Pale Emblem

Chapter 25 The Whereabouts of the Notes

Who would have thought that Vertok, whose heart is pure as a blank sheet of paper, would also lie?

Mayor Maine had seen how serious Vertok's amnesia was, and did not doubt that he could not remember the alphabet.The old sage's idea of ​​studying the ancient alphabet can only be put aside for a while, at least until Vertok's condition has eased.

However, this also led to Vertok's hope of learning common words from the mayor and snooping for clues by the way.

Mein is not a professional physician, but a learned sage who has his own insights into the complex causes of amnesia.He told Vertok that there is no cure for amnesia, and the patient can only recover slowly. Before the condition improves, he should take a good rest, try his best to relax his mind, avoid strong stimulation, and do not use his brain too much, which also includes learning knowledge, Otherwise, it may cause memory disorder, but aggravate the development of the disease.

In short, Vertok’s current situation is relatively serious, so don’t think about studying for the time being, just play like a child.

In the end, at Vertok's strong request, Mayor Mein reluctantly agreed that he could teach him ten cursive characters every afternoon, but not even one more.And it is only teaching words, not talking about anything else.If Vertok's condition is not good, Maine will terminate the course, and if his condition improves, he will also appropriately increase the learning content.

The old sage was afraid that Vertok had learned a lot of common scripts and completely forgotten the precious ancient alphabet.He also used a vivid analogy: how many things can a person's head hold, just like a wooden bucket, when the bucket is filled with water, and then water is poured into it, the water in the bucket will overflow, but if you put the previous If the water is squeezed out, it will be miserable.

Maine's analogy seems to make sense. If Vertok didn't know that people's spiritual strength can actually increase, he would have almost believed him.

Vertok suspects that the old town mayor is deliberately avenging himself for hiding the ancient alphabet from him.Since he first resorted to deception, he has naturally learned to doubt.

However, Vertok is not in a hurry. Investigating clues and retrieving memory is the ultimate goal.Improving your personal strength and ensuring your own safety is the most urgent need.

Vertok still practices the two secret shapes of barberry and monkey every morning. In the afternoon, he learns ten swash characters from Mayor Mayen, and then hangs around the plantation until dinner time, and practices the golden toad secret shape when he sleeps. And review the past gains and losses of the day.It's just that when he was doing these things, there was a tail that couldn't be shaken off by his side.

The barbarian boy Yog followed Vertok and did not dare to leave for a moment. The previous encounters frightened him, and Ingrid didn't seem to want to let him go. He always inadvertently found several older barbarian slaves vicious. staring at himself.

In a place so hostile to him, Yog knew that Veltok was the only half-elf capable and willing to shelter him.The most important thing is that with Vertok, he will have food and a place to sleep.

When Vertok eats every day, Yog can eat the same food, and when Vertok sleeps, he sleeps on the floor of the corridor outside the door.Because the bedroom is the only territory that Vertoc is unwilling to share with others.Yog found a place to sleep by the door of his bedroom.Even if he was curled up on the floor with no bedding, it was much more comfortable than sleeping in the underground shack of the Taka tribe.

John and Huck of the Adventurer's House wanted to drive the barbarian boy out of the house, but Vertoc stopped them from doing so.Yog even dared not stay away from Vertok.

In fact, Vertok is not yet sympathetic. He is just worried that if Yog leaves the mayor's house, he will be killed by those barbarian slave girls.

As for Yog eating two half-elf guards' rations for a day, Ingrid and the others hated them so much.Vertok didn't think too much about it. Anyway, he thought that the food on the plantation was provided for free.

In addition to eating and drinking every day, Yog will follow Vertok to learn cursive characters from the mayor.I have to say that Yog studied very seriously, and even Maine praised him for being smarter than the half-elf soldiers in the guard.So the mayor ordered Yog to prepare a sheepskin mattress, plus two sets of clothes for washing, and allowed him to use the slave bathroom.

The mayor of Maine released the kindness that Virtok seemed insignificant to Yog, but it surprised the barbarian slaves of the plantation, and indirectly improved the living environment of the barbarian boy. At least Ingrid and the others were no longer interested. Yog showed obvious contempt and disgust.

Vertok looked back through the "knowledge puzzle" and found that this subtle change was actually made by the old mayor on purpose. He should have noticed that Yog was a little special, so he questioned him without expression.

