Magellan stood on the pier, looking out at the white eastern sky. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Memories of his time in Arafa flashed through his mind, and Magellan imagined the desert beneath the sky, and then found himself only unfamiliar with it.

Aladdin, the lion-man prince, gave him a big surprise when he declared Magellan a friend of Arafa, allowing him and the countess to enter the hinterland of the empire, where archaeological excavations were conducted.

Until then, Magellan had thought that the countess's face would be enough for them to get their ticket to Alpha, and the vast majority of what he got from this rare glory was fright.

But that's good news after all.

In this day and age, explorers, and all people in the world that have been submerged by explorers, should learn to get used to and love the unexpected.

Magellan thought he was doing a good job.

The sun has finally risen.

It was another foggy day, the sun had been robbed of its power by the fog, the sky was gray everywhere, and the newborn morning sun hung limply on the horizon like the only clean white plate.

Fishermen returned to shore one after another, and the wet market by the pier soon became lively, and then new sailboats began to dock.

The sound of the waves is endless.

"Good morning, Professor Magellan. ”

The countess stood behind Magellan, like a flower seller who had just returned from the fair.

She was dressed in something Magellan's had never seen before, a plain white skirt and a dark blue wide-brimmed hat, with a camellia flower stuck in her shoulder.

"Good morning, ma'am. ”

"I don't think Captain Ezio was late. ”

"Yes. ”

"Thank you. ”

The countess laughed, and she walked towards a Venetian merchant ship by the docks, followed by Magellan.

"Welcome, distinguished lady, distinguished guest of the Caliphate. ”

"Let's go. ”

"As you wish. ”

......

"We took a boat all the way from Ruidu to Istanbul. On the way to Morocco and Venice for supplies, rest assured, the fleet of the king of the world will not look for trouble. ”

The countess sat by the bright porthole and told Magellan about the plans for the trip.

"After the audience in Istanbul, we set off with the archaeological team arranged by Khalifa and entered the desert. The place to go is in the middle of the river, which is not bad. ”

"It's always nice to have a local to help you out of a lot of hassle. ”

Magellan stretched comfortably, he liked the feeling of knowing what he was going to do.

"I must thank you, Professor Magellan. ”

"What?"

"Actually, my connections in Arafah are not as ...... as here Unobstructed. The countess smiled and raised her glass, "Even I didn't expect that the caliph and the black tower and the white tower helped this expedition at the same time, and they both said it was because of you, Professor Magellan. ”

"The only time I saw the Caliph and the mages of the White Tower and the Black Tower, you were by my side. Magellan smiled and sat across from Helen, "There's no need to lie to please me. ”

"Sometimes, lying doesn't make a flattering fail," said the countess's smile, which hadn't made Magellan feel so inscrutable as it was now, "I thought you knew that after all, you were very good at pleasing people, didn't you, Professor Magellan." ”

"I'm just trying not to let people down. ”

The countess that Magellan knew was back, and from the beginning she was, like Athena, another creature that Magellan could never have understood.

"Has anyone ever said that you really feel like a goddess. ”

"Ah, of course. The countess laughed, "There are countless people who have said that, but most of them are stupid and ugly at the same time. ”

"Ah...... It's pathetic. ”

"I'm sorry, but it wasn't about you. ”

"What?" Magellan had no idea what the countess was talking about.

"All this," said the countess, putting down her glass and looking out the window at the sea, "you don't have to take part in this distant journey, and you don't have to get involved in the explorers, you are a professor of history at the Royal Academy, and you are the most learned young man in the society, and there is so much you can do." ”

"My plans didn't conflict with this. I didn't want to leave the explorers alone from the beginning, and I hadn't been out with an archaeological team for a long time. ”

"This is not an archaeological team, Professor Magellan. ”

"The pursuit of truth is science. ”

"Until now, I haven't told you exactly what I'm looking for. ”

"What?"

"God of wisdom. ”

Magellan was silent for a moment.

"The concept is a bit broad...... There was more than one god who had ever appeared there who met this requirement, but none of them did it all. ”

"Daystar, Isitar. ”

"Ah...... The old goddess ......" Magellan shook his head, "why her?"

In their destination, a land suitable for human existence, there have been several ancient civilizations, all of which are different and worship different gods.

The first of these were the Sumerians who worshipped Isitar, who appeared the first but also disappeared the most completely, and little is known about this ancient civilization today. If a person wants to find the God of Wisdom, then he chooses to find Isitar with the highest difficulty.

"Athena. ”

Magellan suddenly had a very bad premonition.

To him now, the goddess is like a fanatic to science, she exists in some higher nothingness, no thought of Magellan about her can escape the ears of the goddess, and at any time, if Athena wants Magellan to do something, she can appear in front of Magellan's eyes in an instant.

"Civilizations are mutually influential, and so are myths that are part of civilization. ”

Magellan could already feel Athena's wrath, and for some reason, the goddess he saw rarely behaved like a god of wisdom and more like an ordinary Theros god - full of emotion and unabashed.

"I must thank you for this theory, Professor Magellan," grew the smile on the countess' face more and more dangerously, "and from the information available, there is no doubt that Athena is the product of a mixture of the two figures of Isis and Isitar. ”

"There's no evidence......

"The greatest evidence is your thesis on the origins of the Theros civilization. Need I say it again?"

In Magellan's latest paper, he argues that the Theros civilization was formed by the fusion of the Emenchet and ancient Babylonian civilizations, which is much debated in the academic community, but not by strong opponents.

"So?"

"Athena knows that truth, right?"

"Yes. ”

"What about Isis and Isitar who appeared before her?"