As the God of Wisdom, Nahida had a photographic memory as nothing more than a passive ability.
She was certain she had never seen the densely packed writing on the scroll in the sea of memories collected by Irminsul. However, that did not mean Nahida herself had never seen some of the writing on it.
On the day she discussed terms with Yucheng, he had deliberately taken a slip of paper listing various conditions from inside his clothes and handed it to her.
Aside from the various conditions, a string of jumbled writing had been tucked inconspicuously along the very bottom edge of that slip of paper, seemingly followed by a legible annotation.
When Nahida first saw that unfamiliar string of writing, she had assumed it was Yucheng's idle doodling. After all, if even she could not recognize the writing, the problem definitely lay with him, so she had focused entirely on the conditions above it.
Yet now, inside the birdcage in the Sanctuary of Surasthana, she had actually found a scroll bearing the same kind of writing. Moreover, the writing on this scroll gave Nahida a peculiar sense of beauty and mystery, as though some sort of power lay hidden within it. It did not look like idle doodling at all.
This immediately reminded the clever Nahida of the annotation on that slip of paper-sign in blood!
Could it mean I have to sign this scroll in blood?
Did that Regent of Inazuma foresee even this? How exactly did he manage it?
A flicker of belated fear passed through Nahida's heart, and her gaze grew more hesitant as she looked at the scroll. After all, mysterious, unknown things inspired fear. What was more, whether signing and sealing a scroll whose contents she could not understand would bring even graver