Wizard: Starting from the Skill Tree

In Duke’s mind, it’s no longer the static engravings on the stone slab, but the majestic illusion of a giant roaring to the sky, shaking mountains with his fists, supporting the sky with his spine, and communicating with the earth veins through blood.

Countless fragments of primitive and arcane insights, like fragments of stars, fell upon him, attempting to imprint themselves in his Spiritual Sea.

The contents recorded on this stone slab are by no means ordinary magic.

It’s more like an ancient legacy pointing directly to the source of power, possibly even touching upon rules, its complexity and profundity far exceeding any Level 1 Magic, potentially involving Level 2 and even higher levels of the truth of power.

Duke let out a muffled grunt, forcibly stabilizing his mind, the Six-element Compound Spiritual Crystal operating frantically, striving to digest and analyze this flood of information.

However, this legacy is too vast, with an astonishingly high information density, and the rule intent it contains vastly differs from his existing knowledge system.

It’s like a primary school student suddenly facing an ultimate problem in advanced mathematics, he can feel its grandeur and power but cannot understand even a fraction of it in a short time.

"No... too complicated, too profound. The level of this stone slab’s legacy is too high, without the corresponding foundational knowledge and enough time to immerse in it, forcibly comprehending it not only has low efficiency but may damage the spirit due to misunderstanding, possibly causing a backlash."

Duke swiftly judged in his heart, beads of sweat already forming on his forehead.

Just this initial contact has consumed a large amount of his Spiritual Power.

At this moment, his constantly vigilant Perception Ability sharply detected a slight but distinctly unnatural energy disturbance coming from the triangular entrance he came through, along with faintly suppressed footsteps and the rustling of clothes.

"Someone is coming, more than one. They’re moving quickly and closing in." Duke’s eyes narrowed.

Clearly, the noise from the previous element bombardment or the commotion from the opening of this ancient blood door attracted other competitors exploring the ruins.

At this moment, Duke faced a choice.

Either stay here, risking being discovered by the newcomers, getting involved in a fight or even an assault, to continue attempting to comprehend this evidently hard-to-crack nut in a short period.

Or give up understanding, leave immediately.

But facing this invaluable ancient legacy stone slab, can he truly be willing to abandon it?

Duke could foresee that the value contained in this stone slab far exceeds imagination, and giving up would be too unfortunate.

He could also choose to stay and take on whoever comes.

But doing so would be extremely unwise, and Duke wasn’t arrogant enough to think he could take on everyone single-handedly.

There are so many people entering the ruins, they could exhaust him to death; staying here to comprehend it continuously is impossible.

"Might as well... just take this stone slab along?"

Duke’s gaze again fell on the nearly hundred-meter-tall dark-golden stone slab, like a small mountain.

This thought seemed absurd, such a massive object, a regular Space Ring’s capacity could hardly fit even a corner.

Moreover, these ancient slabs containing special energy and material are extremely difficult to be encompassed by ordinary space equipment; forced attempts would only lead to the collapse of space equipment.

The Space Ring Duke currently possesses can’t accommodate such a gigantic stone slab, and he can roughly see that this slab cannot fit into general space equipment.

Ordinary wizard’s space equipment probably can’t fit this thing, nor can it be fitted inside.

But if others have no way, Duke does.

He subconsciously sensed the Light God Court, although it’s still just a nascent plane, it’s at least at the plane level, completely capable of holding this stone slab.

The difficulty lies in how to extract this colossal thing from the base closely bound to the ruin’s earth veins, and the process mustn’t be slow, it has to be completed before people outside burst in.

First, Duke needs to sever the connection between the stone slab and the ruins’ earth veins. He pressed his palms forcefully on the dark green ground at the edge of the stone slab’s base.

Spiritual Power, like numerous fine probes, spread down along the stone slab base, sensing the invisible yet resilient ancient rune connection that anchors the stone slab to the earth vein energy nodes.

With a thought, the metallic sand surrounding Duke instantly divided into a stream, like countless tiny drills with energy absorption and erosion characteristics, frantically digging into the ground, heading towards those hidden rune connection points.

Meanwhile, he mobilized the power of Metallic Yellow Sand, forming miniature gravity collapse points, precisely acting on those rune nodes, in conjunction with the erosion by Metallic Yellow Sand, attacking from both inside and outside to break down their structural stability.

Creaaaak... Craaaack...

Fine yet chilling cracking sounds emanated from deep within the stone slab base.

The massive stone slab slightly trembled, and the light flowing on its surface showed a brief turbulence.

Seeing this state, Duke knew it was effective, but the pace was too slow.

At this rate, it would take at least half an hour to completely cut the connection.

The disturbances from afar grew clearer; there was no time left.

Duke gritted his teeth, yellow sand surged instantly around him, a large amount of sand drilled underground, circling beneath the massive stone slab, then forming a huge net attempting to forcibly uncover this stone slab.

Seeing such a scene, anyone would probably be dumbfounded.

When setting up this ruin, the officials of the Seville Empire probably never imagined someone would want to take the entire stone slab away.

The sand rapidly accumulated, hardened, deformed. Under Duke’s exquisite Spiritual Power manipulation, it condensed beneath the stone slab and the base into dozens of immensely thick giant wedges and levers with spiral patterns.

At the same time, Duke reverse utilized the effect of Gravity Yellow Sand.

A powerful upward gravity field was created above the stone slab, like countless invisible giant hands lifting it upwards.

"Huh——!!!"

Duke’s forehead veins bulged, and his face became instantly pale.

The Magic Power inside him flowed into the Metallic Yellow Sand like a floodgate opening.

Simultaneously controlling so many lines, with intense, high-precision manipulation, was an unprecedentedly terrifying drain on his Spiritual Power, Magic Power, and physical strength.

He felt as if his Spiritual Sea was being emptied, and even his body stung faintly due to the rampant surge of Magic Power, but his gaze still locked tightly on the trembling giant stone slab.

If not for the Earth Spring continuously replenishing his Magic Power, it would have been emptied instantly.

Shortly afterward, under the pry of the sand’s giant wedges, the exertion of the sand’s levers, and the lifting by the reverse gravity field, the stone slab that had been dormant for countless millennia emitted an earth-shattering roar.