Chapter 1757: The Age of Sailing: The Lost Mage

Strange knew he was in big trouble, but he didn't have any other options.

As a doctor, no matter what, he couldn't watch so many people die under his nose, so knowing that this was a pit, he still chose to jump into it without hesitation.

Of course, if it is said that this is a dead end, and the only end of jumping is to be buried with him, then he can only do nothing for this kind of thing, and there is nothing he can do to help. Fortunately, things haven't gotten that bad yet.

He still has something to think about, at least, he thinks he is right in this way. And why he can have such confidence, in the final analysis, is the special convenience left to him by his status as a disciple of Baron Modu.

Baron Modu was the former administrator of the New York Temple, and as a direct disciple of Master Guyi, he retained a very important piece of wealth when Kama Taj fell, which was treasured by Kama Taj Tens of thousands of precious books.

Ancient Egypt, ancient Persia, Greece, Rome, India, and even the collections left by the Library of Alexandria, the relics of the Palace of Wisdom, and the inheritance of Tantric Buddhism are all preserved by Kama Taj.

Baron Mordo spent a lot of effort to maintain such a wealth, and the effort he spent was not in vain, because he provided a huge amount to the latecomers, especially mages like Strange. convenience.

Strange wanted to find other ways to enter hell, relying on these precious books. And if there were no such things, it would be impossible for him to find such a secret way. And even so, it's not an easy job. It was like the mood of Strange standing in front of these tens of thousands of Tibetan books at this moment.

"Where the hell should I start looking?"

Where to start is the real question. You must know that these collections of books are all left in different eras and cultures. If you want to understand the contents of these collections, or even discover their secrets, the most basic thing is that you have to have an understanding of the cultures of these different eras. enough to know.

For Strange, this is almost a difficult obstacle to overcome. Because the written languages ​​he is proficient in are only English, Sanskrit and some Chinese. Among them, Chinese is what he is most confused about, because it is okay if it is a modern book that is easy to understand, but once the seal script appears on the text and the language becomes unfamiliar, he will immediately feel like reading a book from heaven.

In the past, he didn't think it would be a problem. After all, he still has a lot of time, and there is a knowledgeable teacher by his side to ask for advice. As long as he works hard to study, he will be able to learn these complicated knowledge sooner or later.

But now, there are only five days left for him, and he wants to find what he wants from so many complicated books in five days. It is simply impossible for him to spend time learning new languages ​​and characters.

Realizing this, Strange immediately made a decision in his heart, and then he immediately manipulated magic and cast it in this library full of books.

As a mage's collection of books, the collection of books here is of course impossible for you to pick up and read as you like in an ordinary library. Not to mention the possible damage to those ancient books, the anti-magic placed on these ancient books alone is enough for most reckless people to drink a pot.

If you want to read a book, you can only use Kama Taj's unique magic method to manage it. It's like fishing with a fishing rod, using magic to pull these precious books out.

If your mana has reached the level where you can read this book, then naturally you can grab it with your hands. And if you want to read books that you can't read at your own level, it's like trying to catch a whale with a fishing rod, even if you put all your energy into feeding it, it won't help at all.

After all, there are many classics with magic inheritance in Kama Taj's collection, and this is to prevent those apprentices from being too ambitious.

All of a sudden, he came into contact with something that he shouldn't have come into contact with, thus causing great harm to himself. Of course, this kind of thing will not happen to Strange. On the one hand, it is because his own level is there, almost equal to the magic power of the archmage, which is enough to mobilize all the books. On the other hand, what he was looking for was not those precious magic books, but anecdotes and secret information. Libraries are certainly not that restrictive in this respect.

Instead of putting effort into translating ancient books and languages ​​he didn't understand, Strange simply mobilized the mage's handbooks from modern times.

Since the age of great voyages opened, and the British became an empire on which the sun never sets with the convenience of great voyages, mages took advantage of the east wind of great voyages and began to openly explore various places in the world wearing various coats. unsolved puzzle.

You must know that this was not so easy in the past, because if they probed those cultural secrets in the way of mages, it might cause strong opposition from those cultural inheritance owners. On a more serious point, it is not impossible to attract monsters from the mysterious world or even gods and demons to fight.

However, if the expedition team on the European side is allowed to do such a thing, and they sit back and reap the benefits, then the situation will be different.

Explorers are ordinary people, and the treatment of ordinary people is different from that of mages. To deal with mages, those ancient inheritors will not violate the contract signed with the supreme mage no matter what they come. Even if they are killed, the supreme mage can only watch and cannot go to these guys to take revenge. But if it is an ordinary person, then the situation is different.

Waiting for one or two ordinary people to be involved in this kind of contest in the mysterious world, they will die if they die. The Supreme Mage would not risk such a big risk for the lives of one or two ordinary people to go to war with those ancient mysterious existences. However, if these ordinary people are an adventure team composed of great seafaring powers like Britain and France, then the situation is different.

The opening of the era of great navigation has broadened the horizons of the entire human race. For the first time, they realized that there are still places in this world they don't know, and there are areas they don't understand. You say it is out of yearning for the unknown, or out of your own greed and predatory nature. In short, people in that era were very willing to explore all places they didn't know. As long as someone is willing to spend money to fund it, there are experienced explorers who are willing to work hard. And money is really insignificant to mages.

