129.Traces of the Witch Research Society (5k)
After giving Valentina the medicine, Fisher did not rush to leave, after all, there were still two wounded here, he decided to hold off here for the night, and wait for Phyllis to stabilize before leaving, Valentina lay next to Fisher at night, she was chewing barbecue in a daze, and when Fisher asked her, she told Fisher that she was wondering what the legendary phoenix looked like.
It is no wonder that in the mythology of the people of the North, the frost phoenix is humanoid, she is a loving god with the appearance of a divine beast, named "Nefira Muyi", even if it is related to the six tribes of the phoenix species, Fisher did not get evidence of the image of the phoenix from them, and their means of referring to the phoenix are "plane trees".
"No, I reminded you a long time ago, don't compare the phoenix species in the north with the status of ordinary subhuman races, they have a very high status in the hearts of the creatures in the north throughout the ages, even the best painters in the north are afraid that their brushstrokes will tarnish the noble phoenix, so they never dare to depict their noble images..."
At night, Emhart, who was lying in Fisher's arms, heard Valentina's question next to him and sat up, and said to Fisher,
"In the final analysis, the phoenix race is just a high-level sub-race that lives in the depths of the snow-capped mountains, and it is not even a mythical race, and it is different from the dragon race that has always participated in the history of the Southern Continent and is remembered, they obviously only left the Wutong once and then went back, why are they remembered by all the races of the six races to this day?"
Valentina listened to Emhart's words in a daze, even though there were many unfamiliar terms in his mouth, she did not interrupt, just listened quietly and prepared to ask later, and Phyllis was already asleep,
"That's because the power of the mythical species is too unimaginable, for the northern realm, which is generally low in the life rank, the invasion of the chaos species is undoubtedly desperate, and it is undoubtedly a miracle that the phoenixes of the non-mythical species can repel the chaos species. When everything in the north withered and despaired, it was the phoenixes who gave them the dawn of life, and such kindness they will never forget for generations, thus carving their dignity into their blood and passing it on from generation to generation..."
"But sometimes you deify them too much, so that since they disappeared, they don't even know what they look like, and the classics I read, too powerful people are too lazy to record, too low rank and dare not remember, and I just don't know at all, so now the image of the phoenix species is gradually becoming a lake... But aren't you going to the plane tree, there must be clues to the hometown of the phoenix, maybe you can see a living phoenix, I'm also quite curious. β
Valentina asked a few more questions in a daze, about the mythical species and the chaos species, Emhart didn't bother to take care of her and lay back in Fisher's arms to sleep, so Fisher had to answer her.
It's just that until the fire is turned off and she goes to bed, Valentina still can't figure out what the legendary phoenix looks like, and if she also has the blood of a phoenix, she will become like that when the time comes... Heck, will you have wings? Do you grow feathers yourself? Wouldn't that be no different from the snow fox species? Please, please, don't get feathers on your face, that's too ugly, Fisher won't like it!
Valentina lay quietly in her bed and slept, and the little brain had been turning and turning since she heard Fisher say in the afternoon that she was still developing into a phoenix, and her mind was full of the appearance of herself becoming a feathered chicken, and the night went by like this.
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The next morning, Fisher got up early to check the weather outside and the condition of Phyllis, as Fisher expected, the recovery ability of the lion race is really not to be underestimated, plus Fisher's healing magic is out of danger in one night, although she can't move casually now, but at least she can be sure that she will not stay in Sema Snow Mountain forever.
So, now that Phyllis's condition had been determined, Fisher decided to follow the plan he had previously determined and carry Valentina on his back towards Sema Snow Mountain.
"Dress tightly, and we're off right away."
"Well... I don't know if it's a delusion, but lately I've been feeling like it's not getting cold. β
Fisher, who was carrying Valentina on his back, paused slightly, and he suddenly thought of the small touch of cold fluff that he had seen on her back yesterday, and he smiled slightly and quipped,
"Maybe you're going to turn into a phoenix covered in feathers, so it's not cold at all."
Valentina, who was poked in her heart, glared at Fisher, and wanted to touch his neck with her cold hand, but this trick had no effect on Fisher at all, but her hand was quickly warmed.
I forgot that this guy was a weird guy who could wear a white shirt on a big night in the North.
"Boss, walk slowly, I'm waiting for your good news at the bottom of the mountain, and strive for an early birth... Oh no, it's an early arrival at the Sycamore Tree. β
"Phew..."
Phyllis yawned, lazily swept the ground with her tail, and by the way, she also took the mini dagger given to her by the snow fox species before to Valentina for self-defense, this joking word made Valentina want to poison her, but when she saw the bandage on her abdomen that had dried blood, she still didn't speak, but told quite worriedly,
"Phyllis, I'm a little worried that the Turan family will continue to do something to you, after you go down the mountain, you can tell Hedilyn that we have entered the plane tree, if the family people come, she will be able to deal with it."
