Chapter 869: 532: Matteus's Treasure

Chapter 869: Chapter 532: Matteus’s Treasure

Lis thought for a moment, then got up and left the camp, heading to a tall sand dune in the distance.

Here, the members of the caravan couldn’t see what was happening with Lis anymore.

Lis caressed the brass ring on his hand, and in an instant, his figure disappeared from where he stood.

A familiar dizziness struck him, as if he had experienced a teleportation, and Lis appeared in the room he had been observing earlier.

“I really didn’t expect Matt to be able to fix such a space within a ring; it’s truly magical.”

“Is this the ability of a master craftsman?”

Lis felt a bit sentimental as he walked into this dwarven study, immediately sensing a unique atmosphere.

The room’s layout was compact and practical, with every detail reflecting considerations for the dwarves’ stature.

The height of the desk and bookshelves was noticeably lower than standard size, allowing dwarves to easily access books and work comfortably at the desk.

However, for the tall Lis, it appeared somewhat cramped as he had to bend slightly to comfortably browse the books on the shelves or write at the desk.

The furniture in the study was made quite solidly, using hard and wear-resistant wood, evidently chosen to withstand the dwarves’ great strength.

Each piece of furniture emitted a steady and solid aura; even the heaviest piles of books didn’t cause any swaying, clearly showing Matt’s diligent effort here.

Lis walked up to the desk, studied it for a moment, and then reached over.

Unlike the casually placed, somewhat messy books and drawings around it, this brownish-yellow scroll was neatly placed at the center of the desk.

In fact, the desk had been cleared of clutter specifically to place this scroll there, making it the most conspicuous item.

Was Matt deliberately placing the scroll here?

Was it left for future generations?

Lis didn’t sense any extraordinary power from this scroll.

However, he still remained cautious, ready to exit the space at any moment.

After all, it was left by the top legend Matt, so it didn’t hurt to be careful.

Nothing happened when Lis’s hand grasped the scroll.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief and picked up the scroll from the desk.

Feeling the rough texture in his hand, Lis unrolled the scroll.

What appeared before Lis was a parchment filled with dwarven square characters.

[Welcome to my workshop, successor!

I am Matthias Ironhammer, perhaps you have not heard my name, but to get this ring’s approval, you must have considerable talent in casting!

Owning this ring means gaining my legacy…]

Lis carefully examined the records on the scroll.

The contents recorded Matthias’s advice to future generations.

However, perhaps because he assumed the ring’s holder was a dwarf, many of the advices were about the Dwarf Kingdom.

These, however, held little significance for Lis.

Most of Matthias’s messages were about reminiscing and longing for past life, with no special requirements for the ring holder.

So apart from learning some gossip about the Dwarf Kingdom, these records held no great value.

However, some notes at the end of the scroll did pique Lis’s interest.

First was the cause of Matthias’s death.

In Lis’s past experience in the Dwarf Kingdom, there was no mention of the cause of this dwarven master craftsman’s death.

Some speculated Matthias had entered the Divine Country of the dwarven gods after his lifespan ended.

However, this wasn’t particularly noteworthy, as many legends disappeared quietly this way.

Today, Lis had found the answer.

Matthias died not from old age, but from failing the path to divinity.

Though he had time to leave a last message, his soul crumbled, leaving him no chance to enter the Divine Country.

Even as one of the leaders of the Dwarf Kingdom, a peak legend, and the divine son of the god Sarmekhal, Matthias couldn’t reach the end of the path to divinity or successfully ignite the divine fire and ascend to the Divine Country.

It’s imaginable how difficult the path to divinity is!

In this scroll, Matthias did not detail his journey on the path to divinity but provided several pieces of advice for successors.

First, e thoroughly and cautiously choose the divine domain!

Each divine domain corresponds to a world rule in Gaia, representing different directions of power.

Divine positions vary in strength, depending on each individual, but stronger doesn’t always mean better.

Because this might bring you great trouble.

After all, countless years in Gaia have produced many deities.

Most domains are already controlled by some deity.

Perhaps out of personal resentment, Matthias’s records on this aspect were pretty detailed; his knowledge about divine domains should come from the Dwarven gods, hence highly reliable.

Divine domains correspond to different world rules in Gaia and can be jointly controlled by multiple deities.

But there are exceptions.

If a deity fully comprehends and masters the world rules of a divine domain, then unless they are willing, no one else can touch that domain.