Chapter 1021: The Twisted Book
The Twisted Book is very famous among the churches in the Velonian world, mainly because this book is the only forbidden book in the Velonian world, both the Church of the True God and the Church of the Evil God, and when the book was banned, the Orthodox Church had not yet appeared, and all the churches were still just separate single churches, in that era when even the Church of the True God would attack each other, it was enough to make all the churches make the same decision, which was enough to make the Twisted Book the banned book among the most well-known banned books in the world, and there was no one.
Although the Twisted Book is very famous, this fame is limited to the various churches of Velon, as well as some well-intentioned people, and the vast majority of ordinary people have not even heard of this book.
Leo's knowledge of the Twisted Book stems from a collection of forbidden books written by Rembrandt himself in his early years, in which he chronicled the various forbidden books in the world of Velen.
It's just that for some reason, the content in it is incomplete, and most of the places have been deleted, so the reference value is not very large.
But this anthology has already made Leo remember the forbidden book of the Twisted Book, because in that anthology, only the name of the Twisted Book is written on the first page, and the content is completely blank, while the other books in the anthology, such as the knowledge of the Thirteen Ancient Gods of the Madman, also have some text introductions, which also makes him take the initiative to find information related to the Twisted Book in the future.
After that, all the information he had about the Twisted Book was fragmented, but it was enough for him to piece together a complete picture of the Twisted Book.
The threat of the Twisted Book is at the top of the minds of the churches, so much so that they have even erased the name of the author from all written records, not to mention that the people do not know who the author of the Twisted Book is, and even the Wizard of the Tower does not know the name of the author.
It's just that the wizard of the tower managed to collect all kinds of information, and finally found a clue that the author of the Twisted Book should be the canonization of a certain church at that time.
In the early days of the development of various churches in the world of Velon, the canonization of believers was very strict, far from being as low as the current canonization requirements, and only a little contribution to the development of the church was needed to make a possible canonization after death.
At that time, in the various churches of Velun, only the kind of people who received the extreme favor of the gods, were qualified to be called the sons of God, and made great merits were eligible for canonization, and this was just a qualification, and whether they could be canonized in the end did not only depend on the attitude of the church where the canonized person was, but also other surrounding churches also needed to agree with the canonization of this person in order to be truly canonized.
This is only the difficulty of canonization after death, if you want to canonize a living person, the difficulty is a hundred times more difficult than the difficulty of canonization after death, there are only two cases of canonization of living people in the world of Velon, the first is St. Prang who established the city-state civilization, and the second is St. Kamixiu who established the Orthodox Church, and the person who wrote the Twisted Book should be the third living person to be canonized, but his record has been completely erased, and the reason for his canonization cannot be found.
However, according to various historical records, the tower wizard and a small number of forbidden book scholars believe that this disappeared saint is very likely to be the founder of the Black Forest Empire, the first empire in the world of Viron, Luo Purang, he is a descendant of Saint Prinz, and after the establishment of the Black Forest Empire, he suddenly disappeared, and the Black Forest Empire also fell apart subsequently, and the First Dynasty of France was established under the wreckage of the Black Forest Empire.
Because the appearance and disappearance of the Black Forest Empire is too short, according to estimates of less than two months, many scholars doubt whether the Black Forest Empire really exists, but compared to folk scholars, the Tower Wizards seem to be very sure of the existence of the Black Forest Empire, indicating that they should have conclusive evidence.
It's just that not everyone agrees that Luo Prang is the person who disappeared and canonized, even if he has counted the history of the world of Villon, it seems that only Luo Prang has the qualifications to be canonized as a living person, but there is a very large gap between the time of Luo Praun's existence and the time when the book of distortion appeared, which is more than 500 years long, if you want to be canonized, it has already been canonized by the tribal beliefs that are still primitive religions at that time, just like St. Praun, there is no need to wait for more than 500 years to be canonized.
However, those who question the hypothesis of Ro Plan's canonization can also find an explanation, that is, Roh Prang was blessed by the Lord of the Black Forest, gained an endless lifespan, and also gave him the ability to travel through the Void World, which eventually helped him complete the Twisted Book.
The exact contents of the Twisted Book are no longer known, because all the churches have recorded that the Twisted Book was banned and destroyed by the churches on the day it was completed, and even the church only knows the name of the Twisted Book and some fragmentary information that cannot be verified.
However, the wizard of the tower deduced the general content of the twisted book by collecting fragments, and this content is not a magical thing, just a traveler's travelogue, but the traveler's visit to the various towns and mountains of the world of Velon, but a different world that cannot be understood by normal people.
Because it cannot be understood, anyone who sees the content of this book will be instantly distorted from body to mind, turning into a twisted monster whose body shape cannot be described, which is why this book will be destroyed.
However, now that the banned books that should have been destroyed are in their own hands, Leo and Sylvia are the kind of people who are very curious and eager to see what is in them.
However, Leo was still a little puzzled and said, "Do you think that if this book is really a distorted book, then it is a bit unworthy of the name?"
"Why do you say that?" said Sylvia, puzzled.
"You imagine that both the importance of the church and the mystery of the book itself far exceed the knowledge of the Thirteen Ancient Gods of the Madman, but ......," Leo said, looking at the twisted book in his hand that was covered by his clothes, and said: "But now the effect of this book seems to be very different from those records, and it feels not as strong as the legend, and it is even more far from the knowledge of the Thirteen Ancient Gods of the Madman, and it is far from being the first forbidden book." ”
Sylvia nodded in agreement after hearing this, although she was hit just now, and her mind was affected by that book, but this was only because she was defenseless, and now she has a sense of defense, and even does some necessary protective measures, when she reads this book again, the impact will be much smaller, and it may not even be affected.
