole.

“It should be the password to enter the cave.” said lux.

zhao xu also nodded. the password was naturally a string of words that he could read out loud.

And the string of garbled incantations in front of them naturally needed Zhao Xu to crack them.

Zhao Xu immediately started to combine and process the contents of the incantation in his mind.

According to what the ‘Association member’ said, different people would encounter different difficulties. Some of them had no tests, while some of them had to fight to the death at the entrance of the pit.

in comparison, zhao xu had only cracked the password, and that was already a lot more ” merciful “.

However, if he couldn’t decipher it, it also meant that he would be cut in half and couldn’t enter the space.

Slowly, Zhao Xu started to frown. He had used a few common encryption and decryption methods to process the mysterious incantation in his mind, but it didn’t make much sense.

“master, what’s wrong?” lacus could feel zhao xu’s frown, so she asked.

” i didn’t pay much attention to the course on encryption of incantations before. most of my understanding in this area is limited to the interpretation of arcana characters. ” zhao xu said.

” hehe, master, i know a lot of encrypted incantations. it’s just that you’re learning it now. can you make it in time? ” lacus asked.

“Sure.” Zhao Xu said.

But as soon as he responded, lacus immediately chanted the specific incantation and encrypted content in his mind.

After Zhao Xu listened for about a minute, he said, ” “The next method, this door is wrong.”

This voice almost gave Lux a fright.

“master, i haven’t even read out the whole decryption thought process, how do you know if it’s correct?” lacus was very confident in her memory, so she was very curious as to why zhao xu had suddenly remembered something.

But Zhao Xu just shook his head. the ‘kabusoly’ incantation encryption method that you just recited uses a transformation method. But no matter how you transform, this 173-character incantation will always have a part that is simply retained. I’ve randomly deduced a total of more than 100 combinations, but none of them have any meaningful content, so this door probably isn’t.

It was only then that lacus finally understood how high Zhao Xu’s intelligence was.

Zhao Xu didn’t even wait for her to finish reciting before he started thinking about the encryption method. Instead, he started using it as soon as he started listening to her recite it. Some of the more complicated calculations were even completed in his mind.

She slowly recited the corresponding encrypted incantation. This time, her recitation was more targeted. Even other low-level mages would be confused if they heard it. They would not be able to tell that Lux was trying to find a way.

However, even after Lux read out all 23 of the commonly used encryption methods, Zhao Xu still couldn’t tell her which spell she wanted to use.

“master?” lacus asked.

“It’s all garbled.” Zhao Xu said.

lacus was also in disbelief. ” master, you’ve tried everything? so fast?”

“yes.” zhao xu didn’t mind lux’s tone at all. his eyes were now back on the line of incantations on the door.

“I’m afraid it’s double encryption.” Zhao Xu said to himself as he shook his head.

“This? isn’t this too much?” lacus grumbled even more after hearing this.

this meant that the incantation on the stone door was first encrypted with a certain method, and then the encrypted password one was encrypted again to obtain password two.

In this way, the original ciphertext itself was a garbled code, and naturally, there was no meaningful content.

the two encryption methods were superimposed. this way, lux’s initial twenty-three encryption methods could be randomly combined in two or two, and there would be more than four hundred double encryption methods.

“Well, master, how about this, you and I each take 200 types, and we work hard together. Don’t look down on Lux, I was once a speed calculation genius in the divine gear.” lacus boasted.

“no need,” at this moment, zhao xu suddenly walked up and placed his hand on the incantation. he then started to chant another incantation in a low voice.

Suddenly, the stone door that was filled with the power of death began to dispel the power of death above it. It slowly opened to both sides, letting out a buzzing sound.

“ah? ‘master, is your intelligence over 30 or 40?’ 400 encryption methods, and you’ve calculated all of them in an instant?” lacus asked in shock.

“Don’t be silly, lacus. Don’t you have the rule of” no more than five things “? “Thus, I first picked four encryption methods that did not exceed the fifth layer of encryption. Even if it was self-encryption, there were only sixteen of them. Then, I tried the fourth one and cracked it.”

it was only then that lacus realized that if zhao xu was going to count all 400 types, it would make sense for him to try the 16 types that fit the ‘no more than five’ rule.

at this moment, zhao xu looked down the pitch-black tunnel and started walking. he only took two steps before the stone door behind him closed up silently.

Immediately, countless fireworks lit up in the corner of the passage.

A faint shadow appeared at the end of the passage.