Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes
Chapter 216 Waking Up from a Dream (Part 2)

Chapter 216: Chapter 216 Waking Up from a Dream (Part 2)

Essentially, Amis Dust is nothing but the crystallized ember remnants left when an illusion dream burns out under the Purple Moonlight.

Prior to this, it had undergone a near-total conversion of power during the Great Sacrificial Rite.

Although it seemed that a large amount of Amis Dust was produced at once, it came at the cost of the residents’ irreplaceable essential nature of dreams.

This allowed Anvis to obtain tens of thousands units of Amis Dust in one go, but once the dream realm completely dissipated, no more Amis Dust could be produced on the island.

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The Rai Temple in the real world is obviously much more ruined than the one in the Dream Realm.

Under the soft white radiance of the Candlelight Technique, the massive ancient granite columns were slanting and fractured, and the strangely overlapping pyramid-like structures at the top of the temple had mostly collapsed.

The patterns on the mural paintings on the walls had long been blurred by the flow of time.

Examining this ancient temple in the real world, Anvis instructed Jom to cleanly cut away the section of the rock where the Rai Statue originally stood, and store it similarly in the ring.

Although the statue had vanished, a faint scent of the Old Gods’ Power still lingered in the surrounding environment.

Just as the presence of a slumbering giant dragon can turn the nearby weeds into prized magical plants due to the influence of the dragon’s magic power,

The ancient granite rock, ordinary in origin, had likewise become a special Divine Power material after being bathed in the power emanating from Rai’s avatar over countless ages.

After stowing away that highest quality divine power material, Anvis had Jom proceed to scrape off a layer from the entire inner wall of the temple.

These stones too had been affected by the Rai Force Field; although their grade wasn’t very high, they possessed a special use.

For instance, as special Spell mediums, casting certain Secret Techniques and crafting Ritual Arrays, etc.

After leaving the temple, Anvis noticed a unique wild grass also imbued with a faint Old God’s Power, growing in the environment here.

This plant somewhat resembled the Wind Bell Grass; though it looked very ordinary, the fact that it could grow near the real-world Rai Temple already proved its extraordinary nature.

After collecting some of that grass as well, Anvis left the temple area and stood at the top of the central hill, overlooking the entire Lavales Port.

With his enhanced night vision activated, the port city environment under the night sky showed a clear grey-white color,

Except for the Anomaly Zone that appeared still intact, the other parts of the city’s buildings had all turned into long-forgotten ruins and rubble.

This formed an interesting contrast with the Dream Realm where the surrounding buildings were brand new and intact, except for the Anomaly Zone which was in ruins.

And when looking far into the distance, Anvis could clearly see the dark red lava light emanating from the volcanic mouth on the horizon of the island.

Since the island was vast enough, although the volcanic eruptions among the island’s mountains were very intense, they were unlikely to affect the other side of the island where Lavales Port was situated.

Prior to this, the task panel for the Xia Ye Yinghuo stated that exploring the surface of the volcano had only a Challenge Level of 20+.

This meant one thing: it was highly likely that the Mutated Magical Beasts on the mountain surface also perished in the previous Moonlight burning.

A simple volcanic eruption actually posed not much threat to High Rank Professionals.

It’s just unknown whether the Duke and Evan, who had previously gone there to search for missing family guards, have found their target at this time.

After obtaining what they were looking for, Anvis and Jom left the Rai Temple and returned to the house in the Anomaly Zone in the town, preparing to experiment with that legendary Secret Technique on Xia Ye Yinghuo.

At this moment, Xia Ye Yinghuo, holding a bottle, was searching around for any remaining Amis Dust.

Although she had acquired a container for gathering it, due to Anvis’s passing and a sweep of spiritual power, virtually all the dust had been swept away.

The girl had no choice but to go further afield to look for any dust that might have been overlooked.

After a long while of finding nothing, she could only return to the house feeling dejected.

"Vivian... this is for you..."

However, just as she entered the door, the little girl with black hair and black eyes gave her a surprise.

"A bottle?"

Xia Ye Yinghuo took the item handed over by Lorna’s small hand with some confusion, realizing it was a transparent dark glass bottle, the mouth sealed tightly with a wooden stopper, containing a yellowed scroll inside.

[Drifting Bottle]

Grade: Common

Description: A mysterious drifting bottle, filled with a young girl’s innocence and fantasies

[Unique Task Item]

Seeing the last note, Xia Ye Yinghuo was shocked.

Is this the legendary unique task?

"Lorna, what is this..."

Holding the drifting bottle in her hands, Xia Ye Yinghuo looked at Lorna with some astonishment.

"Vivian... do you remember, the dream I once told you about?"

With her dark eyes looking at the Half-Elf girl, Lorna slowly began to speak.

As Lorna described, the life trajectory of an ordinary NPC little girl gradually appeared in Xia Ye Yinghuo’s mind.

The girl was born on this island, the boundless sea and the pale white sand beaches were her entire childhood.

But unlike her peers, the girl was unusually curious and longing for the things on the other side of the sea.

Thus, she wrote her name and her desire to know about the outside world on a piece of paper, put it into a bottle, and then tossed the bottle into the boundless sea.

But soon, the girl realized that no matter where she threw the bottle from, it always ended up following the currents back to the same shore where she released the bottle.

For a time, the naive girl fell into a low spirit.

She thought that the whole world was just this boring island, that the edge of the sea was the edge of the world. The bottle returned because it hit the edge of the world.

Until one day, an old man on the island saw her dispirited, and then told her a secret — a secret passed down from his grandfather.

If she wanted the drifting bottle to leave the island, she had to throw it from the other side of the island’s mountains, from the tallest cliff there.

Only there, where the currents are drastically different from the rest of the island, could the bottle truly be taken to the other side of the sea.

However, no one has ever really reached there because it requires passing through the island’s dense jungles, silent desolate wilderness, and ancient evil mountains.

’Can’t we just take a boat around to the other side of the island?’

The still young girl naïvely asked.

’A boat?’

The old man laughed.

’No boat can survive the assaults of those sea monsters.’