While Reiner spent time thoroughly understanding the several spell models he needed, he was not disturbed by other work. The entire afternoon, the office was very quiet, everyone was doing their own things, and no unexpected incidents occurred.
A burst of bells signified the arrival of five o'clock in the afternoon and the end of the day's work. Igor packed his things early and got up and left as soon as the bell rang. Roger seemed to be still in his laboratory. Maybe he waited until You will leave immediately after the experiment is over.
Director Percival did not have much communication with Reiner today. When he was about to get off work, he went to attend a meeting upstairs and has not returned yet.
Hannah slowly packed up the information on the table, seeming to be thinking about some incomprehensible question. When she walked out, she happened to bump into Safroros.
Wow—
Since it was Hannah who bumped into Savros, he took a step forward, and a bunch of cards with unknown uses in his hand were scattered on the ground, which was very spectacular.
"Ah, sorry."
Hannah knew she had done something wrong. She wanted to pick up the card on the ground with the hand of the mage, but Savros reached out to stop her.
"Forget it, I'll do it myself. These cards have order requirements, and you can't do it right."
Savros sighed, then bent down, picked up one of the cards with his hands, and put it on the table as if he was caring for his own child.
When Hannah saw this, she didn't say much and left the office dejectedly.
Reiner was packing up his own information. He saw Savros picking up the cards one by one, carefully confirming them, and then placing them in categories on the table. He didn't know why he needed to use this inefficient method. collect.
Curiosity prompted Reiner to stand up. He walked to Savros, leaned over and picked up a card.
This card is about the size of a palm and is located in the upper left corner. There is a word composed of characters that Reiner does not recognize. After the word, there is an irregular combination of Common Language letters written in cursive characters. Below, in Common Language. The text that says "Noun, flame." is followed by a sentence written in unknown words, and a sentence that Reiner can understand.
—They raised a flame in the dark forest.
"This is... a word card?"
Reiner couldn't help but think of the word descriptions in the dictionary and asked subconsciously.
Savros stopped what he was doing. His face turned red and he stared at Reiner. Then he grabbed the card from Reiner's hand with some excitement and carefully placed it among the piles of cards on the table. .
"Don't touch my things."
Safroth whispered.
"Sorry, I didn't mean anything else..."
Reiner raised his hands to show that he was not hostile. He saw the piles of cards. Except for the "Flame" card just now, the top card of the other pile was "Run", and there was also the first card of the pile. It is "melancholy".
"Nouns, verbs, adjectives... Could it be that Mr. Savros, this is a word card for a certain language?"
Reiner couldn't help but ask, causing Savros to raise his head.
"Can you tell?"
He was obviously a little surprised. Although it was something simple to understand, no one, neither his colleagues nor his superiors, could understand him since he started doing this work.
Those people don't even bother to pay attention to these things.
"Uh, this should be a noun, this is a verb, here is an adjective, and these, uh, sorry, I'm not very good at grammar..."
Reiner said pointing to the cards, making Savros' eyes light up.
"These shouldn't be common language words, right?"
Reiner looked at the word labeled "flame" again. This kind of writing was more complicated and more difficult to write than Common Language.
"Serafino."
Savros said suddenly.
"Serafino language is also called Serafino poetry because its words have rhyme and when read together it is like reading a poem."
He then picked up the "Flame" card that Reiner had just picked up, and whispered a sentence. Obviously, this should be the words recorded on the card.
As soon as Savros opened his mouth, Reiner felt that his whole temperament had changed, from a short, hunchbacked middle-aged man to a free and uninhibited poet.
Although Reiner couldn't understand a single word of the sentence he read, it naturally had a certain rhythm to it, like a long ballad.
"sounds so good."
Reiner admired.
"Actually, my pronunciation is not necessarily standard. After all, the verification work is very difficult. I can hardly find relevant records."
Savros muttered.
"This is a language I've never heard of."
Reiner knew that there was not only one language in this world, Common Language. The so-called "Common Language" was actually just the official language of the ancient Magic Empire. Since it was also the standard spell-casting language, it was the most widely circulated. But in fact, every The magic runes that every mage apprentice needs to learn are a language with a longer history, including many small countries, which have their own languages.
"This is the language of a demiplane. This demiplane was discovered in the early days of the establishment of the ancient magic empire. Some mages took ordinary people to explore, but then, due to a series of disputes, the path to this demiplane The star gate was blocked, and this half-plane was isolated for five hundred years."
Savros had packed up most of the cards. He held a card in his hand and sat down slowly.
"When contact was reestablished, this originally barren demiplane already had its own glorious civilization. Their language also evolved and became Serafino Poetry. This is a unique language and also If the language that is closest to magic runes can be successfully parsed, people will have a better understanding of ancient history and a deeper understanding of the nature of magic."
Reiner nodded, like an archaeologist analyzing ancient texts, but he soon became confused.
"But, Mr. Savros, why do you need to do this work alone? Since that demiplane has formed its own civilization, maybe it should also retain the corresponding information."
He asked, it was strange that Savroth seemed to be alone anyway, with no other mages doing similar work as him.
Hearing Reiner's question, Savros fell silent.
After a long time, he sighed and continued.
"No, most of the documents about Serafino's poetry have been lost, and only a few are spread in the world."
"Why is this happening?"
Reiner didn't understand, but what Savros said next made him suddenly realize.
"Because the demiplane where Serafino's poems were written collapsed shortly after contact was restored, the entire civilization was destroyed, and the unprepared mages had no time to rescue even a single document. And this was already ten years ago.”
Savros was a little sad. In his statement, the rise and fall of a civilization was fleeting.
"Perhaps you have guessed that the collapsed demiplane is called Midgar."
Reiner's eyes widened.
This is the plane where Dana's parents died!