Chapter 408: How many people had the "Secret History of the Association" misled?
Hilbert and Frank took the sudden appearance of new magic script on the Magic Script Scroll very seriously. They also had the persistent feeling that the passage was alluding to them.
Neither wasted any time. They picked up the scroll, left the archive room, and went to the administrator's office in this subsidiary mystic realm.
The archivist of this subsidiary mystic realm was a balding man of Chinese descent. After hearing their explanation, he carefully examined the Magic Script Scroll from top to bottom.
Then he took out a special fountain pen and tapped it against the edge of his desk. An apparently identical Magic Script Scroll appeared before them.
He opened the scroll and went straight to the end, only to discover that this copy lacked that line.
"Have you ever seen anything like this before, sir?"
"I really haven't!"
The balding man sat down at his desk, scratching his head as he frowned at the final lines of magic script.
"They look like Magic Script Scrolls from the same batch, but these aren't conventionally published books. There are no edition numbers or dates, so it's hard to say exactly where this scroll came from."
Looking at Hilbert and Frank beside his desk, the administrator thought for a moment before speaking.
"After all, we aren't true Magic Controllers. Magic Script Scrolls are records imbued with the wondrous power of spell formations. Reading them directly is like trying to make out flowers through fog."
"And although I'm the administrator for this section, I've only been in the post for six months. Even if you gave me another ten years, I wouldn't dare claim I understood all the materials here. According to some of my predecessors..."
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