Chapter 151 Mimir's Spring

"Did I pass?"

Suren snapped out of his emotionally detached state and finally felt the joy of passing the challenge.

The old giant Morey smiled on the other side: "Yes. You are now qualified to glimpse the truth."

Hearing this, Suren recalled the questions from the previous test and realized that the trials set by the Cyclops guarding the Mimir Spring were not intended to stop people from obtaining the spring water, but rather to guide those who came to acquire the spring water to understand what "wisdom" truly is.

At this moment, the old giant Morey spoke again: "The Mimir Spring is just a slightly sweet and palatable spring water for ordinary people. Only in the mouths of those who truly possess wisdom does it have the taste of encompassing all the wisdom in the world."

"Mm."

Suren could now understand the meaning of these words.

It's like the power of the Law is everywhere, but if you cannot perceive its existence, then it does not exist in your world.

The old giant smiled meaningfully and said: "Congratulations, you are the second adventurer in ten thousand years to complete the challenge of courage and wisdom. The spring is on Mimir Peak in the center of our Giant Island, you can go and take it. Of course, if you bring human wine, the elders guarding the spring may not make things too difficult for you."

Suren nodded respectfully and said: "Thank you for your guidance, Elder."

Suren walked out of the door, his mind still replaying the questions from before.

Even though he had already passed the test, recalling those questions, he still found them endlessly intriguing.

The two tests were a reward in themselves, as if his thinking had been enlightened and a new world had suddenly opened up.

Suren walked out of the chieftain's house, and the Cyclops in the village now looked at him with a more solemn expression in their big eyes than before.

This was because only outsiders could see that Suren's body was now shimmering with a layer of milky white light, the radiance of a soul being elevated. The definition of a higher lifeform was not only in bloodline inheritance but also in the cognition at the soul level.

Suren himself was completely unaware, his thoughts still racing.

He nodded to the giants who cast friendly gazes at him and walked towards the path behind the village that led to the central peak of the island.

Looking back, the battle between Mr. Black and the Cyclops on the beach outside the village was still fiercely deadlocked, with no sign of victory for either side.

Suren didn't look any further and stepped into the forest.

For some reason, everything on this Giant Island was huge.

Flowers tens of meters tall, trees hundreds of meters tall, beetles the size of elephants...

Everything, without exception, seemed very large.

The narrow paths for the giants were wide roads that could accommodate several carriages side by side for Suren.

He walked along the way, with the black crow sharing its aerial view.

After flying high enough, Suren suddenly let out a soft "Huh? Could this island be the skull of an ancient creature?"

He then realized that Giant Island, which looked like a horseshoe on the nautical chart, was more like an enormous skull.

The lower jaw of the skull was below sea level, with only the upper eye sockets and the upper part of the skullcap visible, looking like a horseshoe.

Suren found it a little unbelievable.

But in the Dragon Kingdom sea area, it seemed that nothing was impossible.

His thoughts turned, and he had already walked through the primeval forest. Giant Island wasn't without danger; there were still some magical beasts in this vast forest that could be used as "rations" by the Cyclops tribe.

Perhaps thinking that the human in front of them wasn't even enough to fill a tooth gap, those behemoths, although occasionally curious to come and take a look, didn't come to prey on him.

Suren also walked along the mountain path to the main peak, which wasn't too high.

From a distance, he felt two powerful soul fluctuations.

"These two Cyclops guarding the spring are so strong..."

Suren discerned the soul fluctuations and found that these two souls hidden in the mountain were even stronger than the chieftain Morey he had seen before.

Fortunately, they weren't enemies, so he walked straight over and said loudly: "Greetings, two giant elders. I am Suren, guided by Chieftain Morey to seek the Spring of Wisdom."

Hearing this, two heads suddenly popped out of the mountain, revealing a set of messy, yellow teeth as thick as ivory.

Seeing Suren, they immediately shouted.

"Oh, it's been many years since a human has been here."

"Yes, Gedo, a thousand years."

"Hey, human, did you bring any wine? If not, we won't let you get the spring water."

"That's right, we won't give it to you."

"..."

Suren's expression was a little strange as he listened.

Compared to the other giants, these two seemed a little less intelligent.

Things like wine were not something that ordinary people would carry around to occupy storage space. Fortunately, Suren had the Little Void Realm, which not only had ample wine reserves but even a distillery.

Suren hadn't forgotten the reminder from Chieftain Morey earlier, and he took out dozens of wooden barrels and placed them on the ground, saying, "Of course."

