Millennium Witch

Light and shadow.

This does not fall under the category of elemental classification and may seem a bit strange, but it is a genuine category in the field of rune compilation of the Origin Civilization, born through mutual consensus.

Simply put, it's a "concept" of a magical technique.

Any technology that fits the concept can be categorized into these five categories.

Furthermore, compared to the five elemental magics, these five conceptual magics are more advanced, more difficult, and have fewer learning channels. In fact, many rune compilers may never come into contact with these five areas in their entire lives.

Let's start with "life magic".

This is a concept of runes that can only be encountered at a very small number of top universities, and more than 70% of these top universities are related to Black Tower Medicine and Lintui Biotechnology.

If Yvette hadn't started her career at the Abyss Base, which indirectly meant she received the true teachings of Black Tower Medicine, she wouldn't have been able to develop techniques like "Muscle Restriction" and "Regeneration Pump." These techniques are closely related to life magic, and the runes they use are unusual and special, representing a significant advancement in the Origin Civilization's understanding of runes.

Next is "Natural Magic".

This is conceptual magic closely related to the fields of plants and agriculture. Although many universities teach it, it is very superficial. The truly high-end, military, and valuable content is all taught at the universities in Emerald Continent, and they all belong to Lingman Company.

Then comes "soul magic".

It has two branches: "Undead" and "Spirit," which, although both are based on soul runes, are different.

The biggest difference is perhaps that the former is illegal; whether it's for study or research, being caught will lead to imprisonment. The latter, however, is a legitimate field of mental medicine, also known as "mind magic," which is taught at many top medical universities. Even Yvette herself knows a little about it—she acquired it from the Abyss Base, and over 200 years ago, it helped her complete her first communication with Rosalyn.

Next is "Force Field Magic".

This is purely military technology. Yvette was able to create the "Crimson Armor" based on it, deciphering and deriving it bit by bit from salvaged military equipment. As far as she knows, this technology has only three main applications: anti-gravity engines, magic barriers, and pulse spells. Each of these involves high-end military fields and is extremely difficult to access.

Finally, there's "light and shadow magic".

This is mainly reflected in the changes of light and shadow, which is the core of some holographic particle advertising, projection technology, and even printing technology.

It sounds ordinary, but it is actually divided into two areas: shallow and deep.

The superficial magic of light and shadow is merely a commercial technique related to lighting, decoration, projection, and display, which Yvette also has some knowledge of.

The deeper layers of light and shadow magic involve high-end civilian and military applications, such as holographic camouflage, chip etching, network transmission, and so on.

Like force field magic, this is something she would find difficult to learn even if she entered the dream world again, because there are only a handful of universities that can teach this kind of knowledge, and none of them would allow outsiders to audit the classes, no matter how much money they spend.

I wonder if the continuation of civilization has involved any advanced technologies related to "force field magic" and "light and shadow magic".

If so, then she should definitely join us wholeheartedly.

……

Having outlined her learning goals and plans for her future dreams, Yvette returned to her manuscript.

Life, soul, nature, force field, light and shadow. She either didn't understand these five concepts of magic, or only had a very superficial understanding of them. Naturally, she couldn't design a special school for them; she could only extract parts and integrate them into the school of elemental magic.

For her first style, she planned to start with the fire element.

The tentative name is "Flame Magic Grimoire"!

Once it was finished writing, he called Dugrabi to copy it.

As for how the black dragon, without hands and relying only on its claws, would swoop down... that's not something she should be concerned with.

……

Two years passed peacefully during the development of the "Grimoire of Flame".

Because she has sacrificed a lot of time for reading miscellaneous books, daydreaming, or taking afternoon naps, and has to maintain her daily meditation practice, her life is no longer as leisurely as before, and seems a little more arduous.

However, the frequency of the Spider Woman's harassment did not decrease at all; in fact, it increased.

And it was clearly visible that she used more and more fire magic when harassing the spider woman, and by the second year, she was almost constantly being roasted by fire.

The Spider Woman, however, was in a much better mood, and even secretly pleased.

