<h4>Chapter 642: Source Tome, Remnant Tome, And Grinzuha</h4>


    —To create my very own false tome.


    Annan was indeed moved.


    Aftering to this world for so long, Annan had been going through books written by others. He did gain a lot of mystical knowledge from them. In the process, he acquired important inspiration from the books and was sometimes deceived because of them.


    That excluded Annan’s experience in his first ythrough.


    Even the knowledge that Annan had reacquired now carried a certain degree of “weight”. Some knowledge was “source” knowledge Annan had fully grasped and could be written down.


    Of course, the majority of Annan’s knowledge was one-timed used, which was used to create shortcuts. The knowledge in this category could only be recorded in books, bing a “false tome” when Annan’s soul was dyed.


    The source and remnant tome had mystical powers. As one delved into the pages, influence would spawn. Some might endanger the reader’s well-being. If the reader could read andprehend it, they would attain a piece of knowledge that could only be used once.


    The system resembled downloading a shortcut file that essed the content. However, the knowledge remained in the book.


    This logic also made up the principle of the [Page Lock] spell.


    The primary way to distinguish between a remnant tome and a source tome was by examining their titles.


    For example, “The Birth and Initial Cirction of Silver Coins” was a source tome. “The Enigma of Fate and Dice: A Discourse” and “The Eighth Analects On the Sunray” were remnant tomes. Generally speaking, unless it were a wicked person surnamed Austere-Winter when writing remnant tome, everyone would not make the book title too plete”, so as not to mislead people.


    Usually, they were the discourse on details or knowledge that wasn’t quiteprehensive.


    Anyone who could craft a source tome would refrain from resorting to a remnant tome.


    Usually, it was the failed ritualists who created the remnant tome solely to provide a “data backup” after failing to develop the source tome. It was filled with encryptednguage that only they could understand… much like the handwriting that rivaled a pharmacist’s lecture notes.


    The difference between the source tome and the remnant tome was that the knowledge obtained from the remnant tome would consume more time and energy when trying toplete this knowledge.


    After all, when there were conflicting records between the two books, one had to seek deeper ounts to determine who was correct.


    The learning process of ritualists involved reading various books, summoning ancient beings through rituals, exchanging offerings, and seeking secrets. Through this process, they gradually supplemented imperfect, one-sided, extreme, and false knowledge.


    When knowledge waspleted, the “source tome” about this ult knowledge could be made.


    Remnant tome was the game guides that “the creator didn’t understand much, but he still wrote it out”.


    There were naturally many problems and many omissions. However, there was no guide avable. Having them was better than nothing. However, to master the knowledge, learning from remnant tome was never enough.


    The reader simply wouldn’t know which part was urate and which part was wrong. It created more hassle than having zero knowledge in a nk te.


    Only the transcender with a dyed could create a remnant tome by imprinting the knowledge on the pages with their soul. Even though the pre-requisite was Gold Rank, its price was much cheaper than the original. Copying this book did not require a Gold Rank, nor did it require real knowledge.


    The reader only had to read once, and he could copy them like copying homework.


    To replicate a source tome, one mustpletely understand its content. The thoughts and insights must align with those of the author, reaching the same level ofprehension.


    Otherwise, the reader would be hurt by the knowledge.


    The mild symptom would be excessive fatigue and mental exhaustion. If the person insisted on copying the source tome, he would go crazy. Whatever was copiedter on was false knowledge.


    In the beginning, neither Annan nor the yers werefortable with this strange logic. Why could knowledge not be replicated?


    Later, Annan gradually understood.


    In this world, the “secret” was protected. There was no need to go through any intellectual propertywsuit or worry about others stealing the technology. As long as the creator deemed it should remain a secret, the Mysterious Lady would safeguard it. It would not be easily replicated.


    That was why the Soul Snatch Wizard could see the memories in other people’s brains but couldn’t “project” them to others to prove what they saw.


    The knowledge was considered a “true secret” in a verdict.


    The knowledge epassed what he saw and heard.


    What he had expressed in hisnguage was no longer considered a secret. The ability ofnguage to describe and summarize was imperfect—this wasmon knowledge among ritualists.


    So when using different types of rituals and styles of mystical knowledge, they would employ othernguages.


    For example, discussing secrets about elves would require using the Elvennguage – otherwise, many things simply couldn’t be tranted. Whether it was transliteration or interpretation, there would have been misunderstandings.


    Just like when poetry was tranted acrossnguages and cultural boundaries, the rhythm was often lost. During trantion, references the trantor didn’t understand naturally weren’t tranted ording to the intended meaning but rather the surface meaning. This applied to idioms and colloquial expressions as well.


    So there would also be some remnant tome “with personal interpretation”. It was like the game of word passing, where the oue always resulted in apletely different meaning. “The remnant tome of a remnant tome” existed, but the uracy would be terrible.


    In this world, ult knowledge required concise uracy.


    It would havepletely lost its power if the information had been lost too severely during trantion. This was also a core principle in the creation theory of many false tomes.


    Annan didn’t quite understand why someone would create a false tome.


    However, Annan gave it some thought. Even gossip between individuals was passed around. As for the secrets of deities or ancient kings, it was like “celebrity gossip level” or even higher in terms of mysterious knowledge. It didn’t seem strange to treat them as stories when telling them.


    Of course, celebrities who had gossip written about them wouldn’te after anyone. However, deities with erroneous knowledge written about them woulde after people.


    The Bloodhand Brothers in the underground world were probably killed because of this.


    “Then, I should be able to create at least one source tome.” Annan murmured.


    Annan had fully grasped the secret of the “grail”. However, to turn it into a source tome, he must use the “deadnguage”, which was anguage that anyone no longer spoke.


    This required Annan to first conduct a ritual to the Mysterious Lady and learn a deadnguage. Only then could he record the secret about the grail.


    As for the rest, Annan didn’t have a Gold Rank yet. He could not create a remnant tome. Thus, his only option left was a false tome.


    There were generally three types of false tome. Either they concealed the mystical knowledge within fables, fairy tales, scripts, or novels, hid it within specialized knowledge, or werepletely nonsensical and baseless.


    The novel “Red Rose and White Rose” recorded that Rotten Man poisoned the queen’s mother and seized power from the king. It was just that Rotten Man’s real name was not mentioned, but another word was used to refer to him.


    In the aesthetics study of sculpture [The Beauty of Solidification], a few remarks about the deities themselves were subtly inserted by evaluating numerous deity statues. It seemingly discussed the sculptures, but the book was referring to the deities.


    A ssic example of the third example was Grinznuha Austere-Winter’s “masterpiece”, Dangerous Faith and Deities.


    Speaking of which, it had been quite a while since Annan returned to Austere-Winter, and he still hadn’t asked Ivan about this person.


    Logically speaking, to be expelled from the Austere-Winter family with their name removed, the sin was quite severe.


    Thinking of this, Annan suddenly remembered something.


    “Austere-Winter bloodline…” Annan murmured.


    If Grinznuha Austere-Winter did not die alone but gave birth to a child with the “Winter Heart” curse?


    Does that mean…


    Annan narrowed his eyes slightly.


    It was quite possible.


    But no matter what… After Annan wrote the false tome, he had to go to the north.


    Before that, let’s give Lin Yi and the others a main quest to search for trading records. After all, the Bloodhand Brothers are out of the picture. They probably didn’t destroy all the evidence before leaving, so there’s a chance they might find intact records of their transactions with the Northern Alliance.


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