"What does this mean?"
Looking at the mark on the door, Claire tried to push the door marked 'Snake Civilization', but eventually found that the door was as if locked by some force and did not move at all.
"Perhaps...some kind of key is needed to open it."
Avis tried to wave the Astral Stone Disc in front of the gates, but ultimately found that it seemed unable to be used to open these gates.
"Snake people civilization... Wait, I seem to remember something."
Raising her hand to touch the rough rock texture of the gate, Claire suddenly closed her eyes slightly, keeping one hand on the marlstone gate, and her whole body exuded a strange temperament.
“□□□……□!”
An ancient language that had long been lost in the current era came out of Claire's mouth, with obscure friction and ominous hissing. It was almost hard to imagine that this sound was produced by human vocal cords.
Rumble, rumble, rumble…
As Claire's voice fell, the door trembled, and then burst open.
"What was that just now?"
Glancing at Claire with a bit of curiosity, Avis asked directly.
"The language of the ancient snake people civilization, meaning 'opening'."
The blonde half-elf girl withdrew her hand, also looking confused.
"I don't know why I know this word, I just have a feeling that this door is opened like this."
“…Is that so?”
Looking at the open door, Avis stroked his chin and looked in front of him at the gorgeous metal door marked with [High Elf Civilization], and tried to say "Open" in the High Elf language.
Buzz——
The dense and graceful patterns on the surface of the silver-white door suddenly lit up, and the faint blue magic light flowed in the patterns. Amid the low humming sound of magic resonance, the two doors slid open quietly.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be hard for Avis to imagine that the Great Library of the Star Civilization would be opened in such a unique way. After all, the signs on these gates were all written in the words of the Star Civilization.
On the inside of the open gate, a silver-white obelisk first caught Anvis's eye. On it was a brief introduction of the high elves written in fine, cursive star civilization characters.
'The high elves civilization, a race created by God, was born in the Old God Era 5024, and left Unival in the God Fall Era 10012 and entered deep space.'
Behind this obelisk is an endless illusory starry sky. There is only a straight silver road leading to the center of the starry sky, where there is a magnificent high elf-style floating city suspended in the void.
From a distance, Avis could already see a large number of giant bookshelves standing above the floating city.
In order to guard against possible dangers, Avis did not step into the floating city immediately. Instead, he created several clones with strength of only level four to explore along the road. He then returned to the hall to meet Claire.
'Snakeman civilization, the oldest civilization of Univar, evolved from the marine creatures 'lily snakes' at the end of the Dark Ages, and officially established civilization in the Aquila 3104. Later, due to predators emerging from the deep sea, the last snakeman city-state was destroyed in the Aquila 4215.'
On the other side, Claire also saw the introduction to the snakeman civilization on the limestone slab standing in front of the door.
"Snake man..."
Watching this simple yet cruel description, some images suddenly flashed before the eyes of the half-elf girl. Above the ancient steaming swamp, an unusually huge and scorching sun hung high in the sky, and a wild city built of large pieces of marl stood in the center of the swamp.
Some giant snakes that look more like upright bodies than humanoid creatures live in this city, leading an extremely monotonous and poor life.
Until one day, a blonde half-elf girl came to the city and talked with the snake-man priest, bringing a warning that the ancient predators were about to revive.
However, the snake-men's priests did not believe in this strange alien race. They wanted to capture the girl and sacrifice her to their terrifying 'god'.
Finally, after a thrilling chase and hiding, the girl managed to escape. When she returned here again a long time later, only the ruins of the original city were left.
Claire was already accustomed to these ancient memory fragments that would occasionally appear suddenly. She was only slightly surprised at this time, and then temporarily put them behind her.
The last and most crucial "part" of herself was hidden in this city. But when she actually arrived here, she lost that vague feeling.
"Did you find anything?"
Anvis came to her side and looked at the introduction stele in front of her, which was somewhat similar but with different fonts and construction styles.
"Hmm... I remembered something. That city should have been built in the style of the capital of the snake civilization, 'Quetzalcoatl City Kartashin'."
Pointing to the distance beyond the gate, at the strange city built of rough marl standing deep in the ancient swamp, Claire spoke in a low voice.
“I saw the ancient statues of blue marl, and the priests wielding serpentine daggers and offering the blood of their victims to the gods, but it all ended in the darkness of the deep sea.
The Star Civilization recorded all the texts and knowledge in their history, and created a building that matched the most glorious period of the Snake Civilization to preserve them.
This may be the last trace of the snake-man civilization."
"All the writings and knowledge? All the libraries here?"
After a moment of shock, Avis suddenly sensed something. A large amount of high-value information was transmitted back from his clone.
There is no danger inside the floating city library of the high elf civilization. It is just like an ordinary library, recording various knowledge of the high elf civilization in different categories.
However, the scale of this library is a bit too large, and the knowledge recorded in it even includes the legendary magic of the high elves and the manufacturing drawings of the Se'er-class floating city that surpasses the Silver Moon-class floating city.
“Yes, those who are qualified to enter this great library are all civilizations that once had a great impact on the history of Univar and have now disappeared.
Every door here is the final monument of a civilization."
Claire nodded gently, her voice as sweet as a clear spring.
"I think those ancient secrets that were once lost in time should be of great help to you."
At this time, knowing that there were legendary spells recorded in the High Elves Library, [Silver Eye] Einstein could not help himself. He secretly left a message for Avis, and then he could not wait to enter, eagerly collecting all kinds of cutting-edge spell knowledge.
Without paying attention to Einstein's actions, Avis turned around again and came to the center of the hemispherical building, in front of the silver sphere, almost in sync with Claire.
"So, dear Senior Claire, is this also your goal?"
Glancing at Claire beside him, Avis smiled and spoke.
"After actually entering here, my memory told me that 'I' had been here before, but not in any civilized library."
Claire nodded her head slightly, her azure eyes reflecting the silver sphere containing the power of time and space on the pedestal in front of her.
It's not so clear from a distance, but when you get closer, you will find that this person-high silver sphere is too perfect, so perfect that it doesn't even seem to exist in this world. (End of this chapter)
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