Chapter 1062: Chapter 1005: The Answer Lies on the Surface

One week later in the morning, Horn still wore a Cuban-collared shirt, holding a coconut while standing on the dock.

Overhead, dark clouds were swirling, and lightning surged.

Although it was considered a cloudy day now, it was likely to rain again in less than two hours.

This was the rainy season at Black Snake Bay.

Standing on the pier, followed by Jeanne and a group of others, Horn with dark circles under his eyes, bid farewell to Ottatila and others on the shore: "No need to see me off further."

The numerous council members on the shore repeatedly waved their hands: "Just to ensure you have safely set off."

Incidentally, many council members added in their hearts, confirming that he had truly departed.

During the week at Black Snake Bay, the sun had indeed troubled the local secret council members significantly.

What fundraising committee, what beastman attacks, what new harbor...

In the three months since Horn arrived, he had found more agenda items for the Black Snake Bay council members than they had in the past two years.

Fortunately, this gentleman was finally leaving.

After a final farewell to Ottatila, Horn walked back from the deck to the cabin.

Jeanne and the other three Saintesses closely followed behind Horn, entering the same room.

The sails billowed, the ship gradually set sail, breaking through the river water that was reflected as black and blue, heading northward with the wind against the current.

Sitting inside the cabin, Horn felt a few raindrops drift in from outside the window.

Outside the window, the banana trees on both sides continuously retreated, with reinforced slaves all over the riverbank.

Horn sat by the window, sighed helplessly, and pulled down the blinds.

"Brother, you’ve studied this Star-Casting Gear for a week now, what have you figured out? How on earth is it made?"

During this week, besides waiting for the rain to stop, the four of them were researching the "Celestial Maiden Secret Scroll" and the "Star-Casting Method."

Compared to Catherine, who was fluent in classical Elvish, and Jia Li, who knew a little, Jeanne couldn’t understand the "Star-Casting Method" at all.

The only thing she could look at were the pictures on the secret scroll, but those pictures were too abstract for her to grasp.

Horn unfolded the transcribed scroll on the table, and the women gathered around.

"Who is this elf with a halo? Could it be that the Star-Casting Gear is cast in the starry sky?"

Horn could only smile wryly, oh silly sister, that on the elf’s head in the painting is not a halo.

If the "Star-Casting Method" records are true, then the elf should be wearing a glass oxygen mask, if the concept of oxygen exists in this world.

This method of casting the Star-Casting Gear, as Cynthia stated, is made by using the stars.

Clearly, this world, or rather this universe, is entirely different from Horn’s Earth universe.

According to the "Star-Casting Method," the stars shining brightly in the sky are the convergence points of the Spirit Realm and the Star Realm.

These convergence points, based on classical Elvish, Horn and Catherine deduced that the term might be called an "ether vortex."

As for the basic principle of the Star-Casting Gear’s creation, Horn didn’t understand it; it said generally that the Star-Casting Gear connects with the ether vortex via the ether stream, thereby gaining power.

From the "Star-Casting Method," the Star-Casting Gear is like an alternative perpetual motion machine, which can be used without mana injection.

Why, then, does the Star-Casting Gear on this side still require a very faint mana drive?

After covering the principle, the following was the manufacturing method.

Horn skimmed through the manufacturing method, but due to too many unknown words, he only made a rough read.

Yet even this rough understanding was shocking enough.

To cast a Star-Casting Gear, there are three steps in total, and the first step is to build a furnace.

The specific method of building the furnace is to wrap the entire ether vortex as the furnace core...

Seeing this, Horn didn’t feel like reading the rest.

He understood why Serafe only "created" a little and stopped.

It wasn’t a matter of unwillingness, it just couldn’t be made.

Serafe fooled around in front of Hilov, claiming to have invented a method, but how could you create anything!

You, Serafe, as a mere mortal, could you fly into the Star Realm to build a star forge?

Clearly, this is the super-technology of the Celestial Era.

But this raises another question: how did such technology fall into the hands of the elves?

If the elves had such technology, whether on the Western Continent or elsewhere, they should have long entered modernization, experiencing a huge leap.

From the perspective of ancient relics, the elven civilization or El civilization doesn’t match the level required for such technology.

And in connection with the mythical elements in the "Pyramid Stone Rubbing," the sudden rise of the elven gods is apparent.

Could elves actually be aliens?

But the records of elves have existed since ancient times.

They exist on both the Eastern and Western continents, and there are even relics left by elves, yet still they were at a tribal level.

