OBS Chapter 3439: Anecdotes of the Kingdom of Islands
Chapter 3439: Anecdotes of the Kingdom of Islands
Chapter 3439: Anecdotes of the Kingdom of Islands
At the bottom of this short message written on the animal skin was the signature and time. Shade calculated that it was fifteen years after the priest left the island. So if he really came back here, he should be able to see this letter.
"But the letter doesn't look like it's been touched by anyone."
Xiwei said that although it is possible that the priest saw the letter and put it back, Shade did not think that he would keep it if he saw it:
"So even though he returned to the island, there's a high probability that he never came back here."
Xia De looked at the dilapidated house. Although there was snow only on the ground below the hole, there was no trace of human life anywhere else.
"The other party may be worried that their neighborhood will be monitored again, but the information I got is that the people in the tribe have never monitored this place. And this letter..."
Xia De hesitated for a moment, and used his fingertips to rub the ink on the animal skin that had not faded in nearly two hundred years. Xi Wei came close to Xia De to take a look, and the drooping hair beside her ears swept Xia De's face:
"Is there a problem with the ink?"
"Luvia has been trying to make a strange ink recently. The ink used in this letter is very similar to the ink she made. But the ink has been lost for a long time. It might not have been lost two hundred years ago."
Although the priest had never returned, the ink incident was still worth the two of them searching the house carefully. Although the family took most of their belongings with them before moving away, many things were left behind.
It seems that the male owner of this house used to be a stonemason. When Shad ventured into the dangerous basement, he even found a small amount of stone left behind by the other party and a map of the location of a small open-air stone mine nearby.
"Snake scale stone?"
He found the unique stone needed to make "ink" among those stones, which made Shade more certain that the ink used on the animal skin was similar to the ink that Luvia was trying to make. Although not exactly the same, the ink from two hundred years ago must contain some unknown ingredients, which might provide Luvia with new ideas.
So Shade didn't put the letter back in the end, but planned to let Mr. Sargent, the "potion merchant", identify the ingredients in it after returning to Kyle-Todd. If the letter had no other use in the end, Shade would put it together with the remaining hand bones of the defected priest.
Although he didn't see his mother's letter, it would have been nice to lie with it in the end.
"You are always so gentle."
This is Xiwei's evaluation of Shad.
Afterwards, the two checked the direction where the three people from the Prophet Association had appeared, but the fortune-tellers, like them, tried their best to erase the traces of their actions. Shade even tried to use [Echoes of the Past] to listen to the conversation between the three people, but the sound he heard was rustling, and he couldn't make out the specific content of the conversation.
This shows that those fortune tellers even thought of guarding against prying eyes from the other side of time.
Seeing that there were no clues in the village, Xia De planned to go to the last stop of this trip with Xi Wei. The grave of the priest's brother who died accidentally in the snow mountain was deep in the snow mountain, so they did not return to the sea, but also set out from the gate of the fortress and then walked all the way to the direction of the snow mountain.
Elder Harald had already prepared the most suitable route into the mountains for Shad. Shad was originally worried that the people from the Prophet Association would also go there, but fortunately, no trace of them was found along the way.
Along the way, he continued to talk with Xiwei about the scenery, the past and the future. Xiwei shared his sailing experience with Shade and told Shade that if this place was not near the old continent but in the Kingdom of Islands, then the dangers they would have to face would not only be humans.
"What else?"
"The most common one is the siren, a creature with bird-like wings, a body similar to that of a female human, covered with feathers and scales, and legs like a sea snake. They will wait for their prey to approach on the beach or on the wreckage of a shipwreck, disguised as a damsel in distress, but more often they will come in groups and build nests on the tops of coastal mountains."
She shared her experiences with Shade:
"And the abandoned village we just visited. If this was the Kingdom of the Islands, it would have been occupied by water ghosts or fish people as a coastal nest. As for the underwater cave we visited this morning, it might also be used as the territory of sea monsters and snakes."
"Are there so many alien creatures over there in the Kingdom of Islands?"
Xiwei nodded:
“The further away from the Old World, the more common alien life forms are. Therefore, the Kingdom of the Islands was one of the main sources of extraordinary materials before the New World was discovered.
The tribes on the archipelago also retained the ancient living habits like the Fatu people today, and were extremely brave and good at fighting. Although they valued honor, they did not have a strong sense of morality. Looting ships traveling between the New and Old Worlds was the main source of income for many people.
