Pillar of Yita

The temperature in the desert drops to almost zero after midnight, yet even so, the young man couldn’t stop sweating. He wiped the sweat from his cheek with his hand and, lowering his voice, replied to Fang Hong: ”Those are the ancient characters imparted to the Oathkeeper Clan by the Numelin Elves. During the Era of the Giant War, they used these symbols to cast powerful spells to seal their seemingly insurmountable foes.”

”But later, the fairies, with their extraordinary forging techniques, engraved the Dragon’s Scripture onto the Dragon Slaying Sword, crafting five legendary Holy Swords. After that, people could more easily use these swords to defeat Dark Giant Dragons, and over time, they gradually forgot the usage of the Dragon’s Scripture.”

”Later still, the Numelin Elves retreated from the world, and the Dark Giant Dragons became increasingly hard to find. The Oathkeeper Clan gradually stopped wielding their swords, and opportunities to use the Dragon’s Scripture grew even scarcer. Over three hundred years ago, the last Dragon’s Scripture master passed away, and this skill disappeared entirely, declared lost.”

”However, a hundred years ago, after Yoshude defeated Nikopolas, he and the Archmage Kalatu somehow rediscovered the inheritance of the Dragon’s Scripture, sealing the power of Lifegard within Nikopolas in this place.” The young man’s voice was filled with a deep sense of regret: ”Originally, this was the safest method—”

”Originally?” Fang Hong caught the turning point in the young man’s words.

The young man nodded: ”It is said that the Dragon’s Scripture was derived from the Dragon Language Magic of the dragons, mimicking the basic patterns of the Dragon Language, with over thirteen thousand basic bytes, none of which are identical or similar. The spellcasters read different spells with different word orders, and the corresponding effects are also unique.”

At this point, Fang Hong already understood.

When it comes to historical knowledge, he might not be as knowledgeable as this young man who was professionally trained as a scholar, but when it comes to understanding magic, the other is no match for him. After all, the contemporary mortal magic system also stems from the foundational system of contemporary alchemy.

The Magic Guided Reactor of the Magic Guided Conductors was also designed and manufactured by Alchemists. The core theory of the Magic Guided Reactor is basic Ether Knowledge.

The most knowledgeable individuals about Ether Magic Power in this era are almost certainly not the Magic Guided Conductors or other casters, but the top Great Alchemists of the time.

The basic pattern of the Dragon’s Scripture determines what spells the spellcaster uses in a long incantation, the specific order they chant them, and what different magical effects will manifest as a result,

For practitioners who cast spells in a roundabout manner, this is a deadly issue, much like in the language of mortals when there’s a lack of interchangeable text; different sentences and meanings must be constructed with different words. Even pronouns change form in different sentence structures.

For example, the word ’I’ in ’I am casting’ if changed to ’I am eating’ or similar structures would no longer exist, replaced instead by an entirely unfamiliar incantation symbol. This gives rise to nearly infinite sentence structures and magical words.

For dragons, whose knowledge is imprinted in their bloodlines, awakening naturally at a certain age, this knowledge seems inherent in their memories, posing no problem. They even converse with each other in this primal and complex language. But for mortals, remembering so many spells and such a variety of grammatical orders seems like a sheer impossibility.

This ancient and primitive method of spellcasting, later modified by the Xinsas Serpentfolk and Numelin Elves to form the prototype of contemporary magic systems, was naturally meant to be so.

But this method of casting spells, although fraught with difficulties, also comes with an unanticipated advantage.

Because—disenchanting, as the name implies, is to unbraid wrinkles. Disenchanting is a core subject for all practitioners, essentially a simple reverse casting process. This is not difficult for modern magic and alchemy that can be traced back.

Disenchanting a spell is merely looking for inherent solutions within one or several fixed forms.

But for the Dragon’s Incantation, the disenchanter faces a flexible, multifaceted, multi-hundred-combination lock. These hundreds of combinations are not only selected from over thirteen thousand basic bytes but also follow a rigid sequence. Any step off in error makes disenchanting disastrous.

Thus, unless undertaken personally by the dragons who have mastered Dragon Language Magic, unlocking such incantations is nearly impossible through unraveling.

Yet the Dark Giant Dragons are cursed by Bahamut and do not possess the ability to wield Dragon Language Magic. And the other dragons, holding deep loathing for their kin’s traitors, would certainly not offer to unseal them. Thus, the Dragon’s Scripture indeed seems one of the best methods designated for sealing Dark Giant Dragons.

Fang Hong couldn’t help but glance at the young scholar beside him—could the ’combination lock’ set by Kalatu over a hundred years ago have been opened by this person? When he asked this question, the young scholar shook his head: ”Certainly not, I am nowhere near as genius as Lord Kalatu. But Lord Kalatu left behind research manuscripts for future generations to maintain this seal, housed in the Great Library of the Silver Tower, which no one has understood for over a hundred years.”