Chapter 88: All I Learned Are Forbidden Techniques?
Chapter 88: All I learned are forbidden arts?
Claude now finally understood why no one in White Deer Town had ever heard of Baroness Maria. It turned out that she was from the royal capital. But she could buy this Niros from Sir Fox.
Although the specimen of the giant crocodile cost forty-five gold crowns, the fact that Sir Fox was able to let go and not dare to refuse her request is enough to show that she is rich and wealthy and has a prominent family.
From a commercial point of view, this specimen of the Niros giant crocodile is not worth forty-five gold crowns. Sir Fox can be considered a profit by selling it at this price. After all, he obtained this specimen from Bokoal.
The crocodile only cost four gold crowns. But the problem is that such a huge Niros crocodile has always been expensive and unavailable. After being made into a specimen and taken to the kingdom for a tour exhibition, the tickets were collected. It is enough to be placed in the manor to Sir Fox.
His guests showed off for a while, how could he sell something that could earn him face?
It can be heard from the embarrassing words spoken by Lady Maria just now that when she heard that someone in White Deer Town had hunted such a huge Niros crocodile, she rushed to White Deer Town to find Sir Fox.
Asking to buy the specimen of this crocodile. This shows that Sir Fox also knows this Lady Maria and knows her background. He may have some contacts with her family, so he does not dare to offend and can only meet her request...
Claude suddenly thought of the metaphor of the big fish eating the small fish and the small fish eating the shrimps. Maybe people like himself are the shrimps, Sir Fox is the small fish, and the Lady Maria in front of him is the big fish, and she is still unobtrusive.
.It’s just that Claude couldn’t figure out why such a Niros crocodile attracted her attention, so he rushed back from the royal capital.
"Uh... I didn't expect to see this crocodile here. To be honest, I was shocked just now. But I don't know why, madam, you came here from the royal capital for this crocodile. Do you want to take it?"
Exhibition in the Royal Capital?" Claude pretended to be a curious baby.
Mrs. Maria rolled her eyes at him: "I'm not that boring. The reason I bought it is that I need its skin. You must not know that Niros crocodile skin is currently the best material for making magic books.
no?"
I really don’t know this, so Claude can only nod and admit it honestly.
Mrs. Maria shook her head and said: "I really don't know where you learned magic, and I don't want to know your magic heritage, because this is a taboo topic for any magician. But I have to tell you.
, although you know magic, you don’t understand the current development of magic in the world, and you don’t know a lot of common knowledge about magic..."
Well, Claude had to admit that what she said made sense. This Lady Maria spoke very straightforwardly and said whatever came to her mind. She was not like those nobles who spoke in a roundabout way. But this also shows that Claude
There is a lack of channels for understanding external information. As this Lady Maria said, there is news that Sterling X asked a registered magician to release more than two hundred beads of light at the Renaissance Festival banquet, turning the royal court into a palace that never sleeps.
Can't see it in any newspaper...
This is also the biggest shortcoming of living in a small place like Bailu Town. Although you can hide your identity as a magician very well here, you have no way to know the information about the development of magic and the changes in the situation in the outside world. Claude thought
Once he had the idea of wanting to visit the royal capital. He wanted to see what Madam Maria said about magic.
"I'm sorry, Madam." Claude thought for a while and felt that there were some things he could say directly. In addition, he also had a good impression of the straightforward Madam Maria: "I just got a rune mage's diary by chance, and I was curious for a moment.
I didn’t practice magic until I was young. In fact, I just started practicing meditation when I was hunting this Niros crocodile, and I didn’t know how to cast any spells at that time. It wasn’t until last month that I learned a few spells.”
"Wait, you are talking about Rune Mage? Are you sure you are learning the inheritance of Rune Mage?" Madam Maria suddenly became excited.
Claude shook his head: "Madam, I don't know if what I learned is the inheritance of the Rune Mage. The owner of the diary claims to be the Rune Mage. There are several notes on alchemy experiments and a hexagram meditation technique.
and five magic spells, I practiced based on these records..."
Claude decided to find a way to forge a mage's diary after he went back. He spoke too quickly just now, forgetting that Master Landers' time was nearly six hundred years ago. Only those magic books could be preserved for such a long time.
, should I go get those talisman materials? What if this Madam Maria wants to see the mage diary she mentioned? She can ask Sir Fox to sell her a crocodile specimen, and she can't refuse her at all.
Require……
Just when Claude was worrying about gains and losses, he heard Mrs. Maria laugh: "Claude, don't tell me this. Every mage's magic inheritance is his personal secret. Even us registered magicians,
We also have our own other magical inheritance, and they are not all those harmless spells that the special department of the kingdom requires us to learn, do you understand?"
Claude was a little embarrassed: "Madam, you are the first mage I communicate with. You know that I don't understand this magic knowledge..."
"For the sake of your youth, I forgive you." Mrs. Maria laughed again: "Rune Mage, this is the name of magicians before they were driven out of the mainland. There were only two types of magicians at that time, Rune Mage.
Grammar mages and battle mages. However, in the great war that took place more than five hundred years ago, the battle mages suffered the heaviest casualties. In the end, when those magicians left the continent of Farea and retreated to Shigros Island, the remaining
There are only a few battle mages left.
Now, although various countries in the mainland have secretly carried out magic research and mage training, they have changed the name. They have changed the rune mage to the alchemy mage. The purpose is also different. What the alchemy mage studies is how to use ordinary people's methods to
To achieve magical effects, you can understand by giving an example, such as running water and flushing toilets, these two things should be familiar to you from your family background, right?"
