Chapter 280 The experience of the Countess
"How did you know that it was the sacrificial pot used by the ancient priests of the King of the Hill?" The moment Leo opened the door, the woman standing at the door couldn't wait to ask directly.
Leo did not answer immediately, but looked up and down at the woman in front of him. The first impression this woman gave him was that of a strong, rock-like man. This sentence is usually used to describe men, but now it is applied to the woman in front of him.
It's also extremely suitable.
A tall figure that is not much worse than Leo, a naked body with exposed veins, and muscles that look no harder than hard, make this woman with a barely feminine appearance look extremely tough, even at this moment.
Wearing a pair of special mechanical eyes cannot give her a trace of scholarly temperament.
"Who are you?" Although Leo had already guessed the woman's identity, he still asked knowingly.
Just like the other person's appearance, the woman raised her hand very straightforwardly and introduced herself: "Aisha Tasia Kinna, Baroness of the Kingdom of Maris, professor at the Baworski School of History."
"Leo Dodd, traveler." Leo shook the other person's hand and said.
The female scholar said bluntly: "You don't look like a traveler."
"You don't look like a history professor either." Leo replied.
As a woman, Aisha seemed to have long been accustomed to other people's strange looks, and she did not show any displeasure at Leo's words. Instead, she looked at Leo with admiration. Because she could feel that there was no such thing in Leo's words.
The disgusting malice was just a matter of fact. This was the first time she encountered such a situation.
After looking at it, Aisha took out a cash check from the General Chamber of Commerce Bank from her pocket and handed it to Leo, and then asked very formally: "I raised the difficult questions you just answered.
In addition to giving you the reward, I also want to ask why you judged which pot was the sacrificial pot of the ancient priest of the King of the Hill?"
Leo took the check, put it into his pocket without looking at the number on it, and then asked: "I also want to know why you think that is a sacrificial pot?"
"How did you know?" Aisha couldn't hide the surprise on her face.
Leo explained: "It's very simple. The question you asked itself reveals a lot. If you don't know anything about that thing, you won't ask who is using it, but what era it is from.
, what is it used for, etc. Since you are asking who is using it, you obviously already have an answer in your mind, but you are not very sure about it."
"Are you a detective? You know so many things with just one sentence?" Aisha said in great surprise.
Because Aisha's voice was so loud, people passing by in the corridor couldn't help but look over. Those people didn't recognize Aisha as a woman at first, but soon they became aware of it, and the way they looked at Aisha changed.
It has to be a little weird.
Leo frowned, opened the door completely, stepped out, and said, "This is not the place to talk. Let's come in and talk!"
"That's fine." Although Aisha has long been accustomed to other people's unusual gazes, it is also a good thing to avoid these gazes. After all, not everyone likes this kind of attention.
After entering the house, Leo closed the door, asked Aisha to sit down in the living room, asked what he wanted to drink, and then poured a glass of mead for himself and Aisha respectively.
After Leo handed the mead in his hand to Aisha, he sat on the sofa opposite Aisha, took a sip of the wine, and then said: "Although the sacrificial pot in your hand is ordinary in style, the workmanship is actually very close. It is made according to the conditions required by the ancient sacrificial ritual. In addition to the clay needed to make the sacrificial pot, there is also bone powder ground from the priest's ribs."
"How do you know the ingredients are mixed with bone meal?" Aisha put the mead on the table and asked again.
"I have some special abilities." Leo answered vaguely, and then said meaningfully: "Just like your body."
The expression on Aisha's face instantly became serious. She put her hands on Yao's waist involuntarily, trying to grab something, but her grasp was empty. Apparently she forgot that she came to discuss knowledge, not to fight.
"Don't be nervous, I don't mean any harm." Leo spread his hands and said.
Aisha was silent for a moment and asked tentatively: "Are you here to catch me?"
"No." Renault said truthfully: "Before you knocked on the door, I didn't even meet you."
Aisha asked in confusion: "Then how do you know..."
