Gray looked at the beginning of the page and re-read it, this time with great care, not missing a word.

It is probably said that the author of the book, while crossing a vast forest, accidentally found a large area of buildings, the buildings were very majestic, and the style was very different from the current buildings, and he suspected that they were "imperial relics".

He wanted to explore this imperial ruin, but found that there were traces of powerful blood beasts on the periphery of this imperial ruin, and it was likely that there were powerful blood beasts among them, so he gave up the exploration and left this place hastily.

This is the whole story, like the trivial things recorded in the previous book, it is very ordinary, and the only extraordinary thing is the speculation of "imperial relics".

As far as Gray knew, there were a total of four countries on this continent, namely the Purple Moon Kingdom where he was now, and the Flame Kingdom in the center of the continent, and the Crimson Kingdom and the Gem Kingdom on the outer side of the continent like the Purple Moon Kingdom.

There was no empire, and he had never heard of it, not even in the books he had read.

After a slight hesitation, Gray looked at Caroline, who was sitting across from him, and asked.

"Sister Caroline, have you heard of the Empire?"

Asked by Gray out loud, Caroline raised her head and looked at Gray with a little confusion and asked.

"Where did you hear about the Empire?"

"It was from this travelogue that the author had seen many buildings in a forest, and he guessed that they were the remnants of the former empire."

Gray said, gesturing to the book next to him.

"Sister Caroline, once really existed an empire on the mainland?"

Seeing that Caroline seemed to know something, Gray hurriedly asked.

"Well, there was indeed an empire on the continent, and it was very powerful, and the current territory of the four kingdoms all belonged to the former imperial territory."

Caroline said with a slight nod.

"The territory of the four kingdoms belongs to the former empire?"

Gray showed a look of surprise on his face, the territory can include the location of the four kingdoms, the territory of this empire is not ordinarily large, and the strength is probably not ordinarily strong.

"Sister Caroline, how did this empire fall?"

Gray asked curiously.

An empire with such a vast territory and such a powerful territory will be destroyed, what forces will destroy this empire?

"I don't know."

Caroline shook her head.

"The empire collapsed more than a thousand years ago, and I only learned about the existence of the empire through a few words in some books."

She said with a slight pause in her voice and a slight frown.

"There are very few similar records, and the Four Kingdoms seem to be deliberately covering up the traces of the existence of the empire, so there are very few records about the empire, and there are basically no books dedicated to the empire."

"The Four Kingdoms are deliberately hiding traces of the existence of the Empire?"

Gray muttered, and couldn't help but be surprised.

"The empire won't be destroyed by the Four Kingdoms, will it? And it's not glorious in this matter, the first kings of the four kingdoms are likely to be vassals of the empire, so they will try their best to cover up the traces of the empire! ”

"It's possible."

Caroline raised an eyebrow, in fact, she had this suspicion too.

An empire with such a huge territory and such a powerful strength cannot fall for no reason, and the greatest possibility is that it has encountered an enemy.

And the four kingdoms are built on the territory of the former empire, and they are trying to block the news of the empire, there must be some kind of connection between the two, the most likely is as Gray speculated.

The four kingdoms worked together to overthrow the empire, but because they were originally vassals of the empire, this matter was very disgraceful, so they did the same thing and blocked all records about the empire.

"What else do you know?"

Gray continued to ask.

"That's pretty much it."

Caroline shook her head.

"There are no relevant books, and I don't know much, the only thing I still know is that there are generally some things from the imperial era in such ruins, which are very valuable, and some of them have found several sequences of "Blood Law" in the ruins."

"If you know where the imperial ruins in that travelogue in your hand are, you can go and investigate, and maybe you can get valuable things like blood law."

"The travelogue doesn't say where the imperial ruins were found, only that they are in a forest that spreads very widely in the Purple Moon Kingdom."

Green said with a slight regret.

There are many forests in the Purple Moon Kingdom, and they don't know the exact location, so trying to find this ruin is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

Seeing that she didn't know the exact location of the imperial ruins, Caroline lost interest and turned her attention back to her books.

After a slight hesitation, Gray continued to look down, a glimmer of hope in his heart, whether the other party would return to this ruin in the future, leaving more records about this ruin.

Page after page turned until the last page, Gray still did not see any record of the imperial ruins, obviously the other party should have completely given up the exploration of this imperial ruins because of the powerful blood beasts that may exist in the ruins.

