In an open area with a good view outside Lunber Town, Hao Ren and the others regrouped after spending half the morning gathering information.
There was still some time before noon, and Becky would not be coming over yet, so they exchanged information first.
Vivian had visited the tallest spired building in town. As expected, it was the church's headquarters. The Radiant Church was spread across all three continents of this world, especially in the Kingdom of Horleta, where the church had originated. Basically, any town of even a moderate size had a church. Posing as a tourist from out of town, Vivian had chatted with the church and its clergy for a while. Drawing on her years of traveling around on a shoestring and her gift for conversation, she had successfully learned some useful information.
"Rune of Leta has been lost," Vivian said, immediately astonishing Hao Ren. "The locals call it 'ancient writing' or 'ancient inscriptions.' I talked to the clergy about Rune of Leta and discovered that they had no idea how to use the writing at all. In theory, the clergy should be the most educated people here. If even they don't understand it, ordinary people are even less likely to."
"Lost writing?" Hao Ren found it unbelievable. "Then what about the writing we saw on the outer walls of those buildings in town...?"
"For good luck," Vivian said with a helpless shrug. "Those misspellings and irregular writing styles all make sense now. Modern people simply have no idea what those symbols and grammatical forms mean. They're just copying the symbols onto walls based on the few scattered records passed down from ancient times. Most of them were copied from ancient ruins or old books that no one can read anymore. They more or less determined that