Before Elsa could finish asking, Leo raised his hand, and a ball of light floated from his palm and hung in the air, adding a layer of light to the somewhat dark room.
"Are you also that kind of person?" Aisha looked at the light on Leo's hand in shock.
Leo dispersed the light ball created by spiritual energy in his hand and did not answer Aisha's question, but gave Aisha a hint.
Just when he saw Aisha's unusual body, Leo felt something strange in his heart, but this feeling was not that strong. It was not until he let Aisha into the house and the two passed by that he felt something strange. It is certain that the Baroness of the Maris Kingdom in front of her should be a dependent, and most likely a divine dependent of the Mountain King.
So Leo just tried to test it out, and as he expected, the other party obviously knew about the abnormality in his body, but the other party obviously didn't know about the dark world things like Familia and Wizards, and he seemed to have a lot of knowledge about the dark world things. Very disgusted.
Therefore, Leo also retorted tentatively: "Aren't you also this kind of person?"
"No, I'm not." Aisha denied without hesitation, but knowing that her words were not convincing, she immediately fell silent.
Leo felt that the other party seemed to be struggling in his heart, so he did not disturb him in any words. He just sat quietly on the sofa and waited for the other party to speak again.
After a while, Aisha raised her head, drank the mead on the table, then looked at Leo with complicated eyes, and said, "Can you tell me, what are you guys?"
"Don't you know the dark world?" Leo asked.
"Dark World? I don't know what Dark World is." Aisha seemed to hear this name for the first time. She hesitated and asked, "Does Dark World refer to people like you?"
Leo thought for a moment and asked: "What's going on with your body? If my guess is correct, your body shouldn't be like this before, right?" After the words fell, he saw the expression on Aisha's face. With a look of embarrassment, he added: "If you don't want to say it, forget it."
While speaking, his hands secretly formed the Axi Sigil, and at the same time secretly exerted the power of the Witcher Sigil.
For Leo, although he has been completely immersed in learning various languages and organizing knowledge in the past two days, he is also suffering from the strong curiosity in his heart, such as the business goddess, the General Chamber of Commerce, and those free dependents and other weird things.
The curiosity aroused by the incident has not diminished because the incident has passed. On the contrary, it has become stronger and stronger in the past two days, giving him the urge to go out and explore at all times.
Leo knew very well that there was something wrong with his own mind. The abnormal situation he had now might be related to the memory he had lost, or it might be related to his willpower that far exceeded the evolution of his body and spiritual energy. In short, he was also looking for
There is no way to solve this problem.
However, now that Elsa appears and brings her secrets, it can be said that the timing is just right. Although this cannot completely solve his current weird psychological problems, it can at least help him vent part of his curiosity.
Elsa, who didn't know that she had become the object of Leo's curiosity, was silent for a moment. Although she was a little reluctant, she felt that Leo was a trustworthy person for some reason. In the end, she narrated her experience and said
: "This starts from an archeology of the First Dynasty ruins five years ago..."
It turns out that Aisha's body was no different from that of ordinary people at first, and she was just an ordinary history professor. But speaking of her status as a professor, there was some water, because her aristocratic status was used in the meeting to promote the professorship within the college.
During the discussion, she gained great points because the people competing for the professorship with her were all from civilian backgrounds, which became the biggest disadvantage in the eyes of the college council members who were all aristocrats.
Different from Velen Continent, the three major countries of Minsk Continent still maintain a feudal system close to that of ancient countries. The nobility is the main body of the country, the king is the largest noble, the clergy is the spiritual pillar of the country, the common people are the lambs, and the slaves are the society.
of the bottom layer.
When the countries on the other two continents began to break away from religious control and move towards the two paths of centralization and democracy and freedom, the Minsk continent still maintained a state of independence. For example, the Kingdom of Maris is the king of the hill. The church is the power of the kingdom.
The real controller of the kingdom, although the king has power, it is given by the Church of the Hill King, because all the kings of the Kingdom of Maris are priests of the Hill King.
