Under the Red Dragon

"The inheritors of the Magic Empire, descendants of the Eye of True Sight, bloodline of the Magic Kings, hand over your tokens. You have passed the previous tests and now you must allow me to examine your marks."

"Of course, it is only right and proper," the white-haired old mage, Lapps, said, lightly waving his right hand. The badge that lit up in his hand hovered slightly above his palm.

The tall black stone golem strode forward, its eight-meter-high body like a small walking tower. Although this magical construct did not possess a unique aura like ordinary living beings, its massive body naturally carried a powerful presence.

Caron had no doubt that this giant golem could easily twist off the head of an adult green dragon.

Golems are also war machines created by mages using knowledge, and their combat power is extremely outstanding. Some powerful golems can even easily block attacks from ancient dragons. Their rich variety and series are generally determined by the golem's material and core.

Such as ordinary clay golems, flesh golems, alchemical golems, iron golems, and ice golems, etc.

Most golems are automatic devices constructed from simple materials using magical power. The process of creating a golem involves the use of ultra-high intensity magic and elemental power.

So, although many golems are made of clay, flesh, steel, or special stone, they possess astonishing strength and resilience.

Moreover, the greatest advantage of golems is that they have no ambition, do not need food, have no pain, and no regrets. Their existence completely follows the instructions of their creators, guarding them or becoming an unstoppable crushing force for them.

And although golems are designated at the beginning of their creation with the underlying law of being forever loyal to their creators, advanced golems are not rigid.

Many advanced golems can possess intelligence through animation, because the power of these advanced golems' animation comes from various magical forces. Some mages specialize in capturing souls from the earth elemental plane to animate their golems.

There are also dragon bone golems, dragon stone golems, and iron dragon golems, which are infused with the powerful life force and modified souls of giant dragons.

The golem in front of him was obviously created from an extremely hard, special stone, possessing extremely strong physical defense, and as a creation of a mage, it would generally also possess excellent magic resistance.

Of course, this powerful magic resistance, in addition to the inherent anti-magic properties of its own material and the additional influence of magical power, is more like a way to stop spells from taking effect on its body by absorbing magical energy.

Caron could sense that the core of this golem was emitting strong energy fluctuations.

Moreover, the golem's core vaguely resonated with the entire core land, which also meant that this golem could borrow and mobilize the immeasurable vast elemental power within this core space.

Buzz, buzz, buzz.

This giant golem stopped behind the light curtain, and a magical mark like the badge in the mage's hand suddenly appeared on its stone head, like a magic eye, blooming with a faint light.

A portal opened from the thick light curtain under the guidance of the golem's magic eye, and immediately a thick elemental force, as thick as a tangible substance, rushed towards everyone, submerging them in a sea of elemental power.

Caron's body spontaneously absorbed the rich elemental power, replenishing it into his body. In just the blink of an eye, Caron felt that his magic power was so full that he could no longer absorb it.

"It's terrifying. In this place, the power of a mage's spells can probably increase tenfold, and the magic power that can be mobilized is almost endless. No wonder there is the saying, 'A mage's tower is a mage's kingdom,'"

Caron felt that if an ordinary talented mage grew up in this environment, he would probably be transformed into a genius in the mouths of ordinary people under the influence of this terrifying elemental power.

"Mages, although you are descendants of the ancient Magic Kings, you are not the inheritors of the Supreme Council, so you have the qualification to learn knowledge, but you cannot become the supreme controller with the authority to dispose of all the resources here!"

The tall golem used the magic eye on its forehead to examine the information stored in the badge, and then said to everyone.

"As for the other wealth and resources, according to the regulations of the Supreme Council of the ancient Magic Empire, inheritors of your level can withdraw a certain percentage of the resources, one-tenth of each resource. This is the instruction left to me."

Although many mages were a little disappointed, they immediately thought that such a massive amount of wealth, just one-tenth of the countless elemental crystals in front of them, was already immeasurable, and joy appeared on their faces.

