Chapter 47: Pirate Machado's Travels

  "It's just an ordinary storybook no matter how you look at it!"

  Rosen watched it from beginning to end and didn't find anything unusual.

  It is not surprising when you think about it. If there are any secrets hidden in a storybook that is distributed in large quantities and can be discovered by people at a glance, then the secret in the book will have no value.

  Of course, it is also possible that there is no secret in it, but Rosen's father just likes the story told in the book too much.

  Rosen decided to look at other books in the Howard family collection to see if he could find anything else.

  Of course, Rosen was not idle while reading. As a painter, imagination is crucial. When reading, he would rely on the canvas of his mind to add some illustrations to the content he had read at the conscious level.

  Two days later, Rosen picked up a book that was similar to a genealogy book of the Howard family.

  From the ancestors of the Howard family to the birth of little Rosen, everything is recorded in this book.

  The book contains at least thousands of words of introduction and vivid character portraits of each generation of the Howard family.

  As he was flipping through the pages, Rosen suddenly saw a somewhat unexpected name.

  Lord Howard, the fifth generation of the Howard family, was a man who strangely did not leave his name.

  This person, like Rosen Jr.'s father, is a novelist from the artist branch sequence.

  The only pen name left by this person was none other than the author of the storybook.

  So Rosen's father left the noble coat of arms on the book in memory of his ancestors?

  Rosen thought that he might be overthinking, so he shook his head and continued reading.

  Anyway, reading is very interesting. Drawing illustrations with the help of the Mind Canvas while reading can also improve your own painting skills and imagination.

  So this way of practicing is not bad, it is better than the boring and endless painting at home.

  However, after reading the brief account of the life of the fifth Lord Howard, the doubts that Rosen had originally had in mind rose again.

  Because he discovered that the decline of the Howard family began with this generation.

  Moreover, the fifth Lord Howard is actually a Gundam Sequence 7 novelist.

  Such a high sequence is second only to the first generation. The Howard family should have developed better under the leadership of this person, but the result is that the Howard family has been declining since this generation.

  Rosen continued to read on and found that the sixth Lord Howard often complained about his father in the briefs he wrote.

  Because the fifth Lord Howard was murdered.

  It seemed that he wanted to write a best-selling novel, so he wrote about the secrets of other nobles in the book, which should not be written. As a result, he offended many nobles. Therefore, the sixth Lord Howard always suspected that his father was murdered in revenge.

  Finally, he even followed his father's dying will and erased the name of the fifth Lord Howard.

  "I am now sure that this book contains a secret."

  Rosen picked up the storybook called "The Travels of Pirate Machado" again.

  Machado was born in a small fishing village. When he was very young, the village was looted by pirates and he became an orphan.

  After becoming an orphan, Machado found a way to join a pirate ship and became a reserve pirate doing odd jobs on the ship. He then grew up to become a real pirate and went on an adventure of plundering all over the world with the pirate ship.

  When Machado reached middle age, he had a chance to awaken his spirituality and became a Sequence 9 pirate captain.

  Since he had his own pirate ship, Machado's life began to decline sharply after reaching its peak.

  Because the pirate ship Machado obtained was of very poor quality, his pirate ship was destroyed by a merchant ship during a robbery. He eventually suffered irreparable injuries and returned to the fishing village to die.

  Although the book ends tragically for the protagonist, Machado's pirate experience is very interesting.

  So this book has been published in large quantities, but if there is a secret in it, where is it hidden?

  After reading it, Rosen flipped through Machado's Pirate Travels for the third time, and when he turned to the beginning, he suddenly became thoughtful.

  This book was new, but Rosen's father must have read it many times.

  As a result, there are traces of many times reading inside the book. As a novelist, Rosen's father needed a lot of repeated reading to find the problems. It is conceivable how difficult it is for him, a painter, to discover the secrets hidden in the book.  

  Rosen had no choice but to put the book down and prepare to relax his mind and read other books.

  A few days later, Rosen looked at a book in his hand thoughtfully.

  This is also a storybook, and a tattered one that was published a long time ago.

  The specific year of its publication was when the fifth Lord Howard was alive.

  The book was not written by this person, but he left many strange comments in the book.

  These comments were not good things. The fifth Lord Howard was a very talented and arrogant man.

  In his comments, he severely disparaged the storybook, arguing that a good storybook must not allow people to guess how the story will develop, otherwise the greatest pleasure of the unknown would be lost. He even wrote in his comments how he would hide secrets in the story if he were in his place.

  Rosen took out Pirate Machado's Travels and compared them with the annotations to try to find the secret.

  However, he still couldn't find anything. It seemed that he had no talent for decryption.

  Rosen put the book away for the time being. Although he inherited little Rosen's memory, he was still little Rosen. He had no feelings for little Rosen's parents, and had no urgent desire to know the cause of their death.

  Of course, when he becomes stronger and has more means, he wouldn't mind helping little Rosen fulfill his biggest wish.

  In the following days, Rosen continued to read day and night.

  After finishing reading the books in the study, he also purchased thousands of best-selling books from bookstores.

  Most of them are masterpieces by novelists from various countries, and these biographical books can greatly broaden his horizons.

  So much so that after two months, Rosen's spirituality had unknowingly grown to 10 points through drawing illustrations.

  On this day, Rosen came to the front desk of the Artists Guild, chatted with the receptionist for a while, and then waited for the package to be delivered by the postman. Inside were two extraordinary items he had ordered, including an alchemical tool that could be implanted in the human brain to control their life and death.

  This thing is somewhat inhumane, so it is not sold officially and can only be purchased by a client on the black market.

  Rosen waited for a month before the middleman he entrusted successfully got the goods.

  Rosen returned to the pseudo-spiritual realm with the package and immediately entered Masadora and came to the dungeon of Rose Castle.

  Two unlucky players, Nurdin and Hubert, have been imprisoned in the dungeon by him for several months.

  Over the past few months, these two former fugitives and pursuers have gotten along better and better because of their mutual sympathy. When they saw Rosen, who had not been seen for a long time, coming outside the dungeon, they were both nervous and at a loss.

  Rosen took out a syringe and a mirror and inserted them into the dungeon through the palm-sized window.

  "Inject this into the carotid artery in the neck."

  Rosen said without question.

  "Can I not have the injection?"

  Noureddin said in a trembling voice.

  Rosen inserted the muzzle of the God-killing Crossbow into the window and aimed it at Nurdin.

  Under the threat of death, Noordin took the syringe and carefully aimed it at his carotid artery in the mirror.

  Phew!

  With the push of the injection gun, a needle-tip-sized alchemical chip flows through the blood to the brain.

  Soon after, Hubert was also injected with the alchemical chip.

  Only then did Rosen feel at ease to open the cell and release Nurdin and Hubert to see the light of day again.

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