The moonlight in the desert was very bright, shrouding the hotel room in a clear light.
Fang Plover put down his quill absentmindedly and inserted it into the ink bottle.
He raised his head, then lowered his head, and sighed - he closed the diary with both hands, stood it up, and inserted it into a pile of books. Some of the big books with thick covers had words outlined in gold lines on their spines.
He is the author of "On the Aether", "Geography of Istania", and "Examinations of the Alchemy of Numerin".
Fang Yu looked at the moonlight outside the window, with many thoughts in his mind, and some thoughts about the day could not stop coming to his mind.
He stepped back, slid open his chair, and reached out to open the drawer - inside the drawer was a stack of parchment that looked like dead leaves, with curved symbols on it that seemed to fluoresce in the moonlight.
He glanced at it and closed the drawer silently. Those were the handwritten texts of the Yuanhai Scroll, and the scholars who copied them were born far earlier than their time, so the handwritten texts themselves can be considered cultural relics.
He shouldn't have brought these things with him in the first place.
But by some strange coincidence, Fang Pliance himself didn't know what kind of mentality he had. When he was leaving the manor, he asked Her Royal Highness the Princess to keep them.
The other party didn't refuse either.
Perhaps it was because they were also key clues in the investigation of the slave trade incident. Fang Yu himself thought so too. Perhaps he did this because these documents were more or less connected with the Dragon Worship Cult. Maybe there was something behind the scenes.
, and it’s also related to the homeless man——
But the next moment, he realized that these were just excuses.
He simply wanted to leave these documents, as if there was a voice in the dark telling him to do so. Once this idea came up, he could never stop it.
This made him more and more uneasy, wondering if he was controlled by a mysterious force like Dragon King Lifgard last time, and made a decision that was not his intention?
He hesitated again and again, and finally made a decision. He reached into his coat pocket and fumbled around, and took out a talisman from there. The talisman was about three fingers wide and about the same length. It was shaped like a silver crescent with a flower carved on it.
Elf iris.
He took off the original Nite Owl brooch from his coat on the left breast, replaced it with this amulet, and then calmed down. As if he had found some psychological comfort, he breathed a sigh of relief.
This talisman, called 'The Wall of Anrothe', was given to him by Nervad's master. In fact, he had already fulfilled the requirements for wearing it after the Battle of Vanric. It was just because he couldn't bear to part with the calculation power of the Night Owl Talisman.
That's why I haven't changed it yet.
And this amulet is actually a level 38 elf rare item, which is enough to prevent mental attacks below level 45. It may not be enough to resist the spiritual induction of Dragon King Lifgard, but I think it can be used to block it.
The spiritual influence emitted invisibly by an ownerless object should be enough.
At least that's what he thought.
Unfortunately, things didn't work out as expected.
But after Fang Yu put on the brooch, he found that it was of no use. He still couldn't stop the thoughts that were running through his heart. As soon as he closed his eyes, all the words on the Yuanhai scroll that he had seen during the day appeared in his mind. in mind.
Even those strange and crooked words made him have a strong and persistent thought - he had really seen those words.
But Fang Yu came to his senses immediately.
There is no way I have ever seen these things.
His eyeballs trembled under his eyelids, as if he had seen something strange.
The next moment, Fang Yu opened his eyes again uneasily, lowered his head, and found that he had opened the drawer again without knowing when.
But in the drawer, those papers were still lying quietly in that place, motionless.
Fang Plover was so frightened that he quickly closed the drawer with a snap.
He raised his head in a cold sweat and looked out the window. From the direction of the hotel, he could see the street facing the river outside, and the moonlight reflected the river brightly.
From a distance, a girl walked over with a water jug on her head and stopped by the river. She bent down and placed the mat on the bank first, then rolled up her skirt and stepped into the river with her bare feet.
The other party put down the jar in his hand and started filling it with water.
Seeing this scene, Fang Yu seemed to have just come back to reality from the illusion in his heart. He put his hands on the table, took a breath, and finally couldn't help shouting:
"Miss Tata."
"Mr. Knight?"
"Papa."
Tata's quiet voice and Nini's milky reply sounded at the same time.
