Chapter 19: The Dark Forest
Dawn sat down, and he felt like he needed to get used to this strange food for the rest of his life. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoLarge wooden bowl, sticky, green cloudy liquid with a medicinal taste. He didn't quite understand the druid's definition of herbs and food. But the master produced it, the effect is still not bad, a bowl of thick soup in the stomach, the whole body is full of vitality, and the spirit is much better.
The old druid packed up a small pile of daily necessities, mostly bottles and cans, most of which he couldn't name. A stunned cowhide tent came over, swallowed everything into its stomach, and then rolled it up on the spot. Lorraine stepped forward and put the huge tent directly into a small deerskin pocket on his waist, and when he saw Chenxi looking at him in surprise, he couldn't help but quip: "Rare space equipment, it was given to me by my teacher." Think about it, if you join the Druids, I can apply for one for you as well. This thing can be scarcely tight now. ”
Dawn was very envious, Bai Ze's picture scroll could only absorb elemental life into it, perhaps much more advanced than a small deerskin pocket that could only hold dead things. But Dawn still hopes to have a prop like this, which can make travel much easier. So the seductive solicitation of the old druid can only be reciprocated with a helpless wry smile.
"What a thing, it's just a little trick in your sleeve. When you get back to Kyushu, I'll get you a better one!" Bai Ze said unashamedly, and Chenxi ignored him.
Lorraine waved his hand, and the cauldron that had played its role opened its sleepy eyes in the morning light's already somewhat numb expression, yawned a lot, and then floated back to the tree house with a huge belly. Dawn is now confirmed, it seems that the druids are indeed the same thing as the guy who cooks the medicine. The thought of cooking rats, toads, owls, and so on made him want to vomit.
Old Lorraine didn't give him a chance to vomit, so he took out a tuft of green powder from his small bag that resembled a robot cat space bag and threw it into the pyre. A large stream of green flames steamed, swelling to the height of a person, but there was no scorching temperature, but a slight chill.
"There are not many reserves of road powder, and if it continues like this, you will have to take that thing called a plane when you go far away in the future. I get fidgety at the thought of that goblin toy-like thing!" Lorraine babbled, grabbing one of Dawn's arms and disappearing into the green flames before his stunned eyes could be captured. After the two left, the flame burned for a moment before returning to normal and slowly extinguished. The fence in front of the treehouse began to grow wildly, accompanied by the creaking of the treehouse writhing. It didn't take long for them to disappear into a thin mist.
Dawn stopped a little dizzy, he didn't know what it was, it should be something like motion sickness. "It's okay, it's just the rejection of elemental travel by flesh and blood, and this discomfort will gradually lessen as your body's elementalization progresses. In a trance, the voice of old Lorraine came, and although the morning light was still a little uncomfortable, it also settled down.
Greeted by a cloud of dust and the old druid's serious face, he turned his head to look at it, and saw that it was a long-abandoned wooden house, and behind it was a stone fireplace, which was the same thing that Dawn remembered about wizards. The planks under his feet creaked and looked a little overwhelmed. There was even a large hole in the ceiling overhead, from which the morning sun could see the towering canopy of trees outside and the little sunlight shining through the gaps in the leaves.
"Where is this?" Dawn asked, trying to ask, still feeling like she was vomiting in her throat.
"The house of my old friend Leon's family, it wasn't like this the last time I was here!" Lorraine took out a puff of crystal powder from his pocket and gently lifted it into the air. The powder turned into a woman's face, and an invisible stream of air blew out of her mouth, sweeping in all directions without raising any dust.
"Enya's breath is a very good detection spell. But you have to be a real druid to learn how to use it. Dawn was a little speechless at Lorraine's behavior of showing off and recruiting herself. "There's no sign of magic around, and it looks like it's been abandoned long enough. ”
"Your friend is a wizard?" Dawn surveyed the old mansion.
"The Druids are the heritage of the Celtic nation in antiquity, and they have spread to the countries of the European continent with the footsteps of national expansion. But with the expansion of Rome, especially a series of wars led by Caesar. The scope of the nation's rule was shrinking, and the scope of the Druids was also reduced to the extreme. The Black Forest region was the stronghold of the Druidic faith, but with the fall of the Gauls, the legacy became unsustainable. Lorraine paced slowly around the room, as if searching for some traces of her old friend.