Although the white-haired old mage's face was very calm, his eyes were also filled with joy, and his joy could not suppress the trembling of his voice: "Enough, enough. More importantly, the knowledge of the Supreme Halls of Magic."

Caron did not feel particularly greedy for these riches. On the one hand, he did not want these emotions and desires to affect him, so he controlled his desires.

On the other hand, in the original agreement with the mages, the sharing of magical knowledge did not include the sharing of wealth.

"Very good, please come in, descendants of the ancient Magic Kings," the tall golem stepped aside from the portal, signaling the mages to enter.

However, when Caron, with his dragon horns soaring to the sky and his scales and armor stern, stepped into the portal, the magic eye on the golem's forehead actually lit up, and a white light was projected from the magic eye, wanting to scan Caron's body.

"This is not the way to treat a guest, big guy,"

Caron's thorn-covered cheeks showed a slight mocking expression, and a layer of light appeared on his body, blocking the power projected by the golem from his body. Although his body was only about three and a half meters now, he didn't care about the seemingly more powerful golem at all.

"You are not a descendant of the ancient Magic Kings, you are a Dragonborn? You cannot come in. Even dragons are just specimens in the mage's laboratory. Lowly Dragonborn, unworthy to step into the realm of ancient mages."

The giant golem made a somewhat stiff sound, but it did have its own soul and wisdom, and actually began to discriminate against Caron.

"He is our companion, a trustworthy partner. Do not harm our partner, loyal golem guardian," the mage Lapps, who had already stepped into the portal, took the initiative to speak.

The tall golem nodded slightly, and said, "Then okay, as a descendant of the Magic Kings, you have certain permissions. It depends on yourself."

Despite what it said, the giant golem still did not stop scanning Caron, and obviously Lapps's permission was not enough to dispel the discrimination of this intelligent soul.

Lapps nodded slightly to thank the golem, and then said to Caron, "Come in, Caron. This is part of our agreement. Now is the time for us to reap the rewards."

Caron stepped into the portal. Although it seemed that he had not solved any problems for the mages during this exploration, it could not be calculated that way.

He had already taken the common risk with the mages, so he should rightfully get his reward.

However, after stepping into the portal, when passing by the tall golem, Caron suddenly turned his head and smiled slightly at the tall golem, and a strange streamer flashed in Caron's crimson pupils.

The tall golem immediately retreated several steps like a mortal who had seen a ghost, and a faint force lingered in its soul core, like a predator opening a spider web and waiting for its prey to be hooked.

The golem felt a deadly threat from the soul core, like the Damocles sword hanging over its head, which could fall at any time.

Its slightly stiff voice could actually hear a trace of unease and disbelief. It shouted, "What is this power? Lowly... Dragonborn!"

"Shh," Caron gently raised his finger and made a shut-up gesture. He said lightly, "Be polite, big guy. This is the power to teach your prejudiced soul respect,"

"Oh, right, big guy, if you can have your own property, then I suggest you pay the tuition fee for this study, maybe I will teach you more about the common sense of being a person because I am in a good mood! Oh, no, you can't even be called a person!"

Of course, Caron was not crazy. Appropriately showing his power was also a means to gain respect for himself.

And although it seemed that the power comparison between Caron and this golem was too disparate, unfortunately, the real world was not a simple power comparison.

There has never been such a thing as the weak defeating the strong in the world. The difference is only whether the local strong defeats the weak or the overall strong defeats the weak. Even the examples of the weak defeating the strong in countless worlds and countless histories are like this.

Although Caron's overall strength was weak, his local advantages were enough to achieve absolute victory, which was why he was fearless.

Caron put this little friction behind him and walked through the path opened by the golem.

Those glittering elemental crystals covered the entire ground, and Caron's dragon nature even called him to sweep away the crystals all over the ground.

Several mages couldn't help but fall on the ground full of elemental crystals, rolling happily, which shows how irresistible this huge wealth was.

