Chapter 340

"Tea. I made it. Let me make it clear first, you are not allowed to say anything bad about this cup of tea."

--When thinking this, Leah had already placed the hot tea in front of him. The hot tea seemed to be brewed with the witch's heating magic, and it was faintly emitting smoke.

But the tea itself smelled just like ordinary tea leaves that are everywhere, with only a faint fragrance.

This is also quite contrary to the stereotype of witches.

Will thought that witches were the type who must drink the strongest liquor.

Liz said that she went to the box in the inner room to look for more important "information" and would come out in a while.

"Of course I won't say bad things. I'm so thirsty after running all the way. Drinking it as water is also excellent."

He picked it up, blew it a little, and then took a shallow sip along the wall of the cup.

"Oh? Do you mean that the tea I made for you is the same as ordinary water?"

Leah smiled on her face, almost like a girlfriend saying it in a coquettish way.

Will almost spit out the tea he drank when he heard this.

"Hmm? What's wrong? You seem to be particularly concerned about this?"

"Because... because there is always a maid in your house to make tea for you. I... I thought you were very particular about this and would notice that I didn't do it well."

"Oh? I seem to hear a little jealousy."

However, to be honest, the quality of the tea itself is not high, and it was brewed by the witch's fire magic. The tea was so hot that the tip of my tongue only remembered the pain.

"Hmph, anyway... anyway, my level is definitely not as good as hers. So, you are not allowed to comment."

"Well... that's much better than what she served me at the beginning. And using the witch's fire to make tea has a different flavor."

"Really... really?"

Liya seemed to be a little happy to hear this. While talking, she brought a chair and sat down next to Will.

She also moved the chair closer to Will.

"Really. For example... uh... this is the first time I've seen a cup so hot."

Will held the teacup and moved towards her.

"You're kidding me."

Liya pouted her lips and tried to feel the temperature of the teacup, but she suddenly touched Will's fingertips.

Very cold.

Shrink.

The action of touching someone else's skin made Leah shrink back subconsciously.

"Your fingertips... are so cold."

"Really? Is it because the End of the Ice Abyss is very cold?"

"It's been so long since you came out of there. And I made hot tea for you, but it's still... so cold."

"Maybe I've been like this since I was a child. I have a cold body. I stay in a too cold place for a long time. It takes a long time to warm up when I enter the house."

Liya's hand was still very warm because she had just used fire magic to make tea, and she made the teacup very hot.

As she said this, she carefully covered the back of Will's hand with her palm.

"Warm you with my hand, I order you."

"Okay, okay."

Will spread his palm on the table, keeping one finger slightly bent.

Liya's small palm pressed against it, interlocking his cold fingertips.

Bang.

"Ah, I found it. It's this book..."

At this moment, the door was opened.

Liz looked down and saw two cups of hot tea in front of the two people, and they were holding their hands on the table.

Add to that Leah's rather childish face, cute twin ponytails, and red cheeks.

She wondered where this campus couple came from.

"...Uh, did I disturb you? As an elder, maybe I should leave for a while now?"

"I...I...I just felt that his palms were cold, so I helped him warm them up...What...I won't do anything about holding hands..."

Liya quickly returned to the state of concealment and tsundere, but when she wanted to pull her hand away...

Will closed his palm and held her hand tightly.

"Will...you you you you let go, a little shy..."

"Well, just taking advantage of this gap when you are not here, we are feeling each other's body temperature."

As he said, he also glanced at Leah, whose face was flushed even more.

It was clearly her who took the initiative, but she still wanted to run?

He just wanted to suppress the remaining arrogant habit of Leah.

"...right?"

"Will!"

"Pfft. I haven't seen Leah like this for a long time." Liz put the book on the table and walked over, "It's okay. If you don't mind, you can hold my hand and listen to me. I don't mind."

"Then let's talk about business. If you are talking about business with the witch who is now in charge, I'd better not make a move like kidnapping your daughter."

Will loosened his palm. After passing through Leah's warm palm, it was indeed warmer. He rubbed his two hands and passed on the temperature.

"I want to help you find Ya'er's whereabouts - as compensation for Li Weiqi who promised you but broke her promise."

He spoke out his position and purpose without reservation.

"Li Weiqi herself hopes to use me to complete this task, to reach a cooperation with you witches again, and to deliver the things she needs in the blind spot of the Death Hall in the dungeon."

"I know all this. However, whether to cooperate or not depends on Li Weiqi's sincerity. Anyway, it was only me who came forward to help her before - after all, I can't stand Carver."

Liz put a book on the table.

Liya consciously stood to the side of the table and sat down like a referee of the two.

