Pillar of Yita

Of course, this range is still very large, and it might not necessarily be correct, but at least it’s an idea. Moreover, when Fang Hong thought of the Colin Ishurian Royalty, he couldn’t help but think of the royal spy they had killed, and felt a vague sense of movement in his heart.

He pondered for a moment, his hand unconsciously turning the pages.

With a ’rustle’, the page following the appendix was the main text of the notebook—half of this page depicted a complex array, but whether it was a Magic Guided Array, an Alchemy Array, or an Elemental Array, Fang Hong couldn’t decipher it. There seemed to be some alchemy elements within, but upon closer inspection, it was another branching tree-like diagram.

It looked like a general outline of something—

And considering it appeared on the first page, this possibility was quite high.

The main text below was filled with scribbles resembling cryptic symbols. But as Fang Hong looked at these meandering writings, a sense of familiarity rose once again in his heart—it was identical to the notebook he had seen in his uncle’s study.

The more closely he observed, the stronger this feeling of familiarity became—

However, the notebook in his uncle’s study was externally much plainer, just an ordinary leather-bound notebook commonly seen on Earth, with contents written in regular blue-black ink from a fountain pen, which he remembered clearly.

And on the first page, there was no line of fine print annotation, nor any pattern, just the main text.

Yet the content of the main text, especially the first sentence, gave him a strong sense of déjà vu. The only uncertainty he felt was whether he really remembered everything from more than ten years ago.

He silently gazed at it for a while before turning the pages.

But unable to comprehend, he could only flip through the pages hastily.

After a series of rustling sounds, he paused on a page.

The page he stopped at featured an entire page of illustration on yellowed paper—just as the Grand Princess had said, this notebook contained many illustrations, but not all of them were understandable—most abstract patterns were utterly baffling.

But this one was an exception.

On the rough paper, a series of winding and weathered coastlines were depicted with simple ink strokes. This was clearly a map, illustrating mountains, forests, and a branching river; one side featured a compass and the Sky Sea, with marked general directions, shorthand place names, and some random numbers.

The numbers were noted in a local notation method of Eteliria, similar to Arabic numerals, which was widely circulated between continents.

Therefore, although Fang Hong understood the numbers, he couldn’t further narrow down the background of the copyist of this notebook.

Having meticulously compared this map against the coastlines of Istania, Saint Hugon, Eldron, Scepter Coast, and Tarun, and even Asuka, he found no corresponding location. Moreover, he didn’t overlook Osh, Rotao, Giant Tree Hill, and Guda Suoke, even carefully comparing the shape of the first Continental Bridge, but none could resonate.

In fact, this map was not his exclusive discovery.

In the past ten years, the King of Sand Barbaltan and the Queen’s family had spent far more effort investigating all the information contained in this map, also to no avail. Therefore, how could he succeed? The resources held by the Seven Seas Travel Group were incomparable to those of the Istania Royal Family. Consequently, Fang Hong didn’t invest much effort on this map, only comparing it a few times before setting it aside.

He merely glanced a few more times at those groups of numbers.

It doesn’t seem to resemble Sky Sea coordinates either, or did the author deliberately scramble the order of numbers, using a cipher to record coordinates?

The Sky Sea coordinates of Eteliria are not an invention of Earthlings. As early as the Numelin Era, Elves used astrolabes to accurately measure the distribution of magic power and coordinates of this world, and humans simply adapted this coordinate recording method based on the Earth’s latitude and longitude system.

And the origin of this coordinate system dates back to ancient times.

After observing for a while, realizing he still couldn’t comprehend it, he shook his head and continued flipping through.

The second illustration was a portrait.

But to say it’s a portrait is somewhat inaccurate; the style of this illustration is typical of religious art in Eteliria—solemn, with indifferent human figures positioned in the center of the painting, beneath a massive niche, surrounded by stars, the sun, and moon, along with some religiously suggestive items, such as winged Divine Envoys and Demons, each occupying half of the painting.

There were also images of bones, roses, and thorns, griffins, and unicorns, all common in religious paintings, yet appearing somewhat chaotic.

His knowledge of Eteliria’s religion was limited, so he had sent this painting to be examined by his cousin, who then consulted Atira, and after some discussion, they concluded—the main issue with this painting was the lack of genuine religious iconography.

Simply put, each deity of the Oly Pantheon had an object of symbolic significance, such as Ameya’s oak leaves, the Master of Chongshan’s anvil, Marlan’s white shield, and Ouli’s Sun Emblem.

Elf Miss told him, ”If the symbols of the Deities are not depicted, this painting might imply a different kind of existence—the Dark Saints.”

Fang Hong gazed silently at the central figure in the painting.