Extraordinary Mechanical City
Chapter 58

Central Library

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Language and writing were said to be abilities bestowed upon humanity by the gods.

The earliest writing was not merely visible symbols; it also contained "meaning" and "consciousness." Only prophets could comprehend the will of the gods.

Later, so that ordinary people could also understand divine revelations, prophets created advanced writing and passed it on to humanity's wise men.

The wise men then simplified the writing and added explanations, creating increasingly straightforward forms of script layer by layer.

Monkel Ancient Language was said to be a branch of Ancient Demon Language, an advanced language family passed down by demon gods to human prophets.

If that "secret scroll" was a gene cultivation method, then its translation had to be treated even more cautiously.

A tiny discrepancy could lead to an error a thousand miles away. Machine translations were not necessarily suited to the original context.

It was like English from his previous life. The phrase "I fuck" literally translated into "My grass," but "WTF" was actually more appropriate. (Don't mock the author's terrible English.)

It was also like classical Chinese. Who could guarantee they truly understood exactly what the ancients had meant to express?

Every character might be translated correctly, yet the meaning could be completely different.

Mind Core was powerful, but it was not omnipotent. However, if there were someone proficient in Ancient Monkell Script, and the two translations were compared, the result would be entirely different.

Right before him was an excellent opportunity to decipher the secret scroll.

But if Rein gave up on this barbarian girl, it also meant he might be giving up on the accuracy of the secret scroll's contents.

Even if Mind Core translated the ancient secret scroll in the future, he would not dare guarantee there were no issues.

If it really was, as

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