577 Book from More Than 3,000 Years Ago (1/2)
577 Book from More Than 3,000 丫ears Ago
Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina didn't show any changes in her expression when she heard Gehrman Sparrow say that he needed to consider it. She nodded calmly.
”No hurry.”
She seems to feel that I'm unable to make the decision regarding a transaction of this scale and that I need to seek advice from the secret organization backing me... Is this a problem of me not being able to make the decision? This is a problem of not having the money! Klein lampooned and dosed Groselle丨s Travels. He asked in a deep voice, ”Do you know who the author is?
”What happened to the people who last possessed this book?”
Edwina walked in front of him and reached out her right hand. She rubbed the cover with her fingertip and said, ”The owners from before cannot be identified, as the sinking of the ship has resulted in the relevant information being lost to history. Similarly, we are unable to confirm who the author is. Oh, the book doesn't include the author's name.
”I've used some mystical arts to study it and discovered that the goatskin was created at least 3,000 years ago, before the Cataclysm.
”This is why I believe it's worth at least 8,000 pounds.1
A book from three thousand years ago. There's a dragon, an elf, and a human ascetic, a Solomon Empire noble, and a Loen soldier... These are all concepts from years later! A magical book that contains the power of prophecy? Or did someone specially use an ancient goatskin to create it? But it's meaningless to do so. It's purely a hoax? Klein deliberately curled the corners of his mouth without any intent of smiling.
”The giant's name is Groselle. Could the author be Roselle?”
”No, Roselle's name originated from a root word in Jotun. When ancient Feysac evolved into Intis, there was a second change, making it have a different meaning...” Edwina explained in detail the origins of Roselle s name. It left Klein stunned as he felt like he was back in school.
He nodded gently and said in an unperturbed tone, ”If it's an ancient piece of work, I'm very curious as to why a frost dragon would be named the King of the North. What Sequence and pathway does it correspond to?
Edwina raised her gaze from Groselle's Travels and looked at Klein.
”Before the appearance of the first Blasphemy Slate, there was no concept of Sequences and pathways. Furthermore, many creatures didn't abide by such arrangements. In that Epoch, chaos and mania was the basic attitude to everything.
”Some dragons might gather many Beyonder characteristics related to frost, just like a Demoness s frost, a Zombie s frost, and a Weather Warlock's frost As such, it would possess rather powerful strength and a relatively high level. Of course, such a gathering would definitely lead to death and a loss of control.
”This means that if it doesn't die, it would definitely lose control and become a monster. However, a dragon is a monster in and of itself.”
If there are many similar products of this sort from the dragons, giants, and elves, then it can be understood why the Second Epoch is known as the Dark Epoch... Klein pondered for a moment and inquired as though he was talking to himself, ”This results in the wastage of Beyonder characteristics.”
Edwina looked at him for a few seconds.
”Emperor Roselle once said this:
”Whatever separates will definitely converge, and whatever converges will definitely separate.”
The Emperor said that before? I understand the first part. That's another form of saying the law of convergence of Beyonder characteristics. But what does the second part mean?
After the convergence happens to a certain extent, it would tend to separate and dissociate? When one doesn't belong to a particular pathway, the extremely chaotic convergent mix will cause a dissociation? The more chaotic it is, the more repulsion there is between the characteristics?
Such words aren't likely to be said to anyone. It definitely isn't something that's spread out in the public... Last time, I guessed from the Vice Admiral's usage of the Roselle's Dream Spell and her last name that she's a descendant of one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Edwards... It's extremely possible...
After the Emperor perished, their family escaped to Lenburg and gradually converted their faith to the God of Knowledge and Wisdom?
What a good teacher. She answers any question!
Klein didn't speak further as he continued admiring Vice Admiral Iceberg's collection.
At the same time, he had some thoughts. He planned on asking Little Sun via The World during the Tarot Gathering if he knew of the book, Groselle's Travels.
Of course, in order to prevent The Hanged Man from sensing something problematic with The World and hence, figure out that something was amiss with The Fool, he decided to communicate in private while blocking everyone else.
After a brief excursion of the room, Edwina led Klein out and entered the captain's room in the dining hall.
”The relatively special food here is yogurt. You can add strawberry jam and other things. You can also directly add honey...1 Edwina pointed to the row of food outside. ”There's some dried fish that isn't bad. They come from the deep sea, species that have yet to be named.”
As she spoke, she gestured for Klein to take the food for himself to bring back to the room. She then got up and made herself an example.
Klein took some yogurt of unknown origins and added a few spoonfuls of honey. Then, he carried his tray and placed pork sausages, buttered bread, and other food on it.
During this process, he saw a young man dressed in a white shirt and black vest, decked out with a flowery bow tie, looking more like an office worker than a pirate, approach Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina and have a hushed exchange with her.
The man had pretty good looks with almost blond hair other than his slightly black hair roots. His hair was neatly combed to the sides.
His eyes were a very light lake-green color, and his nose was sharp. He had thin lips and that made him exude a trustworthy vibe.
”Don't be fooled by that guy's appearance. He's a wolf-fish can. He stinks deep down!” Danitz whispered in contempt, having entered the pirate's dining hall and arriving beside Klein at some point in time.
Klein turned his head and glanced at him without saying a word. This was because he knew Danitz would offer to explain without him egging him on.
Without waiting for Danitz to speak, a man with a swollen waist beside him said with a crude and sharp voice, ”He's the third mate, Jodeson. He used to be a casanova and part-time pirate, saying that he would steal our Captain's heart, but he ended up getting a beating. He ended up staying to be educated. Dogsh*t!”