The two weapons that were thrown out spun around and flew back again, each slicing through a cavalry's helmet. Not only that, they hovered spinning around the boy, until he reached out both hands, then they stopped spinning and fell into his hands.

Immediately, applause once again resounded through the field, enduring and endless.

Jones stood up slowly, tidied his attire, and then loudly said: "First, let me make it clear. This... incredible boy you see, Hassan, is a student of our Giant Snake City Magic Academy, recommended for admission by Duke Beisher, who is also my Aunt Yilin. However, throughout the entire duel, he did not use any magic. And furthermore... we are actually displaying two weapons."

"Two?"

"Do two sickles each count as one?"

The audience began to murmur softly.

Sitting on the opposite chairman's stand of the training ground, Yilin, clad in armor, quietly craned her neck, carefully watching the field, trying to find out what the other weapon was.

"Hassan, show them what the other weapon is." Jones shouted loudly.

Standing on the field, Hassan slightly bowed in salute, then stepped towards one of the cavalry's "corpse", reaching down to pick up a helmet that had fallen on the ground, shaking it gently.

What fell out was not a head, but a wooden carving. A wooden carving inlaid with a red gemstone, remarkably resembling a human face.

"Yes, these knights. They are also the weapon we're displaying."

Immediately, exclamations filled the field once again, enduring and endless.

Yilin and Benedict II were both bewildered.

Andrew and Turuk stood by quietly watching, letting out a slow sigh.

...

"In the past, we always strove for the power of weapons. But now, we have changed this mindset. In fact, weapons don't necessarily have to be powerful. As long as they can triumph over the opponent's weapon, they are good weapons. Much like a duel between knights, as long as you can thrust the sword into the opponent's chest, that's enough. As for the strength, that's not actually the focus. Sometimes, excessive power is actually a waste."

"For the new weapons, we will focus on intelligence. As everyone has seen, excellent intelligence combined with a certain level of magic power can turn the tide in extreme situations. This time, we invited everyone here to showcase these weapons that ordinary people can use, which possess a powerful winning ability."

After the demonstration, there was a banquet.

Jones diligently explained to the visiting lords about the awe-inspiring weapons. Young Hassan closely followed beside him, responding to the lords' inquiries.

Honestly, compared to previous energy-storing weapons, these weapons were more powerful by more than just one or two levels. It's not an exaggeration to describe it as crushing. Why did they suddenly become so powerful?

Because of the "Mystery of Krimasha."

"Their research direction is completely different from ours." As the dean of the Magic Academy, Aikleion explained to the other Lich companions summoned back to watch the experiment: "We all possess powerful magic power, so our pursuit of magic is also of great potency. Humans don't have that. Therefore, human magic emphasizes the use of limited magic power. When I first began researching the magic secrets of Krimasha, I was truly shocked. It turns out magic can be used this way..."

"Among the items we have restored, the most outstanding one is the Crystal Core." Aikleion took out a thumb-sized red crystal, with its interior full of engraved runes and slightly flickering magic power flowing: "A very ingenious thing. I believe they are imitating the structure of life, this is a kind of life they created. It possesses a certain degree of intelligence but has no self-awareness. They used this to create 'extensions'.

"Extensions?" Lich Babuti whispered: "I don't understand."

"It's like their limbs, similar to our Skeleton Soldiers. The difference is, their limbs need to be attached to their bodies, connected with their brains. Our Skeleton Soldiers are actually extensions of our soul, requiring strong magic power support. However, the creations made with Crystal Cores don't need that. You can imagine it as a lifeform set to obey a certain person. And communication is through consciousness. Once adapted, even ordinary humans can manipulate them at will. It could be a wooden cavalryman similar to an Undead Knight, or a spinning sickle in the air. The magic power needed is very, very little, and we can solve the operator's magic power issue with Morodur Stones, then complete very precise operations."

"Oh my... how did they do it?" Babuti's eyes twinkled as she scrutinized the Crystal Core, trying to discern some meanings from it.

"Stop looking, we've already researched for a long time, but have only scratched the surface." Aikleion continued to introduce: "Remember what I said at the beginning? 'Restore', yes, 'restore'. This small Crystal Core contains at least ten million magical runes, interconnected in different ways. Any single rune can be easily understood if taken alone, but when all together, we get confused... yes, completely confused. Whatever adjustments we make, it ultimately leads to the Crystal Core's collapse. There are just too many things to consider, to the point that even the brains of Ten-thousand-year-old Liches are not enough. We have every reason to believe that the things inside this small Crystal Core were designed by at least tens of thousands of humans, perhaps more, and they must have gone through countless experiments and failures to finally create it. Embedding the contents entirely inside the Crystal Core made it convenient for replication. In essence, we simply replicated their creations. Attaching this to a magical item and linking it with one's consciousness, you then need to tame them like pets. I actually suspect they have already created highly intelligent magical lifeforms, but we just haven't gotten any materials on that aspect, yet."

The Liches around all let out exclamations.

"Besides this, is there more?" Babuti asked quietly.

"Of course, a lot, but most of it we still can't fully figure out." Aikleion said excitedly: "As I said before, their approach is entirely different from ours. Their understanding of magic runes and the use of magical materials have reached a mind-boggling level. Pursuing ultimate precision."

"Ultimate precision? I like that phrase, I also like to pursue ultimate precision."

"But your ultimate precision is only yours. Even as a Lich, to what extent can you pursue ultimate precision? A day for one experiment, how long will it take you to conduct a million experiments? How much time is spent collecting materials? They have vast resources, enabling countless experiments. The key is, they have enough spellcasters too. Every spellcaster is pursuing ultimate precision, and their experimental results are shared among them. This leads to a terrifying result. That is, if it's just one human from the Krimasha era, they wouldn't be extraordinarily powerful. But if there are hundred thousand of them, it becomes terribly frightening. They leverage manpower accumulation and inheritance to challenge races that are infinitely times stronger. I even suspect if Krimasha reappears, completely, our White Bone Holy Light Court may actually not be able to defeat them."

"We could lose to humans?"

"I used to find it unbelievable too, but if you have seen what we obtained from them, you would believe as I do. Their way of thinking and pursuit is entirely different from ours. Thinking this way, you would understand why Heaven and Hell both wish for them to disappear from this world. Humans are far scarier than you or I could ever imagine."

After speaking, surrounded by Aikleion, the Liches who did not participate in cracking the Mystery of Krimasha all fell silent.

These were things they had never thought of... so magical civilization could be developed like this.

But, such a powerful civilization, how did they meet their demise?

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