Strange knew he was in big trouble, but he had no other choice.

As a doctor, no matter what, he can't see so many people dying under his nose. So even though he knew it was a pit, he still chose to jump down without hesitation.

Of course, if this is a dead end and if you jump down, you will only end up with a burial, then he will be unable to help with such things. Fortunately, things have not been bad enough yet.

He still has a method to imagine, at least, he thinks it is right. Why can he have such confidence? After all, it is the special convenience left to him by Baron Modu's disciple.

Baron Modu was the former administrator of the Temple in New York. As a direct disciple of the Ancient One, he retained a very important wealth when Kamataj fell, that is, the tens of thousands of precious classics collected by Kamataj.

Ancient Egypt, ancient Persia, Greece, Rome, India, and even the collections left by the Alexander Library, the treasures of the Lingli Palace, the inheritance of Tantric Buddhism, and the Kamataj are preserved.

Baron Modu spent a huge amount of effort to maintain such a wealth, and the effort he spent was not in vain, because he provided great convenience to latecomers, especially mages like Strange.

Strange wanted to find other ways to enter hell, relying on these precious collectors. If there were no such things, it was simply a fantasy to find such a secret way. Even so, this was not an easy task. Just like Strange was standing in front of these tens of thousands of collections at this moment.

"Where should I start looking for it?"

Where to find it is indeed a question. You should know that these collections are all left behind in different eras and cultures. If you want to understand the content of these collections, or even find out the secrets, the least thing is that you must have enough understanding of the cultures of these different eras.

For Strange, this is almost a difficult difficulty to overcome. Because the only languages ​​he is proficient in are English, Sanskrit and some Chinese. Among them, Chinese is the thing he is most blind, because if it is the simple and easy-to-understand books in modern times, it would be fine, but once the seal script appears in the text and becomes unfamiliar in language, he will immediately feel like reading heavenly books.

In the past, he didn't think there would be any problems with this. After all, he still had a lot of time and there was a knowledgeable teacher around him to ask for advice. As long as he worked hard to study, he would sooner or later learn these complex knowledge.

But now, there is only five days left for him, and if he wants to find what he wants from so many complicated books in five days, it is impossible for him to spend his time learning new languages ​​and words.

Recognizing this, Strange made a decision in his heart, and then he immediately started to use the magic in this library full of books.

As a mage's book collection, the collection here cannot be like an ordinary library for you to read. Not to mention the damage that this may cause to those ancient books, the counter-magic arranged on these ancient books alone is enough for most reckless people to drink a pot of it.

If you want to read a book, you can only use Kama Taj's unique magical means to control it. It is like fishing with a fishing rod, using magic to pull out these precious books.

If your magic power reaches the level of being able to read this book, then you can naturally be easily captured. If you want to watch books that you cannot read at your own level, it is like taking a fishing rod and trying to catch a whale. Even if you just use your energy to eat, it will be useless.

After all, Kama Taj's collection of books contains books with magical heritage. This is to prevent the apprentices from being too ambitious and suddenly getting in touch with things they shouldn't have come into contact with, thus causing great harm to themselves. Of course, this kind of thing will not happen to Strange. On the one hand, it is because his own level is almost used for the magic power of the great wizard, which is enough to mobilize all books. On the other hand, the direction he is looking for is not those precious magical books, but strange stories and secret materials. In this regard, the library's restrictions are certainly not that great.

He did not intend to focus on translating ancient books and writings he did not know, but Strange simply mobilized the letters of the mage since modern times.

Since the beginning of the Age of Great Discovery and the British have become the Empire of the Sun never set by taking advantage of the convenience of Great Discovery, the mages have begun to explore the unsolved mysteries in the world with the east wind of Great Discovery, wearing all kinds of cloaks.

You know, this was not that easy in the past, because if they spy on the secrets of culture in the form of a mage, it might arouse strong opposition from the owners of cultural heritage. In a more serious way, it is not impossible to fight against any monsters in the mysterious world or even gods and demons.

However, if the European expedition teams do such a thing and they are behind their backs, the situation will be different.

Explorers are ordinary people, and ordinary people are treated differently from those of mages. When dealing with mages, those ancient inheritors will never violate the contract signed with the supreme mage. Even if they are beaten to death, the supreme mage can only watch and cannot seek revenge on these guys. However, if they are ordinary people, then the situation will be different.

At a moment when one or two ordinary people are involved in this mysterious world, they will die if they die. The Supreme Master will not take such a great risk for the lives of one or two ordinary people to go to war with those ancient mysterious existences. However, if these ordinary people are adventure teams composed of great sailing powers such as Britain and France, then the situation is a different story.

The opening of the Age of the Great Navigation has broadened the horizon of the entire human race. For the first time, they realized that there are still places in this world that they have unknowns and areas that they do not understand. Whether it is because of their yearning for this unknown, or their own greed and predatory nature. In short, people of that era were very happy to explore everything they did not know. As long as someone was willing to spend money to support, some experienced explorers were willing to work hard. Money was really insignificant for the mages.

