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Chapter 758 This was fake, but when Celia came, it became real (4k)

After chatting with Pamisa and the other person upstairs for a while, Celia came down.

There was no other reason than that she was afraid that if they continued talking, the so-called Stone of Wisdom would come looking for her and affect the two of them.

The two, one a first-tier mage and the other a third-tier mage, were no different from ordinary people when they got into trouble.

For their own safety, it's best to leave.

"They are so carefree, exuding an aura of freedom."

Celia looked back at the high platform, her eyes filled with envy and longing.

"I also want to travel all over the world."

Ross chuckled: "Aren't you traveling all over the world right now? You've been to so many countries."

"That's different."

Celia sighed as she thought about all the terrible things she had encountered in the places she had been.

"Travel should be like theirs, going wherever you want, without a destination, taking your time to walk and enjoy yourself. I've been to the Northern Alliance, Blue Dragon, and the Elf Forest, but I went with a purpose in mind and didn't have time to really enjoy myself. Even appreciating the scenery felt rushed..."

Ross reached out and patted Celia's head.

"I'll go with you after you're out of quarantine. Well, even if you say you want to go for a walk under the stars, that's fine too."

Celia's eyes lit up, and she nodded emphatically: "Okay, you said it yourself, it's a deal, no take-backs!"

"of course."

While chatting, Celia glanced at the commotion and noticed that it wasn't escalating; in fact, it seemed to be subsiding.

She couldn't help but wonder: "Is that Stone of Wisdom something special? Or are the orcs just very polite and won't snatch it from others?"

"No, there is no Stone of Wisdom there at all."

"Oh, I see. So a lot of people have been scammed."

"Ah."

It seems they've also realized they've been scammed.

The riot quickly stopped, and the crowd left, grumbling and cursing.

Faintly, Celia heard the voices of those who had left.

"What bad luck, it's just an ordinary stone."

"How could there be such a vicious person, actually using an ordinary glowing stone to impersonate the Stone of Wisdom?"

"Don't let me find out who that is, or I'll show him the length of my weapon!"

"What the hell? Does that thing really exist here? Could it be that the City of Fireworks is just trying to trick us into coming here to pay money?"

"..."

Hearing the grumbling and cursing of the crowd, Celia felt a great sense of relief.

The girl patted her chest. "What a scare! There was no Stone of Wisdom after all. It was just a marketing ploy by the City of Fireworks for Epimetheus."

After realizing she had uncovered the truth, Celia quickly relaxed.

She once again chose to go against the tide, moving forward against the crowd.

Since it was just ordinary glowing stones masquerading as the Stone of Wisdom, Celia's curiosity immediately took over.

She insisted on going over to see what was going on.

Soon, she arrived at the source of the unrest.

There is an archaeological site there that has been trampled on.

All the artifacts inside have been taken away, leaving only a large pit. The pit is full of pits and uneven surfaces, with some worthless fragments of artifacts remaining.

Celia stood at the edge of the pit and curiously peered inside.

The pit is very wide, measuring tens of meters in length and width, and about 5 meters in depth.

At that moment, there was a round stone inside, emitting a faint light, which had been carelessly discarded.

Celia gazed thoughtfully at the glowing stone from afar.

"Is this what everyone mistakenly thought was the 'Stone of Wisdom'? Logically speaking, even if you think it's fake, you should at least believe it exists and get your hands on it first. You can't just leave it lying around like this, ignoring everyone."

Celia jumped down into the pit, walked over, picked up the glowing stone, and examined it.

This round stone is very large, about the size of a watermelon, and very heavy.

It feels like stone, both in terms of texture and weight.

As for the glow, it's because the surface is coated with a layer of magic crystal powder.

Any sorcerer can easily identify this powder.

Celia casually scraped it off, removing some magic crystal powder and revealing the stone inside.

She held the stone in her hand and weighed it in her hand, clicking her tongue and saying, "No wonder no one chooses to take this with them. If they did, their friends would definitely laugh at them, saying that this is indeed a 'stone of wisdom,' and only a 'wise person' could treasure it so much."

Ross smiled but didn't say anything.

In fact, this is the stone of wisdom.

However, it was sealed away.

Once you peel away the outer layer of stone, you can see the small beads inside, which is the original form of the Stone of Wisdom.

Just like jade, it's an ordinary stone on the outside, with no jade visible at all.

