With Duran's low incantation, the shadows reflected in the blue moon began to dance and jump on the paper in a certain order and pattern.

"What did you just read?" Kate suddenly fell asleep, and as a demon warlock, she was considered well-informed among ordinary people, but she had never seen the way Duran pronounced it. Crisply, but with a touching magic, as if the moment he spoke, the blue moon in the sky and the magic in the air were trembling.

"Runewords, one of the basic specialties of rune mages. Of course, as one of the ancient mage schools, not many people know about it now. At present, in addition to the bloodline warlocks and magic spells, most of the spells cast by the mages on the continent are passed down from the White Tower Wizards or the Black Witch Society. The former focuses on shaping magic and legal spells, while the latter is a master of playing with minds, and mind magic and star magic are the witches' specialties - while spells from other schools are quite rare. Duran replied quickly, "I don't know much about rune magic, but I still know some basics to get started. ”

Kate looked at Duran's gaze and suddenly had a lot of indescribable emotions, and the young man in front of him seemed to be calm and calm no matter what the occasion. It seems a little inaccurate to describe his attitude with confidence - the silver-haired warlock looked at Duran's slightly frowning face, the fourteen or fifteen years old gave people a childish feeling, but for some reason, he spoke with a firm air and affirmation, as if a wise man who had seen through time.

"Is that why Mr. Qiu chose him as the next leader of the Black-Clad Crowd?" Kate silently watched as Duran stretched out his hand, sliding from side to side on the parchment, and large swaths of shadow runes turned into handy tools under Duran's hands. There were many strange patterns in the center of the otherwise empty paper, and Duran placed shadows on the patterns, punching out byte after byte.

"It looks like a jigsaw puzzle." Kate couldn't help but interject.

"It's a little bit more complicated than a jigsaw puzzle." Duran said this, but he laughed secretly in his heart: If it was a jigsaw puzzle, I would have done it a long time ago with my close memorization and analytical skills. This parchment scroll was written by the legendary mage Rui Wenjin, the representative of the Rune Sect, in order to test whether the latecomers have the ability and talent to inherit the treasures of the Rune Sect.

The parchment would have been shadowed in the light of the moon—the words from the lower planes that were naturally arranged in an irregular manner, and with them a multitude of strange patterns emerged. What Duran needs to do is to piece together these irregular characters according to the patterns or instructions - this requires a certain understanding of the shadow script, but Duran can only be regarded as partial understanding of the language of the lower planes, so the progress is quite slow.

"Mio, Rand, nails...... What kind of nonsense are these words? Kate asked curiously, pointing to the few shadow words that Duran had just pieced together.

Duran shrugged: "From the perspective of the shadow text, it should be [Mystery Tree, Holly Tree, White Rose]. Believe me, although you have the blood of the Abyss, the Shadow and Abyssal languages are very different, even if they belong to the same language classification of the lower planes. ”

Kate crossed her hands on her hips and glared, "There's nothing I can do to help?" ”

Duran continued to busy, saying, "Drink a glass of wine and give me thirty minutes." Kate, that's what you need to do urgently. ”

The Demon Warlock sat helplessly to the side, she really didn't know anything about the shadow text, and it really didn't help her, but would distract Duran.

Duran gave it his all, and his focus on the reagent greatly improved his intelligence and will, his mind was clearer, and the progress of the patchwork was much faster than expected. The words slowly took shape, and after twenty minutes, Duran wiped a handful of sweat.

At this time, on the parchment scroll, all the shadows are arranged according to the law, forming four proverbs.

Without waiting for Kate to speak, Duran took the initiative to translate the content of these four sentences, but fortunately, although the shadow text is difficult, Duran can still figure out the general meaning:

[The shadow of the holly tree lingers around the lake without stones]

【Lily of the valley and white roses are connected side by side】

【The Upanishads Gate always welcomes the true wise】

【Mystic Finger Leads to Final Entrance】

……

Duran read the above four sentences softly in lingua franca. Kate had a blank look on her face: "This is the final key?" Didn't you say the direction of the Valley of Shadows? ”

It seems that my impression is still a little wrong, Duran thought to himself that he was lucky, he only remembered that in the Valley of the Shadows was a lake full of lily of the valley and holly trees, but he forgot the two messages of white roses and no stones. If he hadn't bought the parchment from Sarich, it would have been a lot of work to find Shadow Valley.