After Elsa became a history professor, a lot of rumors spread in the History School about Elsa relying on her aristocratic status to become a professor. This also caused dissatisfaction among the students and faculty members in the college who were from civilian backgrounds. However, these dissatisfactions did not dare to target the college council.
He could only go for Aisha, which doubled the pressure on Aisha and had to look for opportunities to prove herself.
During an auction, Elsa accidentally bought an ancient book left over from the First Dynasty, and from the ancient book she deduced the location of the famous spiritual temple of the Hill King during the First Dynasty.
Aisha felt that this was an opportunity to prove her knowledge and ability, so she secretly organized people to dig at the location of the temple ruins.
Things went smoothly at first. They easily dug out a large number of religious relics at the location that Aisha deduced, and then further found the location of the main hall of the temple.
Only later, the archaeological team excavated a storage room on the side of the temple and discovered a large amount of treasures there that had not been moved in time. The worst thing was that the news of the treasures was spread, causing some people nearby to
Gangsters' attention.
This group of gangsters rushed to the excavation site overnight and raided the archaeological team. Because Aisha was studying the ancient religious buildings of the First Dynasty overnight, she did not return to the barracks where the archaeological team was located. She escaped the fatal attack and before the gangsters arrived,
From a tunnel dug during the day leading to the interior of the temple, I hid inside the temple that was not buried in dust.
Because of the fear, the fatigue during the day, and the lack of air circulation caused by the closed environment, Aisha quickly fell into a drowsy state, and fainted before she could feel the danger.
However, when Aisha woke up the next day, she was already outside the temple. Those gangsters had already stolen everything, killed all the members of the archaeological team, and left the archaeological site. But yesterday
The temple that was still well-preserved in the evening has now completely collapsed. The even weirder thing is that there is a pottery bottle in her arms that was not there before.
After experiencing a series of subsequent events, Elsa returned to the academy and gained the respect of the academy with her experiences and discoveries. It can be said that she achieved her original goal. However, she was not happy because she found that after experiencing
After falling into a coma where she lost her memory that night at the temple, some changes occurred in her body.
At first, her food intake increased, then her strength increased, and then her body became stronger. After a few months, she found that her height, weight, and muscles were gradually increasing and becoming more and more obvious.
She thought it was a disease, so she went to many doctors, but found that nothing was of any use. The areas that needed to change would still change. In just one year, she went from a petite pure woman to a tall and strong woman.
, a female man with bulging muscles.
While looking for colleagues to solve her physical problems, Elsa was also looking for the cause of her physical changes. After repeated searches, she found that the problem was probably related to the pottery pot she was holding when she left the temple.
Because she discovered from an ancient religious book of the First Dynasty that the Hill King religion at that time had a temple guard called the Son of Rock, and the descriptions of the Son of Rock were very similar to the changes in her body. At the same time, the article
It was also mentioned that the Son of Creation Rock needed a sacrificial pot, so she quickly thought that the pottery pot she took out from the temple was the sacrificial pot.
However, just when Aisha was about to further study the changes in her body and find a solution to her physical problems, she was inexplicably hunted down and became a wanted criminal in the Kingdom of Maris.
Her title was revoked, and even the Church of the King of the Hill sent people to arrest her.
If her strength hadn't been astonishing, and her body hard enough to withstand bullets, crossbows, and cold weapons, she might have died on the road to pursuit.
What was even more inexplicable was that during a chase, she was almost caught, but a giant bear that was as big as a carriage suddenly appeared, got her down, and then said inexplicably:
Some words about what race, what bloodline, etc., and finally told her that the best way to avoid being hunted was to come to Vinaya Port.
Because she couldn't think of any other good way, she finally chose to follow the simplicity and came to Vinaya Port. Fortunately, as the man said, she was not hunted down again, and fortunately she was able to pass the entrustment to the General Chamber of Commerce Bank in Vinaya.
Chapter completed!