"Some of them crossed the sea to the British Isles, but many more chose to stay, hoping for the revival of the nation. Fortunately in the Roman period, they preferred land and taxes more than believers, and the gods from Olympus were very tolerant and tolerant of the outside world. But the new Christianity can be said to be the extermination of all alien beliefs, and those who remain are slowly maintained in the dark, because of the blockade of the Holy See, gradually evolved into a more aggressive and surviving special group of mages, this is the origin of wizards and witches!"
"It's the same origin as the druid!" sighed Chenxi, who had always been curious about this group that was regarded as a thorn in the side of the Christian Curia, and it turned out that there was this relationship behind it.
"Although they are of the same origin, they are very different. Lorraine sighed. "In order to survive, a large part of these wizards have thrown off the constraints of nature and become powerful and unscrupulous. Spells are also often bloody and cruel, and in the eyes of these so-called dark wizards, they probably don't care about the same origin. Only surviving and becoming strong is their purpose. ”
"Part?" Dawn struck at the point.
"Yes, there are a very small number of people who adhere to the teachings of nature. In that horrific environment, their understanding and practice of doctrine was even more extreme and demanding than that of us orthodox druids. There is a deep fear and rejection of the Holy See, often living in the most inhospitable places. Their spell system has also become completely different from ours, only in some details there are still some traces to follow. As a result, those who are classified as White Wizards by the Church are no longer recognized as Druids. But at least they can communicate and cooperate, and the Leons are one of them. ”
"But the Dark Ages are over, and they shouldn't be in any danger!How long has it been since you last been here?" Dawn looked at the mottled walls, because deep in the jungle, the natural environment was more damaging to this man-made structure, and in many places you could even see the roots of plants.
"The White Wizards are a wandering group without support, their enemies are everywhere, and the Holy See is not as kind as it seems. Lorraine's expression has always been very solemn, which shows that he has a more pessimistic attitude in the morning.
"The last time I visited, the little one of the Leons had just been born, probably more than twenty years ago, and at that time, Druidism had begun to develop again with the prevalence of naturalism. After centuries of repression, I was finally able to survive in the sun, and I wondered if I could ask them to go out with me!"
"They refused?"
"Yes, human society has done them too much harm over the centuries. They don't trust most groups very much!" Lorraine sighed.
Dawn is also looking in the house, since he has lived as a family, he will always leave some imprint. He doesn't have a good opinion of the wizard group, and the choice of the crowd when faced with a desperate situation is either the extreme of good or the extreme of evil. This is a group of poor people who have been forced into a corner in the war of the predatory beliefs of the gods in the Middle Ages, but their extreme behavior makes people unable to feel sympathy.
The humid air of the forest makes everything decay extremely fast, and the air of the end of the law era makes it impossible for ordinary traces of magic to remain for long. After an unknown number of years, two people with no reconnaissance experience wasted their efforts to find some nicks on the wall.
"It's a child's graffiti, there should be four people in the family, and it looks like they've added another child after you left...... Well, it seems to be a little girl!" Dawn analyzed as she looked at the scattered patterns.
"It's even more suspicious that nothing is left, we need to stay here for a while, so let's use this as the beginning of your study journey!" Lorraine said in a deep tone, the friendship between the two was still very deep, and he wanted to find out about this matter.
"Looks like we're going to start cleaning up first, it's a big project!" Dawn looked at the ruined land in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, he was really not very good at this job.
"The wisdom of the oak tree will not keep his messenger trapped on the floor. Lorraine smiled, took a handful of dark green powder from her pocket, and slowly lit it on the floor, and a strange fragrance came out. After a while, there was a chattering noise outside the door, and a group of small green monsters dressed in tattered clothes rushed in. It looks a bit like a fairy, but looks taller and has rougher skin.
"What is this......" Before Chenxi could finish his words, he was covered by Lorraine.
"Shhhhh......h Goblins, the attendants of Brace, the original Celtic god of agriculture and plants, have a deep connection to the druids. ”
"Goblins?" Dawn couldn't help but be stunned, this is a species that has been used badly in modern online works, playing some very dishonorable roles, as if goblins and slimes are not Western mythology without them. In fact, "Goblins" are an alienation of the orthodox elves, and there were huge numbers in ancient times, especially when Blaise became the god king. But with the dethronement of the God-King, the entire race was exiled, and since then, they have lived in some dense forests, doing some robberies by the way, and their image and abilities have become very different from those of the orthodox elves, and their reputation is not very good. Now, most of the time, it is directly considered to be two species, and it was even confused with goblins for a time.