Miss Goblin's voice did have a power to calm people's hearts, which made Fang Plover feel at ease a little. He leaned back on the chair, supported the table with his hands, and waited for a while before asking:
"Miss Tata, did you feel anything just now?"
Tata emerged from in front of him, flapped her fairy wings slightly, and looked at him with bright emerald green eyes and replied:
"You are troubled, Mr. Knight."
"I know," Fang Plover withdrew a hand, pressed his forehead, and asked in a weak voice: "Have you heard any sounds before, just like... just like Lifgard at that time?"
Tata slowly shook his head:
"No, Mr. Knight. But I just feel that you seem to be very anxious, and the anxiety in your heart comes from your own thoughts."
"My own thoughts..." Fang Yu shook his head: "Can you feel what I am thinking, Miss Tata?"
Tata thought for a moment before replying: "Your thoughts are very confused. It seems that you are looking for a certain fragment of memory and comparing it with it. You want to figure out where you have read these words."
This is exactly what Fang Plover was thinking at this moment.
But instead of clarifying his thoughts, Miss Goblin's words made him even more confused.
He replied anxiously:
"But the problem is, I have never seen these words, but I can't stop having this idea in my heart. From the time I left Princess Rupert's manor, until now, this idea has never stopped."
"Maybe you should face it," Tata replied.
"face?"
"Because the facts have proven that there is no point in escaping."
After saying this, Tata closed his mouth and said no more.
Because the thoughts in Fang Yu's heart were also the thoughts in her heart, and the futile consolation was just adding chaos out of thin air.
Sure enough, her attitude made Fang Yu calm down a little. He calmed down and asked again:
"So Miss Tata, do you know Yuanhai Changjuan?"
Miss Goblin nodded.
Fang Yu couldn't help but look at her in surprise: "Miss Tata, do you really understand?"
Tata spoke again, his voice very quiet, as if he was just narrating a piece of history:
"These ancient texts come from a certain era in ancient times. I know some people have studied them, but not many stone tablets have been unearthed from under the Abyssal Sea, and people's knowledge of the Abyssal Sea Scroll is also intermittent."
"slate?"
"The Yuanhai Scroll was recorded on stone tablets. Mr. Knight, the documents seen in later generations are all hand-copied or rubbing texts."
It suddenly dawned on Fang Plover that, except for the documents left by the elves in the Numelin era, all the Abyssal documents were discovered under the Abyssal Sea. Naturally, paper documents cannot be preserved, and only stone tablets can be preserved.
That's all.
While talking with Miss Goblin, he found that he seemed to be less uneasy.
In addition, at this moment, Nini also appeared and pestered him to play with her.
Fang Yu tapped his little daughter, Fang Nini, on the forehead with his hand, making the latter giggle. Listening to this simple laughter, his anxiety subsided a little.
After he calmed down, he turned around and asked Tata seriously:
"So Miss Tata, are there any... weird rumors about the researchers of the Abyssal Scroll?"
Tata thought for a moment and said: "Indeed, some of its researchers have become crazy."
Miss Goblin obviously doesn't know how to comfort people. Fang Yu couldn't help but swallowed a mouthful of saliva:
"Crazy?"
Fortunately, Miss Tata was still concerned about her knight's mental health and replied: "Don't worry, such examples are very rare. Most people cannot understand the meaning of these words, and their interpretation of the stone tablets is superficial. On the contrary,
There are lizard people who have studied this deeply, and they have a unique astrology that can interpret the contents on these tablets by comparing the stars.
But that's not all. The older the stone tablet, the more unreadable it is. Moreover, it is an ancient and sacred secret of the lizard people, which has never been spread to the outside world. In addition, the Numelin elves have also deciphered part of the content of the stone tablet, and evolved into
Ancient Alchemy.”
Fang Yu listened and was silent for a moment.
He has a good relationship with the lizard people. The master of the Tada lizard people is of the guardian lineage of the stars and is especially good at reading slates.
It's a pity that the other party is not in this place at the moment, and knowing this is of no use.
He asked again: "Aren't there any abnormalities in these words themselves?"
"It's just ordinary ancient writing, Mr. Knight."
"So they are really long scrolls in the deep sea?"
