Chapter Fifteen: The Greatest Female Astrologer

  Du Wei picked up a candlestick. After thinking for a moment, he also took down a hanging weapon from the wall, of course, considering his current weak physical strength, he chose a short sword. After hesitating for a while, Du Wei also picked up several new candles and put them in his arms.

  Du Wei stepped into the secret room on the wall.

  The faint candlelight could only illuminate the space of about two or three steps in front and back, fortunately Du Wei was born with a stronger spiritual force than ordinary people, and his perception of the surroundings also increased.

  This was a passageway inlaid in the massive stone wall, with cold and hard stones on both sides, and it was unknown how many years had passed. The passageway was full of dust, and although Du Wei tried his best to make every move as light as possible, he still couldn't avoid stirring up the dust, causing him to sneeze repeatedly.

  His feet would occasionally tread on some small stones, and in the flickering candlelight, Du Wei could only proceed with such caution.

  Fortunately, this place seems to be ventilated, and although the candle flame is flickering, it has not been extinguished due to lack of oxygen in the air.

  After walking through the secret passage for a while, a staircase appeared in front of him. The spiral staircase led directly to the underground, and it was very narrow, also made of stone, looking a bit rough but fortunately still sturdy enough. Just like this, all the way down, according to Du Wei's estimation in his heart, after walking down more than thirty floors, he finally saw a small door.

  The metal door handle was already rusty, Du Wei grasped the door handle and twisted it with force twice, but found that the door was locked. This door simply couldn't be opened. He sighed, and suddenly remembered the sentence carved on the bookshelf...

  "Spoon is key..."

  Du Wei thought for a moment, raised the candle and shone it around in front of the door, finally spotting a pattern on the ceiling above the door.

  This is a carved pattern, based on the pattern above, Du Wei barely recognized that it seemed to be a star chart, he wasn't very familiar with astrology, but because he remembered the "spoon" problem in his mind, he clearly found the shape similar to the "Big Dipper" on this star chart.

  "The spoon is the key..." Du Wei muttered to himself, this ceiling was a bit too high for a thirteen-year-old like him. Even on tiptoes, his hand couldn't reach the ceiling. By the faint light of the candles, Du Wei carefully examined the pattern.

  A candle was almost burned out. When Du Wei lit the second candle, he suddenly had a move in his heart and thought of an important question!

  Key?

  Joke!

  If this secret passage is discovered, even if the person entering doesn't have a key, won't they find tools to pry open this door? Without a key, it's still possible to force this door open with brute strength.

  Since that's the case, then the key isn't so important after all. But the prompt above specifically mentioned "key", so there must be a different deeper meaning!

  That is to say, if there is no key, wanting to use smashing or prying open and other methods are all ineffective.

  This "key" is probably not interpretable in a literal sense.

  Du Wei sat down and thought for a while. When he stood up again, he jumped up with all his might and tapped the pattern of the Big Dipper on the ceiling with the short sword in his hand.

  Bang!

  Du Wei's eyes lit up! The voice seemed somewhat hollow.

  He gave up trying to knock on the door and instead bent down, found a gap in the stone slab on the ground, inserted his short sword into it, and stood it upright. Then, Du Wei leaned against the wall with difficulty, stepped onto the hilt of the sword, and managed to reach the ceiling by stretching out his hand, although he was still swaying slightly.

  There was a thick layer of dust on the ceiling, Du Wei felt around for a while and could feel that the star pattern on the Big Dipper had a distinct concave and convex feeling different from other places, he tried some methods, knocking, twisting, turning, etc.

  Finally, he didn't know what he touched, and with a forceful twist, he actually twisted a piece of star-shaped stone. With a creaking sound, the floorboard in the corner of the wall suddenly sank down!

  A black passageway appeared on the ground, and inside the passageway was a staircase leading all the way down!

  Success!

  Du Wei let out a low cry and jumped down from the hilt of his short sword with a smile.

  It's indeed so, this is a deceitful trick! Du Wei was certain that his conjecture was correct.

