The other side.

After leaving the forbidden zone, Chloe went to the Fantasy Association.

At this time, Laura, who had already been contacted in advance, was standing at the door with a lady's cigarette in her mouth.

Seeing Chloe, she shook her head and said:

"So you need me to help query the family archives, and after the stele is purified, find a way to open the Maze?"

"Yes."

Chloe sighed and said:

"Rephya's soul is lost in the echo of history, that echo is too dangerous. If anyone else goes in, the probability of death is too high, so it has to be me."

"Hmm?"

"The echo is related to the Divine War, and many high-dimensional beings do not want it to be known, so after leaving the Maze, you will encounter an Angel Class attack."

Laura clicked her tongue in wonder.

Others might not immediately understand what it meant.

But Laura's family has been engaged in archeology for over a thousand years and immediately understood the meaning.

Sometimes, knowledge itself is dangerous.

Especially some secret knowledge, which might involve high-dimensional beings behind these secrets and directly encrypt this knowledge.

A more common occurrence is to link this knowledge directly with the gods, and those who gaze upon this knowledge will meet the gaze of the gods directly.

The crisis brought about by "gazing upon the unspeakable" is precisely this.

Even possibly a mere glance from a god could easily devour the life of an Extraordinary below Sequence Seven.

Of course.

More dangerous than such an unspeakable gaze is when gods directly set this secret knowledge as a "fuse."

Once the secret knowledge is triggered, at best, divine punishment descends directly.

At worst, a Divine Messenger is directly sent to descend.

Clearly, the danger Chloe spoke of stems from this.

Laura took a deep breath and said:

"You can't withstand an Angel Class attack, going there is a death sentence, right?"

Chloe shook her head and said:

"That's incorrect, this statement is wrong. I don't need to deal with an Angel Class attack."

"Hmm?"

"To be precise, I have a way to encrypt this piece of knowledge, so as not to trigger an Angel Class attack."

Or rather.

Even if encountered by an Angel Class attack, he has means of countering it.

The remaining power in the Shadow Battle Banner and the halberd handle can likely elevate his power to Demigod temporarily.

With a Demigod Class level, he can barely handle the Angel's attack.

Let alone, it might not even attract angels.

Seeing Chloe's determined eyes, Laura didn't say much more.

Obviously, Chloe has mentally prepared himself.

"So how can I help you?"

"There are secret texts left on the stele, and I hope you can decipher the content recorded in those texts. That content could be the key to opening that historical echo-like Maze."

Laura nodded.

Now she understood.

For the Ethereal Emblem, simply raw combat power is abundant, if it is just lacking advanced combat power, there would be no need to find her.

If it's a lack of funds, there's even less need.

So it can only be that she is needed to help decipher the historical secrets.

And this is precisely her forte.

Even more so, she chose to become a Mage to better assist her in exploring secret histories.

Chloe told Laura about Rephya's previous conjectures, hoping to guide Laura as much as possible towards the thought direction from the original simulation.

Once informed of the situation, Laura quickly began preliminary preparation work.

While Chloe once again went to find Principal Alfredo.

He needed to quickly remove the pollution on the Demon-Banning Stone and bring the hidden historical text back to light.

Fortunately, he could still call upon part of the Holy Bone's power through the Shadow Battle Banner.

With the help of the Holy Bone Power, the Ethereal Emblem quickly collected the pollution.

Chloe finally saw the true form of that drop of Divine Blood.

If he hadn't looked closely, he might not even have been able to see the color of the Divine Blood.

Because it truly was too small, too small.

Small to the point of invisibility.

The power of pollution swirled around that drop of blood, an obscure sense of oppression spread out.

"Is this the Divine Blood?"

"What a terrifying pressure, just standing here feels like I might be engulfed."

"Ah, the True God War, hasn't a Divine War occurred since the Dawn Era?"

"Yes, and this drop of Divine Blood might still be the legendary Divine Blood left by the Dark Night Goddess Shire."

"...That being has been dead for how many years, yet in our era, traces of her can still be found..."

"Hey, stop the chatter, study what secret this stele is hiding."

However, when they took the stele out of the contaminant filtering solution, they were dumbfounded.

"No, what language is this?"

"Rune Runes? Or Ancient Elvish?"

"Don't tell me I wouldn't know these languages? It's not like I can't read them."

"Am I the only one who thinks this is a bunch of gibberish?"

"Does anyone think this isn't gibberish?"

"No bro, the content is carved on the stele, but not meant to be read, what kind of operation is this?"

Laura looked at Chloe with a meaningful glance.

Indeed, just as her pupil said.

As if he already knew what was written on the stele before it was deciphered.

Rumor has it, when the Lord of the Hunt was still in the world, they possessed the ability to foresee the future.

Few people know about this, but Laura's ancestors, as god-chosen ones, happened to be among the few informed of this secret.

"Chloe junior, you still say you're not the Holy Son of the Hunt."

If you're not the Holy Son, then what are the Holy Sons of other churches?

Are they vegetables?

Thinking of this, she began to follow Chloe's train of thought and ponder what kind of writing was depicted on it.

Laura carefully recalled the many secrets recorded in the family archives.

Firstly, one thing can be eliminated.

That the stele's record is not just simple text.

It resembles some kind of phonetic notation.

