Celestial Mage

Chapter 23 Awakening Proverbs
The ice surface of the Coldwater River.

"Mr. Chapple"

"You don't need to be so formal, just call me uncle from now on."

"Oh, yes. Uncle, didn't you say that Silvermoon Castle is just south of Baima Town? Why do you have to make a big circle to cross the river?"

Xia Bolai chuckled: "Little clever ghost, do you really not know or pretend you don't know?"

Rosen smiled awkwardly, knowing that he could no longer play dumb in front of Xia Bolai.

"For Cyrus' relic?"

"Yes."

Xia Bolai turned his head and looked back, it was a vast expanse of whiteness, and he couldn't see a single figure, let alone Lilith.

"The members of the Nightingale Club are not stupid, so let's act fast."

As he spoke, he quickened his pace and began to trot across the ice.

The Hanshui River is very wide. The surface of the river is generally more than 300 meters, and the widest one is even more than 2 miles. Although most of the river surface is frozen, there are still some places that are not frozen. When walking on it, you can hear "creak creak" The sound of ice cracking.

Xia Bolai ran cautiously, and asked again: "Where do you think Cyrus will put his luggage?"

"He was planning to withdraw to the other side of the river, so he naturally hid on the other side."

"But there are a lot of good things in his suitcase, and there is a lot of money. If he loses it, he will feel distressed. Therefore, he must not worry about taking Dong XZ too far, and may even send one or two living corpses as guards."

Xia Bolai nodded again and again: "Not bad, very good. Is there any more?"

"He planned carefully this time, put a lot of effort into it, and was sure of winning, so when placing luggage, there is a high probability that he will not spend a lot of effort to hide it, because it will be taken away at any time."

"So, there should be some traces, maybe even footprints, around the treasure site."

"Hmm~ not bad, is there any more?"

"The snow is vast, and the ground scenery is difficult to distinguish. It is very easy to get lost. In order to avoid accidents, Cyrus probably hid his luggage in a relatively conspicuous place."

As soon as he finished speaking, Rosen found some abnormal marks on the snow in front of him.

After squinting his eyes, he smiled and said, "Look over there, there is a long series of pits. From a distance, they should be footprints covered by wind and snow."

Xia Bolai immediately changed his route and followed the footprints all the way.

Soon, the two of them crossed the river and came to a flat riverside tidal flat.

In the center of the tidal flat, there are two huge rocks piled up randomly. Just where the two rocks intersect, there is a gap, and thick snow is piled outside the gap.

"That's it!"

Xia Bolai chuckled, put down Rosen, pulled out the Demon Breaker Knife, used the knife instead of a hoe, and dug vigorously.

First, a frozen corpse was dug out, it was a living corpse out of control, and inside was a wooden suitcase.

Xia Bolai dragged the box out, and waved to Rosen again: "Stay away, be careful of traps in the box."

After Rosen walked away, he used his defensive combat skills first, and a silver light suddenly appeared on the surface of his body, and then he picked the lock on the suitcase with the tip of his knife.

The first lock was fine, and the second one was fine. When I reached the bottom drawer, there was a 'snap', and a cloud of dark green mist exploded.

When the mist touched the wooden box, the box immediately rotted at a speed visible to the naked eye, and a layer of black debris fell off in a blink of an eye.

Xia Bolai was prepared for a long time, raised his foot and kicked lightly, kicking the box out of the range of green mist.

A gust of river wind blew past, and quickly dispersed the green mist. Only then did Xia Bolai dissipate his fighting skills, and pulled out one drawer for inspection.

After a few glances, he couldn't help laughing: "Haha, this guy has hidden a lot of money."

He took out a bulging money bag, weighed it lightly, and almost grinned his big mouth to his ears: "This is at least 200 crowns! It's enough for me to spend three months in the Rose House in Silvermoon Castle!"

Immediately afterwards, two crystal bottles were taken out, one containing a sky blue liquid and the other amber.

"Aha, waking potion, dream potion, I have no use for these two things. Rosen, go on."

"What's the use of this?"

"It's all used by mages. The sobriety potion can keep you highly focused, and greatly save mana when casting spells.