"No problem."
After a final greeting to a cheerful Phyllis, Fisher left the makeshift camp with his gear and Valentina, heading deeper into the Sema Mountains.
After the periphery of the snow-capped mountain, the rest of the mountain road becomes quite difficult to walk, which really indicates that the road to climb the Saima Snow Mountain has just begun, and the next snow-capped mountain has three full peaks, one peak is higher than the other, and one peak is more dangerous than the other, there is no human population in the middle of the way, and the terrain is originally higher after the middle of the northern border, and the longitudinal drop of several thousand meters makes the Saima Snow Mountain undoubtedly become a forbidden place for creatures.
But fortunately, Fisher's tenth-order physical fitness is really exaggerated, at least he doesn't feel tired at all with these equipment and the light Valentina, and he can still chat with her halfway,
"Fisher, I have the blood of the phoenix in my body and I am afraid of cold, but you don't feel it at all, do you also have the blood of other races?"
She leaned against Fisher's back and exhaled hot air, asking as she surveyed the snow-covered landscape around her.
At this time, the place they passed was next to the cliff, and the snow covered the danger of this high cliff, otherwise the height of hundreds of meters would make Valentina dare not look at it at a glance, but at this time, Fisher, who was carrying her and the equipment, walked lightly and steadily, which made Valentina a little curious and wanted to know more about him.
This question made Fisher a little silent for a while, because so far he still didn't understand how Yaren Niang's completion of the manual added to his life rank, so in comparison, it seemed that the bonus method of the soul completing the manual was quite obvious, and it was clear at a glance whether it was human or not.
"That's a good question to answer, wait until I turn over the books to see which race likes to reproduce the most, this guy's bloodline definitely hasn't run..."
Fisher thought for a moment, then shook his head, and just said,
"My specialness does not come from congenital, but from acquired factors that cannot be said, but it is probably no different from ordinary humans."
"That's right..."
Valentina glanced at Fisher's signature black hair, and suddenly remembered that his eyes were not black, but the most common green color of the Nari, and asked,
"I wanted to ask from the beginning, you seem to be a half-breed of Kadu and Nari, right?"
"Well, I don't know who my parents are, I was abandoned at the door of the church orphanage during the war. During that time, Nari and Schwali were at war, the domestic situation was turbulent, and even St. Nari had many abandoned orphans, and I was one of them, and because Kadu was more diplomatic biased towards Schwali at that time, the Kadu people in Nari were very unhappy at that time. β
Fisher's words were vague enough, but Valentina could still hear the hidden meaning of his words, so she gently rested her head on his back,
"Then you must not have had a good time as a child, as a half-breed of Kadu and Nari and an orphan, right?"
"Actually, I was doing well, and thanks to Mother God, I was adopted by a very kind Sister Nari, who treated me very well and taught me many, many things. I inherited her last name, so I should have been her adopted son, but she was only fourteen years older than me, so when she put on the posture of an elder, I always worked against her as a child. β
"It's really rare to hear such a sincere 'Mother Goddess Blessing' from your mouth, because you weren't a devout Mother Goddess believer before."
Fisher was noncommittal about Valentina's teasing, for it was only when he remembered Mother Teresa that he had a real response to his often objectively critical belief in the Mother Goddess.
Valentina exhaled a hot breath and turned her head to find Emhart on his shoulder listening intently to Fisher, she smiled a little, and then spoke,
"I've been the same, I've never seen my parents for as long as I can remember, Hedilyn grew up caring for me, and I've heard that she used to serve my mother, taking care of her day and night while she was studying magic, so my mother trusted her very much... By the way, Hedilyn, you've already seen it, do I have a chance to meet the nun who raised you? β
"Ah, wait, I forgot you can't go back to Nari. That ex-girlfriend of yours is also too heartless, and based on my previous observations, she should have known that you didn't kidnap the princess at all, but she still wants to brutally arrest you back, really..."
Emhart resisted the urge to correct her Yin Lizabeth as actually an "ex-ex-girlfriend", and decided to watch Xue quietly without saying a word, but Fisher, who was carrying her, smiled a little, and his steps unconsciously slowed down a little,
"It's okay, even if you can go back, you won't see her anymore. She died long ago, before I went to the Royal Academy, and I put her ashes in the Archcathedral of Nari with my own hands. You should have heard of the strict rules for the Mother Goddess to enter the church for eternal sleep after death, even the most lax of the cathedrals, Nari, the examination of the church to sleep is a hundred times stricter than the examination of the background of the members of the parliament, and the documents to be examined are unknown. β
"But at that time, I didn't feel tired at all. I carried her ashes all the way from the countryside where she grew up to the hospital where she died, one by one, I collected the testimonies of her devotion to the Mother Goddess during her lifetime, and helped her fulfill her last wish, enter the Holy Sepulchre of the Church, and bathe in the light of the Mother Goddess to sleep forever..."
