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"Is there any other defensive magic on this tower?" Maka couldn't help but wonder to herself.

But obviously, the next moment he realized that he had guessed wrong.

The group of fire dragons approached the tower again, and when they began to swoop in this direction, they saw hundreds of slender red beams suddenly appearing under the tower. They looked quite dense, and they were neatly shooting into the air in a parabola.

The group of fire dragons shot away, drawing red arcs in the air.

For a moment, the fire dragons began to evade in a panic, but the number of those magic beams was too great and the density was extraordinary, making it impossible to avoid them. The dozen or so fire dragons fell one by one like dumplings, fiercely.

It crashed into the woods on the island.

Not long after, they took off again, glanced at the red halo that gathered again around the tower, and then left in despair.

Maka hurriedly stuck her head out to look under the tower, and immediately saw the small figures on the ground.

"Elf?" Maka was really surprised this time, "It's hard to imagine how grand the scene was when the ancient wizards conquered these elves... I remember it was mentioned in some ancient books that there were quite a lot of elves at that time!

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For those gifted intelligent magical creatures, using their innate abilities is almost as simple as eating. It's no wonder that every war initiated by those intelligent magical creatures causes great turmoil in the magic world.

"Not to mention the current state of house elves, when the ancient wizards were able to completely conquer this creature, that kind of magical power was really desirable! Compared with today's more life-oriented magic spells, the difference is really huge

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Maka looked at the cheering elves below, but a desire for powerful ancient magic arose in her heart.

He had no other reason than to see with his own eyes the mystery of those ancient magics - this was completely the mentality of a theoretical researcher.

It has to be said that after Maka obtained the Scroll of Truth, his desire to explore magic theory was rising rapidly. Although he was already very interested in magic, this increasingly strong desire was faintly

There is a trace of abnormality.

However, this abnormality was not obvious. Even with Maka's vigilance, she was not aware of it at all.

After those elves repelled the incoming fire dragon, they all apparated and left. Maka turned around and looked at the cup of black tea on the table. After thinking about it, she picked it up and took a sip.

The tea was warm and tasted quite good. Unfortunately, he didn't know much about black tea. He thought it was just for quenching his thirst and drank it all in a short time.

"Want to try it? It tastes good." Maka turned around and looked at Willy, who was still standing by the window.

After resting for a while, Maka saw that the group of elves had no intention of coming back, so she decided to continue searching other rooms.

It's just that Muggle wizards always complain that most wizard buildings are unreasonable!

There are surprisingly many rooms on the third floor, and most of them are used as laboratories. Apart from a large number of bottles and cans, there is almost nothing useful in them. Even the potion bottles on the wall cabinet contain most of them.

It's empty, just neatly arranged there.

Some rooms are surprisingly empty, as if magic such as the Invisible Stretch Spell has been cast inside, and there is nothing in the room, making it look strangely empty.

But on the entire third floor, there is one room that is particularly unique.

This place seemed to be just an ordinary small restaurant, but as soon as Maka entered, she immediately discovered something special about it - this was a room cast with a strange spell.

Although he and Willy could walk around freely inside, nothing could be touched by them. When they stretched out their hands, they would only pass through the place where it should be solid, as if everything here was just an illusion.

.This made Maka have to think about the deep meaning.

"It seems like this is it," Maka thought to herself, "but, what secret is hidden here?"

He and Willie wandered around here twice, but didn't gain anything. Even if he saw something valuable, if he couldn't touch it, what's the use?

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Maka felt something was wrong.

The surrounding space... no, the surrounding objects are changing! Whether it is the dining table, chairs, surrounding closets, or even the blank portraits hanging on the walls, they are gradually becoming distorted. The degree of distortion is not large.

But everything has undergone slight deformation.

Seeing this strange situation, Maka couldn't help but frowned. Just when he was about to take out his wand and test it, the surroundings changed again!

The movement this time is not small.

I saw a large number of text symbols suddenly appearing around me, with Maka and Weili as the center! They appeared out of thin air all over the space of the restaurant, exuding a faint golden fluorescence, and kept rotating slowly around them.

With.

If you put aside the current situation, this scene looks extremely beautiful.

