Chapter Forty-Eight: An Oasis of Death
Magellan and the Countess looked at the patterns and words on the slate, but found no clues. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"It's a magic item. The countess didn't come up with anything like an essence detector, but she was sure in her tone, and Magellan believed it.
"Will there be a need for a relic of the Silver Hand?"
"Possibly. ”
Magellan turned his head to look at Shamir not far away, and shook his head: "Let's take this thing and wait for him outside." ”
The countess turned around with a smile and walked down the stairs with Magellan.
"This mage lord has obtained the vital stone tablet, why should it be sealed?"
In that comfortable Arafa room, Magellan looked into the deep eyes of the man in the portrait and suddenly asked.
"He must have known the ring. He even made a lock that only the ring could open, so what else was he missing?"
"The knight's saber, everyone knows that the most important thing for a knight is his saber. ”
"And then he was sure that the Seal Ring must be with the sword, and he was not afraid that this treasure house that had been painstakingly built would never be opened, and that all the precious collections would never see the light of day?"
The countess shook her hand with a smile, bringing out a trace of fluctuation in the purple light band that passed by: "Yes, he doesn't care, aren't these magic materials that have been discrete essences precious?"
Magellan shook his head and smiled: "It seems that I really haven't really understood the rich yet. ”
"You've forgotten what you're here for, haven't you, Professor Magellan?" said the countess's smile blurred, her face looking psychedelic in the light of the various bands of light, "we just want to get ahead of the papal see, and you've long forgotten that." You're so addicted to puzzles that you don't have self-control at all, and I wonder if I shouldn't have brought you here. ”
"Don't worry, it's not going to hurt. For the first time, Magellan felt that the Countess had become real, not like a perfect lady who was forever far away, "Please do not worry, my lady, these puzzles are the only way to the Holy Grail, and I have not forgotten our purpose." ”
The countess did not speak, she gently turned her right hand, and then Magellan saw that the various colored bands of light followed the countess's fingers to draw a colorful circle in the air.
"Are you...... Magician?!" Magellan felt that he was really too self-righteous to talk like that, and so was the idea that the countess and ordinary ladies had something in common.
"No," the countess's smile made Magellan feel like she had read through her mind, "it's by a magical object. ”
"That's pretty powerful...... in a sense, this explanation is even more terrifying than Magellan's conjecture just now.
"It's not useful, I have a myriad of magic items that serve different purposes, but most of them don't come in handy when I need them, like this one. ”
"Whenever you need help, remember me, it was my privilege to serve a noble lady. ”
The countess's smile changed back to Magellan's familiar inscrutableness: "There will come a day, I have made a note of your promise." ”
"It's a great honor. ”
Just when Magellan was feeling the delicate atmosphere, Shamir walked out from behind the ornate bronze door: "Did you get that thing?"
"Yes. Magellan held up the slate in his hand to show him.
"It's a magic item. Shamir put his hand on the stone tablet, and he smiled when he saw the stars and moon on it, "That legend is true...... Those who seek things that do not exist in the world must go to the land that does not exist in the world, and it is indeed an oasis of quicksand......"
"Do you know the meaning of the patterns and descriptions on this slate?" Magellan was overjoyed.
"Yes, but not all, I think there's more to this magic tablet than that, but we'll talk about that when we get back. Shamir said as he walked towards the platform below, followed by the countess and Magellan.
"Aren't you going to move these things out first?"
"Those are all handed over to those who remain, and we have to hurry. Shamir said as he handed the key to a mage, and the three of them stepped onto the platform and left underground.
Standing on the sand dunes outside, the mage leader took the flying carpet: "This time we must have a camel team, I will let them prepare, by the way, call your people over, we will go to the Star Oasis and wait, by the way, make some preparations." ”
Magellan thought Shamir's words were a bit clueless, but the countess nodded, and he sat on the flying carpet.
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Star Oasis, a herdsman's home.
The caravan of the mages was not yet ready, and Magellan and the countess had been staying here for the past few days.
On his first day, Shamir explained to them the meaning of the patterns and descriptions on the slate.
In fact, the mage leader can only determine a part, that is, the stars and moon at the top of the pattern, and the sentence "Those who seek things that do not exist in the world must go to the land that does not exist in the world."
In Alpha, there has always been a legend that the Holy Grail was hidden at the end of the oasis of death.
In the endless sea of sand, dotted oases are dotted among them, although they are only a drop in the ocean compared to the desert, but in fact, the number of oases is also as numerous as the stars in the sky. In Alpha, there are several oases called the Oasis of Death, also known as the Oasis of the Stars and the Moon. It was the collective name of a series of three oases and a legendary oasis, each of which was as far as a caravan could reach, like the arm of a surviving world reaching out to a sea of dead sand.
The first three oases are all home to people, who organize caravans once a year to trade with the outside world in exchange for the necessities of life, and these three oases are called "Star Oasis". And there is also an oasis that exists in legends, no one has ever seen it, but there is a legend of the "Oasis of the Moon", which mentions that there is a safe passage in the quicksand of death around the third star oasis that can lead to this paradise in the desert, the place of divine favor.
That is, "the land that does not exist in the world."
There are many legends about the Oasis of the Moon, including those related to the Holy Grail. According to the legend, the Star and Moon Oasis was artificially created by the Scholars of Scientology who built the Eternal Fortress, and for the safety of the Holy Grail, they polluted all the water sources of the adjacent oases that could reach the Moon Oasis to create this death passage, and the original three Star Oases were their fortresses, but later the Christians scattered and were flooded by the wind and sand.
The pattern of stars and moon on the stone tablet implies the key to reaching the oasis of the moon.