Mages, Adventurers, and Women

The five members of the Shield of Heroes gathered at the entrance of the mine.

Li Wei and his five companions gathered around the campfire inside the cave.

The retreat of the monster and monster army is not a good thing.

However, blindly attacking outside the mine's protective barrier makes them vulnerable to being surrounded and attacked.

Looking at the constantly fluctuating percentage of "Rationality +0.01%" in front of him, Li Wei knew that time was running out.

I finished reading all the miscellaneous books I borrowed from the Heart of Eternity.

Willow gave me the [Secret Book of Arcane Linguistics] from the White Tower region, which I studied repeatedly.

In order to make full preparations for this planned trip.

He called Julia aside to talk to him.

Forcibly suppressing the crisis of the "Secret World Summoning" hanging over his head, he chatted casually in a deliberately relaxed tone:

"Yulia, do you remember what happened the first time you entered the Secret World?"

"Don't misunderstand, I'm doing academic research on the secret world."

"Your experience is very important to me."

Yulia was relieved and tried her best to help Li Wei recall the details of his academic research.

This time it was different from casual conversation. Although Yulia didn't understand academic research, she often heard Li Wei mutter that academic research was probably very rigorous and could not be taken lightly.

After a moment's thought, she adopted a serious expression, displaying the earnestness of a new student with a sacred reverence for academic research, and said:

"I first heard the teacher talking about which women had big butts, and then while eating at home, I was unknowingly summoned to the secret world."

"It was very sudden, without any warning."

Li Wei guided him:

"Have you ever experienced... for example, spending some time in a dark space before entering the actual secret world destination?"

“A dark space?” Yulia said confidently. “No, the secret world directly summoned me from my home to my true destination. The place I was in was very bright, square, with no distinction between day and night, and there was only one target.”

Li Wei carefully wrote it down, and then said:

"Aside from that, what other special experiences did you have? For example, discovering other living beings?"

Julia frowned and said:

“How could there be other living beings? When I was learning to be a wandering knight from my teacher in the Eastern Continent, I heard her talk to someone about something. Every living being’s secret mist domain and secret mist world exist independently. That’s why she used the castle garden and the castle as metaphors, because they are all private property.”

The Misty Realm and the Misty World are alternative names for the "Mysterious World" in the Eastern Continent.

Li Wei repeatedly recalled his spiritual exploration of the mysterious world.

Unlike Julia, who was abrupt, he was able to sense the call of the secret world from beginning to end.

The secret world in which Li Wei lived was incredibly dark and boundless.

It lacked the square, day-and-night-like brightness that Julia had described.

During his final spiritual exploration of the secret world, he also discovered Fina's whereabouts.

This contradicts Julia's statement about "existing alone".

"The secret world that Yulia and I entered was not the same place?"

Julia noticed that Levi's expression was gradually becoming serious and asked with concern:

"Li Wei, have you really solved the problem of summoning from the secret world?"

“No,” Li Wei said, feigning frustration. “If you were willing to sleep with me and make up for my regret, I guess that would solve the problem.”

Upon hearing this, Julia, who had been worried about Li Wei, immediately felt relieved.

He said disdainfully, "Shameless."

Snapped--

Li Wei slapped Yulia's butt as she turned around to leave, making her glare at him angrily and raise her fist in a silent gesture, as if to say, "If you slap me again, you're dead."

Snapped--

Li Wei patted Yulia's bottom again with the magician's hand.

This completely dispelled her worries.

then.

Li Wei called Sylvie aside and left her alone.

Using the same relaxed tone and the guise of academic research, he asked:

"Sylvie, how much do you know about the secret world?"

“The Secret World?” Sylvie frowned. “Teacher Fiena doesn’t allow me to come into contact with the Secret World too early. She says that any creature that comes into contact with the Secret World too early is a fool, and their fate is worse than the last. Even orcs, barbarians, dwarves, goblins, gnomes, giants, sea creatures, and hybrids, whose intelligence is comparable to goblins, know that there is no good end to coming into contact with the Secret World too early…”

Li Wei's face darkened, and he interrupted:

"Alright! All you need to do is tell me what you know about the secret world."

Sylvie gave an embarrassed smile. Just now, it seemed, it seemed, she had unintentionally said something she shouldn't have.

Fortunately, only the pure-blooded human Li Wei heard her nonsense.

Sylvie calmly brushed aside her earlier slip of the tongue, her freckles puffing up under her eyes as she tried to recall:

“Li Wei, I really don’t know much about the Secret World. Teacher Fiena is very strict with me in this regard.”

Just as Li Wei was feeling disappointed, Sylvia chuckled, her freckles relaxed, and she said again:

"But—I'm not an obedient little princess. I secretly read through Teacher Fiena's summary of the Secret World!"