"Is the probability of a ring wizard being born among them as high as that of the Fatu people?"
Walking on the small path leading into the mountain, Xia De continued to ask curiously, and Xi Wei immediately shook his head:
"I didn't know the Fatu people before, but I got to know them this time because of Claire. I bet that the Fatu people are definitely the group with the highest proportion of ring sorcerers among all the existing humans. This mountain is really protecting them."
As for the large number of extraordinary people in the three major academies, it is naturally because of the different races.
"The situation in the Kingdom of the Islands is exactly the opposite of what you think. The percentage of Ringwitches among the people there is extremely low. Once a Ringwitch is born, he or she will basically become a 'wizard' or 'prophet' of a certain tribe or settlement, and then learn the inherited magic spells. Therefore, although the Five Gods Church in the Kingdom of the Islands is far less powerful than in the Old Continent, there are rarely any problems between Ringwitches there."
Xiwei said, taking the hand from Xiade, and Xiade pulled her to a higher cliff:
"Why are there so few ring sorcerers being born? Is it a racial issue?"
“No, I’ve read a few papers. Although the statements vary, the mainstream view is that they are far away from the civilized heartland of the material world, and their own civilization level is far behind that of the Old World in the Steam Age, so the number of ring wizards born is relatively low.
Shade, do you remember why the life ring of the ring wizard is brass-colored?"
Shade recalled what Dr. Schneider had told him at the beginning:
"Because this is the age of steam and machinery, the Life Ring emerged from the steam and was forged by the hammer, giving it a brass color. For us in this era, civilization is the most powerful force."
At this moment, at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, recalling the doctor's words in the midsummer, Xia De had a different feeling. At that time, he didn't even know what the relic was, but now he has mastered two sublimation words and witnessed countless ancient secrets.
What the doctor said at the beginning was so accurate. For this world that is about to end and is about to perish, civilization is indeed the last creative force that people can still continuously have.
Xiade and Xiwei both liked the atmosphere of chatting while walking in the snowy mountains, so they did not deliberately speed up their pace. In addition, they met a fearless mountain goat along the way and asked them for food. Xiwei watched Xiade spend some time feeding the goat, so they did not arrive near the tomb until 3:30 in the afternoon.
"I looked at the map and it should be down there."
Standing on the edge of the snow-covered cliff, Shade looked down:
"That's where the boy had the accident. The map says his grave is in the canyon below the cliff. Let's go and look for him."
He extended his hand to Xiwei, and then they jumped down together. The cliff was only a dozen meters high, but when they landed, they did not see the shadow of the grave.
But this is normal, this is a snowy mountain area that is difficult for ordinary people to reach. In addition, the boy has been dead for 200 years, so naturally no one will visit his grave every year. And letting the graves of those who died in the snowy mountains eventually merge with the snowy mountains is actually the purpose of the Fatu people.
"The canyon below this cliff is so large, where exactly is the tomb?"
Xiwei asked again, and Xiade shook his head:
"The people who buried the boy didn't expect someone would come back to look for him hundreds of years later, so the records about the tomb aren't very clear. The elders were able to find this place after reading a lot of documents. There's still some time until dusk, and we've found a relic, so let's slowly search for it."
"Then there should at least be a tombstone, right?"
Xiwei asked Xiade again, and this time Xiade nodded;
"Yes, but don't hold your hopes too high for the tombstone. The elders said that the graves in the snowy mountains are usually made of pebbles from the seaside, which are placed in a circle around the grave. Then a large stone dug nearby is placed in front of the grave, and an inscription is engraved on the stone. In this way, because the tombstone itself comes from the snowy mountains, it will soon blend into the snowy mountains again."
"That means there may be nothing left in that tomb now?"
"Yes, but if the third relic taken away by the boy's brother is here, we should be able to detect faint whispering elements."
Summoning fire to melt the snow to find possible tombstones or graves would be the most convenient way to do it. However, out of respect for the snow mountain, Shade did not do so.
Below the cliff was actually a canyon that was not very deep but extremely wide. The snow here was extremely thick. If Shade had not been able to walk directly on the snow, the snow would have probably covered his knees with one step.
The snow was so deep, and Shade was unwilling to clear it, so the only way to find the graves was to rely on the perception of the whispering elements. But fortunately, Xivi didn't care whether she found any graves, that was Shade's task, and for her, continuing to enjoy today with Shade was the most important thing.
But on this last leg of the day, they still encountered someone who broke the peace.