Chapter 202 The Golden Compass and the Demigod Formula
"How high do you think the revolutionary army's chances of success are?"
"Ten percent!"
Raymond had no doubts about the capabilities of the revolutionary army. Even in the original game, the Black Sea's development of the revolutionary army lagged behind due to the arrest of Chapman. Later, these remote sea areas in the far west would also inevitably be invaded by the torrent of the revolutionary army.
Whether in reality or in the game, the Salo regime is destined to be overthrown. Even if there is an accident, it is only a matter of time at most!
"Ten percent?"
Boggs didn't expect his tone to be so firm.
If he hadn't had the successfully refined high-purity magic potion in front of him, he would obviously not believe the shocking news that Raymond told. He couldn't believe that the Tianlan Kingdom, now a prosperous country and a powerful people, would be transformed in a short period of time. Subverted. What's more, a high-ranking nobleman of his status has vague access to some of the decisions made by Tianlan's upper echelons. How could he not know that the Salo regime also has the support of the World Headquarters!
Aldrich's thoughts were racing in his mind, and he probably figured it out, and asked: "You mean, the Thunderbird Chamber of Commerce may become the next giant whale?"
The words were a bit cryptic, but they also meant to confirm whether the Thunderbird Chamber of Commerce was secretly supported by the revolutionary army.
It turns out that his disciple asked them to join the Thunderbirds and had this deeper plan. If the Tianlan Dynasty is destined to fall, this is probably the best way to avoid risks.
"Yes! Moreover, Thunderbird Chamber of Commerce has experts in charge, and its rise is unstoppable."
Raymond did not elaborate, but added: "If the teacher becomes a worshiper of Thunderbird, he can even create a new 'Potion Master's Guild'!"
The line between the Thunderbird Chamber of Commerce and the Revolutionary Army was naturally formed by Raymond.
Originally, the elders of the Thunderbird Chamber of Commerce, like everyone else in Tianlan's upper class, all thought that the "Revolutionary Army" was just a small, inconspicuous organization, and no one was willing to take the risk of being wanted and make deals with a group of low-class pirates. .
But since Matthew declared that he and Raymond were on the same front, he gradually began to get in touch with some inside stories. Only then did the fat man discover that the revolutionary army that he thought were like little shrimps had actually turned into a giant whale that could swallow sharks. It The appearances that appear on the sea are just the tip of the iceberg!
"Okay! Teacher can promise you!"
Aldrich didn't think much about it. He chose to believe in his disciples. And when he thought about it, no matter whether the revolutionary army had the ability to overthrow the Salo regime, he didn't want to continue to stay in this dirty potion master's union and change the environment. better.
Boggs frowned and did not agree immediately. After all, he represented the Knox family. Once such a decision to take a stand was made, it would most likely bring about the danger of overthrowing the entire family.
After thinking about it, he still hesitated and said to Raymond: "Sorry, I still have to consider your proposal for the time being."
"Yes, I understand this."
Raymond didn't expect that with just a few words of his own, a high-ranking noble would drop everything to make trouble with you.
After a pause, he revealed another purpose of coming today: "Mr. Boggs, in fact, in addition to getting your recommendation to attend the Genius Potion Master Conference, I came here today to have an unkind invitation."
"oh?"
Boggs raised his eyebrows and said with a relaxed smile: "You don't have to be so polite. Since I am your disciple of Aldrich and not an outsider, you can just say it if you have anything."
Although his words were sincere, they were also somewhat polite, but he didn't expect that this guy Raymond would actually reveal his purpose without being polite.
"I want the 'Golden Compass' passed down from my husband's family!"
"What?"
When Boggs heard this, his eyes showed an even more surprised expression than before, and he quickly asked: "How do you know that my family has inherited the 'Golden Compass'?"
"I once met a great prophet. He told me that if you want to find the "Secret Code of Potion Knowledge" of the ten-star potion master 'Igris Centia', you must first find the 'Golden Compass'
'!And the prophecy guided me to find your family..."
Raymond did not beat around the bush, the background of this mission has been clearly revealed in the game.
The Knox family in front of us is not only the oldest potion family in the Black Sea, but their ancestors were also the personal followers of Master Igris!
Back then, the ancestors of Boggs were destined to send a batch of Master Igris' belongings to a certain sea area. Unexpectedly, they encountered a super storm on the way, and the ship was lost in an unknown sea area, and finally sank in the deep sea. The Knox family
The ancestors used a "golden compass" to locate the location of the sunken ship. Then he was the only one who survived by chance, and the lifeboat he boarded drifted with the waves in the uninhabited and unknown sea for several months... and finally drifted to the Black Sea somehow.
...
Aldrich was extremely surprised when he heard that it was actually related to Master Igris, the ten-star potion master. He raised his ears and asked: "Boggs, what is the 'Golden Compass'? Why haven't I heard you mention it?"
"It's just a positioning compass left by my ancestors."
Boggs shook his head and didn't seem to pay much attention to that thing. He turned to Raymond and asked curiously: "Since you know the 'Golden Compass', do you also know where my compass came from?"
"Um."
Raymond nodded and said concisely, "It locates the coordinates of the sunken ship back then."