Cross-examination is also a science, and Vertok's straight-forward questioning method did not get many valuable clues from Yog.Mayor Maine didn't ask anything.He didn't even know what Vertok wanted to know from Yog, and how could he possibly get the answer to the question?
However, in just a few days, the mayor won the trust of the barbarian boy and asked him to tell all his main experiences.

Yog's life experience is actually quite pitiful. His mother is a shaman from the Taka tribe, and his father is a top ranked barbarian fighter in the Taka tribe.Yog would have had a good life in the tribe, but he was struck by lightning when he was five years old.The barbarians generally worship an ancient god called "Tianling", and lightning is the weapon used by Tianling to punish the enemy.Little Yog inexplicably suffered a lightning strike, causing panic among the clansmen.But his savage fighter father died at the hands of a wandering troll when he went out to find herbs for him.Yog became an ominous barbarian, ostracized by the entire clan, even his shamanic mother.

The only thing the shaman Sina could do was convince the clan chief not to execute Yog, but Yog lived alone in a crypt shack on the outskirts of the Taka tribe.Except for his mother, Xinna, he has no friends, no partners, and not much communication with his clan.

In this case, how much can Little Yog know about the Taka Department?
Why does Sina speak that rare language?

What did she say to Vertok at the gate of the plantation?
These key issues, Yog did not know all about it.And about the blood rage talent of the barbarians, he knows nothing more than the barbarian slaves.

Basically, he's an orphan who doesn't know anything, and now he's a follower to Vertok.

The clues on Yog seem to have been broken, and Vertok's attitude towards Yog has not changed in any way, but his attention has shifted to the sage of Maine.

These days, Vertok "remembered" more than a dozen ancient alphabets one after another. Mayor Maine was really happy. He increased the daily course of learning ten common cursive characters to 30 characters a day. He also Will satisfy Vertok's curiosity and answer some questions.

Today, Vertok felt that the time was ripe, so he asked Mayor Maine about the whereabouts of the great sage Malfoy's personal notes.

Maine put away the quill and cotton paper on the table, raised his eyes to look at Vertok on the opposite side, and glanced at Yog, who had pointed ears, and said with a smile: "Vill, you are very smart, you can think of the great sage. 's personal notes are an important clue for you to retrieve your memory. I told you that no one recognizes the ancient alphabet, but you do. So how do you recognize it? You think as I do, you should have seen Malfoy personal notes. If you can find Malfoy's personal notes, you might know something about his own experiences."

"However, you may be disappointed..."

The mayor leaned on the back of the chair, adjusted a comfortable sitting position, and continued: "Marfo the Great Sage was a great figure more than 1000 years ago. His most extraordinary achievement was to create the Earth Goddess Sect. Don't underestimate the sect's contribution to civilization. But to understand the meaning of the birth of a sect, we must first understand the difference between sectarian belief and primitive worship.”

"Taku and Hemo worship the Mother Earth. Some people say that they believe in the doctrine of the Mother Earth and belong to the Dimu sect. In fact, it is not. The Taku Hemer has not even compiled the honorary name of the Mother Earth, nor has a fixed sect. Origins, denominational rules, denominational rituals, nothing to differentiate between believers and non-believers of the Mother Earth. It's certainly not a sect, just primitive worship of the Mother Earth."

"The barbarians worship the ancient gods called "Heavenly Spirit" and also worship the Mother Earth; the orcs worship the Mother Earth and maintain the necessary respect for the 'Heavenly Spirit'. But it is not so much that they respect the 'Heavenly Spirit' as they Fear the power of lightning and form a primitive worship."

"Some alien orcs also worship the Mother Earth, and even hold rituals to worship the Mother Earth. However, Tagu Hemo, barbarian half-orcs, and alien orcs, all the races that worship the Mother Earth, will still kill each other when they meet... You said, the sect whose believers kill believers is still a sect?"

"Before the appearance of the Earth Goddess Sect, the Tower Cave and the Hemers called themselves rock elves, and they called half-elves like us sub-elves. At that time, rock elves and sub-elves mixed together, and their way of life was nothing like the current Braun town. The difference. The ancient rock elves led the sub-elves to build one after another besieged villages. Among them, the Tagu people were responsible for guarding the besieged villages, taking care of pregnant women and young children, and building stone weapons; Monsters, destroy the invaders. And the sub-elf assists Takuhomer in his daily work, and also goes out to collect, hunt, repair the village, and make tools..."

Mayor Mayen may have been lonely for too long, and he has been distracted by a good topic, and the more he talks about it, the more vigorous he is.

