Mage Legend
Chapter 48: Episode 6 Brightness

Chapter 48: Episode 6 Brightness

Lynch rubbed the swollen bump on his head, quietly sitting on the deck chair in front of Moni’s house, looking at his new left arm. It can be said that this arm is the highest level of craftsmanship among all the magic items Lynch has ever seen. The entire arm is now perfectly connected to his shoulder, with every joint able to move according to the mage’s thoughts. Although there is still a noticeable time delay between the brain issuing a movement command and the arm responding, as Lynch becomes more familiar with the features of the arm, this delay gradually becomes less noticeable.

Indeed, this is a near-perfect creation. Looking across the entire continent, perhaps there wouldn’t be a second item of such high level. Of course, various Divine Artifacts are excluded from this range, as Divine Artifacts already belong to the creations of the gods, reaching heights unattainable by mortals. However, this arm should not be a Divine Artifact. Two hundred years ago, a former Great Mage of the Mage Association used an extremely powerful item location spell to collect 36 high-level Divine Artifacts from across the continent. These Divine Artifacts were documented and hidden in various secret towers of the Mage Association; even lower-grade Divine Artifacts were collected as well. It can be said that there shouldn’t be a Divine Artifact unknown to the Mage Association in this world, especially not in a place without any protection to prevent Detect Magic, where it would be impossible to hide a Divine Artifact Level advanced magic item.

So, who exactly created this arm, and for whom? Lynch pondered deeply but couldn’t figure out the answer. The arm was obviously made for some humanoid creature who lost its left hand, but no famous person in history was known to have such an arm.

"Who cares, as long as it works." Lynch tried moving the joints again. The only drawback of this arm is its terrifying weight. The hardness of Refined Gold is extremely high, which means its density is also higher than that of ordinary metals. The weight of an iron arm of that size would already feel incredibly heavy, not to mention Refined Gold, which is several times heavier than iron.

Lynch now can only rely on the armrest of the chair to support this arm. He currently doesn’t have the strength to endure having such a heavy object hanging on one side of his body all day.

The mage laid the tablet flat on his knees and began studying the text on it again. In the days following the installation of the arm, aside from the initial intense pain that made it impossible for him to concentrate on thinking, Lynch devoted all his time to studying this tablet. He employed every method he knew to decipher writings, attempting to find reading patterns in the chaotic characters. He believed that if he discovered the specific order of the letters, he could uncover the secrets of the tablet. However, after trying over a hundred different approaches in the past few days, he hadn’t found the slightest clue.

The left armrest of the chair groaned with a cracking sound as it broke, and Lynch quickly lifted his hand back onto his lap, but he was still a step too late. Under the immense weight of the fake arm, the wooden armrest was completely shattered—this was the 16th chair that had been crushed.

Moni’s magic level had rapidly advanced in recent days because he constantly needed to use spells to repair these broken items.

Lynch looked at his left arm, reminding himself that even when he could use it skillfully and flexibly, he must always remember its weight factor. He must never forget the hardness and weight it possessed—this arm, in a certain sense, was not much different from a battering ram used to attack city gates.

The left arm lay quietly flat on Lynch’s left leg, with half of its right side pressed against the character-covered tablet. When Lynch looked down, he was shocked, his jaw dropping. The red pattern lines carved on the arm were exactly aligned with the character arrangement on the tablet. A slight movement to align them revealed the patterns on the arm precisely pointed out and highlighted several letters on the tablet.

This discovery made Lynch very excited. He placed his left hand on the far left of the tablet, rotating his arm, and finally found that when his palm was facing up, the patterns on the arm corresponded to a meaningful word on the tablet. He rotated his arm, rolling it to the right side of the tablet, and the patterns rotated with it, marking different sequences of meaningful words. These words, when connected, formed the phrase "Under the full moon’s light, use an acorn to smash the tablet to obtain Ao." Lynch rotated the tablet clockwise from another edge and, using the same method, found another sentence. Finally, connecting the four sentences he obtained, it read: "Under the full moon’s light, use an acorn to smash the tablet to obtain the arcane truth: secret technique principles, magical creation, high-level creation, boundary mechanisms, and secret divine power. This is the original source, and also the final point of obliteration."