Because she sensed that the mysterious silver-haired girl, who was obsessed with fire magic, was not as formidable in combat as before, and seemed to have gone down a crooked path of regression instead of progress, with her strength greatly diminished.

On the other hand, she receives "nourishment" from the monarch every month to improve herself, and is getting stronger and stronger. She is gradually able to reverse her past decline and fight the silver-haired girl to a standstill, or even gain a slight advantage.

It seems that the day of revenge is just around the corner!

Chapter 79 Purple Commander

It was a late autumn morning, and the gentle sunlight shone on the earth, drawing a golden line at the boundary between the snow-capped mountains and the blue sky.

Inside the air-raid shelter, Yvette put down her quill and looked at the manuscript of the "Flame Magic Codex" spread out on the table, covered with cursive script. A faint smile appeared on her beautiful face.

Although it was a new attempt and took a lot of effort, the "Flame Spellbook" was finally completed. Each spell on it was a small-scale spell with about 200 to 500 runes, which was the limit of spell size that a nature mage could master with their mind.

Furthermore, she reserved a considerable number of interfaces, allowing these spells to automatically connect and generate a powerful synergy when used in sync with other spells in the grimoire.

However, in terms of learning difficulty, this "Flame Magic Grimoire" is also hellish.

After all, on the Radiant Continent, mages only use a dozen or so runes in their spells, which they can quickly memorize and begin practicing in real combat. But the spells in the "Flame Spellbook" are all the length of short essays; how much more difficult would it be to master them?

Especially for beginners who don't understand runes, they have to ask someone who knows runes to help translate them into spells, and they have to memorize dozens or hundreds more words. Every time they use it, they have to stand still and chant for a while. The scene is just too beautiful.

Stepping out of the air-raid shelter, on the opposite hillside, Yvette saw Dugrabby curled up in its self-dug "cave," fast asleep with a haystack as its pillow, next to a delicate fireplace with firewood burning brightly inside.

After waking it up, Yvette floated the "Grimoire of Flames" in front of it, gave a brief introduction, and then said, "I will keep this manuscript for myself. I suggest you copy it down first, so that in case of any emergencies, such as the appearance of the aurora, you can take the grimoire with you and leave in time."

“Uh… copying?” Dugrabi looked at his paws. “Teacher, are you serious?”

"Then you should memorize all the spells in the spellbook as soon as possible, or try to resist going back when the aurora appears in the future," Yvette said calmly.

She did this intentionally, because otherwise, Dugrabi would lack the motivation to work hard, and although he would still study, his efficiency would certainly not be high.

We still need to push it a bit.

After the teacher left, Dugrabi stared into deep thought at the precious manuscript before it. It didn't know when the aurora would appear, and it couldn't copy it down. Its only thought seemed to be to work hard and memorize everything as quickly as possible, just in case.

But just then, it saw Bingyu passing by the cave entrance with a cheerful smile, carrying a small package in her hand, seemingly having retrieved some good things from some ruins outside.

It immediately called out, "Blue Fur! Blue Fur, did you hear me? Come here right now!"

"How rude! Didn't I tell you my name is Bingyu, Mr. Dugrabi?" Bingyu looked at it unhappily, but still walked over.

"Alright, alright, Ice Rain it is. Do me a favor and copy the contents of this notebook." Although he was asking for help, Dugrabi was very impolite to anyone other than his teacher, especially to alchemical creations.

Bingyu asked in surprise, "Huh? Why?"

"Why ask so many questions? Just do what I'm told to do."

"I—no!" Bingyu turned her head away haughtily and snorted, "You think I'll just do whatever you tell me to do? You're underestimating me! I'm not Little Jasmine!"

Dugrabi glared at it fiercely. How dare this mere alchemical creation refuse the request of the noble dragon race?

It's just that Little Jasmine's hands lack human-like five fingers, making it difficult for her to hold a pen. Otherwise, she wouldn't have bothered to ask this stinky woman who shot her in the butt eight years ago and hasn't apologized since.

