Chapter 937: Swamp Nobility

Deep in the reeds, the two swampmen in the center of the crowd also wore inlaid leather armor, but unlike ordinary warriors, the back of the leather armor they wore had a red dye painted on their emblems.

Joan carefully observed the pattern on the back of the young boggard man. The curved red line outlines a lifelike toad's wide mouth, and two rows of sharp teeth are drawn between the lips with red dye, like a tribal totem representing noble blood. It is like the noble family crest or "armor" of human society.

The elder sitting cross-legged on the dirt mound opposite had a paler complexion than the younger clansman, showing grayish white, and his body was also fatter.

Joan recalled the records about boggards in the "Wares Monster Illustrated Book", and confirmed that the skin of old boggards would indeed turn white.

The bog tribe has a tradition of respecting the elders. The noble elders control the power in the tribe, and among all the elders, the most respected elders are elected by the noble council as the "king of law", which means "chieftain".

Sitting on the mound, the elder bogman looked very imposing. When talking with the young man, he showed a proud attitude of imparting a little life experience to the young man. He must have a high status in the clan, and he should be an elder-level figure. .

Joan also noticed that the swampman elder was holding a pale cane, emitting a faint magical aura, causing unnatural disturbances in the distribution of the surrounding magic net.

Out of curiosity, Joan adjusted his viewing angle a little, and found that the cane seemed to be composed of a whole vertebra, about four feet long, with a pale skull inlaid on the top of the vertebra, which looked like some kind of monitor lizard or sub-dragon skull.

Based on experience, Joan guessed that this cane is absolutely extraordinary. If it is not a magic wand, it is a staff. As for the specific spell attached to it, it is still unclear for the time being.

Joan shifted his gaze from the bone staff to the boggard elder holding the staff, and with the help of the magic observation point, eavesdropped on his speech to the noble youth.

The "Eagle Eye Technique" can allow Joan to eavesdrop on the conversation of the surveillance object from a distance, but he can't understand the language used by the other party.

As a mage, Joan is good at a lot of languages, but unfortunately, this does not include the unique language invented by the boggard himself.

After all, this is a small language that is too rare, and Joan had no chance to learn it before.

He eavesdropped for a while, and could only hear a few "Aquarian" words from the conversation, and two frequently appearing words-"Gumoduo" and "Guadra".

When the swamp elder utters "Gumodo", it is often accompanied by a gesture of patting his chest, and his expression is quite arrogant; when he says "Guadra", he often looks at it with a smile on his face. Looking at the noble young man opposite, his eyes were full of expectation.

According to the elder's body movements, Joan guessed that "Gua Modo" was the name of the elder himself, and "Guadla" was the name of the young nobleman opposite him who was domesticated by him.

"Gua's" is probably the surname of an aristocrat of the boggard tribe.

"Bugger, do you put your surname before your first name?"

Joann thought it was funny.

Colonists from the old world, the naming habit is to put "surname" after "first name".

For example, Joan Vida, Joan is the first name, and Vida is the last name. According to the naming method of the Boggard, he should be called "Vida Joan".

In Joan's impression, only a part of the "Asa" and "Wana" aborigines in the entire New World adopted this method of naming their surnames before their names.

Joan really wanted to know what Elder Gumoduo said to Guadela, but unfortunately he couldn't understand.

It is not necessary for a mage to learn the languages ​​of all races. Joan just needs to bless himself with a 3-ring "Speaking Skill" to overcome language barriers and understand any language.

But now there is a problem.

The "Smart Words Technique" is only effective on him, but it cannot extend the magic effect to the observation point created by the "Eagle Eye Technique". What should we do?

After frowning and thinking for a few seconds, Joan's eyes lit up, thinking of a spell that he learned not long ago, which happens to be of key use in this kind of occasion.

After clarifying his thoughts, Joan opened the spellcasting material package, took out a small ceramic pyramid model, held it in his hand, and chanted the spell in a low voice.

"Teng Westie!"

When he finally uttered a Quenya word representing "language", the pyramid model in his hand quietly disintegrated, turning into countless luminous runes that danced around him, and converged into his body in the blink of an eye.

Joan let out a breath slowly.

He sensed the magic net threads around him, and they were winding around his body, closely connected with the "ear drum" and "vocal cord".

When he receives a voice signal from the outside world, it will first cause the eardrum to vibrate, and then cause the magic thread connected to it to resonate, automatically translating the voice signal into a meaning he can understand.

Next, if Joan needs to speak back, the magic thread connected to his throat will vibrate according to his will, and then link his vocal cords to simulate the language just heard.

In this way, the goal of communicating across language barriers is finally achieved.

The principle of "Smart Words" is not difficult. What is difficult is that the environment is limited, and Joan is currently unable to go to the bog people and communicate with them face to face.

How can we use "clever speech" to realize the intention of remote eavesdropping and simultaneous translation?

For this, Joan needed a medium.

He spread his hands, glanced at the ten fingers one by one, and finally fixed on the little finger of his left hand.

Joan chanted the incantation softly, and cast the 1-ring "mosquito finger technique" analyzed from Mrs. Josephine's blood sample.

The little finger of his left hand trembled spontaneously with the rhythm of chanting mantras.

When Joan chanted "Eala", which symbolizes "life and soul", the first joint of the little finger snapped off, leaving the palm and hanging in the air.

Surrounded by magical aura, the severed finger quickly turned into a "blood mosquito" the size of a pea grain. Under the last rays of the setting sun, it glowed like a ruby.

Joan subconsciously looked at the section of the severed finger of his left hand.

The smooth section was neither bloodstained nor painful at all, as if the small little finger was missing from birth.

But Joan could feel that his little finger was still closely connected with the "blood mosquito" in the air in an inexplicable way.

The limbs that belong to him will not feel alienated because they are separated from the body and distanced.

Joan tried to bend the missing little finger, and the blood mosquito in the air immediately flew to him and landed lightly on his palm, its trembling wings were like transparent silk.

Qiao An closed her eyes, silently experiencing the wonderful feeling of being connected with the blood mosquito.

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