The sudden appearance of the gleaming stele in the tunnel had left not only Shi Feng excited, but every member of the group staring at the incomplete stone tablet with curiosity and astonishment. None of them had expected that the trial monsters, which had never dropped anything of note before, would finally yield a stele.
"This stele is incredible! Just sitting there, it's caused the ambient mana to skyrocket — the surrounding space itself feels heavier," Silent Star said slowly, sensing the spatial distortions the incomplete stele had caused. "If a Tier 2 Class player tried to approach it, I doubt they could even get close."
The Violet Sword members watching from the side couldn't help but feel a pang of regret.
The stele's extraordinary nature was obvious to even a fool, but during this secret realm expedition, aside from the trial boss's drops, everything else they found belonged to Zero Wing. That had been agreed upon beforehand, and all they could do was stand by and watch.
"What exactly is this stele? Not only can I not read any data on it, I can't even touch it — it's as if this tablet doesn't even exist in this space." Water Blue Rose's expression darkened as she approached the stele. "Could this just be a projection?"
If such a treasure turned out to be nothing more than a projection, their excitement would have been for nothing.
A stele like this, even if its data couldn't be read and its purpose was unknown, could still serve as room décor back home — boosting the mana density of a room and providing considerable benefits for player training.
"This isn't a projection. We simply can't touch it," Shi Feng said with a smile.
"Guild Leader, how can you still smile? If we can't touch it, then we're stuck just staring at this stele," Water Blue Rose said, growing anxious at Shi Feng's complete lack of concern.
In the Divine Realm, storing any item required a basic prerequisite: you had to be able to touch it. If they couldn't even make contact, how could they possibly take the stele with them?
"Staring at it is indeed all we can do," Shi Feng said, nodding with a grin. "Because this stele isn't something that can be taken away. The only thing we can carry out of here is the information inside it."
Ancient Inheritance Steles were unfamiliar to most current Divine Realm players, since they only appeared in ancient ruins or secret realms.
Every appearance of an Ancient Inheritance Stele in history had triggered a bloodbath.
Within these steles were recorded lost technologies of ancient civilizations — and they were absolutely unique. Whoever mastered such technology would see their guild undergo a qualitative leap forward.
In the history of the Divine Realm, Ancient Inheritance Steles had appeared a grand total of five times.
Ten years of real time corresponded to twenty years within the Divine Realm, and across that vast stretch of time, only five had ever surfaced. Their value could hardly be overstated.
That was precisely why Shi Feng had been so excited.
"Carry out the information inside?" Water Blue Rose stared at the stele, completely baffled. She couldn't fathom how Shi Feng planned to extract the information.
The stele couldn't be touched at all, and even a Master-tier Appraisal failed to pull up any data — so how could he possibly take the information from it?
"It's perfectly normal that conventional methods can't read the data inside the stele. The data stored within is both massive and disorganized. The only way to extract the information is to record the magic arrays on the stele's surface," Shi Feng explained calmly.
"Record the magic arrays?" Water Blue Rose gaped at the incomplete stele, her mouth falling open.
There were easily thirty to forty magic arrays on the stele's surface, and the simplest ones she could even begin to comprehend were Advanced-tier magic arrays. Recording them all was practically a joke.
They could only remain in the trial space for five days. Even learning a single Advanced-tier magic array under normal circumstances would take the better part of half a day — let alone the higher-tier arrays above that.
"Don't worry. This might be difficult for others, but for me it isn't — it'll just take some time." Shi Feng looked at the stele and spoke with absolute confidence. "In the meantime, you'll take command of the team and continue clearing out those trial monsters."