The night in the wetland swamp is both cold and lively.

It's deserted because it's pitch black all around, and you can't see any other living creatures except your companions, and when you really fall asleep and want to rest, you will hear the sound of a strange cry from far or near from time to time, and occasionally there will be a vague weird roar in the distance, so that you can't sleep peacefully.

Camping in the wilderness, especially in harsh environments such as wetlands and swamps, is not to be careful, and it is enough to have a safe place to rest.

The soldiers first cleared a small open space with fire, and the damp land became dry under the scorching flames, and the snakes, insects, rats and ants hidden in the ground could not withstand the heat and fled.

In this way, the campsite becomes safe, and there is no need to worry about being killed by poisonous snakes, insects and ants while sleeping. After that, a bonfire was lit, and everyone slept next to the bonfire so that they would not get cold, and camping in the wilderness was as simple as that.

It's not complicated to say, but it can't be done in an hour or two when you actually do it.

The first time he saw Sloan and the others set up the camp, Ainan was still very curious, but after seeing them two or three times, he was no longer interested.

By the light of the campfire, Ainan looked through a notebook he had borrowed from Sir Lothar's royal library before leaving.

Ever since he received the prototype of Frost Sorrow, a sword forged from the body of a fallen false god, in Sloanan's possession, Ainan has become interested in the history of this world.

What is a troll?

Legend has it that the barbaric and ignorant why they let the elves with the magical civilization make friends with the humans who had just gotten rid of slash-and-burn cultivation at that time, and in order to defeat them, the elves even passed on magic to humans.

Based on this alone, Ainan could have ascertained that there must be a story in this, and that trolls were not as simple as humans seem.

The recorded history of humanity in this world is not very long, and humanity as a new race has very limited knowledge of the world, after all, they only began to expand beyond the land of the Arathi Highlands decades ago.

If Ainan wants to understand trolls and delve deeper into the secrets of this world, it will be futile to start from the formal historical records of mankind, but he can still gain something from reading some handed down diaries and the like.

“…… I never thought that there was such a magical power in the world, which the elves call magic, and I will have the honor of being one of the first humans to master this magical power, thanks to Soladin the Great. ”

"It's been half a year since I came to the city of elves, and everything here is still so shocking, the first thing I do when I open my eyes every day is to make sure that I am not dreaming......"

Ainan was interested, and the original owner of this note thought to be one of the hundred people who had been selected from the Terrans to enter the territory of the elves to learn magic, and it was these people who brought back the spark of magic and allowed it to grow proudly among the Terrans. For a person like this, what he has experienced is by no means imaginable to ordinary people, and the secrets he has learned are by no means something that outsiders can speculate.

Is it possible to extract useful information from this person's notes?

Ainan pulled himself together and continued to read.

A large part of the next part of the note is some daily trivialities, recording some of the things this person has seen and heard in the elven city, and through these contents, Ainan learned some information about the elves.

It was a race of handsome men and beautiful women, and the elves had the longevity that humans could only dream of, and a thousand years of time were only a small part of their lives, while humans only had a hundred years of life.

"In this way, the elves are a bunch of old monsters."

Ainan thought maliciously.

After a long period of contact with the elves, the owner of the note was very envious of their longevity, so an idea was born.

"Since magic is so magical, why not try to increase lifespan with magic, maybe we can also get a long life like elves."

Wow, this is?!

Ainan's eyes lit up, and he had a guess in his heart.

"Originally, this was just an idea that I suddenly came up with, and with the life span of the elves, I shouldn't be interested in this, but I didn't expect it to alarm a big man......"

Just as he was about to see who the big man was, Ainan was depressed to find that the following content was missing.

Where is there no shortage, but there is no key content, this is not artificial, who believes it?

It is clear that the original owner of the note, or the person who obtained it, was hiding something. If Ainan guessed correctly, this is probably the origin of mankind's research on spiritism in the first place.

Spiritism has been identified as a failed path in the exploration of magic, what research has been achieved, where has the experiment been conducted, and why has it not been successful...... And so on, and a series of questions Ainan didn't know, and most of them couldn't get answers if they wanted to ask others.

If you think about the book that Kel'thugad exchanged for a map of the Swamp of the Wetlands documenting the results of psychic research, Lothar and Madrice would tell that the truth about psychism has been lost to history.

"Hey, that's kind of interesting."

Ainan smiled.

He wasn't laughed at, and he wasn't depressed because of incomplete notes. Imagine why anyone would try to cover things up if there were no secrets in the study of spiritism.

There are no three hundred taels of silver here, and it's not the second thief of the king next door - don't recruit yourself.

Also, why would a long-lived elf be interested in a suggestion from a human who has just touched the threshold of magic?

Just think about it, and it becomes clear that normal elves must ignore this proposal, and only those elves who will not have a long life will value it.

Elves have a long lifespan of thousands of years, and the longer intelligent beings live, the more afraid of death becomes, especially when it is mentioned in the notes that the man is still a big man among the elves.

Living for a long time, having a status and power that is difficult for ordinary people to reach, but being dying of old age, these are enough to explain the problem.

"Thousands of years have passed, and the elven man mentioned in the note is almost at the end of his life even if he doesn't die, but unfortunately I don't know the situation of the elf, otherwise I should be able to deduce the identity of this person. Even if it can't be specific to a specific person, there will be a general range. ”

Ainan shook his head slightly, secretly feeling pity. After possessing the Rune Sword Frost's Grief, he paid some attention to the world's research on death, although most of them were still in their infancy.

"Forget it, if you don't know, you don't know, maybe the person concerned has died a long time ago, and no one can know this part of history."

Ainan flipped through the rest of the book and found a barely legible inscription under the cover of the book - Merry or Merip?

"Really, you can't even write a name, I'm afraid that people will know your real name or what?"