Chapter 204: Chapter 142: Tier Six Root Magic

The three doors had been deciphered.

Lu Cang still planned to tackle the least dangerous door first.

Lu Cang opened the door to the room storing various recipes and Potions. A musty, moldy smell wafted out from the dusty ancient tomes within.

Lu Cang casually raised a hand.

A gust of icy wind blew forth.

Pushing the odor out of the room.

Lu Cang wasn’t too worried about whether the smells carried trace amounts of poison.

After all, Kumironi was with them.

For now, as long as you weren’t dead for too long, she could probably fix it.

"Another Secret Scroll of a Death Priest..."

"Why are the Secret Scrolls for this Profession so common?"

This was already the third Death Priest Secret Scroll Lu Cang had come across.

Lu Cang had also learned a little about appraising Secret Scrolls.

He could now identify which Profession a Secret Scroll belonged to just by examining the patterns on it.

’It really pays to study...’

’With enough knowledge, you don’t have to rely on anyone.’

Lu Cang gave this Secret Scroll directly to Kumironi.

It was up to her what to do with it.

"Does anyone need anything?"

Lu Luwei picked up a quiver of Arrows, along with a recipe.

"Soul-Piercing Arrows, Soul-Killing Arrows..."

"I want these, and also this Bow Skill: Soul-Piercing Arrow Rain."

Iz, meanwhile, flipped open a Magic Book beside Lu Cang.

"An Ancient Soul Spell, Descent Technique..."

"To think such a wondrous Magic exists. Interesting."

Lu Cang stood on his tiptoes and extended his Perception.

He wanted to see what Iz had found.

But all he saw was a jumble of complex, chaotic script. ’This language... it must be the Ancient Loy Language.’

’I haven’t learned it myself; I’ve only seen its characteristics described before.’

’It’s a notoriously difficult ancient language, said to be capable of recording the very activity of the soul.’

"This is a Tier Four Magic. You can’t learn it yet."

’Fine, fine, fine...’

’I can’t learn any of it. A Level 3 Mage has no rights, I swear...’

Kumironi also had her eye on a dusty old tome.

"Policy for Repairing Damaged Souls."

The system for Healing Mages was a bit different from that of Mages. They needed to have an intimate understanding of a living creature’s body, structure, flesh, bones, and various other traits.

Only then could they maximize the Effect of their Healing Techniques.

If one could say that Magic was the interpretation of natural Rules and the imagination to apply them,

then healing was the interpretation of life itself—of its structure, and the imagination to apply Healing Techniques.

Lu Cang wasn’t a Healing Mage, so he couldn’t truly grasp their perspective. However, based on his own insights from Flesh Magic, he supposed it was about imagining how the body should heal.

A novice Healing Mage might restore a wound by simply pulling the two sides together, like a crude stitch.

But a refined and powerful Healing Mage could directly suture every cell of the wound, every single Element, even the flowing Qi and blood, perfectly realigning each part.

The Speed of the healing and the perfection of the cure all depended on the Healing Mage’s understanding of life.

Perhaps, for a Healing Mage, the actual act of healing felt similar to performing surgery.

’Too bad I’m not a Healing Mage; I can’t experience it firsthand.’

Chi Cheng, on the other hand, picked up a sword.

"The Soul-slaying Sword?"

"Why would a place crawling with soul-monsters have a Soul-slaying Sword?"

"It feels pretty good in my hand, though."

Chi Cheng gave it a few swings and put the sword away.

Even though he already had the best Great Sword in the world, other types of Weapons weren’t completely useless.

’You never know when it might come in handy, right?’

Aside from these items, there were also some Soul-Piercing Daggers for Assassins, an Assassination Skill, and various other recipes.

Basically, most Professions could find something they needed here.

"What a haul!" Chi Cheng gave Lu Cang a thumbs-up.

"I’m just glad you found something, Brother Chi Cheng," Lu Cang replied with a cheerful smile.

Lu Luwei, however, held a few Arrows out to Lu Cang. "Hey..."

"The Refining recipe for these Arrows... it says someone needs to infuse a soul into them."

"My name isn’t ’Hey,’ Sister Lu Luwei..."

Lu Luwei’s face flushed slightly; she hadn’t known how to start the conversation.

"Help me with this..."

"I’ll help you in the future, too."

Lu Cang answered frankly, "We’re a team. Of course I’ll help you, Sister Lu Luwei."

Lu Cang glanced at the Arrow Refining recipe.

The Arrow Refining actually required some Enchantment techniques, but they were very basic and didn’t require the skills of a true Enchanter. The main difficulty lay with the soul.

Fortunately, Lu Cang had studied some of the Enchanter’s craft, so this part wasn’t a problem for him.

Lu Cang took the Arrows and began the Infusion, stabilizing the soul within each shaft.

The Soul Light of the Arrows Lu Cang had infused with his soul was clearly much more brilliant.

Lu Cang added more soul during the Refining process, infusing each Arrow with fifty souls.

Their Power should be greater than that of arrows with dimmer souls.

When Lu Luwei took the Arrows back from Lu Cang, her eyes seemed to light up.

Lu Luwei could feel the immense Power contained within the Arrows. Combined with her Bow Skills, she could unleash some truly spectacular attacks.

"Well, I’ll be troubling you for this in the future, then." Lu Luwei had a feeling she’d be using these Arrows for a long time to come.

"Sure, when I have time."

Lu Luwei added, "If you ever need my help with something, I’ll be there for you too."

"Then thank you, Sister Lu Luwei."

’Having a Level 5 Observer helping out in the future will be much more convenient.’

Lu Cang was extremely envious of Lu Luwei’s Perception Ability.

’A typical Level 5 Observer probably can’t perceive things as far away as she can, right?’

’Though I do have Final Sense to guarantee my own Perception can’t be blocked.’