Arcane Linguist

Chapter 390 It’s just a transaction

While Roland and Balluff were talking, an old man in the Sladelta camp suddenly opened his eyes.

"What time is it now?"

He is described as haggard, but his body is covered with tattoos of different colors, making him appear mysterious and honorable.

"Great Elder, it's almost noon."

The young soldier waiting at the side said quickly.

"It's almost noon? Why aren't there any drill horns outside?"

"I have always been here to protect the law, and I don't know the situation."

The warrior said as he handed over his cane.

The old man stretched out his hand, stood up with the help of the soldier, and walked outside.

There were some warriors outside who were sparring and sparring. When they saw him appearing, they all stopped and saluted.

The people of Sladelta admire bravery and worship strength. They are so old and thin, their energy and blood are declining, and they even have to use a cane to walk, but they can be respected, there must be something strange about them.

Because he is the wizard of the tribe, the great elder who also serves as a doctor, religious leader, cultural teacher and other positions.

"Why isn't Balluff here?"

The great elder said a little strangely.

"Great Elder, the leader has gone to the Lena people."

In fact, the people of Sladelta don't quite understand the relationship between Atrein and Reiner's world, and because the name of the latter is relatively simple, they call Roland and others' place "the Reiner side."

This is actually a subtle misunderstanding.

The great elder didn't bother to correct him. Anyway, to him, there wasn't much difference.

He just wondered: "What is Balluff doing there?"

"It seems that I want to get a tattoo of the word '行'..."

The warrior felt guilty.

"That Baluff! It's getting more and more outrageous!"

The great elder paused the stick in his hand and said angrily.

"Great Elder, look, they seem to be back."

The soldier following him suddenly pointed to the other side.

The great elder also turned his head and looked over.

Someone was riding several huge monsters that looked like wolves, flying all the way over.

The leader is a tall man and is the warrior of this tribe, equivalent to Baluf, a seventh-level warrior.

"Hahahaha, so happy!"

Baluf sat on the back of the wolf, drinking while driving wildly.

When he was about to arrive at the camp, he threw the wine jar behind him and jumped into the air, landing firmly on the ground with a burst of smoke and dust.

The great elder's eyes narrowed slightly and he looked at Baluf's forehead.

I saw an extra inch-sized seal character "Xing" there.

The Seris character "Xing" has no known oracle bone inscriptions. There are four shapes in bronze inscriptions, but the glyphs are not so regular, which is not conducive to engraving.

Therefore, Roland adopted the seal script method and used a special dye to tattoo it on him.

And, give yourself special abilities derived from extraordinary qualities - Wen Yi Zaidao.

What was revealed in front of the great elder at this moment was the word "Xing" that had a hint of the true meaning of the law. It was actually the "Serys Talisman", not an ordinary rune.

"Baluff, why are you so reckless, you actually let a foreign wizard engraved a war mark on you, and you dare to put it on your forehead!"

Boss Dachang made a face and said very dissatisfied.

“Don’t you know that some demons use their power to seduce our warriors into corruption?

Foreign words and pictures are not in line with our traditions, and cannot be blessed by ancestral spirits! "

"Great Elder, I know what you mean, but I, Baluf, am not a fool. I have already figured it out before.

And even if there is danger, if I test it myself, wouldn’t it just be a good way to explore the mystery for everyone? "

Baluf said nonchalantly.

"伱......"

The great elder was speechless for a moment.

"What's more, in order to dispel my doubts, Mr. Roland has told me the complete story of Xingtian, as well as the beliefs of the Mata tribe, and also told me the method of inscribing this kind of tattoo.

This is the manuscript he asked me to bring to you, which details the method of carving this kind of tattoo by yourself! "

The great elder was startled. He took the hand from Baluf and immediately understood that he had underestimated Roland's abilities and skills.

"This... this is really the method of engraving war patterns!

He actually did some research on this and was so generous as to write them all out and give them to me? "

This is because the elder has little education and has never read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

If he had read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and knew the allusions to "The New Book of Meng De", he would have understood that he had unintentionally become Cao Cao and was deceived by Zhang Song.

