Chapter 244 - Mausoleum Map (1/2)

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“I know him, of course…” Andoine pursed his lips. “The creator of the spell is my colleague, Sir Lothar. He is a very interesting man. If you are free, I can bring you to meet him, then you can ask him whatever questions you want.”

“Alright, alright, alright…” Lin Li smiled. He stopped looking at that parchment and rolled it into his pocket. Since Andoine knew the man, Lin Li would be able to meet the creator very quickly. Why would he need to waste his energy on those freaking runes?

“I say, you shouldn’t have anything on after the compet.i.tion in Alanna, right? Until then, I can bring you to a place and introduce Sir Lothar to you.”

“That will do…” Lin Li replied after thinking for a moment.

The two of them continued to discuss their schedule after the compet.i.tion. Then, just when Andoine wanted to retire to his room, Lin Li suddenly remembered something.

“Oh, yes. I have something with me written in the High Elves Print. Can you help translate it for me?”

“High Elves Print?” Andoine paused for a moment. He reached out his boney arm, and said, “Let me see.”

“Hold on…” Lin Li opened the Ring of Endless Storm and searched for quite a while before finding those two rags.

“Eh?” Andoine received the rags and his expression suddenly changed. He frowned as he scanned through the unusual runes. After reading the contents of both rags, he pieced the two of them together carefully. Then, he took them to the table to look at them again.

Lin Li’s heart was also suspended in the air.

At this point in time, he was trying to suppress all of his questions. He did not even draw any deeper breath as he feared it might disturb Andoine.

There certainly would be some issues with the two rags!

Andoine looked up and asked Lin Li seriously, “Felic, tell me, where did you find them?”

“Where?” Lin Li repeated his question, and thought for a moment. “I found one in the Sunset Mountains. It was given to me by a Thunder Gorilla. The other one was from Gerian. He found it in the treasury of the Merlin Family, hehehe…” Lin Li answered honestly.

“Merlin Family?” Andoine smirked. “I knew it would be with them…”

“What’s the problem?” Lin Li froze. He could not help but feel weird. Although Andoine was from Jarrosus Guild of Magic, he spent little time in the Emerald Tower. How could he have any issues with the Merlin Family?”

This time, Andoine did not reply directly. “Felic, do you know that the things in your hands are related to a crucial secret…” he said gravely.

“What’s the secret?”

“You should have heard about Osric, right?”

“Nonsense…” Lin Li pursed his lips. How could he not know him?

“Before the High Elves collapsed, the great leader Osric built a ma.s.sive mausoleum for himself. Everyone in the World of Anril knows about it…” Andoine said with a smile, and his tone was dripping with sarcasm. “Almost everyone knew that Osric had hidden some things in that mausoleum. However, most thought that it was all his wealth. None used their brains to think about why Osric would be interested in wealth when the entire Felan Kingdom belonged to him.

“Do you know what were the treasures?”

Lin Li gradually figured it out now…

Andoine said nothing. He gave Lin Li a light nod. “What I’m going to tell you now is a top secret—a secret that very few people in the Supreme Council know about…”

“Continue!” Lin Li prepared himself for what Andoine was about to say.

“In reality, the Supreme Council has gotten ahold of some information on the mausoleum many years back. We have always been looking into it all this while. That was the reason why we travelled to the Sunset Mountains, and how I met you. Of course, that was not important. What I wanted to say is, if our information is correct, we are very sure that the treasure inside the mausoleum is not wealth, but a weapon. A weapon that had the ability to destroy the entire Felan Kingdom…”

Andoine paused for a while. “However, I can’t imagine what weapon could destroy the whole of Felan Kingdom…” he continued doubtfully.

“Freak…” Lin Li exclaimed nervously.

He knew what the treasure was…

The focus of the Supreme Council was not wrong. The treasure inside the mausoleum was indeed a weapon. To be exact, it was a part of the weapon.

And that weapon was the Eternal Furnace!

“What’s the matter?” Andoine couldn’t help but ask after he realized the changes in Lin Li’s expression.

“Nothing, you can continue…” Lin Li shook his head. He’d briefly told Andoine about the Eternal Furnace before, and left out a lot of details. If he were to properly explain everything to him, he would need an entire day to do so. Hence, he wanted to wait for Andoine to tell him more about the two rags before Lin Li slowly told him about it.

“But, no one could ascertain the existence of that weapon. With our limited resources, we couldn’t help it. Those precious doc.u.ments from the Dark Age have long been swallowed by flames of war. Even if with my authority on the High Elves, I can’t confirm any a.s.sumptions at all…” After saying that, Andoine picked up the two rags again. “But, with these two things, we should be able to conclude our research…”

“Is it related to these two things?”

“Yes.” Andoine nodded as he pieced the two cloths on the table. His boney finger underlined a section of the High Elves Print. “Have a look at this— no, I’ve forgotten you do not know how to read the High Elves Print. It generally means that before the collapse of the High Elves Kingdom, Osric knew his life was coming to an end. Hence, he let a powerful weapon accompany his eternal rest…”

“Apart from this section, what does the rest of the print mean?”

“In layman’s term, this is a map of a mausoleum. But, the High Elves are different from humans. They do not like monotonous lines, and felt that the High Elves Language is the most perfect language in the entire world. Look, since the High Elves use riddles to communicate, there’s this line: ‘The fangs hidden in the darkness welcome every uninvited guest…’”

“What?”