Chapter 17: The Secret of Winterhold
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Thinking of this, Charlotte was completely sleepy, and he didn't bother to change his clothes, so he went straight out in his pajamas.
The knight guarding the door was very surprised, and asked him if he needed a maid to serve, Charlotte nodded, "I am not sleepy, I plan to go to the study to read a book, please ask the maid to make me a pot of black tea." ”
As he had finished speaking, one of the knights went next door to call for the maid, while the other dutifully followed Charlotte and stood guard outside the study.
The study room in Wintercastle is not large, it is a single room of about ten square meters. In addition to the entrance door, it is surrounded by red bookshelves, which are divided into categories and filled with dense books. In front of the bookshelf on the inside is a black square desk, on which the pen, ink, paper and inkstone are clean and comfortable, and it seems that there are people who often clean it.
Although the room is not big, the wonderful thing is that there is no sense of crampedness. Charlotte visually measured the length of those bookshelves, the length of a single bookcase was about four meters, and there were major sections such as geography, history, psychology, literature, magic, martial arts, etc., and there were three bookshelves on each side of the wall. It can be seen that this room was cast by Sylvia with a space folding spell, and this is indeed the case.
Charlotte sat down at her desk and began to look through Sylvia's diary, and after a while, the maid knocked on the door and brought high-end black tea, and after she left, Charlotte drank tea for a while, and after confirming that there were no clues in the diary about the time period when Icewind Castle was founded, she got up and began to investigate the situation in the study.
This time, he focused on the back of the bookshelves, there was no gap between the shelves and the walls, and the bookshelves had to be removed one by one in order to investigate. But unfortunately, it didn't match expectations, and even with the Vientiane Eye, you couldn't detect any clues behind the walls.
Charlotte was patient, and this time she focused on the shelves. Most of the books in the collection here are imitations and manuscripts, and although the contents are the same as the originals, if they are spell books, they will lose their original magic power, making it much more difficult for learners to learn.
It would be a big job to clean up the books completely, and Charlotte used her magic power to remove all the books from the shelves to see if they would pull the traps. It's better than nothing, and as expected, this clumsy approach doesn't cause anything to go wrong.
But looking up the contents of a book, even with the Eye of Vientiane and mnemic, is an unimaginably time-consuming project.
Charlotte paused her search and sat back at her desk to think about clues. It stands to reason that if there really is any secret room in Winter Keep, it must be opened in a very secret way, or the conditions for opening it are very harsh. With Sylvia's personality, since she can set up a secret room, it means that she doesn't want others to enter it, unlike the secret rooms of other families, most of them know how to open it and let the core members of the family share it.
In this way, it is possible that the opening method can be set to some kind of key. If the key is a character recognition system, then Charlotte can give up on cracking it now, but if it is set up with some kind of personal object, what is the most likely thing?
Dream elves are definitely at the top of the list, and in addition to that, there may be Sylvia's personal belongings.
Charlotte has one of these things in her hand, and that is Sylvia's diary.
Continuing along these lines, Charlotte looked at the journal in her hand. It was a typical black thick leather book, with miritril runes engraved on it, and if you read it carefully, it looked very similar to Sylvia's royal coat of arms. Other than that, the diary has no other decorations and looks very simple.
If the most amazing thing is that this diary looks like only about a hundred pages, the title page of the book can never be finished. The diary is undoubtedly set up with some kind of spell to make its thickness and weight constant, making it easy for the user to carry. Of course, this diary has been recorded continuously for more than 3,000 years, and without such a constant spell, it would have become a behemoth that would be difficult for Wycliffe to lift.
But if it's a key, the constant weight and thickness have another meaning.
This time, Charlotte began to look for grooves about the A4 paper. But sadly, thirty minutes later, he still found nothing.
After this failure, he continued to summarize and then realized that his ideas were extremely naïve. If there really was a groove in the study that was exactly the same as the diary, the secret of the Sleepless Legion would have been guessed by the visitors of the study long ago, and the original secrecy would naturally become nonsense. So his thinking is obviously wrong, or rather, there are ill-conceived details.
At this time, he thought of one more thing. He had studied in this study in the past, and knew that although the books on the shelves were manuscripts, they were ancient books recorded by his contemporaries. He had asked Sylvia at the time, and the answer was that everything in the study was almost as old as Wintercastle itself. It makes sense that ancient books should not be replaced, but why are bookshelves and desks and other ornaments not replaced? Is it because of nostalgia? Or is it for some other reason? It can't be because of lack of funds.
At this thought, he subconsciously looked at the legs of the bookshelf. In order to facilitate fixation, there are eight legs under each bookshelf, and for some reason, the legs of the bookshelf do not use a drum that is convenient for moving and cleaning, but a fixed solid wood foot pier, the foot pier is square, the area is about half a palm, and it is a standard rectangular wooden block. I don't know if in order to ensure the effect of fixation, there is a groove under the foot pier, Charlotte didn't think about this aspect of the problem before, but now that she thinks about it, she feels that the design of this groove is a bit redundant.
Charlotte calculated the ratio of length and width of the wooden block in an instant, and then looked at the diary in her hand, and it was very good, the ratio of length and width was exactly the same! The only difference was the difference in size.
Charlotte thinks he's found a clue, and this time, he starts casting spells on the diary in his hand, making it smaller in size. Ordinary Mega Spells or Shrinkage Spells seemed to have no effect on the Constant Enchanted Journal, and Charlotte changed the spell model several times in a row until she simulated Sylvia's model idea for casting spells, and the Shrinkage Technique succeeded in reducing the Diary to the size of a foot pier.
The rest of the work is as simple as removing the shelves one by one and inlaying the shrunken journals into the recesses under the eight feet of each shelf. The first three bookshelves were unresponsive, and when I tried the third foot pier groove on the inside of the fourth bookcase, something strange happened.
Charlotte's actions triggered a trap, and a pale blue spatial door appeared out of thin air, apparently not a mechanical device, but a magically triggered device.
Lesbian had some evil taste for the defense mechanism, and Charlotte blessed herself with a defense spell and calmly walked into the light blue portal. 166 Reading Network