Chapter 32: Mysterious Sight
The chaos is finally over.
Magellan was preoccupied, but the Baron was elated, partly because the merchant had been punished, and partly because he had seen something new about the Explorers' Guild.
The three of them returned to the tavern of the baron's choice together, and sat down at the table in the room, where the baron took out the blindfold and handed it to Magellan.
"It's what you earned back, and it's yours now. ”
Magellan was a little surprised, he knew how valuable this blindfold was, and the baron should know it too.
"No, that's your family legacy. ”
"The last time I was scammed was a year ago, and it would be stupid if I hadn't figured it out for so long. The baron looked right, "I'm just grumpy, not stupid." ”
"If you really want to thank me, just lend me it. ”
The baron hesitated, but finally agreed.
"So, this thing really works?"
Arthur straddled his chair with his arms resting on the back of his chair and watched curiously as Magellan put on his blindfold, believing that Magellan would find something.
"The blindfold is originally a very mythical thing of Esyad, after all, their main god Odin always wears the blindfold, and at the cost of this, Odin has gained a lot of mystical powers. ”
It's just a sign.
Then Magellan, who was left with only the right eye to see, opened the book, and as he expected, something new appeared in the covered left eye.
"Runivan......
Unsurprisingly, as it should be.
This is the Baron's true family legacy, and this is how the Esyadian hide their secrets.
"Runiwen, Odin's writings, the source of magic and mystical powers. It's perfect for keeping secrets. ”
The blindfold is like a clever cipher machine, which obscures some of the text on the book and replaces it with other runi letters, and as a result, the meaning of the text is completely different.
And these two very different texts are both coherent and even aesthetically pleasing.
"Clever wordplay. ”
"Tell me quickly," unlike the baron, who had no idea what was going on, Arthur was not surprised, "what do you see?"
"True ancient history, a story between warriors and gods, I have doubted from the beginning," Magellan laughed unconsciously, "Odin's adopted son, if that was a nickname by others, it was simply impossible." ”
"What are you talking about?"
This time it was Arthur who asked the question together with the baron, who could not understand Magellan's train of thought.
"If the god is real, then saying his name is a prayer, and there are two possibilities for a man to be called Odin's adopted son," Magellan explained to the two absentmindedly as he flipped through the book, "he is not, and soon this poor man will be taken away by the angry Odin, or, if he really is, then Odin will shelter him and let him get numerous glorious victories before leaving for Valhalla." ”
"Obviously, the second Schmidt is the adopted son of the real Odin, and he has lived in the Golden Palace for a long time, and the great power beyond his age can also be explained, because the time flow of time in the courtyard of the Asyad, where the gods live, is much faster than that of the courtyard of the gods, the land of human habitation, the courtyard of ice, and in the year of his departure, the promising boy spent ten years. ”
The baron felt that he had simply fallen into the bedtime story of his grandmother when he was a child, and the absolutely sane man in front of him took those crazy things as reality, which made the baron wonder if the crazy man was himself.
"And, I guess," Magellan laughed, "Schmidt is by no means the family's original name, Harold, noble surname. ”
"So you said I was supposed to be called Hans Harold?"
The baron felt that his world was simply falling apart, and he felt that what Magellan said should not be the truth, but he could not find a reason.
"Of course, that has nothing to do with you now, Lord Baron, the name Hans Harold is too ugly. ”
In fact, Arthur couldn't help but laugh when he heard the name.
Hans is the quintessential Holy Loren name, and Harold is an Esyadian surname, and the combination of the two is awkward, or rather funny, for those who know this.
"True wisdom can only be seen without losing an eye, and Odin's words are the truth of the world, and that is the power of the Most High God. ”
Magellan sighed and removed the blindfold from his head.
"But at least for the time being, I haven't found any useful clues, and we don't have to change our original plan. ”
Arthur sighed with the baron.
The difference was that Arthur had a "I knew it was so" on his face, while the Baron's face was full of regret.
......
Brittana, Royal Palace.
It's a small, intimate meeting room with only three people in the room.
The Countess sat across from the Emperor, while the Duke of Wellington sat on one side, always silent in the conversation between the two.
"Nothing you say proves the core problem. The emperor's stubbornness is justified, "Helping the king of the world and stopping science, what damage can we avoid, what benefits can we gain?"
The countess was speechless.
It can prevent science from destroying the whole world, and it can keep everything that exists.
This reason was enough to convince the countess, but not to convince the emperor.
With the king of the world as the enemy, can science really destroy the world?
Under this question, it is questionable whether the countess's reasoning is valid.
Brittania is the enemy of the king of the world after all, and when Nidhogg strikes, people are willing to believe in the good intentions of the king of the world, but the black dragon is dead and the innocent are resurrected, and this trust dissipates again.
The Emperor does not mind maintaining a superficial rapprochement with the King of the World, but what the Countess wants is a substantial covenant.
"Science has learned to manipulate explorers. ”
"What?"
The news sounded and was too complicated in substance, and it took the emperor a moment to react.
Then he soon found out that this was uncompromisingly bad news.
Explorers and the Explorers' Guild, this is a chaotic frenzy, they are not controlled by anyone, they do not belong to any country, the only thing that all explorers have in common is that they abide by the mission contract of the explorers.
Explorers are willing to do anything as long as they get paid.
Unfortunately, the Holy See has a huge amount of wealth in its hands, and for the past thousand years it has been the tax-collector and creditor of the entire known world.
That is, now the trouble is big.