Foreign Land Reclamation By a Vegetable-growing Skeleton-Chapter 1662 - 1223: Don’t hit, it hurts, I’m getting up

The silver coin also projected through Ange’s Soul Network onto Anthony, who glanced at it and said, "This is a wax seal."

"Wax seal? What do you mean? The kind of wax seal used to seal secret letters?" Negris was momentarily confused. What does this have to do with the kind of wax seal used on secret letters?

"Similar to a wax seal, you need wax and a stamp to form a complete wax seal. Although this isn’t wax, it’s still printed. It needs to be combined with a stamp to reveal the complete imprint, mainly for anti-counterfeiting. There’s something similar in function to it, and that’s the ancient military token." the silver coin explained.

"Oh, anti-counterfeiting, combination." With this explanation, Anthony immediately understood, "Combination encrypted imprint, got it. There are two of them, and only when they are together can the real imprint be formed. Right now, there is only half."

"Oh, a combination imprint is just a combination imprint. What wax seal? I almost didn’t understand." Negris said irritably.

The silver coin explained, "Because this imprint is pressed out; it’s unique and can only fit with the stamp that pressed it. So it’s more similar to a wax seal."

Anthony nodded, "If that’s the case, then all the patterns need to match."

Combination encrypted imprints like military tokens sometimes match one to two or several with several. As long as they fit, it’s fine. But if it’s like the wax seal type that is pressed out, the wax seal and stamp must match even the patterns.

Just like a person’s fingerprint is unique, each ’stamp’s’ pattern is also unique. Meaning only the corresponding stamp can complete this wax seal.

Even the Freckle Removal Technique can’t crack it, because it’s not about removing the imprint, but completing the imprint.

"So troublesome, you managed to unfold it but then have to encrypt the wax seal. Still, I find this emblem somewhat familiar, don’t you think?" Negris asked.

The silver coin examined it for a while and said, "Hearing you say that, I also feel it. If both of us feel familiar, then we must have seen it. The emblems we’ve seen in this world are those of the Merchant Federation, the Association of Sages, and...the Friel Empire?"

While the silver coin spoke, he flipped through the mentioned organizations’ emblems, and upon reaching the Friel Empire’s, both the silver coin and Negris said simultaneously, "That’s it."

The missing part of this emblem exactly overlaps with the missing part of the emblem of the Friel Empire’s royal insignia, meaning the Friel Empire’s royal emblem can combine with this emblem.

Once the two emblems are combined, their relationship is evident at a glance. However, viewed separately, it’s hard to see similarities.

If not for Negris’s excellent memory quickly piecing together the missing parts to recreate the other side’s pattern and then feeling familiar, others might easily overlook it.

"So now we have to ask the Friel Queen for the other half? What excuse do we use?" Negris asked, troubled.

The Friel Queen might not even know of its existence. If they suddenly ask, can they even get that unique ’stamp’? If the Friel Queen asks why they want it, how should they answer?

"The excuse isn’t difficult, perhaps give up some benefits. If this is something left by the Friel Queen’s ancestor and we found it for her, how should she thank us?" Anthony asked.

Negris hesitantly said, "Give you a title?"

"...Then he’ll get a magic imprint." Anthony said irritably.

"What to do? Can’t exactly marry you and make you a prince, right? Prince Anthony?" Negris remarked.

"Can you stop being so unserious? You’re an old dragon, thousands of years old, still so unserious." Anthony said irritably.

The silver coin added, "We first need to figure out what this thing is. If there’s really only one ’stamp’ to unlock its secret, she’d possess the core element. No matter what, anything the Star Progeny Master treasures as a hidden artifact must be significant."

Negris said nothing more, instead changing the topic: "I suddenly realize that both you and the silver coin have a certain trait. For something that appears valuable, my first response is to monopolize it and hide it, telling no one. But your first response is to seek collaboration. Could this trait be why you become Godmen and merchants?"

Anthony replied confusedly, "Why suddenly say this?"

"Just a bit emotional. No matter what you two do, you succeed tremendously. Surely there’s something special within you. This trait might be one of them" Negris pondered.

"Uh, you’re a dragon; collecting treasures is instinctive, completely normal. Speaking of success, you’re very successful too. You’re the most trusted translator of the Lord, you’re the true God’s Spokesperson. As for us, we’re merely pragmatists." Anthony comforted.

One has to say, Anthony was indeed good at comforting people, improving Negris’s mood significantly, mainly because he noticed his thinking was quite different from theirs.

Discovering this object likely belonged to the Friel family, his first thought was to hide it, while Anthony and the silver coin’s first thought was to collaborate, making him feel somewhat out of place. Could this be why the two succeed in everything they do?

"Hiding has no meaning. If hidden, it’s a dead object, and we’ll never understand its secret. The Star Progeny Master chose to hide it, treating it as a storage space with compression capability, unable even to unfold it. He thus never discovered its connection to the Friel family."

"Now we’ve unfolded it; it became a ’core’, but we still don’t know its purpose. If its value isn’t unearthed, maybe it will only serve as storage or a book tower for you."

"If its function can’t be excavated, it’s a dead object. If its function is discovered, even if sharing half with the Friel Queen, we’d still have the other half. Now we need to know what conditions the Friel Queen would accept. If she says it’s ancestral and won’t share at all, let it rot."

It made sense; it must be this way. As for distribution, that’s Anthony’s and the silver coin’s domain; they’re professionals at negotiations.

Negris was about to say something when Ange and the Little Sapling suddenly started stomping the ground.

Upon entering, the Little Sapling stared blankly at the imprint on the ground, Ange too crouched down to stare at the imprint blankly. Initially, he thought they were just examining the imprints, but suddenly they started stomping.

Especially the Little Sapling, its one foot transformed into roots, anchoring into the raised part of the imprint, tightly gripping it. The other foot stomped forcefully, appearing as fierce as someone grabbing another by the collar and slapping them, extremely aggressive.

Such fierceness from the Little Sapling was rare. On the contrary, Ange seemed more like he was backing up the Little Sapling: when the Little Sapling stomped its foot, he followed suit.

After a few stomps, a pained voice finally cried out, "Stop hitting, it hurts, I’ll come out."

The ground’s imprint gradually glowed.

Witnessing this, Negris weakly said, "Well... it seems we don’t have to find the Friel Queen anymore."

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