Chapter 729: A Group of Old Acquaintances' Long-Lost Conversation in the Drinking Room (Part I)
"Examples of success?" asked Yennefer, as a sorceress, she traveled a lot, and sometimes hunted all kinds of monsters, but unlike demon hunters who had to hunt all kinds of monsters for payment, she didn't hunt those monsters for the sake of the people or get paid, but purely to get some materials and even luxuries needed in magic experiments. For example, the skin of the petrified lizard is a high-end luxury material, often used to make fashionable women's leather shoes or women's handbags, and for this reason, many people take the risk of killing a petrified lizard in exchange for the high remuneration, even if most hunters die tragically at the clutches of their prey, but a few do return with a full load...... In Gallott's time, the creature's population was declining dramatically due to the hunting of petrified lizards' skins in recent years, and some mages and druids thought it should be listed as endangered and protected...... Of course, in the eyes of most people, these mages and druids are simply being kicked in the brain by a donkey. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Being slightly older than Gelot makes Yennefer not less knowledgeable than the former, and even surpasses the former in the knowledge of some monsters, so she is very strange that someone can successfully domesticate a fierce griffin and be able to use it as a mount, after all, no one in the world they originally stayed in has ever thought of doing this, but there has never been a successful example, and only in some legends and stories that the so-called heroes can become griffin knights or dragon knights or something.
"That's right, the undead king named Feng Longde has a royal griffin as his air mount, but ......" Gallott nodded, hesitated for a moment after saying nothing, paused for a few seconds and continued: " However, his royal griffin is a necromantic creature, according to their Teutonic term, an undead creature, and there are some differences between their various griffons here and ours in our world, including their forelimbs are not eagle wings but lion claws, and they have eagle wings on their backs, making them larger than the various griffons we are familiar with. โ
"Oh, it seems that in different worlds, even the same creatures, or creatures with the same name, have very different conditions. Ciri put her chin in her hands and said, she had used her teleportation ability to travel to many worlds, if she was well-informed, the other people present together were estimated to be able to compare with her, "It's like the Elves of Ain El and the Elves of Ain Shedi are obviously distant relatives of the same race, and they belong to the Elves of Ain Wooddod, but they have stayed in different worlds for historical reasons, which makes them gradually have a significant difference over a long period of time, isn't it?"
"Well, it's not too much, it's just that the difference between the Al Elves and the Al Eyre Elves isn't particularly obvious, the most common is in weaponry, but the griffins that exist in each of these two worlds don't think they should be considered the same kind of creatures in terms of classification, or the branch differences are too great. Gelot shrugged his shoulders, he and Resso had participated in many hunts of griffons alive organized by Camp Teuton, and found that the various griffons here were indeed very similar to the world he had lived in many ways, but there were still many differences.
"Wait, Galot, did you just say that the undead king Von Rond has a royal griffon that can be ridden, and that he is also a necromantic creature?" Ye Naifa asked again, and not only that, but even Triss and Kayla's attention turned - for these sorceresses, necromantic creatures and necromancy are not strange and unknown, but necromancy is a kind of black magic, which is expressly forbidden to be used by the sorceress assembly hall, and necromantic creatures rarely appear in front of the eyes of the world: In addition to the battlefields and cemeteries full of dead corpses, which can attract a large number of scavengers and corpse-eating creatures in a short period of time, and it is difficult to have enough corpses to produce necromantic creatures, mages, sorceresses, and demon hunters themselves will also try their best to eliminate these unnatural creatures that violate the cycle of life and death, otherwise it is easy to cause more harm if left unchecked.
However, in the relevant knowledge of the three sorceresses such as Yennefer, there are almost no necromantic creatures, that is, those walking corpses, who can have self-awareness and intelligence, and only evil spirits similar to necromantic creatures such as demons may have some habits or instincts or memories left in life due to special formation reasons, but those necromantic creatures that are born due to black magic or curses are similar to active dead skeletons and other necromantic creatures are completely insane, and can only act with a little instinct left in life, so this was the main reason why the sorceresses such as Yennefer were shocked to hear Gallott mention that Von Rond had a royal griffon that could be ridden as a necromantic creature that could be ridden, as it was beyond their own knowledge.
