"Teacher, can you help me see this?"
Sanders looked up.
Angel stretched out his hand and tapped his slender fingers lightly on the tabletop. Then, a thin ripple swayed across his fingertips.
As the ripples diffracted away, a piece of vellum faded under the fingertips.
Sanders took it, and the soft and thin vellum fell on his palm, with a strangely cold touch.
"Xing... Frost." Sanders whispered the only two words on the paper, the characters were restrained, solemn and cautious.
Sanders' eyes flashed, as if thinking of something.
He spread out the back of his hand and gently wiped the surface of the parchment with the back. A faint halo flickered, and countless intricate and elegant patterns spread out along the word "Star Cream".
This strange pattern is covered with pale white dots and shimmers, like the dust and frost shone by the warm sun after the snow in the middle of winter.
Cold and beautiful.
"This is the wizard's code." Sanders looked at the pattern and raised his head to look at Angel: "Where did you get this vellum?"
"Waddell gave me, it is said that it was something from Puxio, the 'Sin City Walker'." Angel simply explained what happened at that time.
Sanders raised his eyebrows when he heard that the thing came from Pucio.
"What do you think this thing is?"
Angel pondered for a moment: "When you mention Star Frost, you will think of many things. Star Frost Pharmacy, Star Frost Technique, Star Frost Magic Materials... and so on. But if you say 'Star Frost', which is most closely related to the Frost Moon Alliance, I can think of it. There is only one."
"Star Cream Meditation!"
Sanders nodded: "If this is Pucio's thing, then this piece of paper may indeed be the famous Star Frost Meditation. However, whether it is specific or not, the password on it needs to be unlocked."
"Although I have dabbled in wizard cryptography, I am not very proficient. I may not be able to break this code. However, I can recommend someone for you."
…
After a long while, Angel and Sanders came to the source of flow.
Not long after entering, I heard a "bang, bang, bang" sound in my ears, and this sound was still far away at first, but it became closer and closer at a very fast speed.
When the sound was almost close to the ear, Angel raised his head.
From the other side of the hill, a black shadow suddenly jumped out, like a jumping spider. It jumped into the air with great kinetic energy and merged with the clouds. Then, with the whistling of the wind and the sound of a train whistle, the black shadow fell heavily in front of them from a high altitude, setting off a cloud of grass and dust.
This is a multi-layered tin house with long legs. There are many patches outside the house. The clanging sound is made by the patches hitting the wall. There is a chimney on the roof of the tin house, which raises a curl of green smoke.
This is the Iron Fortress.
The Iron Fort stopped in front of them, the door was opened, and a ladder fell.
"Let's go, the barbarian cave is the most proficient in wizard cryptography, except for the old book, only the iron-clad mother-in-law." Sanders took the lead.
Shu Lao usually never sees outsiders, so Granny Tiejia is the best choice for breaking the vellum code.
Inside the Iron Fortress, a burst of beautiful music lingered in the room. The silver-haired iron-clad mother-in-law was holding a steaming teacup, sitting among the steam machinery and lush flowers and plants.
"Anger is here, come and sit down." Granny Tiejia greeted Angel with a smile. After saying hello, she looked at Sanders: "You're here too?"
"I haven't seen my mother-in-law for a long time, come and have a look." Sanders said.
"If this is what Angel said, I will believe it. As for you..." Granny Tiejia said in a slightly complaining tone: "You and Su Mi Shi are the same, I don't believe that nothing will come to me."
After Granny Tiejia finished speaking, she looked at Angel and said, "Don't learn from them in the future."
Angel nodded with determination, and without hesitation he removed Sanders' stage: "I must not learn."
Granny Tiejia immediately smiled and poured a cup of hot tea in front of Angel.
After Sanders was seated, although the teacup and teapot were placed in front of him, the iron-clad mother-in-law remained motionless, and her hospitality towards Angel was completely different.
Sanders picked up the teapot with a blank face and filled it himself.
Taking a sip of the hot tea, Granny Tiejia looked at the two masters and apprentices for a moment.
Finally, her eyes were fixed on Sanders: "Tell me, what's the matter with me?"
Sanders motioned Angel to take out the vellum, and Sanders didn't speak until Granny Tiejia took the vellum.
"Crack the password." Granny Tiejia rubbed the vellum paper, and then she could see the password pattern on it: "This is a typical combination password, and there is no self-destruction mechanism, so it is not difficult to crack."
"There are two solutions, one is to solve it slowly, it should take about two or three months, and it should be able to be completed. The second is to brute force cracking, which directly destroys the wizard's password. I can do it for you now, but The downside is that this vellum will collapse very quickly after destruction. But I can guarantee that you should have a few seconds to peel the contents of the vellum before it collapses."
