The perception from the Heart Seal wasn’t as intense as the first time, but it definitely wasn’t good either.
Lin Suo could only quickly deal with the Big Bone Stick, sucking on his fingers.
"Is something wrong?"
"Rhein, you’ve known Valia for quite some time; you should have heard about my temperament from her."
"So I should just do what you say? The Empire is a society governed by law..."
"I know, there’s no need to stress that."
Valia seldom spoke of her sister. When she did, it was either admiration or, most often, fear; she was very afraid of her sister Tina.
Lin Suo was there for the entire transaction between the Nature Language family and the beast siblings and had lost contact since; he had his suspicions about the visitor.
"Valia has been grounded by me."
"I could guess that."
Lin Suo nodded, it was within reason.
Hearing this, Tina prickled.
"Don’t you care about her at all?!"
"She’s just a neighbor who likes to freeload. The Nature Language family doesn’t like people from Dan Dong; why should I bother, only to be shunned by both people and animals?"
Tina was momentarily at a loss; though this made sense, it was bluntly put, and she felt uneasy about it. It was precisely the response she wanted, but it made her... it made her...
"There’s no need to stand up for your sister. Neither she nor I are as you imagine. We’re just friends."
Stand up for her? That’s exactly what it was!
Thinking this, Tina’s demeanor softened a bit, curious about Lin Suo’s carefree attitude.
"Valia often mentions your skill with languages; I don’t believe you can’t see the anomaly in the Moon God Talisman. You even recognize the Royal Records, tell me! Did you do it?!"
Lin Suo’s heart clenched, but he quickly maintained a calm demeanor and denied it.
"How could that be? If I were in cahoots with Reynolds, why would I report him?"
"That’s true, but who knows if you two are backstabbing each other over an uneven split!"
"Believe it or not, what do you really want?"
It was then that Tina remembered the reason she had come, aside from questioning him, there was another purpose.
"I trust Grandpa Antler and Valia’s judgment; you have to help me with this."
Tina pulled out a map from the deep necklace around her chest.
This thing was also a piece of Space Equipment.
So... this is an ancient map.
Clearing away the plates, Lin Suo was about to touch it but was smacked away by Tina.
"Greasy hands, wear gloves."
He readily agreed; honestly, his Plant Control ability was learned from the Moon God Clan’s Royal Records, and he was also interested in these historical mysteries.
For Lea’s sake, he would help her out. It had nothing to do with the shame of feeling guilty.
The ancient map was three meters wide and six meters long.
On the dining table, only half could be spread out at first. As expected, the topography was completely different from that of the moon-shaped Padolon.
"This must be what the Ancient Battlefield looked like."
"Right, look over here."
"This crescent-shaped island is today’s Padolon Continent."
Lin Suo was startled; Padolon Continent was actually not small, on Blue Star it was like Australia compared to the Eurasian Continent.
Of course, the sizes were different, but the proportions were similar.
"Was the Ancient Battlefield really this big? Was the whole Old Continent destroyed?"
Tina rolled her eyes.
"Don’t worry about that, be serious. There are a lot of secret languages recorded on the top, see if you can guess the meanings."
"This smaller one is Moon God Island."
Lin Suo shifted his gaze and quickly locked onto the target, where a slogan was inscribed.
[The Place Watched Over by the Moon God, The Origin of the Clan]
This is the meaning of the slogan, each character having dual meanings.
There was also a column with guiding content.
[Stars descend moonlight, tides stir whirlpools, both merging into one with the heavens, the Moon God shall lead us to the origin.]
That was Lin Suo’s interpretation; god knows how the original words were translated.
But he could understand what he was looking at.
Lin Suo circled the sea area near Moon God Island with his finger, and asked.
"What is this place?"
"Thousand Island Sea Domain."
"Got it. Are there famous ocean currents nearby?"
"Yes, but... you understand this?"
Lin Suo shook his head in denial, speaking with a teaching tone.
"Text does not necessarily need to be understood, it can also be guessed, don’t you think? What do you think the earliest texts looked like?"
"I’ll tell you, they were pictograms. The sun was represented by a circle, a person with a small circle plus lines for limbs and the torso, and so on, isn’t it quite simple?"
Tina looked confused, impressed yet not entirely sure where the impressiveness lay.
"So, the King’s Secret Language of the Moon God Clan is actually hidden in their everyday life. As long as you understand their habits and routine, even if you don’t know it, you can guess its general meaning."
"In short, you should visit the vortex area near the Thousand Island Sea Domain, and it’s best to go out to sea at night when there is moonlight."
"If you don’t have the Moon God Talisman to guide you, you can only rely on luck."
Lin Suo finished speaking, and seeing that Tina was still pondering, he silently slipped away.
Lying is also a skill.
In this world, pictograms indeed exist, but those are the origins of human civilization, and have nothing to do with the Elves.
Linking unrelated things together to make them sound impressive, look, deceiving the Elves from the Nature Language family isn’t so tough.
For the next few days, Lin Suo had no plans to go out. He survived on jerky, staying in his cabin to study Bomb Study knowledge.
Tina did come looking for him, but he had hung a "Studying" sign on his door, so she didn’t knock.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
In the blink of an eye, five days went by. During that time, Lin Suo had used the materials stored in his stomach pouch to make some gadgets and was now eager to try them.
Not waiting for the steam airship to come to a complete stop, he dashed out as fast as lightning.
With a whistle, a purple summoning array appeared, and an unusually large Moon Blade Leopard rushed out, with Lin Suo mounting it in a swift motion.
He vanished in an instant.
Tina, watching his disappearing figure, was speechless.
An hour later, at Rhein Castle.
He now had three hundred acres of land and a fishing village. Building a road for travelers and merchants within the castle grounds was unnecessary; no one passed through here anyway.
He simply built a dirt path along the rice paddies, connecting to the main road; visitors were welcomed if they wished to come.
That would keep things legal and make traveling a bit easier.
The fishing village had been transformed into Silver Fish Port, for private use only. Nearby fishermen would occasionally stop for a night, and he wouldn’t drive them away, as the ships were still in the research phase.
He had no plans to go out to sea for the short term.
In just under a month, the changes to the territory were not drastic, but many details had been refined, giving off a strong sense of life.
After exchanging greetings with the butler and the Chief Maid.
Lin Suo couldn’t wait to enter his underground laboratory.
He had purchased all the materials in the Capital, and everything was ready, all he needed was to start work.
Once this device was complete, not only could it serve as an ace in the hole, but it would also be a formidable Big Move, particularly suitable for stealth attacks. Combined with Magic Tools technology, it should unleash even greater power.