"Huh? Xue? Have you ever heard of the legend of the golden bird?"
Kane saw the shocked expression on Xue Hua's face, and suddenly looked up at him in surprise and asked.
"Um...ah, no, I just heard that the survivors of Kurast had a few words..."
Xue Hua was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered that the legend of the golden bird did not seem to be widely spread in this world. He probably had no impression of it, so he quickly scratched his head and gave a perfunctory excuse.
"Oh...I see, the legend of the golden bird was well known in the rainforest before the invasion of hell. Maybe some descendant of the ancient Kurast nobles still remembers some of the rumors at that time..."
Kane blinked and had some doubts about Xue Hua's statement but did not continue to delve deeper. Instead, he continued to talk to Xue Hua as he had said before.
"According to some fragments of ancient historical materials, the golden bird seems to be a special potion condensed bit by bit by the high priest of a certain dwarf in return for the dedication given by the special primitive gods in their tribe. The statue is engraved with a golden bird pattern.
The statue itself is not precious, what is precious is the potion stored in the statue..."
Kane took out his pipe, lit it on the flame of a nearby candle, took a puff, and exhaled a large cloud of white smoke.
“The specific efficacy of this potion is not clear, but the information pieced together from fragmentary records of historical data seems to link this potion with the so-called ‘Elixir of Immortality’ in the legend...
It is said that the dwarf tribe relied on the effect of this potion to create a large number of powerful warriors with nearly immortal bodies, so in the end this tribe was jointly annihilated because of the covetousness of other tribes.
The original gods of their clan were besieged and died in that war, and even the totem jade sculptures were completely shattered.
The last remaining and most powerful 'Elixir of Immortality' was eventually captured by the other five major ethnic groups. However, because there was too little of the elixir to distribute, no one could get it in the end. What happens next is the book in your hand.
It is clearly recorded in the book that because the dwarves were eventually corrupted by the power of hell, the golden bird containing the elixir of immortality was completely lost."
Kane knocked the ash from his pipe, twisted some tobacco from the bag on his waist, filled the pipe and lit it again, and then looked at Xue Hua with a look that said, "Now you should understand."
"Um...that means 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 stared blankly at the five jade carvings on the table in front of him, with a ridiculous expression on his face.
According to the memory he just recalled, the so-called "Golden Bird" should be a mission in the third act of the previous Diablo II game. The mission itself requires you to use the game character in the rain forest outside the Kurast harbor.
It will be triggered after killing monsters and dropping a prop called "Jade Little Man".
The reward after completing the mission is a bottle of potion given to you by the old alchemist Eco, which can increase the maximum life limit by 20. This potion is said to be extracted from the ashes of a certain unlucky guy named Kuya (vomit~~)
...
And the golden bird contains Kuya’s ashes...
As for the so-called elixir of immortality and immortality, of course the missions in the game also mention it, but if you must explain the 20 life limit as immortality, Xue Hua feels that there is nothing to say.
I can only say that you are happy...
Originally, in this real world, due to the sudden fall of the Kurast seaport, Xue Huadu had almost forgotten this small task that was originally inconspicuous and the task process was very simple. However, he did not expect that there was a golden bird in the real world, and
A legend even more special than the golden bird in the game...
Is there really such a thing as the elixir of immortality in this world?
You must know that immortality is something that even those beings beyond legend cannot achieve!
Even the three demon gods and the archangels in the high-level heaven cannot die forever. At most, their lives are very, very long.
The formation and failure of life are the natural laws of living things, and no living thing can violate this law.
Even among the insect swarms that have studied biological evolution to extremely high levels, there are no units that exist forever. Several high-level commanders of the insect swarm must evolve from larvae form again every few hundred years.
This is the ultimate extension of life that the swarm can achieve. The only ones who can truly live forever are the primitive zerg on the planet Zerus in the StarCraft II game.
And even if they evolve eternally through constant predation, it remains to be verified whether they are truly immortal.
After all, external causes of death are also a major factor in the end of biological lifespans, and in Xue Hua's impression, the leaders of the original swarm that resisted the zerg on the planet Zerus, including Zongzu, all became Blades in the end.
Queen Kerrigan’s Top Ten Tonic Pills...
But in Kane's description, the potion stored in the golden bird seems to be the perfect immortality potion. Even just a diluted version of it has already created a large number of "near-immortality" in the dwarf tribe that originally owned it.
It is said that each of these warriors caused heavy casualties to other dwarf tribes that besieged them at that time.
It can be imagined from this that even the diluted version is so powerful, but what about the real original solution? How terrifying will it be?
Is it really possible to give the creature that drinks it endless life and cannot even be destroyed by any external force?
Anyway, Xue Hua doesn't really believe that there is such a potion in this world...
Kane was quietly holding his pipe and smoking continuously, his eyes full of wisdom staring closely at the expression on Xue Hua's face.
After seeing him slowly wake up from his daze, he coughed slightly, reached out to knock out the ash from the pipe, and put it back into the cloth bag on his waist.
"It seems that you don't believe that there is an elixir of immortality in this world, Xue?"
Kane said so.
"I really don't believe it, and if this medicine is really so miraculous, then how come no one in the dwarf tribe who got it first used it? But instead, they kept it to create some 'immortal 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.
"Haha, the fact that you can still remain rational enough in the face of such temptation proves that you are a truly wise person.
If you were born in the ancient times, the Horadric mages would be willing to accept you as a member of the Mages Guild."
Kane first smiled and nodded and praised him, then reached out and rewrapped all five jade statues on the table with white cloth.
"But no matter whether the legend is true or not, we now have a good opportunity to verify the truth. The long-lost golden bird is about to reappear in the hands of you and me. Just for this reason, we have reason to take good care of it.
Let’s celebrate.”
"Reappear in the world? But there is a jade statue here that has lost its function. 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 is a way to recharge items that have lost their magic power in the early Horadric literature. Although this method requires the use of a holy object to provide energy,
At least what we are lacking now is no longer an illusory thing, right?"
Kane smiled, put the white cloth package aside, and stood up again to look for something in the stack of books at the back.
"Although the holy objects are powerful, there are not a few left in the first world. There may be some clues in the records of these books..."
"Holy object?" Xue Hua blinked, then opened the inventory and threw out a hollow stone plate carved with an Ouroboros pattern.
