After the Melol Mine repelled Beckrol and his Black Tiger Mercenary Band, Finn and his party returned to Dawnwind City to the Adventurers' Guild to return the silver-level mission to the Melol Mine, and after receiving the gold and adventurer points reward, they said goodbye to Arya temporarily, and then returned to the Brewery Tavern with Glens.

In the room on the second floor of the Brewery Tavern, Glens sat nervously on the eaves of a soft bed, Finn and Lilith sat face-to-face with Glens in two chairs looking at him, and Arroyo stood by the door of the room with his hands folded, so as to ensure that no one else suddenly broke into the room while Finn, Lilith, and Glens were discussing things.

"That, Finn......" Glens played with his fingers with hesitation, his eyes avoiding Finn's gaze, intentionally or unintentionally.

"What's wrong, Glens?" Finn looked straight at Glens.

"Actually... I don't really want to tell you the secret I know. After a while, Glens squeezed out the sentence in a hurry, "Finn, that secret I know may lead to death, I suggest you don't force me to ask about it, I ......"

"Don't worry, Glens." Finn interrupted Glens, "If you really don't want to say it yourself, let me guess what you know, okay?" ”

"Guess?" Glens was stunned.

"That's right." Finn nodded, "Based on the 'obsidian' field you mentioned in the Melol Pits, I guess that the secret you know has something to do with an item called it, am I right?" ”

"You know the Obsidian Codex?!" Glens's eyes narrowed, and he looked at Fain in disbelief.

Finn watched Glens' reaction, and immediately felt as if he had thought of the secret that Glens had mentioned earlier in the Melore Pit.

The "obsidian" field mentioned by Glens in the Merlor pit is indeed related to the supposedly legendary item. - he thought to himself.

"Tell me your story, Glens." Finn locked into Glens's eyes and demanded word by word.

“…… Well, since you know the Obsidian Codex, I'm not going to pull you into the muddy waters by telling you the secrets I know. After a while, Glens gritted his teeth, made a decision in his mind, and then looked up at Finn with a serious expression, "Well, listen, Finn, this matter has to start after we separated from Olk Fortress......"

Glens then recounted his experience to Fein in detail from beginning to end.

From Glens's words, Finn learned that after Glens had been separated from himself and Lilith at the Ork Fortress, he escaped from the Ork Fortress in chaos with the elder Foto, and finally left the Farentan Empire and went to the Duchy of Grey Shan at the advice of the elder Foto.

After arriving in the Duchy of Grey Fir, Glens learned that Old Foto was actually a general under the command of Grand Duke Magdaru, Lord of Grey Fir, and went to Ash Fir City with Old Foto to meet Grand Duke Magdaru.

After meeting Grand Duke Magdaru, Glens let his guard down under the warm reception of Grand Duke Magdaru, and was guided by the latter's words to tell him about his arrest for stealing books, and then handed over the book to Grand Duke Magdaru, which he had actually been hiding all along.

After obtaining the book that Glens had stolen from Glens, Magdaru discovered that the book Glens had stolen was actually a large thick notebook, most of which was blank, with only a few discrete pages with oddly shaped words written on them.

With a wealth of experience, knowledge, and a keen intuition, Magdaru discovered that the scripts were neither lingua franca nor the languages of any other race, such as Elven, dwarven, orc, or orc.

Magdaru felt that the strange words written in the notebook must have hidden some mysterious information behind him that he didn't know, so he asked the scholars, appraisers, and court wizards of Grey Fir City to analyze the words written in the notebook overnight, and finally found that the words written in the notebook turned out to be a language character from the Third Age - Babel.

It is a language created by the Wizard King of the Third Age of Ferdia and the Half-Elf Witch King White Astor Silvermoon.

Magdaru and his assistants consulted a large number of documents in a short period of time, and further translated the messages expressed when the Babel words were put together, and found that the notebook that Glens had stolen was actually a treasure book that recorded the location of the treasure.

In the history of the Third Age, the half-elven witch king White discovered a wizarding tower high into the clouds in the far west of the continent, so he named the tower "Babel" (meaning to heaven), and established his own magical kingdom around the wizarding tower.

At the end of the Third Age, White's magical kingdom was destroyed with the change of the old and new eras.

Before his body died and his soul left for the land of the dead, the half-elven witch king had written his life's knowledge of magic into a thick book of magic.

The name of the magic book is called.

Rumors among wizards that the Obsidian Codex also has a nickname, which is said to contain almost all the spells known to wizards of the Fourth Age, and is the ultimate treasure that any spellcaster can only dream of.