Where on earth did these elves acquire such terrifying technology, could it really be from the Giant Dragons?

However, Cynthia clearly told him that the Starforge Law was not created by the Giant Dragons, but by the elves.

Or perhaps, is this a false book?

Horn wasn’t afraid of this; the "Translation Movement" and "Verification Movement" in the Holy Alliance’s academic community are underway simultaneously.

Ancient El documents are continuously being translated and verified, accumulating a wealth of relevant experience.

Whether it’s a false book or not, a verification upon returning will reveal the truth.

Seeing Jeanne’s curious gaze, Horn shook his head: "For now, we can’t produce it; we can only set it aside."

"Huh?" Jeanne was obviously greatly disappointed.

The industrialization blueprint Horn had planned was missing this final link, initially intending to fill it, but now his hope was dashed.

Remembering the beautiful visions set forth last year, along with the expectations and preparations within the Holy Alliance, the room’s atmosphere suddenly plummeted.

"Must we therefore use the clockwork engine?" Jia Li also furrowed her brows; though the clockwork engine is good, its limitations are truly great.

"Not necessarily." Carefully rolling up the Starforge Law scroll, Horn took out a copy of the Celestial Maiden Secret Scroll.

According to Cynthia, the Celestial Maiden Secret Scroll was an alchemy created by the elves mirroring dragon language magic.

But after a week, when Horn glanced through it, it contained not only dragon language magic but also the elves’ own methods.

Dragon language magic, as explained in the book, is about Giant Dragons using dragon language to drive ether.

Every time Horn thought about it, he felt it was an "answer hidden in plain sight" debacle.

Dragon language clearly operates via a certain wave propagation method.

This indicates Hilov’s research direction isn’t wrong; alchemy relies on ether resonance to alter the spiritual properties of matter.

Normally, a Giant Dragon has a special organ that can trigger ether resonance and guide energy.

So a Giant Dragon is considered a type of Titan species; a single dragon equates to an industrial mother machine.

But this method had failed in Horn’s world, no wonder Cynthia is miserably hiding underground.

It may appear powerful, but essentially it’s just a massive beast.

As for the Celestial Maiden Secret Scroll, the elves creatively replaced the dragon language’s vocal organ with the branch of the Holy Tree after studying dragon language magic.

Thus, even without a dragon language vocal organ, one could replicate a large amount of dragon language magic.

But this method has also failed now; firstly, the Holy Tree branches were unobtainable, secondly the mana was blocking this resonance.

Afterwards, witches emerged, and spells rose.

The wizards in Celestial Maiden City acquired the Celestial Maiden Secret Scroll and first used mana to replace the Holy Tree branch, thereby giving rise to present-day alchemy.

If Horn’s guesses are correct, this should be the complete developmental history of alchemy.

Cynthia also mentioned there should be another scroll by the elves, the Luogong Secret Scroll, in the empire’s Luogong City (Holy Seat City).

The Luogong Secret Scroll also recorded extraordinary methods learned by the elves from "giant foreign gods".

Horn speculated that this should be the origin of the knight’s breathing method and extraordinary martial arts.

As for the capital of the current Blood and Flesh Royal Court, the former Li Yang City, now No Light City, there should be another scroll, the Li Yang Secret Scroll.

These three books are said to have been compiled during the summit of the El Empire.

But in Horn’s view, the empire seemed prepared for its downfall during its zenith, otherwise, it wouldn’t have compiled such books specifically for rebuilding.

Thinking about all these, seeing Jeanne unable to contain herself as Horn stayed silent with a smile.

She stepped forward and shook Horn’s shoulder: "Say something, is it fun to keep people in suspense?"

"Cough cough." Horn quickly cleared his throat and laid out these theories and speculations.

"But after obtaining the Celestial Maiden Secret Scroll, the witches couldn’t use alchemy.

And there were too few Alchemists, their mana too feeble to reproduce the complex dragon language magic in the scroll.

Look, for instance, at this dragon language technique that uses resonance to extract large quantities of pig iron directly from iron ore."

While Jia Li and Jeanne went to look at the Celestial Maiden Secret Scroll, Catherine frowned: "Didn’t you say industrialization is about machines replacing labor? Isn’t this reverting to labor?"

"Actually not." Horn smiled, "Now you all know the essence of alchemy is resonance, so what exists that isn’t manually driven and still causes ether resonance?"

Catherine and Jia Li were puzzled, but Jeanne suddenly remembered a distant memory.

"Dragon Bones!"