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Chapter 201 The Ethics of the Second Type of Combination
Prologue: An Upside-Down Song

Before I had the opportunity to formally come into contact with microlinguistics research, I was a junior bachelor majoring in the analysis of necromancers and residual letters under ritual science, which is what we usually call a "tower keeper".

In those days I had just passed my barricades, and thus temporarily gained extra leisure and money, while facing more constant pressure from the more routine affairs of the Tower.Like most of the newly promoted tower guard masters, I am full of longing for a new and broad learning career, but also fearful because of the uncertain future.In response to this pressure, my approach is to use as much of my professional skills as my authority allows.

Considering that there may be readers in this book who don’t know much about the White Tower’s magic system, I will use a more popular and exaggerated way to describe my main entertainment at that time: I collected those from outside and have not yet formally identified them. The sealed spell items are simply classified, and the ancient artifacts with obvious characteristics are taken out, and the residual information of the dead spirit contained in them is extracted in the name of nature testing.The specific performance is often that I sit in front of a round table made of elder wood (this material is not a necessary step), spend one to two hours using as little ether paint as possible Very extravagant) Draw the Homer Ghana rune, guess its source based on the material and appearance of the ancient object, and look for the spell of the corresponding language family.If I can do everything right in this process, and the relic does have some special history, then a ghost wandering in the past will appear on the table, showing me the last scene before its death .

My shallow knowledge of the history of the ancient languages ​​of various astral worlds often leads me to a dead end of clues, and I have to rely on luck and intuition to scramble.Seven out of ten of these attempts failed, and the few successes which I ecstatically ascribed to my own talents from the rashness of my youth.Looking back now, I need to point out that there was a lot of chance.

I'd love to spend a lot of space talking about my handful of successes.For example, I once heard a guard knight of the Witch King yell at an enemy before he died. The fragments extracted from the mithril armor show that he was full of anger at the last moment of his life, but his eyes were low ground.Combined with the various Torreel slang words he used, I deduce that the object of this last words is most likely a stone heart hatcher.

Another time I tried to extract a few bones ground into seals, and got the image of a Valkyrie with three heads and twelve arms.Her two heads are hideous, but the one in the middle is extremely beautiful, and it is the medium used to cast the spell of charm.At the end of her life, she was covered in blood, with a human head and the dark moon rune of the silent school hanging on her waist, and she chanted multiple aliases of King Ragorgon.This must have been a martyr too.

Due to the nature of the spells I used, I often didn't have a new friend I met in the antiquity who didn't die brutally and full of resentment.And the only time it wasn't.That day a forest demon came to the gate of the tower I was in charge of receiving.She handed me a broken mirror and complained that its singing frequently aroused the curiosity of passers-by and troubled the forest.She tried to throw it away many times, but the mirror always returned to its original place by itself - an ancient royal family tomb exposed by an earthquake (afterwards identification proved that there was a return spell written in the homecoming stone powder inside the mirror ).The repeated return of the mirror angered her, and she did not hesitate to travel across three worlds to find the legendary White Spire willing to collect various cursed items.

I dutifully accepted her request for safekeeping, and immediately noticed something unusual about the mirror.It is undoubtedly ancient, with an obvious elf style in style, but its craftsmanship and material handling are quite different from elves' methods, and it can almost be regarded as an imitation completed by human craftsmen's skills and mage enchantment.This made me give up on it, but I still extracted the residual letter from it in boredom.

For the sake of reading interest, I will omit the tedious and boring process of casting spells here, as well as the process of heraldry and material science research that takes a hundred times more time than the former.During that time, I am especially grateful to two people. One is my micro-linguistics instructor, who was the fifth-level key master of the pagoda at that time, Pifeng Yuyin (he was already a powerful master of the tower when this book was completed. one of the candidates); and the respected Mr. Dada Duck from Durand, he and his candy store, because of their location advantage and extremely thoughtful and fast delivery service, kept me from fainting and dying in the long battle with ancient books .

In the end, I successfully extracted the residual letter on the ancient mirror by relying on a fairy incantation derived from the Elvish language of Isen Island.The results, although not of much academic significance, were enough to open my eyes on a personal level.

The main part of the residual letter extracted from the mirror is an aging elven witch.Since most elves age, die, and weather in an instant, I've never seen an elf as old as hers.I was impressed by her human-like decrepitude and her poise about it.And at the last moment before her death, she did not make any comment on her own fate, but sang a song in Elvish language similar to Isen island language.

At that time, because I ignored an important factor in the process of casting the spell, every line of the lyrics she sang was completely upside down, and the meaning of the lyrics was not solved for a long time. It was not until several years later that I assisted Master Benta to conduct a study on refraction. After researching magic, I suddenly realized that the element of "mirror" is very likely to intervene in my independent ritual of taking out the residual letter, adding the concept of "reversal" to this process.I immediately dug out the singing records left over from that year, and tried to decipher the work again.

The lyrics of this song have been reviewed by Difeng·Yuyin, and I have simply and straightforwardly translated them. The general idea is as follows:

The elf knight came to the maiden's door,
I saw her washing clothes with a basin.

He knows that love is binding the two together,

But no mortal oath can be trusted.

He would not remain in that mortal village,
Put on rings of pale and humble gold and silver.

So he said:

I will swear to marry you,

But first please make me a pullover.

It cannot show the folds and stitches,

Wash in dry wells without water.

Finally hang it to dry in the thorn bushes.

That thorn has never flowered since creation,
So we are the hit couple.

