"Um?"
Chen Lun was slightly stunned.
Fredi rolled her eyes, as if she could see that he didn't know what was going on, and waved.
"Come in first and talk."
"Excuse me, Ms. Frederic."
Chen Lun smiled politely, took off his hat and greeted her.
As the two of them climbed up the spiral stone staircase, Ms. Fredetri, who was walking in front, said in a somewhat depressed tone:
"Last night, the messenger came back and seemed extremely excited and abnormal... I checked it and found some strange changes in its body. Several nodes on the inscription circuit were burned, and the energy storage area was filled with a large amount of high-energy fluctuations. If the two emergency braking arrays I designed had not taken effect, it would have exploded like a bomb."
Chen Lun roughly understood what the other party meant.
My heart couldn't help but skip a beat, wondering if it was really my two dragon stones that were directly destroyed by Ms. Fredetri's messenger
What if I have to pay for this
This great wizard is quite "short of money" and he might even spend all the hard-earned money he earned from the players!
Just as Chen Lun was still calculating how much compensation he could give without hurting feelings and satisfying Ms. Fredetra, she stopped and turned around and said with a half-smile:
"Do you still have the energy crystal you gave the messenger last night? Let me see."
"Hey, there's only one left."
Chen Lun opened his mouth and lied with his eyes open. He picked out the smallest ring from the blood poem ring and handed it to Ms. Fredecu.
The latter took it and looked at it, and immediately raised her eyebrows.
"Interesting... Let's go up to the attic first and I'll study it."
As she spoke, she turned her body back and kept playing with the finger-sized black crystal in her hand, clicking her tongue in amazement, seeming to be very interested.
Seeing this, Chen Lun came up with an idea.
If Lady Fredetri really likes the dragon stone, it would be appropriate to use it as compensation... After all, there are still many of them in the mines under the Haze Plains of Fairyland. The group of dead souls have been mining for him day and night, and they have accumulated a lot of them, which they can never use up.
Looking at it this way, he seemed to be quite wealthy, owning an entire plain of mineral veins and having countless "working souls" working for him.
The point is, you don’t have to pay yourself any salary.
Thinking of this, a certain mine owner felt relieved.
The two of them went up to the attic one after the other. Chen Lun saw a familiar thin figure sitting on the floor in front of a bookshelf in the corner, concentrating on studying something.
Hearing the footsteps, Carmen was not affected, and was still immersed in the ocean of knowledge, unable to extricate herself. It was not until Ms. Frederic stamped her feet, making a crisp sound, that she suddenly realized.
"Ah... Teacher, I'm sorry. I can't stop reading your notes for even a moment. I always get so absorbed in them that I feel so ignorant and insignificant."
The white-haired old man said apologetically.
Freddie plumped up her lips to indicate that there were guests standing nearby.
Carmen quickly put down the book in her hand and performed an ancient etiquette towards Chen Lun. She took a step back with her left foot, put her left hand on her right shoulder, and held her pointed hat in front of her chest with her right arm.
"I would like to express my gratitude to you once again, Your Majesty Jackspeter. If you hadn't rescued me, I would have been lost forever in the paintings of the God of Murals, and I would never see my teacher again!"
"You have already thanked me, Mage Carmen."
Chen Lun smiled and waved his hand.
In my heart, I cursed him for being an old bootlicker. He was just pretending to be so gentlemanly. He wasn't so elegant when we first met.
Fredetri also smiled at this moment:
"Okay, Carmen, keep studying. You haven't continued your studies for many years. Don't think you can slack off just because you have been promoted to Ancient Scholar. There are still mysteries in the path of magic that you can't imagine. Without sufficient knowledge accumulation, you won't even understand the most basic principles."
"Yes, teacher, I will never forget your teachings."
Carmen nodded, picked up the book again, and walked to the corner to start
At this time, Fred Cui also turned around and gestured to Chen Lun to sit down.
Chen Lun nodded politely, holding his silver cane and sitting down on an old wooden chair. Frederic dragged out a large dusty box from a corner full of miscellaneous items, placed it in front of him, and smiled.
"I haven't had the chance to thank you in person, Jack. You risked your life to save my student, so it's only natural that I should thank you for what you have done... These are some of the collections I collected when I was young, you can choose whatever you like."
Chen Lun's eyes lit up, and as he looked at the large wooden box inlaid with iron sheets in front of him, he couldn't help but feel a sense of anticipation.
This is the collection of a high-ranking magician!
Even after his promotion, he still felt that Lady Fredtri was unfathomable. This feeling was very similar to when he faced Thelma, the Chief Servant of the Moon Church, and Lady Elk, the Pope of the Natural Cult. This showed that the other party's strength exceeded his own, and at least started from Sequence Three.
Her collection must be extraordinary...
Chen Lun took a deep breath, and under Frede’s smiling gaze, he slowly opened the lid of the box.
Bang.
The next second, Chen Lun was stunned.
The box did not contain the glittering gold, various high-end weird or mythical items as he had imagined, but rather some strange little objects, such as strange weeds that had been made into specimens, some flower buds that had not yet bloomed, colorful stones, and even bottles of potions containing deformed insects.
"This is… ?"
