The moonlight in the desert was bright, shrouding the inn rooms in a clear glow.

Fang Yu put down the quill somewhat absentmindedly and inserted it into the inkwell.

He looked up, looked down again, and sighed—closing the journal with both hands, standing it upright, and inserting it into a pile of books. Some of the large books with thick covers were written on the spine with names such as "Treatise on the Aether", "Geography of Istania", and "Examination of the Alchemy of Noumerin".

Fang Yu looked at the moonlight outside the window, his mind was full of thoughts, and some thoughts about the day couldn't help but come to his mind.

He stepped back, slid away from his chair, and reached open a drawer—a stack of parchment like dead leaves, with curved symbols that reflected fluorescently in the moonlight.

He glanced at it, then silently closed the drawer again. Those are the manuscripts of the Yuanhai scrolls, and the scholars who copied them were born long before their time, so the manuscripts themselves are considered cultural relics.

He shouldn't have brought these things with him.

But the ghost sent the gods to the ground, and Fang Yu himself didn't know what kind of mentality he came from, and when he said goodbye from the manor, he asked Her Royal Highness the eldest princess to keep them.

The other party did not refuse.

Perhaps because of the investigation of the slave trade, they were also key clues. Fang Yu himself thought so, and perhaps the reason why he did this was because of these documents and his connection to the Dragon Worship Sect. Maybe behind it, it's related to the wanderer-

But the next moment, he realized that these were just excuses.

He simply wanted to keep the documents, as if there was a voice in the shadows telling him to do so. Once this thought is born, it can never be stopped.

This made him feel more and more uneasy, wondering if he had made a decision that was not his intention because he was controlled by a mysterious force, like the dragon king Livegard did last time.

He hesitated, but finally made up his mind, reached into his jacket pocket, and took out an amulet. The amulet was about three fingers wide and similar in length, and was in the shape of a silver crescent moon carved with an elven iris carved on it.

He removed the Night Stalker's brooch from his left coat, replaced it with the amulet, and froze for a moment. As if he had found some psychological comfort, he was slightly relieved.

The amulet, known as the 'Wall of Anlothor', was given to him by Nevad's owner, and he actually met the requirements for wearing it after Van Rik fought the war. It's just that I can't bear to add the calculation power bonus of the Night Stalker Talisman, so I haven't changed it on.

And this talisman is actually a thirty-eighth-level elf strange thing, which is enough to prevent spiritual attacks below level forty-five, and it may be a little worse to resist the spiritual inducement of the dragon king Lifgard, but it should be enough to block the spiritual influence that an ownerless thing invisibly emits.

At least that's what he thought.

Unfortunately, it backfired.

But after Fang Yu put on the brooch, he found that it was useless. He still couldn't stop the thoughts that came to him in his heart, and as soon as he closed his eyes, all the words on the long scroll of the abyssal sea that he had seen during the day appeared in his mind.

Even those crooked and unfamiliar words made him can't help but have a strong and persistent thought - he has really seen those words.

But Fang Yu immediately came back to his senses.

There's no way I've seen any of these things myself.

His eyeballs fluttered under his nose, as if he had seen something strange.

The next moment, Fang Yu opened his eyes uneasily again, lowered his head, but found that he had opened the drawer again at some point.

And in the drawer, the scrolls still lay quietly in that place, unmoving.

Frightened, Fang Yu hurriedly closed the drawer with a 'snap'.

He looked up in a cold sweat and looked out the window. From the direction of the hotel, you can see the street facing the river outside, and the moonlight reflects the river.

In the distance, a young girl came up with a jug on her head and stopped by the river. She bent down, first placed the mat on the bank, then rolled up her skirt and stepped barefoot into the river.

The other party put down the jar in his hand and began to fill it with water.

Seeing this scene, Fang Yu seemed to have just come back to his senses from the illusion in his heart. He propped his hands on the table, took a breath, and finally couldn't help but shout:

"Miss Tata."

"Mr. Knight?"

"Papa."

Tata's quiet voice, and Nini's milky answer, rang out at the same time.

