Chapter 1403: Chapter 551: Twin Witch Kings

Ron took a deep breath and retrieved the "Extraordinary Comprehensive Guide" from his storage bag.

The pages emitted a familiar golden glimmer in the night.

The giant eye on the cover slowly opened, gazing at him with a look of anticipation.

"Need my help again?"

A familiar teasing voice echoed in the room:

"Let me guess... You’ve discovered a grand problem, come up with a brilliant idea, but don’t know how to turn it into reality?"

"That’s indeed the case."

Ron candidly admitted:

"I need a bridge, a bridge to connect theory to practice."

"A bridge?" An emoji with a slightly disappointed expression appeared on the page:

"What a tedious metaphor.

I thought you’d use more creative terms like ’catalyst,’ ’resonator,’ or even ’translator.’"

Ron couldn’t help but burst into laughter:

"Alright, then I need a ’translator,’ someone who can translate the language of art into the language of engineering."

"That’s more like it!"

The text became lively again:

"So, as usual, what will you offer in exchange for this precious wisdom?"

Ron was prepared.

He closed his eyes, recalling that extraordinary book he had read in his past life:

"In my homeland, there was a writer named Italo Calvino.

"One of this writer’s famous works details a conversation between a traveler and a monarch."

Ron’s voice flowed softly in the silent room:

"Imagine a ruler with countless countries, each with countless unique cities.

But here’s the problem—when you rule too many cities, how do you understand the true essence of each?"

He began sketching in the air with magic power:

"The traveler told the monarch:

’Your Majesty, I have once seen a place called the City of Chess.

The most magical aspect of this city isn’t its building materials. Those are but Ordinary obsidian and moonstones, common adamantine and mithril.’"

"’What truly sets this city apart is the positional relationship of each building material.’"

A gleam of wisdom appeared in Ron’s eyes:

"’Just like a game of dragon chess, the most popular in the Wizard World.

A wizard is a wizard because he can command elements, manipulate mysteries.

If you remove all the other pieces, the wizard is just an ordinary human.’"

"’Dragon Descendants are powerful because they can charge into battle and guard allies;

The researcher is valuable because he can solve mysteries and guide paths.’"

"’But what’s most intriguing are the seemingly humble pawns.

They can only move slowly forward, appearing to be of no value.

However, when a pawn goes through hardships to reach the enemy’s camp, it can awaken to become any profession it wishes—including the legendary Dragon King.’"

Ron paused, letting the metaphor ferment in the air:

"’Therefore, Your Majesty, the significance of a city, even of an entire plane, isn’t composed of isolated existences.

What’s truly definitive is the endless network of relationships between existences.’"

"’A city might have the most magnificent Mage Tower, the most solid elemental barriers, the widest Teleportation Gate Square.

But without organic links between these elements, it’s just a beautiful ruin.’"

"’Conversely, even a city built from the most ordinary materials.

If its network of relationships is cleverly woven, it can glow with impressive life energy.’"

His tone grew deeper and more profound:

"’To change a city, the most brilliant way is to reweave its network of relationships.

Change the positions of the pieces, thus giving the whole game a new meaning.’"

The text on the page fell into a long silence, even the giant eye seemed to be in deep thought.

After a long while, a line of approving words slowly appeared:

"Brilliant! ’Relationships trump entities,’ ’network defines meaning’... Such philosophical insight is indeed impressive."

"The sages of your world clearly understand some fundamental rules of reality."

The tone of the text became more excited:

"Moreover, choosing this story to exchange for the wisdom of ’translation’ itself reflects your deep understanding of the essence of the problem."

"So, in return, let me tell you a story..."

The tone of the "Extraordinary Comprehensive Guide" suddenly turned sly:

"However, this time, the story I’m going to tell is not an elegant philosophical fable.

I want to tell you about an absurd comedy of ’two arch-enemies forced to live together and end up saving the world.’"

The pages began to turn, but this time the change was particularly special.

The originally flat paper started to arch upwards, as if a miniature stage was being built.

A curtain of paper slowly drew open, revealing a wonderful world of ink lines before Ron’s eyes.

"Long, long ago, before even my master was born, in a particularly unlucky year of the Second Era..."

The voice of the "Extraordinary Comprehensive Guide" turned theatrical, like a storyteller’s:

"There were two roommates with extremely incompatible temperaments, forced to live in the same dormitory."

In the scene, a room was divided into two halves by invisible walls.

The left side was tidy, like an exhibition hall, where everything was arranged with meticulous precision;

The right side was a messy chaos, like a junkyard, with strange little trinkets scattered everywhere.

"On the left lived a super perfectionist, whom we call ’Mr. Obsession.’"

A humanoid outline made of countless straight lines appeared.

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