During the journey, the most left time is boring, especially when I can't meditate, even if I cast an anti-magic spell on myself to consume the remaining fire mana in my body, I must carefully hide in the bathroom.Without the parchment scrolls full of the ancient orc language, without the little clay oven that never goes out, I felt that my body was rusting, and there were some things I had always wanted to ask old Kuru, so the next day, I finally boarded the long-lost thunder rhinoceros and sat on the familiar seat, and then I felt that the scenery between heaven and earth suddenly came to life.Kutz patted me on the shoulder excitedly, and there was a lot to say to me.Standing on the back of a thunderous rhino more than eight meters high, I want to look out at the exit of the valley.The V-shaped valley exit is just a few dozen kilometers away, and I can even see the wilderness at the northern foot of the Pai Plateau through the mouth of the valley, where the blue sky and the earth are connected, and there are a few white clouds floating in the blue sky, so low that I can reach them as if I can reach them."
You look much better."
Old Kuru nodded at me, and pulled his hand out of his cuff and placed it on top of my head, and I felt a cool sensation pour from the top of my head.He went on to say, "It seems that throwing you into the human race is good for your growth.Staying with us for too long, your wildness and your nature are two extremes, they are contrary to your psyche, and if you let them grow unchecked, one day they will tear apart your soul. ”"But your studies are a little wasted these days, in fact, you can try to meditate, in the human world, even if there are no human children who have awakened the magic pool, for the sake of ethereal rumors, they will practice meditation at ordinary times, so as to increase the chance of awakening the magic pool, although the effect is small, but if you learn meditation in the magic caravan, it will not seem so abrupt.Every morning from now on, you'll need to come up to me to get a roll of parchment, memorize those words, and I'll test you every day. ”I was a little disappointed and said, "But I can't come back yet, can I?"
”"In a few days, you and Az will be able to go to the Northern Foothills Wasteland to practice, and now you need to recuperate.There is no better place than a caravan. ”Old Kuru replied, and looked at me with his cloudy eyes, and I did not dare to bow my head in the face of his piercing eyes."
I heard you had a conflict with the people in the party yesterday?"
Old Kuru patted me on the back with his big dry hand.I thought of Ming Qian's gloomy eyes, and said with some embarrassment: "Well, maybe they will find me trouble in my wasteland."
But I can't beat them. ”"Don't worry, my child, in the endless wasteland, no danger lurks, remember how you managed to avoid the dwarven robbers?"
Old Kuru's voice was calm and calm.I think back to that moment, after I was knocked unconscious by the dwarven warrior, because of the disparity in strength, my body was knocked away at the same time, and I was about to hit the mountain wall, and my body seemed to be unable to move, at that time, I suddenly entered deep meditation, and suddenly cast the "shadow cloak", I turned into a black indefinite and hit the wall, fortunately I did not die."
I remember, I couldn't move my whole body at that time, but I still wanted to make a final effort to cast the shadow cloak, and I didn't think too much about it at the time, I just knew that if I couldn't release the shadow cloak, I would die if I was thrown on the wall, so I inexplicably entered a state of deep meditation at that time, and I don't know why the magic array drawn in my hand was not like it, or even just a zigzag spline curve, but the spell was successful."
I carefully recalled the scene, and old Kuru listened carefully to every word I said.When he heard me say that the spell was successful, his eyes showed a flying look, and his mouth muttered, "Sure enough, sure enough!"
”I didn't know what old Kuru was talking about, but after a moment he calmed down before he said to me, "Deep meditation can't bring you into the magical state of time stagnant, but it can give you the effect of mental concentration.Deep meditation has always been essential for orc shamans.Especially for the more aggressive elemental shaman, every elemental shaman hopes to comprehend the powerful earth-attribute magic skill of Mother Earth in his life, but this is the gift of the ancestors after all, and a shaman who has the luck to comprehend this skill may not be able to appear for hundreds of years, so some elemental shamans have found another way and began to study the unconventional magic effect of deep meditation in depth, and later came to a conclusion that there is a certain chance that the current magic skill will be strengthened if there is a deep meditation state when casting a spell,The direction of strengthening is several aspects,The best one is to increase the speed of magic casting into instantaneous magic,There is also an increase in the power of magic skills,Increase the continuous effect of magic gains,Reduce the mana consumption of magic skills,Get the effect of mental concentration,Spellcasting can not be interrupted,Casting success rate of more than 90%。
I think maybe your Shadow Cloak skill has been strengthened in terms of mental focus. ”"This shadow cloak skill was originally the dark magic of the demons, and the original skill had only one effect, which was to hide your whereabouts in the shadows, which was a simplified version of the stealth skill, but according to what you said, you have been able to integrate your body into the magic skill, and you can move slowly in the shadows with the magic mist after the demonization, and it will not be visible when you move, which should also be explained by deep meditation and strengthened magic skills."