Miss Fairy's voice did have a power that could calm people's hearts, and made Fang Yu feel at ease a little. He leaned back in his chair, propped his hands on the table, and was silent for a moment before asking:

"Miss Tata, did you feel anything just now?"

Tata emerged from front of him, flapped his elf wings slightly, and his emerald green eyes, shining brightly, looked at him and replied:

"Your mind is in turmoil, Mr. Knight."

"I know," Fang Yu withdrew a hand, pressed the door of his head, and asked in a somewhat weak voice, "Did you hear any sounds before, like ...... Just like in the time of Lifgard? ”

Tata shook his head slowly:

"No, Mr. Knight. But I just feel that you seem to be anxious, and the anxiety in your heart comes from your own thoughts. ”

"My own thoughts......" Fang Yu shook his head, "Can you sense what I'm thinking, Miss Tata?" ”

Tata thought for a moment before replying, "Your mind is very confused, as if you are looking for a fragment of memory and comparing it with it. You want to figure out where you've seen them. ”

This is exactly what Fang Yu is thinking at this moment.

But instead of clearing his mind, Miss Fairy's words made him even more confused.

He replied anxiously:

"But the problem is, I've never seen these words, but I can't stop thinking about it. From the time I left Princess Rupert's manor, until now, this thought has not stopped. ”

"Maybe you should face it." Tata replied.

"Facing up?"

"Because it turns out, there's no point in running away."

With that, Tata closed his mouth and said no more.

Because the thoughts in Fang Yuan's heart are also the thoughts in her heart, the comfort that doesn't help is just adding chaos out of thin air.

Sure enough, her attitude made Fang Yu calm down a little, calmed down for a while, and asked:

"So Miss Tata, do you know anything about the Abyssal Sea Scroll?"

Miss Elf nodded.

Fang Yu couldn't help but look at her in surprise: "Miss Tata, do you really understand?" ”

Tata spoke again, his voice very quiet, as if he was merely recounting a piece of history:

"These ancient texts come from a certain era of antiquity, and I know that some people have studied them, but there are not many stone tablets excavated from under the deep sea, and people know about the long scrolls of the deep sea intermittently."

"Slate?"

"The long scroll of the deep sea is recorded on a stone tablet, Mr. Knight, the documents seen in later generations are all hand-copied or rubbed texts."

Fang Yu suddenly realized that except for the documents left by the elves in the Numerin era, all the documents of the abyssal sea were found from under the abyss. Naturally, paper documents cannot be preserved, and only stone tablets can be preserved.

In between talking to Miss Elf, he found himself less upset.

In addition, at this moment, Nini also showed her figure and pestered him to play with her.

Fang Yu tapped the head of his youngest daughter, Fang Nini, with his hand, making the latter giggle. Listening to this simple laughter, the anxiety in his heart disappeared slightly.

He settled down, turned back and asked Tata seriously:

"So Miss Tata, what do you have about the researcher of the Abyssal Sea Scroll...... Weird rumors? ”

Tata thought for a moment and said, "It's true that some of its researchers have gone crazy. ”

Miss Fairy is obviously not going to be comforting. Fang Yu couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva with a 'coo' sound:

"Crazy?"

Fortunately, Miss Tata was still concerned about her knight's mental health, and replied, "Don't worry, such examples are very rare." Most people cannot read the meaning of these words, and the interpretation of the slate is superficial. However, there are lizardmen who have studied it very well, and they have their own astrology to interpret the contents of these tablets by comparing the stars.

But that's not all. The older the slate, the more unreadable it is. And it's an ancient and sacred secret of the lizards, and it's never been passed on. In addition, the Noumerin elves also once deciphered the contents of some of the stone tablets, and evolved into ancient alchemy. ”

Fang Yu listened and was silent for a moment.

He had a good relationship with the lizardmen, and the master of the Tada lizards was the guardian of the stars, especially reading stone tablets.

It's a pity that the other party is not in this place at the moment, and knowing this is useless.

He asked, "Isn't there anything unusual about the writings themselves?" ”

"It's just plain ancient writing, Mr. Knight."

"So they're really the Abyssal Scrolls?"

Miss Leprechaun nodded slightly.

"I saw it when I was in the Silver Tower."

