Chapter 23: Broken Slate
The water washed over the broken stone slabs, the handwriting on them gradually became clear, and he returned to his desk to re-translate the contents, which were still about energy formation, but they were mutilated, or even just the corners.
But the above content is worth noting, for Donald, these lost tablets are pieces of treasure that cannot be missed if there is a chance.
Touching the back of Finger, who was eating with his head bowed next to him, Donald thought about the origin of the broken slate, took out the illustrated book he bought at the sea bazaar last night, and searched through the previous catalog and did not see any names of creatures that could be touched by toads.
"No, I was wrong, the toad appeared in the river in Dirmingham, it's a freshwater river, it's not a sea creature...... With its size, where will it live?"
Donald regretted that he couldn't buy a map of Dmingham in advance, and looked at the sun outside in the west, there was still time, so he simply cleaned up, stuffed the stones under the bed, and went out to the library to borrow a map.
"On the third row of bookshelves, you should be able to see the geographical signs, and if you go inside, you will find the map collection, there are many kinds of maps, and if it's just in the city of Dirmingham, you have to pay attention to the date of production, after all, the city changes every year. ”
Asked where the librarian was, Donald walked over quickly.
The map scrolls were stacked on top of each other, and Donald had to open them one by one to see when they were made, and as he twitched them, he sensed something was wrong.
The absorption of Mineato's remnant soul made Donald extremely sensitive to negative energy, he felt the negative energy in the air, closed his eyes, and with the perception of his body in a certain direction, he took the scroll he had just found and walked in that direction.
Behind the shelves of the library, there were several round tables, which were not only remote compared to the rows of tables and chairs outside, but when Donald stepped into this range, he felt that even the temperature was a little colder, and he noticed that these tables faced the windows on the other side of the library, and the setting sun spread through the window frames against the floor to the tabletops.
Rather than a golden silence that brings afterglow, it is a dim depression that Donald believes is not that the sunlight has changed, but that the atmosphere here is influencing one's thinking.
It's like being in a haunted house, no matter what you see, you will subconsciously cast a layer of horror on it.
"It's strange, it can't be because of the location......"
The three desktops in front of him were the same, Donald turned on the visual with his back to the bookshelf, swept them one after another, and finally stopped on the middle tabletop.
There, there were some traces of lines, just short lines, not much in between, and Donald walked to notice that there was a circle around the center of the table that looked like grease clumps, rubbed his fingers and put them under his nose.
Wax oil, someone has lit candles here.
This is certainly not a night-to-night story, in fact the Royal Delorraine's library is not open 24 hours a day, and closes at 10 p.m.
No matter how much you want to read, the mechanical street lamps of the royal Delorians will not go out at night, and it is better to find a garden or a promenade than to go into an empty and silent library and light candles.
"It can't be a psychic ritual..... Nowadays, young people like to play this kind of game, and look at the state, it is still successful, otherwise there will be no such negative energy. ”
But what does this have to do with Donald, he just took a look at it out of curiosity, whether these young people are psychic or not, whether they succeed or not, it has nothing to do with him, and he still doesn't disturb the elegance of these young people.
Carrying the scroll back, it wasn't long before a girl timidly stepped into the area around the table, holding a wet handkerchief in her hand, looking left and right to make sure no one was looking at her, and then boldly stepped forward to wipe the handkerchief from the mark on the table.
First the scattered wax oil, and then the handkerchief rubbed against the marks that ordinary people couldn't see at all.
Boom~
Behind the girl, a book suddenly fell from the shelf, colliding with the ground with a dull sound, which made her petite body tremble uncontrollably, turned around with a pale face, and silently stepped forward to pick up the book, who knew that as soon as the hand stretched out, the page that had been spread out because of the fall suddenly began to turn until one of the pages stopped.
"Accept...... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to summon you out, I just, just...... I'm sorry!"
Hurriedly picking up the books and stuffing them back on the shelves, the girl was pale and muttered something in her mouth, and when she walked out of the bookshelf, she accidentally bumped into several people who were coming from the other side.
"Hey, you guy, don't you look when you walk...... Oh, little sister, it's not hurt. ”
The young man who was very upset frowned and was about to scold, when he suddenly saw the face of the girl who bumped into him, the doll-like face, and the delicate figure, which made people feel cute from the bottom of their hearts.
"I'm sorry. ”
The girl was a little flustered, she was not used to talking to people, she bowed her head and apologized before preparing to leave.
