"But when I say that people are brought to safety, that's the closest thing I can say. There is no safe place in the world.

The fighters must stay there to protect my people. I came single-handedly, hoping to find a warrior to go with me to Sivanasti.

As is customary, I went to meet the lords and councils of this city—"

Robert shook his head, frowning solemnly.

"That's stupid," he said bluntly. "Even before the Dragons invaded, you should know how the city was about the elves! ”

Albert's face turned even paler. Her black eyes sparkled.

"I'm just following tradition," she replied coldly, suppressing the anger in her heart.

"If you don't, you're no different from a barbarian.

When the lord refused to help, I told him that I would find a helper on my own, and that if I didn't, they would think I was rude. ”

Although Hubble only heard snippets of their conversation, he nudged Robert and said, "She and that knight are a natural match." He said dismissively.

"Of course, that would have had to be done before they were killed by etiquette and honor. Before Robert could reply, Stone walked back.

"Robert!" Stone said excitedly, "the knights have found the Great Library of Antiquity!"

That's what they're here for. They found some information in the city of Paranzas, and records of ancient dragons were stored in the library of Tassis.

The Knights' Council sent them here to investigate if the library still existed. “

Stone gestured to the three knights to come forward. "This is Brian Dona, knight of the Holy Sword. ”

He said. "Aran Taobo, knight of the crown, and this is Derek Kronga, knight of the rose. The knights bowed to them.

"This is Robert, the half-elf, our leader. Stone said. The half-elf saw Albert look at him suspiciously, as if to make sure he had heard correctly.

Stone introduces Gilsenus and Hubble, and then faces Albert. "Lady Albert," he began, blushing and realizing that he knew nothing of her.

"Albert Starlight," Gilcenas said on his behalf. "The eldest daughter of the Snarnar, she is also the elven princess of Sivanasti. ”

The knight saluted again, but this time at a greater angle.

"Please accept my heartfelt thanks to you for saving me from this difficult situation. Albert said coldly. Her gaze looked around everyone, but stayed on history itself the longest.

She was a rose knight of Drake's rank, and knew him to be the leader of the group. "Did you find the information that the Council sent you to find?" Robert looked curiously at the knights who had already removed their cloaks as she spoke.

He knew from his observations that the Knights' Council, the ruling class of the Sorenian Knights, sent their most elite knights.

He paid special attention to Drake, the eldest of the three and the highest-ranking knight. Only a very small number of knights can rise to the rank of Rose Knight, because of the long and dangerous trials they have to undergo.

And only knights of pure blood are qualified to accept such a test.

"We found a book, ma'am. Derek said. "It's written in an ancient script that we can't understand.

But there were many drawings of dragons in it, so we planned to copy it back to St. Quest in the hope that scholars there would be able to decipher it.

But we found someone who could translate not so long ago. The Kande—"

"Wade?!" Hubble couldn't hold back any longer.

Robert's mouth was wide open. "Wade?" he repeated incredulously.

He could barely understand the lingua franca, and it was impossible for him to understand the ancient language.

The only one of us who is likely to read those accounts is Rodlis. ”

Drake shrugged. "The Kander had a pair of glasses, which he said were 'magical glasses'.

As soon as he put it on, he could read the book. It says—"

"I can imagine what he said!" Robert interjected. "Stories about robots, teleportation rings, plants floating in the air. Where is he? I'm going to talk to him. ”

"Wade has magic glasses?" Hubble muttered. "Then I'm a valley dwarf!"

The crowd entered a decadent building. They climbed over a pile of rubble and followed Drake to a low archway. The smell of moss and dust is strong.

It was very dark inside, and everyone had just walked in from the midday sun, and for a moment they couldn't see anything.

Drake lit a torch, and they saw a narrow, swirling staircase leading deeper.

"Libraries are built underground," Derek explains. "Maybe that's why it got away with it. ”

The group hurried down the stairs and soon found themselves in a large room.

Robert took a deep breath, and even Alhanna's eyes widened. This huge room is covered with tall wooden bookshelves that stretch as far as the eye can see, from the floor to the top.

The shelves were full of books, all kinds of books, with leather covers, wood chips, some kind of extinct leaves.

Some of the documents were not bound at all, tied together with black ribbons. Several bookshelves had collapsed, leaving the floor covered with knee-deep papers.

"There must be a thousand bookshelves!" said Robert, admiringly. "How did you find a book?"

Drake shook his head, "It's not easy. He said. "We've spent a long time searching here.

When we finally found it, we were even more disappointed than we had been, because it was clear that the book couldn't be moved.

Even when we turn the page, every page begins to turn to ashes.

We were afraid that it would take a long time to finish the book. But the cook-"

"Yes, the Khand," said Robert, with a gloomy face. "Where is he now?"

"Here!" said a shrill voice.

Robert searched for the source of the sound and saw a candle lit in the gloomy room.

Wade was sitting in a high chair, bent over to read a book.

When the crowd approached him, they could see a pair of small glasses hanging from the bridge of his nose.

"All right, Wade," said Robert. "Where did you get this from?"

"What did you get?" asked the Kander innocently.

He saw Robert's eyes squint as if he was about to have a seizure, and he touched the thin-rimmed glasses with one hand. "Oh, oh, is that it?

I put it in my bag, and if you really want to know, I'm from the dwarven underworld—"

Hubble wailed and covered his face with his hands.