Old Kuru continued: "When you first appeared in deep meditation, you were strengthened in your own spiritual power, and when you flipped through the magic books, you were automatically pulled into your spiritual sea, and your memory and reading ability were enhanced, and during that time, you thoroughly understood the overall state of the spiritual sea in a state of deep meditation.But your second deep meditation was triggered by an existential stake, which strengthened the magic skills that are currently most useful to you, and your luck is really not ordinary. ”On the steep ridge on one side of the valley, a boulder sits across the peak, like a cap on top of a chicken leg mushroom.And it's unusually flat.Standing on this big rock and looking at the surroundings from a bird's eye view, I found that the original strip-shaped valleys are everywhere in the mountains at the northern foot of the Pai Plateau, the mountains here are like ditches in the fields, arranged very neatly, but there is such a valley near here that runs through the mountains at the northern foothills, and the rest of the valleys are like closed mountain cols, there are no traces of survival at all, everything is in a primitive state.I was held in my arms by old Kuru, and I didn't know what was going on, and at once I got into the earth, like an earth dragon, straight through most of the mountains on the way, and in the rumbling and tumbling of the surrounding stones, I was taken by old Kuru to this large stone with a wide view, and he stood on the big rock with his hands behind his back, and I sat on one side.This should be the product left behind after the glacier movement, otherwise no one would be able to place such a strip-shaped boulder about 300 meters long and 80 meters wide on the mountain ridge.Old Kuru said with a serious expression: "In a few days, you will enter the wasteland at the northern foot of the Pai Plateau with Kuzi to practice, every spring when the orc children reach your age, they will follow the older orc children to the wasteland to practice, so as to practice the survival knowledge that they usually learn, which is very important for the orc children, I hope you can also successfully complete this experience." ”"Teacher, I don't have enough confidence in myself."
I bowed my head in some shame.Old Kuru was not displeased in the slightest, and said gently: "It's good that you can recognize your own heart and be brave enough to speak out about your fears.That's why I'm bringing you here, your physique is worse than that of ordinary orc kids, and you haven't been trained in bows and arrows since you were a child, so your arm strength is not strong enough to draw a bow, so before entering the wasteland, our caravan will pass through a free market, you and Azi might as well try our luck and see if we can find the right weapon for you.Today, I'm trying to teach you a simple magic skill.Don't underestimate magic skills, no matter how bad they are, they are magic. ”Old Kuru sat cross-legged across from me, and here I could clearly see the caravan moving along the valley, and after a few dozen kilometers of further progress, the caravan would enter the vast wasteland of the Pai Plateau.Those magic caravans were the size of matchboxes in my eyes at this moment."
Although you have mana in your body, but in fact you don't have much mana stored in your body, and you can't even maintain a simple primary magic, I have found some magic skills that can be cast without consuming too much mana in many orc magic, this skill is called the Fire Tongue Weapon, which belongs to the magic infusion skill, which can inject the caster's weapon into the power of fire, so that the weapon can obtain additional fire magic damage."
After Old Kuru finished speaking, he told me in detail about this magic spell and the simpler magic array.After listening to Old Kuru's detailed description, I realized that although this skill is easier to learn than the "Shadow Cloak", this magic skill has already involved the unique insight of the orc shaman on the elements of magic, and just from the unique structure of the magic array, this magic is unique.Old Kuru left me on this peak, undisturbed, the best place to practice magic.And he turned into a pile of yellow sand and disappeared into the boulder.It is said that it is the advanced earth escape technique of the orc shaman, and I may not have the opportunity to learn it in my life.Old Kuru told me that he would come and pick me up before the sun went down.I suddenly found myself eager to learn new magic, just as I had now memorized the magic spells of the Fire Tongue weapon and the structure of the magic pattern circle, and I sat on the boulder and began to practice tirelessly.In fact, this is extremely simple elementary magic, and the mana consumed is very low, and the mana in my body is enough to last six spells.It's been almost two months since I learned the two magic spells of anti-magic and heating, and for all this time, anti-magic has been consuming the fire-based magic force that is constantly being produced in my body, so that these magic elements that originally burned me are consumed, and I have almost forgotten what kind of pain burning is now.But the anti-magic has not been able to become stronger because of the increase in the number of uses, but the magic skill of heating has two obvious changes in a row, each time the change is when casting the spell, consuming some more mana, but the effect is also obvious, that is, the effect of collecting mana in the body is twice as fast as before.I consulted old Kuru, and he told me that these two changes should be the successful upgrade of the magic skill of heating, if it feels that there are two obvious changes, it means that my heating skill has reached level 3, and the effect of level 3 heating is: the mana recovery speed is increased by 30%, which means that the magic recovery speed brought to me by the heating now is three times faster than the previous 10%.Note that this is only thirty percent faster mana regeneration from my current mana regeneration rate.In other words, I don't have a magic pool now, and I have some spiritual power, and my own gathered mana is still very weak.Even so, after fifteen minutes, I had enough mana to recast the Tongue of Fire weapon.Cast failed!
