However, Ella, who was approaching the lamb fiercely with a knife, was knocked over by the sheep's hoof.
"Well...Amy, hurry up and use Aphrodite's protection!" Ella shouted, covering her red nose.
"Your Majesty, please don't always ask me to seduce these strange things!"
Under Amy's resistance, they finally failed to eat the mutton. Amy compensated by making a pot of cabbage soup, and Ella ate it with bread made from beans, grains, and bark.
Although this meal was extremely simple, for Ella, who had been drifting on the sea for a month, being able to drink hot soup made her very satisfied.
At night, Ella set up the Eye of Hermes in an open space. However, the sky tonight was covered with dark clouds, which was not suitable for observing the stars at all. With a sigh, she returned to the room and dug out the alchemical book that Jabir had given her.
"The king's crown should be of pure gold, and a chaste bride should marry him. The greedy gray wolf, by his name, was subordinate to the warlike Ares, but by nature he was the child of Cronus, hungry for Lives in the valleys and mountains of the world. Throw the king's body before it, and perhaps get nourishment from him. When it has devoured the king, light a bonfire again and throw the wolf into the fire to burn it completely... What the hell did you write!"
Ella cursed and closed the book. Alchemists are afraid that their knowledge will be lost, so they are always diligent in recording; but they are also afraid that their knowledge will be stolen too easily by others, so they always like to use code words and code names to hide their knowledge. The most frustrating thing is that there is no unified code word for alchemy. The code words used by each alchemist are randomly used when they write books. This is also the most critical reason why Ella has never been able to read alchemical literature.
And Jabir's works look no different from those of other alchemists.
But just as she was about to leave the book and go to bed, she remembered the story of Mamelkus, the counterfeit coin maker. If Dan hadn't been around at that time, no one in the Seven Hills Empire, which banned alchemy, would have discovered Mamelkus' secret.
According to Jabir, the alchemy of the Tianfang Empire had developed to a considerable height two thousand years ago, and it was not comparable to a small character like Mamelkus.
Ella gritted her teeth and opened Jabir's book again. She will block all the knowledge she possesses and vow to translate Jabir's documents into a form that she can understand.
After making up her mind, Ella read it word for word from the beginning again. She suddenly discovered that after following Dan for a period of time, she could actually understand many of the seemingly confusing words in front of her: For example, Ares, which Dan said refers to iron in alchemy, and Cronus, It refers to lead...
"Your Majesty! There are so many rats! My clothes have been bitten by them! And they are still running around my ears. It feels like my ears will be bitten off by them at any time!"
Amy ran in in a panic, holding Little Rice in her hand who looked equally flustered:
"Look, the little rice people are frightened by those mice. There are really too many of them!"
"Is that so? I'll prepare some rat poison tomorrow."
Ella replied absently, dismissing Amy.
At this moment, the books in the Wang family library were like being blown up by a hurricane, and the pages were turning in Ella's mind.
As she watched, she suddenly heard a voice whispering in her ears. She put down her book and looked around, realizing that it was already morning. She continued to search for the source of the sound, and finally cast her eyes on the crowbar she put aside——
A strange man passed by the window and spoke to Ella naturally:
"Hey, there's news just now. While hunting, several groups of people in our territory had a conflict with people from the neighboring Loland territory over the ownership of the prey. They started fighting, and then our people were detained by them. You said, What should I do?"
"It won't be long before we get it back, okay?"
Ella continued to answer absentmindedly. The strange man hammered his palm as if suddenly enlightened: "Yes, it's obviously such a simple question!"
"Inexplicable..." Ella muttered quietly. She felt a little dissatisfied - because of the appearance of the man just now, the sound of spitting messages disappeared.
She picked up the crowbar and examined it carefully. She suddenly discovered that the position of the ouroboros on the crowbar had changed slightly - although it was still made of iron, it seemed to have been alive, and the snake's head had shifted from its original position.
Ella was shaking with excitement—she remembered Jabir saying that the snake on the crowbar was a product of alchemy, very close to the perfect philosopher's stone. Could it be that the prerequisite for summoning this snake is to have the appropriate knowledge of alchemy?
She returned her attention to Jabir's book.
The books in the Wang family library were flipped through faster. Fragments from various books with different authors, different types, different page numbers, and different words began to be gradually spliced into meaningful paragraphs in Ella's mind.
Ella still couldn't understand Jabir's book. But this time, it was not because of the inability to interpret the code words in the book, but because of the too many interpretations given by Ella. In just the first chapter, Ella gives more than thirty possible explanations, and each explanation is logical enough to be self-consistent.
Which explanation is correct?
Just as Ella was racking her brains about this, the strange man just now appeared at the window again and asked:
"Although I said I wanted to get it back...but when should we set off?"
"You can leave whenever you want, and go as soon as you're ready. Do you have to ask?"
Ella yelled angrily, and then turned her attention to Jabir's book——
After a while, she suddenly felt something was wrong:
This is Zealand, not Constantinye.
But just now, she subconsciously used the tone she used when she was interrupted by official duties in the palace to read.
Amy ran over in a panic at this moment:
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, it's not good! These people from Zealand suddenly ran out of the farmland, picked up axes and shields, thousands of people, and went to the territory next door to kill..."
"Huh? What do these barbarians want to do? Their lord Hestein is not here, yet such a large-scale conflict spontaneously broke out?"
"They said... it was the acting lord's order."
"Acting Lord? Lily and Hestein are not married yet, and Bjorn is not here either...wait a minute! Could it be that..."
Ella cautiously confirmed Amy with her eyes, her voice getting softer and softer.
Amy tilted her head to one side in embarrassment and said in a voice so soft that it was almost inaudible:
"Your Majesty, Hestein, Bjorn and Lily are not here. The person who has enough authority now and lives in the house of their lord Hestein... is you."