It happened to be on a table, and Lewed saw Robert frowning and protested, "Really! There's no one around, I thought someone had forgotten about it."

I'm just keeping it for me, and I'm doing a good thing! Maybe a thief will steal this treasure, but it's a very valuable thing, and I'm going to return it.

But after we fought the Dark Dwarves and Dragonmen and recaptured the hammer, I accidentally forgot about it.

By the time I remembered, we were already on our way to Tarsis, far from the dwarven kingdom.

I don't think you're going to walk back just to get a pair of glasses back, so-"

"What does it do?" Robert quickly interrupted the Kande, knowing that if he didn't change the subject quickly, the story might not be told until the day after tomorrow.

"It's awesome!" Wade was glad Robert didn't yell at him, excitedly saying, "I'll put it on a map one day." Wade patted his map box.

"Guess what I saw? I can read the words on the map through these glasses! No, it doesn't sound like a big deal. ”

Wade saw Robert frown again, and hurriedly said, "But I have never understood the words written on this map before. So I used it to try every map, and I could understand it.

Robert! even very, very old ones will work!"

"You never mentioned this to us?" Ston glared at Wade.

"Well, because no one has brought it up!" Wade said apologetically. "If you ask me directly, like this—

'Wade, do you have a pair of magic glasses?'—I'll be sure to be honest with you right away. But you never have, so, Stone.

Breit, don't look at me like that. Anyway, I can read the book anyway.

Let me tell you what's going on inside—"

"How do you know it's a magic glass, not some kind of dwarven instrument?" Robert asked, sensing that Wade seemed to be hiding something.

Wade swallowed. He had hoped that Robert wouldn't have asked the question.

"Oh," Wade stammered, "I-I think I was, uh, happened to mention this to Rodleys when you were all busy.

He said it might be magical, and to prove it to me, he cast a spell and the glasses started glowing, indicating that it was indeed magical.

He asked me what the glasses did, and I showed them to him, and he remembered that in ancient times there were so-called 'Wisdom Glasses', which were made by dwarven mages long ago to read books written in other languages, and—" Wade paused.

"And?" Robert asked.

"And—uh—they can also be used to read spellbooks. Wade's voice grew quieter.

"What else did Rodrith say?"

"He also said that if I dared to peek at his spell book, either straight or backwards, he would turn me into a cricket and eat me—me one bite at a time. ”

Wade stammered, his eyes wide as he looked at Robert. "I'm sure he'll do it. ”

Robert shook his head. He also believed that Rodlis could concoct such a threat that would scare off the curiosity of the Kande. "Anything else?" he asked.

"No, Robert. Wade said innocently. In fact, there was something else that Rodlis mentioned, but the Kander people never understood it.

He had said that the glasses were too real to see things, and that didn't make sense, so he thought it might be worth mentioning.

And Robert was angry enough, too.

"Well, what exactly did you find?" asked Robert, reluctantly.

"Oh, Robert, that's funny!" Wade was glad that the torture was finally over.

He carefully flipped through a page, and even that was enough for the paper to begin to crack under his little finger. He shook his head sadly.

"It's like that almost every time. You can check it out here. The others gathered around the cooker and looked at the part that the Joyter was pointing.

"A picture depicting a dragon. There are blue dragons, red dragons, and green dragons. I didn't know there were so many dragons. Look at this thing—" He flipped to another page.

"Oh! You can't see it now, but it's a huge glass ball.

It says that if you have such a glass orb, you can control all kinds of dragons and make them do your bidding!"

"Glass balls!" Hubble sniffed and sneezed. "Don't believe him, Robert, the only use of these glasses is probably to make his braggaking more exaggerated. ”

"I'm telling the truth!" Wade said proudly. "It's called a dragon ball, you can ask Rodrith, he'll know, because according to the above account, these things were made by ancient magicians. ”

"I believe you are. Robert saw Wade's depressed look and said helplessly.

"But I don't think it means much to us. Maybe these things were destroyed during the cataclysm, and we don't know where we're going—"

"No, we know. Wade said excitedly. "There's a list of places to keep this thing. You see—" He stopped abruptly, listening carefully.

"Shhhhh The others also fell silent.

For a moment, they heard nothing, and then they gradually heard the voice that the keen ears of the Kandes had already heard.

Robert felt his hands grow cold and his mouth felt dry. Now he could hear, not far away, the sound of hundreds of trumpets blowing together—a sound they had all heard.

The low, brass trumpet to announce the coming of the dragon army and the evil dragons.

This is the sound of a trumpet representing death.

After the first wave of dragons began to attack Tassis, the crowd arrived at the edge of the market.

A group of men said an unpleasant farewell to the knights, who advised them to flee into the mountains together.

After being rejected by the crowd, Drake asks Wade to come with them, as the Kander are the only people in the world who know where the Dragon Balls are hidden.

Robert knew very well that the Kandes would flee first, so he reluctantly refused.

"Stone, bring the Kande, and come with us. Derek ignored Robert's orders.

"Sir, I can't do that. Stone replied by putting his hand on Robert's arm.

"He is our leader. I have to take care of my friends first. ”

Drake's cold voice was mixed with anger. "If it's your decision. He replied, "I can't stop you, but it will be a stain on your life."

Stone Brightbred, don't forget, you're not a knight yet.