  The rusty big gate next to it is just a blindfold! The real secret is not on this door at all! If the people who come here don't notice the "Big Dipper" according to the hint, even if they use brute force to open that door, they won't find the real secret here!

  Du Wei was convinced that the real secret of this place lay in the black passageway that sank into the ground!

  He walked to the side of the passageway, this entrance was very narrow, only one person could barely enter, inside was dark, Du Wei lit a candle and threw it in, with the falling candlelight, you can see that the steps below were not deep, about two or three meters high, should be a secret room.

  Du Wei did not go down immediately, but sat at the entrance of the corridor for a while, looking down and seeing that there was nothing unusual below, then carefully went down along the stairs.

  This is a room with four closed walls, all of which are made of stone. On both sides of the wall, there are rows of iron cabinets, many of which are sealed, and the locks on top are all rusty. In the middle is a large stone platform.

  The stone pedestal is about the height of Du Wei's waist, and there are many profound and unreadable patterns carved on its surface. In the middle is a large arc, surrounded by all the positions of the stars.

  Du Wei looked at it for a while, felt completely confused, and then simply gave up studying the pattern on the table, focusing on searching the iron cabinet next to him.

  All the iron cabinets here are locked, and for a long time, I'm afraid the locks inside have rusted to death. Du Wei struggled for half a day, just when he felt a bit depressed, finally, he exclaimed with joy, finding an unlocked drawer!

  This is also the only drawer on the entire iron cabinet that has not been locked!

  After opening it, a stone coffin lay quietly in the drawer.

  On this blind stone, a crest of the Lorin family is engraved on the front!

  Du Wei exerted himself to lift up the box, then sat down on the ground and carefully opened it. Inside the box was a roll of sheepskin paper.

  On the sheepskin paper, there were densely written words, and after unfolding the sheepskin paper, a hexagonal crystal-like green crystal fell from the scroll.

  Du Wei lit the third candle he brought with him, and quietly read the words on this piece of sheepskin paper...

  "Dear Sir,"

  "Dearest one, you must be a descendant of the Rorin family. First and foremost, you should know that this is a letter left by your ancestors, written by me, Semirh, wife of the seventh generation head of the Rorin family and astrologer."

  Seeing these two sentences at the beginning, Du Wei couldn't help but feel a little surprised.

  Astrologer, Semmel?

  Du Wei naturally knew that in the history of the Luo Lin family, there was a peculiar family head who was very interested in astrology and even married an astrologer. The highest building in the castle where Du Wei is now located, a tall white tower, was specially built by that family head so that his astrologer wife could better observe the stars in the night sky from the high tower at night!

  Du Wei did not expect that this letter was actually written by the wife of the clan leader, a female astrologer!

  He continued down.

  "...When you read this letter, I hope you can understand the things you will face next, which will be a very risky adventure. You may open a door that has been forbidden for countless ages, because it is likely that behind this door, there will be a forbidden area that humans cannot touch."

  At the same time, this is also the result of my lifelong research.

  "If you're ready for the adventure, take the gemstone wrapped in this letter and carefully search the stone pedestal in the room. You'll find a socket; insert the gemstone and you'll receive the most complete information I've left behind. To ensure that the information isn't passed into the wrong hands, the activation of the information requires the fresh blood of a Roland family descendant. Drip your blood onto the gemstone, and the Roland family's bloodline will guide you to the information I've left."

  At the end of this letter, there is another line of words:

  "May the great Rollin family prosper, for my husband, I deeply fell in love with this family!"

  Your ancestors, Sayemur Chirra Rollin left words

  Du Wei read it in one breath, and his heart was also shocked!

  Because according to the family history he had read, his impression of the name Semir Chyra Rolen (originally Semir Chyra, only after marrying into the Rolen family did she take on the surname) was very deep.

  This woman is the wife of the seventh generation head of the family, a famous female astrologer, and in the field of astrology, she is worthy of admiration! Du Wei's mentor, Rosyate Old Scholar, who was also an astrologer, occasionally mentioned Du Wei's ancestor's wife during the year and a half he educated Du Wei, always with reverence. He even inadvertently mentioned that this female astrologer named Semel was almost the best astrologer in the empire for nearly two hundred years!

