However, Ella, who was approaching the lamb fiercely with a knife, was kicked over by the sheep's hoof.
"Well...Amy, hurry up and use Aphrodite's protection!" Ella shouted, covering her red nose.
"Your Majesty, please don't always ask me to seduce these strange things!"
Due to Amy's resistance, they finally failed to eat mutton. As compensation, Amy cooked a pot of soup with cabbage and let Ella eat bread made from beans, grains and bark.
Although this meal was extremely simple, for Ella, who had been drifting on the sea for a month, being able to drink hot soup made her very satisfied.
At night, Ella set up the Eye of Hermes in an open space. However, the sky tonight was covered with dark clouds, which was not suitable for observing the stars. With a sigh, she returned to the room and dug out the book that Jabir had given her.
Her alchemical writings.
"The king's crown should be of pure gold, and a chaste bride should marry him. The greedy gray wolf was subordinate to warlike Ares by its name, but by nature he was the child of Cronus, hungry for
Living in the valleys and mountains of the world. Throw the king's body before it, and perhaps you can get nourishment from him. When it devours the king, light a bonfire again, throw the wolf into the fire, and let it burn completely...
What the hell did you write!"
Ella cursed and closed the book. Alchemists are afraid that their knowledge will be lost, so they are always diligent in recording; but they are also afraid that their knowledge will be stolen too easily by others, so they always like to use code words and code names to hide them.
knowledge. The most frustrating thing is that there is no unified code word for alchemy. The code words used by each alchemist are randomly used when they write books. This is why Ella has never been able to read alchemical literature.
the most critical reason.
And Jabir's works look no different from those of other alchemists.
But just when she was about to leave the book and go to sleep, she remembered the story of Mamelkus, who made counterfeit coins. If Dan hadn't been around at that time, no one in the Seven Hills Empire, which banned alchemy, would have discovered Mamelkus.
Kusi's secret.
According to Jabir, the alchemy of the Tianfang Empire had developed to a considerable height two thousand years ago, and it was not comparable to a small character like Mamelkus.
Ella gritted her teeth and opened Jabir's book again. She wanted to block out all the knowledge she had and vowed to translate Jabir's documents into a form that she could understand.
After making up her mind, Ella once again read word for word from the beginning. She suddenly discovered that after following Dan for a period of time, she could actually understand many of the seemingly confusing words in front of her: For example, Ares, Dan said
In alchemy, Cronus refers to iron, while Cronus refers to lead...
"Your Majesty! There are so many rats! My clothes have been bitten by them! And they are running around my ears. It feels like my ears will be bitten off by them at any time!"
Amy ran in in a panic, holding Little Rice in her hand who looked equally flustered:
"Look, the little rice people are frightened by those mice. There are really too many of them!"
"Is that so? I'll prepare some rat poison tomorrow."
Ella answered absentmindedly and dismissed Amy.
At this moment, the books in the Wang family library were like being blown up by a hurricane, and the pages were turning in Ella's mind.
As she watched, she suddenly heard a voice speaking in her ears. She put down the book and looked around, realizing that it was already morning. She continued to search for the source of the sound, and finally turned her attention to the crowbar she had put aside.
superior--
A strange man passed by the window and spoke to Ella naturally:
"Hey, there is news just now that a group of people in our territory had a conflict with people from the neighboring Loland territory when they were hunting over the ownership of the prey. They started fighting, and then our people were detained by them. You said,
What should I do?"
"It won't be long before we get it back, okay?"
Ella continued to answer absentmindedly. The strange man hammered his palm as if he suddenly understood: "Yes, it is obviously such a simple question!"
"Inexplicable..." Ella muttered in a low voice. She felt a little dissatisfied - because of the appearance of the man just now, the sound of spitting out the message disappeared.
She picked up the crowbar and looked at it carefully. She suddenly discovered that the position of the ouroboros on the crowbar had changed slightly - although it was still made of iron, it seemed to have been alive, and the snake's head had shifted.
to its original position.
Ella was trembling with excitement - she remembered that Jabir said that the snake placed on the crowbar was the product of alchemy and was very close to the perfect philosopher's stone. Could it be that the condition for summoning this snake is to possess
Is there any knowledge of alchemy to go with it?
She returned her attention to Jabir's book.
The books in the Wang family library were flipped through faster. Fragments of various books with different authors, different types, different page numbers, and different words began to appear in Ella's mind.
Gradually spliced into meaningful paragraphs.
Ella still failed to understand Jabir's book. But this time, it was not because she could not decipher the code words in the book, but because Ella gave too many interpretations. In just the first chapter, Ella gave
There are more than thirty possible explanations, and the logic of each explanation is self-consistent.
Which explanation is correct?
Just as Ella was racking her brains for this, the strange man just now appeared at the window again and asked:
"Although I said I wanted to get it back...but when should we set off?"
"You can leave whenever you want, and go as soon as you're ready. Do you have to ask?"
Ella yelled angrily, and then turned her attention to Jabir's book——
After a while, she suddenly felt something was wrong:
This is Zealand, not Constantinye.
But she just subconsciously used the tone she used when she was interrupted by official duties in the palace to read.
Amy ran over in a panic at this moment:
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, it's not good! These people from Xilan suddenly ran out of the farmland, picked up axes and shields, and thousands of people marched towards the territory next door to kill..."
"Huh? What do these barbarians want to do? Their lord Hestein is not here, yet such a large-scale conflict spontaneously breaks out?"
"They said... it was the acting lord's order."
"Acting Lord? Lily and Hestein are not married yet, and Bjorn is not here either...wait a minute! Could it be that..."
Ella carefully confirmed with Amy's eyes, her voice getting softer and softer.
Amy tilted her head to one side in embarrassment and said in a voice so soft that it was almost inaudible:
"Your Majesty, Hestein, Bjorn and Lily are not here. The person who has enough authority now and lives in the house of their lord Hestein... is you."