"Atlantis Mantino, Atlantis for short, means..." Richard said, "City of Peace in the Shalin local language."
After a pause, Richard continued, "In the Barta Text—the language of the Ancient Wizard Civilization—Atlantis Mantino carries the meaning of Eternal City, City of Civilization. So it is clear... the Shalin local language, like several other languages, has some connection to the destroyed Ancient Wizard Civilization. That is rather interesting."
Snap!
With a sound, Richard closed a thick book and looked around.
The surroundings were brightly lit. He stood in a nearly boundless space, where countless energy cubes floated in the air, each one meter long, wide, and high. Numerous energy cubes were joined together to form a large energy cube consisting of a thousand smaller cubes, ten meters long, ten meters wide, and ten meters high.
Using such large energy cubes as the foundation, there were another nine identical ones at intervals along each of the three spatial axes—left and right, front and back, up and down. In other words, there were a thousand such large energy cubes in total.
If counted as small energy cubes, there were one million of them.
One million.
It was noon on June 6th—the birthday of Atlantis City—and he was inside Barta.
Richard lowered his head and glanced at the book he had closed. Written on its cover was the title—"Holinster Manuscript."
This was one of the books obtained from the Royal Library of the Soma Alliance, used to decipher the Barta Text.
By now, after studying hundreds and thousands of similar books, he had finally confirmed, upon finishing the "Holinster Manuscript," that he had deciphered most of the Barta Text.
This meant he could finally open Barta, this treasure trove of knowledge. He could study the vast amount of written material stored within, understand the knowledge