"So?" Magellan smiled and stepped aside, sitting on the scarlet couch, "what the hell is that? At least she's certainly not Isitar." ”

"Her name is Alice," said the countess, who sat down on the other side of the room and poured herself a glass of wine, "a transcendent power from the distant past, possessing human wisdom and great power. ”

"What's her relationship with Isitar?"

In her remaining memory, Isitar occupies an important place. The countess said absent-mindedly, as if listening to some voice that did not exist, "and I am sure that Alice has a great deal to do with the great events of antiquity. ”

"That's why you've come here to look for ancient ruins...... Magellan smiled helplessly, the countess liked it, she always kept her true thoughts from others, "and not to look for some possible god of wisdom." ”

"Now it seems," the countess smiled, "that we have gained very little. ”

Magellan had great hopes for the defenders of the Temple, but reality shattered those hopes completely, and for a long time all records were washed away, leaving only stubborn xenophobia.

"Start from scratch," Magellan never gave up, "give up this ruin, let's go to the next temple." ”

"Don't you think focusing on the temple might cause you to lose sight of some important information?"

The countess knew that it was impossible to provide any information about the ruins, and that the villagers who had fallen into a frenzy had taken over the excavation site, and that the grave keepers who had incited them had no idea how to get them to leave. In such a situation, no one can look for artifacts and possible clues in the ruins.

"Of the information we found, the temple took up the vast majority," Magellan still didn't think that the temple was hiding a map, but the presence of the Guardian once again raised the importance of the temple, "and we were trying to find Isitar in the first place." ”

"The information in front of us is fragmented, and if we don't find a single clue, we get lost. ”

Magellan smiled: "Do you have any new discoveries?"

The countess stood up with a smile: "The reason why you ignore such an obvious clue is simply because of the dullness of the essence, the talent is really too powerful......"

"You don't notice how weird the magic used by the people guarding the temple. Essentially, it was a reduced version of the World King Konoe Mage's magician group magic, omitting the part of gathering essence, and the method of detonation was relatively gentle, and although it was different, the power was not at the level of Isitar's sacrifice. ”

"So?" Magellan's dullness to the essence was by no means just due to talent, he couldn't find a reason, but he never had any interest in magic.

"Only in one case is such a magical existence justified. The Countess raised her right hand and unleashed the ancient magic of one of the guardians, "When the essence gathers everywhere. ”

"That kind of time......" Magellan remembered the countess's speculation that if the great event was related to the existence of the Essence, then this clue was important enough, "whether it appears or ends, it is enough to affect the whole world." ”

"You've missed the point again," the countess shook her head with a smile, "more important than the whole world, a lot of things are hidden, and if you can gather the essence, you can see more." ”

"But ......"

That's hard to do, and gathering the essence is something that countless people who study magic want to do, but at least so far no one has succeeded.

"I'll leave it to me about the essence. ”

Magellan reluctantly accepted the reality that the countess was already desperate for him.

"Okay. ”

......

In the desert, the formation of a trade route is often determined by the will of nature.

The route chosen by the countess was a trade route through the desert, supported by a pearl-like oasis on a necklace that attracted caravans to the area.

They eventually abandoned the ruin, and the temple guards stopped inciting the villagers, but they couldn't get the villagers to leave.

Before finally leaving, Magellan retrieved a stone from the ruins of the temple in the confusion, and that was their final harvest there.

This time the countess put away the luxurious ship, and they rode their camels along the oasis like an ordinary caravan to the next oasis.

"What's the catch?"

The countess spent her days on the back of a camel studying what was found in the ruins, and Magellan often worried that it would be too noticeable, since for most people, magic was a magical and great power.

"No," the countess seemed a little disappointed, "I began to think that maybe it was really necessary to go back to that essence stream, where the concentration of essence should be sufficient......"

"Shall we go back?"

A gust of wind blows from the lake in the distance, and the leaves of the palm trees sway in the wind, and the shadows on the ground move with it.

Chef Pico and Dantès did not miss the precious opportunity to search for possible animals in the oasis, and now there were only two people in this small caravan, Magellan and the countess.

"No, it's not necessary, if we search all the ruins and still don't find anything......"

Magellan smiled.

"It occurred to me that the temples of Isitar were all powered by water. ”

"You've got a new idea......," the countess sighed, putting away the artifact, "I just need a break, let's hear it." ”

"Hydraulically powering a mechanism is a luxury, unless the environment in which the builder of the mechanism lives will never be short of water. Magellan knew that it was only obvious and not a discovery at all, "most likely the great river, and we know that in many ancient records two rivers watered the fertile soil, but the problem is that the two temples did not seem to have been built near the river." ”

"You mean?"

"Obviously, in those ancient times, it was very difficult to build a city, unless that civilization was in an extremely favorable environment, such as a network of rivers. ”

Abundant water is not necessarily a good environment, as mosquitoes can breed and spread diseases on the surface of the water, and damp heat can easily spread diseases, but rivers can avoid all these negative effects.

If Magellan's guess is correct, then in ancient times the people guided by Isitar lived on a plain crisscrossed by waterways, with fertile land, many animals, a suitable climate, and few epidemics of diseases.

"The pattern hidden behind the two temple organs," Magellan pulled out two pieces of white paper with two patterns drawn on them, "this may be a map ......"