  What made a deep impression on Du Wei was not because this Semel was a great master of astrology, but for another reason.

  Because, in the records of the Luo Lin family that Du Wei had read, this female master of astrology was also a woman who deeply loved her husband.

  He who married her, the seventh head of House Rholin, did not live long, dying at about fifty years old. This Semmel lady was an astrologer and obviously a romantic woman; on the third day after her husband's death, she killed herself in the tall white tower he had built for her.

  And before she died, the female astrologer had inscribed a sentence on her own tower:

  "Because of love, we will live forever."

  It was this dying remark that made Du Wei remember this illustrious woman in his family's history.

  Without any hesitation, Du Wei immediately bent down and started searching under the stone pedestal, soon finding the socket mentioned in the letter.

  The size of the socket was just about the same as the shape of that gemstone. Du Wei immediately cut his own finger without hesitation, and a drop of fresh blood fell on the gemstone.

  As the gemstone was inserted into the socket, Du Wei subconsciously took two steps back...

  In the dimly lit secret room, suddenly, the patterns on the square stone pedestal in front of him burst out with intense light, illuminating the entire room as if it were daytime! The intense light even made Du Wei unable to open his eyes.

  Suddenly these glows gathered together bit by bit and finally formed a light pillar on the stone platform, and in the center of the light pillar, a figure appeared!

  This is not a real person, but an extremely realistic phantom made up of these glows!

  The size of this phantom was no different from a real person, and Du Wei couldn't help but widen his eyes!

  He suddenly reacted to something very important!

  This Semel, this legendary female astrologer, is probably also an excellent magician! Because of everything that happened just now, and the phantom in front of me, it's clearly a kind of magic!!

  The phantom's radiance gradually dimmed down until the intensity of the light was just right for human eyes to bear.

  Du Wei could finally see clearly the figure standing in the light pillar.

  A woman wearing a red robe all over her body, with silver hair as white as snow, her whole body was shrouded in the bright red robe, her face was exceptionally beautiful, and her eyes seemed to be filled with gentleness, but those black pupils made Du Wei feel a sense of eeriness.

  "Open the message, I am your ancestor Semir Rholin. This phantom slowly opened its mouth: "This is my last magical message left before I died. The magic circle I left behind requires the magic crystal that has been imbued with my own magic power and the blood of the Rholin family to open it. Since you can see this message, it means you are a descendant of the Rholin family, so you can also get all my secrets without reservation."

  Du Wei looked at the beautiful woman in front of him, and he couldn't help but feel a little shocked inside!

  A magic circle that can preserve a message for over a hundred years! Such magical abilities are already those of a top-notch master magician!!! This Saimel actually has such abilities!

  "I do not know how many years have passed since you activated this message, nor do I know how much magic is left in the crystal that holds me. So please listen carefully to every word I say, for it's unlikely that there will be enough magic to activate this spell a second time."

  Semer's phantom spoke slowly.

  Although he knew that the Samer in front of him was not a real person, but just an illusion left behind, Du Wei still couldn't help but nod his head.

  "Firstly, I must say that the things I left for you may bring you endless benefits or endless troubles. Because my lifelong research results, except for my husband, no one else knows. The person who opened this message, since you can get here, it's likely that you have some understanding of astrology, at least you understand astronomy. So first, I want to tell you the most important thing: all astrologers in this world are wrong! They, every single one of them, are wrong!"

  Because, astrology is absolutely not a superficial thing that predicts the future just by changes in star signs. Although everyone now thinks that astrology is just a prophecy technique. But what I want to tell you is... astrology is actually a kind of magic, a powerful and profound magic.

  An astrologer should not be considered merely as a scholar of astrology, nor should he/she be just a shallow and pretentious fortune teller.

  A true astrologer should possess powerful abilities rivaling those of all magicians!

  If magicians can summon the power of wind, with the help of rainwater, storms, flames, and all natural powers. Then, why can't astrologers borrow the power of stars?

  "Moreover, we astrologers can go even further! Because I have discovered the power that magicians cannot grasp, not even forever... That is... the law!"

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