Chapter 49 The Price
"Qin Lun, I remember you came out of the underground treasure house of the Ambori Church. Didn't you even have some magic crystal cores?" Hill suddenly remembered something and said, "Those things are of great value, and may be able to offset our expenses."
"Yeah!" Qin Lun also remembered when he was reminded by Hill. He was worried about being paid attention to the gods, so he did not plunder too many things in the underground stronghold in Anboli. Apart from a large bag of wealth gold coins, he only brought out a parchment scroll, more than ten best-selling magic crystal cores, and a staff that had been pried off with magic gems.
The staff has been given to Hill. It is not very valuable after prying off the gems. Only the magic runes on it are worth studying. However, those pure magic crystal cores the size of eggs are relatively precious. As for the last parchment scroll, Qin Lun and others didn't recognize the ancient text on it at all, and they had long been thrown behind them.
However, perhaps in Zhunbao, this parchment scroll with ancient characters is the most valuable item.
"Then try it!" Qin Lun smiled and walked towards the elliptical magic mirror gate with water waves.
A scene flashed before my eyes, and a simple and simple office appeared in front of Qin Lun. This was a spacious study room with rows of bookshelves displayed everywhere. What was strange was that the bookshelf were filled with books, and the title was not marked on the spine.
In front of the study was a long desk with pages and parchment scrolls on it. An old white-bearded monk was copying something behind the desk.
Hearing the movement from the water mirror door in the room, he raised his head from the pile of books, but his eyes were blank, as if his mind had not yet escaped from the thoughts in front of him.
"Dear Reader, we are visitors who come to ask for the Candle Castle!" Qin Lun stroked his chest with his hands and bent down.
Before Linda left, she instructed them to call everyone they saw in the candle castle "readers". The "reader" here is not the reader position of the candle castle, but the general name of these scholars. Compared with the name of the mage and the wise, these people prefer others to call them "readers".
"Oh? Oh!" The old mage's eyes finally began to focus, smashed his mouth, and looked at Qin Lun and others in front of him.
"What kind of books do you want to borrow from the Central Library?" the old master pinched his eyebrows and asked in a low voice.
"Dear readers, we did not come here to borrow books, but to borrow the long-distance teleportation array from the underground maze of the Candle Fort." Qin Lun said respectfully.
"Hmm? Come to Zhubao to borrow magic circle?" The answer was obviously beyond the old mage's expectations. He touched the table, found a pair of monocle glasses and put them on, and began to carefully look at Qin Lun and others, "Human, Moon Elf, Highland Elf, are you mercenaries? No, let me see, you seem to have some weirdness on you!"
The old mage took out a set of black cards from the drawer of the table. After shuffling the cards, the corresponding six cards were drawn, and his fingers opened from right to left one by one, "Tree Demon Card, the forest guard, are you a ranger or druid?"
"I am a forest guardian of the Nature Sect!" Ilistin nodded with a smile, the forest guardian is usually the self-proclaimed of some druids.
"Mountain and Aries Card! A powerful highland elf, not like a mountain shepherd, so... a northern harpist?" The old mage pointed at Mastasha and raised his white eyebrows. His seemingly turbid gaze had extraordinary sharpness.
"The queen card that whipped... Ms. Lauvita's believer, haha, this is such a strange combination!" The old mage smiled happily, and when his eyes fell on the last three cards, he frowned slightly, "Three Gunner Cards, strange, you don't look like mercenaries... Alas, you are old, it's really useless!"
Qin Lun and the other two stared at the old mage's card. Even though they knew that the identity of the apostle would never be exposed, they were still sweating a little on their backs. The old guy's card divination is so amazing!
In a sense, aren’t the apostle just mercenaries who break the starry sky?
"Sorry, sorry, I'm not trying to find out your secrets, mainly because the underground maze of the candle castle is a major place and you can't let anyone in casually." The old master explained to himself and continued, "Since you have figured out that you are not thieves who steal books, it is certainly OK to borrow a long-distance teleportation array. However, before you came to the candle castle, you should have heard of the regulations here?"
"Yes, you, we will pay the right price." Qin Lun nodded with a smile, took out all the more than ten magic crystal cores from the storage space, and stepped forward and placed them on the old mage's desk two steps.
The old mage checked one by one without any mind. The whole process was very fast. He almost picked up one and put it down immediately. In an instant, he had already checked more than ten magic crystal cores.
Qin Lun and Hill looked at each other and saw the surprise in each other's eyes. They thought that the people arranged here in the Candle Castle should be just a small role, but judging from the current performance of the old mage, he has at least two professions that have reached the master level, one is card divination technique and the other is identification technique.
It is not enough to distinguish the profession and identity of others so accurately, but it is definitely involved in divination techniques in the mysterious field. Such a rapid test of the magic crystal core requires profound identification skills, which cannot be done by the identification master.
