Chapter 194: The Mysterious Element
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Once Yalina started working, she became a totally different person. With a solemn face, she was so completely focused that she had forgotten about Han Jin’s existence; she was too engrossed in administering magical doses and burning magic arrays. Cessacioun, who was Yalina’s assistant, naturally stayed around her.
Han Jin felt a little bored. Although the lab was huge and there were numerous items in the room, he didn’t dare touch any of it. It was painful enough to rent the laboratory for two thousand gold coins a day. If he were to accidentally break something, wouldn’t he have to compensate for it?!
Reading was the only thing that he could do. However, most of the books were either related to potions or magical arrays. Han Jin couldn’t understand any of it. Even after continuously flipping through more than a dozen books, none caught his attention.
Han Jin lost his interest, but just about when he was about to do something else, a book with a very simple cover caught his eye. Judging by the color change of the leather, it was very old.
Han Jin held the thought of just checking out one last book, so he took out the magic book and flipped through it. It looked decent and there wasn’t any messy runes.
Han Jin leaned against the bookcase, turned the book to the first page, and started reading it seriously; this book should be an amateur magician’s reading material. The contents of the book were simple and easy to understand, just like its outer packaging.
The author of the book believed that the world was composed of eight elements. Various animals , humans, and even gods were also composed of the eight elements. Han Jin had sufficient knowledge about the situation of the mainland to know that no one dared discuss about gods, therefore the authors words were considered outrageous. If the book were to be seen by anyone from the Magic Guild or the church, the author would be in big trouble. However, judging from the already discolored pages, it should have been from a long time ago.
After reading the preface, the following was an introduction for various elements. In front of every chapter, the author made an evaluation for the elements. For example, the author believed that the fire element was a source of civilization, and the water element was the cradle of life, and so forth.
After reading through the four main elements, which were fire, water, earth and air, it introduced the elements of light and darkness. The author had made a large effort to appraise the light element while giving a major attack towards the element of darkness. This was normal as most races on the ground hated darkness, while the abyss races hated the light.
After about seventeen to eighteen pages, Han Jin changed his posture. The following then introduced the seventh element: the spiritual element. The author valued the spiritual elements greatly and even said that the spiritual element was the mother of the six major elements. As it went on, Han Jin gave a heavy expression. The spiritual element that was mentioned by the author was similar to Taoism. Regardless of if it were to display symbols or to manipulate magic weapons, one must have enough mental strength to support it. The greater the power of the symbol, and the higher the level of the magic weapon, the more mental strength would be required. This was like cutting wood; anyone would be able to lift an axe that weighed ten kilograms, but if the axe were to weigh up to a hundred kilograms, or even a thousand kilograms, it would require a body that was strong enough to carry it. Otherwise, not only would they be unable to cut firewood, they may even hurt themselves.
Lastly, it was the eighth element. The author had only used at most a paragraph to evaluate the first seven elements, but the author used an entire page to evaluate the eighth element. It had even ended with a statement that was in a bold handwriting: the reason why only gods can be gods was because they have mastered the secrets of the eighth element!
Han Jin’s heart itched in curiously as he continued reading. He hurriedly turned over a page and was left stunned. There was nothing there; the back of it was the cover! Han Jin did not give up and simply closed the back cover. The author’s signature wasn’t even on the yellowish cover. Then, he flipped to the last page of the book and slowly turned the pages over. It was still blank and there was no trace of tearing. Thus, it was obvious that the book had not been destroyed; it was the author who had decided to stop writing.
This magic book is serialized?! Han Jin put the book aside and carefully looked through the bookcase. As long as the appearance of the book looked old, he would take it out and have a look. For some time, he walked from one end of the bookcase to another, flipping through countless magic books, but still failed to find a sequel.
Han Jin sighed helplessly; Grandmother, I’ve met a eunuch!! But, Han Jin wasn’t one who would easily give up. He paused for a moment and suddenly thought of an idea. In order to not affect Yalina, he hid in a corner and quickly swayed his hands. A mist appeared out of thin air and it slowly condensed into water droplets of various sizes on Han Jin’s palms. Han Jin then placed the water droplets on the pages without any modesty and silently waited for a miracle to happen.
