Although I was very curious about the history of this planet, the physical and mental exhaustion brought about by the previous war quickly made Sandora and I fall asleep (In fact, I still don't understand how Sandora, who had transformed into a planet, fell asleep). It was really a good night's sleep. It wasn't until the next morning that I was awoken by Aylu's noisy voice.
"Mr. Scholar! Mr. Scholar! Come down for breakfast! Mom's baked pancakes and light vegetable soup! "
Aylu's voice came from downstairs, and the entire second floor could hear it clearly. Following that was the sound of Celine scolding her daughter. I rolled over and found that the sky outside the window was already bright. The sound of people and horses neighing came from the direction of the street not far away: It was a good day, and it seemed that the adventurers in the town were also about to set off.
I looked around, but I felt that something was missing. Then, I suddenly felt a soft and warm thing wriggling under the blanket. I quickly lifted the blanket and saw a rare scene: Sandora's entire body had softened like a corn pancake …
Speaking of which, the Soul Spark was clearly just a ball of light, so why did it have such a rich variety of forms!
"Sandora, Sandora! Wake up! Your whole body is about to melt! " I quickly went forward and picked up the soft ball of Sandora. Watching the latter slowly wake up and return to a normal ball, I didn't know how many horses were rolling in my heart. After a long time, Sandora finally woke up. She lightly landed on my shoulder and said in a confused tone, "Aha, don't be nervous, don't be nervous, this is just a Soul Spark. When you don't concentrate on controlling it, it will change shape. It's normal. Speaking of which, when I was dreaming yesterday, the dream almost leaked out. Fortunately, this time I controlled it and only affected a range of two or three light years … "
Cold sweat dripped down my forehead, but Sandora certainly didn't realize how strange her behavior was, so I could only sigh and carry the ball of light on my shoulder downstairs to eat.
Celine had already put the food on the table, and the little girl Aylu was running around to help open the doors and windows to ventilate. This was the daily scene of the mother and daughter: Celine no longer looked like the female interstellar marine soldier from last night.
But I still remembered the scene of her quickly checking the particle rifle. The simple feudal building in front of me and the civilian housewife, the advanced equipment upstairs, and the future female soldier from last night. If I didn't see it with my own eyes, how could I connect these things together?
I shook my head and put those memories aside for the time being. Since Celine didn't take the initiative to expose anything, it was hard to say if it was against the rules of this world for her to hide a large number of ancient firearms at home. So, as an outsider who had just arrived, it was better for me not to ask about such things. After all, she was a clergyman, and the Church happened to have access to 'taboo knowledge'. We just couldn't be sure if a clergyman of Celine's level had 'crossed the line' by keeping a house full of weapons. If she was in a normal situation, it would be strange for me to make a fuss about it.
"Ha, Mr. Scholar is awake!" Aylu heard the noise coming from the stairs and immediately ran over happily. "Mr. Scholar, hurry up and eat! Breakfast costs 20 copper coins … Wow! There's something strange on Mr. Scholar's shoulder! "
Aylu's exclamation almost resounded through the whole house. Celine, who was arranging the chairs, was startled and quickly ran over. I suddenly looked at my shoulder with a strange expression, and then I saw … a golden ball of light innocently jumping around there.
"Sandora … Sandora …" I whispered softly and poked Sandora's ball, "You seem to have been exposed — you're not invisible!"
"Ah, I forgot," Sandora suddenly stopped jumping around, and said in a low voice rather awkwardly, "It seems that my mental state was too bad. After I woke up, I was a little confused, so I didn't notice … Why didn't Ah Jun remind me?"
I was immediately a little speechless, "You didn't notice yourself, how could I have noticed? Whether you're invisible or not, it's the same in my eyes, okay? I'm not used to having a bunch of status bars open in my vision all the time."
At this moment, Aylu and Celine were still staring dumbfounded at me. In their field of vision, the 'Mr. Scholar' was chatting with a strange golden ball of light. The scene looked like two ordinary people chatting casually. Judging from how Aylu was glaring at me, I knew that the situation couldn't go on like this. I hurriedly raised my shoulder and discussed with Shadora through the spiritual connection, "Why don't you brainwash them?"
"Spiritual Sparks can't do such a delicate thing. It's a pure weapon, made specifically to kill people. Even the smallest amount of force is enough to brainwash people into idiots. After that, we can only throw these two women into the Empire Admiral's victim care center," Sandora swayed her body, "Of course, if you want me to kill them, that's not a problem."
When I heard this, cold sweat suddenly broke out, but at the same time, some of the contents of the three books that I read last night also appeared in my mind. Suddenly, an idea came to me, so I raised my shoulder and smiled at Celine, "You know magic, right?"
