Chapter 240: The Mausoleum
"Of course I know ......" Anduin pursed his lips, his face vivid: "The creator of this spell is my colleague Sir Lothar, this is a very interesting person, when I have time, I will introduce you to him, and if you have any questions, go directly and ask him." β
"Okay, good......" Lin Li immediately smiled, and didn't care about the parchment at the moment, rolled two rolls and put it in his pocket, anyway, with Anduin's introduction, he would soon be able to meet the creator of this spell, so why bother to study those hellish characters?
"I think so, after the final on Orlana's side, you shouldn't have anything to do, right? Come with me then, and I'll show you somewhere, and introduce you to Sir Lothar by the way. β
Lin Li thought for a while: "You can also ......"
The two talked for a while, finalizing the itinerary after the finals, Anduin was also a little sleepy, and was about to go back to his room to sleep, but Lin Li suddenly remembered something.
"By the way, I have something in my hand, it's written in High Elf script, can you translate it for me?"
"High Elf text?" Anduin was stunned for a moment, and stretched out a withered hand: "Bring it to me and show it." β
"Wait......" Lin Li opened the Ring of Instimmer, searched there for a long time, and finally found the two rags: "This is the ......"
"Huh!" Anduin had just taken the rags, and the expression on his face suddenly changed, only to see his brows furrowed tightly, his eyes swept over the strange runes, and after reading the two rags, Anduin carefully put them together, and spread them on the desk to read them again.
And Lin Li's heart also hung up.
At this time, his heart was full of countless questions, but he could only hold back for life, and he didn't even dare to take an extra breath of air, for fear of alarming Anduin in his reading.
There is something wrong with these two rags, absolutely something!
"Tell me, Ferry, where did you get this thing?" Anduin spread the two rags on the table, and after looking at them again, he asked Lin Li with some doubts, and when he raised his head, the expression on his face was unprecedentedly serious.
"Where?" Lin Li thought for a while, and said honestly: "One piece is in the Luoyue Mountain Range, a thunder orangutan gave it to me, and as for the other piece, hehe, it was Gray who searched it from the Merlin family's treasure house......"
"The Merlin family?" When Anduin heard this, a sneer suddenly appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Sure enough, it's in the hands of the Merlin family......"
"What's wrong?" Lin Li was stunned for a moment, and there was a faint strangeness in his heart, although Anduin was born in the Garros Magic Guild, he didn't stay in the Emerald Tower for too long, could he have something to do with the Merlin family in this way?
Only this time, Anduin did not answer directly, but with a solemn face, he said in a deep voice: "Ferret, do you know that these two things in your hand are related to a big secret......
"What's the secret?"
"Osric, you've probably heard of it, right?"
"Nonsense......" Lin Li pursed his lips, thinking to himself, how could I not know...... "Before the fall of the High Elf Dynasty, the Great Lord Osric built a huge mausoleum for himself, which is a well-known story in the world of Anriel......" Anduin suddenly smiled when he said this, with a slight irony in his expression: "Almost everyone knows that Osric hid something in the mausoleum, but most people think that what is hidden in it is the wealth that the Great Lord has looted in his life, These people don't use their brains at all, why don't they want to think about it, with Osric's power at that time, the entire kingdom of Fran was his, why should he be interested in the wealth of the mortal world? β
"Do you know what's hidden inside?" When Lin Li heard this, he gradually understood.
Anduin didn't say anything, just nodded slightly: "What you have to tell you now will be a big secret, even in the Supreme Council, a secret that only a few people know......"
"Yes!" Lin Li hurriedly cheered up and waited to hear this big secret.
"In fact, many years ago, the Supreme Council had the clues to the mausoleum, and for so many years, we have been conducting research, and the reason why I went to the Luoyue Mountains and met you is also because of this reason, of course, this is not what we want to talk about today, I want to say that if our research direction is correct, I am at least eighty percent sure that what is hidden in the Mausoleum of Osric is not some wealth, but a weapon, a weapon strong enough to destroy the entire Kingdom of France......"
When he said this, Anduin paused slightly, and his expression faintly revealed some doubts: "However, I really can't imagine what kind of weapon can destroy the entire Kingdom of Fran......
"Hell......" Lin Li heard this, but his heart tightened.
He knew what it was...... The Supreme Council was indeed in the right direction, and what was hidden in the Osric Mausoleum was indeed a weaponβor rather, part of a weapon.
The name of that weapon is the Eternal Crucible!
"What's wrong?" Anduin said and spoke, but found that Lin Li's face didn't seem to be right, and for a while, he couldn't help but ask with some curiosity.
"It's nothing, you go on......" Lin Li shook his head, about the Eternal Furnace, he only mentioned a few words to Anduin, and didn't go into too much detail, if he explained it now, he wouldn't be able to explain it clearly in most days, so let's wait for Anduin to explain these two rags clearly, and then explain it to him slowly.
"But no one is sure that the weapon really exists, this is no way, after all, we have too little information in our hands, most of those precious documents in the dark ages have been engulfed in the flames of war, even if I, the so-called High Elf authority, can dig out, it is only a few words back then, to be truly sure, there is still a considerable distance......" Anduin finished speaking, and picked up the two rags again: "But with these two things, Our research should come to an end......"
"What does it have to do with these two things?"
"Yes." Anduin nodded, spread the two rags on the table, and his thin fingers slid lightly under a High Elf text: "Come and read this text, oh no, I forgot that you don't know the High Elf text, it probably means that before the fall of the High Elf dynasty, Osric knew that his life was coming to an end, so he let a powerful weapon accompany him to sleep ......"
"Then apart from this paragraph, what do the other High Elf words mean?"