In this way, the book she considered to be a distorted book was indeed a bit unworthy of its name, because in the church, the distorted book was called the source of disaster, and if it appeared, it would bring endless disasters to the world, so it had to be destroyed.
But now, even if this distorted book is distributed to the people, it may be difficult for this book to have a greater impact on this world, after all, the monsters produced by this book's distorted mind and body are probably not much more dangerous than these mutants who are now raging in the world of Velon.
It's just that, even with this judgment, Sylvia still feels that this book is a twisted book, not because the shell of this book is exactly the same as the twisted book she knows, but because of an inexplicable feeling, as if the name of the twisted book is imprinted in her mind the moment she sees it.
"Forget it, we don't need to know if this book is really a twisted book, we just need to know if the content of this book can let us know the secret of Wanghai Cliff. Leo looked at Sylvia with a pensive look, reached out and patted her on the shoulder, and then said, "You are not in the right state when you read this book, so don't touch this book, and after I have read the contents, I will tell you the contents of it." ”
Sylvia opened her mouth to veto Leo's proposal, but she didn't say it, because she also sensed that something was wrong when she saw the book, and that she really shouldn't read it again until the reason was found.
Thinking of this, the original veto has also become the language of approval.
The two returned to the castle, Sylvia went to take care of the two little ones, and Leo made his way to the lighthouse, where he prepared to read the Twisted Book.
In addition to worrying about what accidents would happen when reading the Twisted Book, and hoping to reduce the impact of the accident through the hidden power of the Lookout Cliff, he also hoped to be able to have some resonance with the power of the Lookout Sea Cliff by reading the Twisted Book, so as to peek into the secret of the hidden power of the Lookout Sea Cliff, after all, this book has the answer to the hidden power of the Lookout Sea Cliff, and maybe it resonates with this power.
However, it was obvious that Leo had thought too much about these things, and he had made all the preparations inside the lighthouse, and arranged various rune magic arrays inside and outside the lighthouse, so he took the warped book out of his wrapped coat and opened it carefully, and as a result, nothing happened, as if he had opened it as if it was just an ordinary book.
"How so?" Leo looked at the open Twisted Book, a little puzzled, and began to speculate that this book might not really be the Twisted Book.
When he opened the book, Leo only felt a slight discomfort, like he had been on his first subspace voyage, and felt a little nauseous, but this feeling quickly disappeared, as if it had never happened, and this situation was really a huge gap from the first forbidden book in his mind.
It's just that soon Leo didn't bother with whether this book was a distorted book or not, it didn't matter to him whether this book was a distorted book or not, he liked the secret of Wanghai Cliff recorded in the book mentioned by Bailu.
So he quickly cleared his mind of distractions and began to flip through the ancient book in his hand.
The text used in this book is an ancient Black Forest tribal language called Gagaluka, which is one of the origin languages of the French language, so it is also very well preserved in the documents of the French Empire.
Although the details of this language were lost several times due to wars, because of the relatively complete preservation of the documents, coupled with the continuous excavation of ancient tribal remains, a large number of patterns made of Gagaluka script were found on some relics, and the writing of this language has become more and more complete.
Leo had also learned this language, although because it was not a language with special powers like Gamore, so he did not spend much effort on this language, and only stayed at the reading and writing of ordinary words and the understanding of meaning.
So much so that when he now reads this book, which is all written in Gagaluka, he has some difficulty reading, the reading progress is very slow, and even some of the content in the book cannot be confirmed because it is damaged, so he has to stop, compare the contextual relationship, and analyze the content before he can continue reading.
Thankfully, this didn't last long, and as Leo got to grips with the rules of the language, his reading speed began to increase and became normal.
After about three hours, the last page of the book was read by Leo, who closed the back cover, looked at the twisted patterns and symbols on the back cover, and muttered to himself, "This book looks like a twisted book." ”
Leo made this judgment entirely because the content of this book, like the legendary Twisted Book, is a travelogue about the Void and another world, in which the author uses large paragraphs of text to describe what he sees, but most of those words are chaotic and disorderly, and have no value to interpret.
But it is also the kind of mental impact produced by the combination of this disordered and chaotic text, which even Leo cannot avoid if he is prepared, and there are some blurry images in his mind and mind along with this sense of impact.
Leo could see in the blurry images of twisted branches, twisted landscapes, and dead dark skies, all of which indicated that he was seeing worlds on the brink of destruction.
And this state of reading also made him understand why this twisted book made him and Sylvia feel unworthy of their reputation, and the reason was simply that after so many years of consumption, there was not much power left.
But even this little power can still cause Sylvia and him to have some negative reactions, which shows what kind of impact the power contained in this book will have when it was written, and what damage it will have to the social environment at that time, so it is not unreasonable for various churches to call it the source of disaster at that time, and destroy it.
In addition, Sylvia's judgment is not wrong, there is not only one Twisted Book, there should be many of them, as for how many Leo are not very clear, but I know that at least more than eleven books, because the Twisted Book in his hand now is the eleventh volume, and how many Twisted Books were destroyed by various churches at the beginning, and how many Twisted Books have been preserved, are all mysteries.
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