He checked the rune carefully and compared it with the information he heard before. He was sure that it was indeed a rune.
Now he understood why he couldn't find this place when he scanned the castle with his spirit feelers.
This was because the concealment ability of the inscription itself was extremely strong. Runes specially designed for this purpose could even fool the world's consciousness and allow otherworldly beings to sneak into other worlds.
Although the inscription was confirmed, a new question arose. "Why is there an inscription here?"
Under the strict control of the Supreme Cult, there was almost no knowledge of runes in the southern wizarding region. Only a handful of people knew how to use runes.
But now, a rune that was rarely seen even in the wizarding world appeared in the world of mortals. Angor was puzzled by this.
Maybe the answer was inside the rune?
Angor didn't know much about runes, but he knew how to activate the rune and enter the space behind it.
However, should he activate it now?
The rune appeared in a certain space, which meant there must be something hidden inside. Maybe he could find the answer to his question. Maybe he could even find something valuable inside.
But after some consideration, he decided not to activate the rune for now.
This used to be Sam's home. Since Sam's mother was no longer here, everything here belonged to him. Besides, if Sam knew about the rune, it meant he could get whatever he wanted if there was something valuable inside.
Angor didn't want to fight with a kid for his own fortune.
If there was anything he needed, he would exchange it for something of equal value when little Sam came out.
If Sam couldn't come out, it meant there was something dangerous behind the rune. It was Sam's choice, and he had to be responsible for it.
With that decided, Angor no longer paid attention to the rune. Instead, he quietly admired the artwork in the room.
After about a quarter of an hour, Sam Jr. reappeared in the backroom.
Sam was still wearing the same clothes as when he first came in — a rough gray vest and a pair of ragged trousers. However, there were also some things that were different. For example, Sam's expression was confused and hesitant before he entered, but now it was full of excitement. Also, there was a trace of extraordinary aura on his body.
"Is that a soul? There's a soul behind the rune? "Angor muttered." But it's not a real soul. "
Angor wasn't a Soul Manipulator, so he shook his head and waited for Sam to come out.
He saw Little Sam running towards the gate of the castle after leaving the inscription space.
Not long after, little Sam ran to the gate of the castle, panting.
He carefully looked around to make sure there were no undead creatures around before he stepped out of the gate and bowed to Angor.
"Mister Padt, I … I … I saw Queen Rowling in the castle!" Sam's face was flushed with excitement, and his eyes sparkled.
"Oh?" Angor didn't expect Sam to talk about Queen Rowling who died a long time ago..... soul? "
Young Sam shook his head. "I don't know if it was the queen's soul, but I saw her come out of the painting and talk to me."
"Sam's't....
"Yes. I saw the painting in a strange space. It was Queen Rowling, and she talked to me a lot! " Little Sam looked very excited. Seeing his ancestor and even talking to him made him forget about the horror of the Ghost Castle.
"A strange space …" Angor muttered.
"Yes. It's a strange space that exists on the wall. My mother told me something about it when I was little, but I didn't think much of it back then. When I went to my mother's room, I suddenly remembered the secret, so I tried it, and I really did get in! "
Angor looked at Sam carefully and saw something strange in Sam's eyes.
In his spiritual vision, he could tell that Sam's emotions were real, and so were his words.
This was why Angor was a little surprised. He thought Sam would hide the secret about the rune space from him, but he didn't expect Sam to tell him about it.
"It's your family's secret. Do you think it's appropriate to tell me?" Angor asked.
"It happened many years ago. Queen Rowling didn't ask me to keep it a secret. Why can't I tell you?" Sam paused for a second and said sincerely, "Plus, it was Mister Padt who saved my life. It was also Mister Padt who led me to the castle and killed the undead creatures so that I could enter. This is all thanks to Mister Padt. If I tell Mister Padt this secret, even if Queen Rowling finds out, she won't scold me. "
He could feel the sincerity in Sam's words. Angor felt that his previous speculation about Sam was too mundane.
"What did she tell you?" Angor considered.
"She told me some secrets about the Saint Salem Family …" Young Sam was still immersed in his excitement. "She told me some secrets about Saint Salem Family …"
Little Sam told Angor about the secret history of his family. Angor listened for a while and realized that the story was mostly about internal conflicts. It was similar to many secret histories of noble families.
Angor didn't find anything useful in the story.
Young Sam was very observant. Noticing Mr. Padt's furrowed eyebrows, he knew Mr. Padt didn't like to listen to the history of the royal family.
After all, Mister Padt was a supernatural being. To him, fighting for power in a mortal family was nothing more than child's play.
Thinking of this, Sam paused and said, "Queen Rowling said that the biggest regret in her life was that she didn't know that there was a bigger world outside of the Central Empire until she died. I asked her what that world was, and she told me it was the world of wizards. "
"Mister Padt, are you a wizard?"
"Yes." Angor nodded.
Sam gave Angor an "I knew it" look and continued, "The queen told me that she left something for her descendants who could enter that strange world. It is said that a Magus she met before she died gave it to her. "
Sam took a deep breath and looked at Angor with bright eyes. "I want to give it to you as a gift, mister."
"What is it?" Angor didn't reject the offer, but he didn't accept it either.
Sam shook his head. "I haven't seen it yet. I came out after Queen Rowling disappeared."
"Disappeared?"
"Queen Rowling said that time was running out and she was about to disappear. She told me that she left something for me, and she went back into the painting. I called her name, but she didn't answer. "Sam lowered his head in frustration.
Queen Rowling in the painting? Why did it sound so strange? Angor considered for a moment. "Take me there."
Sam nodded. "Yes, Mister Padt. Please follow me."
