Chapter 647 Perry Dong

Goblins are almost all illiterate and cannot be expected to communicate with them in writing, but most goblins can speak a few words of Common Tongue and are proficient in their own "Goblin Tongue".

Joan brought a copy of "Encyclopedia of Ten Thousand Languages" with her. This dictionary contains common words and everyday phrases from all the major races of the Valesian world, with translations in Common.

Qiao An temporarily learned a few words of "Goblin Language" yesterday, and thought her pronunciation was fairly standard, enough to express her request.

The goblin imprisoned by him in the mine had become dumb, but his hearing was not affected, so he should understand his intentions.

The next question is, how should the other party answer?

In fact, this is not difficult to solve. Joan copied a 2-ring divination spell called "Detect Thoughts" from the spell book of "Crazy Mage" Felger. Casting this spell, he can understand what the goblin is thinking without opening his mouth.

Qiao An caught a grouse and flew excitedly to the place where the goblin was held. However, before he landed, he saw a strange creature flying from the opposite hillside, spreading its wide wings and circling under the night, with a bright light in its eyes, as if searching for prey.

Qiao An couldn't help but tremble. Don't rush to gather your wings and land in the woods. First, you slap yourself with an "invisibility spell", and then quietly jump onto a snow-covered cypress tree. Under the cover of branches and leaves, observe the bird in midair. Mysterious monster.

This monster hovering in the moonlight looks like a strong stag from a distance, with a pair of huge and thick horns propped up on its forehead. It was twelve feet long, almost three times its body length.

When the monster flew near the ruins of the mine, Joan could observe its appearance more clearly with the help of the "dark vision" attached to the prosthetic eye, and found that its head looked more like a ferocious villain than a docile and honest deer. Wolf.

What surprised Joan the most was the sharp contrast between the silhouette of the monster cast on the ground and its image. Judging from the outline of the shadow, it was more like the shadow cast by an adult male human of medium build.

This is obviously unreasonable!

Joan frowned secretly.

Normally speaking, the shadow cast by a creature on the surface is always a reflection of its real image. The shadow may be distorted, but it will not be very different from the real image, and there is no resemblance at all. However, at this moment, this unimaginable It happened before his eyes.

Out of curiosity, Joan continued to observe the monster hovering at low altitude.

He remembered that Mrs. Anderson, the landlord, once said that a group of monsters with the stag head and eagle body lived on the top of Mount Bailun, and there were also monsters with this appearance recorded in the "Magical Beasts Subvolume" of "Vares Monster Guide". Called it "Deer Eagle Beast", and Mrs. Anderson followed the saying of the Asa tribe and called this monster "Pelidon".

While Joan was observing in secret, Pelidon from the sky had landed, sniffing around with a wolf-like nose, and followed the path Joan had walked a few days ago to the cave where the goblins were held. He lowered his head and peeped in through the hole in the door.

Joan was too far away to see how the goblin in the cave reacted to the unexpected visitor, so he hid in the forest and waited quietly.

Peridon had clearly seen a goblin hiding in the cave, so he tried to push the door with his horns, trying to push away the stone slab that prevented it from hunting.

After two attempts, Peridon realized that the stone slab was completely embedded in the hole, and it was impossible to open it easily. He moved his feet backwards, opened a distance of about 50 yards, and then rushed forward with all four hooves. The inertia brought by it lowered its head and hit the stone slab with its hard and sharp horns.

There was a roar at the moment of impact, and the stone slab shaped by Joan's "Stone Plastic Wand" was crushed by this strong monster. The broken stone collapsed, and the hole suddenly opened wide.

Peridon twisted his neck triumphantly, probed into the hole, took out the trembling goblin, shook his head and threw it on the snow.

The goblin opened his mouth wide in vain, panting heavily, his face distorted by extreme panic, but he couldn't even utter a mournful cry, and occasionally a muddy grunt came from his throat.

Joan watched this scene silently. From the perspective of magic experiments, he should feel relieved. If the goblin can't beg for mercy in this life-or-death moment, it means that the "aphasia" effect is very good, completely blocking its vocal cords.

Peridon turned around unhurriedly and approached the goblin, with a contemptuous look of cat and mouse in his eyes.

The goblin struggled to his feet and turned to run.

Peridon stared suddenly, and the human-shaped shadow under him stretched forward against the ground, stretching a hundred feet in an instant, like a python made of shadows, catching up with the staggering goblin, and merging with its projection.

The projection of the goblin was completely swallowed by the shadow launched by Peridon, and the latter also changed into the shape of a goblin, squirming violently against the ground.

The goblin seemed to be under some kind of spell, his legs limp and he fell to the ground, curled up into a ball in fright.

Peridon walked over unhurriedly, lowered his sharp antlers, first cut the goblin's throat, then slashed at its abdomen, disembowelling it, hot blood gushed out, melting the surrounding snow.

Peridon inserted the wolf kiss into the goblin's abdominal cavity, first took out the fresh and soft liver and ate it, then took out the heart, carefully held it in his mouth, spread his wings into the air, and flew towards the mountain top.

Watching Peridon's back disappear in the night, Joan quietly walked out of the woods. He first ran to the goblin's corpse to observe for a while, then changed into a hawk form, added an "invisibility spell" to himself, and followed Peridon's figure to the top of the mountain.

It is mentioned in the "Vares Monster Manual" that monsters like Peridon eat the hearts of humanoids, and it seems that eating hearts can enhance their reproductive ability.

Mrs. Anderson also told Joan that the Pelydon on the top of Bailun Mountain would occasionally fly down to attack the passing business travelers at the foot of the mountain.

Since Peridon loves to eat people's hearts so much, he just cut out the goblin's heart, why not eat it right away? It seemed rather reluctant.

Driven by curiosity, Joan followed Peridon up to the top of a mountain covered with thick ice and snow, which was more than 2,000 yards high.

Peridon didn't realize that there was someone following behind him, spread his wings in the cold wind, hovered and landed in a sheltered mountain.

Qiao An also flew over, spread his wings and floated in the night sky, leaned over to look at the mountain depression, and suddenly felt his heart tremble!

PS: About Peryton

This is an imaginary Western legendary creature that is a hybrid of bird and deer, and is described in detail in the book "Imagined Animals" by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.

According to the description in this book, Peridon is a half-deer, half-bird monster that grew up in Atlantis. It has the head and legs of a deer, and the feathers, wings and hindquarters of a bird.

What Peridon cast in the sun was not a half-deer, half-bird shadow, but a human-shaped shadow, so it was believed to be a kind of elf transformed from a dead traveler.

It is said that the Peletons were the enemies of mankind, and that they were responsible for the destruction of Rome.