Chapter Ninety-Five: Before the Storm (I)
Start with a circle and end with a circle...... This is the first phrase that every wizard who studies ancient runes comes into contact with - of course, any apprentice will think of it as a along with all the ancient proverbs after he has figured it out.
Only after truly understanding the ancient runes can you gradually comprehend the profundity of them.
Twenty-eight basic graphics are the foundation, and the circular patterns formed by each of them are the so-called "ancient runes"—in a sense, this is a very primitive way of recording information.
Every rune is a sentence, a story, a poem.
If one can grasp the essence of it, a pattern can convey more information than can be written in a book, and it is the only way to express the power of disorder in the void by preserving information beyond all words.
Of course, it also surpasses all languages in terms of difficulty in getting started... As a result, even wizards must burn the "high-level spells" that can really exert their power in the spiritual hall in order to remember them all.
Lena de Salion frowned slightly, the black-rimmed glasses on the bridge of her nose were set aside by her, and her brows were already slightly frowned.
The seemingly cumbersome, disorderly and even varied ancient runes, when really interpreted little by little, there is a... A feeling of sudden enlightenment.
You can't spell it like a symbolic text, you can't make analogies like a hieroglyphic type, and within a circle, the runes are divided and interpreted in a very different way than the way the language is written, like a puzzle that brings the information into your mind little by little.
Common sense is broken, experience is shattered... Everything that Stone was accustomed to suddenly became wonderful—the feeling was as if everything in front of him had turned into another dimension, another form of existence.
For a person living in the material world, coming into contact with ancient runes is like breaking into a whole new world, and the shock of seeing through the clouds and fog, the winding paths, as if discovering a new world, is an absolutely indescribable feeling.
"It seems... It is a process of guiding the power of the void and gradually materializing it. The more I read it, the tighter the brow in the black-rimmed glasses became, and the eyes gathered into a little bit and tried to grope for it.
Perhaps it was too much knowledge for the girl to be too engrossed to notice that Isaac Grantham's jaw had dropped to the ground in front of her.
When he was at Wimpal Academy for the first time, he spent a whole day and a night on it!
Perhaps it was too much of a shock, and it took a full five minutes for Isaac to scramble his jaw shut, but he still couldn't close his widening eyes.
The best way to destroy a genius is to let him see another genius.
"What do I have with you?"
"Huh?" The confused black-rimmed glasses raised his head and glanced at him reservedly, "What did you just say?"
"It's nothing!" Isaac, who was in a hurry, pulled out his chair and sat down, smirking proudly: "What you are looking at now is my highest achievement so far, unprecedented! I am just feeling for you...... Well, it only took ten minutes to understand what it was. ”
The last few words Isaac said through gritted teeth.
"Oh, it took ten minutes. Lina exclaimed unexpectedly, and looked at the draft in her hand with appreciation: "Sure enough, it's not ordinary knowledge, and I have only just understood it in ten minutes." ”
"I'm sorry, but I have to ask, are you praising me or am you mocking me?" Isaac's eyes twitched, "I can almost hear your disdainful voice." ”
"Compliments, of course... And it's a wholehearted compliment. The girl pursed her lips and smiled, and winked at Isaac:
"And I don't hate you and I hate you... I love you. ”
"You can call it 'love'......" Isaac shuddered, then rolled his eyes, "But my little heart still hurts!"
Tilting her head slightly, the corners of the girl's mouth curled a little deeper, and Isaac's face was ugly like yogurt.
This kind of knowledge beyond imagination, a completely new worldview and theory, of course, is not something that Lena de Salion, a "layman" who has only been exposed to ancient runes for a day, can understand;
She had no doubt that the megalomaniac would be in good spirits in the next second, and with countless boastful remarks, no one including himself could understand what he was talking about.
Oh... Perhaps only he could understand.
So the black-rimmed glasses used a little bit of a trick... She had taken the runic structure of "Bright Silver" from the little wizard the night before, and although she still didn't understand it, she could probably get away with it in front of Isaac.
Yes, she just loves Isaac's grizzled and dejected look - and never gets bored.
Looking at the crazy appearance of the "megalomaniac", the girl glanced at him inadvertently, with a faint smugness in her eyes.
"Alas... By the way, where did Loren and Ain go?"
"Them?"
Isaac frowned and scratched his hair, which was messed up, "That guy seems to be buying something... It's rare to come to Golovin, the imperial capital, and plan to buy some souvenirs and clothes. ”
"You're not going?"
"Why are you going? It's almost in the top 10 for the things I hate the most. Isaac rolled his eyes and said in a disgusted tone: "If you want me to say that our era is still too backward... When will we be able to say goodbye to the tiring and vicious word of 'shopping' and let the merchants deliver things directly to the door?"
"......" Lena de Salion.
She actually knew that this guy was just worried that he would be lonely, so he didn't go out with his friends... Of course, with Isaac's character, such words would never have been uttered.
Maybe it's the character, maybe it's the natural experience, Isaac has a strong obsessive-compulsive disorder in a lot of things.
The occult, ancient runes, history... People who can read the entire library in one night, and even memorize the page numbers and footers, can only understand the warmth and coldness of human feelings.
Lena de Salion still remembers that night vividly... The plan, which even Loren Turin and Brandon could not see, was like a thin, transparent layer of gauze in his eyes, which would burst at the slightest poke.
The reason why he refused to pierce it was simply that he was afraid that he would hurt himself and his friends by doing so.
The smarter you are, the more you have more feelings than ordinary people, and the more you have more feelings, the more you know how to hide yourself.
Isaac Grantham... It's just a big idiot.
"Lena?"
"Huh?!"
The girl who was awakened by Isaac's voice fell into deep thought again the moment she saw the other party.
Loren and Ain are going to buy souvenirs and clothes......
Why?
Ain Rand may be delicate... After all, he was an alchemist, but Loren Turin's black-rimmed glasses really made it hard to imagine what this guy looked like when he bought clothes.
But if these two words are implying anything, souvenirs and clothes......
Are they leaving?
The girl's expression was slightly startled when she suddenly thought of this, as if she had sensed some frightening truth.
That's right... The Church of the Holy Cross, the old-fashioned aristocracy, the Chamber of Commerce group behind the casino, and the crown prince of Connad in the fortress of Broken Mountain......
These people who failed miserably at his hands would not let go of this little wizard advisor easily.
It is impossible for them to do anything to His Royal Highness Brandon, but while His Royal Highness has not yet gained a foothold, it is easy to let his cronies die!
Loren Turin... He must have been aware of it, or perhaps had anticipated it.
Continuing to stay in the imperial capital of Golovin, in addition to death, there will be only chaos, and there will be even greater chaos...... If they don't kill people to vent their anger, these people will definitely not give up easily, and will even gamble all their capital to let him die without a place to be buried!
Seeing Isaac, who was still crazy, Lena suddenly felt a little more envy in her heart for some reason.
It was impossible for him not to guess the meaning of Loren's actions, but he still chose to trust his friend unconditionally, trusting him would never let himself be hurt and dangerous in the slightest.
And even if he is facing the danger of life and death, this guy will probably be as big as usual, with an indifferent expression, right?
Is... It's so envious.