book of old days

Chapter 167

After breakfast, Sean didn't continue to summon. He was a little surprised by the jar monster yesterday. He decided to take a break today. I need to go to the Sword Castle Library to check the information on that bottle.

He first drank today's magic water for a few dwarves, and then led the horse out of the valley alone.

Sword Castle - Great Library.

Sean walked in front of the rows of bookshelves, looking at the books around him. He couldn't be more familiar with this place. He spent so many idle and boring days here after time travel, and he gained a lot of knowledge from this world here. It is also the most important source for him to collect materials and find information when writing.

Unlike the sparsely populated large library in Norem, the academic atmosphere in Sword Castle is very strong, and there are a lot of people in the library, but all of them are silently flipping through the books in their hands, or discussing in low voices, very quiet.

Sean passed the bookshelves that used to hang around and went straight to the restricted section.

When he reached the outside of the restricted book area, he was decisively stopped by an administrator.

The administrator knew him and greeted him warmly.

"I'm sorry, Professor Sean, the books here are not open to the public, unless you have relevant certificates, otherwise——you understand."

Sean smiled slightly, "Are you talking about this thing?" He said and flashed his membership badge.

In the past, he has been wondering what the relevant certificate is, but he has never received any feedback, and now he finally understands.

Some information is only known to insiders, and now he is also considered an insider.

The administrator was a little surprised: "Ah, I didn't expect Professor Xiao En to be a full member, so please come in."

He said and opened the door for Sean.

When Sean walked into the library, he realized that he was not alone.

A man in a black windbreaker and a scarf was mysteriously looking for something on the bookshelf.

Two middle-aged men in formal dresses were discussing something in a low voice while flipping through a few 'internal reference materials'.

There is also an old man, wearing unilateral glasses, reading a thick ancient book, with a glass of wine next to the desk, looking very leisurely.

When Sean came in, several people glanced at him calmly, and then turned their heads away one after another. Only the old man stared at Sean for a long time through his monocle.

Xiao En nodded to the old man, and said to the administrator: "I want to find some materials related to this mark, can you recommend some for me?"

The librarian was so frightened that he hurriedly covered his eyes, "I'm sorry, Professor Xiao En, I'm not qualified to read the books here, I'm afraid you need to search slowly by yourself."

Sean was a little surprised, but still nodded, "No problem, you can go and do your work."

After the administrator left, he browsed in front of the bookshelf.

Sure enough, as he guessed, in the collection of books in the restricted area, there are many books about occultism, ancient mythology, and religious beliefs. These books are more or less taboo in Brighton, and some of them are even called forbidden readings. Well, if ordinary people are found to have such books, they are likely to be invited into the bureau for tea.

But here you can look it up at will, Xiao En suddenly realized, is this what it feels like to be in the power class?The evil things in the eyes of ordinary people are meaningless to them, and they can even be said to be commonplace.

He picked up a copy of "Illustrated Book of Supernatural Creatures" with great interest, and another copy of "Religion and Mythology", and found a table to read them.

No, no, no no, no here...

Life without a computer is really troublesome.

Sean put the book back in the distance, feeling a little helpless in his heart. There are so many materials here, it is really not an easy task to find the information you want from them.

Just thinking about where to start, an old voice suddenly sounded not far away.

"Would you mind letting me see?"

When Sean turned his head, it was the old man. His hair was snow-white, but the skin on his old face was quite ruddy. His side whiskers were also snow-white and neatly trimmed. His eyes were piercing, giving a very wise look The feeling reminded Sean of the old foreign professors he often saw on street billboards in his previous life.

His voice is loud and majestic, a bit like Saruman in The Lord of the Rings.

After hesitating for a moment, Sean handed over the paper with the logo on it.

The old man looked at it and nodded, "This is the Ring of the Serpent, let me guess, you saw this mark on a bottle, right?"

Sean was a little surprised, this guy is an expert at first glance.

But for the sake of caution, he didn't answer, "Oh, why do you say that?"

"The food-tailed snake is the symbol of the séances. They usually print this mark on the instruments they use, and the most common instrument they use is a bronze bottle. If you read this book, you will know why It's over." The old man said as he took out a book from the shelf and handed it to Sean.

Xiao En is now sure that the old man is really knowledgeable.

