Chapter 253: Phylactery

Chapter 253 Phylactery

Jasmine wore a look of sheer astonishment.

She knew Li Wei would claim first place.

But she never expected Li Wei to gain so many credits.

He had actually earned thirty-two credits.

The second place had only fourteen point five credits.

Compared to past results, this was quite good.

Yet it was not even half of Li Wei's.

Jasmine fell silent for a moment, swiped her finger, and several lines of magical text floated in midair.

Kulu looked up, finding his own name in the third place.

He felt somewhat annoyed; last time he took second place, never expecting to drop this time.

Who took first place this time?

Looking up, he saw Li Wei's credits and froze straight where he stood.

Seeing the results published, everyone looked up one after another.

Seeing the credits of the first place.

Everyone stood dumbstruck.

Eyes wide open, unable to believe it.

After a long while, someone finally came to their senses.

"Who is this Li Wei? Do we have this person in our class?"

Someone voiced the question.

"No."

"Could it be that person auditing the practical combat course?"

"Impossible, he is only a tier-two mage, how could he gain so many credits?"

"But there were no others inside the secret realm."

"He must have cheated."

"Do you remember that great explosion inside the secret realm? That was absolutely a tier-five spell!"

"Someone used a tier-five magic scroll inside the secret realm."

"Impossible, right? Tier-five magic scrolls are priceless, who would be silly enough to use one to blast skeleton monsters for credits?"

"Hmph, if one tier-five magic scroll could earn you thirty-plus credits, would you trade it or not?"

"Ah this... seems like not much of a loss."

Hearing the crowd's discussion, Kulu also grew suspicious.

Could it really be so?

He looked left and right, searching for Li Wei's figure.

Li Wei had already left long ago.

Kulu nodded silently, thinking it might be so.

Otherwise, Li Wei could not have survived from the hands of the death knight.

But he could not forget Li Wei's peculiar spells.

Li Wei did not look like a weakling; his spells could easily instant-kill tier-four giant skeletons.

For a moment, Kulu did not know which to believe.

Jasmine glanced at the crowd discussing fiercely, offering no explanation.

She turned and left.

With her departure, the magical text in the air vanished as well.

Li Wei's name scattered with the wind.

Yet in the crowd's discussion it grew increasingly heated.

Everyone wanted to find Li Wei and ask clearly, how exactly did he gain so many credits.

Li Wei had now returned to Zhuangyan.

"Hungry ah!"

Li Wei's stomach growled.

Had not eaten for a day.

Already starving beyond measure.

But thinking of the pain eating brought, Li Wei felt he could endure a bit longer.

Li Wei glanced at the space ring.

Did not dare take out the dragon heart for a moment, fearing the dragon heart's aura leaking to attract greed.

But he also wanted to know what exactly was the test tube inside the bone palace?

Li Wei pondered repeatedly, took out the coffin lid to find Valen.

"Tutor Valen, I obtained a very special thing in the ancient battlefield, any attack cannot destroy it, what is this?"

When Li Wei found Valen, he was resting.

So he directly took out the coffin lid for Valen to see.

Valen took the coffin lid, studied it for a moment, then showed a look of surprise.

"This... seems like a lich's phylactery!" "Where did you find this thing?"

Valen was also very surprised.

The phylactery is a lich's life root.

They can be immortal and indestructible, relying on the phylactery.

Ordinary people fundamentally cannot contact a lich's phylactery.

Li Wei showed a look of surprise, "Tutor, are you sure this is a phylactery?"

He also had some understanding of liches.

Liches are usually very powerful.

Because, liches are mages who through some special means transform themselves into undead creatures, thereby gaining nearly immortal and undying lifespan.

Mages capable of transforming into liches are absolutely the strong ones among mages.

Even after becoming a lich, many spells from their living life cannot be used.

Yet it remained immensely powerful.

A lich's lifespan is exceedingly long.

The longer they live, the more terrifying their power becomes.

The ancient battlefield has existed for thousands of years.

No one knows how long the liches within the ancient battlefield have lived.

A lich of mere hundreds of years is already incomparably strong.

A lich of the thousand-year level is someone even Legends dare not provoke.

Levi suddenly produced a lich's phylactery lid, unsettling even Valen.

Valen took up his tools and examined it repeatedly.

After a long while, he spoke with a slightly grave expression, "Indeed, this is absolutely a lich's phylactery."

"In the past, I heard rumors of people sighting liches within the ancient battlefield, but there was never proof; it seems now it was no mere rumor."

"However, with the phylactery lid lost, that lich's situation is likely quite dire."

Levi felt a touch of shame.

To be honest, the owner had voluntarily discarded this lid.

Holding the sarcophagus lid, Valen said, "According to my tests, this might even belong to a Legend-level lich!"

Hearing this, Levi's heart seized.

Legend!

A Legend-level lich.

Either a powerful lich who has lived for hundreds of years.

Or one who was once a Legend mage, becoming a Legend upon transmigrating into a lich.

But regardless of which, it represents absolute, formidable power.

Valen returned the sarcophagus lid to Levi, comforting him, "Do not worry too much; if you could find the phylactery lid, that lich has likely perished."

Bitterness swelled in Levi's heart; he knew that lich was not yet dead.

Not only that, but he held the lich's true phylactery in his hands.

Levi now understood what the Dragon Heart was.

The sarcophagus was the second layer of phylactery protecting the Dragon Heart.

The Dragon Heart was the lich's true phylactery.

Levi asked indirectly, "Mentor Valen, what do liches typically use to craft a phylactery?"

Valen shook his head and said, "I am not too knowledgeable about this aspect."

"Generally speaking, mages wishing to transmigrate into liches will select objects capable of long preservation to craft a phylactery, thus allowing them to live longer."

Levi said, "Are there liches who use a Dragon Heart as a phylactery?"

Valen glanced at him strangely, "Using a dragon's heart as a phylactery?"

Levi nodded.

He pondered for a moment and replied, "That sounds like a rather good choice."

"Dragons are born with exceedingly long lifespans; even the elf clan, famous for their longevity, cannot compare to dragons in this regard."

"The vast majority of dragons can easily survive for thousands of years; a few can live over ten thousand years, or even longer."

"As one of a dragon's most powerful organs, the Dragon Heart naturally possesses immense vitality, remaining active for quite some time even after being extracted."

"If used to craft a phylactery, one could call it a living phylactery."

"If preserved well, one could nearly attain a lifespan identical to that of a dragon."

"Why would you think of this?" Valen asked.

Levi casually fabricated a reason.

"When I was bathing in dragon blood, I happened upon a dragon corpse missing its heart."

Speaking thus, he suddenly froze.

It felt incredibly coincidental.

Was this truly a coincidence?

(End of Chapter)