The two Cyclops walked over and poured the hundred-pound barrels of rum into their mouths, gulping them down.

This was "Golden Rum," and both its taste and brewing process were considered top-notch on the market.

Unexpectedly, after the two giants drank more than a dozen barrels in one gulp each, they still muttered in dissatisfaction: "Oh, human, your wine is too terrible. It even makes me think that the fruit wine brewed by the monkeys in the forest is better."

The other one followed up, complaining: "Yes. I remember the last human brought a very delicious wine. Oh, how I miss that taste~"

Suren was speechless.

He just watched as the two giants drank all dozens of barrels of Golden Rum while saying it was terrible.

Looking at the gazes they cast, Suren took out dozens of tons of various wines from the Little Void Realm.

However, as soon as he took them out, the two giants started gulping them down.

They still complained that it was awful and that the wine was no good.

Originally, no matter how precious some wine was, it wouldn't be worth much money, so Suren didn't feel too bad about it.

But seeing that the two giants didn't mention letting him get the spring water at all, he began to think.

The two of them had already drunk several thousand pounds of wine in a short period of time, and judging by the looks of it, they would probably keep drinking no matter how much wine he took out.

Moreover, these two giants mentioned a key hint: the wine that the last human brought.

"Could Sir Isaac have given them Mead of the Poet?"

Suren suddenly thought of something.

It was Sir Isaac who signed the alliance between humans and the Daru tribe. He had been to the Emerald Holy Land, so it was reasonable for him to have Mead of the Poet.

Suren did have some Mead of the Poet, but it was a rare spiritual wine that could inspire enlightenment.

It would be a real waste to just let them gulp it down like that.

But with the two giants having such discerning tastes, taking out any more ordinary wine now probably wouldn't satisfy them.

Thinking about the Mimir Spring, Suren still took out two large jars, containing several hundred pounds of Mead of the Poet.

As soon as the jars were taken out, the two giants immediately smelled the aroma, and their expressions lit up.

Without being picky or complaining, the two giants grabbed a jar each, took a big gulp, and then revealed a very satisfied expression.

"Yes, that's the taste!"

"Oh, heavens, I didn't expect I could still drink this delicious wine!"

Suren watched as several hundred pounds of what could be considered priceless Mead of the Poet was gulped down just like that, and he couldn't help but feel a little heartache.

But fortunately, Yuta was now the Great Druid of the Daru tribe, so it wouldn't be a problem to replenish it when he went next time.

Just after the two jars of wine were drunk, the faces of the two giants, who had just drunk hundreds of tons of wine, actually turned red with drunkenness.

They hiccuped, their eyes gradually becoming blurred, and they muttered, "Oh, the taste of this wine is so beautiful... There are so many sheep floating in the sky... The Spring of Wisdom needs a sacrifice..."

Before they could finish their fragmented words, the two giants fell to the ground and started snoring.

Suren's eyes twitched as he watched: They fell asleep?

Ordinary people would get drunk from drinking even a little Mead of the Poet, so the two giants naturally got drunk after each gulping down several hundred pounds.

But it seemed like he could pass now?

Suren still asked, "Excuse me, gentlemen giants, can I go get the spring water now?"

The two giants couldn't open their eyes anymore. One of them seemed to hum in acknowledgement.

Suren breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.

It seemed worthwhile to exchange some spiritual wine for not being troubled at the last hurdle.

He walked past the two giants and headed towards the top of the mountain.

Soon, he heard the faint sound of flowing water.

Suren walked over and saw a small pool with a diameter of only a few meters.

"This is the Mimir Spring?"

If the information identified wasn't correct, he would have found it hard to believe that such an inconspicuous little pool was the Spring of Wisdom from mythology.

However, when Suren got closer, he noticed the extraordinary nature of the spring water.

The pool, which didn't seem very large, had endlessly clear water, and it was so deep that you couldn't see the bottom with the naked eye.

It felt like looking at the endless starry sky, and looking at it for a little longer gave a person a sense of dizziness that made their eyes sink into it.

The bottom of this spring seemed to be connected to the entire world.

Suren wasn't in a hurry to fetch the spring water.

Because the spring water required a sacrifice.

The old chieftain Morey had also hinted earlier: The Spring of Wisdom is just sweet and palatable spring water in the mouths of ordinary people. Only in the mouths of those who truly possess wisdom does it have the taste of encompassing all the wisdom in the world.

Suren thought of something and took out a card.

