445 CDXLV. The Mind-blowing News (2/2)
His companions also had difficulty understanding that speech, especially Reidar, who didn't even know how it worked or what a Vortex was, having been born on Skjold, like most Viking warriors he had known.
”This... this could change everything... how do you know that?! How is that even possible that you know all these things?! Where did you get all this detailed information?!” Dag asked, quickly standing up and resting his hands on the table, slinging his shoulders forward, toward the ice mage.
”In reality, they're anything but detailed and you are the first people I've told. This means that this secret, given its importance, should not come out of this room. Wait, I'll show you with your own eyes, so you'll believe what I say” Kranus replied, rising from his throne of bones and turning to the bookshelf, beginning to touch all the ancient books on his shelves one by one.
Meanwhile, Dag's gaze was lost in thin air, between the table and the floor, and a thousand thoughts crowded his mind, after hearing the news that would change his life forever.
Egill put a hand on his shoulder and the two crossed their eyes: ”Stay focused, Dag. This news has shocked me too, but it's not yet time to get distracted. Look at that” the Master Of Healing said, pointing his head in the direction of the leader of the Ice Giants leader, who finally pulled the book he was looking for from one of the shelves.
”Here it is” he said, lifting a heavy book with the black leather cover and slamming it on the table because of its weight.
The dust accumulated on the frontal part of the cover and on the pages of the upper part of the book, fluttered in the air, disappearing and Kranus immediately opened the first pages, beginning to flip through them relentlessly.
Dag and the others stood still, trying to look and understand what he was doing, while the magician continued to search for a specific page that would bring to their attention.
Although Kranus was very quick in his movements, Dag still managed to catch a glimpse of something on a page, discovering that even that book, which looked ancient, was not written in elder futhark, but in some other language that probably only a native Krypstorm inhabitant could understand.
At one point, suddenly, the magician stopped and when he found the right page, he turned the book toward his guests, allowing them to look.
The left page was completely written and therefore indecipherable, but on the right one, there was a single big image, clearly hand-drawn and slightly blurred due to time.
In the image, a large crystal of pseudo spherical shape was painted in the center of the page and below it, smaller, there were 6 planets.
”What?... I don't understand...” Dag whispered, reflecting aloud and trying to interpret the full meaning of the image, in which there were also several words written in the ancient language.