783 A Year Later (1/2)

In the Year of 829, the Month of Fire, in an alchemy lab in Babel.

On the walls, ceilings, and floor, there were magic patterns in different colors, shining, and together they formed a complicated magic circle that covered the entire lab, thus preventing any noise from sneaking in and reducing the blazing light.

The Robe of Grand Arcanists that Lucien was wearing still looked like a long, black suit, instead of the style of the ancient magic empire. Right now, the suit was slightly bulging to prevent the last remaining amount of harmful substances away from Lucien. While in the space, Lucien's cognitive world was affecting reality and a starry sky where element spots were floating, eating, and blending in anything tangible or intangible around.

Although Lucien had always been cautious about his experiments, with this one, he was even more cautious. It was because of his failure to upgrade Moon Timer using the materials he got from Danisos. Moon Timer remained at the same level. Lucien was also badly injured. It took him half a year to fully recover.

At this time, Lucien was confident that neither he nor Moon Timer would get hurt or damaged, but he was not confident that he could improve Moon Timer to level four and make it his fourteenth top legendary item. What was more important was that since the materials he had were very limited, if he failed a second time, he had to go to another dimension to find another space-time legendary item.

There was another option that Lucien could persuade. The ”silver moon” could raise the ancient time dragon in a pen and turned it into an endless source for providing legendary blood, flesh, and bones. But Lucien never considered it as it would take the dragon too long to recover from it.

According to what Lucien knew, so far, Danisos still had not recovered back to the top legendary level from the fight a year ago. It might take Danisos a few more years to recover from the fight, and Danisos probably had to spend another two to three hundred years to fully recover.

Therefore, Lucien was being extremely cautious about this experiment to upgrade Moon Timer. He did not even allow Natasha to stay in, as her destructive power in this lab had been quite considerable.

On the alchemy operation desk, the drops of pure blood were drawing a strange magic circle driven by Lucien's spiritual power.

At first glance, it looked very complicated. Even looking at it would make a sorcerer below the legendary level feel extremely dizzy, and the sorcerer would lose his or her spiritual power fast. However, for a sorcerer who had enough spiritual power, with careful observation, the special but simple pattern within could be identified.

It was just like those complicated words. When one understood the roots, remembering the words was no more complicated.

Lucien had sweat beads on his forehead. But in this fancy lab, the beads of sweat immediately disappeared in the air.

After a long time, Lucien finally finished drawing the last line. Instantly, the magic circle trembled slightly, together with the entire lab, as if there was something disturbing the space and time.

After this calmed down, Lucien processed the remaining wings and flesh and then put them on the tips of the magic circle.

After that, Moon Timer flew out of Lucien's pocket and then fell in the middle of the magic circle, covered in water-like light.

Influenced by it, the lines of the magic circle started wriggling onto the timer as if they were alive. The lines then connected to the hands of the timer and the constellation symbols on it.

During the process, Lucien's eyes did not even blink. Using all his spiritual power, he was still doing some minor adjustment.

Lucien released a sigh of relief. The first two steps going well meant that he could be more confident about the result. The previous failure came from a minor mistake that Lucien ignored, but in the end, it was amplified into a horrible result.

Staying focused, Lucien turned on the alchemy desk again. Immediately, all the energy of the entire magic tower gushed into the magic circle in the middle and overwhelmed it with the silver light, from which some light ”fog” rose up.

It was using so much energy that all the crystal lights had gone off and the defense of the tower had been switched off. Pinocchio, the tower guard, had to turn on the backup energy pool.

The backup energy pool only lasted less than a minute, and the timer still needed a bit more time. At this time, Lucien reached out his right hand and pressed it against the operation desk. Using his own body, he was pouring his own spiritual power in.

Suddenly, splendid light burst out and filled the entire lab.

Tick, tick…