Act 31: Lord of Castle Mithril, Tulaman (Celebrating the First Flight of the Fourth Generation, Fifth Shift)

In the Amber Sword, there is a legend that has long been told in the south of Golan-Elsen. On the Needle Forest Avenue between Ankze and Pragus dwells a scholar of the one hundred and twenty ranks. This legend has been around since the year 380 of the First Age, and it has always been a source of interest. But it wasn't until four years later that players actually saw this legendary Cunzài for the first time.

Brando knew the man, and his name was Tulaman.

Tulaman? Mithril? Ostetan, owner of Mithril Castle, a university scholar, and a mid-level wizard.

He was the silver leader of the Twelve Rings Spelling Society, and after the dissolution of the Order in the Year of the Seven Colors, he left Canaic (a floating city in Buga) and returned to Golan-Elsen to live in seclusion.

In the game, when he has enough patience during the month, he will help some players with the secondary position of Scholar, of course, most of the time he is disturbed by ordinary people. Therefore, after the initial popularity, most players returned to the aristocratic library in Pragusburg, after all, the inaugural scholar only needs to pay a little money to register, and there is no need to look at the faces of the NPCs, and there will be no difference.

However, players are strange creatures who are always trying to find some secret that no one else knows, so there have always been attempts to get some advantage from this old man, although Brando doesn't know if any of them have succeeded. But I have to say, this time it was his turn.

There will be nothing to lose anyway. Maybe it will work? Besides, Brando has always had doubts about what the 'deputy' of the Silver Castle Scholar in the game has to do with this old man, but he has never had a chance to test it.

Now there is a ready-made opportunity to drop by, and he certainly won't give it up.

However, he didn't expect that Tulaman didn't live in this village, but on a hillside a few miles away, and he only knew the approximate address of the other party in the game before, but he didn't expect that this negligence would make him waste almost half a morning in this world.

It is perfunctory, and it really harms others and oneself.

The four of them walked through the woods, and the main road from Anzek to Pragusburg was densely populated, so the Buchi region could not be seen in the middle of the forest. It's more like a rustic road through the trees, with rows of wooden fences erected at intervals on either side, and fallen leaves covering the gravel floor.

Walking in this kind of place makes people unconsciously relaxed. Freya stared at the beautiful scenery in the forest on one side, and Roman followed her with a pair of hands behind her back, looking east and west, as if she felt that it was very interesting.

Only Brando was accustomed to these scenes, and walking for almost an hour made him a little impatient, and he couldn't help but turn around and ask, "Bartom, are you sure that the person we are looking for lives in such a place?" ”

Bartom wiped his red beard and took off his hat and replied, "Sure, my lord." If you're looking for an old man with a big white beard who likes to drag to the ground in a gray robe, this is the only one in the neighborhood. I'll ask you about Bartom, don't worry—"

Brando nodded.

Bartom is still trustworthy, everything he has done in the past month has made people feel appropriate, of course, some of them are in the way of mercenaries. In fact, Bartom himself was accustomed to Brando's commands, and he was not as invincible as many nobles - just as he knew that he was a mercenary leader. Therefore, he was just ordered as a mercenary leader.

The red-bearded Bartom was convinced, and couldn't help but think that this was what a leader should be.

The only thing that was in doubt, though, was about Brando's relationship with his wizard servant, the young man named Charles who always appeared and disappeared at times, making it feel mysterious.

Sometimes Bartom guessed what their master and servant were up to, but in the end, the Highland Knights were to blame for their inscrutableness.

Between the two conversations, the forest came to an end. Freya let out a soft sigh in front of her, and then it dawned on everyone's eyes that a dirt path led to a lonely log cabin on top of a meadow hillside in front of her.

It was a peculiar house, and when Brando got closer, they found that it looked like half a barrel on the ground, with the door open in the center of the 'barrel', and on either side were arched windows—potted flowers on the windowsills, purple or silver, which even Brando could not name. But it looks like a hyacinth. Originally, the young man thought the same thing, but when he saw the evening primrose planted in the flower garden on one side, he realized that these might be rare magical materials.

