Chapter 43: Runes
It may have been Zhang Feng's words that angered the countess, who let out a roar of rage from its already rotten and stinky throat, and then rushed towards Zhang Feng. The place where it stoodle was ignited by the flames on his body, turning into a path that burned with flames. It is fast and holds a mace in its right hand.
At the same time as the countess appeared, a group of dark wanderers suddenly appeared beside it.
Legend has it that the Dark Wanderers were once Rog mercenaries loyal to the Blind Sisterhood, and most of the Rog mercenaries did not have time to evacuate when the Dark Wanderers led the demons to capture the Cathedral.
The demons tortured these mercenaries inhumanely, many of them died, but some of them survived, infused with the power of hell by the Dark Wanderers, transforming them into something like him - the Dark Wanderers.
Now the Dark Wanderers have been sent by the Lady of Pain to assist the Countess in constantly communicating the power of Hell in the secret room below the Black Tower, projecting the demons to them.
Zhang Feng felt that he was a little outnumbered, and at this time he should use some means to reduce the gap in numbers. So he used the skill points he had kept and clicked them on the necromancer's summoned skeleton, which had just gone through a war, a war between him and the demons. The war created a lot of corpses that he could use to summon skeletons.
Soon, Zhang Feng summoned his current summoning quota to the fullest.
The skeletons can't help much, but they can still withstand the harassment of the Dark Wanderer mobs.
The countess also kept attacking, but Zhang Feng dodged with her nimble feet and the monsters around her.
This may be a protracted battle, the countess can't attack Zhang Feng, and Zhang Feng's attack won't have much effect on the countess. Finding this situation, Zhang Feng decisively gave up the magic attack and replaced the short sword and shield, and melee combat had an advantage in protracted battles, after all, he was still young and lacked magic power.
After two hours of fighting, he finally took out the countess.
When the countess died, a large amount of flame poured out of it, and its soul struggled in the center of the flames before gradually dissipating. The flames set fire to the Dark Tower, and the frescoes and ornaments on the walls of the tower were ignited, and the flames kept pouring out, but when the countess's soul dissipated, the flames finally stopped.
The frescoes and decorations on the walls were gradually burned by the flames, and when these things were burned out, a huge treasure chest appeared on the decorative wall beneath the largest fresco in the countess's room.
When he opened the chest, it was filled with gold coins and gems. When Zhang Feng received all the gold coins and gems into his storage space, he found several stones engraved with magic runes at the bottom of the chest. It seems that this is a rune, Zhang Feng learned the method of identifying runes from Diccain.
Zhang Feng once heard Decca Kane say that in Northern Europe, this kind of writing first appeared in Denmark. This kind of writing is full of mystery, and it is the Runes created by Odin, the main god of Norse mythology. It is said that each letter has magical powers, and if you combine them well, you can produce miracles, which can be said to be the predecessor of magician spells. Most of these texts are engraved on stone tablets, utensils (such as horns), or memorials to something, love words, or eulogies to the gods, as well as undeciphered written descriptions, which scholars believe to be various spells used by shamans (see The Book of Spells of the Great Magior).
These runes are not very well found, so for hundreds of years after the Roman scholar Ctesitas, only Norse myths and legends can be found in writings from other regions, such as the long poem "Beowulf" written in Old English (Tolkien's reference data when writing The Lord of the Rings), which tells the story of a nobleman in southern Sweden around the sixth century AD.
Geographically Northern Europe included present-day Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland, but Finland has its own unique myth of development because their ancestors were the Huns from the East, the Finnish people. According to archaeological findings and anthropologists' research, the Scandinavians have not undergone significant ethnic changes, despite several ethnic integrations. Their body structure is similar to that of today's Norwegians and Swedes (Scandinavians in the true sense of the word), Danes and Icelanders. This shows that the Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxons (including Germans and Dutch) belong to the same race, and that they are different branches of the Germanic peoples.
Around the 8th and 9th centuries AD, the so-called "Age of Pirates" began. The Vikings off the coast of Scandinavia were invincible in their ability to build large ships and often sail to Western and Southern Europe. Despite the disasters brought about by the wars between different peoples, they accelerated the frequent exchange of cultures.
The Anglo-Saxons use the Nordic names Woden, Thor, and Freya to name their Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, respectively, as a striking example. Conversely, the higher level of cultural development in the South also stimulated the development of literature in Northern Europe.
However, after a long period of time, the Nordic script gradually declined due to the invasion of the southern Germanic peoples and the introduction of Christianity, and only the Christian clergy of that era were literate, and they were in charge of recording and keeping documents, and naturally hated the products of Norse mythology such as pagan legends, manuscripts, and songs, and had to be swept away, and only a few documents survived, such as the English "Beowulf" and the German "Nibelungenlied". and Vùsunga Saga, the heroic legend of Vùsunga Saga, a fragment of fragments, and Edda, two collections of Icelandic mythological poems. In addition, the Germanic peoples believed that the Runenschrift used in the past was a spell with magical powers, and if the language was put into words, it would be equivalent to conferring mysterious power on the enemy. Therefore, not only the beliefs of the ancient Germanic peoples, but even the way of life, are difficult to verify to this day.