owlsbooks Chapter 2191: Please vote for me!!! Please vote for me!!!
Chapter 2191: Please vote for me!!! Please vote for me!!!
Chapter 2191: Please vote for me!!! Please vote for me!!!
Although it was far away, everyone could see the outline of the perfect city and the faint singing, holy and sad.
"Camelot? The one with King Arthur? EX curry sticks!"
Thor's stay on Earth was not in vain. He learned a lot of random knowledge... If you ask him to read, he can fall asleep in three seconds... This guy seems to have some reading difficulties. He falls asleep easily when he sees a book, which is better than sleeping pills. Of course, this refers to serious books. If you give him novels and comics, he can read them with relish... Of course, he can't speak English. Thor can speak English, but he is illiterate and really can't learn it. He can speak English entirely because of technology. Asgard has something like a universal translator, which allows Asgardians to understand and speak most languages in the universe without learning... But not text. After all, the translator is essentially a simultaneous interpreter. Thor doesn't speak English either. He just opens his mouth to speak, and the translator directly translates his words into English. Others can't hear the difference.
But writing is not the same. Language is a tool for communication and exchange, which can be in both oral and written forms. Writing is a symbol system for recording language, used for writing and reading. Writing visualizes language, allowing language to be recorded and spread across time and space. Language is older than writing, and is something that developed naturally in human society. It is even older than humans, because language communication also exists in the animal world. But writing is not developed naturally, but created with the development of human civilization. Language can be oral or gestural, while writing can only be a polite symbol system, and not all languages have a written symbol system. Only more mature language systems can create a writing system to correspond to it. And the writing system is more complicated than language to express, and it requires corresponding materials and writing tools to complete.
After being created, writing forms a mutually dependent relationship with the corresponding language. Language is the basis of writing, and writing is the expansion and systematization of language. Without language, writing has no meaning. Without writing, the spread and preservation of language will be limited. Learning a language will inevitably involve listening, speaking, reading and writing, but learning writing mainly focuses on reading and writing.
Language is an oral or non-written form of communication, while writing is a visual record of language. Together, they constitute a complex human communication and expression system.
Different human beings face basically similar nature and human beings. Although the language systems are different at the beginning, of course, this difference is just the different pronunciations of the same thing, but in the creation of characters, they all start from pictures, that is, from hieroglyphics. They look at the shape of things and use similar graphics to represent them, thus forming the earliest hieroglyphics, such as China's oracle bone script, foreign Sumerian, Egyptian, Mayan, etc. So in the earliest times, the text was a picture. After these basic symbol graphics were formed, they were added, subtracted and combined according to the corresponding rules to form text. It's just that this method of creating characters, China and the West later took different paths. China's square characters finally carried forward this hieroglyphics, while the West finally moved from hieroglyphics to phonetic writing.
Every Chinese character has three functions: shape, sound and meaning. You can see its basic shape with your eyes, know its sound with your mouth, and understand its meaning with your heart. Chinese characters have embarked on a path of shape and meaning. And after 6000 years, it has become the most unique writing system in the world. However, there is a difference between text and character in Chinese. Generally, a single character is a text, and a combined character is a character. Characters are born from text. Therefore, in the formation process of Chinese characters, text is earlier than character. Text is basically the earliest batch of vivid Chinese characters.
I'm getting off topic. Anyway, Thor's brain seemed to be filled with cement, and he couldn't learn anything. But he learned all those random things very quickly!
For example, this guy learned the legend of King Arthur from watching anime!
Kai looked at him expressionlessly, not knowing what to say for a moment... This guy is really careless. He actually has the mind to make a joke in this situation... Well, maybe he is serious?
But speaking of that anime… Honestly, he didn't know what Arthur would think when he saw that anime. On the contrary, Kai thought it was quite exciting. After all, King Arthur was a cute girl or something. I guess Uther would be so mad.
"Close, but Arthur's not a girl."
"Oh." Thor looked at the white holy city: "This city is quite ordinary. Why do you say it is a perfect city? Asgard is much more beautiful than it!"
Thor's aesthetic is deeply influenced by the Asgardians, who like golden things... To be honest, it is difficult for Kai to describe such aesthetics. Basically, all gods like this style and they like gold very much.
The Celts…well, the Celts actually like gold, which is why Camelot is not golden.
This is simply because there are no gold mines on the British Isles.
In addition, the Celtic metallurgy industry was not very mature. Compared with the civilizations of the same period, the Celts were not outstanding.
But Kai couldn't let Thor describe his second home in this way.
"Huh! This city was built 10,000 years ago! At that time, you Asgardians were still a tribe! You didn't even have stone houses, you could only live in wooden houses!"
This is true. Although the Asgardians have excellent physical fitness, they are much worse than other civilizations in other aspects.
At the same time, Egypt had already built very magnificent cities.
Olympus and Sumer are full of black technology!
Thor was not angry: "Is that so..."
Well, this guy is just plain uneducated, he doesn't even know the history of Asgard.
At this time, Gu Yi's eyes began to light up!!!
"I never thought that there would be such a great wizard ten thousand years ago!"
Ancient One could feel that this city had unimaginable magic! Ancient One had never seen such magic before.
She looked at Kai.
Hopefully Kai can explain.
Kai shrugged, "Don't look at me. I really don't know. Anyway, wizards were illegal when I was still active."
During the time of King Uther, Uther hated wizards and all kinds of supernatural powers. He only believed in the sword in his hand and the armor on his body. Any person or thing related to wizards would be burned.
Well, the practice of burning witches has been around for 10,000 years.
