Locke placed the Book of Dragons in a chess square. Immediately, the entire Book of Dragons flipped like origami and transformed into a paper dragon. The dragon opened its mouth and roared furiously, while its spirituality continuously surged in a short time.

The Queen's Chessboard forced its essence to overflow, and in the chess square, it automatically deduced the historical possibilities of various essences.

During this process, just as Locke had originally envisioned, the quantity of historical data indeed increased explosively.

In just a brief moment, with the help of the Queen's Chessboard, his historical data increased by at least one-tenth in content volume.

One must know, this was historical data obtained through transactions with two archaeologists!

The total amount itself was already quite large, but under the Queen's Chessboard's stimulation, it experienced an exponential surge in quantity in an extremely brief time.

And because Locke himself lacked energy at this moment, he had completely lost control over the direction of essence possibilities, allowing the Queen's Chessboard to automatically deduce the possibilities of these historical data essences in the past, present, and future.

"Sure enough, I can reverse-deduce historical data through essence."

"The Queen's Chessboard is not only an excellent device for my potion and breeding research, but also a treasure trove for advancing archaeology!"

Locke gave this method a vivid name, [Historical Reverse Deduction].

Because of historical reasons, essence would change. That also meant if he could use the Queen's Chessboard, this Third Circle top-tier magical artifact that could deduce changes in essence's future and past, he could deduce historical evolution through essence changes.

For example, a piece of historical data information could be deduced under the Queen's Chessboard's influence to verify its authenticity, and could also deduce at the Force level how many layers of changes it contained.

How many changes this historical data had, some changes might not have even occurred in history.

Locke interpreted the historical evolution of the historical data on the Queen's Chessboard. "The wizard era has a long history. The current wizard era is the Modern Magic Era."

"But there are many past eras."

"Some eras are even buried in the ancient past. Even archaeologists good at excavating secrets from the past don't know of their existence. From the historical data I traded from two archaeologists, I can know that the era before the Modern Magic Era was the [Enlightenment Era]."

"Black wizards are products of the Modern Magic Era, while white wizards are products of the Enlightenment Era."

"One counterintuitive point is that black wizards are newer than white wizards."

"Before the modern era was the Enlightenment Era. Before the Enlightenment Era, it seemed to be the Pure Blood Era. Before the Pure Blood Era was the Great Void Exploration Era."

"But in those wizard eras before the Great Void Exploration Era, due to various comprehensive reasons, history is unclear and historical data is incomplete. Part of this is because they're too far from the present, and another part is that wizard civilization experienced rapid civilization expansion during the Great Void Exploration Era, covering over the traces of civilization before the Great Void Exploration."

"Moreover, wizards at that time, in order to explore the Great Void, disregarded everything, ignored long-term interests, and dug three feet into the ground to excavate resources, build primitive void warships, go to the void, and search for planes. This led to many historical relics and historical data being destroyed."

This further increased the difficulty for archaeologists to excavate ancient history.

Locke said, "Therefore, after the four confirmed eras, that is, those time periods before the Great Void Exploration Era, wizards lost linear history. But before that, there were indeed quite a few eras that have been confirmed to exist, but whose chronological order can't be clarified and that have many unsolved mysteries."

"Among them are the Empire Era, the Era of Stars, and the possibly existing Priest Era... Each mature archaeologist might have their own views on this matter."

"Warwick, through excavating abyss relics, indirectly discovered much historical data that could conversely prove the Era of Stars in the wizard world indeed existed."

Locke looked forward and saw countless historical data being deduced on the chessboard.

Among them was a portion of historical data from the Era of Stars that Warwick had obtained in abyss relics.

That was historical data about Wizard Kingdom of Evil Fang Hole.

Supposedly in the Era of Stars, due to the collapse of the magic empire, many powerful wizards claimed territories as kings, becoming powerful witch kings and establishing magical kingdoms.

Some witch kings, to prevent their countries from being violated by others, found ways to obtain abyssal power. After these abyssal witch kings died, according to agreement, they would have their subordinates place their corpses in coffins and seal them in abyssal planes.

This was their agreement with the abyss.

Warwick had once excavated an abyss relic tomb in an abyssal plane belonging to a witch king of the Evil Fang Hole Wizard Kingdom, from which he obtained historical data about how the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King had campaigned north and south during his lifetime after obtaining abyssal power.

The Evil Fang Hole Wizard King established what was considered a vast witch kingdom at that time, approximately at the current world's Spiral Basin location.

The literature recorded the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King's lifetime achievements. Under the respect of the people and enjoying the people's love, he was transmitted into the abyssal plane.

The Evil Fang Hole Wizard King had borrowed too much abyssal power. He couldn't break the contract, so he could only send himself to the abyss. But to prevent his corpse from being contaminated by abyssal power after death, he mobilized the entire country's strength to build a tomb for himself and sent the tomb into the abyss, hoping to use the tomb's power to protect himself.

