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"If there really is some great trophy, we can just buy it." Wang patted her shoulder.
After all, the salvation team openly received support from the two countries of Kosania and Monrovia. After the battle of Shallow Water City, Lancelot's church and the large chamber of commerce operating on the Masunya River also began to provide funding.
Now many businessmen have heard that Karin's envoy has opened a church on the floating island, and they come here to pray for Karin's protection in business. Flint is also a down-to-earth man. He wrote IOUs for all the donations he received, promising that the donations will be used for the great cause of saving the world, and then turned around and deposited the money into the king's infinite dimensional bag.
The rescue team has no shortage of gold coins. As long as the price is high enough, there is no equipment that they cannot buy.
Not long after the king gave the order, several wanderers came excitedly holding several books: "We found something that looks like a journal."
"Thanks for your hard work."
Wang took the diary, handed one to Lily, and opened the other one.
The content is written in common language, and it starts with expressing the author's admiration for the girl who often reads books on the far left side of the library.
Wang frowned directly: "The people in this monastery are quite idle."
Lily: "My book is written in code. Have you found anything that can be used to decrypt it?"
Upon hearing this, Wang immediately stuffed the love-obsessed book in his hand to Lily and snatched the book from her hand.
This is a code composed of self-created characters. After Wang quickly glanced at it, he said confidently: "We should not be looking for a code book, but a logarithmic device. The design of this code is obviously to be cracked by a mechanical logarithm."
Chapter 366 Prophet
Lily was shocked: "You can see this?"
Wang tapped his temple. "Rely on logic. This kind of code lookup table translation is too slow. There should be a mechanical decoder."
"What a logical trick!" Lily patted his waist vigorously. "I thought you were so smart that you could tell there was a decoder at a glance!"
Wang: "Don't be too happy. Maybe they didn't leave the decoder to us. Then we will have to trouble you to decode it."
"why me?"
"Because you have good grades." Wang spread his hands, "And you have reached the ninth ring, and your magical attainments are higher than mine. Obviously, if you want to perform decoding magic, you are more suitable than me."
Lily: "I'm not good at prophecy! I'm not good at decoding magic at all!"
The prophecy school basically includes all magic related to anti-detection, encryption, and decoding. Mages of the prophecy school often get into trouble because they inadvertently discover other people's secrets.
Wang spread his hands and said, "I only have five rings, ah~ five rings, you have one more ring than four rings~ advanced decoding magic is above seven rings."
Lily pursed her lips, and suddenly an idea flashed on her face: "Wait a minute, don't we have a bard?"
Gaines was thinking of words to describe the scenery of the monastery. When he heard him mentioned, he looked over and shouted: "Here! The bard is here!"
Lily: "Come here. Maybe this code is a traditional code from some place. Your anecdotal knowledge might be useful."
"Oh, my dear Archmage, we bards are experts in cryptography, because there is only a thin layer of window paper between linguistics and cryptography."
The dwarf's words "Madam Archmage" seemed to make Lily very happy. She became very proud and looked at the king with her chin raised: "Madam Archmage, did you hear that, Mr. Favoured One of Destiny?"
Wang: "How many times has the Archmage lost to me in a spell duel?"
"You never win by fair means!"
"How can you expect a wizard from the School of Prophecy to win a fight with you using righteous means?"
Flint, who had been listening, interrupted and said, "No, I think it's ridiculous that you, a nine-ring player, lost to a three-ring player."
"At that time, I wasn't in the ninth ring. The first time I lost to him, I was in the sixth ring, and he was in the third ring. Later, I was in the eighth ring, and he was still in the third ring..."
Wang: “And I won again.”
"You gave me a laxative!"
"I've already told you that you can't expect a prophecy mage to use proper means when fighting with you..."
"This has nothing to do with the prophecy department, right?" Lily said angrily.
At this time, Gaines had come over. He said cheerfully, "If you two have time, can you tell me some more interesting stories? In addition to writing poems and being a poet, I occasionally guest-publish novels and travel notes. I feel that writing about the stories in your Mage Tower in the tone of a personal biography will be a hit, absolutely!"
Wang directly handed the code book in his hand to Gaines: "Take a look at this."
Lily: "If this were a game, Gaines would have rolled the dice for trivia."
Wang frowned. "Shouldn't the host of the game roll the dice? The number of points on the dark dice determines the knowledge given."
"It must be the Bard Dice! How long has it been since you last played a game?"
At this time, Gaines said: "This code is a code used in the countryside of Cecil. In fact, it is just a replacement of Cecil's common language. If you are familiar with Cecil's native language, you can quickly figure out the corresponding relationship."
Lily muttered quietly, "Looks like the roll was a success."
Wang: "Are you familiar with Sissel language?"
"Hahaha, have you forgotten that the dwarf capital of Brynden is under Sissel? We have close trade relations with Sissel through the 'Road of Ascension' that goes directly from Brynden to the ground."
The dwarf cursed: "Kaelin's horns, don't remind me of the road to heaven. It's a super long staircase that leads from the Underdark to the ground."
Wang: “Have you been there?”
"I went there on my last adventure, with the half-elf bard I told you about before. Also traveling with me was a druid who cooked terrible food, a warrior who spent all day oiling his sword, and... of course, a rogue who was responsible for dismantling traps."
