The Queen of Scrolls never admits defeat

Chapter 818 Three Thousand Mirror Ruins 85
Ultimately, Moran settled for second best and turned his attention to cheap news.

In the past two years, she has acquired thousands of cheap messages that only indicated the detailed location, of which more than 600 were located within the Gold Oasis area.

These messages are like treasure maps, only telling you where the treasure might be buried, but not giving you a shovel, or even how deep it is buried or whether there are any traps.

Whether or not the buyer can find and open that door depends entirely on their skill, patience, and...luck.

Many of these messages were detected as early as a century ago, confirming that the entry point was there, but to this day, no one has been able to solve the long-standing problem of how to open it.

Although she has been absorbing knowledge about the masterless mirror space like a sponge for the past two years, Moran is well aware that in terms of knowledge and understanding of the mirror space, it will be difficult for her to surpass veteran mirror masters like Teacher Huang Yao, who have been deeply involved in this field for many years, in a short period of time.

They hadn't found a way to open the teleportation portal, and she would have had a hard time finding it through knowledge alone.

However, she possesses a unique advantage that none of the Mirror Explorers and Mirror Masters have: witch prophecy magic and blessing magic!
Moran had read so many books about Mirror Beasts, but he had never seen a Mirror Beast's core possess skills related to prophecy and blessing.

The Mirror Seeker's magical abilities all come from beast cores. Without beast cores of the prophecy and blessing types, no Mirror Seeker would have similar abilities.

In this way, even if she uses her student identity to secretly cast prophecy and blessing spells without obvious light and shadow effects and with extremely subtle energy fluctuations during her exploration, no one in the spectator will be able to detect anything unusual.

Even if Huang Yao happened to be using his mirror master privileges to conduct "detailed monitoring" of the area where she was when she was casting the spell, he would at most feel that there was a slightly inexplicable and lucky coincidence in the energy flow of that area, and would never associate it with someone casting a spell.

Prophecy magic and blessing magic are almost like an "invisible" cheat code in this world.

This is precisely the source of her confidence to spend tens of millions of mirror coins to buy cheap information.

Next, Moran plans to stay in the Golden Oasis for the long term, personally exploring and studying each of the more than six hundred locations with or without a master mirror space teleportation entrance.

By combining the theoretical knowledge of mirror space that they have learned, supplemented by divination magic for directional guidance, and further enhanced by blessing magic such as luck spells to increase the probability of a "flash of inspiration," they attempted to crack the long-sealed methods of opening mirror space teleportation entrances.

Ever since he learned that offering the core of the Mirror Space to the Book of Cards was merely "copying" its spatial rules and knowledge rather than plundering its original energy, and thus not considered a large-scale plunder of the world's resources, Moran's ambition was no longer satisfied with simply acquiring a small Mirror Space to create a learning space with time differences.

With so many messages, there must be a few "big fish" hidden among them, and we should be able to find a few large or medium-sized mirror spaces with abundant resources!
Since we're already here, we should naturally look for the best.

If she succeeds, she will be able to fully grasp the spatial rules of the Book of Cards and create similar Mirror Space Cards on her own in the future.

Having made up her mind, Moran no longer hesitated and stepped into the portal to the Golden Oasis.

A gold rush journey in the mirror space, combining theory, luck, and patience, has officially begun.

Upon entering the Golden Oasis Mirror Space, the scorching, dry air hits you.

Beneath Moran's feet lay a vast expanse of golden sand, sparsely covered with vegetation, and beside her flowed a winding river.

She quickly compared the map of the golden oasis in her mind and found that she was lucky; it was very close to one of her target locations, the "Golden Crystal Mine".

This is a mine currently under a mining ban. The entrance is sealed off, prohibiting entry for mining, but exploration is not prohibited. According to the cheap information she purchased, there is a portal to a mirrorless space located on a cluster of golden crystals deep within the mine.

Moran quickly found the location of the mine. There were many forks in the road inside, but they were all marked with old road signs. She easily found the mine tunnel where the golden crystal cluster was located, as indicated in the message.

She paused for a moment as soon as she stepped inside.

It's not deserted here; on the contrary, it's quite "lively."

In front of the enormous cluster of golden crystals that grew upwards like golden antlers, seven or eight students sat or stood around it.

Some were holding thick volumes of "One Hundred Explanations of the Entrance to the Mirrorless Space" or other related books, flipping through them while gesturing at the crystal clusters and muttering incantations; others were disheveled and staring blankly against the rock wall, clearly having expended too much energy here, and were scratching their heads and on the verge of collapse.

Seeing new students enter, the few students who were still somewhat alert looked up, their numb eyes carrying a hint of mocking sympathy:

"Hey, another sucker who bought 'cheap news'!" a boy shouted weakly.

"Hey, did you bring any good food? Share some! I've been stuck in this godforsaken place for almost a month! I'm going crazy eating rice cakes every day!" Another student, who looked quite hungry, stared at her expectantly.

"Sigh, if it weren't for spending 10,000 mirror coins, I would have left long ago! I'm so unwilling!" someone complained, pounding the ground.

"Come on, newbie! Don't be shy, give it a try! Maybe you'll get lucky and we can all benefit from it!"

A slightly older student greeted Moran with a wry smile and pointed to the golden crystal cluster that had been studied countless times and whose crystals were almost smooth from being touched.

Moran readily agreed and joined their "research group".

In the days that followed, she, like everyone else, tried every known or conjectured method to open the golden crystal cluster.

This includes, but is not limited to, shining light on it from different angles and intensities, chanting various spells, applying strange liquids, tapping different parts of the crystal cluster, and some people even trying to dance in front of it...

As time went by, fewer and fewer people were here, and disappointment and frustration spread like a plague.

The first student left cursing, the third left looking numb, and the fifth left kindly advised Moran not to waste his time.

Three months later, the last student who persisted also completely broke down.

His eyes were bloodshot, his hair a mess like a bird's nest, and he roared desperately at the unmoving gold crystal cluster: "Nothing! There's nothing at all! I've tried everything I can think of! It must be fake! Teacher Huang Yao is definitely selling fake news to scam Mirror Coins!"

He was panting heavily when he turned to Moran, the only remaining companion in the mine, and said in a hoarse voice, "Hey buddy, don't be silly, let's go! Instead of wasting these three months, we should go out and hunt some more Mirror Beasts. At least we can earn back that 10,000 Mirror Coins! This thing... it's a complete scam!"

After saying that, he seemed unable to bear the place any longer, staggered out, and disappeared at the end of the passage.

(End of this chapter)