This was also a common practice among those witch kings who borrowed much abyssal power during the Era of Stars.

However, at this moment, the essence deduction on the Queen's Chessboard automatically completed segments of essence, automatically completing the missing parts in that historical data.

First, according to the original historical records, before the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King's death, his country was being attacked by another magical kingdom, and his kingdom had already begun to decline.

According to the personality records of the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King in the historical data, he absolutely couldn't have allowed his country to be destroyed like this. Combined with other clues in the historical data, the Queen's Chessboard completed several of the most likely historical continuations in its deduction.

The most likely segment among them was that the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King, through the magic array remaining in the tomb after his death, transformed himself into a lich and once again left the tomb, returned to his kingdom, and protected his kingdom again.

The evidence was that in the historical data Warwick had given him, it was recorded that the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King's tomb had undergone several repairs afterward, proving that his kingdom's national power had actually risen after his death. Moreover, during the subsequent repairs, some very obscure sacrificial words of unclear meaning were added for the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King.

Sacrificial magic was ancient, obsolete magic, but in the Era of Stars, many wizards were still using it.

The magic in the hands of wizards at that time was full of primitive and violent characteristics, always using various bloody things to sacrifice something. The most common was sacrificing their ancestors or their kings.

The sacrificial text mentioned that the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King was a king who transcended success and failure.

This wasn't the commonly used sacrificial text for describing undead witch kings.

This showed that the people of the Evil Fang Hole Wizard Kingdom at that time minded the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King's transformation into a lich, or the Evil Fang Hole Wizard King himself minded it.

But in any case, although so obscure, at this moment the Queen's Chessboard captured these clues through essence deduction and deduced this possibility.

And Locke successfully interpreted it.

Similarly, other historical data also rapidly increased in quantity through this method.

However, this historical data still needed Locke to interpret and organize before it could be adjusted into the correct order and become truly useful historical data.

This might still take some time.

Previously, the historical data he had obtained through transactions with two archaeologists hadn't been completely interpreted yet. Currently, he was only using this historical data as a tool and hadn't completely digested it as his own thing.

Although using this historical data as a tool wasn't a problem, to go further, he naturally needed to interpret it.

Locke exhaled turbid air. At this time, his energy had reached its limit, so although there was still half an hour until 24 hours, Locke still stopped continuing to use the Queen's Chessboard to deduce the Book of Dragons' historical data.

The Suzerain at the First Circle crystallization stage could use [Summon Demon God] after the user underwent training (interpreting historical data) and truly unleash the Suzerain's power. However, at this moment, Locke chanted an incantation.

Locke extended his right hand forward. "From the past five hundred years, I borrow a demon king who brought disaster to the world."

Immediately, a black radiance descended from the void into the ground. Then the ground rippled and surged like black water.

Then a suit of warrior armor like black steel crawled out from the black water, like an evil spirit crawling back from hell.

This was [Summon: Demon King!], which could only be used by the Suzerain at the First Circle liquefaction stage.

This was one of the three major spells for summoning past kings recorded in Wizard King's Grimoire.

They were respectively: Summon Ancient Tomb King, Summon King of the Dead, and Summon Demon King.

The terrifying black warrior before him, wearing black steel armor and a dangerous white bone mask on his face, looked at Locke. Soul fire rose in both eyes. That was the power belonging to demons.

The Demon King appeared in the image of a high-level undead black knight. Essentially, he was a large-sized black knight undead.

The moment of summoning the Demon King would rapidly collect surrounding remaining battle information, gathering these negative energy particle fields toward the Demon King in the form of Mordor language.

This information contained a large amount of battlefield details, or personal combat information, or details of spells used.

The three major summon past kings spells each had different emphases in collecting information and also demonstrated different applications of historical data.

At this moment, this Demon King's eyes looked at Locke and clicked his tongue. "I didn't expect that I, this war maniac, could actually be summoned by a true dragon."

"Ancient dragon, do you also have enemies you want to eliminate?"

His eyes revealed a desire for pure destruction. "Please leave it to me."

Locke checked and saw that he had just used the personal information of a general from a wizard legion at the First Circle liquefaction stage from a wizard legion five hundred years ago to summon the Demon King. This wizard legion general was a murderous demon king who had killed countless wizards.

Finally, even the wizard academy he belonged to began to fear him.

They gradually discovered that some people just loved war.

Locke snapped his fingers. The Book of Dragons flipped. At the same time, an Ancient Tomb King as a high-level mummy and a King of the Dead as a high-level death knight descended.

The three spells formed a combination with each other. All three kings were elevated to First Circle liquefaction stage magic pressure.

"Summoning the Three Kings is a combination spell. Not only can I elevate all three kings I summon to the First Circle liquefaction stage, but I can also reduce my casting consumption."

Locke discovered that the Mummy King as the Ancient Tomb King suddenly trembled, then actually had a tendency to break free from his control. The next moment, he snapped his fingers. All three past kings disintegrated into pure information.