Magdaru is not a wizard, but he is a greedy politician and therefore does not intend to pass up this opportunity to obtain the Obsidian Codex.

In order to keep the secrets of the Obsidian Codex from becoming known to more people, Magdaru decided to keep under close watch the scholars, appraisers, and court wizards involved in the interpretation of the Babel language, and sent an assassin with the intention of killing Glens, who might also know about it.

In the heart of this ruthless political fox, the best people to know the secrets of the obsidian code are as few as possible.

As soon as Glens died, the only people who knew the secrets of the Obsidian Codex were Magdaru himself and a handful of henchmen around him, and the old fox, who had been in the whirlpool of political battles for many years, would not allow anyone to interfere with his plans to obtain the Obsidian Codex.

Perhaps because of Glens's fate, the Assassin that Magdaru intended to send happened to be one of the elder Foto's subordinates, and a court wizard who had a close personal relationship with the elder Foto accidentally revealed the secrets of the obsidian code to the elder Foto in a private conversation just before Magdaru ordered the old Foto to send the Assassins.

Old Foto considered himself an upright knight, and his allegiance to Grand Duke Magdaru was due to Magdaru's kindness to his family, not because the old general recognized and liked Magdaru's insidious and cunning ways.

Remembering the plight of Glens and his escape from Ark Fortress back to Fir City, Old Foto privately informed Glens that Magdaru wanted to take his life, and quietly let Glens escape from Fir City.

"After escaping from Grey Fir City, I hurried overnight in the direction of Dawnwind City, and Magdaru soon spent money to hire the Black Tiger Mercenary Group as a killer to hunt me down." Glens slowly recounted his story to Finn, "After that, I was caught up by the Black Tiger Mercenary Group in the Merol Mines, and then I met you and Lilith again. ”

"I see." After listening to Glens's account, Fein nodded slightly, but then his brow furrowed again because he realized a problem.

"What's wrong, Finn?" Lilith saw a look of distress on Finn's face, and asked aloud.

"No, it's nothing...... Finn pursed his lips and waved at Lilith to signal that he was okay.

In his memories of his previous life, Finn remembered that the Obsidian Codex had indeed appeared in Magdaru's hands when it appeared in the Quaternary Age.

In the Dark Alliance's invasion of the human realm, Magdaru sided with the undead during the period when the Dark Alliance gained the advantage of the war, and used the obsidian code as a bargaining chip to exchange the promise of the Wizards of the Dead, and obtained the immortal but immortal high-level undead body in the spring of the fourth season of the war.

And the obsidian codex, which was used as a bargaining chip by Magdaru to exchange the right to "eternal life" to the Dark Alliance, finally fell into the hands of the strongest spellcaster of the Dark Alliance, the Lich Konstantin.

"Damn, the obsidian code of this life will be used by the future Constantine to form that terrifying corpse witch army." Fein clenched his fists and subconsciously cursed in his heart.

If he could get the treasure map notebook from Glens, Finn thought that with his experience in the game in his previous life, he might be able to get the Obsidian Codex before the Cataclysm broke out.

It's just that I didn't expect that Magdaru had actually obtained the notebook that recorded the location of the obsidian law collection from Glens.

It's a pity......

"Finn, do you want to see that notebook too?" After a while, Glens looked at Finn's somewhat anxious expression, and vaguely guessed what Finn was thinking.

"It's okay, Glens, since that notebook has already been taken by Magdaru, I naturally won't make unrealistic demands on you." Finn sighed and replied to Glens reluctantly.

After all, the only notebook had been taken away by Magdaru, and there was no way Finn could force Glens to recite the contents of the notebook in front of him.

However, Glens's next sentence suddenly brought a surprise to Finn.

Because, Glens said, "No, Finn, I mean, I have a backup here." ”

"What?!" Fein jerked up his half-hung head, his eyes almost glinting, "Glens, you mean, you have another notebook in your hand?" ”

"There isn't another notebook." Glens spread his hands, "However, I kept an eye on the notebook before handing it to Magdaru, and took a piece of parchment and copied its contents. ”

"Great!" Finn suddenly stood up from his chair in his heart, and his heart fell into a state of excitement, "Glens, can you show me the backup you made?" ”

"Of course, after all, you are my benefactor." Glens nodded and readily agreed.

With that, the bearded man reached into the inner pocket of his coarse cloth shirt, and in a moment he pulled out a worn, yellowed piece of parchment.