Just a few hundred meters away from the place where everyone was attacked, Gao Wen found a small wooden house that had been turned into ruins.
It fell among the trees. From the burnt traces, it can be judged that it was destroyed by a fire from the inside out, but the fire did not spread to further places. Perhaps rain saved the forest in time. Knight Byron inspected the remaining traces around the wooden house and judged that the fire should have occurred more than half a month ago.
Heidi detected a very thin magic reaction on the scene.
"What we saw in the shadow world should be a reflection," Gawain looked at the wooden house in the middle of the forest that had been turned into ruins, and said his own judgment, "This wild mage has lived in seclusion in this place for many years. This place is outside the territory, and even soldiers will not come, so no one knows a hermit has lived here."
"The question is... how did the accident happen?" Heidi frowned, "There is only weak magic power here, and the strength of the wild mage who lives here is also very low, even if one of his magic experiments got out of control and burned this house, it is still impossible to create a long-term projection in the shadow world, and it also generated such a powerful mist of wraith... all the magic required for this is not something a wild mage can provide."
"Perhaps this notebook can answer your doubts." Gao Wen said and handed a dilapidated notebook to Heidi.
That was the note I got from Betty in the shadow world before. It was both the diary of the nameless wild mage and the research note.
Heidi opened the second half of the notes according to Gawain's instructions and read it carefully.
"... Anzu 729, Fire Moon, XX day. It has been half a year since I moved to this place, and I found magic energy on the edge of the Cecil family's territory, although the intensity is not comparable to the known magic center of the city of a thousand towers, it is enough to support my laboratory. The elemental power here is single and stable, and Annie's condition should be relieved."
"Anzu 729, harvest month, XX day. Annie's situation seems to have improved. She hasn't had a recurrence for a long time but I don't know whether it is the environment or whether my rituals and medicine are worked. The magic center here is too weak. Even with the help of the boosting circle, my ritual effect will be reduced. Maybe I should reconsider the formulas that I have deduced before... Although the people in the secret society will always mock my calculations, anyway, I have left the secret society, they can't control this..."
"Anzu 730, Wuyue, XX day. Those formulas and derivations fully comply with expectations! No, it should be said that the development of the details is as expected. Under the new optimization method, the power of the magic concentration is increased!. With the help of extra magic power, I can finally start the next stage of treatment for Annie. Although she has hardly relapsed in the past few months, the treatment must go on, because she shouldn't stand any more toss..."
"Anzu 731, icy moon, XX day. After the treatment, Annie could get up and walk around, even she can make a meal! There are fried sausages and vegetable soup. I think I have not eaten it in a long time. Good food, although the sausage has been mashed, and the vegetable soup didn't have salt... It turns out that my treatment plan is effective, and as long as the magic center here can continue to supply magic steadily, Annie's recovery will be just around the corner..."
After that, the content of the diary was more about the daily life of the wild mage and his daughter. Heidi quickly skipped this part of the content until a scribbled record appeared on the last few pages:
"Anzu 734, Frost Moon, XX day. Annie suddenly became ill. Damn!!"
"I don't know what went wrong. All the treatments are proceeding as planned. Every step of the ceremony is correct, and so are the medicines. They have been used for several years, and there has never been a problem! But Annie is still becoming sick. It's terrible... It's worse than last time before. I must find the cause as soon as possible. I must write all the details, all... I must find the cause. Annie will be fine..."
"Anzu 734, Frost Moon, XX day. Annie still hasn't gotten better. The new medicine has no effect. She is still weakening, and... I saw her hands just this morning. It became transparent like a mist, and there were a lot of blisters on her face. The world is repelling her and pushing her into the shadow world. What should I do..."
"Anzu 734 years, foggy moon, XX day. The damn sun, its dark red patterns, seems to mock my weakness! I finally found the problem, but I can't solve it... the elements are enriching, Abnormally enriched, magic power surging up, this weak magic focus simply cannot accommodate the excess magic power, even if I remove those additional circles, it will not help. At this time, it is wise to keep Annie away from the place where the elements are enriched., But she has stayed in this place for too long. Her body already resonates with the elemental environment here. This resonance maintained her life... but it will still kill her!"
