Chapter 13: The Maiden
Violently breaking through the secret door, Alexei quickly found one of her lab notes and two diaries in Lan Meng's living room, based on his knowledge of mage habits.
All three of these booklets were contained in a small box with a heart-shaped copper lock, and this small obstacle did not stop Alex in the slightest, he had a key called Physics.
As he opened the lid of the box and took out the contents one by one, Lan Meng's notebook was placed on the top of the box, and hundreds of pages that had been yellowed with some curls were bound with hemp rope and pressed on top of the next two diaries. The rough and cheaply crafted sheepskin cover was not attached to the rune secret lock for secrecy, judging by the details alone, Lan Meng obviously did not pay much attention to magic experiments.
This is not up to standard for a mage who is said to have escaped from the Academy.
Doubts rose in Alexey's heart. He then went to look at the other two diaries in the box, and the covers of these two diaries gave him a hot touch to the touch, he subconsciously thought of a material, but after thinking about it carefully, he decided not to pursue it first, because Alexei had no intention of peeking into the girl's inner privacy and sadness, he went straight to the note.
Although it is shabby, it still has a faint smell of jasmine, and the thickness of the notebook is about a finger's length, and it is densely packed with records of many herbological experiments during the apprenticeship of Blue Dreams. The first article was written very early, looking at the date in the upper left corner, it has been five years.
One, two, three......
Alexey's fingers followed the experiments of the previous articles, followed by dozens of pages of hand-drawn illustrations and essay notes.
If you only look at this, she should have been a very serious student in her apprenticeship days.
This is compared to her indifference to the appearance of the notebook, which makes Alexei's image of the Blue Dream deviate again.
The suspicion in his heart deepened.
But that's not the point right now.
Regardless of whether Lan Meng was a serious student or not, through the analysis of the information on the previous pages, Alexei consciously sped up his browsing speed after confirming that this experimental note was not a fake that confused the real and confused his vision. He hurriedly flipped through the large illustrated pages, and with a sweep of his eyes, the useless information was directly eliminated. All you need to do is follow the date, until the notebook is flipped to the last few sheets, and the information left by Lan Meng on each page is getting less and less.
The frequency of her experiments slowed down and faded away.
The decline continued until Alexei saw a few scribbles and a full field of herb grinding.
It's a job that a beginner mage apprentice does, and it's only been four months since now.
Her tutor gave a big red cross to the assignment.
You must know that Lan Meng is a mage, a formal mage who can use illusions and manipulate mortals maturely.
She did this four months ago? How did she learn the illusion?
Partial genius?
Impossible!
With a look of incredulity on his face, Alexey turned the page, starting with the date.
Unlike Alexey, even when Blue Dream came to the kingdom, he still maintained the habit of recording during the academy - a member of the old royal family of the kingdom, using the imperial calendar to keep track of the year:
279 in the imperial calendar, January 2.
Dysphoria.
Why can't you just add some weather to it?
Every time he saw these missing moments, Alexei couldn't control his instinct to frown, and he frantically scratched at his hair and pinched a corner of the page.
"My blood and Olmea fused together. ”
Olmea, in imperial mythology, is a white deer with huge antlers, and is the messenger of all the love and beauty of the world.
It pulls the car of the goddess of love every day, travels around the land, sunrise and sunset, and uses deer chirping along the way to convey the signal of love to the young boys and girls who are just in their youth.
And because of this, the name of this white deer usually means love in the imperial Chinese, but you can know one but not the other, Alexei, who can't understand the state of mind when Lan Meng put pen to paper, can't understand what Olmea represents here, and merge with blood?
What the hell?
However, as he continued to browse, Alexei connected to the contents of the notes in the following days, and he guessed that the word Olmeia written by Blue Dream may be related to gem-like gems.
"The blood of the old king is melting Olmea's resistance to me, and it is becoming soft. ”
"The softened Olmea could sense my consciousness, and I tried to inject magic into it, building some simple spell models. ”
279 in the imperial calendar, January 3.
"The model worked......" Lan Meng's notes here were a little sloppy, she hurriedly wrote a few strokes, and even the ink trail did not have time to dry before she covered the book, leaving a large black spot on the page, and at the same time contaminating some of the words that were close by.
She was excited.
She must have been in a good mood.
Alexei bit his nails, and he continued to flip through the last few days of the notebook, and the remaining three pages were one or two sentences at a time, not even mixed with any recording of experimental data, just to record the girl's happiness.
"Childish. ”
Alexey, who had clues in his head, slowly put the notes on the table, he propped up the edge of the table, closed his eyes and exhaled a breath of hot air, and his outstretched palm accidentally rubbed the diary on the other side. He thought for a while, tapping his two fingers rhythmically on the table, and suddenly, as if he had thought of something, he picked up a diary and opened the title page of the notebook.
With a single swipe, the aura of several runes that maintained the existence of the secret lock instantly dimmed.
Compared with Lan Meng's experimental notes, her diary is one size smaller and much thinner, but the feelings she poured into the diary are obviously much more serious than when she made experimental notes.
Most of these diaries are not long, and the date of the first diary is slightly later than the date on the experimental notes, which is supposed to be the impression she wrote down half a month after entering the academy.
The girl, who is still full of hope for the future, wrote many words of encouragement and blessings to herself after missing her hometown and relatives.
According to the text that followed, she seemed to have quickly integrated into the heavy study tasks of the Mage Academy.
