Lord of Arcane

Chapter 428 The Banished Druid

At present, Xia Duo's personal combat spell system focuses on protection and maneuvering, followed by breaking spells and damage. When raising the level of spells, defense and maneuvering are also given priority.

Therefore, when choosing the first spell to raise the level, Xia Duo has two choices, one is to upgrade [Mage Armor] to level 5, and the other is [Short-distance teleportation].

However, considering the time-consuming, Xia Duo finally chose [Mage Armor] to upgrade from level 1 to level 4. Xia Duo can be said to know this spell very well.

But teleportation, Xia Duo had just learned it not long ago, he didn't have the confidence to reach the fifth level of the magic net by upgrading the level of the 4th-level spell [short-distance teleportation] in a short period of time.

In the final analysis, there is a series of motivational support behind any choice.

On the other side, Layton also came to the residential area south of the altar square. Since he paid attention to Atwood when he was arranging the residence yesterday, he directly found Atwood's residence.

The Langas people have not been notified to go to the cafeteria to eat, but a lot of steamed buns have been distributed as food.

When he arrived here, Layton saw Atwood was squatting next to the fire pit in the house, baking steamed buns, and the pot hanging above was still boiling with water, making a gurgling sound, and the steaming water vapor rushed straight to the room on the roof. beam.

"Atwood!" Layton greeted with the holy light in his hand.

Atwood quickly put down the branch in his hand, stood up, bowed his body, and looked cautious, "My lord, what are your orders?"

"Not hiding anymore?"

"Don't dare to hide."

"Tell me, who are you? Where do you come from?" Layton summoned [The Realm of Honesty], staring at Atwood with scorching eyes, "Don't try to deceive my lord's just eyes!"

A faint sacred radiance spread out, which contained a mechanical and ruthless will that mortals could perceive.

Atwood's original respectful expression gradually became calm, and his bowed body straightened up, "I am from the [Golden Oak Order] in Severton, and I am the secret elder of the Golden Oak Order."

The Golden Oak Branch Order?Secret text elder?
These two names are completely unfamiliar to Layton, but from the word Oak Branch, he can also guess that Atwood is probably a Druid before. Layton kept his face calm and continued to ask:

"Then how did you lose your holy power? And how did you fall into the Netheril River? What is the purpose of coming to Great Xia?"

Compared with the previous question, this question is very critical, and [Zone of Honesty] does not have the function of mandatory interrogation. If Atwood refuses, he does not have to answer it at all.

But he had to bear the consequences of the refusal. Without any hesitation, he immediately replied: "I was exiled from the sect because of the conflict of ideas within the sect. After I left the sect, the Holy Power It began to be lost irreversibly until it disappeared completely. I was robbed by robbers and thrown into the river, and was later rescued on a boat. It was only accidental that I came to Daxia, and I did not have any malicious intentions."

A few sentences explained the reason clearly, but more details were not disclosed, such as what conflict of ideas led to exile, the real reason for the loss of holy power, and why the robbers were not killed directly when they robbed.

For a former druid, Leiden still gave a certain amount of respect, and did not inquire further.

However, he can be sure that Atwood is not lying. In other words, the Daxia Territory may have one more citizen, but this must be decided by the lord himself, and he has no right to give any guarantees.

He also just said, "I will report your situation to Lord Xiaduo. One thing you can rest assured is that whether you go or stay, your safety will be safe."

After speaking, he asked Atwood not to leave the residence for the time being, and then left alone to report.

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Inside Xia Duo's small tent.

The arrival of Layton made Xia Duo, who was devoting himself to the promotion of spells, a little uncomfortable. It was a bit like waking up, took a couple of deep breaths, gathered his thoughts, and recorded the key information of the current research progress node in his notes, in case of further research. Sometimes I can't find my way of thinking.

After doing this, he looked at Layton and asked, "Tell me, who is Atwood?"

"My lord, he is a druid, but now he has lost his holy power and has become an ordinary person."

Druid?Xia Duo immediately became interested. He had only heard of druids before, but had not seen them with his own eyes. Now Atwood should be the first living druid he has ever seen.

No, it should be a former druid.

"What else did he say?" Xia Duo asked quickly:
Layton recounted what Wrightwood had said before, the Order of the Golden Bough, the Elders of the Secret Text, Conflict of Ideas, Exile, Robbery, Rescue and so on.

Xia Duo had never heard of the Golden Elephant Branch Cult before, so it doesn't sound like a serious organization. Are there any secret text elders who master the secret text?Or master the hidden magic?

"Do you know the Order of the Golden Bough?"

"Sorry, my lord, I haven't heard of it. The records about druids in the temple library are limited to a few names and abilities."

If there is no temple library, it is unlikely that there will be a tower at that time. While sending information to Niya through the tower spirit, Xia Duo asked her to help inquire about the druid information and the situation of the Golden Bough Sect. Say to Leighton:
"Let Atwood stay in the territory first, and you can arrange for those Langas to learn Nether Common Language. Children will be taught alone. The translators of the Slavin Chamber of Commerce will leave one for you. You are in charge of teaching the children."

Now that winter has entered, heavy snow is about to come, and not even half of the people in the territory are participating in the labor. In addition, there are team leaders of various working groups, so Layton is actually not busy.

"By the way, this is for you." Xia Duo took out the simple dictionary he made by himself from the portable space, and handed a copy of "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" to Layton, "When children in the territory learn words, use this for They learn, and those Rangas children make them speak Nether Common first."

Layton took "Proverbs" and a thick dictionary, flipped through a few pages, and immediately realized the importance of this "thick book". Back then, when he was learning characters by himself, he had to forcefully read the entire book. Memory has no system at all.

But the book in front of me is obviously systematic. If you read this book completely, you will know all the other books. Especially for Nether people, the most difficult thing is actually the one-to-one correspondence between pronunciation and words , not the literal meaning.

"My lord, this book—" Layton looked at Xia Duo, and there was already a little fanaticism in his eyes.

"This is what I used when I was learning characters. Let them learn it first, and I will rearrange it later when I have time." Xia Duo noticed Layton's eyes.

In this simple dictionary, it is essentially a list of words based on Nai color letters. The notes and phonetic symbols are all written in English letters with pinyin and phonetic symbols. Only Xia Duo himself knows the specific meaning.

Layton didn't know that he was shocked like this. Wouldn't he be even more shocked if he organized these into Nether Common Language?

In the future, it is even necessary to teach the illiterate Naise phonetic symbols, and then they can learn characters by themselves. This is probably the advantage of phonetic characters.

(End of this chapter)