Chapter 65: My daughter's thoughts and the barbarian's past

This was not Ruger's own guess, but what the female warrior said to Tia herself. Google search reading

The original words were that she subconsciously had an inexplicable liking for Ruger.

The two women were not in the same car, and they communicated using the in-car wired phone.

So Ruger also heard everything clearly.

Minerva was not aware of this, but Tia knew it.

For some reason, she did not remind the female warrior and directly used this line to talk about her daughter's concerns.

After listening to Minerva's explanation, Tia was somewhat noncommittal.

She didn't know that Ruger's recollection of the past was regarded as a characterization of the female warrior's behavior, and she no longer entangled it.

For Tia, she only knew that it seemed that her brother Ruger was very popular with girls.

God has mercy on me. If Ruger really had this ability, would he be "saved your mother"?

Tia's mood was very complicated. On the one hand, she was a little complacent and on the other hand, she was a little distressed.

It's fine now. If I go back to Rogue Town in the future, it will be troublesome if those Rogues also take a fancy to Ruger.

Oh, it seems that I have to save Blood Crow Sarah now. This hero saving the beauty is the easiest to be liked!

Sister Sarah has been single for so many years without a partner. Isn't this sending a sheep into the tiger's mouth?

What should I do?

Seeing that Tia's little head is turning faster and faster in the unfamiliar field, it is afraid that it will be boiling if it goes on for a while.

At the critical moment, fortunately, Guimei appeared to save the situation and rescued her from overly complicated thoughts.

On the side of Guimei, it seems that because of the previous many failures, the quality of the troops sent out is getting higher and higher.

Those arms that could only be cannon fodder in the past are almost no longer seen.

Even the grasshopper cannon, which was a reliable main unit before, now seems to have become the basic arm that must appear every time and has the largest number.

However, the guns are still the same guns.

The armor-piercing ability of the old guns in World War II was not bad at the time, but it was a bit behind in the Cold War.

This is not to say that even the armor of Ruger's Honey Badger tank can ignore those World War II armor-piercing shells.

It's just that they don't have many armor-piercing shells, so they are not a big threat to him overall.

They are mostly grenades.

Even if this thing hits the homogeneous steel plate armor directly, it will only make the car shake for a while, and it won't cause much damage.

Moreover, the design of the front slope of the Honey Badger tank is also good for the defense against solid armor-piercing shells.

Even if the first generation of solid armor-piercing shells hit there, there is a high probability of ricochet due to the slope.

The only one who will be injured is the female warrior outside the body armor.

However, the grasshopper cannon is less threatening to the female warrior.

As soon as the battle started, she jumped off the hanging bucket, waved two long-handled steel knives, and countless ghosts fell down.

It's really "the big windmill is spinning".

Don't say it, it seems that the barbarians really have such a trick.

After many battles, Ruger also wanted to learn from her.

It's a pity that he has limited talent in this area and failed to learn it.

He even failed to trigger the system's learning mechanism of solidification by spending points.

When he learned from Minerva that the source of their barbarians' abilities was something like oaths and prohibitions, Ruger vaguely understood why he couldn't learn their skills.

His method was wrong.

In fact, when he heard the name "oaths and prohibitions", Ruger was still somewhat shocked.

Barbarians, barbarians, when he heard this name in Western fantasy works, he subconsciously thought it should be from the perspective of the Roman Empire.

In this case, this name probably refers to the Germanic barbarians in the north of Rome who eventually destroyed the Western Roman Empire.

So he has always been a little strange, thinking why in fantasy works, when talking about barbarians, they always have dark hair instead of German blond hair and blue eyes?

Now listening to it, well, how can it be said that the Germans are viewed from the perspective of the Roman Empire? It is clearly the Celts viewed from the perspective of the Anglo-Saxons.

No wonder, no wonder.

No wonder I heard that the background setting of Diablo says that barbarians and druids were once the same tribe.

Aren't these Celtic warriors and wizards!

As for the barbarians in the snowy mountains in the north, aren't they the Picts in the Scottish Highlands?

Think about it again, the blue stripes painted on the face of the barbarian in Diablo are exactly the same as the blue stripes on the face of the protagonist in the old movie "Brave Heart"?

This is so Scottish, isn't it...

Good guy, Ruger is still wondering why there are barbarians in so many Western fantasy works.

Although their image is still positive in the later period, they are still labeled as backward and ignorant, just with a little bit of innocent heart.

How could the Germans, led by the Anglo-Saxons, always blacken themselves like this?

It's not that they haven't blackened other Germans, such as the Vikings who went south to plunder hundreds of years later than them, and they were also blackened a lot, but it seems that there are signs of being whitened as they blacken.

But the image of the Vikings and the image of the barbarians are not the same in most works.

Even if they secretly changed the image of barbarians to a better one like they did with Vikings, who came up with the idea to discredit them in the first place?

After all, it was the Anglo-Saxons who expanded this image to the whole world.

Good fellow, Ruger only realized now that these doubts were simply a misunderstanding.

Barbarians do not refer to Germans at all, but Celtic natives in the eyes of Anglo-Saxons.

In this way, all the strange things can be explained.

These guys, no matter whose territory they robbed, they would blacken the natives.

Even if they robbed the territory of a race that was obviously hundreds or thousands of years more civilized than themselves, they could come up with various ways to blacken the people from various angles.

From Rome to Greece, from Central Asia to East Asia.

After thinking about these, Ruger felt that things were really a layer of window paper, and it was instantly logical after it was broken.

Let’s not talk about his feelings about the twists and turns behind the prototype of the barbarian, just talk about the power system.

After confirming that the barbarian power system was actually the Celtic contract and prohibition, he didn’t want to learn these from Minerva anymore.

Oaths and prohibitions, oaths and constraints, are also elements that are often seen in various magical themes in later generations.

Originated from Celtic mythology.

Generally speaking, the reason why demigod heroes have superpowers is because they have made oaths and prohibitions with the gods or with the help of gods.

Their powerful powers all come at a price.

In mythology, after they succeeded with the blessing of power, they were often backfired because the prohibition was broken.

For example, King Arthur, the owner of the sword of victory and oath, finally broke the taboo of "the sword must not lose the scabbard". He had a sword that could cut iron like mud, but he died at the hands of a traitor.

Yes, the legend of King Arthur is also a Celtic myth.

I don't know how people manipulated it. When people mention him, they always think he is a legend of England.

What Merlin the Great Wizard, he is obviously a druid.

In short, the advantages and disadvantages of this power system are quite obvious.

The advantage is that it is obtained quickly and the power is strong.

The disadvantage is that once the weakness is exposed, it is very fatal.

Although the abilities of the barbarians in the dark world are only derived from this system and are not exactly the same, the general feeling is not much different.

At least the details of how Ruger got this power from the female warrior made him feel that the source of the barbarians' power and the reason why they are called barbaric are basically the same.

"They are strong because they maintain a barbaric lifestyle."

Although not the original words, this is what Ruger finally concluded.

What about training naked in harsh environments to build up physical strength, and what about using real swords and fatal moves when practicing fighting with fellow tribesmen.

These are all manifestations of this kind of restriction.