Extraordinary Puppet Master

The group of people walked and talked, and unknowingly arrived at an inconspicuous double-storey townhouse.

"Let's go, the underground palace is down there."

Malik asked the rest of his men to stay on the ground, and he entered the apartment with the Carlin eleven.

After arriving at a certain room on the first floor, a secret passage appeared in front of everyone.

The town's barriers and mechanisms have long been cracked by the exploration team. Most of the barriers have been destroyed due to disrepair, but these purely mechanical mechanisms are still intact.

After entering the passage, a guard beside Carlin took out a lighting crystal, and the light immediately dispelled the darkness.

The group of people walked along the long passage, and gradually a glimmer of light appeared in the distance. It seemed that they were about to reach the end of the passage.

At this time, there was a burst of violent scolding from the distance: "Oh, what the hell, you barbaric guys, how many times have I told you, these important classics must be handled with care!"

Carlin and others immediately quickened their pace after hearing the sound, and soon walked out of the passage and came to a stone room.

They saw a short, sloppy old man carefully stacking an ancient book with half of it on a pile of books on the ground.

The surface of the book was severely broken and looked like signs of weathering. There was a pile of debris scattered on the ground, which should be the other half of the book.

The six tall and thick men stood aside obediently, like primary school students being scolded by a teacher. It seemed that one of them had accidentally damaged half of the book.

These paper books have been baptized by thousands of years and are now fragile and require very careful handling.

“Do you guys know how expensive these books found in this town are?!

Damn it, I shouldn't have come alone this time. Malik's men are all savages who don't know how to treat these babies gently!

You came down without bringing any of the protective reagents, solid charms, and recording crystals, and even broke a book! "

After hearing the old man uttering his name, a trace of embarrassment flashed across Malik's face, and he quickly greeted the old man: "Master Yala, none of them have ever done this kind of work, please forgive me."

After Kalin heard that the old man was Yara, the chief alchemist of the Emerald Isle, he began to look at it carefully.

The old man looked to be in his sixties, but his body was still strong, but his expensive mage robe was stained with dust and became dirty.

There was a strange smell coming from his body, his hair was all stuck in clumps, and he looked like he hadn't showered in a long time.

‘Isn’t this guy staying here for more than ten days? ’

Just as Karin's heart was spinning, when Yara heard Malik's voice, her eyes lit up and she jumped in front of Malik like a nimble monkey.

"Malik, please ask your men to make another trip and find some reliable apprentices from the Emerald Island. These men of yours are not suitable for this kind of work at all!"

Malik laughed awkwardly, pointed at Karin and said, "I think there's no need for that. Let me introduce you to him. This is Master Yolin who has just joined us."

Yara was stunned for a moment, then looked at Karin for a while. Seeing his too young face, she said with a suspicious expression: "Really or not, why haven't I heard of his reputation?"

"Well, Master Yolin came here from the Old World on the Princess Carmen. All the passengers on the Princess Carmen have heard of his reputation."

"Hahaha, Colonel Wade finally made a wise decision and asked an expert to help me. Okay, we are going to start working. You all should get out of here and don't disturb us!"

Malik had no choice but to leave here with six strong men, while Karin's escort quietly guarded the door of the stone room to prevent any accidents.

The little old man was focused on his work. He pulled Karin and started to walk around the stone room, introducing him to the place in detail.

The stone chamber is about five meters high and covers an area of ​​more than 300 square meters.

A pile of paper books, parchments, and stone tablets on the ground are all ancient books collected from the buildings on the ground.

There is a workbench not far from the pile of ancient books. One of the devices looks a bit like the cartographer he developed for his new home, and the workbench is also equipped with a small difference engine.

Apart from these, the stone room is empty, with murals carved on the walls.

On the wall facing the entrance, there is a sealed brass door with several different uncommon runes mixed in the patterns on it.

After taking Karin around, Yara pointed to the wall and said: "This room should be a transit room. The door is sealed, but it doesn't matter. Malik conducted ground detection before and found that there is a building behind the door. Underground Palace Square.

I was worried that violent breaking of the door might cause damage to the other side, so I decided to break it slowly.

It’s just that this seal is encrypted using four ancient characters, so it’s not easy to crack.”

Under Yara's explanation, Karin also roughly understood the situation here.

Although the writings of the First and Second Era are very niche now, many extraordinary people like to use ancient writings to make combination locks.

Originally, the difference between different characters is greater than the difference between Chinese and English. It is very difficult to decipher an unfamiliar character.

But now when combined together, it is like a heavenly book, making the analysis even more difficult.

However, Yala, the alchemist master, still has some skills. After more than ten days of research and analysis, he has cracked less than half of the seal on the door.

It only takes two months of continued analysis to completely unlock the seal on the door and remove this obstacle to entering the underground palace.

However, the Emerald Island has an important event next month, and it is definitely impossible for Yara to stay here for two full months, so he asked Kalin to come over to help him, quickly open the seal and return to the Emerald Island.

Then Yara took him to the workbench and showed him how to use the workbench to assist in parsing text.

As the cartographer started, several rare runes were drawn on the soft paper tape, and the paper tape was transported to the inside of the difference machine.

After a period of clanking noises, a set of Tyranid runes were suddenly projected on the workbench.

"Food, prey, food?" Karin read the words directly.

Yara nodded and explained to him: "After transcribing the rare words on the paper tape, the differential machine will automatically detect the extraordinary power of the words and display Tyran phrases with similar meanings."

"It's really convenient. It makes deciphering the text a lot easier."

Karin couldn't help but praise. The strength of an alchemist relies on various tools. Otherwise, if you really have to test each text by yourself, you will have to wait until the year of the monkey to completely decipher a set of texts.

And Yara smiled nonchalantly and said: "Haha, almost all archaeologists will have a set of this kind of rune analyzer, but the convenient tool is not all good.

Many new apprentices on the island rely too much on various tools. Some alchemists' basic skills are very unreliable. If they don't get rid of this bad habit, their future achievements will be limited.

Therefore, I have very strict requirements for my students. When deciphering ancient runes, they must write and analyze them by themselves. This will be of great help in mastering the relevant knowledge of runes. "