Chapter 5

After all, it was a language of another world, and there was still a certain gap in pronunciation with Earth languages.

Lin Yu didn't think much about it, but instead poured some tea water excitedly, dipped his index finger, and wrote two Chinese characters.

"Lin Yu, my name."

"Characters I've never seen, a language I've never heard... Interesting!"

The woman named Flamme also became interested, immediately wrote another line of text, and then pointed to the big tree outside the courtyard.

Without a doubt, the meaning of this word was tree!

Lin Yu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly returned the favor, teaching the Chinese character "tree" to the other party.

Just like that, the two threw the brewed tea to the back of their minds, teaching the language they had mastered to the other party one word at a time.

Time passed second by second.

An hour later, perhaps feeling that the way of writing with tea water was too inefficient, Flamme suddenly raised her hand, and the surging energy in her body gushed out from her palm, weaving into a line of blue text in mid-air.

"Ho! What is this?"

Lin Yu looked at the line of blue light characters hovering in surprise.

Although he didn't understand it yet, he could sense that what constituted the text was the same energy as that on Longlongyan's body.

"Magic?"

"Magic?"

Lin Yu sized up the blue light characters with interest, and then looked at Flamme with dissatisfaction: "With such convenient magic, why didn't you use it earlier? My tea leaves are also very precious, okay!"

"..."

Flamme's lips twitched, pondered for a while, and said in difficult Chinese: "Sorry."

Lin Yu was stunned when he heard this, and then said excitedly: "That's right, that's how you say it—have you already learned it?"

Flamme shook her head, indicating that she couldn't fully understand the language Lin Yu spoke yet, just judging what he wanted to express from Lin Yu's expression.

"Enough, enough!"

"Can't tell, you are actually a language genius no less than me!"

Lin Yu was overjoyed; at this progress, in another period of time, they would be able to learn the other party's language.

With this performance as a foundation, Lin Yu's enthusiasm for learning the local language became even stronger.

Flamme was the same; she originally had a strong desire for knowledge, and suddenly encountering such a mysterious youth who spoke an unknown language in this forest on the northern plateau, she naturally wanted to know the youth's background.

Thus, the two learned from the morning when the sun was high until it was almost sunset.

Until Flamme's abdomen made a sound of hunger, the two stopped with unfinished interest.

The guest was hungry, which was naturally the host's fault; Lin Yu didn't hesitate to take out the venison he had hunted yesterday, used the wild vegetables and mushrooms he had picked during this period, and made a hot pot with a mushroom soup base.

Just looking at Flamme's attire that was very similar to the Greek style, one knew that this world was still in the budding stage of civilization.

All aspects of clothing, food, housing, and transportation were not yet perfect, and being able to eat a dinner that could be called a delicacy in this primeval forest was also quite a surprising thing for Flamme.

After eating and drinking, the sky also darkened.

Lin Yu enthusiastically invited Flamme to stay in his pavilion, but Flamme shook her head and refused him.

To be honest, when the other party shook her head, Lin Yu's face instantly became disappointed, and for a moment, the thought of forcibly keeping this person surged in his heart.

However, the thought was ultimately just a thought.

No matter how lonely Lin Yu was, he couldn't take action against a human he had finally encountered.

Fortunately, Flamme didn't intend to give up communicating with Lin Yu.

She used magic to construct the number 2, using gestures to indicate that she would be back in two days.

Lin Yu nodded to show understanding, but his face still hung with a trace of loss.

In the next two days, Lin Yu took Longlongyan to wait at the edge of the forest path in his territory every day, and sure enough, he waited for that familiar figure two days later.

This time, Flamme didn't come empty-handed; behind her was a backpack full of parchment scrolls filled with text.

So she went to buy textbooks!

Lin Yu suddenly realized, and at the same time, his favor for the first friend he made in this world greatly increased.

Just as he expected, what Flamme brought this time were the texts used by nobles to teach their descendants, and what was recorded on them were all fairy tales with relatively simple plots.

Thanks to these fairy tales, Lin Yu's learning speed increased by a notch.

He also followed suit, writing out the "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Classic" to help Flamme better learn Chinese.

Just like that, Flamme finally agreed to stay in Lin Yu's pavilion, and stayed for a full month.

After all, Lin Yu was a terrifying existence equivalent to a dimensional demon god, and even if he was suppressed by his true body universe at this time, he was by no means comparable to ordinary intelligent creatures.

Similarly, Flamme was also a peerless genius who appeared once in a thousand years in this world, and her wisdom was far beyond what ordinary people could reach.

Thus, in just one month, the two learned each other's language and could skillfully conduct daily communication.

"Finally, it's come to an end~"

In the stone pavilion, Lin Yu put down the last fairy tale book and said with melancholy: "Since there are all kinds of magic in this world, why hasn't anyone created magic that can translate unknown languages?"

"..."

Flamme, sitting opposite the stone table, glanced at him and smiled lightly: "Because the entire human world uses the same language."

"The world of magic is a world of imagination; there is no demand for language translation, so naturally, no one would think of such magic."

"That's not right!" Lin Yu frowned, "Didn't you say that there are races like elves and dwarves in this world? Don't they have their own languages?"

"..."

Flamme was stunned when she heard this, and then said thoughtfully: "According to the theory of natural selection you mentioned, if elves and dwarves live separately from humans, there is indeed a possibility of developing racial languages."

"However, the situation in our world is relatively special, as there is a common enemy like the demon race."

"Thanks to the demon race, elves and dwarves have integrated into the human race from the beginning, belonging to subspecies of the human race in a broad sense, so their racial languages..."

Speaking of this, Flamme paused and muttered to herself: "No, I seem to have heard of an ancient language from my teacher. If that is the so-called elven language, then there should have been languages of other races in this world... Well, I understand, perhaps the current common language of the continent is the result of the fusion of ancient human language, ancient elven language, and ancient dwarven language!"

So that's how it is!

Lin Yu nodded thoughtfully and then asked curiously: "You said your teacher might master ancient elven language; is she an elf who has lived for a long time?"

"Not he, but she."

Flamme corrected the gender of the teacher in the common language of the continent, and then smiled and said: "That's right, my teacher is indeed an elf, and as for how long she has lived, that is also a mystery to me."

"Really an elf..." Lin Yu asked with interest, "Then what is her name?"

"You wouldn't know it even if I told you." Flamme shook her head, but still said, "Serie."

"Serie, huh~"

Another name that sounded a bit familiar...

Lin Yu nodded habitually first, and then his movements suddenly stiffened, as if he finally recalled something.

Wait, the master is an elven mage who has lived for who knows how many years, named Serie, and the apprentice is a young and beautiful genius human mage, named Flamme...

This master-apprentice combination seems to have a strong sense of déjà vu!

Lin Yu's mouth twitched, and he sized up the beautiful white-robed woman before him with a strange expression.

Especially her orange long hair, as well as the gold jewelry and collar, were faintly overlapping with a certain anime image in his mind...

It matches, it all matches!

Could this world be the anime he watched before transmigrating—"Frieren: Beyond Journey's End"?!

(End of chapter)