Celia toyed with the heavy stone and looked at Ross: "The people of the City of Fireworks are still a bit stupid. If they decorated several small stones with magic crystal powder, used them to impersonate the 'Stone of Wisdom', and then scattered them throughout the ruins of Epimetheus, those who came here for fame wouldn't care about anything else. Even if they were fooled, they could still take them with them."

Although there are many high-level sorcerers in this ruin, most of them are low-level sorcerers.

Unlike Celia, they don't have spatial rings that allow them to easily carry items.

Even among high-level mages, very few possess spatial rings, as they cost at least 500 gold coins, and even fourth-level mages would need to put in considerable effort to earn one.

Moreover, sometimes, even if you have the money, you don't have the means to buy it.

Not everyone can make spatial rings, not even those at the sixth rank.

Celia thought that there were probably very few sixth-tier mages in the Orc Empire who could forge spatial rings.

If the 'Stone of Wisdom' were a small trinket, the size of a thumb or a fist, people might just grab it without much effort, since it doesn't take up much space.

But a rock bigger than a head...

I'm really embarrassed to take it with me.

"Perhaps they were worried that smaller ones would cause fierce competition, which would lead to the destruction of the site."

Celia muttered to herself, not letting Ross answer.

She's gotten through all these years like this.

Ross rarely responded to her, so she would talk to herself and say things to Ross.

Ross watched Celia with interest, remaining silent and waiting to see what she would do.

Celia played with the 'Stone of Wisdom' for a while, but soon found it boring.

She squeezed it, then casually put it down.

But suddenly he was stunned.

She looked up at Ross and said, "No, Mr. Ross, this stone seems to be harder."

"Oh?" Ross raised an eyebrow.

With the enhancement of her dragon language magic, Celia squeezed hard.

A tiny crack appeared on the stone.

If it were an ordinary stone, it would probably be shattered into pieces by now.

Celia narrowed her eyes: "Could it be... there's something in here?"

"Hahaha, you actually believed that?" Suddenly, a mocking laugh came from above.

Celia looked up and was surprised to find that it was Ald, whom she had met before.

Ald pointed at Celia with one hand and clutched his stomach with the other, laughing heartily: "This stone comes from the Burial Ground of Gods, so of course it's harder than ordinary stones. Hahaha, didn't you say you weren't interested in the Stone of Wisdom?"

Without waiting for their reply, he mocked, "You two didn't think this stone was so hard because there was something inside, did you? Hahaha, actually, this kind of stone is everywhere in the entire Burial Ground of Gods, and some are even smoother and more rounded than this one."

"I see." A slight disappointment appeared on Celia's face.

Just as Olde said, that thought did come to her when she noticed the hardness of the stone.

However, she had never encountered such a hard stone before, and for a moment she wondered how much force it would take to break it.

Frost and dragon's roar appeared in Celia's palm, and magical fluctuations emerged.

Click!Click!
With a series of tearing sounds, more and more cracks appeared on the stone.

Unlike other stones that split in two with just one crack, this stone shattered with a loud crash after the cracks multiplied and covered the entire stone.

A small, glowing ball floated out from the broken stones and was caught in Celia's hand.

"What is this?" Celia asked curiously, examining it.

She looked up at Older: "Mr. Older, is this what happens when this kind of stone breaks apart?"

As she spoke, she suddenly saw Olde's mouth open wide, as if a fist could fit inside.

Celia frowned, immediately sensing that something was wrong.

Just then, a voice exclaimed from the side: "Look, that must be the Stone of Wisdom!"

"what? What?"

"Where is where?"

"Great ancestors, I sense the breath of wisdom!"

"This must be wisdom, it must be the Stone of Wisdom!"

Looking over, Celia saw a large number of orcs slowly gathering outside the pit. Their eyes were fixed on the glowing beads floating in front of Celia, and their gazes gradually turned fanatical.

"The aura of wisdom?"

Celia didn't feel it; she only felt a sense of déjà vu from the small bead.

If I remember correctly, the divine relic she received from the Kanbula tribe was also in the shape of a bead.

That bead is suspected to be a relic of the goddess of fate.

And this...

Could it really be a relic of the goddess of wisdom?

Celia sensed that the orcs' greed and fanaticism were growing stronger.

Feeling uneasy, she quickly thought for a moment, then grabbed the bead and threw it outside.

