Chapter 370 Nationalities
Barrett Villa, on the southwestern outskirts of Tivian, north of Shield Hill.
In the dark of night, in the villa where the tragedy took place, the eight top killers led by Kenk were still searching the entire villa non-stop, trying to find the location of Barrett's laboratory. Due to a problem in the planned psychic communication steps and the lack of effective intelligence, they still had no clue about the location of the laboratory.
While Kenk and his killers were wandering around the huge mansion like headless flies, at this time, in the basement of the mansion, in Barrett's laboratory, Dorothy was letting her servant corpse who had successfully sneaked in start looking for Barrett's research materials, trying to find out what the truth was that he knew?
In the secret room, the corpse puppet of the male servant controlled by Dorothy was standing in front of the statue of Arthur, the hero of the Promise legend. Through the perspective of the corpse puppet, Dorothy was flipping through the old pages found in the notebook next to the statue. The story on the old pages was very different from the legend Dorothy was familiar with.
'The bloodthirsty monster Agelor, who was stabbed and wounded eight times, used his eight eyes to guide Arthur to hunt down the witch eight times, and Arthur took the eight eyes and fought eight times before being poisoned... This is a completely different Arthur story from what we usually hear. This kind of story in which Arthur dies in the end is probably not something that children will like.'
Several meters away in the carriage, Dorothy murmured as she looked at the story on the pages of the old book through the eyes of the corpse. There were indeed many points in this story that interested Dorothy.
'In the Arthur legend that is currently circulating, Arthur was taken to heaven by the Son of God, but in this story Arthur's final ending is death. In fact, in a sense, the ending of being taken to heaven in the popular version may also be hinting that Arthur eventually died.
'Another thing worth noting is that the bloodthirsty monster named Ageluo, in the story, likes blood and can turn into blood mist. After being killed by the Eight Wounds, the blood that flows out can turn into the sea. This seems to have some connection with the Blood Dark Path. And the witch with eight eyes and eight fingers, the number eight that appears frequently can't help but make people think of the Eight-pointed Nest. Ageluo, Blood Dark Path, Eight-pointed Nest, witch, spider queen... There should be a deep connection behind these things.'
Dorothy thought so, and then asked the butler corpse to continue flipping through other old book pages, wanting to see what other stories were on them.
While flipping through the pages, Dorothy discovered that the stories recorded on these old pages, which came from nowhere, all seemed to be about the legend of Arthur, but most of them were severely damaged, making it difficult to distinguish in detail what they were about. Dorothy read through these old pages and found that apart from the story of Acheron and the witch, there was only one slightly more complete story. If the story of Arthur and Acheron was the end of the legend of Arthur, then this story was about the origin of the legend of Arthur.
In the popular version of the Arthurian legend, Arthur's story begins with the stone sword given to him by the Son of God who is disguised as an old man. After that, the Son of God also guides Arthur many times in his adventures. However, in this book version, there is no record of the Son of God. In the Arthurian legend in the book, Arthur's story still begins with the sword, but the sword is not obtained from the Son of God.
According to the story on the pages of the book, Arthur practiced martial arts in his youth and vowed to defend the innocent with his sword. He traveled with two companions with the same aspirations, fighting violence and killing monsters everywhere.
They vowed to wipe out the monsters that were wreaking havoc in Putin and bring stability to the people.
One day, Arthur and two of his friends came to a beautiful lake like a mirror and saw a monster preparing to pollute the lake water. The three of them immediately drew their swords and started a fierce battle with the monster.
Soon, the monster was successfully killed by the three men, but their swords were also damaged in the battle. When the three men were feeling sorry for their weapons, the surface of the Mirror Lake that was reflecting the bright moon began to clear, and a beautiful fairy rose from it.
The fairy in the lake was grateful for the three men's heroic act of killing the monster, and expressed her willingness to compensate them for their losses. She took three things out of the lake and placed them on the shore.
The first thing was a small bag of shining jewels. The fairy said that each jewel here was worth a fortune. The second thing was a short and exquisite scepter. The fairy said that it was a trophy for the lord of a rich territory. Whoever obtained it could become the lord of that territory. The third thing was a stone sword made of stone. The fairy said that she carved it out of stone herself.
The fairy asked the three to choose from the three gifts she gave them. The first partner chose the jewels, and then he quit the adventure and became a wealthy businessman. The second partner chose the scepter, and then he quit the adventure and came to his own territory to become a noble lord. Only Arthur chose the ordinary stone sword.
The fairy asked him why, and Arthur replied that although jewels and scepters were good, what he lost was indeed a sword. Jewels were not swords, and scepters were not swords. Only this stone sword was a sword.
Although it is stone, it is also a sword. What Arthur threw was the sword, not something else. Arthur did not want wealth or power. He only wanted to continue his adventure, kill monsters and bring stability to the people of Putt. Therefore, he wanted to hold the sword in his hand, even if it was a stone sword.
Seeing Arthur's answer, the fairy smiled and gave Arthur the stone sword. After Arthur took the sword, he found that the sword was not as heavy as he thought, but very light. He was surprised and asked the fairy what she asked. The fairy replied that it was because the wind was wrapped around the sword. It turned out that this was a magic sword that could harness the power of the wind.
As a reward for sticking to his original aspirations, Arthur obtained the powerful force of wind from the Lady of the Lake. With this power, under the guidance of the Lady of the Lake, Arthur began to continue his adventure, and with such great power, he eventually created one legend after another.
In the carriage in the distance, Dorothy was looking at the legend on the pages of an old book through the corpse of the servant, with a serious and solemn look on her face.
"Is it the fairy in the lake that appears in the mirror-like lake reflecting the bright moon?"
Looking at the description of the Lady of the Lake in the story on the page, Dorothy murmured that when she saw the Lady of the Lake, she immediately thought of the Mirror Moon Goddess.
In this fable-like legend, the Mirror Moon Goddess appears as a fairy in the lake. It is she who guides Arthur and gives him the sword and power, not the Son of God.
When Dorothy saw the fairy in the lake, she immediately thought of some common local folk tales. In some remote places far away from the city, there are stories about fairies in the lake and similar stories. For example, when Dorothy was a child, she heard adults in the village tell stories like "The Fairy in the Lake and the Treasure" and "The Fairy in the Lake and the Greedy Lord". Now that she thinks about it, the prototype of the fairy in these stories may be the Mirror Moon Goddess.
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