Rather disappointed, Gray picked up the travelogue and prepared to put it back in the bookshelf, but when his hand touched the inside of the cover, he couldn't help but be slightly stunned and looked at the inside of the cover.

I saw that the inside of the cover was lined with paper, and the paper was completely glued to the leather cover, and in some parts of the paper, there were obvious traces of slight convexity.

Gray quietly picked up the book and walked towards the third row of bookshelves, using the shelves to hide his figure.

Then, with his fingernails, he gently tugged at the paper that was glued to the inside of the cover, and after a while, he pulled a small piece open and stuck his fingers in.

He could clearly feel that his fingers were touching something soft, and from the touch of it, it should be some kind of fabric.

Fingers gouged out, the fabric was gouged out, this is a thin white cloth, he spread the cloth, more than ten centimeters long and five or six centimeters wide, with ink lines on it.

Judging by the shape of the lines, this is supposed to be a map of a forest, with a long, narrow and irregular shape and a clear triangle in the lower left corner of the forest.

"This, is this ...... A map of the ruins of the Empire? ”

Gray guessed in surprise.

The author of the book discovers the remains of the empire in a forest, and the map is also a forest, and it is difficult not to make a connection between the two.

If his guess was correct, the place where the triangular sign on the map was located was probably the place where the ruins of the empire were.

Putting the fabric in his pocket and putting the books back on the shelves, Gray's heart pounded.

Although the map is small, with only an outline of the forest, and no indication of what the forest is, there is already a way to confirm the location of the ruins.

Just compare this forest map with the territory map of the Purple Moon Kingdom, and you can find out what kind of forest the forest on this map is through the appearance, knowing the forest, it is obviously easy to find out the imperial ruins.

As soon as he thought of this, Gray felt itching, this was simply a realistic version of "treasure hunting", and he couldn't wait to immediately find a map of the entire territory of the Purple Moon Kingdom, and compare and find out what kind of forest this forest was.

Knowing that he had no intention of reading now, Gray simply left the library and went straight to the study of Viscount Fergus, which was also on the second floor, as far as he knew, in the viscount's study, there was a map of the entire territory of the Purple Moon Kingdom.

Pushing open the door of the study, Viscount Fergus was not among them, and Gray closed the door of the study himself after letting the maid Barbara guard the door.

In the study, there is a bookcase on the left, a small round table and several wooden chairs on the right, and a brown desk in the middle facing the door.

Gree was familiar with the study, having been to the study several times, and went straight to the outermost part of the bookcase, reaching out and removing a piece of leather paper folded into a square.

Spread out the leather paper on the desk, and suddenly a huge map appeared in front of me.

The whole is an irregular slightly flattened shape, just like a round of crescent moon, this is the map of the entire territory of the Purple Moon Kingdom, in fact, the reason why the Purple Moon Kingdom is called the Purple Moon Kingdom is because of its version of the image of a round of crescent moon.

Taking out the white cloth from before and spreading it out, Gray began to search carefully, comparing the forest after forest on the map of the Purple Moon Kingdom with the shape of the forest on the white cloth.

"Found it!"

After a moment, his gaze moved back and forth on the white cloth and somewhere on the map of the entire territory of the Purple Moon Kingdom, and his face showed joy.

In the southwest of the territory of the Purple Moon Kingdom, a forest called the Blue Sea Forest is exactly the same as the forest on the white cloth in appearance, obviously, the forest drawn on the white cloth is very likely to be this forest called the Blue Sea Forest.

"Not far from the Marquis of Sidney? This location, which is the domain of the Marquis family Oka family......"

But soon, the joy on his face subsided, and his brows slowly furrowed.

The forest marked on this map is too far from the Viscounty of Fergus, not even within the realm of the Marquis of Sidney.

If it is within the territory of the Marquis of Sidney, he can also give this map to Viscount Fergus and let the Fergus family explore it, I believe that if Viscount Fergus has a harvest, he will definitely not lose his share.

As for his own investigation, it is really unlikely, at least in the short term.

On the one hand, the blood beasts mentioned in the ruins are not at all what his current strength can compete with.

On the other hand, because he couldn't even leave Fergus Castle before he had the ability to protect himself, after all, he was still being watched by other viscount families.

"That's fine, when the strength is strong in the future and you can leave the territory of Fergus, you can go and explore it yourself."

Putting away the white cloth and folding the map, Gray furrowed his brows and left Viscount Fergus's study.

This map is more of a hope for him now, and now he doesn't have the ability to explore, so he can only put away the white cloth and wait for the time when he has that strength in the future.