Under the shimmering fluorescent light of the cavern, the gray mask also shimmered with a faint light blue light.

Carl gently rubbed the mask with his fingers, and found that the outer layer of the mask was very smooth, the tentacles were warm, and there was an elastic texture similar to real human skin, while the inner layer was very cold, and there were hollow metal patterns, which felt like a metal texture and a kind of stone hardness.

"What is this?"

Watching Carl stroke for a long time, little Lucy couldn't help but be curious.

"Haha, a very interesting thing!"

Karl handed the mask to him, "You try it, touch it with your mental power." ”

Little Lucy took the mask, looked at it curiously, and felt that this mask with a flat face and almost no facial features was nothing special, but according to what Carl said, she carefully touched the mask with mental power.

"Hmm!"

Little Lucy couldn't help but feel like an electric shock, the sky was spinning, and her spiritual power penetrated deep into the mask, as if she had entered a crazy rotating roller, and countless blurred faces changed rapidly, making little Lucy dizzy and unsteady on her feet.

"Dizzy, dizzy, dizzy!"

Little Lucy hurriedly withdrew her mental strength, dizzy in her head and feet, and staggered back the mask to Carl.

"Don't get dizzy!"

Carl hurriedly supported little Lucy, took the mask at the same time, and said with some wondering: "It's just that I see a lot of faces changing back and forth, how can I feel dizzy?"

All Carl sees are faces, which can be pinched like plasticine, and although they change a little faster, as soon as you focus your attention on a certain mask, the mask will quickly stop and become a template that can be modified at will.

"It's too fast to see clearly!"

Little Lucy rubbed her head and said a little sullenly, although her mental power had withdrawn, the feeling of being randomly stirred in a rolling bucket still lingered in her mind, making her uncomfortable.

"Could it be a mental power gap?"

Carl thought about it, and according to little Lucy's description, he quickly had a conjecture. There are no requirements for the use of this magic mask, but it is obvious that it is difficult for people with insufficient mental power to adapt to the high-speed changing face space, and gazing at a thing in the spiritual world is originally a very mentally consuming thing.

Speaking of which, normal magicians naturally have a way to test the strength of a person's mental power, but Carl does not have such magic props at hand, nor has he learned spells such as "identification", otherwise he would be able to test the value of his and Lucy's mental power.

Carl didn't rush to test the function of this masquerade prop, but he was cautious by nature, so he awakened himself to learn a few magics, and after learning the "identification technique", after making sure that there were no traps and curses left in this prop, he put it on and tried it!

So, after playing around and studying it twice, he put the mask back down and went to study the other items in the storage ring.

Naturally, there was nothing to study about the pile of women's clothes, and although they were all high-end goods cut from fine silk and velvet, they did not do much other than leave them for little Lucy to try on, or to send them to the tailor's shop to sell for money.

The only thing worth studying is the half-finished manuscript, as well as a few books. However, Karl was soon disappointed, and those books were all philosophical, sociological, and heraldic classics such as "On the Philosophical Relationship between Divinity and Reason", "Aurora Continental Chronology", and "The Illustrated Book of Heraldic Empire in the Hundred Years of Holy Hyrule".

According to the author's opening statement, he seems to want to take the family history of the royal family of the Holy Hyrule Empire as the theme, combing and studying the process of the rise, development, decline, rise and demise of various aristocratic families since the Dawning War, trying to explore some more profound logical internal causes contained in this process of change.

Karl took a look and found the author's point of view very interesting, not along the traditional family history and heraldic studies, but from a more fundamental and fundamental perspective on the evolution of the family.

He believes that the birth of the family is actually derived from the survival instinct of human beings to live in clusters, and since human beings have discovered that it is easier to survive in this world than alone, the spontaneous formation of organizations and groups has become an instinct.

The strength advantage of bloodline power over ordinary humans, as well as the heritability of knight bloodlines, make the family structure with bloodline as the main link become the main body of this world.

The population advantage of the bloodline family has been constantly squeezing the living space of the ordinary population, whether it is in the competition for food, mates, territory, or in the pure resistance to external forces such as plagues, natural disasters, wars, etc., the bloodline family has always occupied an absolute advantage.