Taking advantage of the fact that the eyes of the many orcs were turned to the outside as the bead turned, she shook her hand and looked at a drop of blood that appeared in her palm.

"Why are these beads so sharp? They're bad luck."

After muttering something to herself, Celia soared into the sky and flew in the opposite direction.

With so many people, including quite a few fourth-tier mages, even a novice could defeat a master with a flurry of punches.

She didn't want to go on a killing spree in this place.

Let's just throw it away.

Having seen so many relics of the gods, Celia is now desensitized to anything related to the gods and has no interest in it whatsoever.

She had studied the relics she obtained from the Kanbula tribe; the bead only served to raise a mage's rank and had no other effect.

The effects of this 'Stone of Wisdom' are unclear, but...

"No matter how powerful a divine relic is, how can it compare to Mr. Ross?"

Celia glanced at Ross, who had followed her up, and winked.

With Ross's personal guidance and a tailor-made improvement plan, to be honest, she really didn't have much interest in other gods' things.

Just look at Phil; things from the gods aren't so easy to obtain.

The kobolds of the Kanbula tribe also managed to obtain a divine relic, which nearly turned their entire tribe into puppets.

Ross chuckled. "That's true, but I don't have any mementos to give you."

“Only the things of the dead are called relics. Mr. Ross is alive and well, so he certainly doesn’t have any relics,” Celia chuckled.

Ross glanced back at the crowd rushing toward the bead. "If Celia hadn't come, that stone would probably have been mistaken for a fake and left to rot in the archaeological pit, exposed to the elements, and no one would ever know that it was actually a relic of a god."

Celia's face fell: "Let's not talk about this, we're still good friends... oh no, I'm still your most reliable believer~!"

As they spoke, the two approached the entrance to the Epotemis ruins, lowered their altitude, and prepared to leave the ruins on foot.

However, as soon as they arrived at the door, the guard reached out and stopped them.

"I'm sorry, but without the city lord's orders, no one is allowed to leave the ruins of Epimetheus."

Celia frowned: "Why?"

"This is the city lord's order. If you have any questions, please ask the city lord when he arrives," the guard said coldly.

The rulers of the City of Fireworks are the Bearmen, who are also fire-friendly. The two bearmen guarding the gate are both burly and tall, probably at least 2.5 meters tall.

Celia looked like a little chick in their eyes.

Celia looked at Ross.

Ross laughed and said, "If you want to leave now, there are plenty of ways to leave."

Celia nodded, thought for a moment, and then said politely, "Hello, we are just travelers who came here for sightseeing and did not participate in the struggle for the Stone of Wisdom. Please let us leave. We have many other things to do and do not have time to stay here."

As she spoke, Celia pondered for a moment and took out two silver coins.

However, the two bear-man guards didn't even look at them, and coldly replied, "This is the city lord's order. I'm sorry, you cannot leave."

"alright."

Celia shrugged indifferently.

It's just that we can't go through the main entrance.

The Epotemis ruins are so large, what's so difficult about climbing over a wall?
However, Celia realized she was wrong.

After finding a secluded spot, she was about to leave when Ross stopped her.

"Look again."

Celia paused, carefully sensing the sensation, and her expression changed slightly.

"It's a magic circle? And an automatic attack magic circle at that?"

Celia punched the yellow earth in front of her, sending it flying and revealing the magic array patterns below.

Within the magic circle's patterns, magical energy flowed, and a layer of runes concealed the fluctuations of magical energy, making it difficult to detect.

If she flies out without any precautions, she will definitely be attacked by the magic circle.

Celia's expertise in magic arrays made it easy to see that this magic array was very strong. If a fourth-tier mage rushed out unprepared, the attack could easily kill them on the spot.

Of course, even if attacked without any preparation, Celia would be unharmed; it would only alert the one who set up the magic circle.

However, more than the power of the magic array, she was concerned about why the city lord of the Flame City would go to such lengths to set up such a powerful magic array for a completely excavated site.

What do they want to do?
Did they intend to kill all the tourists inside the ruins to carry out some kind of evil ritual?
Just as Celia was pondering, a streak of light flashed across the sky and flew swiftly toward her, which she instinctively caught in her hand.

"Huh? Isn't that the ball I threw?"

Celia was stunned for a moment, then heard a lot of shouts coming towards them.

(End of this chapter)