The weapons I forge are absolutely flawless.

"It's a notebook left behind by the Hero!"

A hint of surprise flashed in Lisette's eyes. She strode toward the wooden table, her attention completely absorbed by the notes, unaware that she had already crossed a shallow horizontal line.

"Well!"

A heavy pressure suddenly enveloped her.

This feeling was all too familiar to Lisette; she had spent a year cultivating in a similar environment.

As she stepped back, the pressure on her body immediately receded like a receding tide.

"What's wrong?" Vena noticed Lisette's unusual behavior.

"This place is somewhat similar to the House of Time."

Listy shook her head, deciding not to risk going any further, and instead used her mage's hand to retrieve the notes from the table.

The sudden shift in the flow of time at the moment the boundary line was crossed nearly caused the mage's hand to collapse. Fortunately, Lisette's control over magic was so exquisite that she was able to retrieve the notebook.

"There is about a five-fold difference in flow rate."

Based on the surge in magic energy consumption, Lisette roughly estimated.

"Arios is indeed not that simple."

After all, it was a small house built by the former hero himself. It would be abnormal if it didn't have anything special about it.

Upon this discovery, Wiener quickly noticed the shallow lines on the floor.

"The location of this line..."

Wiener glanced at the view outside the window, suddenly thought of something, and then left the cabin to verify it.

After he circled around to the side of the giant tree and looked again at the protruding part of the wooden house, he finally understood the meaning of the horizontal line.

"Okay, okay, you play like this too, right?" Vena suddenly felt relieved.

He discovered that the layout of this wooden house was similar to that of the blacksmith shop from back then, with one half of it starting to be built inside the village and the other half outside the village after it was completed.

That line was exactly the original dividing line of Lumiel Village.

It's hard to say who borrowed from whom.

When Venus returned to the cabin, Lisette had already begun analyzing the notes she had just acquired.

Seeing her serious expression, Venere asked, "Is there a problem?"

“This is clearly a diary entry in chronological order, but I can’t decipher the meaning of these numbers.” Listy stepped aside so that Venus could also see the contents of the notebook. “This must be an important clue left to us by the Hero.”

"...Is it possible that this is just a simple number?" Wiener opened his mouth, unable to hold back his question.

"Impossible! This is something the hero left behind on purpose, how could it be so simple! I must be doing something wrong with my analysis."

Lisette turned her head away and buried it back in, clearly determined to get back to the notebook.

Wiener wanted to ask, "Who keeps a diary, even a decent person?" but he swallowed the question back down his throat.

Since Lisette is interested, let her go.

Regardless of whether Arios understands cryptography or not, what he just saw was more like bookkeeping than a diary.

Viner shook his head and decided to take advantage of Lisette's distraction to search the cabin again to see if there were any clues he had missed.

As it turned out, he actually found something.

“This bed seems to have been moved around a lot,” Wiener muttered to himself.

He crouched down and carefully examined the contact point between the bed legs and the ground, and sure enough, he found some subtle marks.

Since there was suspicion, Wiener used both hands to pull the entire bed out.

As the crib rolled over, it seemed as if something had fallen to the ground.

Wiener quickly looked down and saw a small stone knife lying there quietly.

He picked up the knife and looked under the bed again, discovering many tally marks in the area that had been hidden by the bed.

Wiener quickly counted them.

There are a total of twenty-three "正" characters.

Chapter 461 Hero's Notes

"Listy, come here for a second."

Wiener immediately wanted to share his discovery.

Lisette didn't look up, seemingly still struggling with the notebook Arios had left behind. "Wait a minute, I'll be able to decipher this notebook in a minute!"

“What I mean is you don’t need to guess anymore, Arios has written the answer right here,” Viner reiterated.

Upon hearing this, Lisette stopped abruptly. She looked up, a hint of surprise and urgency flashing in her eyes. "Where?"

“Here,” Viner repeated, pointing under the bed, “and bring that notebook with you as well.”

Lisette quickly moved closer to Vina, and judging from her decisiveness, the so-called "immediately" probably meant that it hadn't even started yet.

"Is this what you found?" Lisette looked at the scratches, her doubts deepening.

The numerical puzzles alone had already racked her brains, and now with another encrypted pattern added, she wasn't sure whether to be happy or worried.

Didn't you say you had the answer?

Lisette looked at Vina, wanting an explanation.

"Isn't this right here?"

Wiener spread his hands, showing the stone knife he had found, and then casually slid it to his left hand.

He used the knife as a pen, gently tracing the marks along the lines.

"On April 13th, 1174 of the Goddess Calendar, 137 gnolls and 7 gnoll lords were defeated."

"On April 14th, sixty-four goblin bears and eight goblin chieftains were defeated..."

"...On May 26, thirty-one Owl Bears were defeated; on the 27th, eighteen Lizardman Shamans and one Lizard Queen were defeated."

“So this notebook is actually a record of Arios’s campaign.” Vena turned to look at Listy. “Should I continue reading?”

