"Ms. Orlanod, do you know more about Death's Gate?"
Xia De asked again, and the witch nodded slightly:
"That door is difficult to move due to its size and other reasons, but not every death row prisoner can be safely escorted to the execution ground in the Central Continent. Therefore, the characteristics of the Death Door include a method to push the door outside the main body."
This could also be called space travel, but the price of dying once was a bit too harsh.
"I am not a member of the Supreme Witch Council, because the previous members are still there, so the teacher is only a candidate for the time being. But it is said that we need to find a place where death and life meet, and then the official members of the council will serve as executioners. With the power of the council, we can draw the projection of the Gate of Death at the border. The effect after opening the door is exactly the same as the door itself."
She paused, then added:
"Teacher said that the appearance of the Death Gate is related to the departure of the ancient god of death. The Council used that gate as a torture device instead of a research object. It is really crazy. The Witch Council is already very corrupt. Maybe in a few thousand years, the Council will collapse on its own because of the internal strife among the great witches."
This kind of words fit Miss Feliana's character very well, and Shade smiled. From the truth he learned, the fall of the Fifth Epoch was really related to the disagreement among the witches in the parliament.
He bent down and picked up the stone slab wrapped in clothes, and gently touched one of the corners of the stone slab with his fingers. In this library, only the three books required by the gods were truly from the First Age, so the ancient voice of thaumaturgy was once again activated.
This time the message was also brief. Because it was obtained by touching the Jaeger Scroll, the content was also related to death:
All mortals will die, and everything will eventually perish. Even the ancient gods will leave, which is something that the earliest followers of death have long known. God knows the future fate, so in the first era, he promised his believers: before leaving, he must make all arrangements. Life and death are cycles, and leaving must return.
It sounds like there is no useful information, except that the ancient gods who left will definitely come back again, and before leaving, they will make arrangements for the future.
But Shade had known about this kind of thing for a long time. For example, the Father of Infinite Trees, this ancient god really arranged everything for the strangers who came to this world in the Sixth Epoch. Even Shade's thoughts at this time might have been expected by the Father of Trees.
"However, if the departure of the ancient gods was not sudden, and the believers had long known that the ancient gods would return, then where did all those ancient god churches that had long disappeared go? As long as the faith is not extinguished, they who possess the most ancient power should not disappear so completely... ... The modern ancient organizations and the Orthodox God Church are not all related to the ancient Thirteen Ancient God Churches..."
Shad could not stay for long, so after getting the stone slab, the two returned to the lobby of the main entrance of the Gaddis Library.
They had only been gone for a dozen minutes, but Miss Becky Samuel, who had stayed by the fire, seemed to have fully recovered. When the two returned, she took the initiative to stand up from the campfire to greet them.
Xia De noticed that the boxes she had taken out had been stacked in a windproof position, which seemed to indicate that she had not been sitting there all the time.
"I got it."
Shad shook the slate wrapped in clothes in his hand and asked Miss Samuel if she wanted to examine the book.
The eleventh-level witch immediately shook her head. Miss Orlanod took the clothes from Shade, turned her back to the two of them, unfolded them, took a look at the slate, sighed, and handed the slate back:
"It's okay, just look at it, but don't stare at it for too long."
The slate was about twice the size of a normal piece of letter paper. Although it looked like gray stone, it felt like bone. The back of the slate was blank, with only the front having a pattern.
There were no decorative patterns or designs on the stone slab. There was only a line of words written in bone-like letters on the slab. Xia De had seen this line of words not long ago:
World (1st Era to present).
The writing style of this line of cursive letters is exactly the same as the text on the Rhodes card background seen in the hands of Joey Barton, the "man against birth" in the Crow Club not long ago. Even the way of starting and ending the strokes of the cursive letters are the same.
“It’s really ancient.”
He sighed softly, and then asked:
"Ms. Orlanod, this looks like a tombstone. Are all books from the past like this? The Threaded Text I handed over to the gods last time I came here was just a slab of stone."
"We haven't been able to open the book properly yet, this is just the cover."
Miss Samuel, who seemed to have recovered well, replied:
"People in the First Age used this method when creating books that needed to be preserved for a long time. The stone tablets were only the outer appearance, and the true knowledge was hidden inside."
"So how do you read a book like this... put it under your pillow and dream about it?"
The two witches were amused by Shade, and the three of them sat around the campfire:
"No, no, just say the name of the book and it will open. The language you use must be the language of the book's title, otherwise it cannot be opened. The Threaded Text, the Jaeger Scroll, and the Nameless Sacrifice Book are all books from the First Age, so you have to use the lost language of the First Age. But all the knowledge of the First Age is taboo, and the Gray Robe Sage also said that it is not something that mortals can touch."
Speaking of this, the young witch of Zala Academy was quite sad... ...at least she looked very young.
"First Age language..."
Shade hesitated:
"Do you know how to write the Jaeger Scroll in the language of the First Age?"
Miss Samuel frowned suspiciously, and Miss Orlanod shook her head cautiously:
"I don't know. That is forbidden knowledge. Shade, don't try to peek into that knowledge. Those who pursue knowledge madly will surely fall into eternal madness. At least, that's the case for you now."
"I see."
Shade nodded. He actually wanted to try to take a peek at the knowledge in the book before leaving this era. After all, once the adventure of the Time Key returns, the damage suffered in the past will disappear, so as long as Shade does not go completely crazy all of a sudden, the Father of the Infinite Tree will definitely make him recover.
The knowledge was in his hands, and the knowledge about death might even help solve the troubles of Midhill Castle. But Miss Orlanod was right, he was not qualified to peek into the knowledge of the First Age. Those lost histories and truths were still a little far away from Shade.
Chapter 722: Jaeger Scroll