As intended, we had sorted out the magic scrolls we needed, and when everything was ready, we set out for the drowning berth on the edge of the Death Swamp, once home to the Raitu tribe.Yesterday, Kuz had informed Elder Gribaschin's side that the orcs of the Raitu tribe should set out at dawn in order to cross the barren wasteland around the town of Gurudin, which had been completely overrun by the hungry orcs, and they had dug out the roots of grass that could be eaten.The farther you go to the periphery, the more you can find something to eat, but there are Warcraft Wind Wolves in those places.We need to take the orcs of the tribe and avoid as many orcs as possible who are looking for food in the surrounding wasteland.At the same time, doing so minimizes hassle.Just the night before departure, Chief Kut and two wolf orc elders from the Elders of Gurudin Town approached me and Qige, because all the shops in Gurudin Town had run out of salt, and at least two caravans carrying salt had not arrived in Guruding Town on time, no matter what the reason, whether it was a natural disaster, or a human hazard, no matter what kind of coincidence or conspiracy, the problem had arisen, and it would be a major matter that endangered the safety of the entire Western Wasteland.No matter who doesn't eat salt, physical fitness will decline, even if the meat food contains a small amount of salt, but in such a famine period, there is no way to provide enough meat for the blood wolf legion in the Gurudin fortress, if this situation cannot be solved within a month, then the combat power and morale of the blood wolf army will decline, those 50,000 blood wolf troops guarding the Guruding fortress, they are in such a catastrophic year, their families are in the difficult period of starvation, and it is extremely difficult to stay in the fortress.Once the matter of salt shortage is delayed for too long, they think of their family members outside, and they are emotionally impetuous, which may cause a mutiny in the barracks, and then the matter will be big.By this time, Chief Kut and the Presbyterian Church had contacted a number of comptoirs.Hopefully a merchant can bring some salt here.There have been human merchants who have agreed to rent an airship from the airport and immediately go to the Grimm Empire to bring back some salt to solve their urgent needs.But the Presbyterians can't put all their eggs in the same basket.Only hope is placed on these mercenary businessmen.In the intervening days, we have sold magical herbs, demon antelope skins, and some weapons of unknown origin in the town of Gurudin.Kig and I were in the caravan of Steward Leipas, which led some to think that we were the children of some of the merchants in the caravan that Old Kuru and Kuz were in, so Kurt would personally come to me and Kig to see if we could get in touch with the other merchants.Deliver salt to the town of Gurudin."
Salt?"
Kig laughed like a kitten stealing salted fish when he heard what Kurt meant.Qige sat on a chair in the living room, supported his chin with his hands and asked Kurt with a smile: "Instead of always buying salt, so that it is always controlled by others, it is better to make salt yourself, if the blood wolf clan has a method of salt production" Obviously, the current acting chief of the blood wolf clan in Guruding Town, Kut, is not a very good businessman, he is even so dull that he does not react at all, and he still sits on the chair and thinks hard about how to solve the problem of salt shortage, and he does not hear the meaning of Qige's words at all.The orc werewolf elder of the Council of Elders who was sitting next to him raised his eyelids.Puzzled, he asked, "We make our own salt?"
”"Why not?
There is no shortage of salt mines in the wasteland!
”When Zige talks to outsiders, he always smiles."
All that salt water is poisonous!
Even if we orcs are as strong as us, we will die if we eat those poisonous salts. ”Another orc elder who had completely wrapped his body in sackcloth said hoarsely.The sound made me shudder, and I suddenly remembered that in the northern foothills of the wasteland, the liger man we had killed, Bifron, had such a hoarse voice, and when he spoke, it was as if countless gravels were sliding on the glass, making the joints of people's bones sour.Kig held out a finger, and his voice was as light as a yellow warbler.She stood up and smiled at the three most powerful people in Guruding Town in front of her and said, "That's why I said the method of salt production, we have a way to remove the poison from the mineral salt." ”"ShhhAt this point, even Coote finally understood what Kig and I were talking about: we had a way to make salt."
What do you want?
Rare magical herbs, silver, and adamantite?
