Chapter 91: Chapter 91

Faced with archaeologist McCarthy's sudden enthusiasm, Locke was rather cautious. He probed, "Shop owner McCarthy, do you also research ancient creature bloodlines?"

McCarthy became enthusiastic. He put down the magnifying glass and handed the ring back to Locke. "More than just some research, ancient creature bloodlines are a field that every archaeologist yearns for."

"My goodness, the ancient bloodline on you is so pure. I don't know what methods you used to obtain it."

McCarthy clicked his tongue, and his words finally became more numerous. "Bloodlines hide much information, and ancient creature bloodlines conceal many mysteries from ancient times. Analyzing ancient creature bloodlines is one of our archaeologists' main fields." Follow current novᴇls on novel⦿fire.net

"I also have more than one type of ancient creature bloodline modification on me." McCarthy smiled proudly, "We archaeologists, while exploring secrets remaining from past times, also use this knowledge to arm ourselves."

"However, Orcni Ancient Bears should have gone completely extinct. Although the current Orcni Giant Bears are their descendants, extracting Orcni Ancient Bear bloodline from Orcni Giant Bears should be completely impossible."

McCarthy began thinking.

"The ancient bloodlines on me were all obtained from descendants possessing ancient bloodlines that I found through historical research." McCarthy was like an expert collecting ancient artifacts, enthusiastically introducing his gains to his colleague.

"I can use archaeologist methods to search for ancient creature fossils beneath the rock surface, then extract residual information from the fossils to find corresponding living high-concentration bloodline descendants, many of whom are even mortals."

"However, ancient bloodlines obtained this way might differ, so I need to modify and purify the bloodlines bit by bit based on the information elements on the fossils, trying to make bloodlines obtained this way more like the original ancient bloodlines."

"There aren't many archaeologists in the White Wizard Association, but there are many archaeologists among the black wizards."

McCarthy pointed at the empty air with his left middle finger, releasing a mysterious black magical radiance from his fingertip.

Locke detected that this was a necromantic spell.

Phantoms immediately appeared in the shop. These were clearly customers of House of the Historical Scholar from the past month.

Locke even saw some familiar faces among these phantoms, such as Yuri Burns, the manager of Lijin Secret Language, and some second-class wizard apprentices he had seen several times before.

Their images lingered here, visiting and asking the old man McCarthy questions just as Locke had initially done. The old man ignored them, and angry, anxious, disdainful, and other negative expressions appeared on their faces.

McCarthy said, "Among all mana particles, only negative energy particles possess the strongest information retention ability."

"By stimulating these negative energy particles, it's possible to recreate events that happened in this region in the past."

"These past events are all recorded by negative energy particles, though there are also many interference factors."

"Precisely because of this, a necromancer suddenly discovered that necromantic spells could not only manipulate corpses and create corpse poison, but could also serve as the most formidable archaeologists, exploring histories that exist only in the past." McCarthy smiled, "For people like us, this world is different from the world you see."

"You can only see the present, while we can simultaneously observe both the past and present in the same place."

McCarthy lifted his wizard robe to let Locke clearly see his flesh beneath the robe. "Look, these are traces of three modifications on me: ancient creature bloodline of the Archaeopteryx, so I have some feather patterns on my arms, and ancient creature bloodline of the Placoderm, and this is the bloodline modification trace of Mogus Ancient Giant Lizard..."

"Haha... however, it's still not as pure as the Orcni Ancient Bear bloodline on you. But how exactly did you obtain it? I can pay magic stones to purchase this information."

Locke suddenly understood that one of archaeologists' main fields of work was exploring ancient creature bloodlines.

He thought for a moment and casually lied, "Forget it, since it can't be replicated. My wizard mentor at Lilith's Cottage is a formal wizard-level potioneer. She accidentally extracted ancient bloodline during an unexpected situation."

Old man McCarthy showed a look of understanding upon hearing Locke's words. "So that's how it was."

"First-class wizard apprentice, your luck is too good."

Such things could indeed happen.

Potioneers often inexplicably created special things that they might not be able to replicate.

Anyway, Teacher Sophia was a First Circle wizard who absolutely couldn't have any connection with old man McCarthy, so Locke directly used his teacher as a shield.

This tactic had never failed.

Upon hearing it was the work of a First Circle wizard, old man McCarthy would only think that the First Circle potioneer's methods were superior and wouldn't continue to think deeply.

Locke asked, "By the way, I have a second question, and it seems I asked the right person. A year ago I purchased two female cat slaves at Chimera Trading Market. I want to extract the ancient creature bloodline from them. I wonder if there are any methods. I can pay you two hundred magic stones."

Old man McCarthy immediately waved his hand, "Forget it, forget it, I won't charge you money."

"For any questions involving ancient creature bloodlines, I don't charge money. Let's consider this an exchange and discussion. After all, I'm just a beginner in the ancient creature bloodline field."

"Those female cat bloodlines, their bloodlines are too diluted, not my original target at all." McCarthy spoke honestly, "To extract ancient creature bloodline from them, I estimate it would require a First Circle level potioneer working painstakingly to accomplish it. And I suspect the purity would be very low, very likely unusable."

"The difficulty of utilizing ancient creature bloodlines has always been a problem in many wizards' eyes."

"Rather than that, I might as well go to the mortal world to search for those special mortal families with high-purity inherited ancient creature bloodlines."

"Extracting from them doesn't even require potioncraft-related knowledge. The purity is also very high."