After listening to the little sprite’s words, Xu Sili’s heart was once again filled with emotions. However, he didn’t take the boy’s renewed hostility too seriously.
After all, even Silin and the others had some psychological problems after living together underground for four years. Not to mention, Small Round Biscuit had been living alone after Turles died.
From the boy’s words, Xu Sili learned about the birth process of the sprite tribe and finally understood what September said.
The sprites were the darlings of nature.
What was the real meaning of this sentence?
Sprites were actually created by elemental elves.
Elemental elves were different from forest elves and sea elves. To be more precise, they referred to the laws of various elements, which was somewhat similar to the existence of the way of heaven.
Of course, his level wasn’t enough to understand the power of this. This was what Si Sheng explained to him during his tutoring.
Therefore, his understanding wasn’t very thorough.
Xu Sili couldn’t help making a guess.
As a life created by the law, did sprites have any other special features despite mischief and luck? What were the conditions for their birth?
After the natural disaster a hundred years ago, were there other sprites on Escher Star beside Small Round Biscuit?
Xu Sili was a bit curious, but he also knew that it wasn’t the time to explore this matter. He had to coax this little sprite first.
“Small Round Biscuit, calm down,” Xu Sili said softly.
There was a soothing rhythm in his voice.
This was something he had recently figured out from the skill Roland’s Good Night Song.
Even without using the skill, could the special effects of the sound element be applied to daily conversations? Could it have an unexpected effect?
Just like using sound elements to attack, using different methods should have different effects.
Xu Sili’s face was gentle and harmless, but his eyes were always paying attention to the boy’s reaction.
The originally furious little sprite’s anger slowly faded away. There was a hint of suspicion in his eyes as he looked at them.
Small Round Biscuit found it very strange. He was wary and alert of the guy in front of him who claimed to be the monarch of Roland Empire, and his companion.
They were much stronger than he was. If they tried to take away Turles’ tablet by force, he would have no way to stop them.
He had just talked to them. In addition to his desire to talk, it was because he also wanted to gain their sympathy. But for some reason, he suddenly felt…
The ruler of the Roland Empire spoke very well!
Moreover, his mood quickly stabilized. He regained his rationality, and was no longer affected by intense emotions.
This change made Small Round Biscuit feel very strange, but he had no way to control himself.
Xu Sili saw the little sprite’s confusion and couldn’t help smiling.
He continued, “I am indeed interested in the inheritance of the inscription master, but after listening to your and Turles’ story, I decided to help Turles realize his wish.”
“What do you mean?”
Small Round Biscuit blinked and looked at him doubtfully.
Xu Sili didn’t take it seriously and continued, “Turles was willing to sacrifice his own life to leave behind the legacy of the inscription master. This shows that he hopes that more inscription masters will appear and let the brilliance of inscription masters reappear on this continent.”
“I think you should agree with this, right?”
Small Round Biscuit opened his mouth but eventually nodded.
In fact, if possible, he would rather live here with Turles forever.
There were only the two of them. They didn’t go anywhere and were always happy, studying and engraving inscriptions together. In their spare time, they thought about how to improve their lives and make all types of delicious and fun things.
However, this was not what Turles wanted most and his life span didn’t allow it…
Turles had merged into the stone tablet. Then protecting the stone tablet and helping him fulfill his wish was what Small Round Biscuit had to do.
He looked at the young human in front of him who called himself the ruler of Roland, and couldn’t help wondering if this strange human could be trusted.
Just then, he saw the young man looking at the stone tablet. The young man suddenly showed a surprised expression before smiling.
Xu Sili finally remembered to use Insight on the stone tablet. At first, he thought that this wordless tablet was built to commemorate the deceased inscription master, and didn’t do so out of respect for the deceased.
Now there was no such concern.
[Turles’ Legacy Stone Tablet.]
[Description: Turles Siasa, this powerful inscription master spent his entire life crafting this wordless tablet. At the end of his life, he even fused his soul into it.
The stone tablet contains the most comprehensive inherited knowledge of the inscription master lineage to date.
Quality: Epic.
Effects:
- Illusionary space: Place your palm on it to enter the space constructed by the inscription illusion and learn the inheritance of the inscription. Duration: 1 hour. Cooldown time: None.
(Note: The learning state can be interrupted. After being interrupted, you need to start learning from the same stage again.)