”The orc elder with his head wrapped in sackcloth looked up and asked urgently.The pupil on his left side was very strange dark gold, and the pupil on the right was a miserable white light green, he was actually a lion tiger, and I was so scared that my hair exploded.It is self-evident how significant the matter of salt making is for the future of the Blood Wolf Clan.Kige's eyes were almost bent into small crescents.I almost covered my mouth to make this transaction, and in front of my eyes with Kutz, I talked a lot with Kut and the two elders of the Presbyterian Church, and blatantly sold this salt boiling method that I gave to Kuzi to the Gurudin Presbyterian Church, but one of the conditions was that the presbyterian council must let Kuzi do the errand of making salt.Kuz and I were actually worried that Kig would annoy Kurt by asking for something too precious in exchange for this worthless method of making salt, and I was worried that we would be carried out of Grudin.It was a very, very puzzling deal, and the two elders in the Council of Elders and Coot were confused, because Kig had just asked for one thing, and it was a rarity for ordinary orcs, but for the Grudin's Elders, or the Grudin's Shamanic Priests' Union, it was nothing more ordinary.In fact, in the end, I didn't understand why Qige would use the salt-making method to replace a stone drum that couldn't be beaten.This is a stone drum carefully polished and carved with an adult's fist-sized tiger's eye stone, which is very exquisitely carved, and two tiger's eyes are actually polished out on the tiger's eye stone, which is lifelike on the drum surface.This stone drum is of great significance to orcs, because every orc who becomes a shaman will receive a war stone drum issued by the shaman's guild, which is like a union medal issued by the magicians' guild to every apprentice who successfully registers as a magician, symbolic meaning is greater than practicality, it is said that this stone drum can be used with the magic skills of the orcs, and it is said that it can be used at the same time as the war dance in the orc tribe.But this stone drum is not used by magicians of all races except for the orc shaman!
The elder of the Lion Tiger Clan was even a little embarrassed, thinking that it was his appearance that frightened us, so he asked Miss Qi to just symbolize and accept a useless stone drum as a reward.These stone drums were piled up like hills in the warehouses of the shamanic guilds.And it was dusty.He personally asked someone to get a stone drum carved from tiger's eye stone, which is not much different from the stone drum carved from ordinary stone, except that the stone is more precious and polished.More like an ornament.In this way, several of us had this trip to Qinghai Lake.After Chief Coot had left with the two orc elders from the Council of Elders, the four of us got together and began to discuss the next steps.It seems that you must have to visit Qinghai Lake, the most famous sea of death in the Pai Plateau.Only there is enough salt there.Originally, I thought that just a few of us would go and come back with a batch of salt, but Kuz said that he would pass through the Night Wolf Cliff on the way, and that place was notoriously rich in wolves, and this boy had given him a pot of wind wolf tooth arrows from Chief Coot, and he was thinking about hunting wind wolves all day long, and he wanted more than just a pot of arrows.If you want me to say: since it must be to catch the wind wolf, then it is a waste to discard some wolf meat, it is better to let the tribe of Laitu follow us, and then we will go from Qinghai Lake.It is possible to divide the army into two routes, send some men to bring the salt back to the town of Gurudin, and the large army can go from Qinghai Lake all the way south to the edge of the Death Swamp, and then to the west to Drown.This road must be rarely walked by orcs, because between Qinghai Lake and Guruding Town, there is a dangerous mountain pass like Night Wolf Cliff, only powerful orcs dare to cross there, ordinary orcs dare not risk death here.Because of this, there must have been plenty of wild herbs and magical herbs waiting to be picked along the way, and I guess we might have spent the night on Wolf Cliff.You might even find some sweet potatoes, maybe not!
The four of us got together and talked for half the night, when Kuz said that his grandmother wanted him to bring the most capable maid with him.When he saw that neither I nor Kige looked surprised, he asked, "Why aren't you surprised at all?"
”I actually want to say, you don't even have a maid by your side, where do you have a little bit of an orc noble young master?
In the end, Qige blinked his eyes and gave him a sentence: "Don't all nobles have maids?"