During the period, there were some tired complaints and nagging, and a few paragraphs of missing relatives were mixed with broken words.
So far, for this reason, everything looks very normal.
Until the one hundred and thirty-two days after Blue Dream entered the academy.
"Am I really that bad?"
On this day, she seemed to have encountered something bad, and the handwriting on the page was crooked and wet.
This is also the first time after Lan Meng entered the academy, and he began to doubt his own efforts.
Turning the next few pages, the girl's optimistic attitude disappeared at a rapid pace.
Instead, there is a full resentment that cannot be dissolved.
Blame society, blame life, blame yourself.
Alexei seems to see this girl with the blood of the royal family in the past, and after the turmoil of her childhood, she is full of confusion about her life path, and she is puzzled by the bad luck and injustice she has suffered.
Lan Meng is not the daughter of an ordinary family. As a former member of the royal family who is wanted by the kingdom, after inheriting the glory of the past, she is inevitably engraved.
In the kingdom, there is a constant crisis that threatens the girl's life. In order to ensure safety, the princess of the former kingdom had to be forced to leave her hometown when she was still a minor, and came to Glio da Vido, who had no relatives and no reason.
Time flies like a white horse, entering the academy, working hard, becoming more and more declining, and the girl who has stood at the fork in the road of life gradually finds that she has no outstanding qualifications in the process of hard work.
Maybe in the past, he was ambitious, but now, in the midst of frustration, there is only pain and discomfort.
She has no relatives to accompany her, let alone a close friend to complain, the college life is lonely, in class, the tutor is cold, and the classmates sitting together in the classroom also look down on her, all of them, the depression in her heart can not be vented, and the desire of the soul is not satisfied.
Long Past......
Morbidity.
The sense of urgency and crisis from the heart is urging Lan Meng, starting from the psychological needs, she needs and must want to find a safe support.
But fate pronounced her death.
In the diary, Lan Meng, she is just the most ordinary mortal. As a mortal, she has a poor memory, no special understanding of spells, and an average affinity for the elements, she is a mortal, and like most mage apprentices who do not meet the graduation standards, the most suitable profession for her is an alchemist who makes potions and sword oil - although she has the blood of the old king, she lacks talent.
"Why am I so stupid? Why can't I be smarter? ”
This was the most common and most frequent word in Alexey's diary one hundred and thirty days later.
This is the girl's interrogation of herself, she can't get rid of her identity, she is the daughter of the old king, the princess of the lost country.
She was on the verge of breaking down.
"I've tried hard enough. I hate you!"
At the end of the first diary, the girl wrote this paragraph with decisive strokes.
After savoring the handwriting so hard that he tore the pages for a long time, Alexei, with a smile on his face and a gut feeling that he had found his true vein, picked up the second diary. He held the black cover with his hand, feeling the smooth, expensive dragon skin under his fingers: "Let me see how you are reborn from the fire." ”
"I applied to go to Norf. ”
Lan Meng wrote at the beginning of his diary: "It was cold, and I was the only one in the academy who and another fool were willing to come to Norf this season. ”
"There are no people living on the outskirts of Norf, and the snowflakes falling in the sky can freeze people into popsicles in an hour. The ice here is thick and the snow is beautiful. ”
"278 years of the imperial calendar, November 25, snow. ”
Alexei shuddered, his gaze stopped for a moment, feeling full of energy.
"We chased the griffons out hunting to the banks of the Mingchun River in Norf, and their droppings were still fresh. A couple of mages stationed in Norf decided to keep track of the griffin's trail in the snow, they wanted to ride that beautiful creature, and this was what another fool told me, that the mages of Norf were looking for a way to domesticate the griffin, would they succeed? ”
"We chased for a long time, and it was already dark. I took two sips of the local liquor, I don't know what the name was, but it wasn't bad, I just drank it a little dizzy. ”
"After drinking, the body warmed up, and the mage told us that we needed to camp here, and there was a forest behind our camp, and the fool was sick and had a fever. They told me to collect some firewood, and I didn't refuse. ”
Then I saw a white deer, and thanked Eros, and unlike the gray-haired moose, it was white all over. I knew it was Olmea, sent by the gods of heaven to pick me up. I followed it, and soon parted with the large army, and walked into the forest alone. ”
"It's cold, it's cold in the woods. Winter is in Norf, and there will be no living creatures in the forest except the white deer. ”
"I am fortunate that the gods in heaven must have heard my prayers. I was thirsty and tired, and my whole body froze, but I saw Olmea, and it led me back to the land of the former king. ”
The next half of the page was artificially torn off, and only Lan Meng himself could do it.
Alexei didn't know what Lan Meng got in what she called the "hometown of the first king", but it should be inseparable from the gem-like thing.
She wants to hide her adventures from the point where even her private diary is not visible.
Combined with the information he received from Gog and the diary, Alexei thinks that Blue Dream must have secretly escaped from Glio da Vito's mage academy after obtaining the Ormea-type gems.
There are many students in Glio Davido's Mage Academy who owe student loans to the Empire. In this way, Asia should have received a notice from the academy about Lan Meng's escape from debt.
And the key to how to use the gems on the golem should be the blood of the old king flowing in Lan Meng's body.
The formula for success is already written in your head, and all that's left is to put it into practice.
Blood of the Old King and Olmea.
Oh, interesting.