After waiting for a long time, nothing happened. Han Jin then thought for a while and released the Three True Fire. He carefully observed as he grilled the pages. Even until they curled up, still nothing happened.Read more chapter at ReadNovelFull
For quite some time, Han Jin had been battling with the magic book. For example, using his nails to scratch the pages, looking for possible interlayers, reading under a bright light, checking for any residual writing, etc. It didn’t discourage Han Jin even after failing over and over again. From one point of view, this reflected his strong perseverance, but the weathered yellow magic book had been tortured by him till it became completely tattered.
Han Jin was even more focused than Yalina – to a point where he went all out and couldn’t even hear Yalina’s surprised voice. He didn’t even know that it was already bright outside.
“Raphael, what are you doing?” Yalina’s voice rang from behind Han Jin.
At this moment, Han Jin had closed one eye and placed a fire magic crystal in front of him. As he recovered, he reluctantly put away the magic crystal and looked very disappointed. It seemed that there were no secrets in the book; it was just that the author had decided not to write anymore. Damn it, stupid eunuch!
Yalina didn’t get a response from Han Jin even after waiting for a long time. It surprised her and so she went over, snatched the magic book away, and flipped through the pages. She looked up at him with a teasing look and said, “Raphael, you want to become god?”
Anyone who heard this sentence would burst out into laughter. Trying to become god… this was too absurd. It was something that no one would even dream about; it would be more realistic to dream about becoming The Superiors. But Han Jin was different from the others; he was a cultivator. The reason for his cultivation? It was for the purpose of feathering into a fairy – to be sealed as god. It was to be with heaven and earth, along with the sun and the moon. If it wasn’t to become god, what was his purpose as a cultivator?!
Yalina’s words hit Han Jin in the head. He was stunned as he didn’t know how to react.
Yalina smiled and threw the magic book to Han Jin. Then, she walked away and said, “The book was written by a madman by the name of Richard. He had even died in the madhouse. Hehe… you better not believe his rubbish. There are only seven elements in the world; why would there be eight? It’s just…” Suddenly, Yalina’s body froze and turned around bit by bit. She stared at Han Jin with a face full of shock.
“What’s wrong?” Han Jin asked. He was dumbfounded while seeing Yalina walk towards him fiercely as if he were an enemy.
Yalina continued walking and only stopped when she was directly in front of Han Jin; their bodies were almost stuck together. She stared at Han Jin and whispered, “Tell me, is there really an eighth element in this world?”
“What?” Han Jin was even more confused. A moment ago, Yalina had scornfully said that the author was a madman, and now, suddenly, there was a total change in her attitude. This made no sense.
“The magic that you unleash uses the eighth element! That’s why we can’t sense the magic fluctuations, just like how we can’t sense the presence of the eighth element! Right?!” Yalina said it clearly, word-by-word, but her tone seemed heavy. This was because the things that she was saying had subverted the roots of magic. After all, Yalina was a young magician, and was more open to accepting new ideas. If it were an older magician, they wouldn’t even think in this direction, no matter how surprised they were by Han Jin.
“What are you saying? I used the eighth element?!” Han Jin asked inexplicably.
“Trying to act innocent? I’ll expose you!” Yalina bit her lips and suddenly spread out her palms. “Give it to me!”
“Yalina, what’s wrong?” Cessacioun walked over and saw that both Han Jin and Yalina were acting strange.
“Cessacioun, go back. It’s got nothing to do with you!” Yalina said it in a commanding tone. She wasn’t venting, but the thing that Han Jin had mastered was a huge secret. If Cessacioun were to come over, the possibility of getting Han Jin to reveal the secret would become even slimmer.
Cessacioun was shocked but still retreated.
“What do you want?” Han Jin couldn’t help but took a step back. The distance between them was too close; he could even smell Yalina’s fragrance.
“The magic crystal just now.” Yalina’s hands trembled with excitement. Finally! She had finally solved the mystery!! Han Jin could always easily release magic spells that she had never seen before, but she could never sense the magical fluctuation. It had always greatly confused her, but now everything was solved because of the presence of the eighth element!
