Xia jumped down the slope and walked through the broken stone walls and gray-white building ruins with ease.
Every relic of the Cang Ting Principality ruins was excavated and cleared bit by bit by the archaeological team he hired, so Xia is naturally very familiar with this place.
Of course, as a price, most of the wealth that Char had accumulated since his rebirth using the knowledge of time travelers was also squandered. It can only be said that archaeology is indeed a tiankeng profession.
However, having paid such a huge price, Char would certainly not gain nothing.
Xia's steps gradually slowed down, and finally stopped outside an old black iron door.
He stretched out his hand, and the dusty black iron door creaked and then slowly opened.
Compared to other ruins that have long since decayed over the years, this secret room is made entirely of high-strength alloy materials, and more than five hundred years seem to have left no traces on it.
There was nothing in the secret room except for the out-of-service lighting facilities and two stone platforms carved from bronze.
On the bronze table on the left was placed a rather tattered sheepskin book, while on the bronze table on the right was only an empty groove.
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Xia didn't hesitate and walked straight towards the stone platform.
Although the system with amazing reflex arc is extremely pitfall, at least there is one thing that is not too pitfall——
That is, the novice tasks it releases can be completed in stages, and corresponding rewards will be issued for each completed stage.
The mission objective of the first phase of the novice mission is to [arrive at the Principality of Cang Ting].
If this had been put forward six hundred years ago when the Cang Ting Principality still existed, this would probably have been a map-running task that could be completed by turning on automatic routing, just like [handing the envelope to Grandma Wang, the gardener in the north of the village]. It had no practical significance other than increasing the player's online time.
However, to this day, it took Xia several months of hard work just to determine the approximate location of the ancient country of Cang Ting from a pile of vague ancient books, and then to use the system's navigation function to search and explore within the designated area to determine the specific coordinates.
However, the goal of this stage has been achieved. After all, who says that the ruins are not mission locations?
As for the second stage goal - [becoming a member of the Grand Duke's family], this made Char even more confused.
Under normal circumstances, one would probably need to accept some kind of assessment and trial from the Grand Duke's family, complete some tasks within the family, and once one had gained enough merit and reputation, one could then exchange it for identity and status within the Grand Duke's family.
It's a very standard process for gaining faction reputation. Although the steps are a bit complicated, the direction is very clear.
But now the country is destroyed, where do you want me to go to join this B family?
The goal of this stage was finally figured out after the archaeological team hired by Char discovered the secret room.
Char turned his head and looked at the broken parchment book placed on the bronze platform on the left.
The words on the front of the parchment book have become unrecognizable due to weathering, but at the bottom of the weathering texture, there is a line of clear ink, which is obviously written in the last few months.
【Char.Egut】
That’s right, according to Char’s prediction, this secret room should be the ruler of the former Cang Ting Principality, a place similar to the ancestral land of the Grand Duke’s family.
It is filled with protective mechanisms, some of which are still not inoperable even after more than 500 years, causing considerable trouble to Char and the archaeological team when they first excavated it.
The books that can be placed in the clan’s ancestral land should be the list of family members of the Grand Duke’s family, or the family tree.
As long as one can leave one's name in the family tree, who dares to say that he or she is not a member of the Grand Duke's family?
Although I don't even know the last grand duke's surname, no one has stipulated that a grand duke's family is not allowed to accept members of other surnames. So is it impossible for outsiders to marry into the family and live off the family?
Didn’t you see that the Grand Duke himself was in a stable mood and didn’t raise any objections?
Xia Ya's attempt was undoubtedly made with a desperate attempt mentality.
It was only after Char wrote his name on the parchment book.
After a long period of fluctuation, distortion, and abnormal development, the blue light curtain of the system actually showed the prompt [Stage goal completed, reward of 5000 free experience points]. However, compared with the previous two stage tasks that could be completed by trickery.
The third stage of the novice mission cannot be completed by those tricks.
[Stage 3: Make the Archduke's Daughter Silvia's favorability exceed 30 points]
This task is neither difficult nor inconvenient. After all, 30 points of favorability is at best the level of a relatively familiar friend. Under normal circumstances, as long as you successfully join the Grand Duke's family, it is not too difficult to raise the favorability of a Grand Duke's daughter to 30 points as long as you have enough patience and seize the opportunity of contact.
only--
Nearly six hundred years have passed, and Sylvia had already ascended to the level of legend five hundred years ago, standing at the pinnacle of beastmasters in the entire continent under the name of "Blue Silver Witch".
Today, the Blue Silver Witch has not appeared in the world for five hundred years, and no one knows whether she is alive or dead.
Not to mention Char, even other legendary beastmasters who also stood at the top of the continent would find it difficult to find the other party's trace.
"But I believe there are always more solutions than problems."
Char looked at the empty bronze platform on the right in front of him, took out the mithril seal box that he had spent a lot of money to ask a senior craftsman in the imperial capital to make, and took a deep breath.
He had been preparing for this moment for five or six years.
Not to mention the effort put in, the Rhine gold coins invested alone exceeded 100,000, and its value even exceeded the wealth of some barons or even viscounts in the imperial capital, enough to buy a rich village as his own territory.
At this moment, even with Xia Ya's mentality as a time traveler, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
He had considered the possibility that all his investment would go to waste, but having already pushed this buggy novice mission to such a point, Char was unwilling to give up.
Moreover, although the system is a bit tricky, the task rewards it provides are really good.
Simply completing the second stage of the novice mission would provide Char with 5,000 free experience points.
Although the upper limit of the pet's level is subject to the Soul Contract level and growth status of the Beastmaster, these free experience points cannot be used directly to increase the upper limit of the level.
However, these free experience points can be used to increase the proficiency of pet skills.
If not, if Yin wanted to improve the low-level illusion of "Charm" to the level of "perfection", the time required would definitely be calculated in units of ten years.
Not to mention the high-level illusion "Tsukuyomi" that he developed based on "Charm".
Besides, Char does have the motivation to improve his strength.
Xia closed his eyes slightly and adjusted his mental state to the best.
When he opened his eyes again, all distracting thoughts were gone from his black eyes.
Xia took the stone sculpture out of the mithril box and placed it precisely on the hole in the bronze platform.
Boom——
The originally dark and gloomy secret room suddenly shone brightly.
Amid the rumbling sounds and distorted light, Char noticed a subtle line of prompts in his mind.
[The remnants of history - "Ancient Cang Ting Kingdom" has been opened]
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