Chapter 84 Mother of Wanwen
If there is anything outstanding about Joan, it is super perseverance. If it weren't for his perseverance, he would not be able to maintain his focus on casting spells from morning till night. It's just that the torment he has to endure this time is too heavy, so heavy that it almost exceeds the limit of endurance.
Joan was hanging upside down above the spring water. His blind right eye was filled with thick blood plasma. Every half an hour, a drop of blood escaped from the eye socket and dripped onto the water below, creating scarlet ripples.
Joan stared at the water surface with his intact left eye. Whenever the spring water rippled, his pupils also shrank accordingly. He concentrated all his energy to restrain the pain and observe the changes in the water surface.
Yes, the surface of the water is changing.
Every time a drop of blood falls, the ripples of the fountain of wisdom form a wondrous rune. What Joan has to do now is to keep these runes firmly in his heart, and absorb the wisdom contained in the runes with fascination.
There was not much time left for him, the runes formed by the ripples quickly faded the moment they were formed, and when the water surface returned to calm, the runes disappeared. It wasn't until the next drop of blood splashed and rippled on the water that new runes emerged.
During these nine days and nine nights, Joan has been concentrating on observing those fleeting runes. According to his statistics, there are a total of twenty-four runes, which always emerge according to a fixed rule. For example, the first one to emerge is the No. 1 rune "Feoh", and the next one to emerge is the No. 2 rune "Ur ", followed by rune number 3 "Thorn"...and so on until rune number 24 "Odel". When the Odel rune disappears, the No. 1 rune Feoh will appear again, thus starting a new cycle.
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Nine nights hanging on a tree shaken by the wind
stabbed by a spear
I was made a sacrifice, I sacrificed myself to myself
in the unknown tree
No bread to satisfy hunger, no drop of water to quench thirst
I looked down, picked up the runes,
Shouting while picking it up, it fell from the tree.
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The desolate singing echoed in Joan's ears. For nine days, Mimir sang this ancient and mysterious ballad. According to the information revealed in the lyrics, Joan guessed that most of the runes he saw in the spring water were the "rune script" that Mimir sang. As for who invented this ancient script with infinite wisdom and what its specific meaning is, He couldn't figure it out.
Joan didn't know who else was using runes in this day and age, and he didn't even know what was the use of learning the knowledge that was buried in the dust of history along with the ancient Asa civilization as early as 40,000 years ago. He eagerly studied rune characters, thinking about the meaning behind each rune, perhaps just using this to divert his attention, so that he could forget about the pain, exhaustion, and hunger and thirst, and endure this long test for a while longer.
The spring returned to calm, and the No. 24 rune, Odel, slowly disappeared. Just when Joan was expecting the runes to start a new cycle, the vines wrapped around his ankles suddenly loosened, and Joan fell into the spring with a plop in an upside-down posture. He immediately swallowed two mouthfuls of cold water and couldn't help coughing violently.
Joann flopped about in the icy spring water, trying to raise himself to the surface. At this time, the body suddenly lightened, as if being grabbed by an invisible big hand, it escaped from the water and landed on the shore.
Joan sat by the spring and coughed for a while, and suddenly found that the moisture on his body was evaporating by itself, and white mist appeared from the wet clothes, which became dry and clean within a minute, as if they had been ironed.
Joan touched her hair, and it was indeed dry. What surprised him even more was that after a short immersion in the spring water, the pain and fatigue accumulated in his body for nine days disappeared, as if he had a good night's sleep after a full meal, and he was more energetic than ever.
"Lord Mimir, I...have I passed the test?" Joan asked anxiously.
The old man's head suspended in the air nodded with a smile: "Yes, you have passed the test, my child, you should be proud of your courage and strength."
"So, I am already qualified to drink from the fountain of wisdom?"
The old man's laughter made Joan realize that he had asked a stupid question, and his cheeks burned. That's right, he had already drank the water from the Wisdom Spring just now, and even took a cold bath in the Wisdom Spring.
With a glimmer of expectation, Joan performed "Inner Vision" to enter a state of meditation to check his intellectual attributes. The result made him overjoyed, his intelligence attribute soared from 17 to 22, and a mouthful of wisdom spring gave him 5 points of intelligence, all the pain he endured for nine days was worth it!
"My child, compared to the intelligence boosted by the spring water, the greater gain is the words you read and memorized during these nine days." Mimir said meaningfully.
"Are you referring to those 24 runes?" Joan asked curiously.
The "Wisdom Old Man" nodded solemnly, his deep eyes reflected the vicissitudes of the past 40,000 years, and whispered to Joan the mystery behind the runes.
"Rune Rune" is the oldest of all known scripts in the world of Vales, and is known as the "mother of all scripts in the world". It is said that all script systems including Elvish, Dwarf, and Dragon It evolved from 24 ancient runes. As a matter of course, magic spells written in Elvish, Dwarf, Dragon, or any other language can be resolved using 24 runes. This is the biggest use of runes—— Analyze the spell structure.
"Whether it is a spell written on a scroll or condensed on a magic tool, you can use runes to quickly extract it and interpret it, just like peeling off a painting from a wall or picking it up from a fish tank. It's so easy to fish out a pebble." Mimir told Joan.
The analysis function of runes is similar to "identification", and it is far more powerful than identification. For Joan, there is an additional advantage of using rune runes instead of identification techniques, that is, it is no longer necessary to consume pearls as materials for casting spells, which can save a lot of identification costs, which is really good for young mages who are not well-off It's great news.
"If the analysis process I just mentioned is reversed, the rune rune can be used to keep the magic on a specific device or weapon, so that magic items can be produced at a lower cost and with higher efficiency. The second major use of En rune - to create magic tools!"
"In addition to analyzing and constructing magic tools, runes have many magical functions, which will be left to you to explore." Finally, Mimir smiled kindly at Joan, "Okay boy, you are here It's been too long here, it's time to say goodbye."
"Goodbye, Master Mimir, I will keep your teachings in mind!" Joan bowed deeply to this venerable demigod, turned around and walked along the way he came.
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