The goblin lady nodded slightly.
"I saw it before when I was at the Silver Tower."
Fang Yu has absolute trust in his fairy lady.
Hearing this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, thought about it again, and then slowly opened the drawer again. Miss Tata was right, and escaping was not an option. He couldn't maintain this state forever.
Since it was not a spiritual attack, he wanted to see what these ancient texts were about.
Tata watched this scene quietly and did not object.
At this time, Fang Yu took out the first page from the drawer - which was also the most complete page of the hand-written text of the Yuanhai scroll - he carefully held the dry parchment and cast his gaze on it.
It was strange to say that at first glance, he felt that the moonlight seemed to become brighter.
At this time, the Istanian girl outside the window had already finished fetching water by the river.
The other party put down his skirt and walked up from the river. He bent down again to pick up the mat placed by the river, placed it on top of his head, then placed the clay pot on it, holding the pot with one hand, and walked forward under the moonlight.
Walked back in the direction of time.
Fang Plover watched this scene from a distance.
But at the same time, he also looked at the document in his hand. He seemed unable to concentrate for a moment, but the winding words seemed to come alive on their own, jumping into his sight one by one.
He obviously didn't understand the words above at all, but a strange thought came to his mind - these words were incomplete. And like an innate instinct, he subconsciously put his hand in his pocket, fumbled for a while, and took it out from there.
Here comes a Corin-Ithurian silver coin.
This silver coin has a face value of thirteen lisels. One side is engraved with the symbol of the Ouroboros, which represents alchemy, and the symbol of the gold element in Aitalian alchemy.
The other side is engraved with the profile of Ms. Roman - below is a relief of a scale - which is a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl with an unserious face. Unbelievers call her the Laughing Girl, which is why she is called the Laughing Girl.
Come.
Fang Plover raised the silver coin and faced the moonlight. A ball of silver light fell on the parchment, and the dark parts between the twisted words actually lit up one after another.
Looking at these words, he seemed to take it for granted. Although he could not understand them at all, the silver coin in his hand revealed the words hidden on the parchment one by one from left to right.
Fang Yu couldn't help but speak out a strange note.,
But the next moment, he finally shuddered and came back to his senses from this mysterious state. With a 'ding-dong' sound, the silver coin fell from his hand and fell to the ground.
Fang Yu suddenly threw the parchment document on the table and realized what he had done before.
His forehead reflected the moonlight, and his face was slightly pale, with a thin layer of sweat oozing out from it.
He took a step back, couldn't help but stand up from his chair, and asked in a low voice: "Miss Tata, just now...?"
"I didn't remind you just now, Mr. Knight," Tata looked very calm and replied, "because I think it will be helpful to you."
"Is it... helpful?" Fang Yu looked a little dazed. What just happened to him was like a short dream.
Tata then said:
"I feel like you're reading those words and learning something from them."
Fang Yu was stunned and asked: "I learned something -?"
He suddenly closed his mouth and opened his Dragon Knight system. There were indeed a few lines of prompts on it, mainly saying that he had gained some cognitive experience through reading.
I don’t have much experience, I have hundreds of points, and I jumped five or six times in total. However, it is not an unusual operation to gain cognitive experience by reading unknown literature.
It's just that the system's prompts are very vague and very different from usual. And Miss Tata said that he learned something, so that's not what he was talking about.
Fang Yu checked it carefully, then opened his eyes and discovered that all his calculation, logic, memory and other attributes based on intelligence evaluation had increased by three points respectively.
He remembered it very clearly, especially since his calculated attribute was the main attribute of the combat craftsman. Since leaving Idus, the base value should be 228 points. He has not upgraded his level since then, so it should remain unchanged.
But at this moment, it is clearly 231 points.
It is too sensational that attributes can be increased through reading. Moreover, it is not only the calculation power that is improved, but all attributes under the intelligence evaluation, which means that it is the main intelligence attribute that is improved.
At least in Aitalia, he had never heard of such a thing.
Fang Yu was afraid that he had made a mistake. He remembered that he had changed the night owl brooch before, so he wore the brooch again, but the result was still the same.
