The long fairy road is wonderful

Chapter 1217 I still have to run errands

The Edrasterian Empire claims to be the orthodox successor of the old empire, and other countries have done this before, but even the name of the Edrasterian Empire is the same as the old empire, and they still continue to believe in themselves. It belongs to the heir of the old empire, and this is really the only family.

They attach great importance to the cultural relics of the old empire, almost like a demon, from the nobles and emperors to the common people, they are all obsessed with it.

Over a long period of time, the Adrastia Empire has collected a lot of cultural relics from the old empire period, among which there are countless books and documents.

But you have to understand that the writing of the old empire is different from the writing of today.

The college founded by Priest Oghma from other planes was originally intended to teach knowledge and let more people understand the importance of knowledge. They also brought the common language used in other planes.

This language is simple and easy to learn, and it is far easier to understand than the native language of the Lost Land. However, it is unexpected that the easy-to-learn feature of the Common Language makes it spread like a plague, while the local language and characters of the Lost Land are now instead Almost lost.

Only a few language or historians know this lost language, so many collected documents from the Old Empire period are incomprehensible.

What's more, the old empire was very obsessed with astrology. Many of their records are like charades. To understand it, you need not only know the language, but also have a certain amount of astrology knowledge.

As it happens, this part of Petra will be.

Petra will find the temple buried in the pond, unearth the mithril disc with clues to the treasure of Nemesis, itself found from ancient texts held in the library of the Edrastia Empire clue.

At that time, Petra had agreed with Kuranxue that all valuable antiques found would be handed over to the empire, and the empire would buy them at market prices.

But because of the interference of the Farghus Revolutionary Army and Petra's excitement, he simply forgot the agreement with Kuranxue.

In the end, Lin Tianci and the others ran away with Chuxue, the treasure that belonged to the Ice Demon. Ao Guang also opened a tunnel-like hole in the mountain where the treasure was buried. empty. (see Chapter 836 for details)
It seems that everyone has taken advantage of it, but the result is that the imperial hair that provided the most important information has not been caught, and they have to spend a lot of money to buy back the cultural relics of the old empire that were left outside. Now I don’t know how many things are left. Adrift.

This is a very painful thing for the Adrastia Empire, which claims to be the heir of the old empire. It is no wonder that Kuranxue will go crazy when talking about this.

"I don't want to either. You don't know how urgent the situation was at that time. There was a time limit to open the treasure. If it was too late, we would have to wait another 33 years. What's more, it was only me and Lin Tianci at the time. There were too many of them, and we couldn't handle it." .”

Ku Lanxue looked at Lin Tianci, and she didn't know whether she believed Petra's explanation, or felt that she would save Petra some face in front of Lin Tianci, an outsider, so she let go and returned to her seat.

Petra rubbed her pinched cheeks and said:

"Don't worry, I won't cheat you this time. We just want to find some information about astrology."

"Astrology? Why do you want those materials?"

In the old empire period, astrology was an extremely developed and very important subject, and there were a lot of materials about this part, but these things are often only of cultural relic value, and basically no one would look for it specifically.

Petra said so, of course Kuranxue would ask this question.

"Just do some research as usual, I am a beautiful girl with both history and stars."

Of course, I can’t tell the truth. Let’s not mention whether the fact that the information is obtained to find a way to enter Avis will be leaked. The evil cultivators are not good at it. Speaking of which, the old empire will be destroyed because they are trying to find it. Avis was attacked secretly by the evil cultivator.

Kuranshe belonged to a pretty good friend of Petra's, which, if truth be told, would get her in big trouble.

But it was also because the two were so familiar, Petra knew that Kuranxue was talking nonsense when she opened her mouth, but she was very considerate and didn't expose it.

"You can enter the library, but because I was very upset about the treasure last time, you have to do me a favor."

Petra hugged her chest very exaggeratedly:
"Could it be that Kuranxue has awakened that aspect of your sexual interest?"

"..."

Brother Lin really wanted to turn his face away, did you forget that I'm still here, so be careful with what you say.

Kuranxue simply ignored Petra, and took out a piece of what looked like some kind of metal from the drawer below and put it on the desk: "Although I don't want to admit it, but you are the most authoritative history that I know. Scholar, let's see what this fragment belongs to."

When she heard that it was related to cultural relics, Petra also became energetic. She picked up the piece of metal and carefully observed the patterns on it.

This fragment is about ten centimeters long and arc-shaped, like a fragment of some kind of sphere. The outer wall is engraved with exquisite and complicated patterns, so complicated that it makes me dizzy to look at it.

The shard itself was made of some kind of metal, but it was unclear whether it was painted with a layer of black paint or the metal itself was like this. The shard looked black, and the sun seemed to be absorbed by it.

