Chapter 95: Books from More Than Three Thousand Years Ago

Chapter 95: Books from More Than Three Thousand Years Ago

Vice Admiral Iceberg Edwina showed no change in expression because Gehrman Sparrow had said he needed to consider it. She merely nodded calmly.

“There is no rush.”

She seems to think that, for a transaction of this size, I cannot decide on my own and have to go back to ask the secret organization behind me… Is the problem that I cannot decide? The problem is that I have no money! Klein mocked himself inwardly. Closing Groselle’s Travels, he asked in a deep voice, “Do you know who the author is?

“And what happened in the end to those who once owned this book?”

Edwina walked to the opposite side of him and extended her right hand, rubbing the cover with her fingers.

“Because of the fog of history, the sinking of ships, and the loss of relevant records, its previous owners can no longer be traced. Likewise, there is no way to confirm who the author was. Mm, there is no signature on it.

“We used a few secret techniques to study it and discovered that the parchment was made at least three thousand years ago, before the Cataclysm.

“That is also why I believe it is worth at least eight thousand pounds.”

A book from three thousand years ago, yet its characters include not only dragons and elves, but also a human ascetic, a Solomon Empire noble, and a Loen soldier… Those are all concepts from later eras! Is it a magical book concealing prophecy? Or did someone deliberately use ancient parchment to make it? But what would be the point of that? Pure mischief? Klein deliberately raised the corner of his mouth without truly smiling.

“The giant’s name is Groselle. Could the author be Roselle?”

“No. The name Roselle itself originates from the decomposition of giant language. It underwent a second transformation when Intisian evolved from ancient Feysac, gaining a different meaning…” Edwina explained the etymological origins of Roselle’s name in great detail, leaving Klein somewhat dazed, as though he had returned to a classroom.

He gave a slight nod, then said in a tone without much fluctuation, “If this is an ancient work, I am rather curious why a frost dragon could be called the King of the North. Which pathway and Sequence would it correspond to?”

Edwina lifted her gaze from Groselle’s Travels and looked at Klein.

“Before the first Blasphemy Slate appeared, there were no concepts of pathways and Sequences. Many creatures did not follow such arrangements either. In that epoch, chaos and madness were the main themes of everything.

“Some dragons may have gathered many Beyonder characteristics related to frost, such as the frost of Witches, the frost of Living Corpses, or the frost of Weather Warlocks. In that way, they could possess extremely powerful strength and a fairly high level of existence. Of course, that kind of convergence would inevitably bring death and loss of control.

“What I mean is: if it had not died, then it must have lost control and become a monster. Then again, dragons are monsters to begin with.”

If there were many similar products among dragons, giants, and elves, then it is understandable why the Second Epoch was called the Dark Epoch… Klein pondered briefly, then spoke as if to himself and as if asking a question.

“That would cause a waste of Beyonder characteristics.”

Edwina looked at him for a few seconds.

“Emperor Roselle once said something:

“Whatever separates will surely converge, and whatever converges will surely separate.”

The Emperor said that? I understand the first sentence. It is just another expression of the law of convergence for Beyonder characteristics. But what does the second mean?

When convergence reaches a certain point, a tendency toward separation and repulsion appears? When things that do not belong to the same pathway gather in a chaotic composite, a separating effect arises? The more chaotic, the more they reject one another?

The Emperor would not have casually told others such words. It certainly would not…