John, who has been acting as a tool man and bodyguard, couldn't stand Maine's nagging, and couldn't help complaining: "Mr. Mayor, Will asked you where Malfoy's personal notes are, you went too far... "

"Yo, can you talk? I thought you were a stone statue."

Mayor Mayen rolled his eyes at the training camp's chief officer, and mocked a little sadly: "You refuse to learn knowledge at a young age, what's the difference between you and a stone? For so many days, I taught these two children to write, You don't even take a look next to you, but you're too embarrassed to think I'm too far? Look at Yog, he's better than you as a barbarian."

Yog was listening with ecstasy, his eyes gleaming.John gave him a cold look, shut his mouth, and stopped talking.

Vertok also likes to listen to Maine tell stories, and he won't dislike him for nagging. He just listened with gusto, and he urged: "Mayor Maine, continue talking."

I don't know what was aroused, but Maine's interest in chatting greatly diminished. He shook his head and said, "It's endless. If you want to know more, you have to read the book yourself. In the future, after you have finished learning general It's better to read all these books I've written than to waste my saliva here..."

The old man pointed to the surrounding bookshelves, which were full of neatly bound cotton paper books.He smiled and said: "I don't dare to teach you to recognize common words now, I'm worried that it will consume your energy too much and make you forget the ancient alphabets. However, I know where Marfo's personal notes are. I can also find a way to show it to you, but it may not be what you think."

"Let's keep it simple... Malfoy created the Earth Goddess Sect and compiled the Earth Goddess's honorable name, origin, and sect books. The Rock Elf believed that everything he compiled was false, but it didn't matter at all. The Earth Goddess sect had fixed The origins, rules, and rituals of the ancients turned primitive worship into religious beliefs, and religious beliefs united the loose sub-elves together, allowing civilization to be passed on."

"Marfo accepted sixteen sub-elf disciples, and they were the later sixteen-pillar famous... Malfoy hopes that these sixteen disciples will support the Earth Temple like pillars, so that the Earth Goddess Sect will not fall. But no matter how great it is. The sages would never have imagined that, in a few hundred years, the sixteen-pillar gatekeepers who maintained the Earth Temple would completely divide up the wealth accumulated by the temple, including Malfoy's personal notes."

"Ah? Malfoy's private notes are in the hands of the famous Sixteen Pillars? Who exactly stole the notes?" Vertok asked eagerly.

The expression of the sage Maien became weird, and he couldn't help laughing out, "Haha, this matter is also quite ridiculous... More than 400 years ago, the dragon king Felumat woke up from his long sleep, and it discovered that the Earth Temple had accumulated a huge Then, Felumat robbed the Temple of the Earth, and even the original of Malfoy’s private notes was taken away by it. Just after the Dragon King’s robbing, the Sixteen Pillars robbed it again, and they divided it up The Knights of the Temple led to a serious decline in the influence of the Temple of the Earth. The Sixteen Pillars established the Council of the Famous Gates of the Highland City to replace the Temple of the Earth and won the ruling power of the Disa Alliance."

Vertoc frowned and asked, "The note is in the hands of the Dragon King Fei Lumat?"

Maine nodded and shook his head again: "The note was originally in the Dragon King's lair, and it may have been rotten... Fortunately, a priest named Cody took down a copy of Malfoy's private note, and he put it again. The copy is dedicated to the Council of Famous Sects. Now, the Sixteen Pillars and Famous Sects have all kept the manuscripts of the Great Sage's Notes."

"I can borrow a manuscript for you. The problem is that the manuscript is copied and copied by someone who does not recognize the alphabet, and the font of the alphabet will always be more or less different from the original font. The manuscript that I can borrow The alphabet is not exactly the same as the alphabet you have mastered... I hope you can read it, and if it doesn't work, we will try to find a way to collect all the manuscripts that have been handed down so that you can identify it."

Maine let out a long sigh and asked with a smile: "Today's class is over, you can go out to play... I heard that you have recently become obsessed with blacksmithing, and the blacksmiths in the plantation have praised your talent. You also went to the blacksmith today. shop?"

Vertok nodded and said, "Go."

Mayor Mayen also nodded and said: "Relaxing your mind is good for your memory recovery. Going to the blacksmith shop to swing a hammer is also a good way to relax. Before you go to the blacksmith shop today, you'd better meet Ingrid... You The kind of 'zircon' she wanted for iron, she'd found it."

(End of this chapter)