The maiden heard what her lover said,

know what's on his mind,
So she said:

I would sew this jumper for you,

But first please find the materials for me.

Necessary to choose between the beach and the ocean,
Let the he-goat plow the ground with its horns.

Sprinkle pepper seeds when sowing,

Harvest with a leather scythe.

Please grow something for sewing,

coriander, sage, tansy and thyme,
Come to my door again with peacock feathers,
So we are the hit couple.

This song has no more content so far, so I have no way of judging the ending of the two protagonists in the lyrics.But the plot described in this process reminds me of a theory about the origin of the White Tower, that is, "the origin of elves".

In view of the fact that the tower has always held a positive attitude towards academic disclosure, I will explain it directly to readers who are not mages: Although the Camarilla claims at this stage that the White Tower first originated from several unions of the Torreel Skywall system Wizarding city-states, but several major schools of thought have never given up their claim as the first originator.Except for the council organized by the Camarilla, Yinhui, Tongshi, and Holm Oak are the three most powerful factions, and other theories have not been completely rejected. One of them is especially popular among the people, that is, it is believed that mages originated from The combination of elves and humans.The marriage of an elf knight and a human girl gave birth to the first generation of mages with the aptitude for magic, thus letting the secrets of the ether flow into the mortal society.

This legend of origin, or folktale, coincides with what I have heard of the song of the dead.This coincidence made me highly interested, and at that time I was very ambitious and was going to apply to build my own subsidiary mage tower.That meant I had to come up with a research commensurate with it, and be able to stand up to any level of mage inquiry on my own.

This is like an arrangement in the dark.I immediately decided to take this as a starting point, trace the origin of the legal system from the characteristics of its language family, and thoroughly find out the truth of this period of history.The journey took far longer than I expected, and it ended up taking me to almost every astral plane in the Alliance.The process is cumbersome to say the least, but to trace the source of all this, the upside-down song was the initial motivation to inspire me to start.

Considering the possibility that the legend may mutate in the process of spreading, I expanded my search scope and pursued any similar legends about the "combination of man and god" in various star worlds.That didn't help my thesis proposition much in the end, but it accidentally made me notice another interesting fact: all these legends, as long as they can lock their definite prototypes, are almost ancient creatures and low-level creatures in essence. The combination of civilized creatures in the ether area.

That is of course not an absolute assertion, but in the large amount of information I have collected, nearly [-]% of the cases conform to this rule. The more typical ones with regional characteristics include: the legend of elf knights in the fantasy world, the legend of Chonghong Township The legend of the never-ending island, the legend of the Yuyin girl who has no distant land.

More legends have a certain degree of universality, especially in the trap zone area, showing an extremely mixed state.What they have in common is that the intellectual side is often expressed as the side of "human beings" (or the local dominant species), while the coordinative side is described with many identities that are actually imprecise (or even completely wrong), Common identity descriptions include: Goddess, Princess of the God-King, Celestial Knight, Demon, Mermaid, Youthless One, Spirit of Nature or Elements (the ancient law described in this way is often not a true elf type).

I broadly divide all story types into the following categories:
[-]. Knights of Heaven.The core image of this type of legend is that a "knight" with a certain force function came for a certain mission, married a local opposite sex, and finally left forever because his partner broke a certain commandment.

[-]. Plumage category.Legends of this type are often associated with images of "goddesses" (but not necessarily women).Compared with the first type, its union with mortals has a certain degree of involuntary nature, and the key image controlling its stay is "feather clothing"—or leopard skin, feathers, and gauze skirts, depending on the protagonist Depends on the identity.In the end, the "Goddess" will also leave because of the recovery of "Yuyi".There are also more unique branches of this type, such as fairies born in snail shells, or cases of transforming from mortals to "gods" with potions, spells, and blessings, so they have to leave the mortal world.In addition, "a marriage that was found taboo by the elders" and "forgotten and betrayed by the partner" are also frequent reasons for leaving (even death).

[-]. Mermaid.The core element of this type does not lie in the species of the "mermaid", but in the initiative of being the "god".In such legends, there is often only a unilateral willingness to combine, and the failure to get the response of "mortals" also leads to devastating consequences in the end.Similar cases include the legend of sunflowers and the legend of epiphyllum.

Four,……

The above types are not enough to summarize all the stories I have collected. However, with this general introduction, I hope that it is enough for readers to appreciate how the combination of the two types is described and understood in the astral worlds of the Alliance.For the unprecedented, complex and chaotic world pattern we have faced so far, of course conquest and analysis are commonly used methods, as are acceptance and integration.Although the ancient covenants often did not have a civilized system to guarantee economic and personal relationships, they still attached great importance to oaths—including love words and marriage.That disregard for the need for contractual flexibility and breach-of-contract provisions has often led to tragic results, and league laws and institutions often fail to capture them.To understand how this fact happened, it is a more convenient and quicker way to refer to folklore.

Out of this consideration, I wrote this book with all the materials collected during the trip.Although its content is far from my research goal, and the venerable Flute Wind Yuyin regretfully informed me that these materials cannot provide any form of support for my independent tower building, I still decided to publish it to the public free of charge. As the final result of my journey.

So far, I would like to thank the esteemed Difeng Yuyin and Mr. Dada Chuke once again for finding a suitable publisher for me out of friendship.If I had one thing to hope for from this book, it was that it would bring some joy to these two, and complete the story of the upside-down song—not only in the elf knight and maiden, but in what I've gathered. In every legend that ends in misfortune.

(End of this chapter)