"Magic?" Celine frowned and looked at me thoughtfully, "I know it's a relatively popular thing in the North, and there are also people who study magic in the South, but it's not very popular in the Duchy of Iven. Oh, is this magic? Mr. Scholar or Mr. Magician? "
"Actually, it's a very complicated story." When I heard that Celine seemed to have a kind of 'unknown' feeling towards magic, I knew that the Lost Church also didn't know much about this ancient knowledge. It belonged to the kind of situation where 'they know something but don't know what else'. So, I made up my mind and simply made the lie a little bigger, to the extent that it couldn't be falsified. "This is my lover, her name is Sandora. Because of some special reasons, she became like this … Well, a special reason, when she was exploring an ancient magic ruin, she accidentally had an accident, and she was turned into an egg by some kind of ancient magic!"
Before I finished speaking, I felt a solid hit on the back of my head. Then, Sandora's ball bombarded my head in a circle, and she scolded, "Ah Jun, can't you speak properly?! What do you mean turned into an egg! You can even say that my body and soul were destroyed! "
"Anyway, that's the situation." I dodged left and right while explaining to the stunned Celine and her daughter with a bitter smile, "It's an exploration of ancient ruins, so accidents are inevitable. Now, I have been looking around the world for a way to recover Sandora. This time, I heard that a new ruin has been opened, so I wanted to see if there would be anything here that could help her recover."
After throwing out such a big lie, I felt a little proud of myself. I thought to myself that it was all thanks to reading novels, watching movies, watching TV series, and studying the pile of spiritual food collected by the Bubble that I had unknowingly accumulated a stomach full of stories. This was because life wasn't stressful. If there was stress, I might be able to throw myself out to write novels and support a family. This story was ambiguous in all aspects, but in theory, it was very difficult to falsify it, especially since I had pushed most of the blame onto the ancient ruins. From what I could see, even the experts of the Lost Church couldn't figure out what was going on with those antiques. No matter how confused Celine was, she could only stare at the ancients!
Based on my experience of traveling through various worlds over the years, this kind of lie in a world with a broken civilization would almost never be questioned. This was the most common situation in a broken civilization: people were shocked by the advanced technology of the ancient civilization. Although they couldn't understand most of the content of the ancient civilization, they were willing to believe in the omnipotence of the ancient civilization through their imagination. In short, no matter what bizarre thing they encountered, as long as it was related to 'ancient technology', it would make sense.
As expected, the doubt on Celine's face gradually disappeared, but she still muttered a few words, "Ancient magic has such an effect? Why haven't I heard of it when I was studying in the church? Is it a new lost technology that appeared in recent years? "
"Well, it must be a lost ancient technology," Sandora finally decided to help. She swayed in the air with righteous indignation, "The evil Egg Transformation Spell!" Then she hit me on the head with all her might, and her tone became even more indignant through the spiritual connection, "And that evil mouth of Ah Jun!"
Celine finally believed this unfalsifiable story, and I also breathed a sigh of relief. I originally thought that if Celine really wanted to get to the bottom of it, I would simply drop the matter and leave, but now it seemed that I didn't have to go through so much trouble. At the same time, I finally confirmed one thing: even the clergy of the Lost Church's understanding of ancient technology was very one-sided. They must have lost a lot of things in so many years of inheritance, or Celine was in a marginal position in the church, so she didn't know much. In any case, Celine didn't understand magic, but she could accept bizarre stories about magic with great tolerance, which could explain a lot about the current situation of the Lost Church.
I carried the Sandora ball to the dining table. At this time, Alou asked curiously, "Mr. Scholar, have you been with Sandora egg … sister? Why didn't I see you yesterday? "
Sandora instantly disappeared on the spot, reappeared a few times, and explained to Alou boldly, "Because your sister egg can turn invisible!"
Alou's eyes suddenly widened in shock, and then she jumped up and tried to pull the Sandora ball down. Seeing that Sandora was about to fly into a rage, I quickly pulled the little girl aside, hugged the Sandora ball, and giggled at Seline, "Hehe … My girlfriend's current state often arouses suspicion, so she usually stays invisible … Well, this invisibility ability is also obtained after turning into this strange form."
Because I wasn't sure if the natives of this planet had mastered the invisibility technology, I simply blamed Sandora's invisibility on the ancient civilization. Speaking of which, the ancient civilization was really a good shield. If there was anything that couldn't be explained clearly, I could just blame it on them. Their status was equivalent to the time and the world, and it was their fault anyway.
Celine immediately understood and nodded with a smile, "I understand this kind of thing. Let's eat first."
This time, the Sandora ball appeared on the dining table, and also rolled around all the food openly. Celine looked at the magical ball of light, and finally a thoughtful look appeared on her face, "So … this is the reason why I felt the table shaking yesterday?"
I was a little embarrassed as I cut the scones, and like yesterday, I took out my dry food to share with Celine and Sandora (after all, it's not good to freeload). At the same time, I silently looked at Sandora, "Be good, don't waste your effort. You don't have a mouth now."