"Eek—" Bingyu was frightened by Dugrabi's gaze. She quickly covered her chest, took two steps back, and said, "Don't do anything rash, or I'll call Miss Kindness to deal with you!"

Ugh, she's still that tattletale woman...

Dugrabi was inwardly disdainful, but he had to admit that he was indeed a little afraid of this. After a moment of silence, he suddenly changed his tone and said slyly, "This is a rare treasure left by the previous civilization! I'm having you copy it for your own good. Think about it, what if this precious manuscript gets damaged if you don't write it down?"

"What? Left behind by the previous civilization?" Bingyu immediately perked up, picked up the manuscript and began to examine it carefully, but soon her expression became a little strange. "But why does this handwriting look a bit fresh? Is this really left behind by the previous civilization? Isn't it from last week? And what is written here? I can't understand it."

"What do you know? This is the effect of top-tier magic."

"Such magic exists?"

"Of course I have it. If you don't want it, I'll take it away and won't let you study it anymore," Dugrabi said slyly.

"Hey, no, please don't do this, Mr. Dugrabi..." Upholding the simplicity inherited from the mechanical race and the love for human civilization, Bingyu immediately gave in, "Just make a copy for me, and I'll return it to you after I've copied it!"

Make two copies.

"what?"

“The second payment is what you have to give,” Dugrabi said leisurely.

"Okay." Bingyu said, feeling like she had been tricked, but not knowing what the problem was, she puffed out her cheeks, a little unhappy.

……

The completion of the "Flame Magic Grimoire" gave Yvette a brief sense of satisfaction. She decided to take a break for a while and then start developing the next book, the "Wind Magic Grimoire," which is based on the wind element and is written in the language of Radiance, of course.

Just as she was about to give up and begin to rest and digest the various experiences she had gained from the "Flame Magic Codex"...

In Cooks City, the Spider Woman is about to reach a small peak in her life.

After serving under the King of the Sea for so long, and consuming the blood and flesh nutrients that were given to her every month like a fixed salary, she finally accumulated enough "evolution factors" to advance and decided to apply to the leader to use the mother nest.

The Kux's Mother Nest is a sixth-stage aberrant creature, known as the "Pale Mother Nest." Its unique ability, compared to other Mother Nests, is to grant "Gods" special enhancements, allowing them to skip two stages, but not exceeding the fifth stage of "Lord."

That's right, "Gods of Gods" is what the highly intelligent mutants call their race. What's special is that in their eyes, mutants below the third stage are not considered Gods of Gods, but simply mutants or tools. Only the "elites" who reach the third stage are considered members of the Gods of Gods.

Of course, over the years of harassment, Spider Woman had already revealed all this information to Yvette.

Arriving in downtown Cooks, the Spider Woman looked at the enormous cave on the ground that resembled a white intestine leading into the earth and fell inside.

After landing at the bottom, she saw the nest's master, who was also her direct superior, "Lloyd," respectfully addressed as "Purple Commander."

Lloyd was a name given to him by the Purple Commander, because he saw the name in a fragment of a past memory and used it for convenience. However, under normal circumstances, he can only be called "Purple Commander" or "Lord Purple". Only the King of the Sky Sea, one of the four great ocean monarchs and the ruler of the North Sea Abyss, can call him Lloyd directly.

Its appearance is that of a strange human covered in purple chitin, with obvious crab-like features on its carapace and many sharp spikes, but its facial features are very similar to those of a human, with wriggling white squid tentacles hanging down from its chin like an old man's long beard.

Upon seeing the Spider Woman arrive, Commander Purple, sitting behind a table, said expressionlessly, "Abella, what is it?"

"Lord Zi, I would like to apply for a promotion," the Spider Woman said respectfully, kneeling on one knee.

Abella is the humanoid name she gave herself, and her honorific title is "Spider Witch". However, since her actual rank is only a fourth-stage leader, the honorific title "Spider Witch" has never been heard – only elites with lower ranks than her, but most elites cannot speak human language.

If this promotion is successful, the other two guardians, the mountain whale and the fish man, will have to address her respectfully as "Lady Spider Witch" from now on.

