Chapter 283 Knowledge
"Come on, come on!"
Shouts came from the window.
"What's going on?"
Inside the castle, Levi, who was comfortably leaning on a chair reading a book, suddenly turned his head and frowned slightly.
He closed the book and put it on the table, walked to the window, stuck his head out and looked in the direction of the sound.
When seeing the scene below, Levi's face was confused.
Saruman and Pinkie were seen wrestling with each other, holding the two sides of their canes, and a group of residents gathered around to cheer them on.
“It’s quite lively.”
After coming to his senses, Levi nodded, leaned against the window frame, and watched with great interest.
When the wrestling reached a fever pitch (mainly because Saruman was so tired that his face turned red), he even stretched his hand out the window and began to applaud.
“Levi!!”
Saruman nearly fainted from anger.
"You are still standing there, take care of this disrespectful dragon in your house!"
"What?" Levi was confused.
What? You want me to make a bad whistle?
"I say, take care of your dragon, that's my cane, mine!"
Now Levi suddenly understood.
He jumped down from the window and waved at the crowd: "Go away, don't gather here if there's nothing to do."
Then the residents fell silent and dispersed.
Pinky also dropped his staff and huffed disdainfully at Saruman.
Saruman snorted disdainfully, protecting his staff, and said:
"You should know what a 'dragon' is. I hope you have made sufficient preparations when training this guy."
"Little Pink is not one of those evil dragons."
Levi refutes what Saruman said.
"I don't believe you can't feel the difference between Little Pink and those evil dragons."
After Levi's reminder, Saruman finally came to his senses.
indeed.
This dragon is a little different.
If it were a dragon that was extremely evil by nature, especially a young dragon like this that hadn't grown up yet - biting a cane for fun? I'm afraid it would go straight for the head, even if its owner was around.
Of course, under normal circumstances, people who can tame a dragon are generally more brutal and violent than the dragon itself.
As for this dragon called 'Xiaofen'...
Saruman narrowed his eyes slightly.
How strange.
For a dragon, its emotions were too stable and its personality too gentle, so much so that I subconsciously treated it as a small animal, even though it had grown larger than a bison.
"Of course I can feel it, but I suggest you keep an eye on it to avoid any trouble."
"You don't need to remind me of this. Besides, Xiaofen has been to school and is a civilized and cultured dragon."
Levi touched Xiaofen's iron-like scales, and Xiaofen also put his head close to him and rubbed his hand.
Looking at Xiaofen's body which had begun to grow, Levi suddenly felt a little emotional.
Also remember some things.
Has Pinky grown a fire-breathing organ?
This matter needs to be looked back upon...
Levi returned his attention to the present and asked, "Let's talk about you. What are you doing here?"
Saruman asked in return: "Does it have to be something that I come here for?"
"I am just carrying out your promise. You said that if I want to know something, let me see it for myself."
"So, here I am."
"I went around the nameless tower, but I couldn't find what I was looking for."
At this point, Saruman finally said the words he had prepared for a long time: "Oh, it seems that you also have a narrow side, and you are reluctant to even reveal a little information..."
"What information?"
"About the beacon, and the mysterious objects on you."
“This one.”
Levi shook his head and opened the castle gate.
"Come in with me first."
Standing at the door is not a big deal.
Unlike Saruman's residence, Levi's castle has a bright and warm atmosphere, the lighting is also very good, and the furniture is all made by himself. It may not be gorgeous, but it is definitely comfortable and beautiful.
As soon as Saruman sat down, he knew that some of the hard chairs in the Tower of Orthanc needed to be replaced.
It is definitely a comfortable thing to sit in this kind of chair and read a book or do research.
When you enter the quiet and warm castle, some words can be said directly.
Levi explained: "I don't expect you to understand, but some knowledge is dangerous in itself. Knowing it will bring disaster to yourself."
"I call it 'forbidden knowledge'. It is knowledge that even you, as Istar, would be better off not knowing."
"At least I wouldn't advise you to learn about it while you're in Middle-Earth."
"Of course, the harm itself is not that high. As long as you are careful and take some purification measures from time to time, even ordinary people can withstand it."
“But I don’t know whether the more evil existence has already cast its sights here, or whether it has truly disappeared, so I usually don’t let people know about these things.”
“Sometimes, ‘not knowing’ itself is a form of protection.”
Saruman could understand these words to some extent.
Even without mentioning the exiled Morgoth, the Valar who sang against the God of Creation.
Take Sauron for example. During his most powerful period, ordinary people would have to undergo a will test when they heard his name. Those whose will was not strong enough would fall directly into fear.
Even now, when Soran was at his weakest, people would try to avoid mentioning his name.
only…
"Is the knowledge about the beacon and the star within it also forbidden?"
"Oh, that's not the case."
Levi waved his hand.
"I was simply too lazy to write them down."
After all, there is no one else in this world except Levi who can obtain the Star of the Nether. Similarly, no one except him can do anything with the Star of the Nether.
Saruman said: "My research has reached a critical point recently, and I am very interested in this knowledge."
After saying that, he waited for Levi to raise the price.
"oh?"
Sure enough, as Saruman expected, Levi showed an interested look.
"I didn't expect you could come up with something."
"Did you melt it into liquid and make cloth, or did you research some magic with it as the core, or did you analyze something from it?"
“…Neither.”
"All right."
Li Wei was a little disappointed.
He didn't keep the audience in suspense and went straight to the point. "Regarding the beacon and the nether star inside it, they all originated from an extremely powerful monster, which I call 'Wither'."
"From what I understand, the wither is the residue of some powerful undead master. Although it is only a residue, when it revives, the whole world can hear its roar - accompanied by a huge explosion that can blow down the tower of Orthanc."
"It possesses the power to make life wither. All life is its enemy. A black rose will bloom on the life killed by the wither. Anyone who gets close to that rose will quickly fall into withering."
Listening to Levi's story, Saruman felt a little surprised.
On the one hand, he was surprised by the exaggerations in his story, and on the other hand, he did not expect that Levi did not even mention anything like compensation, but actually told him such a secret directly.
"That doesn't sound like something from this world."
"Indeed it is not."
Levi did not explain in detail the specific origin of the Wither.
On the one hand, he himself was not sure, and on the other hand, there was no need, and Saruman could understand that.
After all, there was an intruder in the history of Arda who did not belong to this world, that is, the evil god from outside the world in the form of a spider: Ungoliant.
This giant spider evil god is even more heavyweight. It was able to beat Morgoth so hard that his cries for help were so loud that even the groups of Balrogs sleeping underground were awakened. In the end, it was only with the timely rescue of the army of Balrogs and the use of attribute restraint that it was able to force it back.
No one knows what happened to Ungoliant, and no one can investigate, but it has not appeared for several eras.
Everything that has been said now is still within Saruman's scope of understanding.
Levi continued:
"The Nether Star is the item that condenses after the Wither dies."
"It's amazing, isn't it? A powerful undead monster that possesses the power to cause life to wither away, condenses into a flawless, pure, and vital star-like crystal after its disappearance."
(End of this chapter)
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