He looked at the other person and asked: "How should I address you?"
The man shook his head: "The name is not important, but you can call me Delan."
Fang Hong silently noted down this name, planning to find time to investigate whether there was any historical record related to this name. It would not be easy to search for a name within the vast ocean of literature, but narrowing it down to history related to Arcanists, along with the timeline since the Battle of Bain.
Within this timeframe and scope, perhaps there might be some discoveries.
Unless the person was using a pseudonym, which was also quite possible.
However, Fang Hong was not concerned, he was subconsciously a little curious about this person's identity, feeling that there might be deeper ties between the person and the Arcanists—currently, he was captured by the Arcanists, and this led to a series of side quests involving Blind Followers and Wandering Alchemists, making him have to pay attention to these details.
If no discoveries were made, it actually wouldn't matter.
He turned to leave, but just then Delan called him from behind, and when Fang Hong turned around, Delan carefully took out a 'paper slip' from beneath a pile of straw: "Earlier, I promised to provide you with a skill to conceal magic disturbances, this is a result of my research, it's a gift for you—"
Fang Hong looked at the other person somewhat surprised.
He was indeed a bit interested in this skill, as such techniques were often the results of personal research, unique secret skills.
Of course, unique secret skills might not necessarily be useful, just like this skill which he may not be able to use, since he used Non-Attribute Magic Power which was not within the effect range of most Monitoring Spells.
However, this thing could be very valuable to others, especially unique skills, as they inherently possess attributes of being highly sought after.
Delan seemed to detect his thoughts and smiled: "But you must swear to Angina not to transmit it to others."
"Then what use does this have for me?" Fang Hong was taken aback: "You've seen that the Arcanists' Monitoring Spells are ineffective against me."
"Not necessarily," Delan's eyes carried a hint of mysteriousness: "Trust me, maybe it will be of great help in the future."
Fang Hong looked at the person who had once again become cryptic, truthfully, the thing, if not to be transmitted, was useless to him.
After all, learning skills requires spending experience, and he certainly wouldn't spend experience on something he couldn't use—his original interest in the skill was to see if others in the Seven Seas Travel Group could use it. At worst, he could sell it; such unique skills are always extremely expensive in the market.
But after thinking about it, considering the fact that the person was giving it to him for free, it seemed overly pretentious not to take it. Even if he couldn't use it himself, he could carry it for now. As Delan said, maybe one day he'd need it? Eteliria is vast and full of wonders, so it's not impossible.
With this in mind, he accepted the crumpled 'paper slip' from Delan and thanked him.
Before putting the slip away, Fang Hong glanced at it and discovered the 'paper slip' was actually a piece of torn cloth—possibly part of clothing, with the text written using some kind of plant dye. The 'paper slip' also contained a piece of straw, with one end treated and stained with marks of 'ink'.
He was slightly startled and immediately realized that this 'paper slip' was something the person had painstakingly recorded using various makeshift means while being detained here.
No matter what the true identity of this self-proclaimed 'Delan' Alchemist was, how strange his actions might be—while detained here, he continued conducting research related to Alchemy despite the harsh environment, and recorded these diligently, even generously gifting them to him.
Fang Hong looked into Delan's somewhat dim but candid gaze, suddenly understanding—this was about hoping he would carry forward that effort.
Seeing the person's ragged clothes and hunched figure, he suddenly pitied him, couldn't help but ask softly:
"Are you really not planning to leave this place?"
If you are willing, I have at least a seventy to eighty percent chance of getting you out."
Fang Hong bit his lip, sharing a bottom-line with the other person, although even if they left this place, they might not be safe. Unless they could join forces with the Grand Princess's people, but that was another matter, and it would be better than staying here.
But unexpectedly, the man shook his head slightly without any hesitation: "I appreciate your goodwill, but the outside might not be any better—no, in fact, it's probably the same anywhere, I've grown accustomed. Just bring me the 'Desert Blood'."
Fang Hong looked at him, though feeling a bit odd, still slowly nodded.
After leaving the dungeon, Fang Hong took out the note again to examine it, due to using Non-Attribute Magic Power originally, he did not think much of this skill—which was mainly because he had already sworn to Angina, it could only be personally learned, not transmitted, so with a mindset of better than nothing, he decided to look at what attributes this skill indeed possessed.
In his imagination, this skill should be related to concealing magic disturbances, because the Magic Guided Reactor—or rather any Magic Guided Conductor when activated, will inevitably cause some magic power leakage, just like any magic power phenomenon, this leakage naturally causes disturbances in the surrounding Ether Network.
The idea of concealing disturbances sounds novel, but from the perspective of Ether operation, it's not impossible. It merely requires applying a Concealment Spell to easily obscure the magic disturbance, but the issue arises because the Concealment Spell itself will also create disturbances, thus needing pre-application.
Fang Hong was originally curious about how the other person implemented this in real-time.
But when he saw the skill attribute from the system analysis of that 'paper slip', he couldn't help but be shocked.
Because the skill name shown by the system was not about magic concealment techniques, but:
'Magic Recovery—'
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