"Since you are so fair, I will maintain order as the fairer party."

"What are you fair about? You must be on your mother's side, right? After all, who can kiss her better than her mother?"

"Ah, a daughter with a love brain, of course she will be on her lover's side."

"Isn't it fair if I'm biased to one degree each?"

Liya folded her hands and came to a conclusion using "witch's logic".

"However, since you said you want to 'find Ya'er', and Liz, you took great pains to show me that all the conscious personalities in the dungeon are adventurers, it's not possible..."

Liz nodded and pushed the book forward.

Will took a closer look and found that this book was... a general introduction to ancient magic. It was not an ancient book, but a note written by Ya'er herself, with Ya'er's name written on the cover.

"Yes. Yaer is now the consciousness of the dungeon. We can be sure that the personality of the dungeon will not dissipate, in fact, it is because of Yaer."

Chapter 379 Yaer (3k)

"..."

Will was silent for a while. He was not very surprised that "Yaer" was the consciousness of the dungeon and even passed "information" to the witches through this identity.

With the previous preparation, this conclusion was about to come out.

He glanced at Leah next to him. As the person who had the least information at the scene, she did not show any surprise.

Will opened the book. It was a little old, but the paper was kept in a brand new state with special preservation magic, so that its ink was not lost.

The book was full of the names and general contents of various ancient magics, and the properties and functions were carefully classified.

The only strange thing was...

There were some book names on it, which were obviously added by someone later, including the classification of properties and functions, and perhaps more than one person added them.

This was not a note left by Yaer alone.

But what's interesting is that there was no "addition" to this book. All these catalogs were just "supplements".

"Isn't Ya'er's death the most widely circulated version among humans?"

Liya turned to Liz first and asked.

Will had heard of this story.

However, this story is too "old-fashioned". It's nothing more than that in the early stage of magic, a witch who mastered too many alternative ancient magics and was extremely powerful was regarded as a heretic, so everyone wanted to send her to the fire. But Ya'er's strength was not weak at all, and she had never been able to do it.

In the end, someone deceived her trust and let her go to her own grave.

"If you mean the story of 'the witch was betrayed by her beloved and was forced to die in a dungeon that she couldn't conquer', that's only half right."

"The second half, right?"

Liz nodded and took the book back from Will's hand.

"Remember? I said that in a sense, the 'personality' composed of people who died in the dungeon is more like 'martyrs'."

Liz flipped through the book, and she, who always had a casual attitude, rarely showed an expression of "reverence" on her face.

"Ya'er is the witch's martyr. She was the first person to think that the adventurer's death could lead to the dungeon, so she sacrificed herself to try to enter the dungeon in this way."

"...You also said that she was more like a seeker who achieved her goal by martyrdom. Since she was seeking the truth, she should not just do it to verify her own guess, right?"

"Oh, don't always remember other people's words so clearly. I'm afraid that Leah will be jealous."

"What are you talking about? No matter what, there is no such thing as being jealous of your own mother."

"Her pursuit of the truth is because she discovered..."

Liz turned the book to the back and showed it to Will.

The page was a mess, with only numbers, and even the name was a series of question marks and unclear words, not to mention the content summary.

"...The true meaning of ancient magic."

Liz pointed to a line of unclear text on it, then took out a book from her "ring" and dropped it on the table with a thud.

Liya noticed that this book must be a book of "ancient magic", but it was a book she had never seen before.

A... new book?

"Liya, have you ever thought about why we interpret ancient magic, but witches themselves are not historians, and even do not require every witch to understand history?"

"Ah? Isn't it because the ancient magic is too old and there is no historical record at all?"

Will realized it after listening to Leah's answer.

It seems that because he has been Leah's student since the beginning, he followed her to do experiments, interpret ancient magic books with a lot of riddles, and figure out what can replace some materials and methods, so he didn't think much about this problem.

If ancient magic is "ancient magic", it would be more professional to let those who study history or even archaeology come.

However, think carefully about the research with Leah. Day after day of experiments, test data again and again, and debug bit by bit...

This is a "science and engineering" way to study ancient classics. Even when Iel learned "Su Bing Array", in addition to letting her understand, Will also made a lot of experimental attempts.

The witch's use of experiments or even "science and engineering" methods to study ancient books is nonsense.

Liz opened the book on the table.

The book looked very old, and the cover was also red, which was common in ancient magic books. It should be an ancient magic book that witches often have.

But...

Will looked at that page and found that all the words on it were "garbled", even...

More similar to the garbled words in his original world. In these words, he not only saw English words and Japanese words, but also saw... Chinese words.

But they were mixed together and could not be read at all.

It was more like...