This was the Hanged Man card, one of the twenty-two Major Arcana Tarot cards he had obtained before.

The hidden information on this card was a sacrificial ritual: "I sacrificed my right eye and hung myself upside down on a bare tree for nine days and nine nights. One side of my body was pierced by a spear, and I was blown by alternating cold and hot winds, swaying in the air without food or water. This was my sacrifice to myself. Then, the secrets of the entire world opened up before me..."

Obviously, the great Mechanical Alchemist who made this Tarot card knew all the secrets of the Mimir Spring.

It was a detailed sacrificial ritual of the Mechanical Alchemist system that even the Cyclops tribe might not necessarily know.

Suren had long since studied the sacrificial process countless times.

But seeing the "treasure" hidden on the Tarot card for countless years right in front of him, he had a different feeling in his heart.

"It seems that even if this Tarot card wasn't made by one of the Five Elders of the Twilight Dawn Society, it was made by a high-ranking Divine Alchemist..."

Suren took one last look at this Tarot card, and then set up a nine-pointed star Mechanical Alchemist array by the spring.

Because he had been prepared, the array was quickly completed.

He stood in the center of the Mechanical Alchemist array, exhaled a breath of stale air, and then reached for his eye.

Sacrificing one's eye might give others some hesitation.

But for Suren, it was very familiar.

In that instant, he felt as if he had returned to the day he first transmigrated to this world, when he sacrificed his eye in the cellar of Stormwind Manor and obtained the Omniscient Eye.

How similar.

Without hesitation, Suren pinched a Mechanical Alchemist seal and chanted the common incantation that Mechanical Alchemists would use at critical moments: "Following the Law of Equivalent Exchange of all things, praising the glory of the Primordial Creator, using Mechanical Alchemy to witness the miracle of creation..."

As soon as the words fell, the nine-pointed star Mechanical Alchemist array lit up with dazzling light.

Suren exerted a little force with his fingers and peeled out his right eye.

The stinging pain of the peeling was felt, but it didn't affect his thoughts in the slightest.

Blood flowed onto his cheek, but he expressionlessly placed his eye in the Mechanical Alchemist array.

In an instant, the sacrificed eye seemed to have connected to some kind of covenant with the heavens and earth.

Suren felt that the colors in his eyes suddenly became richer.

When he looked at the clear spring water again, it was now filled with the splendor of all the colors in the world.

It was as if the rainbow had turned into spring water, colorful and radiant.

In an instant, a wisp of colored spring water floated out of the pool and landed in front of him.

Suren opened his mouth and swallowed it in one gulp. In that instant, it was as if he had tasted all the flavors in the world: sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, sadness, joy, melancholy, fear, anger...

It was as if he had tasted all the flavors of life in that instant.

Suren suddenly felt a lot of things flooding into his mind.

Some he could understand, and he remembered them as if he had gained experience;

Some were high above, like quicksand between his fingers, and slipped away when he tried to grasp them.

The world in his eyes became like an abstract oil painting, with flowers, plants, and trees distorted and deformed, and then gradually turning into distorted symbols in his eyes.

"Law personification! This... this is the legendary original Rune?"

Suren was shocked, and the more he looked, the more shocked he became. He had actually seen the runes personified from the universe's original Law in nature?

If he hadn't seen those stone slabs at Chieftain Morey's place earlier, he wouldn't have had such keen awareness at this moment.

How could he not know that he had fallen into a very mysterious state of enlightenment?

Looking at the panel, there was a "Great Enlightenment of Wisdom" state.

This was a temporary buff brought about by drinking the Mimir Spring, and it was also a great opportunity that one only had once in a lifetime!

Knowing that the opportunity could not be missed, Suren unhesitatingly gulped down a large mouthful of Mead of the Poet and then used a silk thread to hang himself upside down on a bare tree next to the spring.

At the moment he was hanging upside down, the "Runa runes" in his eyes immediately became clear!

Suren fell into a state like drunkenness.

Mead of the Poet could bless his state of enlightenment in understanding words, and the replicated Primordial Rune that had been integrated when he advanced to the fourth rank at this moment also allowed him to understand those symbols more clearly.

One by one, the runes fell from the sky like fallen leaves, and Suren's omniscient eye shone with a strange divine light at this moment.

A spear pierced his body, and blood flowed into the sacrificial array, maintaining the sacrificial ritual.

Suren hung upside down in mid-air, coldly watching everything in the world.

Just like that, he hung there for nine days and nine nights.