As for why King Uther hated wizards and spells so much... Kai really didn't know. Although he grew up with King Uther, this issue was a taboo and no one could talk about it, not even Kai.
"I only know two wizards, one is Merlin, the other is Morgana...but from my impression, they are both very weak."
King Uther was Kai's adoptive father, and Kai grew up with him since he was a child.
How to describe this person?
You can't say he's a bad guy, but he's a very charming man. Although he's strict, he's serious about his work, has a strong sense of responsibility, and is brave and good at fighting.
You could say he was a good person... not really. He treated his enemies harshly, even cruelly. For example, in witch hunting, countless wizards and suspected wizards died in his hands.
At the worst time, a cow was lost in a village, and an old woman was slandered as a cow thief. This would have been nothing, but because there was no evidence to prove that the old woman stole the cow, the owner of the cow turned around and said that the old woman was a witch who used magic to make his cow disappear.
Then King Uther burned the old woman to death.
There is no evidence.
As a result, the old woman's son became a bandit and almost assassinated King Uther.
What's worse is that this guy cheated on his friend.
That is Morgana's father, Duke Goroas of Dingtagil.
King Uther disguised himself as Duke Dintagir and slept with Igraine... But the old man came back early and discovered what King Uther was doing, so he raised an army in anger and was then killed by King Uther.
All I can say is that Uther is a very complicated person.
Under the high pressure of King Uther, there were no wizards in Camelot. Morgana was born a witch because of her talent. She knew a few tricks, but they were useless.
Merlin... a country boy who, when Kay met him, had trouble even lighting a candle with his magic...
"Merlin!!!" Thor came online again at this time!
In the legend of King Arthur, there are many different opinions about Merlin's origin, but it is generally believed that he is half-human and half-demon, born with extraordinary wisdom and magic power. He predicted the birth of Arthur and the victory of the red dragon (Welsh) over the white dragon (Saxon), which led to the birth of Arthur. It is usually believed that he helped Uther sneak into the castle to have an affair with someone's wife. Since Arthur was an illegitimate child and it was inconvenient to raise him in the court, Merlin became Arthur's raiser. After Arthur came of age, Merlin set up the Sword in the Stone to prove Arthur's kingly qualifications, and became his right-hand man after Arthur inherited the throne. He fought wits and tactics with Arthur's main enemy Morgan and others many times to help Arthur. But in the end, Merlin was murdered by his lover and was imprisoned forever. There are also claims that Merlin guards Arthur's legacy and waits for King Arthur to return to the world.
Legend has it that he is the son of a nightmare and a human, with human characteristics, and can survive by relying on his dreams. At the same time, he lacks the human concept of good and evil, and thinks he loves humans, but humans may not think so. Under the advice of Uther, the former king of Britain, he helped Uther use the concept to conceive and give birth to the red dragon of Britain, Arthur, that is, Altria. When Altria was young, he constantly educated Altria on the way of governing the country through dreams. Kai, who was informed of this, thought that he had no humanity, because Altria practiced swordsmanship, took care of housework and other affairs during the day, and only had two or three hours of sleep, and these two or three hours were also exploited by Merlin. He brought the sword of choice and told Altria the ending seen by the clairvoyance ability before Altria drew the sword. After that, Altria, Merlin and Kai went out to practice together. The three of them have been involved in various troubles, and the process is often Altria who gets involved first, and Merlin's poisonous tongue directly aggravates the situation, and finally Kai can only help the two of them clean up their butts. In the ten years after King Arthur established the capital in Camelot, Merlin served as the king's assistant, although he was most famous for seducing women out of his incubus nature and having his feet on countless women, which led to extremely dangerous interpersonal relationships. At the end of King Arthur's ten years, King Arthur had to hide because he had offended fairies before leaving for the European continent. Merlin did not appear until the last battle of King Arthur's legend.
The above is Thor's narration...
God knows where he knows all this nonsense.
"What the hell is Altria? And how could Merlin help Uther have an affair? Merlin was just a child when he met Uther. He does have some talent for magic, but he has never learned illusion... In addition, nightmares and children of men... I'm not sure about this, but he does come from a single-parent family, and his mother raised him. As for his father, he himself doesn't know, but he hasn't heard of nightmares or anything like that. You know, at that time, if such rumors were spread, he and his mother would be burned to death by Uther!"
Kai complained helplessly.
"That..." Ancient One seemed to want to talk a lot at this time, and actually interrupted this boring topic: "Master Merlin is indeed a very great wizard. This is recorded in our Kamar-Taj. At least the first Supreme Sorcerer Agamotto highly respected Master Merlin and even believed that his magical ability has surpassed the scope of humans!"
Kai was stunned. He didn't expect Gu Yi to interrupt.
You know, Kai was just talking nonsense with Thor because he was simply nervous. He had no idea what to do with the situation at hand. Apart from talking nonsense, he couldn't find any other way to relieve the pressure.
"So?" Kai asked curiously, "What's the use? They are all gone."
"No! He left us the last hope!"
Ancient One said very seriously: "I never noticed it before. I always thought that the city was just a memorial left by the ancient Celts. Now that I think about it, it is indeed a bit abrupt. In the environment of the inner world, a city preserved by magic suddenly appeared. How could it be just a souvenir!"
After hearing this, not only Kai, but others also reacted.
Yes.
The immortals are obviously not the kind of people who pursue ostentation. They established the inner world, but they let Merlin abruptly place a city in the inner world... Is it really just for the sense of ritual?
How can it be!
It can only mean one thing, that is, this city itself is a backup!
Just like the Trident of Poseidon will be placed in the center of the earth, it has its special function.
"But what's the use of this city?"
"Of course it works! It's very useful!!!"