Ancient Demon Language is an elegant linguistic system, and the very characters themselves contain mysterious and unknown powers, spoken exclusively by great Demons or above. Great Demons are at least of True Knowledge Level and above. Angel couldn’t even recognize the ordinary Demon Language, let alone this more abstruse ancient Demon Language.
Angel looked at Baltica with a pitiful expression.
Seeing Angel’s wrinkled, dumpling-like face, Baltica couldn’t help but laugh. Among her customers over the years, this human seemed to be the most sincere.
In response to Angel’s plea for help, Baltica pointed to the other side of the parchment with her long-stemmed smoking pipe and said, “Look at the back yourself.”
Angel quickly flipped over the parchment, only to find that the back was recorded in human common language. Furthermore, judging by the antiquity of the writing and the use of vocabulary, it was clearly not a recording method from this age.
In fact, similar expressions could be found in some ancient texts.
“That was originally on the parchment; I’ve read it too. Some annotations are not very clear, but the translations are quite accurate,” Baltica remarked.
Baltica’s words made Angel realize something: It seems he was not the first to brave the waters; there had actually been humans who obtained the synthesis method for the Fire Transmission Stone a long time ago.
But who could it have been? Angel carefully looked at the back of the parchment and found no signature.
Perhaps it was just an unnamed predecessor, maybe lost to the passage of time or become a surfer in the River of Fate, which actually had nothing to do with him anymore.
Now, all of Angel’s thoughts were focused on this piece of parchment. Although he hadn’t obtained anything tangible, acquiring the synthesis method for the Fire Transmission Stone had saved him the journey to Lassudral, the Demon City.
While Angel was reading, Baltica didn’t rush him but simply picked up her tall wineglass and savored her drink alone.
About three hours later, Angel lifted his head from his intense scrutiny.
At this moment, his brows were deeply furrowed because the content recorded on the parchment was quite peculiar.
He had finished reading about the synthesis method in only half an hour. The reason he kept contemplating was that he was looking at the annotations made by his predecessor.
It must be said, the predecessor who recorded them in the common language was very diligent, perhaps an Alchemist himself. This person had explained the synthesis method of the Fire Transmission Stone using the language of Alchemy, saving Angel a lot of trouble.
Just this interpretation alone was actually quite a good deal. Even if Angel went to Demon City to find the Half-Blood Demon, he might not have received such a complete Alchemical interpretation.
The original synthesis method of the Fire Transmission Stone was serendipitously discovered by an ancestor of the Fire Transmission Demons. The process was very broad and bold; the materials used were not measured and thus the success rate of synthesizing the Fire Transmission Stone was not high.
As times changed, the success rate of synthesizing the Fire Transmission Stone gradually increased, yet it was still not very high.
But this predecessor, in the language of Alchemy, made rational analyses and pointed out the disadvantages of the “primitive synthesis” by the Fire Transmission Demons. Although it didn’t specify solutions, it could greatly improve the success rate.
However, Angel was still frowning after reading because almost 90% of the materials recorded here were unknown to him.
Fortunately, the predecessor who translated it into the common language had written out the effects of the majority of these oddly named materials, as well as other substitute materials.
——Alchemical principles were such; they were never bound to one recipe.
Angel was also considering these substitutes; he had reserves for many of the substitute materials. However, there were three materials for which the predecessor did not write substitutes, meaning they were irreplaceable.
And these three materials were Earth Vein Firestone that had settled for over a thousand years, the undying burning bones of the Dark Gold Nightmare, and the most important of all… the White Ash Fire Solvent refined by the hellish ghost fire.