He took off the brooch in disbelief and was stunned for a while before asking Tata:
"Miss Tata, have you ever heard of such a thing?"
Miss Goblin slowly shook her head.
Only Nini didn't know what was going on and looked up at the two of them.
But Fang Yu had no intention of caring about the little girl at the moment. He just pulled out the broken Yuanhai scrolls one by one, and then read them one by one. When reading the second and third sheets, he entered the
a mysterious state.
After coming back to his senses, the intelligence attribute will be improved to varying degrees, but it is not fixed. The second time it was 2 points, and the third time it was only 1 point.
In other words, after three readings, he gained a total of 6 points of computing power, which may not seem like much, but during an alchemist's life, the growth of computing power is almost constant. Especially compared to the basic computing power, including equipment,
Including skills, there are only so many. And the so-called secret missions in the world are just special skills that are rarely seen in daily life to "increase the computing power or reduce the computing power requirements of the structure".
In other words, if he can still learn those skills, it means that Ping Kong has 6 points more basic computing power than others. And this is the result of him only reading two pages of the Yuanhai scroll.
Fang Yu suppressed the doubts and excitement in his heart and continued reading. But when he read the fourth scroll, he felt a wave of fatigue sweeping over him, and his eyelids trembled.
He let out a long yawn, then quickly shook his head and regained consciousness.
When he realized what had happened, he looked at the parchment document in his hand again, but this time, he no longer had the same wonderful feeling as before.
Fang Yu was stunned for a moment, and the doubts in his heart flashed away.
But he immediately reacted: It seems that reading these words is not without cost, it requires mental power. Mortals use crystals and mental power to control the ether. As an alchemist, he naturally understands this.
Only then did Fang Plover silently put down his scroll.
I felt uneasy but also a little excited.
Naturally, I was excited to discover a brand new world from the long scroll of the abyss.
But after the excitement, the uneasy mood inevitably came back to my heart.
First of all, these things in his hands are Yuanhai scrolls, which are things that prohibition is expressly stipulated in Prohibition No. 7. He is violating the regulations by holding these things at the moment.
Although Ban No. 7 was not the earliest clause stipulated in the "Stargate Declaration", it was also a supplementary clause signed by the Super Sports Alliance and Stargate Port after the Battle of Bain.
If someone discovers that he is related to these things, there will probably be no good results.
What made him even more confused was that before him - especially before the No. 7 ban was signed, there should have been many chosen people who had read the Abyssal Sea Scroll.
But why have they never had such a situation?
He couldn't help but compare in his mind what was special about him. The only thing that could be said to be special was that on the one hand he had the power of the dark dragon, and on the other hand there was only the possibility of Cang Zhihui.
Unfortunately, when he approached the parchment scroll with the back of his hand, the mark on it did not react at all.
On Nini's side, the power of Dragon Golden Dragon did not fluctuate at all.
Fang Yu tried for a long time, but couldn't figure out why.
However, when he picked up the last drawing, he couldn't help but be stunned. The last drawing, which was the one he had seen at Princess Penelope's place, only had secret patterns and no words.
Parchment pattern.
At that time, he felt that the pattern on the painting might be some kind of magic circle, but it had no connection with the alchemy magic circle in his impression.
At this time, he used a silver coin to reflect the moonlight, reflected the pattern on the blank part of the drawing, and remembered it in his mind.
An idea couldn't help but arise in his mind:
This is a recipe.
He is an alchemist, so he has naturally learned the relevant knowledge of the Potions School. The Potions School, which Pudra of Elfendor Council is proficient in, is only a branch of alchemy, but in the earliest days, it was closely related to the popular magic school today.
In fact, it comes from two completely different knowledges from the beginning.
Potions is the inheritance of potions from the Numelin elves. Together with elven blacksmithing and enchantment, they are called the three major skills of the Numelin elves.
Of course, the elves' potion science is very different from today's. Today's potion science serves alchemy, and its products are also magic reagents.
In the Numelin era, elves mainly used this skill to prepare various mana potions, magic amplification potions, and even potions with various magical effects.
At this moment, Fang Yu felt vaguely that the formula on this drawing seemed to have some connection with the potion science of the Numelin elves, but it was even older.