Chapter 2547: "Crystal Light"

Chapter 2546 "Crystal Light"

Hearing what Shade said, the tall and strong female bartender snorted:

"People who drink juice like "White Flower Fruit Brew" should not touch alcohol. That friend with pointed ears finally sent you to pick up the goods? I thought she didn't want this thing anymore."

After that, she asked Shade to wait for a moment, she left the counter and went up the stairs to the second floor. Not long after, she came back with a cloth bag, and a stone slab was wrapped in a light yellow silk cloth.

Because she wanted to inspect the goods, she deliberately asked Shade to put on gloves to check the stone slab. However, this is not a special item and does not contain elements. The value of this "antique" lies in the fact that the front and back of the stone slab are engraved with the ancient fairy tale "Crystal Light":

[A long time ago, under the protection of the tree, the ancient elves lived happily together in the forest. One day, a young elf girl in the tribe was patrolling alone in the forest and met a traveling merchant who was chased by a wild wolf.

The elf girl saved the merchant, and the merchant gave her a beautiful crystal earring as a thank you. After returning home, the elf girl was surprised to find that the crystal allowed her to see farther and run faster. So the next day she went to find the merchant again to express her gratitude, and the merchant who still did not leave the forest asked the elf girl if she needed more magical goods, but she needed to pay for it.

So, the naive elf girl first obtained a crystal necklace that made her smarter at the cost of "hunting a wild boar", and then obtained a crystal bracelet that made her more beautiful at the cost of "cutting down a small piece of woodland".

More and more crystals entered the hands of the elf girl with transactions, and she paid a higher and higher price for it. Those eternal crystals that can withstand the erosion of time, with their charming flashes, unknowingly blinded her eyes with greed and desire, and buried her originally kind and innocent heart.

One day a long time later, on a night that no one could record, the elves slaughtered their own village in order to obtain more crystals to gain the power of eternal youth.

So the traveling merchant smiled and turned her into an eternal crystal statue, letting her stand in the center of the forest, and then left here to find the next trading partner. 】

This fairy tale is obviously not a story brought by a stranger from his hometown. This kind of classic fairy tale with admonition, warning and warning meaning was not uncommon in the past. The value of this fairy tale lies in the fact that it is the story of elves.

Therefore, although it is just an ordinary antique, this stone tablet is indeed very useful to the ring wizard. Moreover, although the front and back sides are the same story, one side is the human language of the Fifth Age, and the other side is the ancient elven language, so its research value is even greater.

This stone tablet is fine. After completing the inspection, Shade was not in a hurry to leave. Instead, he followed the usual practice and issued a long-term commission to purchase special coins in the black market of this new city.

It’s just a pity that perhaps because there are not many local ring wizards, there are no special coins to sell here for the time being.

When Shade tentatively asked the female bartender about the local ring wizard organization, the other party helped Shade confirm that members of the "Forest Hermit Group" did occasionally appear in Vesta City, but those "hermits" lived in the woods all year round, and they only sent people into the city when replenishing supplies.

Therefore, Shade wanted to contact these people and try to find clues from them. Not only the clues from Miss Danister, but also the clues from the astrologer a hundred years ago were temporarily unfulfilled.

"What? You want to ask how the city is doing recently? What else can you do? Everything is fine. As for whether you want to know if there have been any strange things here before, well, there are indeed some things I can tell you."

The female bartender neatly accepted the 1-crown coin that Shade pushed to her, and poured Shade a glass of beer, and motioned Shade to sit down outside the counter to talk:

"There are too many secrets in the West Forest. When it was still the town of Riverwood, the population was relatively small, and there were not many local ring mages, so there were only some plausible rumors and messages left in that era."

"It doesn't matter, I'm just interested in this kind of thing, what are they?"

He sat down and confirmed that the female bartender in front of him only had six rings before taking off the mask to reveal his disguised face.

There were three kerosene lamps hanging above the counter for lighting, and the bright yellow light illuminated the handsome face of the northern country. The female bartender raised her eyebrows, and her voice became a little softer:

"It is rumored that a giant dragon appeared in this area hundreds of years ago. The dragon's breath destroyed a large area of ​​forest, which led to the sparse trees in the forest southwest of Ximu Town, so the city is expanding towards that direction."

"Another dragon?"