Fang Yu has absolute trust in his fairy lady.

He finally breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, thought about it for a while, and then slowly opened the drawer again. Miss Tata was right, there was no way to escape, he couldn't keep it that way.

Since it wasn't a mental attack, he wanted to see what these ancient words were all about.

And Tata watched the scene quietly and did not object.

Fang Yu then took the first page from the drawer—and the most complete page of the manuscript of the long scroll of the deep sea—and he carefully held the dry parchment and cast his gaze on it.

Strange to say, at first glance he felt that the moonlight seemed to become brighter.

At this time, the Istanian girl outside the window had already finished fetching water by the river.

The other party lowered his skirt and walked up from the river. And once again he stooped down and picked up the mat that had been placed by the river, put it on top of his head, and then placed the clay pot on it, and held the jar in one hand, and walked back in the moonlight in the direction from which it had come.

Fang Yu watched this scene from afar.

But at the same time, he looked at the scroll in his hand, and seemed to be unable to concentrate for a while, but those crooked words seemed to come to life on their own, jumping into his sight one by one.

He obviously didn't understand the words at all, but a strange thought occurred in his heart - these words were not complete. And as if by natural instinct, he subconsciously put his hand in his pocket, fumbled for a while, and pulled out a silver coin of Kaulin-Ishurian.

This silver coin has a face value of thirteen lissell and is engraved with the symbol of the Ouroboros of alchemy and the symbol of the gold element of Aitaria alchemy.

On the other side is a portrait of Madame Roman's face—below which is a relief of a scale—of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, with a non-serious countenance. Non-believers call her the laughing maiden, and hence this.

Fang Yu held up the silver coin, and faced the moonlight, a cloud of silver light fell on the parchment, and the dark part between the distorted words actually lit up one after another.

Looking at these words, he took them for granted, and although he couldn't read them at all, the silver coin in his hand shone out the hidden words on the parchment from left to right.

Fang Yu involuntarily spoke, reciting a peculiar note. ，

But the next moment, he finally beat a spirit and recovered from this mysterious state. There was a 'clank' and the coin fell to the ground.

Fang Yu suddenly threw the sheepskin document on the table, and only then did he realize what he had done before.

His forehead reflected the moonlight, and his face was slightly pale, with a thin bead of sweat oozing from it.

He took a step back, couldn't help but get up from his chair, and asked in a low voice, "Miss Tata, ...... just now?" ”

"I didn't warn you, Mr. Knight," replied Tata, looking very calm, "because I think it will help you." ”

"There is a ...... Help? Fang Yu looked a little dazed, and Fang Cai's affairs were like a short dream for him.

Tata then said:

"I feel like you're reading those words and learning something from them."

Fang Yu was stunned for a moment and asked rhetorically, "I've learned something——? ”

He suddenly closed his mouth as he opened his Dragon Knight system. There are indeed a few lines of hints above, mainly to say that he has gained some cognitive experience through reading.

I didn't have much experience, I had a few hundred points, and I jumped five or six times in total. However, reading unknown literature in order to gain cognitive experience is not an unusual operation.

It's just that the prompts of the system are very vague and very different from the usual. And Miss Tata said he had learned something, and she wasn't talking about that.

Fang Yu carefully inspected it, and only then did he widen his eyes and find that all his calculations, logic, and memory attributes based on intelligence evaluation had increased by three points respectively.

He remembered very well, especially his calculated attribute was the main attribute of the combat craftsman, since leaving Idus, the base value should be 228 points, and he has never been upgraded in level, so it should remain the same.

But at the moment, it is clearly 231 points.

It's too sensational to be able to grow attributes by reading. And it's not just the computing power that is improved, but the full attributes under the intelligence evaluation, that is to say, the main intelligence attribute is improved.

At least in Aitalia, he had never heard of anything like it.

Fang Yu was afraid that he had made a mistake, and remembered that he had changed the night owl brooch before, so he put the brooch back on, but the result remained the same.

He took off the brooch in disbelief, and was stunned for a moment before he asked Tata:

"Miss Tata, have you ever heard of anything like this?"

Miss Leprechaun shook her head slowly.

