Act IV: The Hidden Thing in the Jungle (6)

Thanks to Urs Leonster's easy agreement to go with them to Lemongrass, Flick felt his uneasiness subside a little. With the help of this powerful magician, who is also a monster scholar www.biquge.info those monsters that behave abnormally may no longer be a problem for the village.

With high positions comes great responsibility, a phrase often used on the lips of the aristocracy, who accepted the taxes of the inhabitants of their realm and shouldered the responsibility to protect them. In reality, however, Lemongrass was not the domain of any noble, and Sir Leinster was not obligated to protect the people outside his own territory, and he was willing to go to Lemongrass more because he might come into contact with his targets.

Frick was only a scribe, but he had also learned from different sources about the sorcerers who were constantly looking for ways to go further on their quest for knowledge. These people are more of a researcher before they are a person, and they don't care about the lives of others in the face of their own goals.

He didn't want to speculate on Uls Leinster with the greatest malice, but even if there was only a temporary agreement between them that was built up with interests, as long as they could get more powerful help, it would be worth it. Monsters are not as easy to communicate with as humans, and although some of them have intelligence beyond that of beasts, there is little chance of negotiating to solve problems when encountering them.

Flick, who is an atheist, has no one to pray to, but he still wants everything to be okay. In order to be patient with his restlessness, he carefully observed this ancient ruin for the first time, and used the notebook he carried with him to describe the structure of the ruins in the cave.

The site is not very spacious, probably only enough for a dozen people to stand side by side, and is obviously remodeled from a natural cave. Perhaps it was transformed by the ancestors to once be the lair of some kind of wild beast, and there were some small rock crevices in the walls that led to the wind.

The wall that allowed Dean and the others to enter the ruins was clearly human-processed, and the nearby rocks and dirt took on an unnatural shape. Frick speculated that it was possible that someone who used the ruin had sealed the entrance with a spell when they left, so that it could not be discovered by others.

The structure of this ruin is apparently rather rudimentary, with a fire pit enclosed by stone in the center and several simple beds arranged in flat stone slabs around it. Obviously, the facilities in the ruins are quite rudimentary, and it can be assumed that the ruins are not a settlement of the ancestors, but only a temporary resting place.

Of course, it is also necessary to see what the findings that Dean and the others brought back are there, and whether there are any key relics that can prove the identity of the Lord of the Ruins.

"If I want to say, this relic is only a broken wall, and only the ancient written records on the wall still have residual value. Just as Frick was taking notes, Sir Leinster suddenly stood beside him, "And Frick Sierra Leone, if you see it with the eyes of a scrivener, is there anything else that is worth it?"

I saw him snap his fingers, and the glow of magic appeared around like a swarm of fireflies, and the faint blue light made the cave much brighter. With these lights, he pointed to the deepest part of the ruins, where someone had carved some jumbled ancient writing with sharp objects.

Frick approached the wall and brushed the words with his hand, trying to feel what was left of their magic. However, he also knew that it was futile, the words had no power, and the walls had worn out due to the wear and tear of time, and only a few relatively well-preserved texts could still be recognized.

"As you say, what these ancient words look like...... It's truly unprecedented. ”

Frick whispered as he recorded the ancient characters that were scattered all over the small wall in front of him, "I am not majoring in ancient scripts, but I can also see that these characters are different from those found in the past empire, and it is likely that they are a special kind that has not been recorded." ”

The ruins are so rudimentary that Flick can't even tell if he exists or not. Even if you were to compare this place with the ancient ruins that had been found in the Empire, there was really no way to force any similarities.

And the same is true of these ancient texts, no matter how many times Flick reads them, he can't simply assert what they represent. The basic structure of these ancient texts is very similar to that found in ancient texts at the end of the mythological era, but there are many indescribable changes in the details.

Words have power, and ancient writing itself can be seen as a symbol formed by a high degree of compression of words - naturally, the power of words has been refined in the process. If you use magic to depict these words in a certain sequence, you can have a corresponding effect.