"You really know...but you may be disappointed because the thing is damaged."
Boggs shrugged.
He didn't mean to avoid Raymond and the two. He opened the password box behind an oil painting on the wall of the laboratory directly in front of them, took out a golden compass, and said: "This thing is for our Knox family."
It has been guarded for nearly a thousand years, but unfortunately one part is missing and the location of the sunken ship can no longer be located."
This is also the biggest reason why the ancestors of the Knox family stayed in the Black Sea and did not dare to return to the Endless Sea.
"I think... I just have that missing piece."
Raymond was delighted when he saw the compass. He naturally knew that the compass was broken because it still lacked the "Spellweaver's Gem" in his hand!
He didn't hide it, he just took out the gem and set it in the center of the golden compass.
At that moment, a strange scene appeared!
The three of them looked at the golden compass, which was like a 3D projection, with a shadow of an unfamiliar sea appearing on the disk. The gem in the center also turned into a positioning pointer, pointing in a specific direction.
"this..."
The old man Aldrich looked at the gem with a strange expression, always feeling that it looked familiar. Thinking about it carefully, isn't this the gem that this kid won from Anthony at the exchange meeting at Philip Academy?
Thinking of the origin of this thing, he squinted at Raymond again and wondered, could it be that this kid knew the function of this gem at that time?
Thinking about it this way, this guy really has a lot of secrets.
Boggs looked at the complete golden compass and his whole body trembled with excitement.
He looked at the sea scene that the compass showed in reality, and said with a half-smile: "My Knox family has guarded the secret for nearly a thousand years... I never thought that one day I would be alive to see it restored.
.Hey...this can be regarded as fulfilling the ancestor's last wish."
In the game, Boggs has no intention of searching for the sunken ship. After all, a thousand years have passed, and his family has taken root in the Black Sea, and they do not want to return to the Endless Sea.
After the nostalgia in his eyes gradually calmed down, he looked at Raymond again, apparently guessing his purpose, and asked: "You want this compass because you plan to go to sea to find the remains of the sunken ship?"
"Yes, Mr. Boggs."
Raymond nodded and said: "I will probably embark on an adventurous voyage to the Endless Sea in a few months... Today's visit is actually to get the compass passed down by your family. I want to find the original ten-star magician.
Master Igris's "Secret Codex of Potion Knowledge" handbook!"
"Are you leaving the Black Sea?"
Hearing this, Aldrich on the side was also surprised, and then he said with emotion: "Yes... After all, the Black Sea is too small, and the Endless Sea is where monsters like you should go."
"Yes, teacher."
Raymond exhaled slowly and said seriously: "The world is so big, I want to see it."
"Well, you should also go out and see the outside world."
Aldrich nodded after hearing these words, a glimmer of relief flashed in his turbid eyes.
Boggs touched the ancient relics that had been passed down by his family for thousands of years. Although there was reluctance in his eyes, he still handed over the golden compass just like the solution in the game plot.
He said: "As an old man, I don't expect to go out to sea to find sunken ships, and my family is full of incompetent young people. Since you are determined to find the sunken ships of the past, I will leave this thing to you..."
"Thank you, Mr. Boggs."
The process went much smoother than expected. Raymond took the compass and thanked him sincerely.
Having lost an ancestral object, Boggs also felt a little melancholy in his eyes. He warned: "According to the information left by my ancestors, the place where the ship sank is in a very dangerous sea area. You should be more careful..."
Raymond nodded: "Well, I will be careful."
"correct!"
At this moment, Aldrich suddenly thought of something. He slapped his thigh and said, "Boggs, didn't you say that your family has inherited a box that cannot be opened? You can show it to Raymond.
, this disciple of mine has many clever ideas, maybe he will know how to open it."
Once upon a time, that naughty little guy was studying in his mentor's residence, and secretly stole family antiques with his senior brother to play with.
"A box that cannot be opened?"
Raymond thought for a while, except for the tasks related to the Golden Compass in the game, the Knox family seemed to have nothing else of much value.
"That's right!"
Upon hearing this, Boggs didn't waste any time and took out a dark copper-colored metal cylinder from the safe and asked, "Look, can you open this thing?"
"Da Vinci cryptex"?
Obviously, Raymond really knows what this thing is.
But when he saw it, his brows also wrinkled.
This is a very high-end alchemical cryptex in the game, a special prop used by some ancient families in the Endless Sea to hold valuable scrolls.
This cylinder is essentially a wheel-shaped combination lock, which is generally used to store some important scrolls, such as potion formulas, magic scrolls, psychic contracts, etc. The movable roulette wheels on it are full of engraved
There are hundreds of special symbols, and only by knowing the correct arrangement can the cylinder be opened. Violent opening will directly trigger the self-destruction device, and the scrolls in the cipher cylinder will also be destroyed.
Boggs looked at Raymond with a confused look on his face and said disappointedly: "Sure enough...you don't know how to open it either..."
After a pause, he said: "This is something that was passed down from our ancestors together with the Golden Compass. Over the years, the heads of the Knox family have tried countless ways but have not been able to open it..."
