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Locke looked at the opened stone door, glanced back at the green half-dragon who seemed very afraid of the stone chamber, observed for a moment to confirm there were no problems, then walked inside.
However, the moment he entered behind the stone door, countless lights suddenly bloomed in the air. These lights flowed like water.
Throughout the entire stone chamber, from every brick to every speck of dust, this azure blue radiance that flowed like water moved. Even the surface of Locke's body skin began flowing with this substance that seemed like water yet also like light, a substance that didn't exist in the natural world.
Before closing the stone door, the green half-dragon shopkeeper bowed to Locke. "Usage time is 24 hours."
"During this period, you may use the Queen's Chessboard as you please."
Locke nodded. As the stone door closed, Locke knew this stone chamber was the most famous historical layer essence of the Queen's Chessboard.
In the Queen's Chessboard, the past, present, and future of anything would be summoned and exist in the form of Force.
In this special area where the Force was summoned, the essence within all material bodies would be forced to manifest.
Locke didn't actually know much about what essence specifically was. He only knew that books said all things had essence, it was just a question of quantity and quality.
Essence seemed to be something at the Force level, the source material of life and matter, the foundation on which all things existed. It was extremely important.
One great danger of the Queen's Chessboard was precisely this. Having life essence forcibly manifested was very dangerous for the wizard operating this magical artifact. It was equivalent to an egg without a shell. If one's own essence was contaminated in any way, the consequences would be very serious.
Locke used his permanent defensive field Life Force Field. Immediately, emerald green crystalline barriers enveloped his body, preventing his own essence from being forcibly manifested.
A wizard's permanent defensive field could resist the Force torrent within magical artifacts that forced essence to manifest, but a First Circle wizard's permanent defensive field wasn't strong enough, which was why it appeared dangerous.
However, Locke was currently using both Abyssal Energy, Myst's Power, and Life Heavy Armor at the same time. Sure enough, under the two special permanent defensive fields, his own life essence completely stopped manifesting.
Locke walked within the stone chamber. He saw many objects suspended from the ceiling of the stone chamber by special magical threads. These threads combined together like the squares of a chessboard.
"Is this the domain that only high-circle wizards can research, essence?"
Locke's finger touched a magic wand hanging from the threads, suspended downward. He saw the wand's surface display special essence. But after Locke's finger touched this essence, it didn't change its quantity, quality, or state, only slightly changed its nature.
This essence was touched back into the wand by Locke's finger. But this wand, whose essence had been slightly changed due to contact with his finger, still had unchanged magic pressure. It was still a First Circle limit magic pressure wand, naturally possessing 9999 magic pressure.
"Just as the books say, for First Circle wizards and even Second Circle wizards, essence is completely mysterious. Even if you change an object's essence, it's as if nothing happened at all."
"The magic pressure level, spirituality level, and three-dimensional microscopic level have not changed. No characteristics have changed. This can only be observed with equipment that can observe the Force level, and although there's no change now, the future will be changed by me."
Locke walked cautiously in the Queen's Chessboard. "No wonder that half-dragon is so wary of this place. Who would like walking around so vulnerably!"
"Fortunately, my two types of Myst's Power can effectively counter the power of magical artifacts."
Locke walked to the most central location within this stone chamber. There was a huge chessboard covered with empty squares.
Locke walked over and placed the elemental natural mana structure component mixture he had extracted from the Tyrant Bromeliad in a glass bottle. After opening the bottle cap, he placed it on the ground.
Immediately, the essence of the natural mana structure compound in the glass bottle also automatically manifested, flowing out in a state that was like water yet not water, like light yet not light, like mist yet not mist.
Locke put on a special pair of gloves nearby, then touched his finger to this essence.
The moment he touched his finger to this substance, the ground immediately shook, and essence chess pieces descended one after another from the surroundings.
These chess pieces were all composed of essence.
All were the essence of Type 2 Tyrant Element.
The Queen's Chessboard could amplify the quantity of a certain elemental essence by orders of magnitude and let wizards observe and record the three-dimensional structure and spiritual characteristics of this essence, as well as the essence's magic pressure characteristics.
At the same time, the Queen's Chessboard could evolve the various changes in this essence's past, present, and future, discovering this essence's related historical evolution.