The squinting mage, Shusler, chose to walk towards those towers, which were the power source of the entire plane core. It seemed that Shusler was very interested in this thing.

Only Lapps and Caron went directly to the most central hall, the library of ancient mages, perhaps also the supreme hall of magical knowledge.

This hall looked like an ordinary stone room, a space carved from a whole huge stone by ancient mages.

The surface of the hall was also engraved with many complex magic runes. Caron only recognized less than one-tenth of the rune knowledge from his own knowledge system, but most of them were runes about suppression, calming, and preservation functions.

Caron did not buy the casket and return the pearl, studying this hall. He followed the white-haired mage, Lapps, who was like a pilgrim, watching Lapps put his badge into the groove of the portal and opened this ordinary portal.

Then, he stepped into the portal with Lapps, one after the other.

In the entire hall space, there were only neatly arranged crystal cabinets and an ordinary sculpture, and nothing else, but Caron found that even his own eyes would be affected and deceive himself.

Because the space inside, from the outside, could even see the surrounding walls, but when inside, it was found that the actual space was countless times larger.

These crystal cabinets, flashing with peaceful magical brilliance, contained countless files and books. Next to these files and books, there were also some sample displays placed in the crystal cabinets.

These crystal cabinets, which isolated the outside world, also had labels on them, as if those ancient mages were afraid that their inheritors would be too stupid to find what they wanted from the neatly arranged knowledge.

Before Caron could start browsing, scanning, and checking the entire space, he heard a shocking cry. He turned his head and saw Lapps' slightly trembling body.

The latest novel is first published at Six Nine Books Bar!

"This, this is," the white-haired old mage, Lapps, exclaimed, and the breathing of this calm Saint Domain mage became rapid.

"Is it worth it? What knowledge did you see that made you so excited," Caron muttered to himself. He felt that after hearing those ancient crazy behaviors, no matter what he saw, he could not be easily swayed.

He walked to the side. Looking at the label on this crystal cabinet, his pupils also involuntarily dilated sharply.

"Principles and Overview of Golem Manufacturing and Specific Manufacturing Methods of Various Types of Golems." Under this large label, there were also rows of small labels, about the names and entries of various golems, one of which was "Conceptual Principles and Experiments of Neutron Star Golems."

"Is this the foundation left by the magic empire that ruled the endless plane world," Caron couldn't help but sigh. This was just the first cabinet. He glanced at the rows of cabinets filled with books and files, and suddenly had an idea, the things outside were garbage.

In addition to files and books, there were also magic crystals in the showcase that also recorded knowledge, which should be backups prepared by ancient mages just in case.

Caron did not choose magic crystals, but followed the bookmark entries and found the record file about neutron star golems.

The ability of neutron star golems cannot be described by the word powerful. They not only have special attack methods such as gravity aura, thermal energy aura, and planetary shock.

Moreover, neutron star golems also have various magical characteristics, such as accretion, gravity control, magic immunity, magnetic tracking, and superluminal speed.

Caron couldn't help but applaud the mages' ideas. Unfortunately, he couldn't do the most basic condition of neutron star golems, which was the wreckage of neutron star bodies, which was the material for making neutron star golems.

In order to realize the creation of this golem, those ancient mages used powerful forces to capture stars in endless planes for manufacturing experiments, but Caron did not know whether the ancient mages successfully created neutron star golems, because the file did not explain.

Caron temporarily put down this goal and walked to other cabinets.

"Essence Analysis of Energy-Absorbing Beasts and Energy-Absorbing Trees" "Conceptual Reference and Manufacturing Method of Energy-Absorbing Devices", "Very good, this is very useful," Caron glanced at it and walked to the next goal.

"Systematic Overview of the Creation and Methods of Half-Planes", "In-depth Discussion of Elemental Control", "Amplification Spell Expansion of Magic Props", "Techniques for Increasing Your Own Magic Capacity by Using Magic Depletion", "Creation and Types of Magic Constructs Triggered from Golems"

Row upon row of knowledge filled the display cases, appearing more beautiful to Caron than the world's most precious treasures. He wanted to stop and delve into deep study at almost every cabinet.

