"Qin Lun, I remember that when you came out of the underground treasure vault of the Ambori Church, didn't you also carry some magic crystal cores?" Hill suddenly remembered something, and said, "Those things are worth a lot, maybe they can offset our expenses." ”

"Hmm!" As soon as Hill reminded him, Qin Lun also remembered that he was worried about the attention of the gods, so he didn't loot too many things in Ambery's underground stronghold. In addition to a large bag of gold coins of wealth, he only brought out a parchment scroll, more than a dozen best-looking magic crystal cores, and a staff that had been pried off from the magic gem.

The staff had been given to Ciel, and it wasn't worth much after prying off the gem, only the magic runes on it were worth studying. However, those egg-sized pure magic crystal nuclei were more precious. As for the last parchment scroll, Qin Lun and the others didn't know the ancient writing on it at all, and they had already forgotten about it.

However, perhaps here at Candlefort, this parchment scroll with ancient characters is the most valuable item.

"Then try it!" Qin Lun smiled and took the lead towards the oval magic mirror door with rippling water waves.

A scene flashed in front of him, and a simple office appeared in front of Qin Lun. It was a spacious study with rows of bookshelves displayed all around it, and strangely enough, the shelves were stuffed with books, and the titles were not marked on the spine.

Directly in front of the study was a long desk with pages and parchment scrolls, and an old white-bearded mage was behind the desk, copying something.

Hearing the movement of the water mirror door in the room, he looked up from the pile of books, but his eyes were blank, as if his mind had not yet been freed from the thoughts in front of him.

"Distinguished readers, we are here to request access to the Candlekeep!" Qin Lun touched his chest with his hand and bowed.

Before leaving, Linda instructed them to refer to everyone they saw in Candlekeep as "Readers". The "reader" here is not the reader position of Candlecastle, but the collective name of these scholars. These people prefer to be called "readers" by others rather than mages and sages.

"Oh? Oh! The old mage's gaze finally began to focus, smashed his mouth, and looked at Qin Lun and the others in front of him.

"What kind of books would you like to borrow from the Central Library?" The old mage pinched his eyebrows and asked lightly.

"Dear readers, we are not here to borrow books, but to borrow the teleportation circle of the underground labyrinth of Candlekeep." Qin Lun said respectfully.

"Huh? Coming to Candle Castle to borrow a circle? This answer was obviously unexpected by the old mage, he touched it from the table, found a pair of monocles to put on, and began to carefully look at Qin Lun and the others, "Humans, moon elves, highland elves, you are mercenaries?" No, let me see, you all seem to have some weirdness in you! ”

The old mage took out a set of black cards from the drawer of the table, shuffled the cards, and then drew six cards for the corresponding six people, and turned his fingers from right to left one by one, "Dryad card, Guardian of the Forest, are you a Ranger or a Druid?" ”

"I'm a forest guardian of the Nature Sect!" Elistin smiled and nodded, the Guardian of the Forest is usually the self-proclaimed name of some druid.

"Mountain and Aries card! A powerful Highland Elf, not like a mountain herdman, is ...... Northland harpist? The old mage pointed at Mastasia and raised a white eyebrow, his seemingly cloudy gaze with extraordinary acuity.

"The Queen of the Whipping Card...... Lady Laveta's devotees, hehe, what a strange combination! The old mage smiled happily, frowning slightly when his eyes fell on the last three cards, "Three spearman cards, strange, you don't look like mercenaries...... Alas, it's really useless to be old! ”

Qin Lun and the three of them stared at the old mage's cards, knowing that the identity of the apostle would never be exposed, and their backs were still a little sweaty, this old thing's card divination was too godly!

In a sense, the apostle is not a mercenary who shatters the starry sky!

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's not that the old man wants to find out your secrets, mainly because the underground labyrinth of Candle Castle is a heavy place, and you can't just let people into it." The old mage explained to himself and continued, "Now that you are not book thieves, of course it is okay to borrow a long-distance teleportation array, but you must have heard of the rules here before you came to Candle Castle, right?" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, we will pay the right price." Qin Lun smiled and nodded, took out all the more than ten magic crystal nuclei from the storage space, and took two steps forward to put them on the old mage's table.

The old mage didn't mind checking them one by one, the whole process was very fast, he almost picked one up and put it down immediately, and he had already checked more than a dozen magic crystal nuclei in an instant.

Qin Lun and Hill glanced at each other, and they both saw the surprise in each other's eyes. They originally thought that the personnel arranged here in Candle Castle should only be a small role, but judging from the old mage's current appearance, he has at least two professions that have reached the master level, one is card divination, and the other is identification.

To accurately distinguish the professions and identities of many people, it is not enough to rely on eyesight alone, and it definitely involves divination in the mysterious realm. And such a quick inspection of the magic crystal nucleus requires profound identification skills, which can not be done by non-identification masters.

