For the Grimm people, the El Hiero indigenous tribe is full of mystery, they live in tree houses, wear clothes made of tree bark, hunt wild beasts in the jungle and gather wild fruits in the forest for a living, they live a very primitive life.They had their own language, they communicated in Hierro, but there were no corresponding words.They also have their own beliefs, they believe in the king of the forest, and believe that the ancient war trees in the Black Forest are their patron gods, but the king of the forest is not a god in the true sense of the word.Among the indigenous tribes of Hierro, the most mysterious thing for the people of the Grimm Empire is their spiritual leader, the witch.In the Black Forest, the Great Witch has always been the spiritual leader of the indigenous people of Hierro, and together with the tribal leaders and tribal elders, the Great Witch forms the core leadership of the indigenous tribe, and they perform their own duties in the tribe, and the duties of the Great Witch in the indigenous tribe are divination, sacrifice, and they are also in charge of life and death.The natives believe that every native baby born into this world is a gift from the king of the forest.The Great Witch personally delivers a baby to every woman in the tribe.After the death of the natives, it is necessary for the great witch to take the souls of the deceased with his own hands.The natives believed that when a person dies, the soul will be trapped in the body, and only through the ritual of the undead can the soul of the deceased attach to the branches of the soul tree, absorb the nutrients of the soul tree and produce soul fruits, each soul fruit is a new life, and the king of the forest will give these soul fruits to his devout believers.This is the cycle of life and death of the indigenous people of Hierro, so it can be said that the Great Witch is in charge of the life and death of the indigenous people.The elders of the indigenous tribes are responsible for the day-to-day management of the tribe, and they are the real rulers of the indigenous tribes, and the most powerful are the chief elders of the tribes.The leaders of the indigenous tribes were responsible for the wars and hunts in the tribe, and they were generally the most courageous natives in the tribe.The great witches in the indigenous tribes are generally women, and each great witch will train several female disciples in their lifetime, but in the end, only the best of these disciples can become the great witch in the tribe.The two indigenous beauties that Elder Singh gave me, Puyaka, who has been speaking since elementary school, is the granddaughter of an elder of the tribe, and Connie, who has studied witchcraft since childhood, is a female disciple of the great witch of the indigenous tribe, and they both have a high social status in the indigenous tribe.As for the other aspects of the two of them, they don't know much, only that Puyaka can understand Grimm Chinese, while Connie can communicate with plants.Arya and Betty had praised the lifelike tattoos on the back of the indigenous girl Connie, and when she was in Hierro's plane, Connie wore a bark dress that I thought was a decoration of some vine plants, and when I heard Betty praise the tattoos for being beautiful, I realized that those vines were tattooed on Connie's back.I didn't know much about wood magic, and when I saw the tattoo on Connie's back actually flashing with a glimmer of magic, I didn't know what it was, and I thought it was a beautiful magic pattern, so I called the two indigenous girls upstairs on the bedroom terrace, hoping to understand the structure of this magic pattern.When the two indigenous girls heard my call, they immediately ran from the pool to the terrace.They stood barefoot on the gravel floor of the terrace, covered with only a few cool pieces of cloth, their hair simply tied back, and a hint of panic on their faces.Little Ella also thought that they had made a mistake by swimming in the backyard without permission, and thought that I would punish the two indigenous girls, and followed the indigenous girls upstairs to find me.Ella took all the responsibility on herself, ran upstairs, and told me that she came up with the idea of swimming in the backyard pool, and she also found two indigenous girls to play in the water with her, and the two indigenous girls were not at fault, etc., and told me a lot.Speechless, I walked up to little Ella and saw the water dripping from her on the velvet carpet, and I wanted to kick her off the upstairs terrace into the pool below.Little Ella's beautiful little face was covered with crystal droplets, and she stood in front of the two indigenous girls to block me.I reached out and patted little Ella's face and motioned for her to step aside.Caterina was very thoughtful and took out three bath towels from the closet and handed them to the three of them, allowing them to dry off their wet bodies.I then took them into the living room and sat down on the couch, and I asked Connie what kind of magic pattern was tattooed on her back.Although Connie has been making up for Grimm's Chinese recently, she is far from being able to communicate independently, but fortunately, Puyaka is by her side to be in charge of translation, so she understands my question.She sat cautiously on the sofa, trying to turn her head to look at the tattoo on her back, but found that she couldn't see it at all, and her face was a little confused."
