Chapter 139: The Golden Bird
"Huh? Xue? Have you ever heard of the legend of the Golden Bird? ”
Kane saw the shocked expression on Xue Hua's face, and immediately looked up at him in some surprise and asked.
"Uh... Ah, no, it's just that I've heard the survivors of Kurast talk a few words before......"
Xue Hua was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered that the legend of the Golden Bird didn't seem to be so widespread in this world, and he shouldn't have an impression, so he quickly scratched his head and casually gave a perfunctory reason.
"Oh... I see, the legend of the Golden Bird was well known in the rainforest before the invasion of Hell, and perhaps some of the descendants of the ancient Kurast nobles remember some of the rumors at the time......
Kane blinked, a little skeptical of Xue Hua's statement, but he didn't continue to delve into it, but continued to say to Xue Hua after the previous words.
"According to a few words in some ancient historical materials, the golden bird seems to be a special potion condensed by the high priest of a certain dwarf using the dedication given by the special primordial gods in their group, and the statue carved with the golden bird pattern is not precious in itself, but the precious medicine stored in the statue......"
Kane took out his pipe and lit it on the candle flame next to him, and took a light puff, exhaling a large cloud of white smoke.
"The exact efficacy of this potion is unknown, but the information pieced together from fragmentary records of historical sources seems to link the potion to the legendary so-called 'elixir of immortality'......
It is said that the dwarf tribe relied on the effect of this potion to create a large number of powerful warriors with almost immortal bodies, so that the tribe was finally exterminated because of the covetousness of other tribes.
The primordial gods of their clan were besieged and killed in that war, and even the totem jade carving was completely shattered.
The last remaining point, and the most effective 'elixir of immortality', was finally seized by the other five major races, but because the elixir was too little to be distributed, so in the end no one could get it, and the rest of the matter is very clear in the book in your hand, because the dwarf clan was eventually corrupted by the power of hell, so the golden bird containing the elixir of immortality was completely lost. ”
Kane knocked the ash from his pipe, re-twisted a little tobacco from the cloth bag around his waist, filled the pipe and re-lit it, and then looked at Xue Hua with a "now you should understand" look.
"Uh... That means that we can use these captured jade carvings to summon the legendary long-lost golden bird, and then get the 'not magic medicine' in it? ”
Xue Hua looked at the five jade carvings on the table in front of him in a daze, with an absurd expression on his face.
According to the memory he just recalled, the so-called "Golden Bird" should have been a mission in the third act of the Diablo II game in his previous life, and this task itself requires you to use the game character to kill monsters in the rainforest outside the Kurast harbor and blast a prop called "Jade Villain".
The reward for completing the quest is a potion that the old alchemist of Eco gave you to increase your life limit by 20, which is said to have been extracted from the ashes of an unlucky man named Kuya (vomit~~)......
And the Golden Bird contains Kuya's ashes......
As for the so-called elixir of immortality and immortality, of course, the tasks in the game are also mentioned, but if you have to explain the upper limit of 20 lives as immortality, Xue Hua feels that there is nothing to say.
It's good to say you're happy......
Originally, in this real world, due to the sudden fall of the Kurast Seaport, Xue Huadu was about to forget this small task that was originally inconspicuous and the task process was very simple, but he didn't expect that there was a golden bird in the real world, and the origin was even more legendary than the golden bird in the game......
Is there really such a thing as an elixir of immortality in this world?
You must know that such a thing as immortality cannot even be done by those beings who transcend the legend!
Even the three demon gods and the archangels of the High Heaven can't die forever, at most they have a very, very long life.
The formation and decay of life is the natural law of living beings, and no living thing can violate this law.
Even among the swarms that have studied biological evolution to the highest level, there are no permanent units, and several high-ranking commanders of the Zerg have to evolve again from larval form every few hundred years.
This is already the extreme of what the swarm can do to extend the life span, and it seems that the only ones who can truly live forever are those primitive zergs on the planet Zerus in the StarCraft II game.
And even if they evolve through constant predation, it remains to be seen whether they are truly immortal.
After all, the external cause of death is also a major factor in the end of the life span of a creature, and in Xue Hua's impression, the leaders of the primordial insect swarm on the planet Zerus who resisted the insects, and even the insect ancestors, finally became the Ten Great Tonic Pill of the Blade Queen Kerrigan......
But in Kane's description, the potion stored in the Golden Bird seems to be the perfect elixir of immortality, and even a diluted version of it has created a large number of powerful dwarf warriors with "near-immortality" in the dwarf tribe that owned it in the first place, and each of these warriors is said to have inflicted heavy casualties on the other dwarf tribes besieging them at the time.
As you can imagine, even the diluted version is so powerful, but what about the real stock solution? How terrifying will it be?
Could it really be that the creatures that drank it had an infinite lifespan that could not be destroyed by any external force?
Anyway, Xue Hua didn't believe that there would be such a potion in this world......
Kane was quietly holding his pipe on the side, smoking without a sip, and a pair of eyes full of wisdom kept staring at the expression on Xue Hua's face.
After seeing him slowly sober from his stunned stupor, he coughed lightly, reached out and knocked the ash out of his pipe and put it back in the cloth bag around his waist.
"It looks like you don't believe there is an elixir of immortality in this world, Xue?"
Kane said.
"I don't believe it, and if this medicine is really so miraculous, then why is it that no one in the dwarf tribe that got it in the first place uses it? But instead they keep creating what 'undead warriors'?
I don't believe there are creatures in this world that can withstand the temptation of immortality......"
Xue Hua shook his head and said bluntly.
"Hehe, you can still have enough sanity in the face of such temptation, which is enough to prove that you are a truly wise person.
If you had been born in the Ancient Age, the Mages of Hradik would have been happy to accept you as a member of the Mage's Guild. ”
Kane smiled and nodded in praise of him, then reached out and rewrapped all five jade statues on the table in white cloth.
"But whether that legend is true or not, we now have a good chance to verify the truth, and the long-lost Golden Bird is about to be resurrected in your hands, and that alone gives us reason to celebrate."
"Reappearing in the world? But there is a jade statue here that has lost its effect, can it still be used as a summoning medium? ”
Xue Hua was stunned, frowned and looked at Kane and asked.
"Ah, this is indeed a problem, but it is not without a solution, there was a method of re-energizing items that have lost their magical powers in the earlier Heradic literature, and although this method requires a holy artifact to provide energy, at least what we lack now is not an illusory thing, is it?"
Kane smiled, set the white cloth package aside, and got up again to look for something in the stack of books in the back.
"Although the holy relics are powerful, there are not a few left in the First World, and there may be some clues in the records of these books......
"Relic?" Xue Hua blinked, then opened the inventory and threw out a hollow stone disk carved into an Ouroboros pattern.
"Is it okay to use this?"