Only a few hundred meters away from the place where everyone was attacked, Gawain found the small wooden house that had been transformed into ruins.

It collapsed between the trees. From the burning traces, it can be judged that it was a fire that destroyed it from the inside out, but the fire did not spread further away - perhaps a rain saved the forest in time. Knight Byron inspected the remaining traces around the wooden house and determined that the fire should have happened more than half a month ago.

Hetty detected a very thin magic reaction on the spot.

"What we see in the shadow world should be a reflection," Gao Wen looked at the wooden house that had been transformed into ruins in the clearings in the forest, and said his own judgment. "This wild mage has lived in seclusion in this place for many years. It is outside the territory, and even hunters will not come here, so no one knows that there has been a hermit living here."

"The problem is...how did the accident happen?" Hetty frowned. "There is only a weak magic focus here, and the wild mage who lives here is also very weak. Even if one of his magic experiments is out of control and burned the house, it is impossible to create a long-term projection in the Shadow Realm, and such a powerful fog of vengeful spirits has been generated... The magic required for all this is not something that a wild mage can provide."

"Maybe this note can answer your doubts." Gao Wen said, handing a worn notebook to Hedy.

That was the note I got from Betty in the Shadow World before. It was both the diary of the unknown wild mage and the research notes.

Hetty followed Gao Wen's instructions to open the second half of the notes and read them carefully.

"...Ansu 729, Fire Month, XX Day. It has been half a year since he moved to this place and found a magic focus on the edge of the Cecil family's territory. Although the intensity cannot be compared with the public magic focus of the Thousand Towers City, it is enough to support my laboratory. The elemental power here is single and stable, and Anne's condition should be relieved.

"Ansu 729, the month of harvest, XX. Annie's situation seems to have improved. She has not had another attack for a long time - but I don't know if the environment here has worked, or if my rituals and potions are really effective. The magic focus here is too weak, and even with the help of the amplification array, my ritual effect will be greatly reduced. Perhaps I should reconsider the formulas I have deduced before... Although the people at the Secret Dharma Assembly always mocked my calculations, I have already left the Secret Dharma Assembly, and they can't control it here...

"Ansu 730 Years, Fog Month, XX Day. Those formulas and derivations are exactly in line with expectations! No, it should be said that the development of facts is as I calculated - under the new amplification method, the power of the magic focus has been greatly enhanced! With the help of the extra magic power, I can finally start the next stage of treatment for Anne. Although she has hardly developed any more illness in the past few months, the treatment must continue because she can no longer withstand more tossing...

"Ansu 731, the cold moon, XX. After treatment, Anne could get up and walk around, and even cooked a meal! There were fried sausages and vegetable soup. I felt that I hadn't eaten such delicious food in a hundred years - although the sausages were pasted, I forgot to put salt in the vegetable soup... It turns out that my treatment plan is effective, and as long as this magic focus here can continue to supply magic steadily, Anne's recovery will be just around the corner..."

After that, the diary content was more about the daily life of the writer and his daughter. Hetty quickly skipped this part until a sloppy and messy record appeared on the last few pages:

"Ansu 734, Frost Month, XX Day. Anne fell ill. Damn it!!

"I don't know what went wrong, all the treatments were going as planned, every step of the ceremony was not wrong, and the potion was also--it was used for several years, and there was never a problem! But Anne still got sick, and was seriously ill... worse than every time before. I had to find the cause as soon as possible. I want to record all the details, all... I want to find the cause. Anne will be fine...

"Ansu 734, Frost Moon, XX Day. Anne still has not improved, the new potion has no effect, she is still weakening, and... is gradually moving away from this world. This morning, I saw her hands becoming transparent like fog, and there were many blisters on her face. This world is repelling her and pushing her to the shadow world. What should I do...

"Ansu 734, fog moon, XX day. That damn sun, its dark red patterns seem to be mocking my weakness! I finally found the problem, but I was unable to solve it... Elements are enriched, abnormally enriched, and magic is rising. This weak magic focus cannot accommodate excessive magic power at all. Even if I remove those amplification arrays, it will be useless. It is wise to keep Anne away from the places where elemental enrichment is available at this time, but she has been in this place for too long. Her body resonates with the elemental environment here. This resonance continues her life... but it will take her life again!

