#4Chapter 4 Magical RuinsAI Model: gemini-2.5-flash
After being blessed with Healing Magic, Ye Feng, guided by instinct, headed west and soon discovered what appeared to be Ape-mendwellings in a cave on a steep mountain peak.
The terrain here was rugged, covered with countless plants, and everywhere on the ground were tiny, venom-tipped spikes. Ye Feng had suffered quite a bit to find this place...
"Even if there were Ape-men in the Jurassic era, there couldn't have been that many, right?"
"How pathetic, they can only cower in places like this because they can't beat dinosaurs..."
"Don't you guys forget how dinosaurs went extinct..."
"Is the Streamer going to unite humanity now?!"
"Can this Healing Magic cure all poisons?! Are there no prerequisites? That's too overpowered."
...When the audience in the live stream saw Ye Feng finally find the Ape-men gathering place, there was a sudden flurry of discussion about the Ape-men's way of life.
"You guys just don't get it! These poisons are most likely from poison dart frogs. The poison from poison dart frogs comes from biological evolution, not magic!"
Casually plucking out a poisonous thorn embedded in his foot, Ye Fengapplied force with his fingertip again, a faint green light appearing, and the shocking wound quickly vanished.
Ye Feng walked deeper into the cave, but the further he went, the more eerie the surroundings became.
The area looked as if it had been baked by lava and then cleansed by strong acid; the pervasive smell of sulfur squeezed into his nostrils, and the greenish gas choked him, making it almost impossible to open his eyes.
"Splash..."
While squinting and searching around, Ye Feng suddenly slipped and fell into an adjacent passage, his body sliding down the smooth stone wall.
"Curse you, developers—!"
"Thud..."
His body reappeared in the air, falling headfirst, and Ye Feng's words suddenly caught in his throat.
"Heal! Heal! Heal!!!"
Falling from a great height headfirst meant certain death, so he no longer hesitated, casting dozens of healing spells in advance.
"Sizzle..."
The moment his skull contacted the ground, his black hair began to vaporize from the roots, sparks dancing along the strands.
The smell of charring mixed with sulfur rushed into his nostrils, and the half of his hair remaining on the back of his head was still burning.
"Holy crap! Something's wrong! There's a problem!"
The instant he bounced up, black smoke immediately rose from his left foot, which was imbued with wind. He hopped on one foot, the other foot barely touching the ground before he jumped again.
Each time his left and right feet touched the ground, a wisp of smoke rose, and his right knee began to bleed from the continuous impact with the ground.
"Heal!"
Ye Feng seemed to be stepping on a red-hot iron plate; a greenish halo, intertwined with thick smoke, enveloped him. After a struggle, his gaze locked onto an altar in front of him.
Seeing his magic power about to run out, he immediately stopped hesitating, gritted his teeth, and dashed forward, leaping onto the altar the second before his magic power was completely depleted.
Magic circles of varying sizes formed the base of the crimson altar; surging flowing fire darted through the veins of the magic circles, continuously gathering from all directions towards the obelisk in the center.
"What is this..."
Cautiously surveying his surroundings, Ye Feng stomped his foot to extinguish the last cluster of sparks, his Adam's apple bobbing with a swallow.
He squeezed sideways past two glowing grooves, his back pressed against the altar's relief, his forefoot tentatively touching the obelisk's base.
The floating rhomboid crystal suddenly vibrated, and countless runes on the obelisk all appeared, as if they were deliberately left notes.
The runes were tightly clustered next to the magic circles, and there were even arrows meticulously marking every detail.
When all the characters were pieced together, what appeared before his eyes was a basic fire-attribute magic circuit, along with the method of chanting... "This game is awesome... Damn, it even has its own language?!"
Facing these words, which did not belong to any language in reality, Ye Feng was dumbfounded on the spot. What astonished him even more was that he could understand them.
After standing still in a daze for a while, Ye Feng quickly reacted and immediately rushed forward, carefully caressing the words.