The allusion is that Cao Cao wrote a "New Book of Meng De" and was quite proud of it. However, the messenger Zhang Song said that the book was plagiarized and that children in Shu could recite it secretly. What is a "new book"? "

Cao Cao naturally didn't believe it and gave the book to Zhang Song to read.

As a result, Zhang Song, relying on his photographic memory, memorized it immediately after reading it.

What Roland has done in the past few days is to research, analyze, summarize, and study the war patterns of these ancient tribes as a kind of arcane result.

He also innovated and incorporated the hieroglyphs of his Seris school and the mysteries of the rune language, corresponding to the middle and low levels respectively.

The result obtained now is a high-level talisman.

The great elder discovered the development of his own war pattern, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became.

This is clearly a rune system that is far more extensive and profound than the war patterns of our own race. It feels like primitive people using stone tools and bronze while watching others use steel and alloys.

What shocked the Great Elder even more was that Roland was so generous as to write out all the secrets and clearly asked others to hand it over to him.

Moreover, the method he used was not the messy arcane magic (which the great wizard could not understand), but the magic of worshiping gods and praying.

"This requires belief in external gods to gain power. There are some sacrificial rituals in it!"

The great elder continued to turn over the pages with a solemn expression, still having some doubts.

After all, he is not as simple-minded as those warriors.

"Then I don't quite understand, but at most it's just a sacrifice of blood and enemy heads."

Baluf scratched his head.

The elder was still a little worried. After thinking about it, he asked someone to bring out his reindeer.

"I'll go ask the great wizard Roland myself!"

"Great Elder?"

Everyone was surprised.

I didn't expect that he would take this matter so seriously.

……

Two hours later, Roland heard the news of the Great Elder's arrival from Belloda, with a smile on his face.

"Please come quickly."

Not long after, Beloda brought in the great elder.

"You guys go out first."

The great elder dismissed the warriors who followed him, as well as Baluf who didn't know why.

Roland also drove Tatali, Beloda and others out, poured a cup of tea himself, and said to the great elder: "Your Excellency, you have come all the way, but for the Xingtian battle pattern?"

"No, I have already read the information on that thing and I have a rough idea.

I just want to ask you, what do you want to do? "The great elder did not drink tea, but asked straight to the point with an unusually solemn expression.

As the wisest and most experienced elder in the tribe, he traveled to various countries when he was young, and even ventured beyond the world of Sinvila to venture outside.

He had also heard of Atrein, and had some knowledge of the titles of Archmage and Grand Arcanist.

These people, to some extent, can be compared to demigods or divine creatures. They are extremely dangerous existences!

"I have no ill intentions, I just want to make some deals with you."

Roland smiled and tried his best to show his sincerity.

"trade?"

The great elder felt slightly uncomfortable.

This kind of belief involving gods and powerful beings is actually said to be a transaction.

It is really……

awkward!

However, to be honest, the people of Sladelta do not believe in God.

There is no such pious and fanatical belief in their history and culture.

Roland also knows how to talk to people in person. He would never say such words to devout believers, but the ancestral spirits believed in by the people of Sladelta are ancestral beliefs, so he can listen to them.

"It's really just a transaction, because what I, the Seris School, believe in is the unity of heaven and man, and the coexistence of man and god.

No matter which god is friendly to us or useful to us, we can offer our sincerity and admiration, and we can offer incense and sacrifice with utmost sincerity.

But one thing is, all of this is based on fair dealing.

If it doesn't work, or if you just ask for it and kill the people, you can tear down mountains and temples, slay dragons and gods!

Seris people don’t raise idle gods! "

Roland's words are true. There are many similar things in the history and myths and legends of the Seris people.

This forms the basis of the myth of Siris and is also part of spiritual beliefs.

In other words, the so-called gods are just spiritual anchors on the way forward. They are powerful creatures that are difficult to surpass for a while.

What Seris people truly believe in is that man can conquer nature, and everything is people-oriented.

It can be as small as wealth jumping to the left or misfortune as it is right, and the wish can be fulfilled effectively, or as big as Hou Yi shooting the sun or Jingwei filling up the sea.

All this is explained.

