Chapter 611: Psychic Necklace
"Wow!"
Ma Yun's eyes widened in surprise.
"This guy... looks like that, the plague doctor!"
Gao Fei nodded gently.
The face of the corpse really looks like the bird-beak mask used by medieval doctors to protect against infectious diseases.
"I don't know what a plague doctor is. This dead man's body looks like an ordinary dwarf, but he has a crow's head. It's really strange!" Dimitri commented.
"A human body with a crow's head... After listening to you, it really looks like it!"
Jiang Feng agreed with the lion's description.
"Friends, if I'm not mistaken, this should be the body of a tengu." Tin Man Nick broke the silence.
"What is a Tengu?" the lion asked curiously, "Is it delicious?"
"Sorry, I haven't eaten it and I don't plan to eat it." Nick said coldly, "Although it looks a bit strange, Tengu is also a kind of humanoid creature. It is usually less than 4 feet tall and uses a language similar to bird calls, which sounds very noisy."
"As far as I know, most Tengu are mentally ill, appearing crazy and neurotic. They also have a boring hobby, which is to imitate other people's speech in a weird accent."
"Oh~ This is really boring!"
Gao Fei glanced at Pearl.
Pearl rolled her eyes, obviously not agreeing with Nick's opinion.
"It is said that in ancient times, the Tengu tribe had wings and lived on the top of mountains or served the great wizards in the city in the clouds."
"Later, for some unknown reason, the Tengu tribe was cursed and lost their wings for flying, so they could only settle on the surface."
"To this day, the Tengu are still looking for a way to lift this ancient curse and are eager to return to the sky."
"Individually, Tengu are like humans or elves, some are kind and some are evil."
"In general, the Tengu tribe lacks clear standards of good and evil, and is more willing to act arbitrarily, moody, and easily incited. This is exactly why I hate them."
"Nick, you know a lot!" Vita said admiringly.
"Friend, although I am not as smart as you, I have lived long enough." The Tin Man shrugged, "You know, I was an elf before I became like this. Compared with humans or Tengu, the average lifespan of elves is a little longer. The longer they live, the more they see and hear."
The life expectancy of elves is 750 years, which is really a little longer than that of humans.
Gao Fei secretly complained.
Vita remotely controlled the "Master's Hand" to tear the half-weathered cloak off the remains of Tengu.
As the cloak fell to the ground, it made a ding-dong sound.
A black agate necklace slid out of the cloak pocket.
Ma Yun picked up the necklace, opened the star disk to identify it, and showed joy.
"Brother Fei! Sister Feng! This is a 'psychic necklace', which belongs to the extraordinary level of magic guide."
As she said, she posted the identification results in the team channel.
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· Psychic necklace (extraordinary)
Overview: This necklace made of polished black agate can enable the wearer to communicate with the dead.
Synchronization requirements: depends on the level of the spell
Initial: 1 charge, 1 ring "Detect Undead";
Level 3: 3 charges, 2 rings "See through Invisibility";
Level 5: 5 charges, 3 rings "Necromancy".
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Jiang Feng looked at the properties of the "Necromancy Necklace" and nodded thoughtfully.
"Xiao Yun, there is a corpse of a Tengu here, and a Necklace of Necromancy, and your mage level just meets the synchronization requirements for casting "Necromancy". I don't need to tell you what to do next, right?"
"Sister Feng, I have already started to synchronize!"
Ma Yun put on the "Necklace of Necromancy", spent a star disk energy, and quickly skipped the short rest.
After the short rest, the necklace completed the 3rd level of synchronization.
Ma Yun drew a magic power from the necklace and cast "Necromancy" on the corpse of the Tengu to awaken his soul.
Through a conversation with the Tengu spirits, the crowd not only learned about the history of the "Ceramic City" Patras Castle, but also learned why this ancient city lost its former prosperity and became a lifeless and silent ruin.
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Before becoming the "Ceramic City", Patras Castle had another name and was once a home for dwarves to live and work in peace and contentment.
However, the good times did not last long.
Half a century ago, a group of Tengu cultists who worshipped evil gods broke into the dwarfs' city and tried to occupy it.
The dwarves put up a tenacious resistance.
Unfortunately, the leader of the Tengu cult, a Gorgon named Patras, was so powerful that she turned all the dwarves in her sight into ceramic statues with a glance.
Ceramics?
That's right.
Patras is different from other Gorgons.
Creatures that come into contact with her eyes will be turned into ceramics instead of stones.
Patras led the Tengu Cult to conquer the city, renamed it Patras Castle, and forced the surrendered dwarves to redecorate the buildings and streets of the entire city.
Cleopatra was crazy about ceramics and asked that the city walls, streets and the outer walls of the houses be covered with a layer of white and smooth tiles so that she could see her beautiful reflection in the tiles wherever she went.
Only through this relatively blurred mirror image, rather than the clear projection reflected by the mirror, could this narcissistic Gorgon appreciate her beauty in peace.
There is such a statement of questionable credibility:
A too clear mirror image may cause the Gorgon to be petrified by her own gaze and turned into a ceramic statue.
After the whole city was renovated, Patra's vanity was not satisfied.
She suddenly had another idea and forced the dwarf slaves to build a magnificent temple for her.
The dwarfs who could not bear the oppression tried to escape the cruel rule of the queen.
As a result, they were all turned into ceramic statues by her gaze and placed on the street as decorations, and also as a warning to other slaves and outsiders.
When the temple was finally completed, Patra's madness reached its peak.
She brutally slaughtered the dwarf laborers who had lost their value and turned them all into porcelain statues to decorate her temple.
Seeing the mistress's crazy killing, even her tengu subordinates were afraid.
The dwarfs had been killed by Patra. Will this bloodthirsty witch start the operation on the tengu next?
Suspicion is like a plague. Once it grows, it will spread rapidly and spread among the tengu.
Finally, most of the Tengu decided to take the initiative and remove the knife hanging over their heads.
They knew that they could not defeat the powerful Gorgon with their own strength.
The Tengu urgently needed to find external help, someone stronger than Patra.
So they sent a letter to the great witch Theodora who lived in the desert west of Patra Castle, asking for help.
The Western Witch Theodora gladly accepted the Tengu's request, came to Patra Castle, and used powerful magic to kill the Gorgon.