- Indestructible: Only weapons that exceed its quality can destroy it.]
The above two explanations of the effects were both very normal and reasonable. But when seeing the following two, Xu Sili couldn’t help being surprised.
[3. Protecting one’s shortcomings: If Small Round Biscuit’s favorability towards you is negative, you won’t be able to enter the stone tablet to study. You might even encounter different degrees of mental attacks.
- Evolution: Once the number and quality of the inheritors reaches different stages, there is a chance that the stone tablet will evolve and restore a certain level of intelligence.]
Xu Sili originally thought that Turles was different from Lilith. His soul had completely dissipated. What remained in the stone tablet was just his image.
However, the Insight skill clearly told him that this wasn’t the case.
Protecting and evolution, these two effects could obviously only be used on living things. There was also the last sentence: ‘restore a certain level of intelligence.’ The word ‘restore’ directly confirmed it.
This stone tablet was the incarnation of Turles!
In other words, Turles became the spirit of this inheritance tablet—if Starry Sky Age had such a concept.
Xu Sili couldn’t help smiling. His previous sad mood due to hearing about the tragic fate of the inscription masters was immediately half relieved.
Then again, the little sprite had always shown hostility towards him but the favorability had not yet reached the negative number.
This made him want to help the little sprite even more.
He looked at the sprite boy and said, “Small Round Biscuit, do you want to see Turles again? Or do you want to see him regain his sanity again?”
Small Round Biscuit frowned.
Of course, he hoped to see Turles again, talk to him and see his gentle smile again. He had dreamed of it.
But over the years, every time he entered the stone tablet, all he could see was the illusion that Turles had left behind in advance.
He kept learning and advancing in the hope of seeing more of the illusions. But now, he had been stuck at the five star stage for a long time.
He also tried to communicate directly with the stone tablet—the sprites had the ability to communicate with everything.
However, what he sensed from the stone tablet was always chaos. This was even more difficult to discern than the consciousness of the banyan tree.
Therefore, he felt discouraged and disheartened for a while. He hadn’t entered the stone tablet for some time.
He looked at Xu Sili. He heard Xu Sili express his feelings and couldn’t help asking, “What do you mean?”
“You should know that Turles isn’t really dead, right?”
Xu Sili saw the young man nod and continued saying, “Turles’ soul has merged into the stone tablet. His consciousness has fallen into a deep sleep. It is only by awakening his consciousness that you can meet him again.”
The little sprite hesitated and nodded again. He could actually see this vaguely. The question was, how to wake him up?
He hadn’t found a way for so many years. Could this human being in front of him know it just by looking? But this human didn’t look any better than him.
“The only way to awaken Turles is to fulfill his mission and obsession.”
Xu Sili declared this in a righteous manner.
“Turles has now transformed into a stone tablet. The stone tablet’s mission is to pass on the lineage of the inscription masters, allowing the civilization of the inscription masters to flourish again and continue on this planet.”
“This is also Turles’ obsession.”
Of course, this was just something he made up based on the information he had gained from Insight, but he felt it was pretty close to the truth.
“So, it is only by allowing more people to learn inscriptions through the stone tablet and becoming inscription masters that you can wake up Turles from his slumber. Then you can see him again!”
Small Round Biscuit listened to his words and couldn’t help being convinced.
Yes, if he helped Turles realize his wish, would Turles wake up when he was happy? But…
How to help him realize his wish?
He felt depressed when he thought that he still couldn’t meet a single person outside the dense forest.
“Now, you need more people to learn to become inscription masters. I happen to be able to help you.”
At this time, Xu Sili looked at him and smiled gently.
“In case you don’t know, Roland’s army has already explored this dense forest. If I give the order, they will be eager to enter here and learn to become inscription masters.”
Small Round Biscuit looked at him suspiciously.
“If you don’t believe me, you can go out and take a look. Just fly towards where the noise is coming from and you will definitely see them.”
Sure enough, the next second, the little sprite disappeared on the spot. Then he soon reappeared again. Judging from his expression, he agreed with Xu Sili’s words.
“I saw them…” The boy said. “But why do you want to help me?”
Xu Sili’s lips curled up slightly as he said, “I can help you see Turles again, but you will also need to pay the price you deserve.”
“What is the price?” The sprite became nervous.
Xu Sili said, “Serve me for ten years and use your inscription technique.”
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