It's not a tattoo, it's my most loyal partner!"
Connie's voice was sweet.She is an introvert and is rarely seen talking.When she saw that I was interested in the magic pattern on her back, she got up and walked to the center of the living room, her legs seemed thin and straight, her toes touched the ground when she walked, her curved arches were very slender, and her five round toes were crystal clear.She stood up straight, her hands as if performing some kind of ritual, making strange mudras and chanting an ancient ballad, or a long spell, obscure and incomprehensible.Then her body kept making some movements, like some kind of war dance of the orc tribe.The tattoo on her back slowly faded at this time, and as she danced, a large and clear magical pattern slowly emerged at Connie's feet.We were all watching her dance intently, but in the next second, an ancient vine with a thick bowl mouth and covered with thorns rushed out of the lifelike pattern at her feet, startling several of the people present.I subconsciously glanced at the intact carpet, and it seemed that the big creature had slipped out of the painting under Connie's feet.The vine had no branches or leaves, and the bark of the vine was covered with thorns like thistles, like a python that wrapped around Connie's feet.I walked over to Connie, and the vine seemed a little restless.Connie stepped on the rattan that she wanted to probe over, and she was not afraid of the thorns on the ancient vine, and these thorns that seemed to be as hard as iron were like soft fluff under Connie's feet.That's when I noticed that the magic pattern on Connie's back had disappeared.No wonder Connie said that her back was not a tattoo, but her combat partner, which turned out to be a tree vine dozens of meters long.Then we talked about the strange tattoo, and Connie told us a little bit about the indigenous tribe witches.In indigenous tribes, not all indigenous girls are able to learn witchcraft.The indigenous tribes also have their own magic awakening rituals, the great witches rely on an ancient method to refine a special potion, a small number of indigenous girls can obtain the ability to communicate with plants after drinking this ancient potion, this kind of girl can almost be said to be one in a million in the indigenous tribes, their special physique is also known as psychic physique.Only indigenous girls with psychic constitutions can become disciples of witches and learn witchcraft by the side of the tribal witches.Before the maidens decide to become a disciple of the witch, they must go through an initiation ceremony.During this ritual, the heirs of these witches are given a symbiotic companion, a magical parasitic vine known to the natives as the Ghost Vine.These ghost vines can not only parasitize the bodies of plants and trees to absorb their nutrients and thrive, but also parasitize on the bodies of indigenous girls with psychic constitutions through witchcraft.When they are parasitic on the bodies of indigenous girls, they are hidden in the bodies of indigenous girls like tattoos, and they continue to grow under the nourishment of the essence and blood in the bodies of indigenous girls, and it generally takes more than ten years of growth cycles to awaken in the bodies of indigenous girls and become the most powerful helpers of the inheritors of these witches.Almost every witch's female disciple has to raise such a parasitic vine in his body, this kind of ghost corpse vine will be called the partner of the indigenous girl as long as it awakens, just like the contract plant monster fierce poison flower vine of Morayaer, but these ghost corpse vines and the indigenous girl are not in a master-slave relationship, but a contractual partnership, and the indigenous girl belongs to the weaker party in the contract.The tattoo on Connie's back is a ghost vine that has just come of age.Connie is its host, and it lives in Connie's body.This ghost vine and Connie live and die together, and as it grows, it grows stronger.I asked the indigenous girl Connie, "Why is this ancient vine called the Ghost Vine?"