Locke took out paper and began frantically recording the various historical evolutions of Type 2 Tyrant Element's essence. These records, when combined together, could indirectly understand the true characteristics of Type 2 Tyrant Element's true essence at the Force level.
Through the characteristics of essence, he could accelerate the commercialization of Type 2 Tyrant Element and more comprehensively understand the various magical level characteristics of Tyrant Element.
In other words, through the Force, wizards forced the essence of Type 2 Tyrant Element to manifest, then through the essence understood Type 2 Tyrant Element's past and present at the magical level, and even future magical characteristics. They could understand all information about a substance by pursuing essence.
This was currently the most powerful way Locke knew to investigate information about a substance.
Of course, even the Queen's Chessboard still wasn't omnipotent. Because it produced deduction results by amplifying and simulating essence, related basic research was still needed, using the Three Mirrors or other equipment for related verification.
First, to prevent errors, multiple verification methods were needed.
Second, the Queen's Chessboard could only see most possibilities, and would also be affected by the wizard's operational level.
Therefore, low-circle wizards still needed to use the Three Mirrors to do research to check for omissions.
Moreover, what was seen using the Queen's Chessboard was only the material characteristics of the three major levels at the essence level.
There was a certain difference from actual characteristics at the macroscopic level.
There was deviation between each substance and its essence. This deviation was like oneself and one's reflection in a mirror.
Third was the cost-performance issue.
The Queen's Chessboard was extremely expensive. Ordinary natural mana structure components or ordinary research didn't need to use such advanced magical artifacts.
Despite having so many limitations, the Queen's Chessboard was still the most powerful magical artifact equipment Locke currently knew for analyzing natural mana structure components.
A single Queen's Chessboard cost at least hundreds of millions of magic stones.
No one would be foolish enough to use the Queen's Chessboard for research that wasn't truly important, especially since its operational cost would also be very high.
Locke walked to the opposite side of the chessboard and placed the elemental extraction mixture of Type 1 Tyrant Element in an opposite chess square.
Immediately, various essence possibilities of Type 1 Tyrant Element also appeared in the chess square on the other side.
The Queen's Chessboard could see many possibilities of a substance's past and future through the Force level.
Locke manipulated the spell model to make the essence chess pieces from both sides collide. At the moment of collision, the essence structures, magic pressure, and spirituality of both sides would also collide. Identical parts would disappear, and different parts would remain.
This was one usage of the powerful Queen's Chessboard.
Relying on this usage, Locke could very easily analyze experiments that originally would have required more than a dozen First Circle wizards to spend over ten years using the Three Mirrors to painstakingly complete bit by bit.
Locke continuously manipulated collisions between different essence chess pieces from both sides, recording the differences between the two substances at the essence level.
12 hours later.
Locke waved his hand. Immediately, the Temporal Gold Crystal container holding Type 1 Tyrant Element was collected by Locke into his astral ring, and all essence chess pieces disappeared.
Locke then placed an ordinary Sea Gold Sand in the opposite square. Immediately, the essence between the branches and leaves of that ordinary Sea Gold Sand flew out.
Essence chess pieces descended like chess pieces, evolving the future of Sea Gold Sand.
However, the Queen's Chessboard could only analyze possibilities of a single substance's past and future. As an object, the essence within Sea Gold Sand was simply too complex.
There were probably at least several thousand types.
At this moment, Locke manipulated one essence chess piece of Type 2 Tyrant Element to collide with one essence chess piece of Sea Gold Sand. After the two chess pieces completed their collision, they immediately fused into one. But after only a few seconds, this chess piece exploded.
Locke then tried dozens more times, observing changes between essences. Through the mutual influence of the two essences, he could see the combination situation between Sea Gold Sand and Tyrant Element.
Locke chose Sea Gold Sand, the First Circle magical plant he was most familiar with, as the starting point for his tyrannification breeding technology.
He only needed to use one magical plant to research Type 2 Tyrant Element, but the opportunity was rare. He happened to use Sea Gold Sand as a research subject. This way, it would be most convenient for him to tyrannify Sea Gold Sand.
Otherwise, Sea Gold Sand was increasingly unable to keep up with his current self.
