Chapter 34: First Sight
After looking around, I found that the spacious first floor was full of people, all quietly flipping through the books in front of them.
There are many people reading here, but only a few are dressed in magician's robes, and most of them are outsiders like Ryan.
"It's such a treasure trove, and every day the tickets and borrowing fees alone are a huge asset." Ryan secretly said in his heart, this kind of can really be regarded as lying down to make money.
The scene was so quiet, he didn't want to disturb others rashly for a while, so he had to slowly look for the books he wanted according to the general classification on the shelves.
Fortunately, he was lucky, and soon found a "Brief History of the Continent", which was his target book.
I couldn't wait to take it off the shelf, found a place in the corner, sat down, and began to flip through it.
For Ryan, who had hundreds of millions of words in his previous life, he flipped through it as fast as a gust of wind, often turning a page in just a few glances.
His strange behavior quickly attracted the attention of the people around him, but he didn't affect others either, so there was nothing that didn't bother him.
Ryan was more engaged when he read the book, and he didn't notice the strange eyes around him at all, and soon, but in half an hour, he roughly finished reading this fist-thick "A Brief History of the Continent".
In fact, there is not a lot of content in it, mainly some illustrations occupy the space, and after reading it, Ryan feels that the outline of his influence on the world is a little more complete.
The predecessor had never learned these things before, and Ryan didn't even understand what the hell was going on in this world.
To summarize the content briefly, the continent called Ossia where we are now belongs to the human race, the beast race, the elf race, the dwarf race, the mermaid race, and the goblin race...... and so on in a world where all races coexist.
The recorded history is almost 100,000 years, and the strange thing is that since the beginning of the record, human beings seem to have formed a society, which is extremely abnormal in the history of development, that is to say, there has been a fault in the historical record.
This is also a common statement in Terran society, but there has never been an official statement about why the fault line and the social pattern before 100,000 years, and the current mainstream hypothesis is because of war.
But what races are involved in the war? Why the war? The devil knows, the orcs are innocent anyway.
Ryan found out from the book that the history of the appearance of orcs is not very old compared to the long 100,000 years, and it is unknown whether it is an evolution or some other reason.
According to records, the first appearance of orcs was 30,000 years ago during the Third Continental War, when the continent was dominated by humans, and humans established a glorious and vast Dawn Empire.
That great empire spanned the east and west of the continent, twice the size of the current human kingdoms, and even the elves avoided it.
As a result, a huge army of orcs poured out of the Winddling Mountains, and it was the first time that orcs appeared in this world, as if they had appeared out of thin air.
The Fengqi Mountains were the hinterland of the Dawning Empire, and their sudden appearance directly hit this glorious and vast empire.
Since all the races had suffered heavy losses in the war at that time, they were happy to see both the Terrans and the Orcs lose and then pick one for the better.
Things did turn out as they expected, and the Dawning Empire and the orcs were locked in a long war, and the final result was that the Dawning Empire was defeated.
The orcs swept across the entire continent at a hurricane-like speed, and no one expected that the human race, as the overlord of the continent at that time, would be defeated so simply.
As a result, the Ten Thousand Races launched the Fourth Continental War against the Orcs. This paragraph is very vaguely described, and it is only a few hasty strokes.
The final result was that the orcs were suppressed to the Fengqi Plain and the Urgan Plain, and the Dawning Empire was also torn apart by the backstab of the Holy See, forming the current alliance of the seven eastern countries and the western states, with the strange pattern of orcs in between.
I don't know why, the description before the orc appeared was very detailed, but there was a feeling of more and more perfunctory and vague behind, as if it was deliberately hiding something.
After reading a book, Ryan only felt a little headache, and his understanding of the world had increased, but the mystery had not decreased, but had become more confusing.
Putting down the book in his hand, Ryan sighed deeply, he felt like he had read a pirated book, after all, what was written on it was really beyond common sense.
Just the history or war with a span of 10,000 years made him very suspicious, because the technology of this world seems to have changed little after 100,000 years, even if it is because of the extraordinary power that restricts the access to knowledge for the people at the bottom, then it will not be 100,000 years and still use animal skin paper, right?
Although this kind of animal skin can be stored for thousands of years without deterioration, its high cost and thickness are really not cost-effective.
Perhaps the authenticity of this book can only be verified by the long-lived elves, after all, the time span of 100,000 years is too long, and even the transcendents whose lifespans far exceed those of ordinary people seem extremely short in the face of the long river of time.
"I don't know why, but it's obviously a good thing for me." Abandoning the study of this esoteric question, Ryan once again finds a book about the transcendent.
As soon as he returned to his seat, he found that a woman in a purple mage robe came to the opposite side of the originally vacant place, and at a glance, Ryan couldn't help but sigh.
Ryan thinks that he has been a human being in two lives, and he has also "read" countless women, but it is the first time he has seen such a woman:
He looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, his hair was hidden under the mage's hat, his forehead was full, his eyebrows were faintly willowy, his eyes were as bright and clear as crystal, and his goose-egg-shaped cheeks were slightly rosy.
Small nose, red lips. The skin is as white and delicate as mutton fat jade, and there is a silver crystal necklace shimmering on the slender neck like a swan.
She sat there quietly, with only the book of animal skin under her clear eyes, and the bright sunlight shone on her body, like an angel in ancient mythology, noble and holy, sacrosanct.
Her appearance is not considered to be a disaster for the country and the people, and she does not have gorgeous clothes and ornaments. But the temperament that exudes from the inside out makes her as dazzling as a noble phoenix.
The man also seemed to notice Ryan's gaze, frowned slightly, and said lightly, "Sir, I sat down when I saw that there was no one here, I hope it didn't disturb you." ”
Her voice is gentle and soft, as melodious as a wind chime, which makes people's ears unconsciously tickle. There is no such condescension and arrogance as ordinary magicians.
Ryan came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Of course not, the seat was originally public, but I was shocked by the beauty of the young lady for a while, and it was a little rude."
My name is Ryan, what do you call Miss? ”
"My name is Aisha, and it's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Lane." Aisha stood up and took the initiative to stretch out her little white jade hand......