Chapter 501

Several days have passed since Maka left Hogwarts. Originally, no one knew his journey. Where did he go these days? What did you do? No one knows.

But in fact, these days, he has been staying in an old place and hasn't left at all.

This place is called the despicable Tomb of halbo.

In the deepest part of the underground palace where she could not see her fingers, Maka still sat on the ground. A thick notebook was floating steadily in front of him, and he was writing quickly on the page of the parchment book.

Beside him, a soft glow floated and floated up and down slightly, providing him with sufficient lighting.

But the stone chamber is really too big, even the light can't completely illuminate it, but most of the rest of the space is still submerged in endless darkness.

Suddenly, Maka's right hand stopped writing hard and coughed twice. The sound was not loud, but the underground palace was so quiet and empty that his cough came out very far in an instant.

He shook his head slightly, and then raised his eyes to look ahead.

In front of his present position is a huge ink stone tablet. The volume of this stone tablet is amazing. Even if the main tomb is wide enough, it occupies more than half of it.

At this time, most of the stone tablets are still in the dark. What is Maka looking at?

But I saw him pick up the staff beside him and gently press the top against a point on the ground. Suddenly, a magic force flowed from the staff to the top and was continuously transported out.

Suddenly, several dark blue light spots silently lit up, quickly flowed into a line on the ground, and quickly spread away with the point touched by the staff.

On the way, those lines with blue fluorescence have a large number of complex branches, and each time they pass through some branches, several strange symbols will be lit. Soon, these lines and magic words surrounded the black stone tablet and formed a large Rune array that seemed to have no rules.

When the array, which almost occupied most of the open space, was lit up, the stone tablets that were not in the dark suddenly reacted - purple and black words quietly appeared on the stone tablets that were originally very bright and clean.

Maka, sitting on the ground, seemed to be used to all this and didn't show any surprise. This is a matter of course... Because he has seen this scene several times since he completed the array two days ago.

Now, while the words on the stone tablet appeared, Maka immediately compared them with the contents in her notes. At present, the magic he can use is very limited. It doesn't take long to start the rune array. He has to hurry up every time.

In fact, most of the characters in these characters are not uncommon. They do not have magic in themselves. It seems that they are simply a combination ideograph.

However, these characters like simplified Chinese paintings look familiar. If you have to say, they are actually similar to the early ancient Egyptian characters. But even people like Maka who have a deep study of ancient characters and symbols don't remember seeing them from that ancient book or tuowen.

Therefore, he must pass a series of interpretation and translation in order to turn the words on the stone tablet into specific content for him to understand.

In fact, this work of analyzing ancient characters is the most time-consuming and energy-consuming. Whether in the Muggle world or the magic world, those scholars often spend their whole life on an unsolved text.

Fortunately, a small part of the characters and symbols displayed on the black stone tablet are real regular runes.

Magic words have natural advantages in conveying meaning, because they can make wizards intuitively feel their own meaning. Therefore, even if Maka's understanding of regular runes is very shallow, it brings great convenience to his analysis and translation.

There is no doubt that this kind of writing is a strange narrative system centered on regular symbols and supplemented by ordinary hieroglyphics.

If more inscriptions like this can be found, it may also help him speed up the parsing process of regular runes.

At this moment, it was the last time he started the rune matrix. All he had to do was to compare the original text again and check whether there was any deviation in the text he originally copied.

As for the content of these words

"... the following half of the text should be some kind of ritual in ancient times?"

After comparing the original text and finding no mistakes and omissions, Maka stopped the magic transmission and set her eyes on the page of handwriting again.

In the inscriptions that appear, some objects are depicted very plainly. They are a long sword, a mirror, a dagger, a cup and a box.

For the latter two, Maka has no clue for the time being, but the first three have forced him to have a series of associations.

Of course, his purpose this time is not these dangerous and strange rituals or magic props, but one of the regular runes shown in these inscriptions.

This regular rune is located in the center of the stone tablet, which is larger than other text symbols. If other contents are showing an unclear ancient ceremony, what is expressed around this regular rune is exactly what the rune represents.

At present, Maka is translating the content of the inscription, and part of the inscription is translating a regular rune. Although this was the purpose of Maka's trip, he didn't expect that the result was expressed in this form.

The last time he was experimenting with mice, he inadvertently saw the fleeting of the rule rune. He thought that this time he was going to knock at the rune for a while!

After reading the content carefully again, Maka closed her notes and picked up all the scattered things around her. Then he walked directly to the side of the stone chamber.

"Miss Shane, it's time for dinner."

In a corner of the underground palace stone room, Helen was leaning against the rough wall with her eyes closed, but she looked rather haggard.

Seriously, Marca didn't abuse her. Not to mention abuse, even if Marca cancelled eating because she was too busy, she didn't let her eat less.

But in the end, Helen had no appetite all the time. She even had to force him to come for dinner.

"Hey, it's time to eat!" Marca took out dry food and water without raising her head. "If you don't eat, I'll have to plug it again?"

Helen finally reacted when she heard the word "hard plug".

She gently sipped her mouth, then opened her eyes, sat up straight, silently stretched out her hand and picked up a piece of bread. Although there was a jar of delicious marmalade next to her, she seemed not to see it at all and nibbled at it.

In fact, just two days before she arrived here, she refused to eat in silence. Maka, who didn't have much time to spend, simply mixed bread and water together with magic after several unsuccessful persuasions, and then poured it into her throat.

Although under the effect of magic, it was basically like drinking a lot of water, the sticky taste made Helen retch for most of the day.

After that, she finally gave up her hunger strike. Obviously, Maka doesn't want her to die, and Maka doesn't want her to die. She thinks she can't die.

The young wizard was surprisingly strong, stronger than any wizard she had ever seen.

At least in the past mission experience, she also thought that she could be said to be the natural enemy of wizards and had a very strong resistance to most magic spells. But in Marca's hands, she couldn't resist at all and was captured several times.

"Miss Shane, in fact, you don't have to be so vigilant all the time." after Maka put all the food on the blanket, she sat next to her, grabbed a piece of bread and bit vaguely. "Don't you have anything to say?"

Helen naturally heard Maka's words, but she didn't want to respond at all. For her, the task was doomed before it was completed, and she didn't want to say anything now.

But Maka didn't care. If he had to say anything, he had been alone for hundreds of days before, talking to himself or something. It was just a thing he was used to. Others may feel awkward in the cold, but he doesn't feel it at all.

"Well, if I said what you were going to do, I just stopped it temporarily..." he looked at Helen. "Can you give some different reactions?"

Just after saying this, Helen's little hand holding the bread suddenly tightened, and the soft bread changed its shape. She paused and looked at Maka, with a trace of doubt in her eyes.

"... what do you mean?"

Probably because she hasn't spoken for several days, her original clear voice has become a little hoarse.

"Your task is to sneak into Hogwarts and break the Eris mirror?" Maka smiled casually and didn't care. "Although I don't understand why you are so persistent, in fact, you still have a chance to complete your task. All I want is to make it come later."

"Really?" Helen asked hesitantly.

"Of course, do I have to lie to you? What's the point?" said Marca, swallowing the food in her mouth and very simply saying, "otherwise, I'll let you break it now, okay?"

When Maka said these words, Helen's expression changed several times in a row, which obviously caused more confusion and doubt about Maka's words.