Valentina opened her mouth, but unfortunately she had been carried by Fisher behind her so she couldn't see his expression clearly, so she quietly hugged Fisher a little tighter, and said in a low voice,
"I'm sorry, Fisher."
"It doesn't matter, she's done living her mother goddess's life as a devout believer, at least for now, Benavides is still alive."
Fisher calmly recounted the past, as if it were a little fun for the boring journey of climbing and climbing, but Valentina was now eager to stay with Fisher all day and talk, and she probably listened to it with relish even if he was talking about esoteric philosophy.
Just as Fisher was about to start another happy topic to change the atmosphere, he suddenly saw a glove-wrapped hand stretching out from the side of the steep mountain road ahead, and the palm of the hand was motionless on the side of the road, and he didn't know how long he had been here.
Fisher stopped, stretched out his fluid sword, and grabbed the outstretched arm in the distance, easily pulling out a man in heavy clothing, but the man stiffened up and down, apparently dead for a long time.
Valentina wasn't afraid, after all, she had only personally fired and smashed the heads of the two Nari agents before, and she had come far from the traditional delicate eldest lady.
"Is this a Kado?"
Valentina inferred as she glanced at the other man's long black hair wrapped in a hiking hat.
"Well, and he's a member of the Witch Workshop."
Fisher picked at his clothes with his fluid sword, and found in his pocket a bottle of blood that had almost been freeze-dried, several carving tools that mimicked medieval times, and a letter that had not yet been opened.
Wait, did the snow fox species say before that they saved a person who climbed the snow mountain in the Western Continent? Couldn't it be the guy from the Witch Research Society in front of you?
Climbing the Horse Racing Snow Mountain with an injury, this is not looking for death, not only brought the plague to the snow fox species, but also died a tragic death here, if this guy insists on doing this, then it must mean that he has something very important to do... Like, that letter.
Fisher picked it slightly with the fluid sword, and the letter that had not been opened was brought back, he opened the envelope, and the text on it Valentina couldn't read the Kado, she could only speak Northern and a little simple Nari, Nari was still learned by Fisher after joining the team, but Fisher had already opened his mouth to translate for her,
"'Dear Elder Farrut, it's not good, there's been a recent change in the congregation, and that guy from Kazakwood has clashed with your appointed acting president. In your and Elder Quico's absence, his prestige in the congregation grew by the day, and the acting president and I could no longer hold him down. Now he is still leading most of the congregants towards the General Research Council, trying to overthrow the missing President Heilman... Please give up the search for President Heilman and return to the overall situation, or else everything will be over... Yoon Eun-ryu'. β
Fisher was speechless at the end of the reading, he had heard Carlo mention when he had received a clue about the undead witch's black hair, that their former president had disappeared in the ruins of the snowy mountains, but they had finally brought back a real witch's hair. Unexpectedly, several years have passed, and there are still several elders of the Witch Research Society searching for the missing former president...
No, his own house was stolen by his subordinates, and the messenger who came to deliver the message in a hurry also died halfway up the mountain, I heard that the snow fox species rescued this person a month ago, and this witch research association is expected to have a coup d'Γ©tat, and it is estimated that it will be over long ago.
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"It turns out that the Kadu people who came to climb the mountain a few years ago are members of the notorious Witch Research Society, no wonder there have been Kadu people who have come to climb the mountain in the past few years, it seems that they are all to report to these two elders who are still in the mountain..."
Hearing Valentina's words, Fisher threw the letter off the cliff indifferently, he didn't care about the situation of the Witch Research Society at all, even if he knew, he would only say "good death", but the encounter with the Sycamore Tree hidden in the Witch Research Society a few years ago was what he needed to care about.
"Ruins? However, there is only one entrance marked in the scroll, and if the marked place is a ruin, it is likely that it is the arrangement of the troll species that were stationed there later. β
These steep climbs were no obstacle to Fisher, but the end of the journey, the foot of the Sycamore Tree, should be divided into two parts, one is a large area of ancient ruins, and the other is the troll colony hidden behind the ancient ruins, and the troll colony is the real entrance to the Sycamore Tree.
The previous Witch Research Society should not have found the settlement of the troll species, or rather, not all of them have found it, otherwise it would not be the only former president of the Society who is missing now...
Fisher still didn't know about the status of the ruins and the troll settlement, he decided to rush there first, after all, what he was carrying on his back was the remnants of the blood of the phoenix species, and the trolls didn't let others enter, could he still not let the phoenix species go home?
In the distance, the mountain road was rough and the snow was still blowing, and Fisher picked up his pace a little and climbed towards the top of Sema's Snow Mountain.