Shad put down his mask and took a sip of the glass of wine, then put it aside and asked with a smile:

"I mean, it can't be a dragon flying from Yuewan, right?"

The female bartender was dazed by his smile, and her eyes wandered:

"That's hard to say. Now everyone knows that there are many dragons in Yuewan. I think those big coastal cities have many monsters and cultists, not as stable as ours."

"So in addition to dragons, are there any other sightings of alien creatures here? For example, dwarves, elves, giants, blood-sucking species, etc."

He continued to ask with a smile, and the female bartender immediately shook her head:

"There are too many stories like this, but don't you want to know the big things that happened here?"

"Yes."

"I won't tell others. This is a story I heard before: when this city was still 'Ximu Town', about two or three hundred years ago, it was said that at that time"

She lowered her voice:

"It is said that ancient evil spirits and demons appeared in the local area at that time. Because the town was too small at that time, the priests and church magicians in the local church were not strong. The accident at that time almost caused the destruction of the entire town. Fortunately, the matter was resolved smoothly later."

"Devil~"

Shade couldn't help but gasped:

"I have read information about this weird thing from the book. For an ordinary small town, this is indeed a disaster."

"Yes, people say that thing ran out of the ancient ruins in the forest. Although there are no witnesses to that event in this era, the truth of the demon rumors is definitely more real than the dragon mentioned just now. many."

She held one hand on the table of the counter and seemed to enjoy chatting with Shade:

"I think a foreigner like you doesn't come here just to visit friends. I want to warn you not to be too interested in this kind of thing. It will bring trouble to everyone."

"Don't worry, I'm not that curious. But stories about demons and dragons are just like rumors imagined by ordinary people. In history, have major events happened locally that have been accurately recorded? Or, in Ximu Town, Have you always been safe?"

"Well, there really is one thing, but that happened a hundred years ago, probably around 1760 in the Universal Calendar. At that time, a special celestial phenomenon occurred in the center of Ximu Town, and the entire night sky was dyed red by the bloody moon.

This happened a century ago, so although the church tried desperately to hide it, most of the local ring wizards had heard of it. I can’t tell exactly what happened at that time. I only know that the anomalies in the blood moon and the blood starry sky lasted for about half an hour, causing great damage to Ximu Town. "

She yawned without caring about her image, but still secretly looked at Shade:

"Other than that, the local area has always been peaceful. Occasionally, children or hunters who enter the forest will disappear, and people are rumored that the forest can eat people; or there will occasionally be unexplained sounds in Ximu Town and Vista Woodland. Strange noises, or someone seeing strange apparitions, are commonplace.

We are a city of music, there aren’t that many big things going on, that’s all I know. "

Shade nodded:

"I noticed that most of the things you mentioned happened during the era of Ximu Town. When this city began to transform from a lumberjack town to a real big city, didn't anything happen here?"

"It depends on how you define major events. Of course there are things like relics getting out of control, but they can happen everywhere. Natural disasters also happen occasionally, but the most recent earthquake was more than thirty years ago. thing.

Sir, after all, cities like Tobesk City, Moon Bay City, and Green Lake City are in the minority, and Vista City is very peaceful. We don't have that many bad guys and crazy people here. People believe that this woodland has magical powers and can repel bad things. "

It can be seen that the female bartender was a little proud when she said this. She must be a local.

Seeing that Xia De nodded and did not continue to ask, she looked at the man's handsome face and reminded:

"But you came at the right time. The city of Vista holds music festivals of various sizes every autumn. Musicians from all over the country, even from Delrayon, will gather here during this season. They will be 'in Victoria' Performing at the Golden Music Hall in Star City is considered the highest honor for a musician."

Shade also knew about the "Vesta Golden Music Hall", which was the largest, most luxuriously decorated and most professional concert hall in the entire central part of the Old World.

It is not within the scope of the old "Ximu Town", but an abandoned temple building outside the original Ximu Town. The musicians who were persecuted by the Kasenlik political movement more than fifty years ago and fled to Ximu Town were worried about disturbing the lives of the townspeople, so they would gather in the abandoned temple outside the town to play in their free time. This unknown temple is becoming more and more famous locally.

At that time, Ximu Town happened to be in the stage of transformation into Vista City, so during the city expansion process, the sturdy old temple was transformed into the magnificent "Golden Music Hall" today.