Only Nini didn't know what was going on, looking up at the two of them.

But Fang Yu didn't have the heart to care about this little girl at the moment, he only pulled out those broken deep sea scrolls one by one, and then read them one by one. And when he read the second and third sheets, he entered that mysterious state.

After coming back to his senses, his intelligence attributes have improved to varying degrees, but they are not fixed. The second time it was 2 points, and the third time it was only 1 point.

That is to say, he has gained a total of 6 points of computing power in three readings, which does not seem like much, but in the life of an alchemist, the growth of computing power is almost fixed. Especially in relation to the basic computing power, counting equipment and skills, there is so much. And the so-called secret tasks in the world are just to learn some special skills that are rarely seen in ordinary times, such as 'increasing computing power, or reducing the computing power requirements of constructs'.

In other words, if he can still learn those skills, it is equivalent to 6 points more basic computing power than others. And this was the result of only reading two pages of the deep sea scroll.

Fang Yu endured the doubts and excitement in his heart, and continued to read. But when he read the fourth volume, he felt a wave of tiredness rush over him, and he couldn't help but fight with his eyelids.

He let out a long yawn, then quickly shook his head and came to his senses.

When he realized what was happening, he looked at the parchment document in his hand again, and this time, it was no longer the same wonderful feeling as before.

Fang Yu paused for a moment, and the doubts in his heart flashed.

However, he immediately reacted: it seems that reading these words is not without a price, and it requires mental energy. Mortals manipulate the ether with crystals and spiritual power, and as an alchemist, he naturally understands this.

Fang Yu silently put down the handscroll.

My heart was both uneasy, but also a little excited.

Excited nature is from the long scroll of the abyssal sea, and a new world has been discovered.

But after the excitement, the uneasy mood inevitably flooded my heart again,

First of all, these things in his hand are the deep sea scroll, which is something that should not be touched by the seventh prohibition, and he is violating the regulations by holding these things at the moment.

Although the No. 7 ban is not the earliest clause stipulated in the "Stargate Declaration", it is also a supplementary clause signed by the Super Athletic League and Stargate Harbor after the Battle of Byrne.

If someone finds out that he has something to do with these things, it probably won't end well.

And what puzzled him even more was that before him, especially before the signing of the Seventh Ban, there should have been many Electors who had read the Abyssal Sea Scroll.

But why have they never been like this?

He couldn't help but compare himself to what was so special about him. And the only thing that can be said to be special is that on the one hand, he has the power of the dark dragon, and on the other hand, only the possibility of Cangzhihui remains.

Unfortunately, he approached the parchment scroll with the back of his hand, and the imprint on it did not react in the slightest.

On Nini's side, the power of the dragon's golden fang did not fluctuate in the slightest.

Fang Yu tried for a long time, but he didn't come up with a reason.

But when he picked up the last drawing, he couldn't help but be stunned. The last drawing, the one he had seen with Princess Penelope, was a parchment pattern with only arcane patterns and no words.

At that time, he felt that the pattern on this painting might be some kind of magic circle, but it had nothing to do with the alchemy circle in his impression.

At this time, he used a silver coin to reflect the moonlight, and reflected the pattern of the blank part of the drawing, and remembered it in his mind.

A thought spontaneously arose in his heart:

It's a recipe.

He was an alchemist, and naturally he had also learned about the Potions School. The school of potions that Council Elffindor Pudra was proficient in was only a branch of alchemy, but in the beginning, it was actually derived from two completely different disciplines of knowledge from the popular school of magic today.

Potions is a descendant of the Potions of the Noumerin Elves, and together with the Elven Forge and Enchantment, it is known as the three major skills of the Noumerin Elves.

Of course, the elves' potions were very different from today's, which was in the service of alchemy, and its product was also a magical reagent.

In the time of Noumerin, the elves mainly used this skill to concoct all kinds of mana potions, magic amplification potions, and even potions with various magical effects.

Fang Yu faintly felt at this moment that the recipe on this drawing seemed to have some connection with the Potions of the Numerin Elves, but it was even more ancient.

But what exactly is the formula?

Is it also related to computing power?

……