"That's right, not only does the undead king von Rond have a royal griffin mount that has become a necromantic creature, but all of his knights and many soldiers are necromantic creatures. Gallott nodded, " Many of the hoplites who confronted you earlier had been transformed into Teutonic soldiers, but the Teutonic camp seemed to have mastered some kind of special magic and potions that could restore necromantic creatures that should be no different from carrion to look no different from normal humans, and they were able to retain all their memories and self-consciousness, as if they were not much different from the fact that they could not produce offspring like demon hunters, at most they were energetic and stronger and more agile than ordinary humansใ โ
"Necromantic creatures with self-awareness and memories, and just like when they were alive?" Yennefer and the other sorceresses looked at each other, and even the demon hunters such as Lambert and the others were aroused. So it seems that what you said about Galot is that there is no serious racism here, it is true, it can make the necromantic creatures flood it, and it can also use magic or other means to make the necromantic creatures look the same as when they were alive, the most important thing is that these necromantic creatures are not walking dead, but have their own consciousness and memories as before they were alive, otherwise even if they are restored to be like living people, then they are not fundamentally different from beautifully crafted magic golems. โ
According to von Rond's undead king and the other Teutonic people, these necromantic creatures with self-awareness, intelligence, and memory are called the dead, and only those who have been restored to the form of living people by magic and potions but are truly walking dead are called undead by them, and they are the main cheap laborers in the Teutonic camps, doing the heaviest work. Gallott said as he took a glass of ale in front of him and drank it down, then wiped his mouth. I sometimes talk to some Teutonic soldiers, and find that all of them have signed an agreement with the immortal king of Von Longde before their deaths, and have voluntarily chosen to resurrect the racial identity of the former dead after their own death, so many of the Teutonic soldiers here are deceased, and the only way to identify them compared to ordinary humans is that they have skulls in the epaulettes on their bodies, or look at their eyes, and their eyes glow red when they are emotional. โ
"It's a very strange world, and even if you tell us that the water spirits here can have a peaceful lunch with humans, we'll probably all believe it. Dandrion spread out his hands and spoke, taking the same glass of frothy ale and drinking it down, as if he hadn't drunk water for years, "Maybe we should stay here for a few days before leaving?" I don't know if the inhabitants of this place will be able to appreciate the lute as well, otherwise I, a well-known and simple artist and servant of the goddess Mus, would not have gained nothing......"
Dandrien's obviously quite stinky words directly made Gallott and the others roll their eyes at him, and only Resso glanced at Dandrion and didn't make a sound: Although Dandrion is talented, he doesn't have a lot of messy stinky problems, and he also has a passive talent for finding moths for himself and the people around him, if this guy can't help sometimes, plus he is quite well-informed when he travels around the world, otherwise even if he is a friend of himself and others, it is estimated that there are not many people who can stand him except for Gallott and Zoltanใ
"When it comes to poetry, this immortal king named Feng Longde may surprise you. "Gelot picked up Dandrien's words, which is also a disguised way to shut Dandrien passively, otherwise he can completely pull the topic from Nilfgaard's siege tower to Novigre's temple island, and everyone may not know what to talk about, which can only be said to be the passive talent of the bard, or Dandrien's own personal ability," As far as I know, the daily life of this immortal king named Feng Longde is somewhat similar to that of ordinary civilians: as you have just seen, he drinks in taverns where only civilians and soldiers come to him, and all the drinkers around him are used to his presence, but many of them will salute solemnly when they see him...... By the way, he seems to be going to the house of the V singers with his friends to rehearse music and sing after the finish and war, maybe he is planning to hold a live performance of a small band or something, which is their poetry singing here. โ
"Music playing, singing, I didn't expect that there are also human kings who are unique. Isn't it, everybody?" said Regis, and from some of the words used in his speech, he was certainly not human, otherwise he would not have said 'the king of men', but should have said 'king' directly, "Gelot, since you have lived here with Resso for a long time, you are also with the king named Von Ronde...... No, the Immortal King has been in contact with him many times, can you explain him in a more brief or graphic way?"
"This is ......" After hearing the words of his old friend Regis, Garrow was silent for a while, and then slowly spoke: "If you want to use the image that we all know to describe the immortal king of Feng Longde...... Well, in battle, he is no different from us demon hunters, calm, Reason is even a little cruel, and when dealing with all kinds of government affairs, he does almost everything for his Teutonic camp, and also sacrifices a lot for it, and it seems that he is still single for this reason; if it is in normal times, then Von Rond is somewhat similar to Foltest, but he is diametrically opposed to Foretest in his private life, but he is also relatively magnanimous, and is deeply influenced by almost all the nobles under him, Loved by soldiers and civilians, at least among the kings who can personally carry an axe to fight monsters or enemies, I have only seen this one except for Foltest. โ
"The king who carries an axe to fight monsters and enemies himself?Yes, it sounds like a good match for us dwarves, and if it weren't for his height and armor, I would think he would be a dwarf too. Zoltan hugged his arms and said, due to his innate height disadvantage, he could only tilt his head and talk to others, and several tables of drinkers in the vicinity also cast curious glances at him from time to time, after all, there are no dwarves in Gensokyo, and the ordinary human inhabitants born and raised here have only heard too much about the legends and fairy tales told by their elders, and the appearance of Zoltan, a living dwarf, in the tavern is definitely a scene," And Gelot, according to you, this world is not dominated by humans, but by various non-human races, and humans are protected by them?"
"Well, it's almost the same, this human town has several monster sages who are sheltered, even the Teutonic camp that seems to be the vast majority of the members who have risen in recent years are humans, and their two leaders, the brother and sister Feng Longde and Caroline, are also non-human races, but they look no different from humans in appearance. Gallott nodded, "There's so much to make clear here, and I've only briefly talked to you about it before, and I can't give you a general idea of what's going on here." โ