"The nest slot will be available soon. Since you've accumulated enough merit, you should start preparing," Commander Zi said calmly.

"That's wonderful, thank you so much, Lady Zi!" the Spider Woman exclaimed excitedly.

"During this time, have you been attacked by that mysterious foreign lord again?" Commander Zi asked again.

“Yes, she still comes.” After saying that, the Spider Woman added, “But I am now stronger than her. Once I have completed my advancement, I will personally hunt her down and quell the threat. Please rest assured, my lord.”

In fact, for her, the change in combat power from a fourth-stage leader to a fifth-stage lord would not be significant. After all, she had already received the enhancement from the Pale Mother Nest and possessed the strength of a fifth-stage leader. The advancement would only result in a slight boost.

But she was still very confident, because she had become stronger and stronger in battle and was able to suppress the silver-haired girl. Now that she had become a real lord, wouldn't she be guaranteed to win?

If she could successfully devour that silver-haired girl, it would be an enormous amount of evolution factors falling from the sky, which might allow her to start her breakthrough to the sixth stage!

"That's fine then." Commander Zi nodded slightly, not taking the matter to heart. After all, that mysterious lord had been wandering around the area for many years, and even Abella, one of the three Mother Nest Guardians, couldn't break through. Why should he pay any attention to it?

It's just that we don't know which side that lord belongs to. If she really has no allegiance, it's not impossible to ask Abella to spare her life, then control her with the Mother Nest and turn her into another ally under our command.

Chapter 80 Spider Woman

After obtaining the "Flame Magic Grimoire" and tricking Bingyu into making a copy for him, Dugrabi's combat training quickly passed by, and the weather changed from late autumn to the spring of the following year.

At this point, it had been nine years since they first arrived in Cux. During this time, Dugrabi had mastered the simplified "Crimson Armor," "Muscle Unlimited," and two fire spells from the "Flame Magic Grimoire," greatly increasing his combat power.

—In addition, the first two were given simpler names, "Barrier Magic" and "Enhancement Magic," to distinguish them from the original spells. The latter two are called "Flame Wave" and "Ring of Flames," both of which are ranged attack spells.

The power boost brought by these techniques made it complacent, believing that it was now the number one expert among the younger generation of dragons. Even if it encountered the mountain whale again, it could easily kill it without having to flee in a sorry state as before.

Gradually, it began to get itchy and had the idea of ​​going on an adventure to the forbidden territory of the kingdom, "Kux," or rather, courting death.

But these thoughts must not be known to the elders, especially the old folks of the Puppet Kingdom like Copper Skin, who would definitely object strongly and report them to the teacher.

So it planned to go alone. Even if danger arose, with its strength to fight a mountain whale head-on, escaping would be a piece of cake.

……

In the following days, Dugrabi began to sneak off to Cooks every few days.

The feedback has been quite positive. Although it only operates on the periphery, it frequently hunts down elite-level mutants, which has improved its combat proficiency and given it more confidence.

But, in those days, half a month passed. One cold morning, as it arrived at Kux for the next round of the Unholy Demon hunt, an unexpected voice suddenly rang out from above its head: "What is your relationship with that silver-haired guy?"

anyone? !

Dugrabi was startled and subconsciously looked up, seeing a woman with long black hair and scarlet eyes standing in a five-story reinforced concrete building next to him. She had a beautiful face and wore a backless dress that accentuated her figure and gave her a cold look. She did not have any characteristics of a demon; no matter how you looked at her, she was a human beauty.

"Who are you?" After understanding the other party's Black Tide language, Dugrabi was somewhat puzzled. Weren't all human civilizations in this Land of the End extinct? How come another human has appeared?

Is he, like the teacher, a nobody, a third-rate wild god living in the Land of the End?

"Me? I am the lord here. You can call me 'Lady Spider Demon' or 'Lady Abella'," the red-eyed woman said with a half-smile, her rosy lips curving upwards into a captivating arc.

Lord? According to the teacher, this seems to be the ranking system for undead... This woman is actually an undead?