Chapter 215: The Story’s Progress

Chapter 215: The Story’s Progress

No matter what language they spoke, everyone could understand one another? Klein’s attention skipped directly past Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina’s first sentence and landed on the second, which appeared to have no major issue at first glance.

Although this was the world inside the book created by Travels of Groselle, where anything was possible, the details of certain matters could still reveal certain problems!

What Klein cared about was not the fact that everyone could understand one another, but the method by which that understanding was achieved.

Has this world solidified a rule similar to universal language comprehension? Or is there a consciousness standing above everyone, helping complete the work of simultaneous translation, just as I do at the Tarot Gathering? If it’s the former, a target who doesn’t understand Jotun would clearly hear an unfamiliar language but still grasp its meaning. If it’s the latter, what they hear should be the languages familiar to them… Because he himself had mastered several ancient or supernatural languages, Klein could not make an accurate judgment right away. He slowed his steps slightly, came alongside Danitz, and asked in a low voice, “What language did you hear Groselle speaking just now?”

Danitz froze for a second, then recalled and said, “A language that felt a little familiar but also unfamiliar. But I could understand everything he meant.”

The supernatural language he had fully mastered was ancient Hermes, followed by Elvish. When it came to Jotun, he could only be considered an absolute beginner.

Mm. A rule similar to universal language comprehension… Comprehension on the mental level… This shows that the underlying rules of the world inside the book can differ from the outside world, originating from its own setting. But the changes also seem unable to exceed certain limits. That point remains uncertain and requires verification. After all, I can’t rule out the possibility of some Fool-like existence accomplishing translation through mental communication… Edwina really is perceptive and good at observation. The problem she discovered points directly at the essence of the world inside this book… As Klein thought, he entered the large, dark cave at an unhurried pace.

As for the strange problem in the histories told by the members of the protagonist’s party, he was not surprised at all. He had even been waiting for such details to appear.

Klein had long known that the major Churches and the nations of the Northern Continent were consciously destroying or hiding information, concealing the true history of the Fourth Epoch, the Third Epoch, and even the Second Epoch. Naturally, the contents circulated in the outside world were different from what members of the protagonist’s party, who had once lived during those eras, understood.

And this was also one of the reasons Klein had taken a certain risk to enter the world inside the book!

Inside the spacious, well-ventilated cave, three humanoid beings were scattered around a bonfire that gave off light and heat.

One wore an extremely plain white robe. With his back to the fire and his face toward the stone wall, eyes closed, he prayed intently. He was a middle-aged man with wrinkles but not yet old. His brown hair was cropped short, and his shoulders, arms, calves, and feet were all bare, covered in all kinds of old scars.

Beside him, a young man was asleep with a rock as his pillow. He wore heavy, tough black full-body armor, and a black straight sword flashing with cold light stood planted beside his hand. His facial features were sharply defined, with obvious Loen characteristics.

Sitting opposite those two was a man in his thirties, dressed in a bizarre style that made others uncomfortable. He wore a pointed, hard black hat, and the buttons of his coat were placed one high, one low, in chaotic disorder—neither symmetrical nor harmonious.

In addition, the toes of his leather boots curved…