Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 88: All I Learned Is Forbidden Arts?

Claude now finally knows why she's never heard of Baroness Maria in White Deer Town. Turns out she's from King's Landing. However, her ability to buy a specimen of the Niros crocodile from Sir Fox, at a price of forty-five gold kroner, would have made Sir Fox afraid to refuse her request, indicating his generosity and impressive family.

From a commercial point of view, this Niros crocodile was not worth forty-five gold crowns, and Sir Fox sold it for that price, after all, it cost only four gold crowns to get the crocodile from Boquer. But the problem is that such a huge Niros crocodile has always been priceless, and once it's made a specimen, he can take it to the kingdom exhibition and collect the tickets, and leave it in the estate long enough for Sir Fox to show off to his guests for a while, so how can he sell something that will make him look good?

And what this Lady Maria had just said was that when she heard someone in White Deer Town hunting such a giant Niles crocodile, she went to White Deer Town to find Sir Fox and demanded a specimen of the crocodile. This suggests that Sir Fox also knows the Lady Maria and understands her details, perhaps socializing with her family, so daring not to offend can only satisfy her requirements...

Claude suddenly thought of the big fish eating the little fish, the little fish eating the shrimp rice metaphor, maybe these people are shrimp rice, Sir Fox is the little fish, the Lady Maria in front of is the big fish, or not the noticeable kind. Claude just couldn't figure out why such a Niros crocodile caught her attention and drove back from Wang Tu.

“Uh... I wasn't expecting to see this crocodile here either, and to be honest, I was just startled. I just don't know, ma'am, why did you come here for this crocodile from the king to show it to the king?” Claude pretends to be a curious baby.

Lady Maria whispered to him: "I'm not so bored. The reason I bought it was because I needed its skin. You must not know that the skin of the Niros crocodile is by far the best material for making magic books, do you? ”

I don't know about that. Claude just nods his head and admits it.

Lady Maria shook her head and said, "I really don't know where you learned your magic, and I don't want to know your magic inheritance, because it's a very taboo topic for any magician. But I have to tell you, although you know magic, you don't understand the development of magic in the world right now. You don't know much about magic...”

Well, Claude had to admit that she had a point, and this Lady Maria was very straightforward, and she said whatever she thought, not at all like those nobles, who spoke with a bend. But it also illustrates Claude's lack of access to outside information. As the Lady Maria put it, Sterling X allowed the registered magician to release more than 200 beads of light at the Easter Banquet, making the King's Court the House of the Night invisible in any newspaper...

This is also the biggest deficiency in a small place like White Deer Town, where you can hide your magician identity well, but you can't know the magical developments and changes in the situation. For the first time in Claude's mind, he wanted to go to Wangdu and see what Lady Maria had said about magic.

“Sorry, ma'am.” Claude thought about something he could say, and he was quite fond of this straightforward Lady Maria: “I only occasionally got a diary of a magician and was curious to practise magic. In fact, I was just beginning to practice meditation when I was hunting this Niros crocodile, and I wouldn't have performed any spells yet. I didn't learn a few spells until last month. ”

“Wait, are you talking about a magician? So you're sure you're learning the inheritance of a magician?” Lady Maria suddenly got a little excited.

Claude shook his head: “Ma'am, I don't know if I learned the inheritance of a magician. The owner of the diary called himself a magician. It had notes on several alchemy experiments, and a magic bullet array of six-point meditation and five spells. I practiced based on these records...”

When Claude decided to go back, he tried to forge a diary of the magician. It was too quick to forget that the Landers magician had been around for nearly 600 years. Only those magic books could be kept for so long. Should he go and find them? What if this Lady Maria wants to see her own diary of the magician? She could let Sir Fox sell her alligator specimens, and she couldn't refuse her request at all...

Just as Claude fell ill, she heard Lady Maria laugh: "Claude, don't tell me this. The magic inheritance of every magician is his personal secret. Even our registered magicians have their own other magical heritage, not all of the harmless spells that the kingdom's special department has asked us to learn, you understand? ”

Claude is a little embarrassed: “Madam, you are my first magician, you know I don't understand these magical commonsense...”

“For your youth, I forgive you.” Lady Maria laughed again: "Wrangler, this is the name of the sorcerer before he was expelled from the mainland. There were only two kinds of magicians at the time: the magician and the magician of combat. Only in the war that took place more than 500 years ago, the battle magicians suffered the most casualties, and by the time those magicians left the Farea continent and retreated to Higros, there were few remaining battle magicians.

Now the countries of the continent, while secretly carrying out magic studies and training for magicians, have changed their names and changed their scriptures to alchemists. The purpose is different, and the alchemist is studying how to achieve magical effects by ordinary people, and you can see, for example, running water and flushing toilets, both of which should be familiar to your home? ”

Claude nodded.

