Chapter 265: The Sealed Book of Forbidden Things
If Dalaran is a magical kingdom of wisdom, strength, majesty, magnificence, art, and mystery, the brightest pearl of the entire Lordaeron continent, and a paradise that all magicians dream of, then Silvermoon City is the ocean that all magic apprentices in Azeroth yearn for.
Simply because it is home to the largest and most extensive library in all of Azeroth, the Library of Orvis.
Magic is a very wonderful thing in the continent of Azeroth.
In addition to the most common fire and frost elements, it is also divided into eight factions by scholars who like to study: protection, spells, prophecy, enchantment, illusion, necromancy, and change.
But no matter how you classify them, as the most basic magician, there is one thing that you must have, and that is - talent.
Unlike the rigors of the Dalaran Kenrito Council's tests, the Orvis Library in Silvermoon City is open to almost all students who are eager to learn magic, provided that you have at least the qualifications of an apprentice in magic.
However, there are more magic apprentices on the continent of Azeroth, and most of them are those who have been tested by the Kenrito Council as "no magical talent", so these "eliminated" people, with the hope of learning magic, regard the Orvis Library as the last straw, after all, even if it is the authoritative Kenrito Council, there will be times when they look away.
The Orvis Library is a massive circular building located next to Traveler's Square northeast of Silvermoon City.
The entire library has a dome style similar to that of an Arab building, with sleek sharp corners at the top, and similar to ordinary High Elf buildings, the Orvis Library also has a graceful and gorgeous fiery red, shining like a fiery phoenix under the magic lamp.
As the largest and most luxurious library on the continent of Azeroth, it has a large collection of books, most of which are magic books for ordinary magicians to study, and some books about history and humanities are also mixed in.
Xue Huan walked into the huge Orvis Library, and a smell of books came to his nose.
The entire interior of the library is divided into two floors, and the inner walls of the circular building are filled with tall bookshelves, but due to the invasion of the Scourge Legion, the building has been emptied, and the bookshelves are scattered all over the place.
Walking through the hall buried by books, Xue Huan bent down and picked up two books at random and tried to flip through them.
"Arcane Theorem", "On the Self-cultivation of Magicians", "If You Want to Learn Fireball, You Have to Start by Learning Roast Leg of Lamb"...
What the hell...
Throwing the two books aside, Xue Huan squatted down, picked up the books on the ground and flipped through them one by one, for fear of missing any details, but without exception, they were all books about ordinary fire or frost magic, or explanations of holy light and elemental magic.
Xue Huan summoned an evil flame with his left hand, and burned one for every one he saw, until most of it was burned, and he didn't see what he wanted to see.
"Hey, hey, dear master, based on my experience as an apprentice in magic, there are usually taboo books on necromancy or evil spells, which are usually stored in the secret room on the second floor, and even worse, some stubborn ones like to bless them with certain arcane traps. ”
Xue Huan's hint made Xue Huan come to his senses, and he abandoned the dense collection of books scattered on the ground on the first floor, turned around and walked straight towards the second floor.
The second floor of the library has significantly fewer books than the lobby on the first floor, and is divided into different areas by many bookshelves, judging by the neat tables and chairs, and the piles of documents and materials on the desks, which indicate that this is where the library staff work.
After Xue Huan walked along the bookshelf to the end, in the center, a huge oil painting hung on the wall.
According to Kel'thugad's description, forbidden books that are generally respected by people on the mainland will be placed in places that are not easy to find, and those high-level magicians are old and stubborn one by one, so Xue Huan began to grope around.
Under the table, under the vase, behind the cabinet, behind the bookshelf, Xue Huan searched all the places where traps were easy to hide, but he didn't find any clues.
In the end, Xue Huan stood in front of the huge oil painting at the beginning...
This painting appears to be a portrait of a great sage of the Sunchaper, in which the blonde man wears a fiery red phoenix gown, with a serious face and a level gaze, as if he is pointing at the country.
Xue Huan carefully inspected it for a while, but he couldn't see any clues from this oil painting, and he even moved the oil painting away and carefully inspected the back, but he found nothing.
What's going on?
Standing in front of the oil painting for a long time, Xue Huan pondered carefully. He was not anxious, but patient, re-examining it one detail at a time.
After repeated inspections to no avail, Xue Huan's heart suddenly moved, and he carefully observed the characters in this oil painting...
The eyes of the characters in the painting... Look at eye level and look ahead.
Xue Huan's heart moved, and he immediately looked in the direction that the eyes of the characters in the painting were looking at!
On the opposite wall! The figure in the painting seems to be looking at a fiery red phoenix statue hanging on the opposite wall!
Since the walls of the entire library were fiery red, and the fiery red phoenix statue was not very large, Xue Huan did not notice this detail.
Xue Huan immediately turned back to the opposite side of the oil painting.
After carefully inspecting the phoenix statue on the wall, Xue Huan found that the pointed beak of the phoenix statue was pointing at the bookshelf next to it!
So Xue Huan groped his way up the bookshelf in the direction again.
Finally, finally, he found out!
On the inner wall of the drawer of the bookshelf, Xue Huan felt a line of uneven traces, he calmed down a little and felt it, and finally found that this was actually a line of hidden text!
It's just that these words were written backwards! So, if someone accidentally touches here, if you don't look closely, most of them will only think it's just an ordinary pattern.
A line of text written in the opposite direction entirely, and... It's still the text of a human being.
Perhaps it's because there are so many high elves here, and in order to hide their secrets, these high-level elves deliberately use human characters.
However, this also happened to make Xue Huan cheaper.
According to the lingua franca of the human world in Azeroth, which he had secretly learned while on a mission with the mercenary team, Xue Huan read it carefully.
"The flaming red wings burn with hope, and its history is always the truth. ”
What is this? Riddle?
His dark gray eyes sank, and Xue Huan simply sat cross-legged on the ground, supporting his head with his right hand wearing the black death knight's hand armor, and began to think about this riddle.
"Flaming red wings... Its history... Truth ......"
Finally, Xue Huanhuo Ran stood up, and the corners of his mouth hooked a cold arc.
He remembered that Kel'thugad had said that the court of the Sunseeker had a proudest garrison, called the Firewing Legion.
And the history of the Firewing is the truth... That is, the mystery...
Then don't ask, you must be looking for books about the history of the Firewing Force.
Thinking of this, Xue Huan immediately searched for the bookshelf on the second floor!
Firewings, History, ......
Then it must be a bookshelf with history books!
Fortunately, compared to the first floor of the library, the shelves on the second floor are not too many, and most of them are marked with the category of books.
Soon, through instructions, Xue Huan found a bookshelf dedicated to historical books, and then he began to flip through them one by one.
Finally...
When he twitched a book, he clearly felt that the book was unusually heavy! It was actually a metal book! And, after twitching, there was a dull click of a wheel from inside the wall......
Finally, with a bang, the entire bookshelf slowly turned on its own, and behind the bookshelf, on the wall, the entrance to a black hole was revealed...
(End of chapter)