Chapter 258: This topic is a little wrong
The dangerous monsters of the barren mountains and the magical radiation in the wasteland of Gondor are not the biggest problems that an elven ranger far from home faces, but the growing hair loss is the end of Thorderlyn Frostleaf.
Well, Thorderling didn't say that, but Gawain believed it must be the most sincere words from the heart of the High Elven Ranger.
He knew Sölderlin—or Gawain Cecil knew Tölderlin, it was during the great expedition seven hundred years ago, when this elven ranger was still an unknown person who had just left his hometown for a few years and was traveling in the northern part of the continent, although he had the strength of a high-level ranger, he didn't have a name like "blonde Toldrin" at that time, and he was very unlucky to be in the territory of the Gondor Empire at that time, after the sudden rise of the demon tide, this elven ranger was trapped in the wasteland of the human empire, Cut off contact with his homeland.
The human Northern Frontier Army rescued the lone elven ranger in the chaos, and Gawain Cecil incorporated him under his wing.
After that, the two fought side by side for many years, and it was not until the final years before the death of Gawain Cecil that Thorderling broke away from the human army and began to continue his journey in the northern part of the continent as a freelance mercenary.
Almost no one knows why Thorderlin left the Silver Empire alone, no one knows what the purpose of this high-ranking ranger traveling on the continent is, and today, seven hundred years later, no one knows why this powerful free mercenary warrior never exerted more than seventy percent of his strength in battle, only Gawain knew the secret - because Thorderlin wore a wig......
This unlucky child ran out back then just to find a folk remedy to cure his alopecia......
Truth be told, when these related memories came to mind, Gawain almost all the muscles in his face were tensed and cramped before he laughed on the spot - he wanted to laugh out that his image was first finished, and secondly, he didn't want to rebuild his friendship with Sölderlin - the boat of friendship would not only capsize, but would even spin in place more than twenty times before smashing into the faces of the two of them, and then they would start shopping on the spot......
So he tried to keep his attitude calm, and according to the attitude of Gawain Cecil towards Sölderlin in his memory, he unhurriedly reminisced with the elven ranger: "Do you remember how I found out about your secret at that time? ”
"How did I know that one of the top commanders of the Human Coalition would even grab his hair when he fought with someone," Thorderlin mentioned that there was still a bit of a lingering aftermath of seven hundred years, and gave Gawain a rather unhappy look, "Fortunately, no one else was watching at the time, otherwise I would have really splattered five steps with you......"
Gao Wen stretched out his hands: "You can't beat me again." ”
"I couldn't beat it back then, but now what?" Thorderling glanced Gawain up and down, "I can feel it, your strength has declined a lot." ”
"You can't beat it now," Gao Wen replied calmly with the passable guiding ideology in his heart, regardless of whether he was empty or not, "I just woke up, and you may have had a chance at the time, but now I'm recovered." ”
Thorderling fell silent, his eyes fixed on Gawain without blinking, and he stared at it for a long time, until the latter wondered if the elf's orientation had finally gone wrong, and he broke his silence: "I still can't believe that you are really alive again...... I learned the news in Typhon, but at first I thought it was a farce created by the Ansu royal family for some purpose, and I cursed in my heart that the bastard king had finally lost face and started using his country's founding heroes as political tools...... I didn't expect you to be real. ”
After a pause, he shook his head and continued: "At the beginning, I wanted to come directly to confirm the situation, but I really couldn't find a chance. ”
Gawain glanced at him: "So you led the team to infiltrate this time, just to take this opportunity to confirm my authenticity?" ”
"That's part of the purpose," Thorderlin replied calmly, "I received an order, and the people on Typhon's side didn't know that I had a relationship with you seven hundred years ago, and they appointed me as the commander of the infiltration operation in the direction of the Dark Mountains, so I came - I wanted to see if 'Gawain Cecil' was real, and if not, I would kill the impostor with my own hands...... To be honest, I'm almost 90% sure that I think you're fake. ”
Gao Wen was stunned: "Why are you so sure?" ”
"I was there when you were buried," Thorderling looked into Gawain's eyes, "I heard about your death on the southern front line while traveling around the Plains of the Whitsunday, and I went straight to your territory, just in time for your final moments before your burial. Because of the experience of you and I fighting side by side, your wife allowed me to observe your ...... up close Body, I can confirm that you were indeed dead, and that your soul was out of that shell—I can be sure that my perception will not be wrong, and that the elves are far more capable of perceiving life than you humans. ”
The expression on Gawain's face changed slightly, and his heart set off a huge wave - he suddenly realized how much the appearance of this elven "old friend" meant to him, and he realized that this was a person who really witnessed the life of Gawain Cecil, and even witnessed the latter's death, and what he said was more reliable than any later history books, and more accurate than the relays of any third party!
Although he inherited most of Gawain Cecil's memories, he always believed that his inherited memories were missing and distorted, so would this elf make up for them?