But the next cabinet always managed to capture his curiosity and desire for exploration.

As he walked, Caron felt for the first time how wonderful it was to have knowledge glide across his cerebral cortex, yet he stopped before one display case, a smile appearing on his face.

The label on this cabinet was extremely brief, with only a few entries: "Comparison and Use of the Mithral Core and the Elemental Pool," "Methods for Manufacturing Ioun Stones."

From the documents, Caron learned that ancient mages had opened paths to other universe crystal wall systems, engaging in exchanges and research with another powerful mage civilization.

The two sides exchanged a great deal of knowledge and technology about magic, and these two were among the most important.

Caron also knew of the existence of these two magical creations: the Mithral Core, a device that generated power capable of suspending vast cities and lifting huge mountains into the sky, was the most important core of a floating city.

And the Ioun Stone was a magical treasure that could grant people various magical abilities, from granting night vision to temporarily increasing a person's strength level, with countless uses.

The Elemental Pool was researched by the many magical princes of the ancient magic empire, using magical arrays to gather the elements and magic in the world, turning it into a huge magic furnace.

It could not only provide ample power but also generate additional resource revenue. The elemental crystals covering the ground outside were the result of thousands of years of accumulation in the Elemental Pool.

The Elemental Pool was also the magical creation that allowed the mages of this world to raise their towers into the high heavens and walk freely.

"Hah, truly astonishing knowledge. Perhaps even the gods would covet this knowledge," Caron even felt that his consciousness had been shocked numb by the knowledge left behind by the ancient mages, and he was now just numbly using his sub-brain cluster to record the information.

Row upon row of knowledge transformed into rows of information, flowing before Caron's eyes, his sub-brain operating at full capacity, storing this precious knowledge in his mind.

Even though this plane was here, and he could consult these documents with the mages at any time in the future, Caron felt that what he had in hand was the most secure.

But Caron quickly discovered something that troubled him. Although the sub-brain cluster had become powerful enough during its long evolution, there was too much knowledge here, and his sub-brain capacity was already extremely overloaded.

The excessive intake of knowledge information made him even feel that the operation of the sub-brain occasionally became sluggish, like a feverish brain, slowing down its reactions.

"Well, although all of this is very precious knowledge, it seems I have to reluctantly select the knowledge that is most suitable for me for the time being, and then consider strengthening the sub-brain again after I go back."

Caron stored the knowledge from this display case in his sub-brain, feeling that his brain was a little swollen, like having just finished twenty sets of test papers.

"Next, I can still persist," Caron's will urged him to move towards the next target.

"Conceptions and Experiments of Two Time Devices," the label on this cabinet was unexpectedly clear, with no other small entries, but the thickness of the documents in the cabinet was no less than that of other cabinets.

Caron pinched his aching brow, but still reached out and took out the documents to read.

"Mortals can also have great ideas no less than mages, just like I once heard a saying from a mortal, perhaps, among all the origin questions (origin of the universe, origin of life), time is the source for us to understand everything!"

Caron continued to read the books, patiently reading on.

"In some universes, the creatures there believe that time does not exist at all, and the essence of time is just the sequence of events, representing the movement and change of matter,"

"Time is just a concept used by those creatures to describe this change, there is only space and higher-dimensional space, although I do not agree with this view,"

"But the closer you get to the truth, the more cross-disciplinary knowledge you need to see the origin, or in other words, you need to be more comprehensive to discover the origin of the universe."

"So I decided to do two experiments, one experiment based on the science in that universe, and one using the method of a magician, to explore the essence of time."

Caron sighed. These mages are more appropriately called magic scientists! However, judging from this mage's documents, perhaps Caron's former home had also been visited by those mages!

Thank you to 醉梦陨恤岁月 for the reward, and thank you all for the votes! I've been busy moving recently and can't write too much. Well, thank you for your support!