Chapter 4191: Wang Guan and Scepter

The Astley family has nothing to do with the Delin'aoer restorationists, at least that's what Weige thinks. Although according to the analysis of the bank account once held by her mother, Peggy Lemay, that female alchemist likely received money from the restorationists, Weige believes that it should have nothing to do with politics.

So she quickly threw this matter to the back of her mind and continued to talk to Xia De about the wealth accumulated by her ancestors generation after generation. She intends to add some things to these treasure rooms before she passes away.

It's just that she doesn't have anything very commemorative and valuable in her hands right now, but because of Xia De's existence, her lifespan is still very long, so these problems are not urgent to think about.

Miss Luolin was holding the pendant and busy in other rooms. Weige was very serious when explaining, and Xia De also listened very seriously. It was just that "her" voice suddenly sounded, and guided Xia De to look in another direction.

Weige, who discovered Xia De looking up, was very curious:

"What's wrong?"

She also looked up. The ceilings of these secret rooms were polished very smoothly, and there were no carvings on them. She didn't even remember that she had ever looked at the ceiling when she came here before.

"Weige, is there something up there?"

Xia De pointed to the top of his head, or more precisely, a corner of the ceiling on the east side of the room. The two of them were in the most central one of the 5 secret rooms. When walking through the other rooms just now, "she" did not give Xia De any reminders.

"What is there?"

Weige hesitated and continued to observe the corner of the ceiling. After more than ten seconds, she said uncertainly:

"Illusion?"

Some kind of ancient and powerful illusion concealed the secret of the ceiling—namely, that there was a hidden compartment there. This was actually very clever; no matter how powerful an illusion is, it will eventually be seen through, but if the illusion is placed in a spot not easily seen directly, even if Ringed Shushi have powerful intuition, it is not easy to discover it directly. After all, what attracts people most here are the various treasures.

This illusion was probably left a long, long time ago, but even after such a long time, it still hid the secret here very well. Weige even felt that the caster was at a higher level than she is now.

And after Xia De floated slightly to check the illusion, he came to a surprising conclusion:

"The caster is a vampire, likely a twelfth-ring. I have seen the unique illusions of vampires from my vampire friends, and they are very similar to this one."

"Vampire? Can you break the illusion?"

"No need to break it; it's just to prevent people from discovering the secret above the ceiling. Leaving it there doesn't matter."

Xia De's hand groped on the corner of the ceiling a few times. After confirming the position, he carefully melted part of the wall with "Feilianna's Witch Light", and then a wooden box and a flat, long wooden chest fell from the ceiling.

Both the box and the chest were made of rosewood hardwood, so they remained immortal after hundreds of years.

After Xia De took them out, he fell back to the ground. Miss Luolin heard the sound and walked over to check, so all three of them saw the Delin'aoer Kingdom's national emblem clearly on the surface of the box and the chest.

"I feel like I've discovered something incredible."

The things in the box and the chest were wrapped in red velvet cloth. Although they were mentally prepared, when Xia De carefully took off the velvet cloth and revealed the crown and scepter, Weige and Miss Luolin still gasped.

The crown was cast entirely from pure gold, inlaid with various gemstones, and the style was solemn. The scepter's shaft was slender and solid, made of refined gold. The top was carved with iris patterns and inlaid with golden gemstones, and the shape was solemn and upright.

Xia De certainly didn't recognize these two items, but this didn't prevent him from speculating:

"Could this be the crown and imperial scepter used by the Delin'aoer royal family?"

Neither Weige nor Miss Luolin answered. The Honorary Doctor of History, who was not good at history, asked:

"After the Battle of Arcadia ended back then, how were the crown and scepter of Delin'aoer handled?"

Miss Luolin answered in a low voice:

"They were taken away by the Anjou family for collection. Theoretically, these two items should be in the treasury of the Anjou royal family, guarded by that all-steel vault and countless royal guards."

"Are there any photos of those two items?"

Xia De asked again, but they didn't know. Before, no one would care about such things. Weige was also not sure what the crown and scepter were. She was not proficient in identifying antiques:

"Margaret has already left Willondale, otherwise it would be possible to let her confirm it. She must know... Why don't I go find Grandma Cassandra to identify it? Even if Grandma doesn't recognize it, the appraisers at the auction house will certainly be able to give an answer."

Xia De thought this was a good idea:

"Then let Grandma help take a look... If, I mean if these are the crown and scepter from back then, how could they be here?"