"Anzu 734 years, Wuyue, XX day. The magic in the entire area is not right and is becoming fierce. The border of Cecil's territory seems to have fallen into the legendary sea of magic. I can no longer reverse the changes in Annie. Now, half of her body has left the material world. In the morning, she even said that she saw the entire house turned black and white. Maybe... I can only find another way..."
"Anzu 735 years, Wuyue. The long preparation is finally over, and Annie's weakness has reached her limit."
"This is only a single chance, there is no other choice."
"Since I can't let Annie live in the material world, I might as well choose another path."
"The shadow transformation ritual is recorded in books, but the magic required is too great to imagine. But for me, it may not be impossible to achieve. I used a new amplification formula and magic circle drawing method and will use the power of magical surging. The magical power in this area is in an abnormally active state. The energy accumulated in the magical center has been suppressed by me for a few months, and it is finally enough today. Then just wait until the sun rises to the center. The magical power will become the most powerful. I can start the procedure."
"Annie, hold on. Dad will save you, and dad will accompany you to the shadow world. We will live there for a long time. You will never hurt again."
The diary ends here.
Heidi was about to close the diary. Gawain suddenly pointed to the corner of the last page: "There are actually a few more words here."
Heidi observed it. There was a black ink stain on the corner. She originally thought it was the dirt caused by knocking over the ink bottle, but now, after carefully distinguishing it, she realized it was actually stained with ink. It is scribbled handwriting:
"The magic is out of control... the sun becomes red..."
Heidi repeated these words for unknown reasons: "The sun is red... how can the sun be red?"
"Could it be the last time the red spots broke out?" Rebecca said suddenly, thinking of something, "It was more than half a month ago. There were more red spots on the surface of the sun than usual. If this wild mage was not very clear and he might think that the sun was red..."
Heidi blinked as if she had accepted Rebecca's statement, and then she shook the book in her hand: "With this note, it can explain a lot of things. This unknown mage performed something. The daughter treated the illness and set up a large-scale magic array here. Later, he even came up with the crazy idea of transforming himself and his daughter into shadow forms to continue life, but his transformation ritual was out of control because of the upsurge of magical power, as result, It led to the accident half a month ago, and also the formation of the mist of wraiths, and what the ancestors saw in the shadow world..."
"These are not the key points," Gawain interrupted Heidi. "Whether it is the mist of the wraith or the wooden house in the shadow world, these can be directly explained in the notes. I got two details. One was about the magic surge, and the other was the large-scale red spot eruption on the sun's surface."
Heidi noticed the serious expression on Gawain's face, and became a little nervous: "Ancestor, these two things..."
Gawain waved his hand: "In addition, the magical power mentioned in the diary said by this wild mage, should you two feel something like in those lines something by the wild mage?"
Heidi and Rebecca looked at each other and nodded at the same time: "There have been several magic surges on Cecil's side recently, but it is normal for the magic to surge—all magic in the world comes from the sun., And the sun is moving all the time, and the magic power on the ground will naturally fluctuate. Although the magic surging in the territory has been frequent in the recent period, it has not reached the level of concern."
Gawain looked at the two of them and slowly said: "In 1736 in Gondor Empire, various parts of the empire reported that large-scale dark red patterns appeared on the surface of the sun. In 1738, the largest eruption of red spots in history was observed. Nearly half of the surface area was covered in red patches. In the same year, 26 provinces in the empire reported a large-scale surge of magic power. The scale of the surge was small, but the area covered nearly two-thirds of Land. In 1739, the blood day was full, and the entire country was shrouded in a dark red sky, but no disaster broke out. Instead, many babies with excellent magical talents were born. According to records, nearly one-third of the newborns born on that day were with excellent natural elemental affinity, and there is even a situation in which resonance stones are in short supply in various newborn testing agencies, so the court scholars announced that day is called the 'magical dawn' day. But also in the same year, near the capital of Gondor, an enormous explosion occurred in the dark blue well, the magic power is supply facility from the dark blue well. The reason for the explosion was that the magic concentration of the dark blue well was suddenly filled with chaotic and powerful magic. ..."
Gawain stopped, but Heidi continued with a pale face: "... In Gondor in 1740, the magic wave broke out, and the most powerful human empire in history was destroyed within a few months..."