Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems-Chapter 177: Tome of the Tombstone

Old McCarthy shook his head slightly, "I'm not clear about this either. After all, I'm just a beginner in archaeology and ancient creature bloodlines. I haven't encountered the special bloodline you possess. It should be a very powerful ancient magical creature primarily attuned to metal elemental particles."
"When it comes down to it, anyone who possesses compatibility with gold elemental particles cannot have a simple bloodline."
"That's not a common talent."
Old McCarthy sensed Locke's mana and was somewhat startled. "Your mana has really improved dramatically within half a year."
"By the way, what brings you here this time? Is there anything I can help you with?"
Locke directly stated his purpose. "It's like this, I possess compatibility with negative energy particles, with a fairly high compatibility level of about Level 3."
"So I want to learn archaeology. As you know, I'm particularly eager to figure out exactly what ancient creature bloodline I carry, and I'm also very interested in transplanting ancient creature bloodlines."
Locke spoke vaguely.
After all, McCarthy was just a shop owner in Chimera Trading Market, not even a first-class wizard apprentice from Lilith's Cottage, so Locke didn't want to reveal too much of his personal information to him.
With Level 3 negative energy particle compatibility, ordinary people couldn't distinguish whether this was Locke's primary compatibility attribute or secondary compatibility attribute.
They might even think this was Locke's general compatibility attribute.
After all, in the eyes of those unfamiliar with the details, Locke's advancement speed was very fast, likely possessing Level 6 or even Level 7 aptitude.
Then, dark attribute energy particles having only Level 3 aptitude might be because this was just Locke's general compatibility particle.
McCarthy nodded. He ran an archaeology crash course, so he often encountered white wizard apprentices with some negative energy particle compatibility.
This wasn't strange.
It's just that white wizards generally didn't have very high compatibility with negative energy particles.
McCarthy said, "Well, Level 3 aptitude, if you don't want to specialize but just want to understand it, that's roughly sufficient."
"I even have apprentices here with Level 2, or even Level 1 negative energy particle compatibility talent."
"Old friend, if you want to understand the bloodline within your body, or want to transplant more ancient creature bloodlines to enhance your combat power or even partial talents, then learning archaeology is absolutely the right choice."
McCarthy seemed to have found a kindred spirit and spoke at length. "For ancient creature bloodline researchers, archaeology is absolutely the most efficient research method."
"But ultimately, it's just a research method."
McCarthy said, "The main content of archaeology as a magical discipline is exploring magical knowledge that remains buried in history, never seeing the light of day."
"From sealed ancient ruins to dusty magical knowledge, or those ancient magical equipment, ancient creature fossils, and ancient plant specimens hidden in seemingly ordinary deserts, those are all within the scope of our archaeological research."
McCarthy spoke with great enthusiasm, "I once, in black wizard territory, no, I once found an ancient First Circle wizard's magical tomb in a remote, desolate place in the southeastern quadrant during my explorations outside."
"That was a legendary story. We archaeologists must match wits with that ancient wisdom, then dig it out from ancient tombs again, allowing this knowledge to regain vitality in this era!"
Locke raised an eyebrow, showing a strange expression. Found a magical tomb?
Good heavens, these archaeologists were the tomb raiders of the magical world.
Locke took the initiative to speak, "I'll pay you one thousand magic stones."
Speaking of which, the fees for this archaeologist's crash course were indeed quite expensive.
One course cost one thousand magic stones, equivalent to the total cost of eight courses at the second-class wizard apprentice level, equivalent to the total cost of two courses at the first-class wizard apprentice level.
McCarthy waved his hand. "What's all this talk about money? I'm the type of person who, if I like someone, I won't take a penny. If I don't like someone, I wouldn't want to accept their money even if they offered it."
"You're my old friend. I rarely encounter wizards studying ancient creature bloodlines in white wizard society, so I won't charge you. If you're interested, you can attend the rapid learning class I've established."
McCarthy said, "If you must give me some kind of compensation, then share any research results you have with me for discussion."
"In white wizard society, I have relatively few research materials in this area, and my research has stagnated. If this continues for a long time, my level might even regress to some degree."
"I need a friend at roughly my level to discuss and compete with together. Of course, such kindred spirits are hard to find in white wizard society."
Locke hesitated for a moment, then still nodded.
McCarthy clearly possessed special qualities that distinguished him from ordinary black wizards and ordinary white wizards.
Ordinary white wizards would never help people work for free.
Locke said, "Alright then."
McCarthy smiled, "I'm delighted to have another wizard in this Chimera Trading Market who might become a colleague."
McCarthy handed Locke a magic book. The appearance of this magic book was a tombstone. "This is the introductory book for archaeologists. In black wizard society, it's called the [Tome of the Tombstone]."
"I'm lending it to you. Take it back and read it first, but remember to return it to me after one month, and don't let others see it casually. The Tome of the Tombstone has special black magic on it. It can only be opened by the same person. If a second person other than you opens it, that person will be cursed by the hex magic hidden within."
"Similarly, you cannot copy any text from the Tome of the Tombstone." McCarthy said, "The first step in getting started with archaeology is learning the negative energy language, Mordor."
Seeing Locke's puzzled expression, McCarthy extended one finger, and numerous negative energies gathered on that finger. "Why are negative energy particles the most likely among all magical particles to retain information? That's because negative energy particles are the most inclusive type of magical particle."
"They're also the magical particles most easily influenced by external forces."
"You must be very curious about what negative energy particles are, and in white wizard society, general courses basically don't have classes that explain this clearly, right?"
McCarthy said confidently, "The foundation of negative energy particles is dark elemental particles, one of the seven primordial particles. There are seven basic particles in this world: wind, water, fire, earth, plus light and dark, and then ether. These seven particles combine with each other, or one particle forms different compound large particles, creating various kinds of particles."
"Negative energy particles don't refer to one type of particle, but rather a category of particles. This category contains an extremely large number of particle types, with 210 commonly seen varieties."
"The Tome of the Tombstone contains the periodic table of these 210 types of negative energy particles. Dark energy particles are the particles most easily influenced by external pressure, temperature, and magical energy. Therefore, each type of energy's influence causes corresponding changes in dark energy particles."
"So-called archaeology utilizes this characteristic of dark elemental energy particles as its core to develop this magical discipline."