Cast failed!
Fail!
I could even feel how frustrated I was, and after practicing more than fifty times in a row, I still couldn't successfully use the Tongue of Fire weapon.I carefully examined the spell I had recited for any flaws, and then compared it to the stone tablet according to the diagram of the structure of the magic pattern on the parchment, but I still couldn't see what was wrong.Sitting on the edge of the cliffs, I could already see the sun sink over the horizon of the western wastelands, the sunset in the sky like a delicious roast chicken, I had sat here all day, hungry and thirsty, but there was no progress in the new magic skills.At this moment, I couldn't help but feel the skinning knife in my arms, fantasizing about cutting through the sunset like roast chicken, putting the delicious and juicy chicken leg on the plate, and cutting it into pieces with the skinning knife, gobbling up the delicious chicken, hey!
I touched my rumbling stomach and sighed: I'm so hungry!
The magic force in my hand finally gathered enough to use the fire tongue weapon again, while I recited the spell in my mouth, my fingertips were full of magic force concentrated at one point, and quickly drew a perfect magic pattern circle, the next moment the magic pattern circle suddenly formed a fist-sized fireball in the air, "whew", into the blade of the skinning knife in my other hand, the stainless steel knife turned pale red for a while, I can clearly feel that there is a rich and violent fire magic in the knife is constantly flowing.I'll give you a lung!
It turns out that when this skill is cast, you need the weapon in your hand to succeed, and I'm really a mud horse."
Looks like you're in a quick grip, my child.Your sense of magic is very keen, it only took one day to learn this magic, it's getting late, I'll take you back to the caravan. ”Old Kuru's voice came from behind me.I cried out in my heart with grief and indignation: "Relatives, do you know that I am about to starve to death!"
The silly kid of the beautiful divider Kuz waited for me for a day, but he couldn't say a word to me in the end.I was thrown near the magic caravan by old Kuru, and I even had a magic caravan that was so hungry that my legs were so weak that I couldn't climb up slowly, and if it weren't for the fact that the honest boy was assigned by Caterina to see if I might be back tonight, I might have been abandoned in the wilderness of the valley.Watching me gobble down a whole wheat cake and a large bowl of broth, the four girls in the bedroom all looked at me dumbfounded, Leah leaned on the top bunk and leaned out half of her body, like a female ghost hanging on the roof of the shed, and then cried out: "My God, Jia you won't have eaten all day." ”"In fact, it is!"
I patted my belly, which was about to be broken, and lay on the bed without moving, my feet on the ground, dizzy and dizzy, and vaguely felt Caterina gently scalding my feet, and then pulled off my clothes and wiped my face with a hot towel.After a while, I felt a soft and warm body burrow into the quilt and hug me tightly.She put her head on my forehead, her beautiful red hair completely covering my whole head, tried to calm her tone, and whispered to me aggrievedly, "You have been gone all day, I thought you would not come back, I thought you would not come back." ”I don't know what Caterina and I are at this time, we have a family relationship that is attached to each other and a friendship that experiences life and death together, but there is no love, who would go crazy and talk about feelings with a five-year-old hairy child who has not retired?
The crescent moon rises late tonight, and our caravan has reached the southernmost point of the valley passage in the mountains at the northern foot of the Pai Plateau, and tomorrow morning the caravan will officially enter the Orc-ruled Pai Plateau.I even had in my mind the giant wooden wall erected by the alliance of orc tribes at the exit of the valley.The logs, which were more than a meter in diameter, were seven or eight meters high, with their tops sharpened, one next to each other forming a huge wooden fence.The banner of the orc tribe fluttering there told me that this would be the world of the orcs.