Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes
Chapter 175: Archives

Chapter 175: Chapter 175: Archives

Inside the wooden door, a tall guard clad in shiny full-cover steel armor and equipped with a long sword stood there.

At first glance, the quality of this guard seemed quite excellent.

If one overlooked his odd stance, leaning against the wooden load-bearing column at the door, his head tilted slightly.

Upon hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, the guard suddenly woke up from his doze, hurriedly straightened his body, and assumed a posture of loyalty to his duty.

Wherever they are, as long as the force is not too great, the style of these guards always seems to be cast from the same mold.

Seeing this familiar style of the guards, Anvis subtly twitched the corner of his mouth.

"What is it?"

"Hello, could you please tell me where the archive room is?"

Upon hearing this, the guard sized up the two individuals.

Average stature, their attire hidden by a brown traveler’s cloak, and their appearance was indescribably plain.

...But there was something very endearing about them, endearing to the point that it was hard to refuse any of their requests.

"Second floor corridor, start counting from the stairwell, the room with a scroll unfolded in the middle of the door is the third room from the end."

"Understood, thank you for your response."

Nodding, Anvis, accompanied by Jom, headed to the second floor, leaving the guard whose charm effect had not yet worn off standing in place.

After successfully finding the archive room the guard described, Anvis pushed the door open and spread his spiritual power, searching among rows of tall stone record shelves for the documents he needed.

Soon, he identified the classification labels on several file cabinets.

Anvis manipulated his spiritual power, retrieving several thick paper records and an ancient stone tablet.

The archives here were not all paper records, but used a mixture of paper records, stone tablets, and demonized crystal balls to record information.

"History Origin of Lavales Bay I," "Investigation Report of the Moon Calling Secret Sect," "Geological Change Records of Lavales Island..."

Anvis continued to leaf through the documents, finally forming a complete understanding of this island.

The earliest history of Lavales Port City could be traced back to the time when the Yar Continent was still under the rule of the Ancient Magic Empire.

In the year 2826 of the Magic Calendar, a fleet encountered a rare catastrophic storm,

After capsizing in part, the remaining ships were swept deep into the Mist Sea by the waves, lost in the endless death fog.

Perhaps by fate or perhaps by some darker, more ominous will, their ships did not turn into ghost ships that would permanently wander the death fog.

Instead, by accident, they arrived at this ancient and desolate vast island.

Initially, due to the island’s intangible curse field, a small portion of the survivors went mad, but the rest discovered the Rai Temple and its continuously emanating protective field.

Thus, the surviving people established dwellings near the Rai Temple, gradually explored the island’s environment, and officially settled on this cursed land, becoming the earliest residents of Lavales Port.

However, although they were the first residents of the port city, they were not the earliest inhabitants of the island.

In the island’s primeval forests, wastelands, and mountains shrouded with terrifying curse power, there were many ancient relics that predate Lavales.

No one knows the identities of the early inhabitants who lived in those dark and mysterious ancient relics exuding a terrifying aura.

But certain obscure signs indicate that those ancient island inhabitants may not have completely disappeared—

After briefly reviewing the origins of Lavales, Anvis continued to check the intelligence on the Secret Sect.

People who proclaimed themselves as the Moon Calling Secret Sect, were often shrouded in dark hoods and cloaks, acting in bizarre and secretive ways, their activities unknown.

Further evidence indicated that traces of this Secret Sect had appeared on the island even before the merchant fleet met with disaster.

Their most common emblem was a silver badge depicting a dark green pentagram.

They worshiped ancient Alien Gods, most commonly depicted as a faceless female figure with pitch-black tentacles.

Every full moon night of the Purple Moon, they would hold secret gatherings in some ruins in the wilderness of the island.

.........

As Anvis was deeply engrossed in reading, another young man with short brown hair walked into the room.

Hearing the sound, Anvis spared a bit of spiritual power to glance at the door.

It was Claire!

Was she also here to investigate some island documents?

After a slight pause, Anvis made no move, only allocating some spiritual power to monitor her movements.

Under Anvis’s covert gaze, the girl searched briefly, then took out several files from a rack that held records about the island’s history.

After reading through them all, she replaced the files in their original location and left the archive room.

Once the girl’s figure had disappeared outside the door, Anvis immediately extended his spiritual power to retrieve the files she had just looked through.

It was a record of a period in the island’s history.

During that time, the island’s curse suddenly became restless and turbulent.

Everyone stayed inside the town, not daring to go out.

However, after several days, the curse returned to its normal state.

The total duration of this turmoil caused by the curse was seven days.

At the same time, many saw the island’s highest mountain top, and the strange castle there, suddenly emitting light.

It was a faint, bizarre ghostly light, as if burning.

.........

Having found the information he needed, Anvis also left the archive.

Smiling, he nodded to the guard at the door, left the administrative hall, and prepared to search the locations of the residences of two Moon Calling Esoteric Practitioners, which he had gathered the previous night.

But just as he stepped out of the administrative hall, Anvis saw the young man Claire was impersonating, talking to another player, a half-elf girl.

It seemed they had been talking for a while, Claire soon raised her hand, casting a restorative spell on Xia Ye Yinghuo, and handed her a small package.

Afterward, the player girl left on her own, evidently having received some task.

Anvis didn’t interrupt them and from the administrative hall as his starting point, quickly headed toward the edge of the town, into an older part of the city.

During the journey, the changes in environment were clearly visible.

The originally smooth pebble roads gradually became cracked and uneven.

The buildings around, initially beautiful and robust stone structures, gradually turned decrepit, eventually becoming almost a patchwork of rotting wood planks and shattered windows.

If not for the occasional thin smoke rising from some chimneys, Anvis would almost believe this area had been completely abandoned by people.