Due to the Great Race of Yith's rigorous attitude toward knowledge, these reproduced books had all been made identical to their first editions in both format and text.
While this maximized the preservation of the original books' knowledge, it also made it easy for readers to form a direct connection with the unknown entities behind that knowledge.
For words themselves were also magic. The simplest example was Ancient Runes.
The older a script was, the closer it was to pictographs, the greater the magical power it could carry.
In other words, in terms of magical carrying capacity alone, among all the human scripts Tierra currently knew, Ancient Egyptian, Cuneiform, Water Script, and Naxi Script were equal, and possessed the strongest magic.
Next came China's Oracle Bone Script and Mayan Script.
Seal Script was slightly stronger than Latin, Ancient Runes, Tibetan, and Sanskrit.
Then came English, Old English, and certain other modern and contemporary scripts, which possessed almost no magic.
This was the risk that the blessing of "Knowledge" could help readers avoid.
It allowed them to bypass dangerous words and face knowledge directly.
But when that script shared the same roots as one's native language and had been passed down through the same lineage, the blessing of "Knowledge" might instead directly construct a mental passage leading to the Outer Gods.
Especially when the knowledge was obtained from a highly convincing imitation of The Inheritor.
That was why Tierra had been fine reading the Necronomicon, fine reading the R'lyeh Text, and fine reading the Book of Eibon, yet the moment his fingers touched the Profound Lord's Seven Chapters Secret Scripture, he immediately made contact with the Lord of the Starry Void and died on the spot.
Fortunately, Tierra had only inadvertently connected with the King in Yellow that time. He had