Chapter 303

Chapter 303 Deciphers Ancient Magic Language

"How is it? Do you think you can read it?"

"This is a language I'm not familiar with either . . . It's probably not a code but an unknown language . "

I replied so to Grevil .

As someone who lived a long life in the past, I could speak all known 325 languages back then .

Yet the one in this documents is unlike any of those 325 .

However . . . this doesn't appear to be a code .

Similar words are getting repeated all over these documents .

That's a characteristic of a normal language .

Words may also get repeated in a very low level code, but those demons would never use something so low leveled . Probably .

Well to me there's not much difference between an unknown language and a low level code .

Since both can be deciphered with magic .

"For now, let's decipher it . "

I hang my hand over the documents .

"Could it be, Code Decipherer magic . . . ? Can you use that with your mana?"

"Yea . The simple version that is . "

Grevil's surprise is likely caused by his perceptions of the proper powerful decipherer magic .

I can't use that one with my mana indeed .

But . . . If the target is not a code, but merely an unknown language, then a simpler magic can be used to decipher it .

"Well, let's give it a try . "

I cast the decipherer magic .

It's far more complex than the magic usually deployed in battle . . But the me now can use this magic without problem .

"Now then, which one is it similar with . . . "

You don't simply fully comprehend a code just by casting this magic .

It's a magic that compare and calculate the extracted syntax and common feature of a code with existing languages the user knows .

Since I know 325 languages, I've got a lot of data point to compare .

Then . . . It got a hit on a similar language .

" . . . A type of 『Sand Graph』 huh . "

『『Sand Graph』 you say . . . Isn't that the language used by sand demons? . . . I believe that didn't have a letter system though . 』

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Hearing my murmur, Grevil spoke to me through comm magic .

As Grevil said, the language that's most similar to the one used in these documents was a language used by sand demons .

However, letters do not exist in that language, [Sand Graph] .

. . . No, to be more precise, letters for it did not exist then .

Since these documents are clearly written in the lettered form of [Sand Graph] pronunciations .

Characteristics of the grammar and syntax are exactly the same .

Which means . . .

『They must have developed letters after we died . I have no idea why present demons are using this language, but there's no doubt it's a major language among them . 』

『I see . . . But Sand Language huh . That's such a minor language . Even I only knew of its existence . 』

『Yeah . I'm surprised the language of those nearly extinct demons could survive to this day . 』

There were several major demon languages back then .

But I never catch even a glimpse of any of those after reincarnating .

[Sand Graph] is probably the only surviving language for some reason .

I continue the deciphering .

Since there were several slight changes and new words added compared to the past [Sound Graph], I couldn't manage to decipher everything . . . But it's still quite a lot .

If the one in my past era is [Ancient Sand Graph] then the present one should be called [Modern Sand Graph] .

"Done reading most of it . "

Afterward, I transcribe what I've read to the paper we have at hand .

I left the unreadable part as pronunciations written in Common Continental language .

Since this language is a phonetic language, I can make out the pronunciations even if I don't know its meaning .

"You read them, in that time frame!?"

"It's an unknown language you know!? . . . Is that decipherer magic really that amazing!?"

Ruli and Alma sounded surprised to hear me .

. . . Oh right, code decipherer magic through chant magic exists in this world for once .

It's a defective magic that can only be used to solve extremely simple letter-shifting codes and takes super long to cast .

Please don't compare that to a real magic .

"The magic looks for similar points and compares it to existing knowledge . . . Since this language is similar to an ancient demon language I know, reading it was a breeze . "

"""""Ancient demon language!?"""""

"Why would you even know that sorta stuff!?"

Ruli and Alma . . . Not only them, Second Academy teachers who were present also jumped up .

"Y-you know how to read ancient demon languages!?"

"Please, share your knowledge with us!"

Second Academy teachers pressed me for more .

. . . Oh yeah, I didn't write a textbook for language study .

All the necessary content for magic teachings I wrote in the textbook is in Common Continental language . . . but if the teachers need it, I can also make them a linguistics textbook .