Sanders did not answer, apparently leaving the matter to Angel to decide.
Angel fell into thinking. These two methods actually have advantages and disadvantages. There are many disadvantages of brute force cracking. The only advantage is that the speed is fast enough. And if you unlock it slowly, there will be no drawbacks, but it will be slower than brute force.
how to choose
Angel pondered for a moment, and finally chose to use brute force.
Brute-force cracking does have many disadvantages, but the advantage of fast speed is enough. After all, he couldn't have waited months in the Savage Cave. Moreover, the content carried by the vellum, with the ability of the wizard, as long as it can be revealed, even if it is only for a moment, he can find a way to record it. Therefore, it doesn't matter whether you want this vellum that carries the information or not.
For Angel's choice, Granny Tiejia didn't have any comment, she just said with a smile: "If you crack it violently, then it's easy."
The 'simple' that Granny Tiejia said was really simple.
I saw a red light flashing in her hand, pressing directly on the vellum. After the red light touched the thin vellum, it turned into a flame, and it began to burn along the strange patterns on the vellum.
In an instant, the pattern on the vellum was burnt out.
When the pattern completely disappeared, Granny Tiejia said, "The password is cracked, but the vellum will disintegrate after two seconds."
Not long after Granny Tiejia's voice fell, the vellum turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared.
However, before the vellum disappeared, Angel had already recorded it. Instant memory is naturally not enough with his current ability, but he can use the communicator to leave images.
Angel began to look through the images left on the communicator.
When he saw the text appearing in the image, Angel's eyes lit up: it really is meditation! And it's the complete version!
Although Sanders didn't take a picture, he knew at a glance that it was meditation.
A meditation method with a guaranteed minimum value of 9 points, if it were changed to the outside world, this Star Frost meditation method would probably shock many pairs of eyes, but in the Iron Fortress, no one was surprised.
Sanders doesn't care because there is a gem called "Singularity Scattering Meditation" in front, and the guaranteed minimum value of 9 points is not enough to see.
Granny Tiejia didn't care either. She had seen too many winds and waves. If a piece of meditation could shake her heart, then she would live in vain.
Although she is not curious about the meditation method, Granny Ironclad can see that this meditation method should have come from the abyss, and it is estimated that it is one of the wizards who fell in Rasudran as described by Angel in the tree spirit hall before.
She got it, but Angel was a little surprised that she could bring this guidance method out of the hands of Mr. Monchi.
Determined that this is really the "Star Frost Meditation", Angel breathed a sigh of relief, and then thanked Granny Tiejia. He wanted to show the thank you gift, but Granny Tiejia refused, just said: "If you have time, come and chat with Granny more, that's enough."
Angel nodded naturally.
In the following time, Angel chatted with Granny Tiejia about what happened in the abyss, and also thanked Granny Tiejia for giving him the "Life-saving Water".
After the greeting, they were ready to leave.
Before leaving Ironclad Fort, Granny Ironclad gave Angel a voucher.
This voucher card has the source of flow on one side and a number on the other side: 13.
Mother-in-law Iron Armor: "This is the certificate of ownership of No. 13 Xeno Lab. As long as you don't die, No. 13 Xeno Lab will be used by you forever. That is to say, your previous lease card is useless now."
Angel was stunned for a moment. He remembered that Xeno Labs seemed to be owned by official wizards
"According to convention, it is true that only official wizards can acquire the ownership of Xenos Labs. But conventions do not conflict with special cases. When you are selected by Your Excellency Rhine to be promoted to the core ranks, this is a special case."
Xeno Lab itself is a benefit given to official wizards by the barbaric cave, and you must know that many official wizards are not the core. Angel has already entered the core class, and he is still an alchemist, so it is normal for a well-equipped alchemy laboratory to be handed over to Angel.
Angel did not expect that when he returned to the source of flow, he received these two great gifts.
He was still a little dizzy when he left.
…
On the way back to Magic Island, Sanders mentioned "Star Frost Meditation".
"Although the "Star Frost Meditation" is not the best special guidance method, after all, it is a thing of the Frost Moon Alliance. If you hand it over to other people to practice, you must be careful not to let them expose the guidance method. Exist, otherwise, there will be endless troubles."
Angel nodded, he naturally understood this.
Meditation involves the core issues of a wizarding organization and should never be ignored.
However, generally speaking, as long as it does not invade the other's thinking space, which meditation method is practiced cannot be seen from the outside.
Therefore, Angel dared to hand over the meditation method to his brother Leon to practice.