"Thirteen passwords... This is the top password lock. If you try it one by one, you will never be able to open it for several lifetimes."
In the game, the more digits in the password, the higher the grade of the scroll inside.
Thirteen combinations... are the top-notch combination locks.
Raymond took a general glance and sighed: "I know these symbols here, fish, sea... they are all ancient characters from the Knicks period. But I don't know the specific combination of this code, so I can't open it at all.
of."
After a pause, he added: "But I know a master in engineering. Maybe he can think of a way to try it."
The master of engineering is naturally Colin. He can easily solve the four-digit combination lock like the explosive collar with a needle. I think there should be a way to open this rotary lock.
"What?"
Boggs was immediately shocked when he heard that Raymond recognized the ancient writings on Nix, "Do you know the ancient writings on it?"
"Um..."
Raymond looked over and over again, nodded and said, "Probably... we all know each other."
Upon hearing this, Boggs suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and his eyes lit up.
"Our family also has an ancient song that has been passed down from generation to generation... Can you see if it is a password?"
He immediately narrated the song and said: "When the firebird hits the earth, the boiling ocean will condense its brilliance again, and the goddess of the sea will descend on the earth..."
"Let me try."
Raymond captured several keywords and found that the wheel-shaped code lock actually had them all, "Firebird, earth, ocean, glory, goddess..."
Click!
When the last cipher byte rotated to a specific position, the three people in the laboratory immediately heard a crisp mechanical sound. It was like the sound of an eggshell breaking, which made people hear hope.
Boggs murmured to himself excitedly, "This curse that has plagued the family for thousands of years has actually been broken..."
It is conceivable that even though they know that there is a shocking secret inside, generations of family heads have stepped into the coffin without knowing what treasures are hidden inside.
Raymond did not pull out the scroll, but handed the opened combination lock back to the excited red-bearded old man. After all, it belonged to the Knox family, and he had been given a golden compass for free, so he should not be too greedy.
Boggs glanced at Raymond and nodded approvingly. He carefully took out a few old animal skin rolls from the iron bucket, excitedly wanting to see what shocking secrets were hidden. But as soon as he took a look, he immediately
He handed it back to Raymond and said awkwardly: "That... seems to have been recorded by Nick Guwen again..."
In the entire Tianlan, he has never heard of anyone else who is proficient in ancient Nix characters. Even the [Great Polymath] from the Royal Academy can only speculate on the meaning of a small part of the ancient characters, which is definitely not up to the level of Raymond in front of him.
.
When he thought about it, even if he really recorded such a big secret and asked outsiders to decipher it, it would be better to ask his junior brother's disciples.
At least the young man in front of him made him feel at ease.
"Hmm...here is an animal skin scroll written in universal script..."
Raymond looked at it and saw that there were six animal skin scrolls in total. Five of them were recorded in ancient Knicks texts, and among them was a letter written in Universal Language. After a brief glance, the contents above probably recorded the Knox family.
The origin of these animal skin rolls.
It reads: "The master met with an extremely distinguished guest...I accidentally heard the name of the 'Great Twelve Sages' Hedwin..."
When Raymond saw this, he was shocked: "The 'Dragon Slaying Warrior' Hedwin, one of the Twelve Sages?"
According to the nature of urine in the game, and based on these opening sentences, he could guess that the secret grades recorded on these animal skin scrolls would be very high!
After reading the next few sentences, he could clearly feel his heart beating rapidly due to excitement.
The next text: "Forgive my selfishness... The master went out to see off guests. When I was tidying up the master's room, I accidentally saw a few potion recipes... I don't know the ancient Nix words, so I can only try to remember them.
I copied down the recipe... Unfortunately, I copied half of it before the master came back..."
The remaining animal skin scrolls written in Nickelodeon are obviously the mysterious potion formula!
"Could these five formulas be the [Dragon Slaying Sequence] in the 'Twelve Demigod Sequences'?" Raymond felt that he was going to make a lot of money today. This is the top potion sequence formula in the entire world of navigation.
He glanced at the complicated formulas recorded on the other five ancient animal skin scrolls and immediately determined that this was definitely a formula above the gold level!
It happens to be the five legendary level potion formulas from Sequence 9 to Sequence 5. If you look closely at the formula names, you will see that they are really the legendary [Dragon Slaying Sequence]!
After all, it was an old thing almost a thousand years ago, and Boggs didn’t think there was much wrong with his ancestor’s peeking behavior. After reading the letter, he just sighed: “It turns out to be a magic potion formula...”
Raymond nodded and said, "This should be the legendary 'Twelve Demigod Sequences' potion formula."
"call..."
Boggs had obviously guessed it. His chest was heaving violently due to excitement. He often exhaled a big breath and then said: "The legendary formula... I didn't expect to see a formula of this level in this life. If only I could
Once I refine one, I will die with a peaceful eye..."
Aldrich also looked interested, and the coquettish old man did not shy away from it. He urged Raymond as if the formula was his own: "Raymon, translate the formula so that the old man can also see the legendary level."
How amazing is the formula?"
He rubbed his hands, with a glint in his eyes, and muttered: "I would like to see how mysterious the legendary potion formula that can lead to demigods is..."