Seeing that Gondorav had already entered the active state, Lisette understood that what Vener said was not unfounded.

She quickly flipped through her notes and found that many of the numbers matched what Wiener had said.

“There are still some discrepancies... Why would the hero use one number to represent several magical beasts?” Lisette still had doubts.

As if he had anticipated her reaction, Vener explained, "Because he was too lazy to record them by type of magical beast, so he used something called experience points instead."

"Monsters with the same experience will be grouped together for calculation."

This notebook is just Arios's draft.

It is a formula he uses to calculate how to maximize efficiency based on the number of monsters killed and the experience gained each day.

In Arios's eyes, these monsters were nothing more than experience data, and there was no need to remember their names.

"So how did the hero manage to defeat so many monsters...?"

The fact that Lisette asked this question indicates that she has largely believed what Vina said.

But Lumiel Village isn't some kind of demon cave, so how come there are so many monsters here?

Furthermore, the daily number of raids seems excessive for a solo player.

“Do you remember what you said about the different flow of time?” Venere tapped the carving with his stone knife, reminding him, “That’s why he needed to use markings to remind himself how much time had passed.”

"These 115 marks, when converted into the actual number of days Arios spent, amount to nearly two years."

Now it all made sense.

Why was it that Arios's weapons always broke faster than others' back then?

Because his usage frequency was different from others from the very beginning.

Unfortunately, Venus's blacksmith shop had been demolished, otherwise he would have planned to revisit the place to see if this phenomenon was just a special case of Arios.

Seeing Listy deep in thought, Vena felt a surge of mischievous urge. "I heard that Miss Listy has also finished analyzing this Hero's Notebook. Could you share your insights and see if they match my analysis?"

Upon hearing what Wiener said, Listy suddenly recalled some of her over-interpretations when analyzing the notes, and her cheeks flushed. She quickly hid the notes behind her back. "Well, it's pretty much accurate. You've basically said everything I could say."

"Hehe, then I will definitely give Miss Lisette the opportunity next time."

Wiener chuckled and used the stone knife to examine the last "正" character, his expression suddenly becoming serious.

"What's wrong?" Lisette noticed the change in Vina.

“It’s nothing,” Vena took a deep breath, “It’s just that Arios couldn’t improve any further in the end, so he left Rumiel Village.”

"As expected of the Hero," Risty said admiringly, "never letting your guard down for a moment."

"Hmm, I hope so." Viner stared blankly at the engravings in front of her.

His original intention was to see what kind of magical beast Arios would face in the end, but instead he saw a series of bright red names.

How could he possibly say that to Lisette?

What exactly did you do, Arios?

Wiener clenched his fists involuntarily.

“Alright,” Lisette broke the silence, “Since the hero hasn’t stopped, we can’t stand still like this.”

She carefully kept the notebook close to her body as a keepsake.

Then, he took out a bunch of chrysanthemums that he had prepared in advance from the "secret box" and respectfully placed them on the wooden stake.

The delicate fragrance of chrysanthemums filled the room, mingling with the original fresh scent of the wood to create a unique aroma.

Lisette stood before the wooden stake and bowed deeply, as if bidding farewell to something.

“It’s time to head to the workshop. Felix is ​​probably getting impatient,” Listy suggested.

Viner was wondering how to bring it up, but when Lisette took the initiative, he readily agreed.

The two put the bed back in its original position and prepared to leave.

Before leaving, Lisette couldn't help but turn back and glance at the bunch of yellow chrysanthemums lying quietly on the wooden stake.

"Is this wooden house really necessary to be demolished?"

"Yes, it has already completed its historical mission. If it were left behind, it might pose a danger if ordinary villagers accidentally wandered in."

Vena gently pressed on Listy's shoulder to comfort her.

"Oh well."

Lisette lowered her eyes, seemingly reluctant to let yet another trace left by a hero be erased.

Having trained in the House of Time, she was acutely aware of the strangeness and danger of time distortion.

Let alone ordinary people who haven't awakened their runes, even low-level rune users who rashly step into this space-time continuum may not be able to escape and will be forever lost in the chaotic space-time continuum.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be considered a forbidden area within the Silver Wolf Class.

With a creak, the wooden door closed, and the cabin fell silent once more.

Shortly after the two left, the bunch of chrysanthemums suddenly began to decay and wither rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The petals fell off one by one, eventually turning into a pile of withered, yellow remains.

Chapter 462 Felix Appraises the Sword

Lisette probably didn't expect that Felix wasn't impatient at all; on the contrary, he seemed quite happy about it.

For someone who is already interested in weapons, browsing the blacksmith's workshop is just as enjoyable as browsing a store; they never get tired of it.

Moreover, this is not Snowdrift Valley, where most apprentice craftsmen start by learning sword making.

"Could you please take a look and see if there's anything wrong with my sword?"

"The materials contained too many impurities, and they weren't properly processed. They only started thinking about purification when the product was almost ready to be produced—too late!"