Rebirth of the Viking King

Chapter 522 8.41 The Third Adventure (2)

The scale of the underground palace buildings was beyond Loki's imagination.

This is the third time he has participated in an archaeological expedition since he was reborn through time travel. It's just that this experience and entering the "Sinking City" when I was young are undoubtedly much safer than entering Leviathan's Inner Boils.

The bachelors around him were all young people around 20 years old. Even if they rode horses all day long, they still did not feel any fatigue.

Along the way, they excitedly exchanged the research they had done before entering the desert, and all hoped that this time they could obtain an expedition qualification certificate based on the results of the expedition.

Through their conversation, Loki basically deduced how the Royal Academy of Sciences operates.

In the dark Middle Ages, "diplomas" had not yet appeared.

The "Royal Academy of Sciences" to which the bachelors belonged was only part of the "Academic District" of Constantinople. After decades of development, the "College District" has independently developed into a well-known large-scale area in this majestic city.

Bachelors opened their own studios here, recruited apprentices, and sold the books they wrote and the goods they produced.

At fixed time periods every year, the school city even holds some academic events that can be visited by the entire city, attracting a large number of residents to come and watch.

Young bachelors who are chosen by their mentors to study at the Royal Academy of Sciences are collectively called "apprentices." Apprentices go out with mentors or seniors who have "exploration qualification certificates" and conduct their own research along the way.

If the apprentice's research results can be recognized by their mentors, they will also be given an "explorer qualification certificate."

Having this qualification means you can "stay in school."

They will gain explorer status. You can propose your own expedition plan to the Royal Academy of Sciences and receive support from both the Byzantine Empire and the Academy of Sciences.

Take Mergwen's team at this time as an example.

The Royal Academy of Sciences did not attach great importance to her research, but it was because her sister "Emma Waldorf" was in the spotlight at this time. The chief bachelors still approved her expedition, and allocated some token travel expenses, and gave token tokens to a few handymen.

In her team, she herself is an "explorer of ancient civilization". In addition to her, there are 1 "architecture apprentice", 2 "potions apprentices", 1 "botanist", 1 "painter", and Two "Mossian organ masters" from the Eastern Tang Dynasty and the Mohist school of thought.

Although they are in the same team, after going out, everyone conducts their own research and recording work independently, without interfering with each other in the professional field.

It is worth mentioning that these two Mohist disciples always walked at the end of the team.

The language barrier is only one aspect.

On the other hand, the two Mohist disciples were still carrying ancient wooden boxes belonging to the Donglu people.

This is the equipment that every Mohist organ master must carry when traveling. Hanging in this wooden box are all the repair tools they are good at using, as well as some of the most basic alchemy materials.

Loki was not too unfamiliar with the disciples of the Mohist school and the production techniques.

14 years ago, on that dark and bloody night in Hanshui Village, the god-like murderer Qinghe Zhenren was hidden in a body made of a Mohist puppet. The craftsmanship of that body is nothing compared to the precision assembly lines of the 21st century.

Not only can every joint on the body move flexibly like a real person, Qinghe, who has lost his limbs, can actually use the spiritual energy in his body to control it.

Not only is Juzi's craftsmanship terrifying, the rapid-fire crossbows made by ordinary disciples are also very powerful.

Loki did not take the initiative to strike up a conversation with the two Mohist disciples.

On the one hand, it was certainly because he needed to open the way for them at the front of the team, but on the other hand, he also understood that living in a foreign country, they had to rely on themselves to open up the situation.

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"There must be foreign gods sitting down when the Pharaoh sits, and for his own benefit, he will definitely let foreign gods spread faith, because different gods will give different powers to humans!"

"How were those magnificent temples and pyramids made? Do you just rely on us humans who are like ants? Haha, it's completely impossible!"

"From my perspective as a professional bachelor of architecture, the pharaohs must have relied on the power of gods and believers of foreign gods!"

"You may be able to build pyramids by stacking them with brute force, but you will definitely not be able to build huge statues of gods and obelisks that still stand in the yellow sand!"

"Hans Wales" from the British Isles is a talkative young man. It was obvious that this was his first time traveling with the bachelors. Holding the torch high along the way, he excitedly popularized science to the best of his ability to the brothers and sisters around him.

However, at this moment, Mergwin, who was walking at the front of the team, suddenly stopped. She waved to the curly-haired female bachelor studying Potions at the end of the line.

"Merlin, look at it"

"Is there any remaining blue color in the mural at the top of this passage?"

Several torches pointed at the dark ceiling, and the dim firelight illuminated the mottled ceiling with a hazy outline, and the entire ceiling of the passage could be seen in an arc shape.

Although most of the murals and wall decorations have become dilapidated over time. But some remaining sky blue marks can still be seen in the corners.

"Like!" Merlin narrowed his eyes and observed carefully.

"It's very similar!"

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"Merlin Dill" is the most experienced of all the bachelors that Mergwen brought out during this trip.

At the age of 28, he is considered an out-and-out young man among the "apprentices".

However, for a low-class civilian from a poor background, survival in this world has never been easy.

Merlin was born in Constantinople to an extremely ordinary family of medicine farmers. Their family doesn't even have a last name. Because dill was grown and sold all year round, the nobles who rented their land named Merlin's family "Dill".

Simply to make it easier to remember.

Although his parents are ordinary, Merlin has a strong talent for potions.

When she was only 12 years old, she set up a stall on Honeysuckle Street every evening. It is famous throughout the street for selling its own hand-blended cough, soothing and analgesic medicines. At that time, Merlin had never been involved in potions. The medicinal ingredients she prepared were all based on her own tongue and subjective assumptions about the ingredients of herbal medicines.

In the potion, she pioneered the addition of elements such as "syrup" and "French fermented fruit", which not only neutralizes the effect of the medicine, but also makes the taste of the medicine more acceptable.

As her fame spread wider and wider, the chief potion instructor of the Royal Academy of Sciences, 'Dre Roquan', noticed this talented girl and recruited her into his alchemy workshop as an apprentice.

At the age of 18, she was sent to the Royal Academy of Sciences to allow her to receive more systematic learning.

As early as 8 years ago, Merlin could obtain the explorer qualification through "19 Types of Frost Dragon Bones and Pharmacological Research".

But in the same year, the ancestral home where she grew up was on the verge of collapse due to disrepair.

In order to prevent his elderly parents and seven brothers and sisters from being displaced, Merlin, who was only 20 years old, sold his academic research to the illegitimate son of a senator for 180 gold dinar coins.

It is said that having this thing will make it easier to pick up girls abroad.