Chapter 571 - Haiga Mountain Range (1/2)
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Cheyenne didn’t show any signs of surprise when Lin Li saw through his ident.i.ty. If Lin Li couldn’t even do that, then he should probably doubt the authenticity of the hearsay. Cheyenne didn’t explain much, and just replied, “Master Felic, you’re too courteous. It’s my lack of manners to visit you without telling you beforehand.”
Though Cheyenne and Lin Li had an age gap of almost 100 years, and Cheyenne might be even older than Lin Li’s great, great-grandfather, the age gap was unimportant given that both were Legendary-mages. The reality of Anril was just like that. Ability was everything. Be it status or age, everything was nothing compared to power.
Moreover, Lin Li had a greater chance of reaching Sanctuary-realm. Therefore, Cheyenne couldn’t pull rank in front of Lin Li even though he had reached the Legendary-realm earlier.
“Let’s skip the pleasantries. Have a seat.” Lin Li smiled and led the two of them back to their seats before sitting down himself. He asked, “Master Cheyenne, you’re not just here to visit me, right?”
“Haha, Hutton will tell you more. I haven’t been settling family affairs for a long time,” replied Cheyenne while sizing up this young Legendary-mage. He couldn’t help but sigh in his heart. Was this the difference in talent? Cheyenne had experienced so much hards.h.i.+p, and reached the Legendary-realm with so much difficulty at every step he took. In contrast, this young Master Felic had successfully reached the Legendary-realm in the Blackstone Mountains, and just defeated the Legendary-mage of the Elven Kingdom. He was probably already level-22.
Lin Li could feel Cheyenne’s prying eyes, but he didn’t care about it. He turned his eyes to Hutton, waiting for him to reveal the intention behind this visit. Lin Li was curious what matter would have brought Master Cheyenne here. After all, Cheyenne had never left the territory of the Malfa Family before.
It was not a small matter for Master Cheyenne to leave the territory of the Malfa Family, since the Malfa Family and Dark Blade were always on opposite sides. The survival of the Malfa Family till now depended on Master Cheyenne. If not for him, the entire Malfa Family would have been destroyed by the Dark Blade. The Malfa Family was put in a dangerous situation after Cheyenne left its territory. If the Dark Blade were to know of this news, the Malfa Family would probably be wiped out.
Hutton knew that Master Felic was a Legendary-mage comparable to his teacher. Hence, he lowered his att.i.tude very much, and chose his words carefully before saying, “Master Felic, I have to express my grat.i.tude for sharing the treasure map that you’ve got at the Scar of Death with us. From then, our family concentrated all our resources on uncovering the mysteries hidden in the map, and finally saw some results not long ago. As the Malfa Family and the Tower of Dusk are allies, and we have also benefited because of your generosity, we should share our findings with you on our part, no matter what they are.”
“Oh?” Lin Li raised his eyebrows. This news was indeed quite a surprise. Lin Li had known from the start that the treasure map was a blueprint of a Sky Castle. It was the strongest Sky Castle out of the Seven Sky Castles of the High Elves—the Seventh Sky Castle which possessed Conquering Mageweaths. Legends said that the Immortal King’s treasures were hidden on top of this Seventh Sky Castle.
Lin Li had obtained three items left behind by the G.o.d of Mages Geresco after visiting the Abyss of Tharlen—the Book of Eternity, a magical crystal of the Evil Eye Tyrant, and a key to the Seventh Sky Castle. From his inference, the reason why the Seventh Sky Castle didn’t partic.i.p.ate in the war at the end of the dark age was most likely because Geresco had stolen and hidden it in a crack between time and s.p.a.ce.
On the treasure map, there was not only the blueprint of the Sky Castle, but also thousands of words in High Elves Print. This writing was extremely difficult for humans to understand. Even those mages who specialized in researching High Elves’ magic only investigated magical-spell-related words, and few would investigate unrelated narratives.
Lin Li had been reading the Book of Eternity for a while. Other than learning about profound magic, he had also gained a much better understanding of the language of the High Elves. Hence, he had been examining the High Elves Print on that treasure map as well. Though he couldn’t understand every word, he got the gist of the pa.s.sage by inferring and guessing some words. From the pa.s.sage, Lin Li could approximately infer the position of the crack between time and s.p.a.ce as well as some other things, although the picture on the treasure map was the blueprint of the Sky Castle.
“Do you mean the Immortal King’s treasure?” asked Lin Li without a change in expression.
Speaking of the research findings, Hutton couldn’t help being pleased with himself, and nodded. “Yes. After putting in great effort in examining the High Elves’ language, we’ve finally come to a rather credible conclusion. The Immortal King’s treasure is likely to be hidden in—”
Just as Hutton was about to reveal the location they had discovered through their research, Lin Li suddenly cut in and said something incomprehensible in a peculiar tone as if reciting a spell.
Hutton was slightly confused, and had no idea what Lin Li was talking about. He only felt that his tone sounded like he was reciting a magical spell. However, why did he even need to use magic when they were just chatting here so peacefully?