The king raised an eyebrow, "What happened to the rogue?"
The dwarf shrugged. "She fell in love with the warrior, but the warrior had a wife waiting for him in his hometown. So... I don't know where she went in the end. Don't worry about it. That happened when I was a young dwarf. Now only the half-elf bard and I are still alive in the whole team."
Wang patted Flint's shoulder gently.
Gaines looked at him, then at the dwarf, and after a moment of deliberation, he said, "I suddenly had an idea. I'll tell the story of you and the half-elf bard re-entering the adventuring path many years later. Let's start with the sentence, '21 years after the death of the warrior and the wanderer'..."
King: "Gaines, you should be thankful that Kailin's herald has a good temper. If you were a herald of a slightly more irritable god, you would have been chopped apart by the five-headed flail. That flail is so powerful that you wouldn't even be able to fight back."
Gaines shrugged. "I'm sorry. I'll just get on with the code. I think that should give me a day or so."
Wang: “As soon as possible!”
At this time, someone else reported: "Found a blueprint!"
"Give it here!" Wang waved his hand and performed a magic trick, clearing a small piece of ground around him.
Two human wanderers rushed over with blueprints, and the ground that had just been cleared unfolded.
Rather than being drawings, it is more like a schematic diagram for explaining a certain process during class.
Wang frowned, "It's impossible to understand this without someone explaining it... No wonder it was left behind."
"Regarding this point," a voice suddenly came from a group of adventurers who had just gathered together, seemingly discussing something, "Let me explain it myself."
The man who looked like the leader of the adventurers said awkwardly, "Well, we found a magical item that looks expensive, and we are discussing whether to take it for appraisal. After all, according to what you just said, this item belongs to us... But... it spoke."
As the leader spoke, he held up a cube.
Lily: "It looks like a communication cube. Can the Catalan state religion leave something like this in an abandoned base?"
Wang: "No, I think it should be left to us directly."
He raised his voice and said, "Please introduce yourself, sir."
"No problem. But I thought you already recognized my voice. After all, I am the leader of the Catalan state religion and the prophet who brought the belief in equality to this hopeless world!" the voice declared.
Chapter 367 Confrontation
Wang was about to speak when Lily teased, "Don't you think it's a bit like when we were playing adventure games and the host was very satisfied with the villain he created, but we ended up skipping over all the information related to the villain and missing out on all the shaping..."
Wang interjected: "Then he asked the villain to come to us in person and talk about his ambitions and aspirations. I remember that Soroki liked this."
"It's him! His clues are buried too deep to be found."
The leader in the projection device looked confused: "What? What are you talking about?"
Wang: "It's alright, I'm just talking about the past of our Mage Tower."
"Yes, students who have not obtained permission to leave the tower to go on adventures will play a game in which some insignificant past events happen." Lily said.
The leader's projection looked back and forth at the two of them: "You... actually mentioned the game you played before at such an important moment? Game?"
Lily: "Sorry, we will pay attention next time."
After saying this, she frowned, looking as if she was about to take an oral test from the professor.
Wang Ye frowned: "We promise to pay attention."
Leader: "You guys from outside the domain, why do you want to interfere with our pursuit of ultimate evolution!"
Wang frowned: "Wait a moment."
He took out a notebook from his dimensional bag, flipped through it and said, "That's not right. According to the information we got from the cult members we met, the cult's goal is to pursue ultimate equality. Mark, the first peripheral member of the cult we met, mentioned evolution, but..."
"The scriptures will also be updated!" said the leader, "We are also constantly exploring doctrines and the ultimate truth!"
Wang: "Is the result of the quest to turn low-level members into something ugly like that?"
The leader laughed loudly: "You can't understand the beauty of those existences at all! Because you are all corrupted by this world. How can you ugly monsters know the beauty of my Lord's creation?"
Wang put away his notebook and took out the diary of the Desecrated Mind Flayer that he had obtained in the Underdark. He listened to the leader while reading the contents.
Lily also came over: "What's wrong?"
King: "Look here, it also says that we are fallen and cannot understand the beauty of Ragnora's creations."
"Well, maybe they all use the same excuse, right?" Lily spread her hands. "Didn't you say that the cult is probably a sub-organization created by the Blasphemers? It's normal for them to use the same doctrine, right?"
Wang: "I know. But now I'm wondering, do they... see the world differently from us?"
"You mean, in their eyes, we are the monsters?"
"Yes, and the disgusting tumors we saw were actually beautiful girls and boys. Ragnora not only erodes the body, but also modifies the cognition of the affected people. Is this more reliable than our previous theory?"
The king's previous theory was that the Blasphemers lost all their relatives and important people after the invasion of Ragnora, and began to desire to become like their relatives, so they believed that the monsters transformed by Ragnora's power were beautiful.
Lily frowned. "That's possible. Cognitive interference and even cognitive replacement magic are not uncommon in the enchantment system. Sometimes, just a suggestion can change a person's cognition to a certain extent."
Wang recalled his "Counterspell", a spell that used suggestion to instill materialistic ideas into the caster's mind, with outstanding results.
The leader was furious: "Listen to me carefully!"
Wang: "Let me ask you a question. In your opinion, are we monsters?"
"Is this important?"
Wang: "You are a man, right? When was the last time you felt lustful for a woman around you?"