Claude nodded.
Mrs. Maria continued: "Like the magicians in the past, they all used spells or magic arrays to achieve the purpose of water supply and cleaning personal hygiene. What the alchemists studied was to use other methods that did not require spells and magic arrays.
To achieve the effect, this is how running water and flushing toilets were developed. Over the past few hundred years, there have been many studies that have made life easier for ordinary people, such as paper and printing machines, glass production processes, etc., which have greatly improved
It affects our quality of life..."
Claude looked confused. Do these things still require magical research? As long as you have a little knowledge of chemical engineering and mechanical principles, you can play many tricks in minutes...
"Almost all the knowledge and magic books back then were in the hands of those magicians. After the war, most of those magic books were brought to Shigros Island by the surviving magicians. Those left on the mainland were either burned or destroyed by those magicians.
People who hated magicians ruined them, and only a handful of magic books were preserved by knowledgeable people.
It was only after the war on the mainland subsided and the establishment of various countries did people discover that if they want the country to develop and progress, they must study the knowledge in those magic books, so they each secretly cultivated their own magicians in order to enhance the country's strength. Of course, this is only obvious.
The statement on the surface, to put it bluntly, is that these are just those in power who want to enjoy the convenience of magic and use magic to maintain their power."
Lady Maria spoke very clearly, and she did not even take her own aristocratic status seriously.
At this moment, Claude suddenly understood why after more than six hundred years, matchlocks or matchlocks had not evolved into automatic weapons such as submachine guns. Knowledge monopoly. Six hundred years ago, almost all knowledge was in the hands of those magicians.
After the magicians were driven out of the mainland, this knowledge was in the hands of those in power.
No wonder I didn’t discover subjects related to physics and chemical engineering when I went to school. It turns out that these are regarded as magical knowledge. Each kingdom only conducts research in private, and even organizes special departments to keep it confidential. Think about what you learn in school, and how liberal arts are.
Writing essays, settling accounts, and buying and selling things train bureaucrats, secretaries, accountants, and businessmen. Not to mention physical education, which is the best candidate for reserve soldiers...
Butler Lutheran came, carrying a silver tray filled with exquisite gold-plated crystal tea sets and biscuits and other snacks.
"Come have afternoon tea with me, Claude." Madam Marian pointed to the small tea table next to the crocodile specimen and extended an invitation. She sat down first and put her feet on the crocodile specimen unceremoniously.
"Thank you for your hospitality, madam." Claude thanked him first and then moved the chair a little further away. He did not dare to put his feet on the crocodile specimen worth forty-five gold crowns.
"It's okay, just step on it." Mrs. Maria said carelessly.
Butler Lutheran placed the crystal tea set and snacks on the tray on the table, and then quietly retreated.
Mrs. Maria reached out and picked up the crystal teapot, poured herself a cup of black tea, added milk to it, then opened a beautiful silver can, used a small silver clip to take out a small light yellow square and put it into her milk tea:
"This is crystal sugar, which is extracted from honey. It is the invention of our pharmacist. You know that honey is sticky, and it will be very troublesome and embarrassing if you accidentally get it on your clothes during a party. With this crystal sugar, it is convenient
That's more. By the way, Claude, you can do it yourself, you don't need my help..."
"No, ma'am, I'll do it myself." Claude poured himself a cup of black tea without adding anything: "I like to drink it plain."
Mrs. Maria reached out and picked up a small biscuit and put it into her mouth: "I'm really hungry, so I won't be polite to you. In order to thank you for your life-saving grace today, if you have any questions, just ask them and I can answer them."
I will tell you everything. By the way, Claude, can you tell me the names of the Rune Mage's spells? Let me state in advance that I am really just curious, nothing else."
"It's okay, it's not a secret." Claude replied: "The owner of the mage diary I got is only a first-level rune mage. It turned out to be a fisherman's child. He was taken to the magic circle because he was found to have magical talent.
Tower, and then he was trained as a rune mage. This is what is written in the diary. The spells recorded above are magic hand, eye of exploration, precise control, decomposition and fusion. There is no more after that, so these five are recorded
A spell, I am now worried about where to find two more spells..."
Claude felt that these five rune spells were all popular in the past. The rune mages trained by the Magic Tower learned these and it was no different. It didn't matter if they said it.
Unexpectedly, Mrs. Maria across the way looked dumbfounded when she heard the names of these five spells. She opened her mouth wide and the biscuits inside kept falling.
Claude was startled: "Madam, what's wrong with you?"
Mrs. Maria came back to her senses and said with excitement: "Claude, you must never tell anyone that you have learned these five spells..."
Claude looked puzzled.
Mrs. Maria lowered her voice: "These five spells are all forbidden spells in the kingdom, and they are absolutely forbidden to be learned. It is said that even the mages who study in that special department are rarely allowed to learn these five spells.
.”
"Why? These five are just rune spells, used for alchemy experiments..."
"Two hundred years ago, Sterling IV was assassinated. The murderer used magic hands to stab him in the back with a poisonous dagger and fled. History books record that there was a stone wall behind where Sterling IV was standing.
Wall, so no one expected that he would be assassinated. It was later discovered that the assassin used magic hands to cross the stone wall and assassinate him with a poisonous dagger that had been hidden there. Since then, magic hands have been included in the forbidden arts.
"Mrs. Maria almost leaned into Claude's ear before telling him this secret of the kingdom.
Claude Khan, he thought it was a great idea to use his magic hands to do housework, but he didn't expect that someone used it to carry out assassinations more than two hundred years ago...