February 1st is the holy day of the mysterious lady. Therefore, it is also the time when the ritual is most effective.
The followers of the Mysterious Lady are used to holding various rituals on this day... Followers who are not ritualists will go out to buy books on this day.
From February 1st to 7th, it is called the Reading Festival. During these seven days, booksellers will sell as many books as possible. The price is often only 70% of the usual price, half or even less, and the requirement is that the other party must really read it.
got these books.
Because on February 8th, the mysterious lady will give a certain amount of Holy Light Marks as a festival reward based on the knowledge dissemination effect within these seven days. Regardless of whether the other party is one's own priest.
You don’t have to be a bookseller, whether you are a teacher, mentor or instructor, as long as you teach others the knowledge that you have mastered but that others don’t know within this week, you can get some rewards. Some weighty mysterious knowledge,
It is usually only available through relatively simple methods during this week.
These Holy Light Marks can be used to purchase various mysterious knowledge and rituals, whether they are life extension, disease treatment or physical strengthening rituals, they can be obtained from them.
By accumulating a certain number of Holy Light Marks, you can even purchase various inscriptions.
"I never thought that Noah would also hold a reading festival."
Annan said casually, holding the book he just bought in his hand.
After dealing with the Chengling Monk last week, Annan's injury has not fully recovered yet.
Due to the side effects of Salvatore's medicine, his body was weaker than ever.
Although Annan had become Yinjue's inclination, he did not intend to help Kafni blindly and planned to go away for a while... but after all, the king selection only started in May.
Annan currently plans to wait until his attributes are restored before leaving.
Unexpectedly, it happened to be a reading day, so he quickly called on the players to buy more books.
Books in this era are already relatively cheap - just look at the prices of newspapers.
The elves had relatively complex papermaking technology, and Suifu optimized this technology. In this world today, paper is not expensive. More than two hundred years ago, movable type printing technology was completely established.
This greatly reduced the value of books, and even ordinary people could grit their teeth and buy some books. This also greatly promoted the development of art - whether it was poetry or art, it only began to be officially developed after printing technology took shape.
Just some relatively expensive books...for example, books that record "heavy knowledge" can still only be disseminated by handwriting. There are only two ways to accurately record heavy knowledge.
One is fully aware of the "whole picture" of this knowledge, and can only record it smoothly when the understanding is completely correct; the other is that he is a gold-level extraordinary person with a dyed soul, so he can forcibly create a record of extraordinary knowledge.
Books. However, the latter often lead to partial errors or deviations in the description due to their own understanding or personal malice.
——For example, the ritual of Lord Skeleton.
Because mysterious knowledge itself is "blocked". It is a secret that is preserved in the light world after it is completely melted by reason.
If you only know one of the fragments and don't have enough power to cut it off, naturally you can't copy the whole thing. In other words, it's "copy the shortcut to the USB drive".
In essence, it is also a kind of "keeping secrets".
But keeping the secret does not require a living person, it may also be a certain book.
When the secret keeper is still alive - that is, when the body corresponding to the shortcut still exists, even if he knows only a few words, he can call this part of the power from the light world through "automatic association".
But if you only know the fragments, you cannot record them. If you use them, they are used up.
However, in addition to these two methods, there is another method of forcibly writing down extraordinary knowledge.
That is to add a lot of one's own understanding, replace the original reference with some kind of metaphor, completely disrupt the order of the original sentence, and then write a mysterious "book of occultism".
This is the so-called "pseudo-canon".
The value of an apocrypha depends entirely on the trust in the author. There are indeed conscientious authors who create apocryphal texts and then create corresponding "keys".
But there are also those powerful storytellers who talk nonsense every day and can translate two sentences into 200,000 words.
Most of the mysterious knowledge that can be purchased comes from apocryphal texts or "remnant texts".
Last time Annan was able to find the book that recorded Mr. Yao's real name, he suspected that Sir Yin might be involved... This time it was a reading day. Annan and Zhiji searched several major bookstores but couldn't find it.
An original text.
On the contrary, I bought a lot of valuable apocryphal texts and fragmentary texts.
"This book "The Song of the Irises" translated by Ephect is quite good."
Annan held the book and marveled: "There is actually a matching version of "The Key to Ephiket" for sale."
"Ephiket is a well-known occultist, and he has real abilities."
Zhi Ji casually commented: "The mysterious lady is very optimistic about him. He may be transformed into her monster by the mysterious lady after his death."
"Have you ever heard of his name?"
Annan looked at Zhiji in surprise.
It is really rare to be remembered by a god--not even a painter in the corresponding field, but a mystic.
"And part of the reason for this is because Iris is not a taboo thing in Noah."
Zhi Ji glanced at Annan and said, "He has also written a translated version of "On Paleness". But no bookstore dares to sell it."
"...About the Pale Princess?"
"Yes. Gods that are too similar to Sir Silver or that are too contrary to Sir Silver will not be sold locally. But you can buy Sir Silver's books in the south. This is also an unspoken rule.
Already."
Zhi Ji said, glancing at Annan's bag, her tone vaguely dissatisfied: "Didn't you buy that book..."
Annan coughed lightly and said nothing more.
"Dragon, Snow and Magic Painting"
This is an apocryphal book.
It tells the story before the birth of Paper Princess in the tone of a fairy tale. I am afraid that when ordinary people see it, they will only think of it as a fairy tale with a somewhat tragic ending. Only those who know something about Paper Princess can know what is in it.
What does it mean?
But the really meaningful book is an apocryphal book called "The Last Archduke of Funeral Songs".
It seems to be a personal biography, but it contains many secrets.
There are many secrets about the "Last Duke of Funeral Songs", that is... the Duke of Bones.
"Are you very concerned about Duke Gu?"
"His position is so strange. I tend to investigate all those who may be hostile to me."
Annan nodded and made a rational voice: "To be on the safe side, I must study the Bones and the Rotten Man."
"Is this so..."
Hearing Annan's words, Zhi Ji nodded thoughtfully.
She said slowly: "There is something. I didn't know whether I should tell you at first. But if you are used to this...then I have to tell you."
"What's wrong?"
"Nicholas ran away."
Zhiji calmly replied: "Father Shi let him go on purpose."