”Connie glanced down at the unusually docile ghost corpse vine, pointed to the texture on the ancient vine and said to me: "We call these chaotic textures all ghost patterns, as for why they are called ghost corpse vines, I don't know too well, they are all inherited things. ”I think the ghost vine on Connie's body is very similar to Morayal's fierce poison vine, at least they are plant-based magical beasts.Morayar's father, Morayar, was a well-known wood scholar in the imperial capital, and Morayar was also influenced by Moras and was proficient in the wood magic of many factions.So I decided not to go to the Hiero plane for the time being, and went directly to Morayar's residence with Connie and Puyaka.Morayaer's residence is located at No. 59 Yulin Street, which was originally the private residence of a noble earl, but after the outbreak of the plane war, the earl died in a plane war, and the earl's wife died of the source of her livelihood, so she could only sell the mansion here and return to the territory with her family.In order to facilitate a private meeting with me, Morayar did not live at home, but she found a real estate firm and bought a small villa near the Royal Academy of Magic.This wild trip made her have a lot of money in her hands, so she bought a property in the imperial capital without caring like this.Morayar happened to be at home, and she opened the door and saw three beautiful women behind me, looking at me with a strange or rather disdainful look."
Didn't you say something was going on in the afternoon?"
Morayar invited us into the living room and said to me.As we poured our tea, she glanced at Katarina, who was also looking at her very seriously."
Oh, this is Moraya, a wood mage and my teacher at the Academy of War Magic in El City, and this is Katarina, my follower.These two are the natives of Hierro, "I explained my intention after introducing Katerina and the indigenous girl to Morayal.Morayar didn't expect the Hiero natives to be able to use this kind of alternative wood magic, so she asked Coney to undo her shirt and reveal the magic pattern on her back.Connie was leaning over the table covered with a white tablecloth, her back almost full of UO, with an incomparably clear picture of the ghost vine printed on it, and a faint halo of magic flowed through these magic lines.Morayal's fingernails gradually ran across the skin of Connie's back, causing the native girl to twist her body slightly uneasily.Moraya pressed Connie's shoulder hard and patted Connie's back twice, she probed for a while before she said to me seriously: "This should be a kind of primary spiritism, but it seems that she doesn't have the ability to open the space-time gate of another dimension, so she will let the ancient vine parasitize on herself, and further assimilate this ancient vine by letting the ancient vine suck the essence blood of her body, so that this irascible ghost corpse vine can become more docile." ”Then she said to herself: "But fostering such a large parasitic vine will be a great burden on the body, and it seems that these magic patterns should play a vital role." ”Morayar kept chattering as she carefully examined Connie's motifs."
Let me see what is holding their bodies up," she said. ”She took out a few thick magic books from her magic purse, and took out a few magic patterns from them to compare them one by one, but unfortunately she didn't find the answer.Just when Moraya was a little depressed and wanted to give up, her eyes suddenly lit up and she said to me, "I see, this pattern is the life demon pattern hidden in the texture of the ghost corpse vine bark. ”"Life Pattern?"
I repeated her words.Morayar said in a tone of extreme affirmation: "That's right, this should be a life demon pattern that belongs to the body of the ghost corpse vine. ”"It's like a life pattern on a fishskin hood?"
I asked Moraya."
What is a fishskin hood?"
Moraya asked me with a confused expression.She didn't experience the turmoil in the imperial capital, and she didn't know about the fishskin hood.I said to her, "I don't seem to have told you about this matter yet, I'm going back to explain to you, in short, I found a life magic pattern on the fish-man leather that can increase the power of the spirit, and you will understand if I give you a fishskin hood another day." ”Moraya readily agreed, "Yes!
I think that the natives of Hiero also have mastered the drawing method of this life magic pattern, and this life magic pattern should be comprehended from the ghost corpse vine, let me see what kind of magic pattern it is. ”As she spoke, she began to take out a thick manual of magic patterns, and then compared them with the wooden magic patterns on it, and began to look for a magic pattern similar to Connie's back, but in the end, she found nothing.Moraya said to me: "I guess it must be the life pattern of the wood healing class, in order to make up for the damage caused by the ancient vine sucking the body, the natives actually found a life pattern from the ghost corpse vine, this indigenous tribe in Hierro?"
”She stood up and said to me with an excited face: "Jiga, I have decided, I will go to Hierro in a few days!"
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