Then they walked into the fence on the perimeter of the hut, and a bell hung from the arched door, but Brando knew the rules of the other party, and Tulaman, as long as he wasn't napping at this time, must have spotted them through the guò vigilance spell. Therefore, ringing the bell at this time will only cause the other party to be unhappy.

Brando knew that the bell could only be rung when it mattered.

He remembered that the only time in the game was when a dragon attacked a nearby village.

It was at this point that he felt Freya touch his elbow on the side. He looked back. Seeing Freya, she asked with a puzzled expression, "Brando, what is this place?" ”

She would have realized that Brando had come to meet with the others, but who would live in such a place?

"It's just an old man's home." Brando retracted his gaze and stared at the door of the cabin, and replied casually.

"Old man?"

"Well, he's a wizard."

Freya let out a low sigh on the side, and the sword in her hand almost fell to the ground with a shudder. In fact, it wasn't just her, but even Bartom, who was knowledgeable on the side of his face, couldn't help but straighten his chest when he heard Brando's words. A wizard is a wizard, and although Charles is also an apprentice wizard, it is much worse than a genuine wizard.

In fact, the wizard has always been the most mysterious character in the pillow tales in Eruin and throughout the Wahnd countryside, and many people have grown up listening to legends about wizards, and most of the descriptions of this type of people are associated with ghosts and gods.

But in fact Brando knew that in really prosperous areas, big cities or towns in densely populated areas, wizards were common. In particular, the royal academies of many kingdoms also trained court wizards, so these people were not very mysterious beings at all.

Of course, if it is the dark wizard and witch of the wizards, as well as the necromancer, then it will be equated with those characters in the legendary story.

Brando looked back at little Roman, and found that the businessman lady was also a little nervous at the moment, and couldn't help asking, "What are you nervous about?" ”

"My aunt said that you should be polite when dealing with wizards, otherwise it will cause unnecessary trouble." Roman replied as a matter of course.

"Huh-"

Before Brando could reply, an old man's whisper came from inside the room. Then the wooden door creaked open: "This is not some folklore, little girl, who is your aunt?" ”

The old voice seemed to accompany the open door and the gray robe behind it, with a tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose. The old man with silver hair and a snow-white beard that hung down to his waist entered the senses of the four people present.

Not only Roman and Freya, but Brando was actually meeting Tulaman for the first time, the legendary level 120 university scholar.

"Auntie is aunt." Roman is not afraid of life at all.

The old man glanced at the others, as if looking at them. However, his somewhat cloudy gaze swept over Brando and Bartom one by one, but did not stop, and fell on Freya, stunned for a moment.

Finally, he glanced at Little Roman, smashed his mouth and said, "Little girl, I know who your aunt is when I see you like this, hum, my temperament has been learned ten out of ten." ”

As soon as he spoke, Freya and Brando were taken aback. Freya was surprised that the old man knew Roman's aunt, who Brando had said was a wizard! Brando was also surprised that Tulaman knew Roman's aunt, but the two of them were surprised on a completely different level.

The difference between someone known by a wizard and someone known to the owner of Castle Mithril and the silver leader of the Twelve Rings Spell Society is far away.

"Have you seen Roman's aunt, old man?"

"Do you know Aunt Jenny?" Both spoke at the same time.

Tulaman was about to turn around and enter the house, but stopped when he heard this. He looked at Freya at first, and did not answer, but his eyes fell on Brando, and he replied, "Young man, don't you know what politeness is?" ”

Brando coughed. He's used to dealing with NPCs, plus he was too shocked just now, and he just lost his mouth for a while. At this time, he could only smile and pretend to be stupid: "It's a shameful act to waste your life, old man, I'm just trying to save time-"

Tulaman's narrowed eyes widened slightly: "So you know me?" ”

"Of course," Brando replied straight to the point, "the master of Mythril Castle, the silver leader of the Twelve Rings Spell Society, how could I not know Lord Tulaman." ”

When he said that, Freya was fine. The hat in Bartom's hand fell to the ground unconsciously, and he didn't know who the silver leader of the Twelve Rings Spell Society was. But the owner of Mithril Castle is a famous wizard. There is a well-known legend in the mercenary world that there was a half-mercenary and half-thief group of scum in the mercenary world, and the idea was put on the legendary 'hall made of Mithril', and as a result, four or five hundred people went, as well as two ogres, and all of them were turned to stone in the end.