But now it was much better, and Duran knew that the general direction of the Valley of Shadows was in the mushroom forest south of the village of Brie - there was darkness, and the huge mushrooms had become obscured by the influence of chaos magic, and in some areas there was a poisonous gas that could kill people. Legend has it that the Mushroom Forest is the most marginal place in the Land of Order, and somewhere in the middle of the forest, it straddles chaos and order, and countless monsters grow in it. I think that in such a poor place with mountains and bad waters, there should not be many lakes that meet these four proverbs.

Duran, who had finished deciphering the work, let out a sigh of relief and smiled, "Miss Kate, I wonder if I have the honor of inviting you to the entrance of the ancient mysteries to observe the mysterious and powerful ancient wisdom?" ”

Kate glared at Duran, "Are you sure you can find Shadow Valley with these words?" ”

"It's just a matter of time. The only suspense is whether the witty iron sheet will bring us some surprises. ”

……

In the dim forest, the air was filled with the smell of sour decay, like the abominable smell emanating from the carcasses of long-rotting animals, and the ogre instinctively felt uncomfortable.

Tall mushrooms are lined up one after another, and from time to time a few mushrooms suddenly sprinkle a bunch of spores with an astonishing number of spores, sprinkled all over the head, and sneezed. The strange slime that could be found everywhere on the damp ground, the carnivorous creatures that lay on their stomachs on other dwarf species, and the terrifying screams that came from the depths of the forest from time to time sparked the timid ogre.

In such an environment, even on the clearest nights, the light of the moon was obscured and imperceptible, and he could only make progress with a faint vision. The troubles along the way made the ogre suddenly wonder if it was a wrong decision to break into the mushroom forest overnight in order to complete the task ordered by his master, after all, this place was not Helga Mountain, and the surrounding environment made it difficult for him to move forward, and the reason why he did not retreat and forced himself forward was only because of the rare belief in his heart.

"I'm not some shit, and I'm not stupid. I am the noble Ironskin, the genius of the ogre. Iron Hide kept encouraging himself in his heart, saying, "There's nothing to be afraid of ahead, I have so much strength that I can completely crush them!" ”

He took a step and struggled to move on. At this time, the ogre's mind suddenly flashed back to the scene where he had smashed the brain of the Osher pathogen with one knee a few days ago—it stands to reason that the iron sheet that had never even eaten human flesh should have felt frightened and frightened, or at a loss—but in fact, when he thought of this scene these days, his blood had a faint tendency to boil.

Ironskin, who had never known what blood and courage were all his life, felt extra excited about killing a monster, which was the first time in his not long life. And Duran's reprimand was still in his ears, and he couldn't help but ask himself: Is he really too timid?

Of course, the answer is very obvious, Ironhide is not used to deceiving himself, so today, he suddenly came up with an idea.

"I must complete the task assigned to me by my master perfectly! I'm going to show him that I'm definitely not a cowardly coward, and I can be very courageous! As soon as this thought appeared, it inexorably ignited the blood of the ogre, which had cooled for many years, and for a moment, he felt that he was a warrior charging on the battlefield, and all enemies would tremble in his shadow, while he himself would be invincible.

This thought inspires Ironhide, who has never in his life wanted so strongly to prove in front of others that he was not a piece of waste.

"Isn't it just looking for a lake, what's the difficulty!" The ogre stepped over a few strange tree stumps, and suddenly a row of rare ordinary trees appeared in front of him.

Ironhide immediately leaned over, having lived in the Helga Mountains for so long, he still recognized several common trees.

"These are the holly trees that the owner highlighted!" Ironhide walked around the row of holly trees, and a large shadow appeared in front of him, and the giant mushrooms didn't seem to touch the land.

Iron Hide was happy in his heart, could it be that the place that the master said was found by himself so easily?

He just wanted to move on, but who knew that at this moment, he saw a faint glimmer of fire not far from the right in front of him.

"Bonfire!" The ogre was a little puzzled, how could there be a bonfire in such a place? Could it be other humans?

The quick-witted Ironhide pondered for a moment and decided to sneak over to take a look.

(No recommendation, not happy, use the recommendation ticket to smash me to death~~)

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