The appearance of the corpse indeed resembles the beak mask used by medieval doctors to protect against infectious diseases.
"I don't understand what a plague doctor is. This dead man's body looks like an ordinary dwarf, but he has a crow's head. How strange!" Dimitri commented.
"With a human body and a crow head... when you tell me, it looks really similar!"
Jiang Feng agreed with the lion's description.
"Friends, if I'm not mistaken, this should be the body of a tengu." Nick, the Tin Woodman, broke the silence.
"What is 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 weird, Tengu is also a kind of humanoid creature. It is usually less than 4 feet tall and uses a bird-like creature.
The language he shouted sounded very noisy."
"As far as I know, most tengu are mentally abnormal. They appear crazy and nervous. They also have a boring hobby of imitating other people's speech in weird accents."
"Oh, this is really boring!"
Gao Fei glanced at Pearl.
Pearl rolled her eyes, obviously not agreeing with Nick's view.
"It is said that in ancient times, the Tengu clan originally had wings and lived on top of mountains or served the great mages in Yunzhong City."
"Later, for some unknown reason, the Tengu clan was cursed and lost their wings to fly, so they could only settle on the surface."
"To this day, the tengu are still looking for a way to lift this ancient curse, eager to return to the sky."
"Individually, tengu are like humans or elves. Some are good and some are evil."
"Generally speaking, the Tengu tribe lacks clear standards of good and evil. They are more willing to act willfully, are moody, and are easily incited. This is why I hate them."
"Nick, you know a lot!" Vita said with admiration.
"Friend, although my mind is not as smart as yours, I have lived long enough." The Tin Woodman shrugged, "You know, I was an elf before I became like this. Compared to humans or tengu, the average elf is
The lifespan is just a little bit longer, and the longer you live, the more you will see and know.”
The life expectancy of elves is 750 years, which is really a little bit longer than humans.
Gao Fei complained secretly.
Vita remotely controlled the "Mage's Hand" and pulled the half-weathered cloak off the Tengu's remains.
As the cloak fell to the ground, it made a ding-dong sound.
A string of black onyx necklace slipped out of the cloak pocket.
Ma Yun picked up the necklace, opened the astrolabe and examined it, her face beaming with joy.
"Brother Fei! Sister Feng! This is a string of 'psychic necklaces', which are extraordinary level magic tools."
With that 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 allows the wearer to communicate with the deceased.
Synchro requirements: Depends on caster level
Initial: 1 charge, 1 level "Detect Undead";
Level 3: 3 charges, 2nd level "seeing through invisibility";
Level 5: 5 charges, 3rd level "Psychic".
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Jiang Feng saw the properties of the "Psychic Necklace" and nodded thoughtfully.
"Xiaoyun, there is a corpse of a tengu here, as well as a psychic necklace, and your mage level just meets the synchronization requirements for casting 'psychic spell'. Needless to say what to do next, right?"
"Sister Feng, I have started to synchronize!"
Ma Yun puts on the "Psychic Necklace" and spends a burst of astrolabe energy to quickly skip a short rest.
After a short rest, the necklace completes level 3 synchronization.
Ma Yun extracted a magic power from the necklace and used "spiritual magic" on the Tengu corpse to awaken his soul.
Through some exchanges with the Tengu spirit, everyone not only learned about the history of the "Ceramic City" Fort Patra, but also learned why this ancient city lost its former prosperity and became a lifeless and dead ruins.
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Before becoming the "Ceramic City", Fort Patra had another name and was once the home of dwarfs.
However, the good times did not last long.
Half a century ago, a group of Tengu cultists who worshiped the evil god broke into the city of the dwarfs and tried to occupy it.
The dwarfs put up a tenacious resistance.
Helplessly, the leader of the Tengu cult, a Gorgon named Patra, was so powerful that she turned all the dwarfs in sight into ceramic statues with just one glance.
ceramics?
That's right.
Patra is different from other Gorgons.
Creatures that make eye contact with her will be turned into ceramic instead of stone.
Patra led the Tengu Order, conquered the city, renamed it Patra Castle, and forced the surrendered dwarfs to renovate the entire city's buildings and streets.
Patra was crazy about ceramics and requested that city walls, streets and the outer walls of houses be covered with a layer of white and smooth ceramic tiles, so that no matter where she went, she could see her beautiful reflection in the ceramic tiles.
Only through this relatively blurred mirror image, rather than the clear projection reflected by the mirror, can the narcissistic Gorgon appreciate her own beauty in peace.
There is such a statement of questionable credibility:
A mirror image that is too clear may cause the Gorgon to be petrified by his own gaze and turn into a ceramic statue.
After the whole city was renovated, Patra's vanity was not yet satisfied.
She suddenly had a sudden idea and forced the dwarf slaves to build a magnificent temple for herself.
The dwarf, who could not bear the oppression, tried to escape from the cruel rule of the queen.
As a result, she turned them into ceramic statues with her eyes, which were placed on the streets as decorations and 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 use value and turned them into porcelain statues to decorate her temple.
Seeing the mistress going on a killing spree, even her tengu subordinates were frightened.
All the dwarfs have been killed by Patra. Will this bloodthirsty witch attack the Tengu next?
Suspicion is like the plague. Once it breeds, it will spread quickly and spread among the tengu.
In the end, most tengu decided to strike first and remove the butcher's knife hanging above their heads.
They knew that they could not defeat the powerful Gorgon with their own strength alone.
The Tengu urgently need to find foreign aid, someone stronger than Patra.
So he sent someone to deliver a message to Theodora, the great witch who lived in the desert west of Patra Castle, asking for help.
Theodora, the Witch of the West, readily accepted the Tengu's request, came to Patra Castle, and used powerful magic to kill the Gorgon.