But in order to avoid arousing Sölderlin's suspicion by acting too abnormally, Gawain did not immediately reveal the problem with his memory, but temporarily suppressed the turmoil in his heart and followed Sölderlin's words to ask other and equally concerning questions: "How was my situation at that time?" I mean, when I was lying in a coffin. ”
It was obviously a strange experience to discuss the issue of the other party's body face-to-face with a deceased party, even Thorderlin, who had traveled on the mainland for seven hundred years, couldn't help but tremble the corners of his mouth, but he still replied seriously: "You died of exhaustion, and your guards desperately snatched back your body, so you have almost no external injuries, and the cause of death is the depletion of organs throughout the body." Because I wasn't on the battlefield at the last moment, I don't know exactly how you died. ”
At the end of the day, the expression on Sölderlin's face was a little gloomy and ashamed, it was obvious that he had always been resentful of his failure to fight alongside Gawain Cecil in his final moments, and this faint guilt had probably been with him for seven centuries - as an immortal elf, dealing with short-lived humans would inevitably be entangled in this kind of mood, and Gawain could only sigh in his heart when he saw this, with a relieved smile on his face: "Okay, don't be so entangled when everyone is dead." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that something was wrong, and quickly changed his words: "If everyone is alive, then there is no need to be entangled." ”
Solderlin's face twitched, and Gawain forcibly continued the subject: "What about the rest of the funeral?" ”
"Your funeral went smoothly – it was extraordinarily solemn and unforgettable. King Charles personally laid the first and last steel nails, and all the dukes and marquis of the kingdom were present at that time. At the end of the funeral, the Elemental Powers briefly manifested, and the avatars of the four Elemental Forces briefly lingered outside your grave, which scholars believe to be a sign of the official end of your contract with the Elementals. ”
Gawain finally grasped a key point: "You said that the incarnation of the four elements appeared at that time?" ”
"Yes, at least I saw the wind elemental appear briefly, and a wall outside the tomb was covered with a cloud of air," Thorderling nodded, "It's just that the elemental avatars didn't communicate with humans, they only manifested for a moment, probably less than a minute." ”
Gawain Cecil had made a contract with the Four Elements, which was not only a legend that had been passed down for 700 years in the Kingdom of Ansu, but also a legend that the bards of the continent had always talked about, and this "legend" was not completely made up.
Gawain Cecil did have a communication with the elements, and his ability to grow into a legendary powerhouse in just thirty-five years of life was also inextricably linked to the power of the elements, but the contract was not as simple and clear as most people imagined, in fact, even Gawain himself couldn't figure out what Gawain Cecil had agreed with the elements back then.
The embodiment of elemental power has a chaotic and elusive "mind" with which the human spirit structure can barely communicate with it, and even those shamans who claim to be able to communicate with the elements dare not say that they can understand the language of the elements. For most mortals who study the Elemental Way, "communicating with the elements" is nothing more than vaguely guessing at the flow of elemental powers, and anyone who claims to have a sane and logical connection to "an elemental avatar" is either a liar, a madman, or a wretched creature deceived by the "Elemental Sovereign".
The "elemental beings" who live in various planes and the real "elemental power" are not the same thing at all, the former is essentially nothing more than tangible and qualitative creatures formed by a single element with a very extreme tendency to magic, while the latter is actually more similar to a certain embodiment of the nature of the world.
Legend has it that Gawain Cecil made a pact with the four elements, and the object of the contract seemed to be the essence of those elements, not some powerful elemental creature - this was the most shocking and unbelievable fact for Gawain.
But just like the memories of the "Eternal Dark Sea" and "Secret Voyage", the memories of how Gawain Cecil made a contract with the Four Elements are also blank in his inherited memories.
Now, even if he wanted to ask the elemental wills for the truth, he didn't know where to start.
Gawain was turning all kinds of knowledge related to the essence of the elements and elemental creatures in his mind, and he didn't forget to remind himself while thinking about it: when analyzing elemental creatures, he should pick out those deep-sea harmonic gods as soon as possible, although Tyr said that the Kraken is also an elemental creature, but he always felt that he had to take out the salted fish essence in any situation and discuss it separately, they are too strange, they are really a research sample, I am afraid that if I don't look at it, I will fall off......
"What do you think of?" Seeing that Gao Wen hadn't spoken for a long time, and the expression on his face was cloudy, Toldlin couldn't help but ask.
"How well do you know about the Elemental Way?" Gawain asked casually.
Thorderling thought for a moment, "I am well versed in the four spellings of the 'Way of the Elements' in the lingua franca of mankind and the elven language, and I know who wrote the supreme work on the four elements, the Elemental Treatise......"
“…… Then I don't have much to say," Gawain's eyes twitched slightly, "Is there anything else going on at my funeral?" ”
Thorderling recalled seriously, and finally shook his head: "No, you were quite peaceful lying in it at the time. ”
“…… Let's change the subject. ”
"I think so."
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