After checking the magic crystal core that Qin Lun took out, the old mage knocked on the table with his finger and said in a pondering manner: "These magic crystals are of good quality. If they are just used as tickets to enter the candle castle, then you six of them only need six. But if you want to borrow a long-distance teleportation array, it may not even be enough."
The old mage paused and continued to explain, "The long-distance teleportation array costs a lot. Although the teleportation distances vary, the nearest teleportation location also requires hundreds of such magic crystals to be consumed."
"Hundreds..." Everyone looked at each other, and a feeling of powerlessness appeared in their hearts.
Qin Lun originally thought that if these magic crystal cores are not worth enough, then exchange some magic crystals from the list of starry sky items, but the number of hundreds is too exaggerated.
Besides, this is not just a single teleportation, but a bit unworthy of spending more than 100,000 broken crystals!
"It seems that this is a bit embarrassing for you!" The old mage seemed to be accustomed to it and said with a smile, "Hundreds of magic crystals converted into gold coins are indeed astronomical numbers, but what Candle Castle really values is knowledge, not wealth. If you have prepared documents or lonely books that we don't have here and can impress me, then you can borrow a teleportation array without a single gold coins!"
"How do you think of this parchment scroll? There are some ancient characters recorded on it, which should be of great research value!" Qin Lun hesitated for a moment, took out the ancient parchment scroll obtained from the Anboli Church from his arms and put it in front of the monk.
"Oh, let me take a look first!" The old mage pushed his monocle glasses, took the parchment roll, and got in front of the candle to watch it.
Looking at the old wizard's unpredictable old face under the candle, Qin Lun and others suddenly felt aware of being waiting for trial, and they couldn't help feeling a little nervous.
The expression on the old mage's face gradually became serious, and even habitually gnawed his fingernails. It seemed that the text on the parchment was indeed something he had never seen before, which made Qin Lun and others who had been observing their expressions and expressions breathe a sigh of relief.
After a while, the old mage finally put down the parchment in his hand, but his eyebrows were furrowed, and his expression rarely showed a trace of hesitation.
"I can't judge the value of this scroll!" said the old mage in a slow tone, "But it's not because I don't know what this thing is, but because the value of this thing itself is difficult to measure..."
"Can you understand these words?" Qin Lun's eyes flashed, and a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes.
He has been getting this pampered scroll for many days, but no matter how he studies it, he can't understand the ancient texts on it. This is a very strange phenomenon. You should know that the broken starry sky puts the apostles into the world of different time and space. The apostle's soul seal is often directly injected into the common words related to the continent from ancient times to the present. As long as the text is passed down, it can basically be automatically translated.
The words that cannot even translate the Apostle Soul Seal are encrypted texts, and they are protected by the laws of the world. No matter which one is deciphered, it will bring Qin Lun a certain degree of world exploration.
"I can understand it, but it's equivalent to not understanding it!" The old mage twisted his white beard and said with some distress. "This is a private magic note of an ancient magician, and it belongs to the period of the Neserel Empire. The content may contain research results on a certain Neserel scroll."
"Research notes on Naiser Scroll?" Qin Lun and others were a little surprised.
They knew that the Nesser scroll not only recorded many forbidden spells, but also extended a complete magic system through it. It can be said that this is the third complete magic system independent of dragon language magic and elves magic, and can even get rid of the magic net of the magic goddess Misla and exist independently.
"Then have you deciphered some of the contents?" Qin Lun asked expectantly.
As an apostle, behind Qin Lun is the Broken Starry Sky, and it does not require all deciphering. As long as the old mage in front of him can decipher part of it, then this parchment scroll has no secret to the Broken Starry Sky, just like the secret letter from Santalin that Mastasha intercepted.
It can also bring Qin Lun a lot of world exploration. After all, this is the research notes on Nesser scrolls that have influenced an era.
"Haha, do you know what a magician's private notes are?" The old mage couldn't help but smile bitterly and shook his head. As he explained, everyone suddenly understood.
Every magician is a knowledgeable wise man. They usually have a lot of reading and writing work. At the same time, in order to protect their research results, they often create shorthand texts that only they and their subordinate apprentices can understand.
If a magician achieves extraordinary achievements and his mantle is inherited by many apprentices, and his apprentices are spreading, then a magic faction will be formed, and the shorthand texts he created privately will spread.
From ancient times to the present, there are many magic factions as many as stars. The inheritances left by some famous magicians have been inherited by many people, and the shorthand texts created by privately created have gradually become public. However, some magicians who have cut off their inheritance have left them as private notes that no one can understand.
The pampering scroll that Qin Lun obtained was a link between the past and the future. Some of the shorthand texts are shorthand texts that are relatively wide-circulated, which the old master can understand. However, the core part, especially the research texts on the Naiser scroll, has distinct personal traces, so the old master naturally cannot understand them.
Chapter completed!