Even if it is not considered the accumulation of Kama Taj for thousands of years, the spell of turning stones into gold can allow them to squander a lot of money at will. In that era, there was really nothing that could not be done if you had money. Even if you wanted to buy a warship from the Royal Navy to form your expedition team, as long as you give your money in place and find someone with status to guarantee it, it would not be impossible.

There are no shortage of mages of money, people, and Kama Taj, so naturally, under the name of powerful countries such as Britain and France, the expedition teams operated by mages behind them were like big nets spreading to the whole world.

The secrets that were unknown in the past were explored by the mages, and the mystery that they did not understand in the past was in the hands of the mages. Most of these became the notes of the mages and were recorded in the library of the Kamataj. Now, most of these notes are placed in front of Strange.

One thousand four hundred and forty-two books, this is not a small number. Although many of the notes are less than two fingers thick, the accumulation of so many numbers still makes Strange feel like a skull pressure explosion in such a short moment.

As a doctor, he began to observe silence for his liver because he had already felt that he was going to say goodbye to sleep within these five days. If it were an ordinary person, it would be a rhythm of sudden death. But at least he has exceeded the concept of ordinary people now. If he doesn't sleep for five days, he will endure it and endure it.

He cheered himself up like this in his mind, Strange picked up a scroll of notes and began to read carefully.

This is a scroll about the Arctic expedition. The scroll records the incident where the Inuit shaman signed a contract with the evil spirit at the cost of cutting off his tongue and mastering this Arctic evil spirit. Seeing the evil spirit, Strange paid attention to it because he felt that this might be related to the matter he was looking for about the gates of hell. But after careful study, he found that it had nothing to do with hell's penny.

The so-called evil spirit of the Arctic is not the guy in hell at all. It is more like a mixture of animal spirits and earth-bound spirits, and an evil thing born through primitive worship. In other words, it has no value, pass!

After throwing away this note, Strange picked up another note.

This note records a history from Eastern Europe, where there is no element of adventure team, but some strange phenomena discovered by a local young man from Eastern Europe after learning spells by Kamataj and then went home to visit his relatives.

Eastern Europe has always been a backward region in Europe, with superstitious elements here, and many legends about gods and vampires rage here. And here, this Eastern European mage records a story about an evil god.

There has always been a legend in a small town near his hometown. When you hear the crutches ringing on the floor, you must hide your children. Otherwise, the owner of the crutches will steal your children, and when he steals a hundred children, the gates of hell will open on this land.

This legend seems to be a typical bedside story that scares children, and the wizard in the notes thinks so, and does not take it seriously. However, when he stayed in this small town, he realized that this story is not as simple as a child's story, it is true.

It was late at night and the owner of the hotel where he stayed was still busy for the guests who stayed overnight, and did not have time to take care of his children. When he came to his senses, his two children were gone.

Many residents in the hotel, including the mage, declared that they heard the sound of crutches on the ground. Such incidents made the owner of the hotel change his face, and even woke up the people in the town, raised the torch and flew towards the forest outside the town.

It is related to the lives of two children, and even a mage cannot stay out of it. Therefore, as an enthusiastic traveler, this mage also joined the search camp. It was precisely because he joined it that he discovered that this town has hidden information that is not understood by outsiders.

The adults obviously do not treat this story as a legend, and when things in the story really happen, they are not as panicked as headless flies, but are very organized, and even have clear goals toward the forest outside the town.

Ordinary people may not be able to see this, but the learned mage may see it clearly. When he followed these town residents deep into the forest, he immediately discovered the abnormality in the forest.

There is a castle in the forest, which is strange, but it is not uncommon. After all, it is normal to have castles in this place in Europe. Maybe after a hundred years, you can dig out a famous aristocratic family.

The castle is not strange. What's strange is that the structure of this castle is completely sealed except for a gate, and there is not even a window, which is naturally strange. According to the records in the mage's notes, he felt as if he had seen a huge coffin.

Not only did it give him this feeling outside, but it was the same inside. The entire castle was not so much a tomb built with stones, and in such a tomb, the mage discovered many things that belonged to the most.

Traces of the cult, the remains of large-scale blood sacrifices, and various human destructions. If this wizard was a novelist, maybe a dark story could be arranged in his mind immediately. Although he did not have this talent, he could still identify many unknown pasts from these remaining traces.

It is obvious that this is a declining cult base. Even Strange can draw such a conclusion from the descriptions in his notes in a few words. As for why it is declining, you can guess a rough idea from the words "seal" and "destruction". If you look at it from this perspective, the identity of the residents in this town is worth pondering.

Maybe it is the remnant of the cult, or maybe it is the guardian of the seal. Judging from the notes, he prefers the latter.

The rest of things were a bit old-fashioned. The evil god who had been separated from the seal, the ancient count, blood sacrifice, and the opened door. The owner of the notes seemed to have escaped from the castle for a lifetime, and it seemed that he had been seriously affected, so that at the end of the notes, he became a little incoherent.

It is a headache to have no conclusion, but in Strange's eyes, this seems to be a possibility.

He did not simply draw the conclusion, but took the place recorded in the notes as a tentative direction. As for whether to explore it in the end, he still had to consider it. Of course, what he had to do now is to continue the work in his hands.

There are many books, and there is still a lot of room for choice. Maybe there will be better choices.
Chapter completed!