"Dream potion can make you sleep well. No matter how depleted your mana was before, you will definitely be alive and kicking when you wake up."

While speaking, he took out another exquisite silver badge.

After taking a closer look, he clicked his tongue in amazement: "The official mage's emblem is made of pure mithril. Such a small piece is worth 50 crowns, hehe."

As he said that, he seemed to think of something, and suddenly slapped his thigh vigorously, with a deep regret on his face.

"Oh, what a pity! Just now I was just venting my hatred, and didn't take off the invisibility cloak on Cyrus, what a shame."

In the underground black market, the invisibility cloak can be sold for at least 100 crowns.

Rosen shrugged: "It's probably useless to take it off, the cloak has already been broken by me."

That's right, it calmed Chapolei's heartache a little bit.

In the end, Xia Bolai took out three books, the first one was called "Cyrus' Spell Notes", and the second one was "Principles of Precise Geometry".

Both are beautifully bound manuscripts.

The style of the third book is obviously different, the cover is black, and the title of the book is "Words of Awakening the World".

Under the title of the book, a hand is drawn upwards, with a ball of fire floating in the hand, and in the flames, there is a burning city.

The city is very finely drawn, and you can see burning buildings, and countless people who are crying in pain but have nowhere to escape.

Xia Bolai was taken aback: "Tsk~ No wonder this guy's mind is so twisted, so he read a forbidden book!"

Rosen was curious: "Forbidden book? What will happen after reading it?"

"It won't do much to read it. But if you let the people in the Jingshi Temple know that you have read this book and keep it close to you, they will try their best to burn you to ashes with the holy fire!"

Rosen became more and more curious.

Before he could ask any questions, Xia Bolai took the initiative to explain.

"The Temple of the Pure World is a royal department specially set up by Emperor Deuta I. It is nominally commanded by temples in various places, but it has strong independence.

"The purpose is to clean up the evil thoughts in the golden land, as long as things related to evil thoughts, no matter people or things, are included in the attack."

He pointed to Proverbs of Awakening the World.

"The author of this book is Archmage Greymane Burning Heaven. There are two famous quotes in the book."

"First, 'Spells are the way for mortals to reach heaven'. Second, 'The Golden God is neither holy nor great, he is just an extraordinary mage who deceives the world.'"

After finishing speaking, he curled his lips: "If you want me to say, Greymane is a nerd, compared to young and beautiful girls, spells are nothing!?"

Rosen smacked his lips secretly. This is simply a declaration of war against God. It is not unfair at all to be listed as a banned book by the Golden Empire.

As for cleaning up evil thoughts, it's probably an alien version of Literary Inferno.

He asked cautiously, "Uncle, can I have a look?"

Xia Bolai handed the book to Rosen: "Just take a look. Also, after reading it, don't talk nonsense, otherwise even Madam won't be able to save you."

"I know."

Rosen took the "Proverbs of Awakening the World" and flipped through it page by page, very quickly. The pages of the book made a 'squeaky' noise. The book was very thin and was quickly finished.

"Back to you."

Xia Bolai was stunned for a moment: "Is this the end of the story? It's just a 'crash', is it interesting?"

Rosen spread his hands: "Actually, I just want to see if there are any interesting illustrations. Obviously, there are not."

"Eh~ This is not a comic book, how could it add illustrations."

Xia Bolai took the book, and with a flash of light in his hand, he turned the book into powder.

He opened "Cyrus' Spell Notebook" again, flipped through it carefully, tore off a dozen or so pages at the back, kneaded them into powder, and handed the two books to Rosen.

"Okay, you can read these. You can read geometry as you like. You can only read the spell notes, so don't learn it on your own."

"Once there is a magic accident, it can range from serious injury to severe death!"

"I see."

Looking at the dust floating in the wind, I knew that it must be the forbidden technique of darkness. Although I didn't plan to learn it, I didn't even take a look at it. It was a pity.

"Let's go."

Xia Bolai picked up Rosen on his back again, quickened his pace, and hurried all the way to the south.

(End of this chapter)