According to this logic, the author puts forward a rather surprising point of view in the book, he believes that in fact, in today's human world, the original human species has almost disappeared, and almost all the human beings living on the continent are descendants of blood families.

For this reason, he also listed an ordinary family and a noble family as a comparison in the book, because of disease, early death, plague, famine, marriage, war, natural disasters and other reasons, the descendants of an ordinary family are often completely extinct in less than five generations.

In an aristocratic family, a pair of parents often give birth to more than three children, because of medical conditions and the role of church magic, most of these children can live to adulthood safely, in addition to the concubines who inherit the family business, the concubines who do not have the right to inherit are also because of the advantages of status and identity, they can easily find a wife, get married and have children. With such continuous diffusion, although the main vein may be cut off, the branches and leaves of the family's bloodline have already spread out......

This may seem appalling, but when you think about it, it makes sense, at least logically.

However, Carl felt that if this work was really published, it would probably set off a big wave in the world of nobles, after all, thousands of years of propaganda and brainwashing have already made the people of this world accept that nobles are inherently noble, born with the blood of superiors, and are born to be guardians with swords and leaders with rods.

The noble and sacred bloodline is the fundamental legal principle of the aristocratic rule of this world, and once the theory that everyone has noble blood and everyone has knightly blood, it is simply challenging the foundation of the aristocratic rule of this world.

"The original owner of this ring couldn't have been killed because he wrote this book and divulged this idea!"

After reading this manuscript, Karl could not help but speculate that in a world dominated by aristocracy, publishing a theory that subverted the foundations of aristocratic rule, such an act of death was no less than Bruno's preaching heliocentrism in the sphere of influence of the Church, and it was no wonder that he would not be burned to death.

Although he came from a world with a more enlightened and progressive social system, Karl had no interest in preaching revolutionary theories and acting as a revolutionary mentor in this world. His current goal is only to learn magic, become a powerful mage and knight, blend into the ranks of the ruling class, live the rotten life of the old feudal aristocracy, and have a happy daily life with a beautiful woman like Little Lucy three or four times a day.

Therefore, thinking like this, Karl simply stuffed this half of the manuscript back, this dangerous thought, it is better to leave it to the revolutionaries of this world to discover, he is a friend from another world, so he will not worry about this world.

......

Northland, Mersensea Palace.

In the afternoon, the sun is just right!

The garden is covered with golden roses and lilies, the roses are blooming brightly, and the statues with spring water are flowing in the sun, and the splashing mist reflects the afternoon sun into colorful light.

The melodious music of the carnon reverberates soothingly through the fragrant laurel trees, through the rustling roses and green leaves, and reverberates soothingly on the green velvet carpet of lawn.

Her Royal Highness Princess Alicia, who is beautiful and elegant with blonde hair, and Her Royal Highness Princess Elenie, who is delicate and pretty, are sitting on the lawn between the rose trellis and the rose bed, drinking afternoon tea wired.

On the wall behind the laurel trees and lilies, the handsome knight of the Rhine sits on the wall, playing the canon and singing a beautiful love song for the most beautiful princess.

The beautiful Princess Alicia sat quietly, like a painting of a lady in a still courtyard, quiet and peaceful, and did not react to the enthusiastic singing of the handsome Knight Andrew.

The lovely Princess Eleni, on the other hand, has long since learned to ignore the obnoxious Rhine Knight and focus only on her beloved sister.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Princess Eleni always feels that her sister seems to be a little different from before recently, although she is the same quiet, the same taciturn, but I don't know why, Eleni always feels that her sister seems to be a little more angry than before.

It's hard to describe this feeling, if the previous Sister Alicia felt like a statue, an iceberg, and a cold puppet that moved, then the current Sister Alicia is like a figure in a still life painting, although it still looks rigid, but it already has a vivid charm that only living people have.

"Sister, I've already decided!"

Looking at her sister, who was quiet and like a still life lady's painting, Eleni took a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind, and said seriously: "I want to go to the endless ocean of the Far North, cross the frozen sea that is insurmountable even by reindeer and winter wolves, and accept the test of the goddess of ice and snow!" 8)