Mrs. Maria went on to say: "Like the former magicians, magic tricks or magic charms are used to provide water and clean up personal hygiene. And what the alchemist does is he doesn't need magic and magic spell arrays in other ways, and that's how tap water and flushing toilets are studied. Over the centuries, there have been many studies like this that have facilitated human life, such as paper and printing presses, glass making processes, etc., which have greatly improved our quality of life…"

Claude's cheeky face, these things still need magic research? With a little chemical knowledge and mechanical principles, you can play a lot of tricks in minutes...

“Almost all the knowledge and magic books were in the hands of the magicians, and after the war, most of them were brought to Higros Island by the surviving magicians, either burned down or spoiled by those who hated magicians on the mainland, and only a small number of magic books were preserved by those who knew.

It was only when the flames of the continent quenched the establishment of nations that it became apparent that progress in national development would require the study of the knowledge contained in those magic books, so that they could each develop their own magicians in the dark so as to enhance national power. Of course, this is just a plain statement, but to be honest, it's just those who are in power to enjoy the convenience of magic and use magic to defend their power. ”

Madame Maria is very thorough, not even her own aristocratic status.

Claude suddenly understood why, after more than 600 years, a flare gun or a flare gun had not evolved into an automatic weapon, such as an assault rifle. Knowledge monopolies, six hundred years ago, almost all knowledge was in the hands of magicians, and when magicians were expelled from the continent, it was in the hands of those in power.

No wonder I didn't find those disciplines in physics and chemistry at school. Turns out they were all regarded as magical knowledge, and the kingdoms were studying them privately, and special departments were organized to keep them confidential. Think about what goes to school, how literature writes good paradigms, accounts, buys and sells things, and trains bureaucrats, secretaries, tenants and businessmen. Not to mention the physics department, the best candidate for the reserve...

Ludhan's butler arrived with a silver tray filled with fine cutting-gold crystal tea sets and biscuits.

“Drink afternoon tea with me, Claude.” Mrs. Marianne pointed out that the small tea table next to the alligator specimen had issued an invitation to sit down and unnecessarily put her feet on the alligator specimen.

“Thank you for your hospitality, ma'am.” Claude thanked the chair a little further, and he wouldn't dare put his feet on a crocodile specimen worth forty-five gold crowns.

“Nothing, just step on it.” Lady Maria said in a big grin.

Lutheran housekeeper put the crystal tea set and snacks on the table in the tray and quietly retreated.

Lady Maria reached out to pick up the crystal teapot, poured herself a cup of black tea and added milk to it, then opened a fine silver jar and clipped a small yellow square with a small silver clamp into her milk tea: “This is crystalline sugar, extracted from honey, invented by our pharmacists. You know honey sticks, accidentally getting dressed at parties can be troublesome and embarrassing, it's much more convenient to have this crystalline sugar. By the way, Claude, do it yourself, don't need me to help you...”

“No, ma'am, I'll do it myself.” Claude poured himself a cup of black tea without adding anything: “I like to drink the original flavor. ”

Lady Maria reached out and picked up a little cookie and put it in the entrance: “I'm really a little hungry, so I won't be polite with you. To thank you for saving your life today, ask any questions you have, and I'll tell you everything you can. By the way, Claude, can you tell me the names of the spells of the scribes? To affirm in advance, I'm really just curious, that's all. ”

“Nothing, it's not a secret.” Claude replied: "The owner of this magician's diary that I received was also a cyclical grammar, turning out to be a fisherman's child, because the magical gift was detected and brought to the magic tower, where it was cultivated as a grammar, as the diary says. Several of the spells documented above are magic hands, eye detection, precision control, decomposition and fusion techniques. There are no more spells in the back. These five spells have been documented. I am now worried about where two more spells are to be found...”

Claude thinks these five symbolic grammars were all the roads of the year, and the magic tower cultivated those symbolic magicians that were all the same, it doesn't matter if you say so.

I didn't expect Lady Maria across the street to hear the names of the five spells, but she looked stunned. She opened her mouth and didn't even know the cookies were falling down.

Claude startled: "Ma'am, what's wrong? ”

Lady Maria turned back to God and looked excited: "Claude, don't ever tell anyone that you've learned these five spells in the future...”

Claude had a strange face.

Mrs. Maria lowered her voice: “All five of these spells are forbidden by the Kingdom and are forbidden to be studied. It is said that even the magician studying in the special department is rarely allowed to study the five spells. ”

“Why? These five are just grammar, for alchemy experiments...”

“Two hundred years ago, Sterling IV was assassinated, and the murderer stabbed him in the back with a poisonous dagger with his magical hand and fled. It says in history that Sterling IV was standing behind a stone wall, so no one expected him to be assassinated. It was later discovered that the assassin had used his magical hand to cross the stone wall and assassinate him with a poisonous dagger already hidden there. Since then, the hand of magic has been banned.” Lady Maria told Claude the messin of the kingdom almost with Claude's ears.

Claude Khan, he thought it was already a great idea to do housework with magic hands. I didn't expect it to be used for assassinations more than 200 years ago...