Chapter 341: Speculation
What Rowling said made Rod not know how to answer for a while.
For the stories in the Psalms, Rhodes has a completely different focus than Rowling's. What Rhodes cares about is not only the traces of Sasha's existence, but also the authenticity of the story itself.
At first, Rhodes did not associate the Psalms with Sasha's body, but what Rhodes was concerned about the hints that might appear in the Psalms about the treasures of the Silva family.
In addition to combination artifacts, some treasures will also have special effects after they are collected. Similar to the one that Rhodes had obtained from the Centaur Leader, the Silva Clan's treasures had this effect.
When Rhodes came to the area where the centaur leader was, he searched for the treasures of the Silva clan, but found nothing, and Rod had no choice but to give up.
Rhodes' initial idea was that the Psalms might be related to these treasures, and perhaps there was some connection between the two that would allow them to perceive each other.
However, when the development of the story in the psalms was beyond Rhode's expectations, especially after Rhodes confirmed the existence of Sasha from the psalms, Rhodes's focus was no longer on those treasures, but on the sorcerer Sasha.
As for the story itself, which is what Rowling cares about the most, the love affair between the two Eri creatures, Rod doesn't care at all. That's exactly what Rowling said.
For Rod, whether it is an elf or a centaur, he has already killed a lot, and he is naturally not interested in the love affair between them.
In addition to this, looking at the story itself, Rod is also a little difficult to accept.
Because of her status as a sorcerer, Sasha recorded the story, but in the story, it was obvious that the ritual of witchcraft was embellished.
In the ritual book, there is no mention of where the creatures that failed to merge have gone, but simply chooses one of the special cases, the Silva Centaur, which combines the advantages of the two creatures, elves and centaurs, and describes them.
If someone discovers the secrets of the ritual book and deeply believes in the ritual book of rituals, then he will definitely perform the fusion ritual on other creatures according to the rituals recorded in the book.
Only then, when he saw with his own eyes the creatures he had made according to the ritual of fusion, would he understand this. This kind of fusion ceremony is not as beautiful as he thought.
The result of the fusion ritual has exceeded the scope of the sorcerer's control, and even the most powerful sorcerer can only change the result of the fusion ritual in a small area, and it is impossible to let his imagination fuse the two creatures.
The progress of the fusion ceremony is full of unknowns. The environment of the ritual site, the differences in the existence of individual organisms, the rejection of biological species, and the selection of the ritual core will all affect the outcome of the ritual.
According to the story in the Psalms, Sasha taught the elf the ritual of fusion and asked him to prepare the ritual himself and perform it with the female centaur.
Thankfully, the ceremony succeeded, and the elves and centaurs fused together to become the Silva centaurs, a symbol of their love, and the Psalms recorded them as a beautiful love story.
Rhodes knows that Sasha doesn't do meaningless acts, and even in the stories it leaves behind, Sasha doesn't all play the role of a good person.
If there is a deviation in the fusion ritual, or if there is a mistake in a position, and the elf and centaur fail to merge, resulting in a strange and ugly creature, Sasha will also record it in its entirety, and even change the overall tone of the psalm and turn it into a deeply tragic story.
For Sasha, this may be a small change, but it will not have much of an impact on the other side of the matter that will be recorded in her psalms.
However, once that situation did occur, the impact on the two races at the time was significant.
Due to the unknown of the fusion ritual, even Sasha had no way of knowing what would happen when the elves and centaurs fused together.
Once the fusion fails, the strange creatures appear, and the elves and centaurs will be locked in an irreconcilable war, and history will also change, and the centaurs will not settle in Eri, but will be expelled by the elves.
And this, too, is what Sasha wants to see. Sasha just wanted to record this history, what the direction of history was, and Sasha didn't care.
Rhodes believes that Sasha is only interested in the final fate of the centaurs, and that Sasha may not care too much about the romance between the two creatures in the story and their fate.
After endless years, Sasha's strength and ideas, Rod has long been unable to guess. Rod didn't believe that Sasha, who had reached this level, would care about every creature it touched.
Whatever the end result, Sasha's goal has been achieved, to play an extremely important, but often overlooked, role in the recorded story.
After the fusion ritual is successful, Sasha can praise the purity of the love between the centaur and the elf in the poem, but when the fusion ritual fails, Sasha can also blame their love affair in various ways. From the point of view of the recorder, Sasha was able to do this easily.
For all of Sasha's guesses, Rhodes can only infer based on his existing wisdom.
Sasha's ritual book is one of the few items in the surface world that records the ritual of fusion.
Strange as it may seem, the Magical Guild must have been aware of Sasha's existence for countless years, but instead of forbidding the Bard to travel to Bracada, or collecting and destroying the ritual books it left behind, the Magic Guild must have been aware of Sasha's existence.
In addition to the players, the Magic Guild has also gone through a long period of research on Sasha's behavior, but in the end, it can only choose to ignore it.
The Magic Guild finally made such a decision, in addition to being difficult to deal with Sasha, perhaps because it understood its actions.
Returning to Rowling's original question, since Rowling only saw the story recorded by Sasha, she was naturally influenced by the tone of the psalm, and naturally moved by the love affair between the two creatures in the story.
However, when Rod deduced all the actions that Sasha had done, Rod could not be moved by these two creatures who had been under Sasha's control, and even the love affair between them was not worth mentioning in Rhodes' opinion.