After inspecting the magic crystal nucleus that Qin Lun took out, the old mage tapped the table with his finger and said in a deep voice: "The quality of these magic crystals is good, if it is only used as a ticket to enter the Candle Castle, then the six of you only need six to be enough." But if you want to borrow a long-distance teleportation circle, I'm afraid it's not enough to even have a fraction. ”

The old mage paused as he spoke, and then continued to explain, "The cost of long-distance teleportation circles is very high, and although the teleportation distance varies, the nearest teleportation location also needs to cost hundreds of these magic crystals. ”

"Hundreds of ......" Everyone looked at each other, and a sense of powerlessness appeared in their hearts.

Originally, Qin Lun had thought that if the value of these magic crystal cores was not enough, then he would exchange some magic crystals from the list of starry sky items, but the number of hundreds was too exaggerated.

Besides, this is not a direct completion of the epic plot, but just a teleportation, so it costs more than 100,000 broken crystals, which is a bit not worth it!

"Looks like this is a bit of a hard time for you!" The old mage didn't seem surprised, and said with a smile, "Hundreds of magic crystals are indeed an astronomical amount when converted into gold coins, but what Candlestick really values is knowledge, not wealth. If you also prepare a document or a unique book that we don't have here, and you can impress the old decay, then you don't need a gold coin to borrow the teleportation array! ”

"What do you think of this parchment? There are some ancient texts recorded on it, which should be very valuable for research! Qin Lun hesitated for a moment, took out the ancient parchment scroll he had obtained from the Ambori Church from his arms, and put it in front of the mage.

"Oh, let me see first!" The old mage pushed his monocle, took the parchment, and leaned in front of the candle to look at it.

Looking at the old mage's unpredictable old face under the lamp and candle, Qin Lun and the others suddenly had a sense that they were waiting for the trial, and they couldn't help but feel slightly uneasy.

The expression on the old mage's face slowly became stricter, and he even habitually gnawed his fingernails, it seemed that the text content on the parchment scroll was really something he had never seen, which made Qin Lun and the others, who had been observing words and expressions, breathe a sigh of relief.

After a while, the old mage finally put down the parchment scroll in his hand, but his brows were furrowed, and his expression showed a rare hint of hesitation.

"The value of this scroll...... I can't tell! "But it's not because I don't know what it is, it's that the value of this thing itself is not easy to measure......

"Can you read the words?" Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and there was a hint of surprise in his eyes.

He had been getting this parchment scroll for many days, but no matter how much he studied, he could not read the ancient characters on it, which was a very strange phenomenon. You must know that the Broken Starry Sky throws the Apostles into a different world of time and space, and the Apostle's Soul Seal is often directly injected into the relevant continental lingua franca from ancient times to the present, as long as it is a text that has been handed down, it can basically be automatically translated.

Texts that can't even be translated by the Apostle's Soul Seal are either encrypted texts, or protected by the laws of the world. No matter which one it is, as long as it is deciphered, it will bring Qin Lun a certain degree of world exploration.

"Old decay can understand, but it is equivalent to not understanding!" The old mage twisted his white beard and said with some distress, "This is a personal magic note from an ancient magician, and it belongs to the Netherel Empire, and it may contain research results on a certain Nether scroll. ”

"Nether Scroll's research notes?" Qin Lun and the others were a little surprised.

They knew that the Nether Scroll not only recorded many forbidden spells, but also extended a whole set of magic systems through guò, which could be said to be the third complete magic system independent of dragon magic and elven magic, and could even escape from the magic net of the goddess of magic Mithra and exist independently.

"Did you decipher some of it?" Qin Lun asked expectantly.

As an apostle, Qin Lun's back is the Broken Starry Sky, and he doesn't need to decipher it all, as long as the old mage in front of him can decipher a part, then this parchment scroll has no secrets about the Broken Starry Sky, just like the secret letter of the Santarin Society intercepted by Mastasya.

At the same time, it can also bring Qin Lun a lot of world exploration, after all, this is the research notes of the Nether Scroll that has influenced an era.

"Hehe, do you know what a magician's private notes are?" The old mage couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head, and as he explained, everyone suddenly understood.

Every mage is a learned sage, who does a lot of reading and writing work, and in order to protect their research, they tend to create shorthand characters that only they and their subordinate apprentices can understand.

If a magician is so successful that the mantle is inherited by many apprentices, and his apprentices are scattered, then a faction of magic is formed, and the shorthand of his personal creation spreads.

From ancient times to the present, there are many magical factions, and the inheritance left by some famous magicians has been inherited by many people, and the shorthand writing of private creations has gradually become public. But there are some magicians who have severed their inheritance, and the private notes they leave behind are equivalent to heavenly books that no one can understand.

The parchment scroll that Qin Lun obtained was connected from the previous to the next, and some of the shorthand words were shorthand words that were widely circulated, and the old mage could understand them. However, the core part of it, especially the research text on the Nether scroll, has distinct personal traces, and the old mage naturally cannot read it.

Of course, if the old mage can't read it, it doesn't mean that this ancient mage has broken off the inheritance, maybe there are other people who can decipher it, so this note still has a certain value.