Chen Lun pretended to be curious and asked Ms. Fredetri.
"Don't underestimate these things. They are all mythical materials, and they are extremely rare. Some of them have even become extinct..."
Ms. Fredetri explained softly.
"I see. Your collection is truly precious."
Chen Lun complimented, then carefully picked up the small objects and began to examine them. From time to time, prompts would pop up on the panel, giving him detailed introductions to the items at hand.
"It is indeed as Ms. Frederic said. These items are all very precious mythical materials. If they are used to make medicine or forge, they should be able to produce high-quality finished products... But with Maggie and Floin's current level, it may be difficult to handle this level of materials. It is feasible to use them to make wine, but... "
Chen Lun suddenly felt a book-sized stone slab with extremely irregular edges at the bottom of the box. He was stunned at first, but then he was delighted.
This is exactly the remnant of a monument of destiny!
Seeing that Ms. Fredetri had no objection, he picked it up on his own, took out the parts he had collected, and put them together.
This time, the Monument of Destiny had revealed two-thirds of its original appearance before his eyes. It was roughly a stone tablet half a meter long, twenty centimeters wide, and one finger thick, with some words engraved on it in the Yanita language.
Chen Lun took a closer look, and after some interpretation, the previously missing part of the content came into view -
"… In the 15,920th year of the Fourth Era, I recalled the past and felt puzzled. I traveled through the curtain of history and returned to the first historical line, witnessing once again the moment when the Anita civilization collapsed three thousand years ago… It turned out that the end of everything was destined long before it began. The death god Bankrotf caused chaos and led to the split of the Star God Cult. In fact, it was the Lord of Destiny, Huan Gong, who was the one who overlooked everything and fanned the flames."
“… I have thought deeply but still cannot understand the intention of Lord Huan. However, when I see the magnificent scene again, I cannot forget it… On the night when King Yanita died in battle, the sky was strange. The sun, moon and stars gathered together, like a shining pearl standing above the human head, and then fell apart and never gathered again - I call it the ‘Hour of the Pearl’!”
"… Perhaps the environment is watching all the developments quietly, and will personally scatter these 'pearls', waiting for the evolution of history to prove that this is the right path, and further strengthen my belief in carving a monument for it - the writer of history, the engraver of time, the witness of great deeds, Sid Mitchell."
Chen Lun was deeply shocked by the words recorded on the monument.
It turns out that the mastermind behind the demise of the Yanita Kingdom and the split of human civilization into three major families was not the Old Man Burying Bones, but the more deeply hidden Lord Huan!
Even the God of Death has become her pawn. How terrifying is the Lord of Fate? !
Chen Lun took a deep breath.
"The Time of the Pearl... is it the historic moment that marks the split of the Star Cult into the Sun, Moon, and Star?"
At this time, Ms. Fredetri, who had been standing nearby, suddenly spoke:
"I didn't expect that you have almost completed the Monument of Destiny... Although it does not contain any extraordinary power, it has a very high collection value. After all, it is a masterpiece carved by Sid Mitchell himself."
She slowly smiled.
"She is the only known earth angel so far, and the former servant of Ni Weng, 'The Guest of the Past'... However, after the Fifth Era, she has hardly ever appeared again, like a piece of history that has been forgotten, disappearing in the long river of time."
Chen Lun looked at the broken stone tablet in his hand, and thought of the Holy Land of Ai in Linbang Privet City. The strange high-ranking person who took away the little white snake he left behind might be this "former guest" Sid Mitchell!
But he did not say this, and instead prepared to ask Lady Fredetri for the fragment of the stone tablet.
"If you like it, I'll give it to you. It's useless for me to keep it anyway... You can take some of the rest. You're welcome."
Ms. Fredetri said nonchalantly.
Chen Lun thanked him and continued to search in the "treasure chest", but he finally found with regret that except for the remnants of the Monument of Destiny, the rest were all various mythological materials.
He suddenly stopped, looked up and asked:
"Ms. Frederic, well, it may be a little abrupt to say this, but can I ask you for some advice on magic... I don't need any of these materials."
Ms. Fredetri seemed a little surprised. She turned around and looked at her student Carmen. Then she thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
"Okay, in that case, you can stay here for a week... I know you have just been promoted to a high position, and you must be a little confused about your own abilities. Magic and fate are close, and the knowledge here should be able to give you some inspiration."
"That's exactly what I was thinking, Ms. Frederic, thank you very much."
Chen Lun stood up and thanked him quickly.
With face-to-face guidance from this knowledgeable master, he became more confident in developing his own abilities!
"By the way, Ms. Fredetri, do you still remember the former crown prince of the Sun Royal Family?"
Chen Lun remembered his doubts, so he took the opportunity to ask the other party.
"Of course I remember. After all, I personally witnessed the birth of the Trisur Empire..."
Ms. Frederic laughed.
But soon, the smile on her face gradually disappeared, and she became silent and solemn.
The great wizard turned around without saying a word, strode to the bookshelf area, searched through it under Carmen's surprised gaze, and finally pulled out a dusty tome from an inconspicuous place.
winter!
She slammed the thick hardcover book on the table and accurately turned to a page in the middle. Ms. Fredetri's face suddenly changed slightly.
"This is impossible!"