Sandora immediately jumped up from the ball, "Why did you mention it when you already knew? Can't you not mention it? "
"Actually, when I was studying in the church, I also heard that some adventurers were 'cursed' because they accidentally touched ancient equipment. Most of them were very troublesome, and the people involved were in great pain." Celine curiously looked at the Sandora ball rolling around the food on the table. Not only did she completely believe what I said, but she also took the initiative to discuss the problem, "Your situation is relatively rare. I have seen more serious cases, but I have never seen such a … strange case. Most of the curses brought out from the ancient ruins are diseases or inexplicable infections that can't be cured. It's rare to see a situation where a person's life form changes like this. Maybe this is a transformation magic used by the ancient people to create special warriors? You should ask the clergy of the archdiocese for help. It's very difficult to lift the curse with your own power. "
When I heard this, I was surprised: It turned out that the story I made up was not a special case, and it really happened on this planet? And Celine also heard of similar cases!
Come to think of it, a group of primitive people carrying shovels and bare-chested to dig high-tech ancestral graves in a place where civilization was broken, it would be strange if they didn't get infected by some radiation virus. Think about it, if the earth's technology was broken, and a group of apes dug into the waste pool of the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Plant, what would happen …
"Is the probability of cursing ancient ruins very high? You see, I'm just a scholar, not an adventurer specializing in the study of ruins, so I didn't really come into contact with this before. "I asked calmly," It just so happens that the clergy are very proficient in this field. Can you tell me more about the ruins? "
"Tales of ruins? You can easily find a series of legends, but most of them are actually made up by free adventurers when they are bored," Celine said in her usual gentle and elegant tone, revealing the temperament of a clergyman. "A scholar like you probably doesn't understand that exploring ruins is actually … a very easy thing to make a big mistake. Therefore, every time the ruins are opened, the highest parish has to make a careful decision, and there must be a certain number of clergymen accompanying the adventurers to guide them. Otherwise, they are not allowed to start on their own. Oh, I guess you should know these common sense things."
What else could I say? I could only try my best to nod and pretend that I was very familiar with the situation. At this moment, I really wanted to post a post on the main website of the Empire: I've just arrived in a strange world with no civilization, how can I pretend that I've been here often, I'm waiting online urgently. Speaking of which, I often see such posts on the main website of the Empire, basically, they are left by the bitter examiners, and most of the time, I can empathize with their distress.
Celine cut a piece of scone for Aoi, then turned her head and continued to say, "You will soon set off to the ruins with other adventurers, right? So, you will probably see a lot of priests, but generally, those who leave the diocese to travel with the adventurers are apprentice priests, their knowledge and ability are very limited, but you can still ask them for help, no matter where, the clergy are happy to help people who are troubled by ancient facilities. Oh, you mean me? I am indeed a clergy, and an official priest … But you also know that I have been away from the core of the religion for many years, and after marrying an adventurer, I will lose my 'right to exercise religion', which means that I only retain the title of a clergy and some ancient knowledge, and I can't use the resources of the diocese, so I'm afraid that I can't do anything about the problem that your lover is facing. "
Celine no longer doubted the Sandora Ball, but took the initiative to rely on the explanation I gave her. This was the advantage of closed knowledge and unequal information: she could only try to find an explanation from the things she knew, and would never take the initiative to think of something as mysterious as extraterrestrial visitors. If you saw a handsome Greek guy in a golden armor posing on the side of the road on Earth, your first reaction would definitely be to think that he was a cosplayer or a performance artist. I don't believe that a normal person on Earth would really think that he was a real god.
"There's always a solution to Sandora's problem. Tell me about the ruins."
Seeing that her enthusiasm was already a little off track, I quickly brought the topic back to the ruins.
"Oh, sorry, I'm a little off topic," Celine smiled apologetically. "Speaking of ruins, we all know that they are taboo items left behind by ancient civilizations. Ancient civilizations were extremely powerful, and they could explore the mysteries of the stars and study the origin of matter. They learned knowledge, analyzed the world, and once reached the realm of God — God is magnanimous, so he did not prohibit people from studying this knowledge in the beginning, but the ancient people recklessly used this knowledge and eventually led to a disaster. The ancient cultists said that the disaster was sent by God to punish arrogant mortals, while the New Cultists believed that the disaster came from indescribable disasters hidden in the depths of the world. These disasters led to the first great destruction … In any case, the ancient civilization was extinct, leaving only the ruins throughout the world. The Lost Gods were the first generation of 'repentants' who accepted the teachings of the God of Science and Technology and the God of Magic. As you can see, we treat the ruins around the world cautiously, and we guide and cultivate the profession of adventurers. Although many adventurers move freely, they are still under the control of the church, so we can ensure that the taboo knowledge will not be reactivated … Oh, these are all the contents of the sermons. It's an occupational disease. When I talk about the church, I can't help but speak in such a preaching tone. Please don't mind me, you should be familiar with this. "
"Err, it's okay. It sounds interesting," I recalled the religious story that Celine told me and showed an interested expression. "So, even the church is not sure what caused the extinction of the ancient civilization?"
Celine's expression was very serious. "Mortals can't figure out the era of God."
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