Chapter 83 Worries brought about by bricks
The consultation fee for ten gold coins is just a joke, and no one will take it seriously. What really surprised Su Wen was that Donald actually had a relationship with Ptolemy, and the latter also entrusted him to bring something to him?
Although it is not surprising that Donald met the great magician Ptolemy at the same time, after learning about this, Su Wen quickly discovered a question - did Ptolemy's observation of himself begin before Professor Lila told Su Wen about "it was about to enter St. Peter's Academy"?
You should know that observing an object does not necessarily have to do it yourself!
If this assumption is true, then in the six months of Trides, the ones who had contacted him the most were undoubtedly Donald and his strange clones.
"Don't think too much, that old guy is not yet able to command me." Donald seemed to know what Su Wen was thinking, so he explained with dissatisfaction, "At most it's a request. If I hadn't liked you, I wouldn't have agreed to this matter. Well, after handing over this thing to you, what I want to do will be basically completed, and you will officially become the student of that old guy. The seniority has increased by three or five levels at once, and it should be worth being happy."
"I didn't think too much, tell me what I brought to me?"
Su Wen did not intend to stay on this issue too much and immediately opened up the topic.
"Here, this." Donald said, pulling out a heavy book from behind.
The cover of this book is dark yellow, and looks old. Its thickness is close to 10 cm, and its length and width almost account for a quarter of the desktop. Su Wen felt its heavy weight just by just a glance. When Donald placed the giant book on the desktop, the dull tremor made Su Wen wonder if he had put down an iron lump of the same size.
Donald pushed the book to Su Wen, and the grinding of teeth made Su Wen want to cover his ears. How heavy is this thing? It’s really just a book?
“Follow and see.”
Donald said.
Su Wen walked forward and placed his hand on the thick cover, which felt like the old fur of some kind of animal. But when he opened it up hard, he found that the cover seemed to be integrated with the book, and it was not moving at all. It was not until he used six or seven points of strength and the blue veins between the muscles of his arms raised that it reluctantly separated from the pages.
He supported the book cover with his arms and turned it to the side. After Su Wen looked at the title page, he saw that the light yellow paper was covered with dense inscriptions. They were intricate, but they seemed to be very regular. Although Su Wen could not feel the magical aura emitted between these inscriptions, if each piece of paper in this book had such thousands of complex patterns like the title page, then he could not imagine how much energy it would take to be made - these inscriptions were obviously not meaningless symbols printed in batches on ordinary paper, but magic circles outlined with magic pens on heraldic rice paper.
So, is this a magic scroll book?
Su Wen quickly denied this idea.
Things like magic scrolls are meaningless to him who cannot communicate with the elements. Since Ptolemy handed over this book to him, these heraldic papers depicting magic circles will definitely not be simple magic scrolls.
"This book has only five pages, representing five elements."
Donald was prepared for Su Wen's doubts and explained to him: "Tell me what you are seeing now, is it a lot of graffiti that looks very profound and actually messy?"
This metaphor is really appropriate, so Su Wen had to nod.
"That's right. This means that you have no ability to perceive elements. Otherwise, even if you see not a sea of fire, you should feel a significant heat up, because you are now looking at the page of Fire among the five elements. It is not easy to do this. More than 60% of humans on the Brilliant Continent can perceive elements, and a small number of them have magical talents and can become elemental mages. In the current historical records, there has never been a person with magical talents but no sense of elements. You are likely to be the first one."
"Should I feel honored..."
"Of course, it's unique."
“…”
Su Wen didn't know what to say, but he really pretended to ensure his power.
"This book of elements was specially made by the old guy for you. Even I can't understand all the tricks contained in it. What is being carried out is the detection of your elemental perception, which is also its most basic function." Donald said, "I have confirmed that you have no perception of fire elements, so now turn to the second page and try the water elements."
The whole book is 10 cm thick. If there are only 5 pages in total, then the thickness of one page is 2 cm. Su Wen thinks this thickness can no longer be called a book page. Perhaps it is more suitable to be called a heraldic paper brick, because when lifting up this strange rice paper weighing almost hundreds of kilograms, Su Wen thinks it is like a flat brick.
The second page is still full of tens of thousands of runes, which is quite different from the runes on the first page. The lines seem to be softer, but they still cannot get rid of the messy but unscrupulous impression. Donald just saw Su Wen's expression like a cow playing the piano, and he already knew how bad the test results were.
“Page 3.”
Still feeling nothing.
