Chapter 519: Rare Book Collection Room (3/3)
As the name suggests, the Rare Rare Book Collection Room does not need much explanation, and what can be included in it is basically a very important historical original, or some psionic texts whose contents cannot be fully reproduced due to their special structure.
In other words, the name of the Lost Age is probably the magic book, and the magic guide book is all in all, what really matters about this kind of book is not the content of the book, but the strange spiritual energy attached to it. Theoretically, Ian himself could have gone to the Rare Book Collection.
He had a reading card and a letter of introduction from the alchemist, and it was perfectly fine to stay for a short time and a half, let alone scan it directly with a silver chip.
But the first time I came to the big library, I ran here and I was a little too anxious.
Ian has the patience to take his time and achieve his goals without arousing anyone's suspicion. At the end of the day, he's the kind of person who makes a plan and follows it step by step, then adjusts it according to the unexpected.
However, there are occasional surprises that change too much.
For example, I met the Count of Phoenix.
"It turns out that Lord Earl, you are the honorary director of the Great Library."
On the way to the treasure room, Ian learned the truth from the Count of Phoenix's boasting, at most the old man recalled the past eventful years, but in his tone he felt like bragging, and he knew the history of his promotion after the Dark Moon Turmoil.
Because of his meritorious service in defending the Great Library, the old man was directly promoted to the director of the Bureau of Ancient Literature and History by the Defender of the Land, responsible for managing the preservation and preservation of all relevant documents in the imperial capital, and then because of the perfect completion of the relevant tasks, he even didn't know how, he collected a large number of rare classics from the ruins of the residences of the major exterminating nobles, and Axel made the Count of Phoenix concurrently serve as the director of the Great Library and the deputy minister of the Ministry of Truth.
The Deputy Minister of the Empire, or a heavyweight department like the Ministry of Truth, Count Phoenix is an important minister of the imperial capital in the true sense. But obviously, this is the end of the day, Count Phoenix can make himself unable to go further by relying on his mouth alone, but here it can be regarded as the pinnacle of technical personnel, and then up is the realm of political compromise and power, and although the Kishinev family has this background, the people of this family are somewhat uncompetitive in terms of personality. Now, as the Count of Phoenix is getting old, although his state is still at his peak, he still takes the initiative to retire, except for retaining the position of honorary curator, there is basically no official position, but no one will be idle to provoke the old count of the Kishinev family.
It is precisely because of this that Ian was able to be taken to the precious one-of-a-kind collection room by the other party...... All of them are the precious orphans that Count Phoenix protected from the turmoil of the dark moon back then, and they are the crystallization of his life's pride.
In other words, as long as the Earl of Phoenix meets a junior who has a little impression, he will bring the other party over to brag about himself.
Of course, Ian was very cooperative, even 100% sincere in admiring the great deeds of the Earl, this was not acting, he did confirm that what the other party had done was great.
In Ian's description, the Count of Phoenix is simply the savior of the academic world in the imperial capital, the preserver of human civilization, the guardian saint of all books and libraries, and even the old earl, who originally planned to listen to the sycophants for a night, felt a little too much, and couldn't help coughing twice and shouting to stop.
"It's over, it's really over, I'm not that great."
The old earl waved his hand, but even Frostbutterfly could see his brow curled up with joy: "Let's take a look at these books—although the contents of many books have lost their value due to the passage of time and have become old antiques surpassed by the current alchemy, but sometimes, ancient knowledge also has value, and its meaning is to prove the path we have walked." ”
"I've always believed that even the most insignificant books need to be respected, and that's what the writer says to all future generations of readers. Of course, if you don't respect the reader's book, you can write something you don't know what you don't know, and respect is mutual. ”
Even the Earl of Phoenix, who is frequently outrageous, is quite serious when it comes to the things he loves, which makes Ian nod his head in agreement.
Then, Ian began to look around the small and not small collection room.
At a cursory glance, the Rare Book Collection Room is quite rudimentary, but if you look closely, you can see that each book is fixed in its place by the solidified inscription group, and if there is no relevant inscription key, even the power of the peak of the second energy level will not want to destroy even a little sawdust here.
On the ground, there is a thick layer of hand-woven carpet with beautiful patterns. But if anyone really thinks it's an ordinary carpet, then they're wrong, as Foresight tells Ian that this thing is a second-level psionic creature that will come alive if someone attempts to wreak havoc here, and it will come alive and become a tenacious prison that binds the destroyer in place.
Similarly, there are all sorts of protections, from bookcases, clear glass windows, and overhead lamps.
But it's the books themselves that really attract attention. "The Thirty-Two Legends, an ancient manuscript of thirty-two catastrophes in the Lost Era? "Abyss Sacrifice Text", what is so weird...... Oh, the Wonderland Communication Manual...... "Jade Record"! The oldest rubbings of alchemy! Aha! It's "The Legend of the Seven Sages" and "The Crucible"! I think this was probably the earliest prophetic hymn and disaster prophecy! ”
With just a glance, Ian found a lot of rare ancient books that even he had heard of, but had never seen a single word.
Some of them are just simple myths and legends, or ancient texts, but others, such as the Abyss Sacrifice, give Ian a taste of the Void...... It was a kind of psionic instrument that could communicate with the virtual realm, and with it, even ordinary people could sink into the virtual realm through various rituals.
But whether or not you can come out of the void alive is another matter.
In the former, Ian just touched the book, and the powerful power of the silver chip directly copied all the texts, while the latter were mostly dangerous and extremely mysterious, even if Ian touched it, or even took out a copy with the permission of the Count of Phoenix to flip through it, he couldn't rub it with his psionic energy, only those ordinary words.
But even so, it made Ian's heart flutter, and this time it was a real harvest! Although there is no valuable 'technical information' in these treasured books, for a person like him who has everything, but lacks information about 'history and secrets', the harvest can be said to be the highest peak since he came to the imperial capital. If nothing else, the ritual of 'sinking into the abyss' described most importantly in the Abyss Sacrifice is meaningless to Ian, but it contains the process of all the relevant researchers for more than a thousand years, from the Lost Age to four hundred years ago, and the experience of this research and the 'mistakes' made in it are more meaningful than the correct answer in the end!
However, what shocked Ian the most was the unremarkable book placed in the middle of the shelf.
"The Book of Silvershine?"