Even if the accumulation of Karma Taj's thousands of years is not counted, just the magic touch can make them squander a lot of money at will. And in that era, with money, there was really nothing you couldn't do. Even if you want to buy a warship from the Royal Navy to form your expedition team, as long as your money is in place, it is not impossible to find someone with identity as a guarantee.

There is no shortage of money, people, and Karma Taj's mages, so naturally, under the guise of a powerful country like Britain and France, the expeditions actually operated by the mages are like a big net, Spread out to the whole world.

The previously unknown secrets are explored by the mages, and the previously unknown mysteries are held in the hands of the mages. Most of these have become the handwritten notes of the masters of Karma Taj and are recorded in the library of Karma Taj. And now, most of these notes were placed in front of Strange.

One thousand four hundred and forty-two copies, this is not a small number. Although many of the notes in it are less than two fingers thick, but so many piled up, Strange still had a kind of cranial pressure explosion in such a short moment. Feel.

As a doctor, he began to mourn for his liver, because he already felt that he was going to say goodbye to sleeping within these five days. For ordinary people, this is the rhythm of sudden death. But at any rate, he has gone beyond the concept of ordinary people now, such things as not sleeping for five days will pass after he bears it.

Having encouraged himself in this way, Strange picked up a volume of manuscripts and began to read them carefully.

This is a scroll about arctic exploration. The scroll records the event that the Inuit shaman signed a contract with the evil spirit at the cost of cutting off his tongue, and controlled the arctic evil spirit. Seeing the evil spirit, Strange paid attention, because he thought it might be related to what he was looking for about the gates of hell. But after careful research, he discovered that this has nothing to do with hell.

The so-called arctic evil spirit is not a guy from hell at all, it is more like a mixture of animal spirits and earthbound spirits, an evil thing born through primitive worship. In other words, it has no value, pass!

Throwing aside this volume of notebooks, Strange picked up another volume of notes.

This volume of notes records a period of history from Eastern Europe. There is no element of an adventure team in it, but some visions discovered by a local young man in Eastern Europe on his way home to visit his relatives after he learned spells in Kama Taj.

Eastern Europe has always been a backward region in Europe, where superstition is very heavy, and there are many legends about gods and vampires raging here. And in it, the Eastern European mage recorded a story about an evil god.

In a small town near his hometown, there has been such a legend. When you hear the rattling of crutches on the floor, you must hide your children. Otherwise, the owner of the crutches will steal your children, and when he steals a hundred children, the gates of hell will open in this land.

This legend seems to be a typical bedtime story to scare children, and the mage in the notes also thinks so, and doesn't take it to heart. But when he stayed in this small town, he discovered that this story is not as simple as a children's story, it is true.

In the dead of night, the owner of the hotel where he stayed was still busy with the guests who stayed overnight, and he didn't have time to take care of his children. And when he came back to his senses, both of his children had disappeared.

Many guests in the hotel, including the mage, stated that they heard the sound of the crutches on the ground. And this kind of thing made the hotel owner's face change drastically, and he even woke up the people in the whole town, holding up the torch and carrying the shotgun, and groped towards the forest outside the town.

The lives of the two children were at stake, and even a mage couldn't stay out of it. So, as an enthusiastic traveler, the mage also joined the search camp. And it was precisely because he joined it that he discovered that this town had hidden secrets that were unknown to outsiders.

The adults among them obviously don't treat this story as a legend, and when the things in the story really happened, they didn't panic like headless chickens, but were very organized, even It is said that he headed towards the forest outside the town with a clear goal.

Ordinary people may not be able to see this, but knowledgeable mages may see it clearly. And when he followed these townspeople deep into the forest, he immediately discovered the strangeness in the forest.

There is a castle in the forest, which is strange, but not uncommon. After all, in this part of Europe, it is really normal to have castles. Maybe if we turn up a hundred years, we can dig out a famous noble family.

Castle, not weird. What is weird is the structure of this castle. Except for a gate, the castle is completely sealed, without even a single window, which is naturally strange. And according to the record in the mage's notes, he felt as if he saw a huge coffin.

Not only does it give him this feeling from the outside, but also from the inside. The entire castle is not so much a castle as it is a tomb piled up with stones, and in such a tomb, the mage discovered many extraordinary things.

There are traces of cult rituals, large-scale blood sacrifices, seals, and all kinds of man-made damage. If this mage is a family, maybe he can immediately make up a dark story in his mind. And even though he has no talent in this area, he can still identify many unknown pasts from these remaining traces.

Obviously, this is a failed cult stronghold. On this point, even Strange could draw such a conclusion from the few words in the notes. As for why it is said to be defeated, you can guess it roughly from the words such as seal and destruction. And if we look at it from this perspective, the identities of the residents in this town are worth pondering.

Maybe a remnant of a cult, maybe a keeper of the seal. From the judgment of the note-taker, he was more inclined to the latter.

The remaining things are a bit clichéd, the evil god who broke away from the seal, the ancient count who was parasitized by the evil god. Blood sacrifice, and the door that was opened. The owner of the note seems to have escaped from the castle after a narrow escape, and it seems that he was also seriously affected, so that at the end of the note, he became somewhat incoherent.

Not having a conclusion is a headache, but in Strange's eyes, it seems to be a possibility.

He didn't simply draw a conclusion, but took the place recorded in this note as a tentative direction. As for whether he should explore it in the end, he still has to think about it. Of course, what he has to do now is to continue the work in hand.

There are still many scrolls, and there are still many options for him to choose. Maybe there is a better choice.

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