Chapter 22: The Archaeological City
Thor had originally wanted to continue to take the airboat for free in the name of Mentor Gorsa.
However, while he was waiting on the platform, he suddenly heard a wizard talking about the collapse of the Wizard Tower, and the fact that Gorsa had been promoted to the third rank and left the continent of Starter after a killing spree on the border between Kema and Knas.
Thor thought for a moment, but then asked the coachman Marsh to turn the car around and leave the airboat platform.
Fortunately, it doesn't take as long as a month to get from here to the archaeological city where Baidong College is located, and at the speed of Marsh's car, it will take about ten days to arrive.
Archaeological is also a seaside city, and the area between it and Bluewater is not as prosperous. It is mostly wasteland and alpine forests.
There are even places where there is even abnormal smoke outside.
I don't know if there are wizards there to conduct experiments to destroy the environment.
The world is not environmentally friendly, and the special pollution produced by wizards often turns a wilderness into a dead place. The only thing that can restrain them is some large wizarding forces. Experiments that are extremely destructive in the confines of these forces are subject to fines and even confiscation of the results of the experiments.
But as far as Thor knows, there's one place where there are no limits, and that's the Borderlands.
No one in Borderlands cares if you're destroying the environment, but if your experiments get in the way, they might just come and kill someone.
It is also because of this unbridled experimentation, coupled with the subsequent pollution, that the borderlands are full of dangers, and can encounter death at any time.
But such a place is very suitable for a cheating party like Saul.
Having made the decision to go to the Valley of the Hands to cultivate his own Wizard Tower, Thor has been learning about the Valley of the Hands recently.
However, these materials are intermittent and very one-sided. The recorder of one of the notes wrote at the end of the page:
[Actually, I also know that it is useless to do these statistics. The Borderlands is a place that changes all the time. Maybe the fruit manor that I went to safer this time will become a dead place full of monsters next time. 】
[But I still choose to record it.] 】
[After all, before people die, it's better to leave something in this world.] 】
The last page of this notebook also has some dark brown stuff stained.
Thor did a compositional analysis experiment and found that it was just ordinary blood.
It was getting dark, and Thor closed his notes, pulling out a broken wine glass and a rusty silver pocket watch.
These two things are the biggest physical gains of Saul to Bluewater Bay.
Among them, the silver pocket watch is even rarer than Neflett's well-known witchcraft props.
After all, the diary only hints at silver pocket watches.
In addition to the basic knowledge of witchcraft, Thor has been studying these two things in the past few days.
He placed different spirit and soul fragments in the broken wine glass, studying what the spirits would be shattered into and whether there would be any by-products.
But I don't know if the dose is not enough, the time is too short, or the activation method is wrong, anyway, the spirit in the cup is still floating leisurely, and there is no sign of being crushed.
Thor put away the broken glass and took out his silver pocket watch to continue examining.
The diary mentions the word "Chaos Domain" in the prompt, which leads Thor to suspect that the silver pocket watch may also be the key to some world.
But to start a silver pocket watch, you also need a key.
The diary also tells Saul that the key is on him, so Saul also takes out some of the props on his body for analysis.
It's just an analysis, and he doesn't really try to open the silver pocket watch, after all, he doesn't want to go to another world now.
Today he rummaged through his bags and suddenly saw something.
Thor reached in and pulled out the gold Smiley Coins.
When Mokimochi lent him this gold coin, he used to say that it was a witchcraft prop from the previous era. Short-distance communication is possible.
But its real purpose is to exchange the space where the two holders of the gold coins are located.
It is a very rare space item.
Whether it is self-help or harming others, it is very useful.
Thor tossed two gold coins lightly, and they collided in the air with a crisp clashing sound.
And when two gold coins collide, a closer look reveals a slight distortion in the space around them.
"The effect of these two gold coins is related to space, so is it also possible to activate a world-side key?"
Thor took the gold coin steadily, then looked at the silver pocket watch held by Agu.
The pocket watch is open, and the hour and minute hands on it are still rotating at an irregular rate.
Thor held the gold coin, and neither near nor far, nor by tapping, did not cause any other change in the hands of the pocket watch.
Despite this, Thor did not immediately change props as he had done in previous experiments, and instead began to record the results of the experiments in earnest.
He instinctively thought that he had guessed correctly this time.
Now it's time to think about how to be sure.
There's no rush on this, you can wait for him to find a place to settle down temporarily, and hand it over to a few other consciousness bodies to experiment.
With a clear direction, Thor put away the gold coin with a smiley face and continued to let Agu hold the silver pocket watch.
He closed his eyes and began to meditate, and once again determined that when he arrived in the bustling archaeological city, he would first find out if there was a meditation method that suited him.
Several consciousnesses also had their own meditation methods during their lifetimes, but none of them were more suitable for Thor than the erosion map.
As a result, he is still using the meditation method that is suitable for second-level apprentices.
The efficiency of regenerating mana is really low.
Fortunately, he usually relies on mental power in battle, and the battle is also a quick battle, and the speed of mana recovery is not important.
It's really different.
Three days later, Saul and his party finally left the deserted Corniche. Villages, unwalled towns began to appear nearby.
It's just that these places all have one thing in common, and that is that they are sparsely populated.
Obviously, the number of houses seems to be quite large, but when it comes to eating, there are not a few places where there is smoke.
With his experience of going out a lot, Marsh found a town with decent conditions and drove in.
Thor looked around and noticed that many of the houses along the street here had locks on them. The locks were also dusty, and it was clear that the owner of the house had not returned for a long time.
The carriage finally stopped in front of a tavern.
The sign of the tavern reads Traveler's House.
Thor and Agu got out of the car and walked to the door, but no one came out to greet them.
He pushed open the half-open door and saw that the entire hall was empty, without a single guest.
A large boy dressed as an apparent waiter was sitting on a stool in the corner of the hall with a book in his hand, reading intently.
At the bar counter in the innermost part of the hall, there is a middle-aged man with a slight hair...... I was even holding a book and reading it.
The knock on the door didn't even wake them up.
Do the people here enjoy learning so much?
Thor silently appeared beside the squire boy, looking down at the book in his hand.
"Little John, the Farmer: City Life is Really Hard, Miss Noble is Too Clingy"
Saul:?!
For the first time, Thor felt the urge to rub his eyes.
What did he see?
YY in the wizarding world?
No, I don't dare to rub the wizard's side in this book.
"Oh, sorry two guests."
At this time, the boss who was located in the bar finally saw Thor and the two, put the book on the table, and trotted around the bar.
Thor glanced at it and saw that the boss was reading the same book as the attendant.
The boss ran out, and the attendant was naturally awakened, and he carefully sandwiched a page in the book, and then stood up.
"Would you rather dine or stay?"
Agu took the initiative to reply: "Stay for one night, do you have a yard here?" ”
"Yes." The boy replied, "You can live in the yard next door, and I can help you clean it up in an hour less than a month after the house moved out." ”
"Just moved out?" Saul's eyes flashed, and he was not in a hurry to move in, he sat directly opposite the boy, looking at the boss and the boy at the same time.
"You guys in the town...... Won't they all move to Archaeological City? ”
(End of chapter)