The Lord of Ashes

Thain stayed in the college library for several more hours, and did not leave until late at night.

The Holy Tower Academy was quite quiet at night.

Many magic apprentices actually maintain a normal schedule of studying during the day and resting at night.

Because in recent times, Thain's mental power and body have been undergoing subtle changes at the cellular level.

As a result, he always felt extremely energetic.

Even late at night, Thain did not look sleepy at all.

And he has been in this state for a long time.

Perhaps this is another big difference from ordinary humans in the wizarding world after their life level is about to enter the first level.

After returning to the residence, the whole house was quiet.

Cousin Selena must have rested. Thain glanced at Selena's closed door, then gently used the levitation technique to fly to the second floor.

After entering the laboratory and closing the door, Thain breathed a sigh of relief.

The sound insulation effect of the laboratory can be manipulated by Thain as long as no explosion accident occurs.

A large number of experimental materials and resources just obtained from the exchange hall were carefully sorted into fixed areas by Thain.

Thane is an organized man, although sometimes he can act a little sloppy when he's deep into an experiment.

But no matter how far the experiment goes, and no matter how messy the laboratory looks, as long as he has placed the items and experimental equipment, he can find them in an instant.

After putting all the magic materials away, when Thain was considering whether to brush up on his alchemy, he accidentally glanced at the Boundary Star Stone he had just obtained from the exchange hall.

"Cross-dimensional communication and transactions, it's a fresh attempt."

"I don't know which plane of life I can finally contact?" Thain thought while stroking his chin.

He took the World Star Stone into his hand using the photography technique, and an atlas on how to use the World Star Stone appeared in Thane's other hand at the same time.

The Boundary Star Stone has very low requirements for its users. Even a magic apprentice like Thain who has not yet been fully promoted to the first level can help drive it with the help of the corresponding magic array diagram.

It's just that it's unknown which world of alien creatures the World Star Stone will eventually communicate with.

According to the introduction of the album, the opponent is likely to be a powerful fourth-level creature outside the distant star field, or it may be a low-level ooze monster with little intelligence.

This is purely a luck-based astral exploration and interstellar communication.

However, it is precisely because of this uncertainty that even though the resource of Boundary Star Stone has gradually been eliminated by other mainstream space attribute ores, some magicians still like to try their luck with it.

And there are indeed incidents of communicating with some powerful existences in distant alien planes and obtaining no benefits.

"Try it. If you leave it for a long time, it seems that part of the space power of this thing will be lost." Thain said looking at the unattractive black stone in his hand.

Just do it.

After placing the World Star Stone in the center of his laboratory, Thane took out some other auxiliary materials.

There are energy crystals, the blood of Warcraft, and some special magic metals that contain the power of elements.

It took Thain most of the night to fiddle with the World Star Stone to summon the formation.

After he finished drawing the last stroke of the magic circle, Selena knocked lightly on the door, telling him to go downstairs for breakfast.

After staying up all night, Thain was still in high spirits.

After saying that he would not eat breakfast, Thain stuffed a second-level earth energy crystal into the center of the formation and tried to stimulate it with his mental power.

The second-level energy crystal is inlaid because, according to the instruction manual, the higher the grade of the energy crystal used, the higher the level of the alien creature that can be contacted through communication.

If Thane only uses medium and low-level energy crystals as the core energy source, I am afraid that in the end he will be able to connect to low-level alien creatures like ooze monsters and kobolds.

As Thain used his spiritual power to inspire the formation, the entire formation began to emit a faint elemental light.

A special rumble sounded immediately, and it seemed that Thain's house began to shake.

Selena downstairs was also shocked by the sudden change.

But thinking about what Thain said just now, this cousin may be engaged in some experimental research again.

The violent rumbling sounds and elemental turbulence made Thain's heart skip a beat.

But it may prove the saying, how great the hope is, how great the disappointment is.

When the operation of the magic element array lasted for more than two hours, and there was no movement of any contact with otherworldly creatures, Thain's heart gradually became silent.

When the time reached two and a half hours, the second-level earth element energy crystal originally embedded in the center of the magic array completely consumed all its energy and shattered from the middle with a "click". The corners of Thain's mouth couldn't help but twitch.

A second-level energy crystal was consumed in this way. I am afraid that few official magicians are so prodigal.

The situation of getting nothing did not discourage Thain, but instead aroused his dissatisfaction.

Anyway, his family is rich enough. Even if he only communicates with an ooze monster in the end, Thain doesn't want his hard work in the middle of the night to be wasted.

Another second-level energy crystal was embedded in the center of the formation by Thane.

Re-energizing the magic circle with his spiritual power, Thain stared closely at the center of the magic circle.

until the afternoon.

Thain has already spent three secondary energy crystals on this summoning array.

In the array diagram, the originally dark and unremarkable Boundary Star Stone had now been transformed into a thumb-sized, crystal blue stone by the surge of elemental energy.

Thain discovered that as time went by, the size of the Boundary Star Stone continued to melt and become smaller.

If this crystal blue world star stone, which is only about the size of a thumb, is also consumed, it means that his attempt to communicate with alien creatures will be in vain.

Looking at the second-level earth energy crystal that was once again drained of energy, Thain frowned slightly and inserted the fourth one.

This should also be the last energy crystal that Thain spent on this magic circle diagram.

If not, Thain has nothing to say.

It's just that in the future, Thane will probably never believe in this kind of luck-based magic diagram again.

Or maybe Thain's luck is actually not good?

After the fourth secondary energy crystal was embedded into the magic array by Thain, only the thumb-sized boundary star stone remained, which continued to rotate in mid-air.

Violent vibrations and vague magic ripples appeared again inside and outside the room.

Just when Thain actually didn't hold out much hope, special movement and strange voice of will finally appeared.

"Huh? What kind of creature from this plane contacted me through the Moon Pool Spring, the great lord of the lava mountains - Babakulu!" A deep voice of will appeared in Thain's laboratory.