After much searching, she finally found the closest existing language in many linguistic archives.

That is the phonetic notation recorded for the Titan Race.

In fact.

The text of the Titan Race itself possesses mysterious power, and there was no need for phonetic methods for young Titans to learn.

Those who needed to learn through phonetic annotations were the mixed-blood of the Titan Race, the Ancient Giant Race.

They needed phonetic annotations to learn how to pronounce Titan text.

But just like the Titans, the Ancient Giant Race was completely annihilated years ago.

The Titan script has been deciphered by archaeologists.

Future generations don't need to learn phonetics to translate it.

Laura told this situation to Chloe.

Chloe immediately understood what it meant.

For example, when foreigners want to understand Classical Chinese, they can first learn Chinese through a language comparison, and then translate the content of Classical Chinese.

This process needs to be divided into two steps.

The first step is to base it on their mother tongue, compare the differences with Chinese, and thus convert the mother tongue into Chinese.

The second step is to, after fully understanding Chinese, compare it to Classical Chinese.

Of course, for the little ones, they don't need to go through the transfer.

During their preschool education phase, they will learn how to articulate and read Chinese through phonetics.

Only then will they further study Classical Chinese.

The situation with this stele is exceptionally abstract.

It's like requiring an English native to first learn pinyin, then learn Chinese through pinyin, and finally understand Classical Chinese through Chinese.

What kind of operation is this?

The complexity has more than doubled.

It's practically innate encryption.

Laura pinched her brow and said,

"A small portion of the Titan script hasn't been deciphered, and due to this small portion, a considerably larger part of the Titan script's phonetics hasn't been deciphered.

So even if I understand part of the Titan script, I can't translate it directly."

"You can't either?"

"No, I'm lacking a point of reference."

"..."

That shouldn't be the case. How did Laura translate it in the simulation?

Wait a moment.

Could it be…

He vaguely remembers that there was a time when Rephya often sought out Laura.

And Rephya is the reincarnation of Jian.

She might still retain some knowledge of the Titan script and, in her confusion, provided Laura with a reference group to reverse deduce the Ancient Giant Race's phonetics?

Thinking of this.

Chloe said to Laura,

"Maybe I can help you understand the reference group."

"Hmm?"

"Did you forget that my innate ability is Titan Race?"

"..."

Laura slapped her own forehead.

She really was overlooking the obvious.

The Titan script, in the sense of mysticism, is comprehensible to the Titan Race without teaching.

"Shall I bring you a comprehensive collection of Ancient Titan Language curated by our family?"

"Alright."

… A few hours later …

Chloe smiled and said,

"The feeling of knowledge directly flowing into the brain is truly strange."

He briefly skimmed through the comprehensive collection of Ancient Titan Language, and it felt as if those unfamiliar scripts flowed into his mind in a peculiar way.

Oh, my.

If such things had existed in the past life, the difficulty of preschool education would have reduced significantly.

Utilizing his Titan Race innate ability, he directly mastered the Ancient Titan Language and began reverse-translating the phonetics through it.

His method was straightforward.

Laura found some undecipherable Titan script and handed it to the last Titan of this world.

Chloe glanced at it, quickly filled in the gaps in the Titan script's scarcity.

After filling in these gaps, Laura handed him a Titan script containing the Ancient Giant Race's phonetics.

Chloe first translated the Titan script, then worked with Laura to reverse deduce the Ancient Giants' phonetics.

Soon, a relatively complete phonetic was deciphered.

"Translating their scripts isn't easy."

Laura wiped her sweat.

If it weren't for Chloe's ability to forcibly decipher the script with the Titan Race's innate talent, she would have found it challenging to complete the phonetics.

Laura wrote down the pronunciation of the phonetics and then recited it once.

Chloe beside her finally understood that phrase.

But once he said it aloud, he was stunned.

Damn.

What on earth is this?

He found it hard to describe how abstract it was.

Treating the Ancient Giants' phonetics as a pinyin input method.

Then the scripts of the Titan Race are the equivalent of Chinese.

For example, the stele now inscribed [wǒshìrénlèi].

Chloe has to recite it once before realizing that the sentence means [I am human].

The Titan script on the stele is exactly like that now.

Of course, the Ancient Giants' phonetics is ultimately not pinyin.

Functionally, it is akin to pinyin concerning Chinese.

So then.

What does the stele's phonetic translation into Titan script say?

The Titan script... wasn't systematic at all, couldn't be directly translated.

Because it phonetically transcribed into another set of phonetics.

Indeed.

The Titan script, originally systematic, acted as phonetics when phonetically transcribed.

"bōwū yī' āo jī yī yū wū ó... Damn, what is this mess? A cipher?"

But as he kept reciting, Chloe noticed something was off.

Wait?

"b bō u wū y yī ao āo j jī i yī u yū wū ó?"

Was this... Titan script annotated a new round of Chinese pinyin?

Chloe immediately realized what it was.

He recombined this part through a phonetic transcription into Chinese pinyin again.

"búyàojiùwǒyínyǐngwèimiànyǒuxiànjǐng?"

"...Don't save me, there are traps in the Shadow Plane?"

The only one left in the world who could decipher Titan script might well be Jian.

And the only one who could decipher Chinese pinyin might well be himself.

This stele... was it Jian's warning left for him?

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