Feeling Varga's desire for the second half of the book, Connor thought for a moment and said, "Do you have time tomorrow? If you do, come to the safe house and we can talk about it. I've caught a beginner wizard apprentice. We can use him to test the flying potion!"
"I have time tomorrow." Varga thought for a moment and said softly. But from her eyes, she seemed to be very surprised that Connor didn't catch a magic beast as promised. Instead, he caught an apprentice wizard to test the flying potion.
"Very well, see you at the safe house tomorrow!" Hearing Varga's answer, Connor nodded in satisfaction. He said goodbye to Varga and left the Piero Grand Theater first. From the letter that Varga gave him, Connor was almost certain that there was something wrong with the book. There must be some kind of tracking method. But what kind of method was it? Connor couldn't wait to find a quiet place to figure it out.
Returning to his and Valga's safe house, Connor brewed a pot of coffee for himself, and then set up a small isolation formation in the room. Standing in the middle of the formation, Connor put on a pair of blue leather gloves engraved with runes, and took out the black bag containing the letter and the book 'Pandev's Best Pharmaceutics' from his spatial ring.
Cautiously taking out 'Pendev's Selected Pharmaceutics' from his black pocket, Connor's gaze immediately became incomparably cautious. He had already briefly examined this book in Ferguson's apartment located at 16th Rand Street. Furthermore, he discovered that this ancient book had just been torn apart not too long ago, but someone had disguised it as being torn several hundred years ago.
When he first discovered this, Connor was a little curious as to why this was done. But this wasn't a big problem. Besides that, Connor didn't feel anything strange from the book, so he let his guard down and didn't do a more detailed check on the book. Now it seemed that Connor's moment of carelessness had hit him.
Taking a deep breath, Connor took out a magnifying glass flickering with a pale blue luster from his space ring. Facing this magnifying glass, Connor struck a spell, and soon after, translucent blue runes appeared on the magnifying glass. Holding this magnifying glass, Connor began to check every page of this book, Pandev's Selected Pharmaceutics.
Three hours later, Connor, who had flipped through the entire book with the lens, put it back into his space ring with a gloomy face. Although Connor didn't find any clues in the past three hours, his intuition told him that there must be something wrong with the book.
While drinking the freshly brewed coffee, Connor turned his gaze to the last page of the ancient book. It was a page that had been disguised to look like it was from hundreds or even thousands of years ago. Connor still couldn't figure out why the other party had done this. Was it just to hide the true time when the ancient book was torn apart? Or was there another reason …?
Thinking of this, Connor suddenly had an idea. A glint flashed across his eyes as he took out his magnifying glass from his Space Ring again. He searched for any possible clues on the last page of the book inch by inch. After a few minutes, although he still didn't find any clues on the last page, Connor's expression gradually became excited.
He thought of a note written by his mentor, Reyes, in the book "Alchemy of Reyes". If you have a very precious item that hides a secret, and the enemy tries to get the secret from it, what is the best way to hide the secret?
The answer is: You don't have to hide the secret well, but you have to set a wrong clue on the item that you want the enemy to find, and then let him go further and further on the wrong clue. In this way, he will never find the right secret.
Although Reyes's behavior was completely different from the problem he was facing now, in Connor's view, they both had the same idea. They were both trying to lead the person who wanted to find the secret from the book to the wrong answer!
The enemy he couldn't see was misleading him on this book. He was using a small problem to cover up a big problem. His technique was very clever. Although the way he made the tear on the last page was very clever, it wasn't difficult for some skilled alchemists to see through the falsification.
According to normal thinking, as long as you found a small problem, you would continue to observe it. After confirming that it was a small problem, you would not care about it anymore. Instead, you would try to find a new problem in the classics. However, you would not know that there was a real problem behind this small problem. Additionally, the small problem that you thought you had seen through was actually deliberately shown to you by the other party in order to make you careless!
The more Connor thought about it, the clearer he became. He took out a silver knife from his interspatial ring and carefully removed the tear marks on the last page of the book. After removing these traces, Connor used a magnifying glass to examine the last page. As expected, although it was still very small, Connor found a Occult Rune on it. This Occult Rune was so small that if Connor relaxed a little, Connor wouldn't have noticed it. In fact, he felt that he was very lucky to have found this Occult Rune.
After removing the Occult Rune from the book, Connor began to carefully observe it. This Occult Rune belonged to a type he had never seen before.
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In a small hotel next to the Loen Train Station, a fat middle-aged man who was sitting cross-legged on a bed suddenly opened his eyes. Beside him was a blonde middle-aged woman who was focused on peeling an apple. She seemed to be frightened and immediately shouted at the middle-aged man, "Why are you so scared?"
Hearing the middle-aged woman's scolding, the fat middle-aged man shrunk his head in fear. He straightened his body and coughed lightly, "The Occult Rune I placed on the book seems to have been discovered by someone …"
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