He took the book and glanced at the cover "The Birth and Death of the Seance"

——This book is an internal reference material, and it is forbidden to spread it outside.

Sean asked casually while looking through the book.

"What's in that bottle?"

"Nothing, at least that's what the books say."

"Nothing?" Sean was a little speechless, there was clearly a voice coming from the bottle.

He finally found that page. On the illustration in the book, the exact same bottle that was summoned yesterday was drawn impressively, with the same Foodtail snake mark on the mouth of the bottle.

And this kind of bottle has a very domineering name - Gushen Urn.

【Imperial Urn: A container used by the Seance to confine supernatural beings such as demons, evil spirits, goblins, and gods. It is made of bronze.

Although this kind of confinement can only act on the psychological level, the desire of the people, even if it is false, can become real. Therefore, the confinement of the gods has become a sharp weapon for the spirits to fight against supernatural life. 】

so smart?But why did the old man say that there was nothing in it?
He carefully read the introduction to the Seance and the explanation of the God's Urn, and finally understood what he meant.

According to the book, the Seance was a mysterious organization active in the Middle Ages. They belonged to the Rational Society, and it was a special department established by the Rational Society to fight against the superstitious thoughts that were prevalent at that time.

Hundreds of years ago, the peninsula was full of mysterious magic, ancient bloody sacrifices, vicious legends of evil spirits, as well as witchcraft and believers of various ancient gods.

The Society of Rationality has just gained a certain right to speak in the Kingdom of Brighton, gained the trust of the king, and started the mission of unifying the beliefs of mankind.

However, people in that era generally lacked the ability to reason rationally, and were obsessed with various superstitions and legends. There were also many cult priests, wizards, and elders who controlled the people with chaotic thoughts.

Seeing such a sight, the Rational Society decided to eradicate the mysterious and eerie legends in this land.

For this reason, the special law enforcement department of the Whitsundays was specially formed.

The spirits fight magic with magic, and mystery with mystery. For hundreds of years, they assisted the army of the Kingdom of Brighton to sweep the surrounding barbarian tribes and eliminate the mysterious beliefs entrenched in various remote areas.

The seance is marked with a foodtail, which means 'the day when the mystery disappears is also the day when the seance is disbanded'.

The book records a lot of incident records of seances fighting against mysterious forces, but most of them have a feeling of 'approaching science'.

Among them, the origin of the Gushen Urn is mentioned.

The seance realized that it is precisely because of people's worship and belief in mysterious power that these remote areas cannot get rid of this influence. As long as people believe in these supernatural existence, they will not be able to really bring people the ability of rational thinking. For those blind believers, this blind belief can only be used to destroy the source of this influence.

Therefore, the séances will use optical technology to create phantoms to make people mistakenly think that they have sealed the mysterious existence in the bottle, and these so-called urns are actually just ordinary metal bottles.

But when people believe something, often the truth doesn't matter.

So these 'mysterious forces' were self-defeating, and these strange stories and legends gradually disappeared in these areas.

When Xiao En saw this, he seemed to realize something.

This spirit séance is a bit powerful, it has actually learned to fight poison with poison, and to deal with the power of faith with the power of faith.

If he hadn't witnessed the existence of gods with his own eyes, if he didn't understand how the power of faith works, he might really have believed the contents of the book.

But now, he saw the truth hidden in it from the records in the book.

Those so-called mysterious powers and mysterious legends in remote areas may all be real, but they were also born from the power of human belief.

To put it bluntly, they are all illusory things realized by the power of human belief.

The Spiritual Seance uses the power of faith to make people believe that this bottle is a sharp weapon against those mysterious forces. Once people all believe this, then these bottles will really become mysterious weapons that can work against those things of faith. up.

So for those who are devout, there are indeed mysterious beings in these bottles.

But for ordinary members of the Rational Society, who don't understand the way the power of faith works, there is indeed nothing in this bottle. Ordinary creatures of faith will perish sooner or later once they lose the supply of power of faith.

But for him, it was another result.

Since the bottle has fallen into the sea of ​​chaos, it will inevitably be affected by the magic power of chaos in the sea of ​​chaos. If a creature of faith absorbs a lot of magic power of chaos, what will happen?

(End of this chapter)