"Buzz..."
The entire obelisk instantly began to tremble, and countless crimson flames instantly burned away a large number of runes.
The flames suddenly intensified, dancing nimbly along the patterns of the magic circles, gradually enveloping Ye Feng's body along his palm.
A vast amount of knowledge about fire-attribute magic flooded into Ye Feng's mind in the next instant, and the overflowing magic power instantly caused the altar to collapse, and the entire space began to cave in.
"I get it, brothers! I'm going to fight ten! I'm going to ride a Tyrannosaurus Rex to mate with a Triceratops!!!"
Flicking away a blue flame that had fallen onto the tip of his nose, Ye Feng actually winked his right eye as he leaned back to dodge a falling altar capstone.
He twisted his waist, leaping left and right through the shower of rubble, stepping on the cooled strips along the edge of the grooves, nimbly dodging the oncoming high temperatures.
"With magic, what is this even called, Jurassic?! If I don't beat the dinosaur's shit out, I'll consider it clean!"
When the last supporting pillar crashed down, he flipped and leaped out of the fissure, not forgetting to give the altar a middle finger the moment he landed.
After fumbling in the darkness for an unknown amount of time, he painstakingly climbed out of a crevice, once again catching sight of the long-lost sunlight... In the morning mist, deep blue parasitic vines crawled all over the charred tree trunks, and every fern-like plant was releasing spores.
Under the refraction of faint sunlight, these spores suddenly glowed with a light color, and a hazy yet graceful beauty enveloped him.
"Thump! Thump!"
The dull thudding of a Triceratops constantly stomping the ground in the distance seemed somewhat out of place in this secluded environment.
Carefully examining his hands, Ye Feng showed a knowing expression to the flying barrage of comments: "Brothers, I think I've figured out the general gameplay of this game!"
Gently extending an index finger, his thought moved, and a wisp of flame quickly rose. His Adam's apple bobbed as he grinned and softly chanted.
"Whoosh..."
The cluster of flame rapidly grew, forming a dazzling fireball the size of a basketball. Under the scorching light, a hint of arrogance suddenly rose between Ye Feng's brows.
"First, with magic, this is definitely not a simple survival game! If players want to have magic, they need to find these ruins!" He closed his eyes, lightly wiggling his index finger, speaking all his conjectures.
Turning his head to look at the crevice, Ye Feng paused, then continued:
"The type of magic corresponding to the ruins might be related to the surrounding terrain! When I touched the obelisk just now, I could feel the magic corridor within my body!"
"This might correspond to an awakening process; only by awakening the magic corridor can one use magic! Now, I don't know if it's possible to awaken it through external forces other than ruins."
Gazing at the fireball on his fingertip, Ye Feng fell into contemplation, then reopened his panel.
Status Bar: Refreshed lv3 (Strength increases by 1.5 times in combat, speed increases by two times)
Magic Corridor: lv2 (356/600)
Magic Rank: Apprentice Mage — Stage 3
Magic Pool: Wood-attribute Healing Magic, Fire-attribute Offensive Magic
Weapon: Stone Spear
..."I have fire attribute now! So next—"
"Thump...!"
Just as Ye Feng was about to find a live target to practice on, wails and the massive sound of countless trees being torn in half came from not far away...
Turning his head towards the source of the sound, Ye Feng's gaze quickly passed over a large number of trees, accurately locking onto dozens of Triceratops.
"After my Magic Corridor level increased, my physical stats also improved, and my line of sight also increased!" He exclaimed, covering his mouth, his breathing gradually becoming rapid due to excitement...
"Our spectating view has also expanded! The range of the third-person perspective has become larger!"
"Streamer, Streamer, watch your image! Your 'little brother' is showing..."
"Isn't he going to be banned for 10 days to half a month! Screenshot taken!"
"The traitor next door got wind-attribute magic and is having a blast fighting right now...