In the future, when he entered planes to wage war, he necessarily needed reliable magical plants. Strengthening Sea Gold Sand again was imminent.
In a certain sense, he had already become a Sea Gold Sand expert.
20 hours after Locke entered the Queen's Chessboard, Locke was exhausted and panting. He had already recorded all the related characteristics of Type 2 Tyrant Element and discovered that like Type 1 Tyrant Element, Type 2 Tyrant Element had tremendous toxicity toward other plants.
So when he had previously injected Type 2 Tyrant Element into various magical plants, those apprentice-level magical plants had all self-destructed before completing true tyrannification.
Locke gritted his teeth. A model composed of essence appeared in his hand. "Using the Queen's Chessboard, I've finally designed a special cell that can perfectly accept Type 2 Tyrant Element."
Locke took out from his astral ring a bottle of specially processed birch tree plant basic cells. Birch trees could stabilize various powers. Their plant cells had special abilities and could easily be influenced by essence to produce corresponding changes.
Locke placed the essence in his hand inside. Then after one day passed, this birch tree plant cell would change.
He would then purchase a First Circle level [Clear Sky Birch].
Injecting this cell into that tree would utilize the special characteristics of Clear Sky Birch to transform its cells into a combination that could bind with Tyrant Element, completely removing the toxicity of Type 2 Tyrant Element.
After mixing this combination with Tyrant Element and injecting them simultaneously, other plants could completely tyrannify after receiving the injection!
Locke looked at the birch tree plant cells inside this Temporal Gold Crystal container in his hand. He actually wasn't clear whether this essence had influenced the birch tree cells, nor did he know whether his design was successful.
In any case, after placing the essence inside, there wasn't even any change, as if he had placed a mass of air inside.
He had no idea what had happened.
Most terrifying was that using the Queen's Chessboard once cost one million magic stones. He was equivalent to spending one million magic stones to design a special binding cell that could remedy the defect of Type 2 Tyrant Element.
According to the Queen's Chessboard usage instruction materials, the cell receptor he designed should be successful.
But there were too many steps that would become invalid if operations were mistaken, so Locke looked at this bottle of Temporal Gold Crystal container at this moment, also not knowing what the result would be. He could only wait 24 hours, then purchase a Clear Sky Birch, then wait another week.
Then he would know whether the cell binding substance for Type 2 Tyrant Element that he designed was successful.
"Although there are still four hours remaining, and not using them would be a shame, my current energy is insufficient to support me continuing operations." Locke smiled bitterly.
Operating the Queen's Chessboard was truly too exhausting for his current self.
Obviously, he could operate the magic mirrors for days and nights without problems (if allowed), but operating this magical artifact, even though he secretly activated the Fierce Beast panel later, he could only continuously operate for 20 hours.
The magic pressure needed to use this magical artifact was truly immeasurable.
Locke put away all his things. All essence chess pieces on the chessboard disappeared in an instant.
Locke looked at that chessboard and had a sudden inspiration, summoning his own Suzerain. "According to reason, the negative energy particle field historical data carried inside the Suzerain also has essence. The Queen's Chessboard can deduce the possibilities of an essence's past, present, and future through essence."
"Can it help me deduce the historical data inside my Suzerain?"
"The Queen's Chessboard is unique to white wizard society. I think generally speaking, an archaeologist would have difficulty accessing something so deep within white wizard society. They might not even have thought that the Queen's Chessboard's functions might work on historical data within the Suzerain. I'm very likely the archaeologist closest to the Queen's Chessboard..."
Locke thought for a moment. The more he calculated, the more he felt that using the Queen's Chessboard's characteristics could conversely deduce the possibility of historical data and obtain larger-scale historical data.
That is, putting his own Suzerain into the Queen's Chessboard to refine it. Perhaps he could increase his historical data by two or three times.
If this was the case, he wouldn't need to rely on Warwick's Suzerain. He would have a second method to rapidly increase his own historical data.
Locke drank five bottles of Spirit Spring Soul Surge Potion, consuming all his astral ring's inventory, forcibly recovering some of his condition. "If that's the case, then let's try it. Put the Suzerain inside and see what happens."
"Before doing it, first back up my historical data. If it's all destroyed, then my loss would be too great."