The guide Anar understood this sentence, but hoped that he did not understand it.
She was a little panicked-because she could really understand what was going on.
Many extraordinary people on the Dusk Path have the ability to petrify, and some ancient ruins also have curses that turn people into stones. This is actually not rare... and more importantly, she has heard similar statements.
But at this moment, Zhu Tang realized something and frowned slightly.
"I'll ask."
The one who spoke was the old ritualist Ibn.
He sighed and stepped forward and began a quick communication with the Snakeman Priestess in fluent resting words.
Although Avas could understand some rest words, the priestess Dongya has been using standard and slow, just like the listening of foreign languages... However, such important things may be ambiguity even after a single translation.
For example, the word "good master" is the result of translation in Xingying language. Its original name means more similar to "merciful, kind, noble and holy master/master".
The word "master" by Anar called Evas is part of this word. It is also a relatively close and less serious name for "master" when slaves call their masters. Therefore, it is translated as "master" - this is the intimate name of Xingying's servants to their nobles, which is closer than the names such as "master", "honor", and "sir".
However, the former, the former, in the translation, reduces the meaning of humility, obedience and fear, while the latter also loses the hint of "master-servant relationship" from the translation. This is the loss of information caused by translation.
Dong Ya was obviously relieved when she saw Ibn, the Sabre, who helped her interpreter.
She was obviously worried that she had said something wrong and that she had sent the wrong message. Ibn's dress was obviously a ritualist, and he could understand some professional terms.
The vague and rapid discussion was clearly mixed with dialect, and there were also several uneasy and fearful whispers and questions from Anar.
Soon Ibn figured out the situation and returned to Aivas and whispered to repeat it.
——This is something that happened not long ago.
Just two days ago, a strong petrified curse suddenly burst out from the center of Rock Cellar City - it was an attack effect caused by some irresistible ritual spell.
The snake priestess Dongya was not nearby at that time because she had already taken refuge in advance. But later she tried to go to Yanjiao City to relieve the curse, but found that the rituals and magic she mastered were completely invalid. Even the curse was like a virus that infected her.
On the day when the curse was lifted, she only found a scale on her waist that became a little rough. But when she woke up the next day, she obviously felt a sting.
It was a feeling like a needle-like bone hyperplasia. At that time, Dongya discovered that the rough scale had completely turned into a gray-white brittle stone shell. After she broke the petrified scales hard, she found that the muscles inside had also petrified.
So Dongya directly used a scimitar to completely scatter the petrified flesh and blood after blessing. Then she used a healing ceremony to restore her defective body - the Snake Man Priest was not the holder of the divine arts of the Eternal Church system, so they did not know how to illuminate arts and sacrifice fire.
But Dongya is already an extraordinary person at the third level. Whether it is Avalon, Xingying or Iris, they are all serious bishop-level magic spellcasters. There is still a level of healing ability at this level... Even a mage has the ability to heal some minor injuries.
But before even the night was over, Dongya felt the itch became stronger and stronger, even more unbearable than the pain.
It is said that it is a kind of pain that is comparable to the punishment of salt corrosion—
The punishment of salt erosion is a unique torture in Rest. It only uses this punishment for people with a certain status, and it is also the most common torture. It is usually used to punish those who dare to disrespect the good master if they have little money or small powers - such as merchants, priests, ritualists or doctors. However, the latter people will occasionally use simplified punishment to punish their slaves and imitate the authority of the good master.
Usually the most common situation is that a private ritualist or a doctor affair with the slave female slave of the good master. Or the merchants in the slave hunting team did not meet the order of the good master, or they lost, killed, or damaged the important slaves they called for.
This punishment will remove people from clothes and put them in a cage and soak them in thick, warm brine. It is a high concentration of salt water, which may also be mixed with minerals such as sulfur and saltpeter.
Dongya has received such punishment for rejecting the touch of the good master.
Although it sounds like it's just a hot spring bath, high concentrations of salt water can cause severe dehydration in the body - according to Dong Ya's own description, in the first few seconds, millions of ice needles will feel like piercing into the gaps in the scales.
Then, the tingling sensation will spread along the nerves, a burning sensation like holding a flame, and it will flow upwards with the ice needle. The originally smooth blue-gray scales fade, dry and peel off, revealing the pink tender flesh below. The exposed fair skin also wrinkles at a speed visible to the naked eye, like dead wood that has been drained from moisture.
The servant of the good master scooped up the brine with a long-handled copper spoon and poured it on her waist that she refused to be touched as a kind of "cleaning".
Different people who were punished for the punishment of salt erosion were different. The good Lord was not too dissatisfied with her, so it could be raised to this extent.
It is said that if you continue soaking, your skin will be torn and rolled up. Then the whole body will be severely dehydrated, and you may even be cured into cured jerky meat in a scream.
——This is also the privilege of the good Lord.
Because all water belongs to the good Lord, which naturally also includes the water in everyone's body. For insignificant untold people, punishment is usually hung up and dried, or hanging upside down and bleeding to death.
But this will appear too long for people with higher identities, neither intuitive enough nor fast enough. Moreover, the crime they commit does not necessarily mean to die. Therefore, "determine when to raise it", "it is completely possible to die", and "at the same time, there is a certain degree of reversibility" salt erosion punishment is the best choice.
And it can also constantly remind everyone that the Good Lord controls all the water in the desert, and that people can survive by the gift of the Good Lord. If they can give people life, they can also take it back.
This torture lasted until nightfall, and even Dongya herself couldn't help but tear her scales open, and the itching finally ended - petrochemicals spread under the scales like a plague, and this time it obviously spread around.
It was originally a scale that was only the size of a thumbnail, but now it has spread to the size of a palm. The pain has relieved the itching a lot, so that it can barely fall asleep.
As a result, her prayer before bed was unexpectedly responded - in fact, for most pastors and priests, it is normal for them to not receive a response to prayer.
The result is the miracle of the apostle.
However, Jacob did not untie the curse on her because he said "that is not necessary."
Because as long as she can complete her own task, the curse can be untied naturally; if it cannot be completed, it is naturally not qualified to discuss this matter.
——The mission is to bring Aivas, who will arrive at the temple today.
"But why did this curse appear?"
Aivas frowned: "Did Priest Dongya say that?"
"Yes," Old Ibn nodded, "This is a blackmail, a robbery... a kidnapping."