Many sorcerers believe that ancient writing is the origin of sorcery, and that they were the basis for the original Rubik's Cubes and spells. Ironically, some scribes held similar views, but they believed that manipulating words and transforming them into phenomena was the source of what calligraphers called "fantasy books."

Since they are both techniques that use magic to construct phenomena, what is the difference between a mage and a scribe? In fact, this question has been raised by more than one person, and the method of distinguishing the two is currently based on whether the magic has been programmed or described before it becomes a phenomenon.

To make a simple analogy: the technique of refining the magic power in the body, and then depicting a Rubik's cube or algorithm to introduce it into a phenomenon is a spell, and if the magic is directed to a carrier with words written, and then the magic power is used to draw the power of these words into phenomena is the power of the magic book.

While both use magic fall under the realm of magic, there is clearly a decisive difference in preference - spells require the user to have a clear mind and reconstruct reality based on understanding, while a scribe has the ability to record and connect the known and the unknown.

"Environmentally and structurally, it is believed that this site was a short-term settlement for the early inhabitants, and it is likely that it was used by hunters or patrols as a resting place for their work. Weighing the complaint about the two parties' unnutritious quarrels in his stomach, Flick answered the other party's question with a little embarrassment, "As for the treasure and the like...... It's really almost swept away, and all that's left is probably dust. ”

Even if there are any valuable relics left, they will probably have been taken away by Dean and the others. If you want to know more about their value, you should return to Lemonglas immediately after the investigation of the ruins and take the excavations from the hotel's rented warehouse for identification.

Although Dean had provided him with a list, Sir Leinster certainly couldn't just offer a price to buy a relic until he saw the actual thing. With a knowledgeable sorcerer by his side, Frick could easily examine the relics.

With that in mind, Flick flipped to the first page of his notebook and began to check his records for any omissions. In this notebook, he sketched a simple plan of the ruins, identified what he found, and even copied all the ancient text on the entire wall.

It's easy to say, but when you actually put it into action, you will find that it's a tiring project. On a slight downside, less than a tenth of the records could be described in words, and the rest of the work alone was to copy the ancient text on the wall that consumed almost half of his energy.

Even if you don't know the meaning, the text itself has magical powers, so even if you just copy it in the same way, it can have a considerable effect. Asking an ordinary person with little sense of magic to copy ancient words will result in scribbled manuscript paper with little power, and Frick must always be careful not to let his magic seep into the words when copying, so as not to bury hidden dangers.

He hadn't forgotten the consequences of hastily driving the magic before entering the cavern, in fact, it was easy to just get his finger stabbed by the magic of chaos. Recklessness does not lead to catastrophic consequences for those who are incapacitated, but it is often the culprit of disasters that those who possess some of their abilities but use them indiscriminately.

"Huh?"

While Frick checked the records and the adventurers did what they had planned, Sir Leinster seemed to sense something. His expression sharpened in an instant, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he shot past the mercenaries standing guard at the entrance of the cave and shot into the dense forest ahead.

At that moment, Frick felt some kind of "wall" of air spread out around Urs Leinster. Within seconds, the magically driven air rushed out of the cave where the ruins were, blowing farther away.

This is obviously some kind of spell, and if analyzed in nature, it should be classified as a technique that manipulates the wind to explore a wide area. Of course, spells with a larger area of influence tend to take longer to prepare, but Uls Leinster can operate as freely as breathing, which is beyond Flick's imagination.

"The situation has changed, please enter the ruins immediately. ”

But now is certainly not the time to be surprised, Urs Leinster's expression is rare to show nervousness: "There is a strange aura approaching three hundred feet outside the cave, and it can be preliminarily presumed to be a large monster cluster, the number of which is about ten to thirty...... Please stay as hidden as possible to avoid fighting. ”

No one could tell what emotion was in his words, but perhaps it was the simplicity of stating the facts that made it even more nerve-wracking. The moment the words were uttered, almost commanding, a subtle sense of unease began to spread through the crowd.

But the initiator did not waver, and slowly raised his hand to unleash an illusion-creating spell at the entrance of the cave.