Li Wei's eyes lit up, and he urged:

Tell me about it.

Sylvie recalled:

“Professor Fiena said that the Secret World is a barrier between the Grand Continent and the Dark Space.”

"She has an academic hypothesis about the 'function of the secret world'—if the secret world is lost, the true names of all things in the dark space will appear directly on the Grand Continent, which may cause a disaster or cause a strange change on the Grand Continent."

She also said that the secret language that magic practitioners have been told they discovered from the secret world is actually a shortcut for magic practitioners to contact the dark space using the secret language. The purpose is to find the true name of the corresponding spell in the dark space, thereby completing the transformation of the spell.

"Judging solely from the perspective of deconstructing magic, losing the Secret World is more beneficial to the future of magic-based professionals on the Grand Continent."

"Professor Fiena wanted to publish this hypothesis in the journal 'Summary of Research on the Grand Continental Legal System,' but she submitted it many times without receiving a reply... This information was found in her discarded manuscripts."

Upon hearing this, Li Wei quickly racked his brains and asked:

"Is the real name the same as the spirit?"

"do not know."

"Finding the true name corresponding to the Dark Space is equivalent to finding a fixed passage between the Grand Continent and the Dark Space?"

"do not know."

"The passage connects to the secret world? Is the secret world one of the passage's endpoints?"

"do not know."

"The purpose of the arcane symbols is to replace this passage?"

"I don't know." As the youngest person in the Golden Kingdom with the best talent in arcane characters, Sylvie hated saying "I don't know" the most. She said irritably, "Liwei, why do you keep asking me questions I don't know?"

"I see."

Li Wei suddenly said.

Sylvie was getting annoyed by Levi's rambling manner and subconsciously said:

"What do you know?"

"The reason why the secret world summons magic-based professionals is because their research on arcane characters is enough to construct a passage connecting to the dark space. They use this shortcut to enter the secret world, stay there, and spy on the true names of the dark space spells on the other side of the passage."

“The spirit and the professional are interdependent, so when prying into the true name of the dark space spell, the professional himself will also be ‘summoned’ into the secret world.”

Sylvie: ? ? ?

She wondered to herself:

"Did I just convey a lot of obscure information?"

[Exploration +1%]

Ignoring the prompts flashing before his eyes, Li Wei seemed to be asking Sylvia, or perhaps himself:

"Tell me, has my current research on arcane characters reached the level of constructing a connection channel with the dark space?"

Sylvie retorted:

“Li Wei, I admit that you have a deep understanding of arcane characters, but you are far inferior to Teacher Fiena. As the most promising magic-based professional on Golden Island to advance to level 3 or above, Teacher Fiena has never sensed the summoning of the arcane world.”

"By the way, perhaps you could ask Aunt Frey. Teacher Fiena said that she settled in Rolling Stone Town to escape the summoning of the Secret World—strangely, in Teacher Fiena's description, Aunt Frey's knowledge of arcane language is very superficial."

Li Wei didn't have time to investigate the details of Frey's evasion of the secret world's summons.

Perhaps she is as lucky as Yulia.

He asked himself:

"My research into arcane characters clearly hasn't reached the level required to construct a channel, so why was I summoned?"

Sensing the [Source of Magic] hidden in the palm of my hand, obtained when deconstructing the bright magic stone tablet.

A very important question arose in Li Wei's mind.

Was his advancement in [Rationality] the reason he was summoned to the Secret World?

Or was he already anchored to the Secret World, using [rationality] as a springboard for being summoned by the Secret World?

If it's the former, why is there no problem with the [Element] promotion process, given the same promotion process?

If it is the latter.

This proves that being summoned to the secret world this time was not a "dead end".

It is highly likely that it was "man-made".

……

"Those big suits of armor are so cool!"

"I really want to thrust it in hard!"

The broadsword, which was a head taller than Duron and lay horizontally beside the bone's feet, said this.

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Chapter 67: Entering the Secret World

[Rationality Lv0: 99.89%] ↑0.3%

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Li Wei pinched Sylvie's right cheek and said excitedly:

"Little Freckles, I understand!"

There is no difference between advancing to the [Rationality] level and advancing to the [Elemental] level.

However, his esoteric language was insufficient to construct a passage connecting the continent of Grande and the dark space within the secret world.

Li Wei was certain that his summoning to the secret world was man-made, and if it was man-made, there was a way to break the deadlock.

He would never be like Julia, thrown from the Eastern Continent to the Northern Continent by the Secret World.

[Rationality +0.01%]

Sylvie stood frozen in place, watching Li Wei run off excitedly.

He muttered, "What has he figured out now?"

……