Han Jin took out a fire element magic crystal from the space ring and handed it to Yalina. Yalina once again grabbed the magic book and copied Han Jin. She closed one of her eyes and then placed the magic crystal in front of her while seriously observing the book.
Yalina took a much longer time than Han Jin. She didn’t know which page Han Jin had been reading, so she could only flip through the pages one by one. However, from the first page to the last, she couldn’t find anything. She looked up at Han Jin in suspicion, then continued to flip the book from back to front.
Han Jin was stupefied as he looked at Yalina; he couldn’t understand her intentions.
“You played me! This wasn’t the magic crystal from just now!” Yalina screamed in anger.
“I… don’t really remember,” Han Jin said. He really couldn’t remember. Just now, he had just randomly picked a fire element magic crystal. The shape of the magic crystals were almost the same; how could he differentiate them properly?
“Give it to me!” Yalina spread out her hand again.
Han Jin then took out a magic crystal that was similar to what he remembered, passed it to Yalina, and finally couldn’t help but ask, “Can you tell me what you’re looking for?”
“What were you looking at just now?” Yalina asked in return.
Han Jin was out of words. Obviously he couldn’t say that he wanted to be god and ended up looking for the secrets in the book.
Yalina didn’t respond to Han Jin and once again carefully flipped through the book. However, the result was inevitable; she found nothing.
“Why are you looking at me like this?” Han Jin smiled bitterly.
“You played me again! This isn’t the magic crystal from just now!”
“Yalina, I really can’t remember. Plus, both of them were fire element magic crystals and there is no difference.”
Yalina looked at Han Jin sternly, trying to distinguish if Han Jin was actually telling the truth. Then, suddenly placed the magic book back into her space ring.
“That… That seems to be someone else’s?”
“There are so many books here anyway; they won’t notice if one goes missing,” Yalina blandly said before heading up the ladder.
“What about Edwina’s longbow?” Han Jin then remembered the important issue.
“It’s done.” Cessacioun sighed. He really couldn’t figure out what had happened between Han Jin and Yalina, especially Han Jin. Yalina’s scream was really loud; Han Jin really didn’t hear any of it?
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When Yalina presented the longbow in front of Edwina, she was completely shocked; she could hardly believe her eyes. Winston had purposely vacated a room and transformed it into a dining room so that everyone could get together. All of them were present at the scene since it was during breakfast.
There wasn’t anything fancy about the longbow since they had made it themselves. The two dwarfs wouldn’t add on anything by themselves, so they just did exactly what Yalina had told them to. The back of the bow was painted black and other than the mysterious runes, there weren’t any additional decorations, so it looked a little rudimental. The dragon’s rib had now turned blue, a tint as clear as the sky, connecting the arches together. It was stretched tightly, and it looked like a ray of glimmering light.
“I hope you like it.” Yalina smiled.
“This is for me?” Edwina asked.
Han Jin was also looking at Edwina. He hadn’t noticed that when Yalina and him had walked into the dining room, the formerly restless Sunier had slowly lowered her head. Then, as everyone was focused on the magical bow, Sunier had quietly stood up and left.
However, Han Jin, Moxinke and the others had already become an inseparable group after going through several thrilling adventures together. Although Han Jin was sloppy and did not notice Sunier’s abnormality, the others did.
Reg stood up, slowly walked towards Han Jin, and lightly tapped his shoulder. After Han Jin turned around, he gave him a look and walked out of the dining room.
“Something wrong?” Han Jin followed Reg outside and asked softly.
“You should go comfort Sunier.” Reg sighed.
“Sunier?” Han Jin turned around and looked around the dining room, but he wasn’t able to find her. “What happened?”
“Did you tell her to go get some rest yesterday?”
“I did; what’s wrong?”
“Then, after Sunier went to bed, you sneaked out with Yalina?”
“Sneaked out… this phrase seems a little inappropriate?” Han Jin smiled bitterly.
“Is it inappropriate for you, or for Sunier?” Reg slowly said. “Anyways… yesterday, after Sunier went to bed, she suddenly remembered something and wanted to look for you. She found out that you were gone, so she alarmed all of us. Later on, we found out that the other person who was ‘missing’ along with you was Yalina. Heh… you can ponder upon it yourself.”
Han Jin blinked and realized the seriousness of the problem.