But what surprised Maka was that unlike the rule runes on the Scroll of Truth, he had basically seen all of those symbols.

Just before, in order to analyze the rules and runes on the Book of Truth, he went through almost all kinds of ancient text books. Some of them were magic texts widely circulated in the magic world, and some were non-magic texts obtained through archeology in the Muggle world.

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Now, he can even tell from the surrounding characters which ones are hieroglyphs from ancient Egypt and which ones are Sumerian cuneiform...

The ones closest to him were undoubtedly the 22 Phoenician characters floating in front of him.

They are a type of symbolic writing recorded in the Muggle world, and are said to be the origin of European letters. According to Muggle archaeologists, they were created by Phoenician traders in 1000 BC.

"What does this mean?" Maka looked around and had no idea for a moment.

But even if he had no clue, he gradually understood that this might be another mystery left by Rowena. The Bronze Eagle said that it wanted him to come and get something, and the breakthrough was obviously right in front of him.

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Time passed little by little, and Maka changed from standing to sitting, and he also had a notebook and a quill in his hand. He wrote and drew on the paper as if he was fascinated. It was obvious that he had entered a research state.

Willie on the other side looked very calm.

Although her attention was attracted by those wonderful symbols for a while, it didn't take long before her eyes moved to Maka. She sat quietly on the floor aside, watching Maka in a daze.

No one knows what she is thinking. Maybe she is not thinking about anything and is just sitting in a daze.

In this dream-like space, time seemed to have no meaning of existence. For a moment, it was surprisingly quiet here. Only the sound of Maka's rustling writing from time to time proved that there were still living people here.

The sky outside gradually darkened, and the afternoon passed quietly. In the gradually darkened room, only many symbols were left slowly drifting in the air, exuding a faint brilliance.

Soon, Maka stopped what he was doing. He took out a bottle of Condensing Sand and shook it. A burst of soft white light immediately erupted from the bottle, illuminating the entire room like daylight.

This is an improved version of the shimmering sand he used in the Whomping Willow Tunnel. Although it is still just a slightly prepared material, the brightness and durability have been greatly increased. It’s just that the added materials of this thing are a bit

As a stingy person like Maca, I don’t want to use it too much. After all, the number of uses is limited.

He put the bottle containing the light sand aside, then turned around and took out some food from the suitcase, and handed it to Willy beside him.

"Here, are you hungry?" Maka smiled and said, "Sorry, I tend to lose track of time when I start researching. If you are sleepy, I have a sleeping bag here."

Willie took the food and looked at it. They were some cakes bought in Italy, which looked quite exquisite. She opened the package without saying a word and started to eat in small bites.

Seeing that she didn't seem to want to talk, Maka had to take out the sleeping bag first and spread it flatly on the floor for her.

Willy finished the cake in her hand, shook her head slightly and rejected the second one handed over by Maka, then moved her buttocks and sat on the sleeping bag, as if she was ready to continue in a daze.

"Aren't you going to do something else?" Maka asked, "You can continue to read the herbology notes I gave you."

Willie nodded slightly, but did not move.

"What's wrong?" Maka asked curiously.

"Mom said you need to rest after eating," Willie said calmly.

Maka glanced at her with a subtle expression, sighing secretly that she was worrying blindly.

He stuffed the cake in his hand into his mouth in bites, then clapped his hands, and then returned his attention to his notebook.

As the research continued, he finally found a clue in the arrangement of the large number of symbols around him. He found that the 22 Phoenician characters closest to him had various similarities with other ancient characters around them.

Connection. However, upon further examination, the connection becomes specious.

"According to Muggle research, the Phoenician script evolved from hieroglyphics and cuneiform script. It is natural that there is a connection between them. But..."

"Could it be that these 22 Phoenician characters are not actually the original ones?" Maka frowned, and the gear called thinking was spinning rapidly in his mind, "Since this is Rowena's Scroll of Truth

The puzzle left by the holder, that is to say..."

Maka paused, then patted her head as if suddenly enlightened, and picked up the quill again.

He compared the various characters in front of him and began to try to compare and restore the 22 Phoenician characters in front of him based on his own understanding.