“Page 4…”
"Page 5...Okay, the test results are no different from the previous judgment. All the five elements of water, fire, wind, earth and light are invisible, which is reasonable." Donald raised his hand and closed the Book of Elements with a "bang". "Don't be discouraged. If you really have feelings, it means that you are no different from other geniuses. The magical conductivity of 167 looks scary, but it won't make you fall in love with the old guy. What you lack the most in this world are geniuses and young people with bright futures. You will be dazzled if you see too much."
Su Wen understood this principle, but was afraid that the old guy would find that he was not as good as a real genius after trying it out.
"Do you want me to bring this thing back? Or do you just do a test here?" Su Wen noticed a very realistic problem. Even if this book of Elements made by the Great Ptolemy master himself had a lot of mystery, even turning pages would require a lot of energy to carry out the whole book... Although Donald's previous actions were easy to write, according to Su Wen's estimate, this book weighed at least nearly a thousand kilograms, and the five of them might not be able to lift it together.
"Of course I'm taking it back. The super high weight is just one of the anti-theft methods of this book. You haven't bound it yet."
"Hey, will you recognize your master after you dripping blood?"
"You have read too many story books, just put your hands in the groove on the back of the book and let it record your information." Donald pointed to the back facing upwards, and there was indeed a slightly sunken area, which was about the size of the two hands.
Su Wen pressed his hands as he did, and the burning sensation from the sound made him frown. It felt like he was touching a cup filled with boiling water, but fortunately it was not unbearable. About five seconds later, the burning touch disappeared. When Su Wen retracted his palm and looked again, he found that his palm was already red, and the grooves on the back of the book had been flattened.
Without Donald's reminder, Su Wen tried to pick up the book. The feeling of buying it was still a bit heavy, but it was already the weight of the paper itself, dozens of times lighter than the previous one. After gently swinging this book of elements weighing dozens of pounds, Su Wen could feel its overwhelming pressure. Considering its terrible weight to the outside world, Su Wen felt that if it had the hardness and toughness that matched the weight, then this might be a very good melee weapon.
Well, this idea is better to be dispelled. After all, I am a magician. If Ptolemy knew that he was considering using this book as a melee weapon, he would probably be very angry.
“What other features does this book have besides detecting my elemental perception?”
Su Wen put the Book of Elements on the table and felt the slight sound of the legs of the table that could not bear the weight, and asked Donald.
"Dig it yourself, I'm not interested in telling you one by one, there will be no surprise at all."
"What should I do with such a thing be surprised!"
That being said, since Donald had no intention of saying it, Su Wen did not intend to ask. After all, it was irrefutable that he ran away with 20,000 gold coins. Moreover, when he met, Donald not only did not pursue him, but also gave him two things - although this book of Elements was just a entrusted gift, the bottle of scarlet potion was real, at least it showed that he did not intend to trick him to the end? In short, you will know if you go back and throw a few appraisal techniques.
Thinking of this, Su Wen did not intend to pursue Donald's various cheating behaviors. The most important thing is to stay away from him as far as possible.
"It's okay? Then I'll leave."
Su Wen said.
Donald stared at Su Wen and said unhappily: "Tsk, you are leaving again? Isn't it good to chat with me? Don't you want to know what I found in the ancient battlefield of Pandora?"
"I don't want to do it at all."
...
After all the matter was explained, Donald did not stay in Su Wen anymore, and Su Wen left the Mercenary Union without any nostalgia.
If Su Wen hadn't met Donald here, he would probably choose to stay in Erimo Town for a while, and then consider entering the Iron Lun Province after finding out the situation. But since this is the case, it would be better to apply oil in advance.
Su Wen also realized that it might not be a coincidence that Donald's original body met him. At that time, his name as a "trash genius" had spread throughout the Trides Magic Academy. It was when Professor Lila was very troubled by his qualifications. It was probably that the great Ptolemy magician had already known his name and then entrusted Donald to contact him. Donald seemed to have no intention of avoiding this, and his answer was equivalent to admitting this matter with ease. It was indeed not easy to pay attention to this world for no reason. It was really too far-fetched to provide him with his side information as an explanation for his good relationship with him...
However, what made Su Wen think about it was extremely terrifying that if Donald had doubts about his origin, then does it mean that this suspicion would be inherited to the Great Magician of Ptolemy?
Thinking of this, Su Wen held the heavy book of elements, but he was not particularly excited.
Unless you completely give up the resources brought by time travelers, it is too difficult to avoid being discovered. Perhaps the biggest mistake you made after entering the glorious continent is to exchange for the magical talent of that defective product from the beginning.
It's time to find a way out for yourself.
Chapter completed!