"Hey, don't go, I'm about to review, but there are a lot of questions I don't understand, how about you teach me?"
The young man was obviously not going to let her go like this, and raised his hand to hold her shoulder and was about to pull it towards him, but who knew that the girl turned around and bit him on the wrist, and let him let go and ran away without looking back.
"Fuck, you dare bite me!"
The young man let out a low roar and raised his leg to catch up, but it didn't take a few seconds for the girl's running speed...... But he never lifted his feet.
Because someone called him again, his voice was fluttering, but it was very soft, with some numbing meaning.
Turning to face the bookshelf that the girl had just come out of, he went in with a smile on his face.
**
Donald was looking for a detailed map of Drenham, which was marked with various places, which was also so that if he encountered any places he didn't know in the future, he could check, and he also asked specifically, because of the staff's credentials, and this kind of map itself is not valuable, and there will be new maps updated every once in a while, so even if you take it back for your own use.
"There are three major lakes in Dmingham, two in Tallinn and one in Summerwood, and the first time I saw a toad was a route that swam out from the interior of Tallinn, so the lakes in Summerforest were excluded...... Finger, don't pick my pen. ”
Carrying Finger into his arms after eating, Donald used his pen to find the location of the waterwheel workshop of the garment shop on the map, circled it with the pen, and then pushed it up the river, and found that it was a tributary, and the main channel of the river could be traced back to two large lakes in Tallinn.
This is a bit troublesome, judging from the scale in the map and the measurement of the area of the lake on the map, these two are very large lakes, and if you want to find something in this kind of lake, he alone has no special method, so you don't have to think about it.
Put down the pen, this matter can only be put on hold for the time being, and continue to try again when there is a better way in the future.
Next, it is mainly to make inscription scrolls, tomorrow is Friday, and I have to go to the sea market in the early morning, this time I have to do more, Donald always feels that he still has too few spells, after all, he is from a wild road, and before he can find an organization, he has to think of getting more spell scrolls to complete his own spell matching.
It was still a wolfhound inscription, and after learning what it meant for Dmingham's fleet, Donald had a lot of motivation to study it thoroughly.
Start by taking some basic inscriptions and practicing your hands.
Knock knock~
Just as Donald finished the third swift inscription scroll and was about to turn to the wolfhound inscription, there was a knock at the door.
Stopping the pen in his hand, Donald frowned a little unhappily, his concentration was interrupted, and he was a little unhappy.
"Who?"
"It's me, Marina Cook, I'll help you find the right person to teach you about learning how to do experiments. ”
Donald packed the scroll and put it in the wide drawer in the middle of his desk, the importance of talent potions now came first.
"Thank you very much, what is the man's name, does he have any qualifications? I'm a novice, and I only know a little scratch about it, so it's best to start with the basics. ”
When the door was opened, Marina was standing in the doorway.
"Yes, I'll start with the basics. ”
Glancing at the room behind Donald, there was nothing special, and then she spoke.
"What...... You teach me?"
If you remember correctly, the lady in front of you, who looked a few years older than herself, should be the teacher of the royal Delorraine, and she would be willing to teach someone who didn't know anything?
"You think there's something wrong with my teaching ability?"
Marlena frowned, in terms of personal ability, any external distrust and doubt would make her unhappy.
"Of course not, but I think you and your father are both teachers and professors of the Royal Deloreans, will you be free?"
"You don't have to worry about this, in fact I am also conditional, my father said that you just brought him ...... The dishes are amazing, I tried some of them, they are really not ordinary, I don't want any remuneration, I hope you can provide some more, or tell me the source of the ingredients and the method. ”
There were many reasons why Marlena chose to be the teacher herself, and the reason she said was asking for more toad meat was just one of the reasons, and she wondered why Donald, the VIP of the Garment Workshop, chose to be a teaching assistant here.
Is it really to hide his identity as a wizard as his father said?
Or is there some ulterior motive.
"That's not a question of the method, but the meat itself has an effect on the human body, I told Professor Cook, it's some kind of creature from overseas, I went to his house this afternoon to cut it myself, and when you saw me in the garment shop today, you should have noticed that I was carrying a package in my hand, which contained these meats, and the blood on my body was the best proof, and the manager of the garment shop knew my friend, and he also got a part, and I also got the status of a VIP. ”
Filling in the afternoon's situation in another way without a trace, it doesn't matter if Marlena believes it or not, at least until she learns how to operate the experiment, this role as a teaching assistant must continue to exist.