These statues still stand on the deserted beaches of the Bleak Sea for passing travelers to see.

And now that the legendary Cunzài appeared in front of Bartoum's eyes, how could he not be shocked? But what shocked him even more was that Brando was still smiling and pulling relations with the other party, could it be that he, the lord, was crazy about it?

But what made the red-bearded mercenary leader even more incredulous was still to come-

Tulaman was stunned for a moment when he heard Brando's words, and then he paused to look at the young man again. He glanced Brando up and down, as if to confirm whether there was such a person in his memory, and then spoke: "Young man, it seems that you came prepared, but who are you, I don't have the impression of such a person as you?" Whose son are you? ”

Brando glanced at Roman, he didn't expect Tulaman to know Roman's aunt, so the connection between this is a bit suspicious, it seems that the identity of the little Roman aunt is really not so simple - at least, it must be a famous witch.

But there are only a few famous witches in history, could it be the legendary Witch of the Firmament - the existence of the Witch who abandoned the throne of the witch and left the land of Winter, Iberia, to come to the mortal world?

He buried this suspicion in his heart for the time being, and after listening to Tulaman's question, he shook his head: "I am not a descendant of anyone, but I have a question here. ”

"Questions?" Tulaman was stunned.

Brando gestured to his mouth and pronounced, "Stam-"

The old man was stunned, and at first he seemed to hear something. But then he frowned again: "What does this mean." ”

Brando was stunned, he was talking about the original text of the creation epic of the Cruz people, the poem of the firmament, and in his time, each of these original texts was the source of the later wizarding wars - the war between wizards, did not expect that Tulaman had not heard of it? He was slightly stunned, and then a cold sweat came out, could it be that there is no so-called 'earth slate' in this world?

However, the young man immediately reacted, probably because the era was too early, and the earth slate had not yet appeared. In the Amber Sword, Madara's growth is just a fork in the historical branch, although it has a profound impact on Eruin and the surrounding countries. But the real thread of that world is the appearance of the earth slate.

The Outbreak of the Wizarding Wars -

Of course, Brando didn't want to bring the Earth Slab into the world so early, but he just wanted to use one of these words to pique Tulaman's interest.

Although the words were almost meaningless to the whole text, the magic contained in these words of creation should be basically the same, and he believed that Tulaman should be able to discern the mystery.

He looked at Tulaman and replied, "Old man, have you heard of the hymn that describes the beginning of heaven and earth and the creation of the world, the poem of the Cruz people? ”

Tulaman pressed one hand to his beard, and he did feel the primordial and ancient magic of the previous word. It's not powerful, but it's like the root of a qiē magic today. At first, he thought it was an ancient dragon language, or a variant of rune or wizard language, but after carefully searching his memories, he found that he found nothing.

Tulaman did not doubt that this young man would lie to him, to be honest, as a scholar who had spent a hundred years in books and practice, the person who could deceive him at least had the ability to admire.

"You mean the first epic that predates the Elven Anthem, the Cruzians boast of it?" The old man asked.

Brando is aware of the prejudices of the Silver People against humans, and the wizards of Buga are human, but they are not human. They are of noble blood and have always looked down on the people of the earth, but the Cruz people have a long history, which makes these silver people both jealous and unwilling to admit it.

As a player, he didn't mind this and just nodded.

"What does that have to do with the 'word' you just said?" Tulaman paused and spoke.

In fact, at this time, the discussion between the two of them has been out of the limit of what Freya, Bartom and Roman and others can accept, and the three of them have long heard it in a fog, as for Freya, she just magnified Brando's shadow in her heart, and Bartom was already shocked beyond measure-

But God knows that Brando himself is just fooling.

"That's the original text of the poem of the firmament, describing how our world was created by Martha's kindness, Lord Tulaman, I say I'm not lying—you should be able to appreciate for yourself the magic contained in that byte." Brando replied.

Tulaman's face changed, and he turned back into the house. Soon there was the sound of flipping books in the wooden house.

By this point, Brando knew that his plan was halfway through, and he turned around and gestured to Freya and the others to follow. Then he led the three of them into Tulaman's house.

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My stomach hurts a little at night, so let's write 4500 first, hey.

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