"With my current archaeology level, directly using Summon Three Kings is still somewhat strained. I almost lost control of the spell." Locke thought, "The historical data inside the current Book of Dragons has increased by at least one-tenth. I need to spend a certain amount of time every day, at least one hour, reading historical data and organizing my own understanding."

Archaeological spells couldn't be improved just by collecting historical data.

As an archaeologist, Locke needed to organize this historical data, organize his own understanding, compile and verify the historical data. Only this way could he improve his spell power and use more advanced archaeological spells.

Moreover, the spell models of archaeological spells themselves also required him to spend a certain amount of time learning.

So he still needed to read historical data every day and establish his own understanding.

Locke thought, "The two archaeologists who traded with me basically focus on small historical fragments from the Era of Stars, that is, researching thematic history. They research general history and dynastic history very superficially."

"If I could exchange historical data with some archaeologists researching general history, I could understand the general history of the wizard world. At least I could clarify the main threads of the Modern Era, Enlightenment Era, Pure Blood Era, and Great Void Exploration Era."

Dynastic history was research on a certain era. Essentially, it was the general history of that era.

Currently, the three archaeological wizards Locke had encountered were all experts researching thematic history.

That is, researching a certain social culture or other aspects of a certain time period or time point, so there was no consistent thread system.

However, when this situation occurred, Locke could easily understand the reasons.

For archaeologists, only researching things old enough could obtain the most negative energy particle fields, that is, historical data.

For the wizard world's most recent four eras, much negative energy particle field information hadn't completely formed yet, and the depth of history wasn't thick enough, so not many archaeologists would choose them as research subjects.

Especially modern times, including the Enlightenment Era and Pure Blood Era in recent times, archaeologists researching these naturally had more difficulty progressing.

So there were comparatively more archaeologists researching the Era of Stars.

Locke left the Queen's Chessboard room and, following the spiral staircase, left the basement and walked out of the Feathered Serpent Pavilion.

He first returned to his dormitory, spent the entire morning writing a project completion report, then came to the public breeder laboratory to find Wizard Kelt.

At the workstation.

Wizard Kelt raised his head and was immediately startled, because at this moment Locke's complexion was extremely pale and very wan.

Wizard Kelt said, "Locke, you need to pay attention to rest. What did you do?"

Locke handed the completion report to Wizard Kelt, then said somewhat weakly, "I used the Queen's Chessboard."

Wizard Kelt raised an eyebrow, because the Queen's Chessboard, even for Second Circle wizards, was extremely expensive ultra-large-scale breeder equipment.

For their Second Circle wizards to use the Queen's Chessboard in the academy once, they had to pay enormous funds.

Locke was just doing a Tier 2 funding project, yet actually needed to use the Queen's Chessboard.

Locke said, "Team leader, I'm going back to sleep for a while."

Wizard Kelt immediately dismissed the thought in his heart of wanting Locke to answer questions and said, "Okay, remember to pay attention to rest."

"This White Dew Peach is for you."

Locke looked with surprise at the White Dew Peach the other party was giving him.

White Dew Peach was a specialty of Golden Crown Mountain in January. Its special effect was recovering energy, restoring mana, and helping wizards adjust body and mind, allowing them to shake off the most fatigued state.

It belonged to the lower-grade peach of the Jade Peach produced by Golden Crown Mountain in February.

Wizard Kelt explained, "I completed a small academy task, and the academy gave me this reward. But as a Second Circle wizard, eating a White Dew Peach has almost no effect for me. Might as well give it to you. The most powerful effect of White Dew Peach is that it can repair your physical and mental fatigue."

Locke said to him, "Thank you, team leader."

After Locke left, Kelt flipped through the project completion report Locke had submitted, reading the details. "Analysis of action mechanism pathways for 26 types of bromeliad magical plants... Worthy of being Locke. Also new discovery of seven new natural mana structure components..."

Kelt drew in a sharp breath. "He alone is almost equal to the achievements my entire Group Six has made in ten years, possibly even more."

"Hmm? Type 2 Tyrant Element... Takes up so much space. There seems to be some special reason."

"But I remember Tyrant Element... Isn't that a key natural mana structure component for a very important industry..."

"Did he discover a second type of Tyrant Element from bromeliads?" 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

On the completion report, there was only simple achievement information reporting. Only results, no detailed specifics.

So Wizard Kelt didn't see for the moment that Locke had already adjusted Type 2 Tyrant Element to a level sufficient for commercial use.

He also didn't realize that Type 2 Tyrant Element could compare with Type 1 Tyrant Element and had unique special uses, possessing functions that Type 1 Tyrant Element didn't have. It was a special natural mana structure that could change the current state of a small industry.

Wizard Kelt said in a low voice, "Specifically, I can only know when Locke participates in the completion defense."

"I wonder if the Throne will participate in his defense this time."