…
Inside the secret chamber filled with artwork, Sam pointed at a wall with an inscription on it. "That's the entrance."
"When I was a child, my mother told me that there was a secret hidden in the pattern. Only when a qualified descendant appears among Saint Sam's descendants and smears it with blood can the secret be revealed. "Young Sam said," However, after many generations, there has never been any so-called qualified descendant. Mother isn't a qualified person either. She brought me here as a matter of routine. She wanted me to see if I was qualified or not. "
Sam suddenly blushed. "But I was afraid of the pain, so I smeared Soupy's blood on the pattern when my mother wasn't looking. Soupy is my mother's pet dog."
"Of course she didn't notice it. I only came here to see if I can find it, and I really did enter the strange space. Does this mean that I'm qualified? "Little Sam was a little confused.
"Mister Padt, do you know what a qualified descendant is?"
Angor considered for a moment. "It's a special substance in a person's bloodline that has to correspond to a certain code in the inscription. Perhaps this is the so-called Qualifier. It is a kind of generation-skipping identification of a specific bloodline. "
"Is that so?" Little Sam was confused. He seemed to have understood what Zhang Zian was talking about, but he also felt that he couldn't understand it.
Angor looked at the inscription carefully. He could activate it by using his own power. But since it required a certain bloodline to be qualified, there must be some kind of defense mechanism in the inscription. To avoid any unnecessary problems, Angor asked Sam to do it first.
Little Sam didn't care about the qualification anymore. He walked forward, bit his fingertip, and smeared his blood on the inscription.
When the blood touched the inscription, a dark-red light enveloped Angor and Sam.
In the next second, they found themselves in a narrow room.
The room wasn't big, and there weren't many things inside. An oil painting of Queen Rowling was hanging in the middle of the room, while a locked suede box was placed below it. There was a row of grooves in the upper right corner of the box, which looked like an isolated pool. However, the pool was already dried up.
Other than that, there was nothing else.
Little Sam walked to the oil painting and pointed at it. "This is the painting. Queen Rowling came out of the painting and talked to me. But now, she won't answer me no matter how I call her. "
To prove his point, Sam still stood in front of the painting and called the queen's name like an idiot.
Angor glanced at the painting as well.
It was a lifelike half-length portrait of an old woman. The artist must be a master painter. And a top-tier one at that.
Most importantly, there seemed to be a kind of magic in the portrait that made people unable to help but be attracted to the lady in it.
The woman had gray hair, wrinkles, and wrinkles all over her face, but the elegance that came from her bones made her look even more beautiful.
Angor's heart skipped a beat when he saw the woman's beauty.
Even Angor felt his heart pounding. It was enough to see the beauty of the woman in the painting … and how skilled the painter was.
Angor could tell that the painting was just an ordinary one, but it already had a spirit. However, the spirit had already disappeared.
Angor guessed that the spirit used up all its energy to explain its conversation with Sam.
"A spirit? Isn't it Queen Rowling? "Sam was a little confused by Angor's explanation.
"Maybe this spirit was born because of Queen Rowling." Angor reached out a hand to touch the frame and looked at the bottom right corner of the painting.
Then, he saw a name that didn't surprise him.
Feng.
"I knew it." Angor chuckled.
He had heard that the famous Magic Painting Sorcerer, Mirafael Feng, had lived in the Art City overseas for a period of time. Even the people of the Fey Continent had heard of this city. It was Saint Sem City.
When Sam mentioned that Queen Rowling came out of the painting, Angor wasn't paying attention to the woman. Instead, he was looking at the painting.
He already had a vague feeling that something was going to happen.
Now, when he saw the familiar name again, he wasn't surprised at all.
"What is it?" Sam looked at Angor in confusion.
"Nothing. It doesn't matter whether the spirit in the painting is Queen Rowling or not. You just need to know that it only exists to deliver a message to you, its descendant. Now that the message has been delivered, the spirit will disappear. "
Now that the spirit was gone, Angor changed the topic. "Did Queen Rowling mention the author of the painting when she talked to you?"
Sam nodded. "Yes, the one who drew this painting is the wizard that Queen Rowling met in her later years. It was also because of this adept that Queen Rowling learned of the existence of such a wonderful World of Adepts. "
"Oh, right!" Little Sam pointed at the suede iron box under the portrait and said, "The thing in this iron box was left to me by Queen Rowling. I heard that the wizard gave it to me as well. "
Sam lifted the box and handed it to Angor. "This is for you, mister."
Angor glanced at the box. It looked ordinary, but there were runes engraved on the lock. Obviously, it required Saint Sam's blood to activate it.
Opening the lock required Saint Sam's blood. However, the box wasn't made of any special material. Angor could sense what was inside using his spirit feelers.
Angor frowned when he saw what was inside.
"Are you sure you want to give it to me?" Angor stared at Sam.
Sam nodded. "I'm sure. Like I said, I appreciate everything you've done for me, mister. Without you, I wouldn't have been able to defeat the undead creatures outside, and I wouldn't have been able to get this box. Plus, I might not have made it here. "
"I don't have anything to repay you. I don't think you're interested in ordinary art anyway. Therefore, the only thing I can repay you with is the things inside. "
"You don't even want to see what's inside?" Angor asked again.
Sam scratched his head. "I'm afraid I won't give it to you if I see it."
Angor looked at Sam for a while and shook his head. "I don't want the thing inside. It's useless to me."
Little Sam paused for a second and said, "Isn't that an item used by wizards? It's useless to you, mister? "
Angor nodded. "Yes, it's useless to me. If you don't believe me, open it and see what's inside. "
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