"Sailis people don't raise idle gods!"

The great elder's body was shaken.

He was deeply shocked by Roland's statement.

Roland even said clearly: "If Xing Tian doesn't work, you can also ask him, who are you the God of War?

Destroy his temple and destroy his war patterns. After it is abandoned, there will be nothing left. "

"Do you think I'm stupid?" The elder suddenly came to his senses, veins popped up on his forehead, "Xing Tian is a real high-level Holy Spirit.

Although judging from the current situation, he does not yet have the ability to manifest himself, he has also condensed his divinity and is about to reach the realm of false gods.

This is the new god that you worship, and you should know his situation better than we do. "

"But the ancestral spirits you worship and their own power are real and true. They are also extraordinary abilities, aren't they?"

Roland spread his hands and said.

"Why can't we believe in more gods and use gods to control gods?"

He had heard such a saying in his previous life at Blue Star, that is, man can conquer nature, and the human-centered attitude does not apply in a world where gods and demons exist.

But in fact, such a world must be a world of high magic. There are also extraordinary magic and martial arts, and there are also many powers that are comparable to the gods.

Of course it is difficult to deal with high-ranking gods with powerful powers or extremely ancient times.

But weak false gods, demigods...

Aren't they just some high-level Warcraft or legendary creatures?

There is always a way to deal with it.

If you can't deal with it, it must be because you are not strong enough yet and you just need to keep getting stronger.

The great elder was dumbfounded when he heard this: "How many... how many more gods do you believe in, using gods to control gods?"

Does your family run a fishing farm? Playing fish farming?

To worship a god, you have to be pious, you have to kneel and lick it. How many gods, dozens or hundreds, can you in turn make them appear first and grab the incense?

How do you think of such a blasphemous thing and dare to say it out loud?

On the one hand, he was shocked by Roland's attitude, but on the other hand, he couldn't help but want to truly grasp this power.

Roland also saw his entanglement, but did not care. Instead, he generously chatted with him about "Xingtian War Will" and "Xingtian Totem" to help him further grasp the secrets.

This is treating the people of Sladelta as a backward country.

Roland fully understood that they were worried that opening the country would completely destroy traditional culture and social structure and bring heavy disaster.

But the Seris people are not those brutal Western colonists, and Roland has no interest in their internal affairs, let alone enslavement and colonization.

He just wants a fair deal.

This heart is bright, sincere and sincere.

No matter how stubborn and conservative the Great Elder is, he can still clearly feel the difference between Roland and the colonists.

……

"What's wrong with Great Elder? He didn't talk or laugh the whole way?"

Baluf and others escorted the great elder back with some strangeness.

As a result, he locked himself in the tent for the entire next night and read the information Roland gave him.

"Xingtian War Pattern" is not something complicated to the great elder. It just needs to point the object of prayer and worship to Xingtian.

So, he learned it quickly.

Without the true meaning of "writing to convey the Tao", naturally it cannot be compared with the talisman inscribed by Roland himself.

But the great elder has his own method and has developed his own characteristics.

The next day, it was almost noon.

The Great Elder finally walked out of the tent in front of everyone.

"Great Elder, you..."

Baluf was about to step forward, but was suddenly stunned.

"You also got a tattoo..."

On the back of the great elder's left hand, a red word "Xing" suddenly appeared.

The great elder waved his hand and came to a stone as big as a house at the edge of the camp. He raised his left arm and clenched his fist to gather strength.

A red flame like fire circulated and turned into the power of "Xingtian's fighting spirit".

While everyone was stunned, this arrogance spread all the way to other parts, condensing into a shadow like Xing Tian.

The area shrouded by this shadow began to swell from the left arm, like an inflated balloon, returning to the tightness and firmness of its youth.

This made him look as strong as a boy again.

Except for the parts of the head that cannot be covered by Xingtian's shadow...

boom!

As the fist fell, surging fighting spirit surged out, and the old body also exploded with the great strength of a warrior.

Suddenly, the stone cracked and collapsed.

"call……"

The great elder let out a long breath and burst into laughter.

"Xingtian battle pattern...I think it will work!"

(End of this chapter)