This is the most important question, and Xia De and Weige have a common answer:

"The Duke of Astley not only preserved the royal bloodline, but even preserved the royal inheritance, right?"

Weige was very sure that no one in the family knew of the existence of these two items. In fact, there were not many people in the family who knew about this secret room. Perhaps this secret was broken at some point in the inheritance, or perhaps no one knew of the existence of these two items except for the last generation of the Duke.

In short, Weige was not happy because she discovered them; instead, she thought this was a big trouble:

"I don't intend to revive the ancient kingdom. If this thing is in my hands, it will only bring big trouble to the family."

She complained to Xia De:

"The ancestors are really something, leaving such things behind. If there was really ambition, that would be fine, but our family has really done nothing since Delin'aoer was destroyed."

She had no ambition for power, and never thought of becoming a queen herself after reviving Delin'aoer.

"Just treat it as a souvenir left by the ancestors, but no one knows whether it is true or false without identification. I have seen the crown of Dralarion, and it is still very different from this one."

Xia De said, so Weige signaled Xia De to lower his head, and then she put the crown on Xia De's head. She signaled Xia De not to move, and then paced left and right to observe Xia De:

"Really ugly."

"Hmm?"

"No, I don't mean you, I mean this crown is really ugly, I don't want to wear it on my head."

This was not the first time Xia De had worn a crown. He had taken a replica of a king's crown from a gift box, and that thing often became an accessory for Xia De and the girls' nighttime activities. Even Miss Jia Lin Na had worn that crown and played with Xia De.

Weige certainly didn't know these things. She took the scepter and played with it:

"Let Grandma identify it. If it is true, then re-seal it. Or give it to Margaret at a critical moment, and let her compete for the throne based on the merit of finding this, how about that?"

"Then all the great witches in the council will owe you a favor. If a queen appears among the next generation of witch apprentices, your Speaker will wake up laughing in her dreams, right?"

"This scene is hard to imagine; Speaker is a very steady person."

Weige laughed, and then sighed:

"So, where is the clue left by mother?"

The inexplicably appearing crown and scepter seemed to indicate some secrets of the distant past that no one knew, but compared to these boring things, Weige cared more about the whereabouts of her own sister.

The crown and scepter were temporarily put away after Xia De turned them into cards. Then Weige did not introduce the collections here to Xia De again, and the three of them checked all the items here together.

Although they used the primitive method of touching to perceive, there were not many items in the collection room after all, so after being busy for a while, Weige found the suspected target:

"It should be this one."

In the opened rosewood jewelry box, there was a teardrop-shaped ruby the size of a fingernail. The Outsider had been exposed to gemstone appreciation in the Academy's courses and had also learned from the girls around him how to distinguish different gemstones. He could see the value of this ruby:

"It's really beautiful."

"Yes, it also has a nice name—Sera's Heart. Although this gemstone is not large, there is a story behind it related to love, faith, family affection, and hatred."

Weige did not explain the story to Xia De, but held the jewelry box and signaled Xia De to touch it. After Xia De touched it, he did feel a slight trace of elements; that was the trace of alchemy.

Then Weige tried to put the princess's pendant and this ruby together, but nothing happened.

Xia De thought for a while:

"Weige, does the story behind this gemstone involve things related to alchemy? Or, things related to astrology or theurgy?"

When the petite Miss Feilianna evaluated the "Perfect Child" project, she mentioned that the wisdom of the "Emerald Tablet" can be divided into three parts, namely astrology, alchemy, and theurgy. At that time, Xia De speculated that the four bottles of solution divided into four were also related to this.

Weige thought for a while:

"That is actually a love story, probably about a man and a woman from hostile families falling in love, and finally walking towards tragedy under the push of fate. This gemstone is their token of love... I can't think of any connection to what you mentioned for the time being."

"Master, perhaps when we attend the auction tonight, we will be able to get clues."

Miss Luolin expressed her opinion, but Weige shook her head:

"I don't want to wait for mother to give clues before I can figure things out. I don't oppose using the clues given by mother to verify my guesses, but I have to walk the path myself."

She continued to think, and Xia De and Miss Luolin did not disturb her. After a while, Weige sighed:

"Okay, I thought of a possibility. Xia De, since this place was once the capital of Delin'aoer, have you ever thought about where the former royal palace went? The Burgundy family was not a very frugal royal family; they also built palace complexes similar to the Yodel Palace and the Cold Spring Palace." ===== CHAPTER 4192 =====