What's even more inexplicable is that when Lin Tianci saw this fragment, he felt a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

He searched for memory, Petra frowned:
"This looks like a fragment of a magic item, and the pattern doesn't look like a product from the Old Empire... Where did you find it?"

Kuranxue spread her hands:

"This is the crux of the problem. It was discovered by my expedition team in the Beistra territory."

"I see, from the desert of the capital of the old empire..."

During the period of the old empire, the entire continent of Fodora was within the territory of the empire, but shortly after the death of the tyrant Nemesis, a big explosion of unknown cause occurred in the territory directly under the empire where the capital was located, and the entire territory was reduced to ashes. Seeing this, the enfeoffed nobles in various territories claimed that they were the orthodox heirs, and then there was a chaotic war that lasted for thousands of years, which has continued to this day.

The directly governed territory that was burnt to a white ground by an unknown explosion is now a desert. The last time he came to the Lost Lands, Lin Tianci had seen the desert once from a distance, but he had no chance to enter it.

"My court magician insisted that this is a fragment of a powerful magic weapon. He said that the magic lines on it were by no means made by humans. They were too complicated. Even in the heyday of the old empire, it would be impossible to create them with all the efforts of the whole country. I can figure it out. Besides, I suspect..."

"You suspect that this shard is some kind of magic weapon that destroyed the old empire."

Continuing the second half of the sentence, Petra took the fragment and shone it in the sun:
"Thousands of years have passed and it still hasn't decayed. Even in arid places like deserts, it is impossible to leave no traces at all. I don't know much about enchanting, but I know that this metal itself is not something that pure steel can do. , it should be a special magic alloy."

Putting the pieces back on the desk, Petra said again:
"I can tell you with certainty that this is not an antiquity from the old empire period. As for what it is, it is beyond my professional scope."

At this time, Lin Tianci interjected:
"That fragment, I may have seen the original."

Seeing the two girls turning their heads in surprise, Lin Tianci continued:

"This should be part of the Destruction Sphere, a weapon of mass destruction made by the ancient elves, but because the cost performance was too low, the Destruction Sphere was eventually abandoned, but I remember that the finished product of the Destruction Sphere was not destroyed, and basically all of it was directly sourced. sealed up."

"How do you know such details? I always thought that you were only interested in eating."

Petra hit the essence of Lin Tianci in one click...

"This starts with my adventures. I often go out for a walk, even if I don't want to, I will know some special information."

It has nothing to do with Saili to recognize what kind of destruction sphere it is, but it comes from when Lin Tianci was accidentally thrown to the west to take risks.

At that time, they went to the Hurricane Circle in the Northland and joined the last teammate of the Four Kings' team, Vaolek. From him, they had heard of the destruction ball, an ancient elf product, and even the Four Kings' team planned to take it at that time. As the task target, send it to the lord of Yamen City to hand in the task. (See Chapter 342 for details)
But why did the sphere of destruction of the ancient elves suddenly go to the Lost Land and directly blow up the direct jurisdiction of the old empire?
Lin Tianci guessed that this matter must be caused by evil cultivators.

Evil cultivators have always been very careful. Even when they are active on other planes that monks cannot touch, they always hide in the dark and never show others easily.

During the old empire period, they were looking for the way to Avis through astronomy, which means that the hometown of evil cultivators was directly threatened. Of course, they couldn't just wait for someone to come to their door.

The result was that the tyrant Nemesis was assassinated, and the evil cultivators felt that it was not safe. It was better to destroy their research directly, and it would be safer to leave the Lost Land in a state of chaos and have no time to think about these.

With the skills of the celestial masters, it is trivial to destroy a city, but because of the cautiousness of the evil cultivators, in order to prevent any clues from being left behind, they switched to the destruction sphere that was abandoned and sealed by the ancient elves, and then created a big explosion.

In this way, even if someone can find out that it was caused by the explosion of the destruction sphere, they will think that it is the old empire's own blind research, and the orthodox monks who know that there are evil cultivators do not know what the destruction sphere is at all.

If it weren't for the wonderful work of Lin Tianci, it would be impossible to connect the two.

Hearing Lin Tianci say that this thing might be the culprit for destroying the old empire, Kuranxue and Petra didn't respond, and they gave an oh to express their understanding, so they didn't take it seriously.

After all, thousands of years have passed. For the current Adrastia Empire, if this thing is not a cultural relic of the old empire, it is of little value.

"After talking for a long time, what do you want me to do for you?"

"Near the place where this fragment was found, my expedition also found an ancient ruin of the Old Empire, but there was something wrong with that place and the expedition could not pinpoint the exact location."

When Lin Tianci heard it, he immediately understood.

Sure enough, another errand was needed.

(End of this chapter)