"Ansu 734, fog moon, XX day. The magic power in the entire area was not right, and it was churning so hard that the boundary of Cecil's leader seemed to have fallen into the legendary sea of ​​magic. I could no longer reverse the changes in Anne. Her half of her body had left the material world. In the morning, she even said that she saw the whole house turned black and white. Perhaps... I could only find another way...

"In 735, Fire Moon. The long-term preparation was finally over, and Anne's weakness reached its limit.

“This is my only chance, there is no other choice.

“Since I can’t let Anne survive in the material world, it’s better to choose another way.

"The ritual of shadow transformation is recorded in the book, but the magic power required is unimaginable, but for me, it may not be impossible to achieve. I used new amplification formulas and magic circle drawing methods, and will use the power of magic power to surge. The magic power in this area is in an abnormally active state. The energy accumulated in the focus of magic power was suppressed by me for several months, and today it is finally almost enough. Next, just wait until the sun rises to the middle and the magic power is the most powerful, I can start to transform.

"Annie, hold on, Dad will save you, and Dad will accompany you to the Shadow World, we will live there for a long time, and you will never feel pain again."

The diary ends here.

Hedy was about to close the diary, but Gao Wen suddenly pointed to the corner of the last page: "There are actually a few words here."

Hetty quickly looked at it in a scattered black ink stain in the corner. She originally thought it was caused by the dirt caused by knocking over the ink bottle, but now after careful identification, she realized that it was actually a scribbled handwriting written by her fingers with ink:

"The magic is out of control...the sun is red..."

Hetty repeated these words unknownly: "The sun is red...How could the sun be red?"

"Is it the last time the red spots broke out?" Rebecca said as if he suddenly remembered something, "It was more than half a month ago. There were much more red spots on the surface of the sun than usual. If this wild mage was not very conscious at the time, he might think that the sun was red..."

Hetty blinked, as if accepting Rebecca's statement. Then she shook the notes in her hand: "If you have this note, you can explain a lot of things clearly. It seems that this unknown wizard set up a large magic array here in order to cure his daughter. Later, he came up with the crazy idea of ​​transforming himself and his daughter into shadow forms to continue his life. However, his transformation ritual was out of control due to the rise of magic power, which led to the fire half a month ago, and also led to the formation of the fog of the vengeful spirit, as well as the ancestors saw in the shadow world..."

"None of these are the key points," Gao Wen suddenly interrupted Hetty. "Whether it is the fog of the vengeful spirit or the wooden house of the Shadow Realm, these can be directly explained in the notes. What I want you to look at are the details mentioned in the notes - once about the dark red patterns on the surface of the sun, and the other is the large-scale red spot explosion on the surface of the sun."

Hetty noticed the serious expression on Gao Wen's face and became nervous: "Ancestor, these two things..."

Gao Wen waved his hand: "In addition, the magic power mentioned by this wild mage in his diary is rising. You two should have some perceptions as mages, right?"

Heti and Rebecca looked at each other and nodded at the same time: "In recent times, there have been magic surges on the Cecil Territory several times, but it is normal for magic surges to rise and fall - all magic power in the world comes from the sun, and the sun is constantly changing every moment, so the magic power on the ground will naturally rise and fall. Although the magic surges within the territory in recent times, it has not been as important as it is concerned."

Gao Wen looked at the two of them and said slowly: "In 1736, the Empire reported that large-scale dark red patterns appeared on the surface of the sun. In 1738, the largest red spot explosion in history was observed. Nearly half of the surface of the sun was covered with red spots. In the same year, 26 provinces in the empire reported a large-scale magic surge. The surge was not large in scale, but the scope covered nearly two-thirds of the country. In 1739, the bloody sun was in the sky, and the whole country was shrouded in the dark red sky, but there was no disaster at that time, but there were a large number of them.

The birth of babies with outstanding magical talents. According to records, nearly one-third of the newborns born on that day have natural element affinity. Newborn detection institutions in various places even had shortage of resonance stones, so the palace scholars announced that they would call that day 'Magic Dawn'. But in the same year, a big explosion occurred in the largest magic power supply facility near the Gondor Capital, the cause of the explosion was that the magic focus of the Deep Blue Well was suddenly filled with chaotic and powerful magic power. The magic array could not handle these chaotic forces, which eventually led to the melting of the furnace heart..."

Gao Wen stopped, but Hetty continued with a pale face: "... In 1740, the magic tide broke out, and the most powerful human empire in history was destroyed within a few months..."
Chapter completed!