"To put it simply, this is a mausoleum map, but the High Elves are different from humans, they don't like boring lines, they don't like monotonous squares, they think that the High Elves are the most perfect language in the world, they are used to using this tongue twister to express everything, look at what mess this is, the fangs hidden deep in the darkness, and warmly welcome every uninvited guest......"
"Huh?"
"Look at this paragraph again, the sleeping hero will be immortalized in the flames and ice......"
"You mean to say that the whole of Osric's Mausoleum is written in sentences like this that are longer than footwraps and more complicated than tongue twisters?"
"You're right......"
"I'm full!"
"But it has nothing to do with me, anyway, my research project is just to determine whether Osric really hid a weapon in the mausoleum, as for what exactly is hidden, I don't have much interest, this kind of thing is better to be buried in the ground forever, never be excavated, otherwise it will only bring a disaster to the world of Anriel, what hell, a weapon can destroy the kingdom of France, what else did Osric this madman do......" Anduin muttered and complained, He rolled up the two rags again: "Ferret, how about discussing something with you?" β
"What's the matter?"
"Can you lend me these two things first? I want to bring them back to the Supreme Council and show them to the rest of my colleagues. β
"It's no problem to give it to you......" Lin Li pursed his lips, like this kind of thing full of High Elf words, even if he gave it to him, he didn't know it: "But before you take it, can you help me translate a copy first?" β
"Why, you're also interested in Osric's mausoleum?"
"If I have the chance, I may go and take a look, after all, it is something left by the Great Lord, maybe there will be some unexpected discoveries......" Lin Li did not hide it, and nodded honestly.
"Then you have to be careful, the High Elves are not generally proficient in things like curses."
"Yes, I understand."
The two talked for more than an hour, they couldn't help but feel a little sleepy, Anduin said a few more words, then yawned back to his bedroom, and Lin Li lay on the bed but couldn't sleep, turning over and over pondering the two rags, there is one thing Anduin didn't say clearly, that is, the relationship between the Merlin family and these two rags, why when he heard that one of them was searched from the Merlin family, the old man suddenly came up with a sentence "Sure enough", does this mean, The old man had long known that the Merlin family would have something to do with these two rags?
After leaving Garros, Lin Li hadn't cared about the Merlin family for a long time.
Cromwell died in a duel, old Merlin disappeared completely, and now the Merlin family is no longer a threat, but I don't know why, Lin Li always feels a little uneasy, the disappearance of old Merlin is too weird...... For a whole night, Lin Li didn't close his eyes much, and all kinds of thoughts kept turning in his mind, until the sky was already cloudy and bright, and he fell asleep in a daze of tiredness.
This sleep lasted until the last three strokes, and it was not until the little dragon eagle was so hungry that he finally woke up Lin Li.
"It's strange, why didn't the old man wake me up today?" Lin Li got up from the bed groggily, and was about to find something to eat for Xiaolongying, but suddenly found that there seemed to be a note left on the table.
There were only a few words on the note, and Lin Li could read it at a glance.
"I've got to go beforehand."
"Sean, pack up, we're back in Orana!" Since Anduin is gone, Lin Li has nothing to do here, so he called Sean at the moment, cleaned up casually, and came out of Anduin's tower.
Lin Li's luck this time was good, although the terrain of the twilight forest was still complicated, but because of the existence of Sean, a thief, there were no jokes about getting lost along the way, so he returned to Orlana smoothly, and when he was fast entering the city, Sean said to Lin Li again:.
"By the way, Mr. Magician, I won't go into the city with you, I still have to prepare the three-color flowers you want, or can you make an appointment with a time and place, and I'll send them to you as soon as I'm ready?"
"Yes, that's fine." Lin Li nodded, and pointed in the direction of the Magic Guild: "See you at the door of the Magic Guild tomorrow afternoon." β
"Okay."
After sending Sean away, Lin Li held the little dragon eagle in one hand and slowly walked in the direction of the Magic Guild, anyway, the finals were approaching, and he had nothing to do, instead of sitting in the Magic Guild in a daze, it was better to walk around Orlana casually.
From the north of the city to the Magic Guild, it was only an hour away, Lin Li walked all the way, but it took a whole afternoon, from one street to another, from one shop to another, Lin Li had a good time, the little dragon eagle also ate to the fullest, the little guy had a round little belly, lying in Lin Li's arms and sleeping sweeter than anyone else.
It wasn't until about evening that Lin Li returned to the Orlana Magic Guild.
Who knows, before he walked into the guild hall, he suddenly saw a familiar figure on the corner of the street.
"Argus, what's the coincidence?"
"What a coincidence, I came to you on purpose......" Agus looked around sneakily, and then lowered his voice desperately and said: "I already have some eyebrows about what you asked me to inquire about for you last time......"
"Oh?" Hearing these suddenly, Lin Li immediately put away his joking expression, looked around, and then took Argus to a secluded place: "Tell me." β
"As far as I know, after that batch of equipment came out of the Maraton forge workshop, it was transported to the north."
"Are you sure?"
"Of course." Agus nodded affirmatively: "The person who told me the news is a director in the Maraton forge workshop, I once saved his life when he was an adventurer, he can't lie to me." β
"It seems that I guessed correctly...... "It has come to this point, it is already obvious, and the location of Garros is the north of the Kingdom of Fran.
"By the way, have you seen Madias lately?" Just as Lin Li gritted his teeth, Agus asked with some hesitation.
"No, I've been out of Orlana for the last ten days, what's wrong, what's wrong with Madias?"
"This ......" Agus thought for a while, but still said: "I don't know what's going on, but I can feel that Madias has been guarding me for a while......"
(To be continued)