I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

"You decrypted it so quickly?" Lu Yuan was pleasantly surprised.

Since when have humans been so badass?

In recent days, humans and the Rize people had developed a further cooperative relationship.

A total of two hundred "Divine Skill" holders researched and exchanged information with each other.

It was literally round-the-clock, 24-hour intense work sessions that quickly decrypted the information in that piece of golden foil!

"We didn’t expect it to be so soon, but now that I think about it, it actually has a lot to do with the past research of the Rize Civilization. They contributed a lot."

The Rize people hadn’t been idle over the past few thousand years; with so many spaceship wrecks possessing engravings, they had been tinkering for a long time, and many things were just a final push away.

With the knowledge from this golden foil, coupled with the strategic mutual trust brought by Lu Yuan, they were willing to bring out their past research foundations — well, if it weren’t for Lu Yuan’s involvement, they’d still be hiding it, unwilling to share.

Now that Lu Yuan had helped them substantially, these lizard men naturally returned the favor, sharing this knowledge with human civilization.

As a result, progress leapfrogged by leaps and bounds!

Many things felt like piercing through a sheet of window paper; they were translated in just a few short days.

"These simplest engravings are like a breakthrough, bringing us a lot of inspiration, truly a whole new world," said Professor Zhang Hui, his face glowing with excitement during a video call.

"With this breakthrough, we can pry open even more knowledge!"

"We’ll send over this preliminary course to you, let the Rize people help print it out, you can study it while you’re bored on the road."

Don’t I have the "Rune Insight Talent"? Isn’t this easy peasy for me?

Lu Yuan glanced at it confidently, but suddenly his heart sank, and he felt terrible.

This course manual had over four hundred pages—it was a thick stack like a dictionary!

And the first few pages... weren’t these just math?

From mathematical analysis, advanced algebra, to ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations!

Lu Yuan’s head ached.

They say math is the universal language, but Ah-Lu’s college entrance exam scores weren’t great...

"The math involved actually isn’t difficult, at most it’s just master’s degree level," Zhang Hui said with a smile, "The harder part is memorizing and understanding the engravings."

"We’ve found that people without Talent tend to forget as soon as they look away, which is quite troublesome."

Lu Yuan nodded expressionlessly, pretending to be a sage.

Well, actually, the "Mirror" Demon had also mentioned similar knowledge.

It would need at least 12 Points of God or the respective Talent to research engravings.

Zhang Hui added, "Didn’t you send us that… the Daedalus Forging Manual before? The first few pages recorded some text information, we translated it simply using the Divine Skill ’Language Translation.’"

"But this manual, the content later on is a bit difficult, we haven’t fully translated the details yet."

"Language Translation, there’s also this Divine Skill..."

Lu Yuan muttered to himself.

He read the report sent by the humans.

[Daedalus’s Forging Manual.]

[Engraving, the Supreme Ultimate Skill of Pangu Continent! Cunningly borrows heavenly skills, for roots to grow elegantly ancient; long grinding human intelligence, not preventing pen and knife from nourishing rarities.]

[Everything I’ve learned in my lifetime is in this book.]

"This translation… quite elegant and accurate." n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

Daedalus meant that "Engraving," this technology, was actually a monopolized Ideal Technology on the Pangu Continent.

Only those with Talent could learn it.

Those without Talent could study it their entire lives and only learn a bit of rigid basics.

A major reason: they can’t remember, they forget as soon as they look!

Just like math problems, memorize and learn by rote that 1+1=2, ask them what 100+100 equals, and they can’t answer, truly frustrating for the teacher.

In this field, Talent is really too important.

Even learning Talent is divided into several levels.

The lowest level is 12 Points of God, barely able to forcibly learn the most basic engraving, "1+1 equals 2."

The higher the Divine Attribute, the more one can learn.

A level higher is "Rune Reading Talent," with this Innate Ability, at least they won’t forget everything they read. Discover exclusive content at empire

No need for 12 Points of God to learn, but of course, the higher the God, the better the effect.

In a civilization, about five people have this kind of Talent.

This number is quite decent, not too few.

Moreover, research Talents like "Whisperer," "Thinker," "Super-thinker," "Spiritual Reader" also recognize engravings, considered the lowest level of research Talent.

Medium level is "Rune Observation Talent," able to observe natural phenomena and extrapolate.

Daedalus himself had this Talent.

One to two people per hundred civilizations!

The highest is "Rune Insight Talent," which Lu Yuan had attained.

One in a hundred thousand civilizations might appear!

Daedalus had always wanted to take a highest-level talented disciple to pass on his skills.

It’s just unfortunate, he traveled north and south for many years and ultimately never met one.

"This way, God is really quite good to me..." Lu Yuan was both shocked and delighted, having understood the rare level of his ability.

But soon, he became distressed again, "But no matter how high the Talent, I still need to learn the basics, and learning math gives me a headache!"

Old Cat, seeing Lu Yuan’s scratching and touching his head, seemed to guess what was going on, promptly leaped onto his head with a triumphant look... I, an AI robot, still know this math, if you ask me, I’ll teach you.