”Kutz suddenly realized, "hehe" smirk.Self-deprecation: "It turns out that I am also a nobleman, why didn't I think before?"
”Finally, Kutz finally asked Kig what I wanted to ask the most, and he asked, "Why do you want a stone drum, what is the use of asking for this thing?"
”Qige leaned on the wooden door frame by the balcony with one hand, held the gorgeously colored tiger's eye stone drum with one hand, and brought it to her eyes to take a closer look, and after a while, she did not find anything strange about this stone drum, so she raised her head and replied indifferently: "I'm curious, no!"
”Kuzi and I felt that in order to satisfy our curiosity about Miss Qi, it was indeed possible to do this, and anyway, the method of making salt was intended to be given to Kuzi from the beginning.At that time, I was thinking that he would one day become the leader of a certain tribe, so with the salt boiling method, his tribe would not starve even in a catastrophic year, and he just needed to be a tribal chief with peace of mind.Qige didn't see any secrets about this stone drum, so he took out a piece of red rope from his bag, and quickly tied the stone drum into a small pendant, and the tiger's eye stone drum with a shiny yellow pattern was tied to the red rope, which was very beautiful.She carried the red rope, shook the stone drum in her hand, and said, "However, this thing still has a little effect." ”As soon as he finished speaking, he stuffed the tiger's eye stone drum into my arms, and then said to me: "You have to keep this well, if you dare to lose it, see how I clean you up." ”I held the tiger's eye stone drum in my hand, like a hot potato, and I could imagine how angry Miss Qi would look if I accidentally broke this stone.I held this tiger's eye stone drum in both hands, and found out that the stone drum was intricately carved with various magic pattern arrays, and the symbols in these magic arrays were all I had never seen before, they were ancient and special, very awkward combinations together, it looked so irregular, but when put together, they formed a special pattern.I stupidly asked, "What is my use for this thing?"
”Kig blinked and put his ear against my ear and said, "You try to manipulate the fire mana in your body, slowly feed it into the stone drum, and feel the difference." ”I followed what Kig said, and gathered the burning mana in my body to my fingertips.I know they're all irascible fire magic elements.Originally, these irascible fire-based magic elements were very resistant to my temptation, but later, with the power of their delicate control, they were forcibly sent into the Tiger's Eye Stone Drum, and the simplest layer of magic patterns on the surface of the Tiger's Eye Stone Drum was immediately dyed with a layer of brilliant red color.At this time.I was still holding the tiger's eye stone drum with one hand, when I suddenly felt a wave of heat spreading out of the stone drum."
Whew!"
With a bang, Caterina's body next to me was pushed and shook by the heatwave, and she was almost pushed down by the sudden heatwave, and she was busy holding my shoulders tightly with both hands.to stabilize the body.The heat blew through the curtains on the balcony violently outside, and the room seemed to be swept by a strong wind, and the items were scattered all over the ground.And Qige stood a little farther away, covered his mouth in surprise, and looked at me with round eyes, a look of surprise in his eyes.I asked curiously, "What's wrong with you?"
Is there anything wrong with this magic vessel?
”Qige jumped over and snatched the stone drum from my hand, looked at it carefully, and then said with great interest: "This is the tiger's eye stone drum, not some magic vessel.This is a totem that symbolizes the identity of the orc shaman.,But it seems that I guessed right.,This stone drum is really a totem of the fire attribute.,The first-order magic skill is actually a fire ring.,This skill is very good.,It's a little powerful!
”Kuz was able to stuff an apple in his mouth, and said in surprise, "Jia, you can use the magic tools of the orc shaman!"
”And I said in my heart: What is there to be surprised at, and you are not unaware of it, in the caravan.Old Kuru has already taught me the magic skills of the four orcs, so what's the fuss about me being able to use the orc magic artifacts?
Qige played with the tiger's eye drum in his hand for a long time, and finally put the tiger's eye drum into my hand with a frustrated face.Some reluctantly said: "Sure enough, I still can't, human magicians can't use the magic tools of the orc shamans, and I can't use this stone drum totem either!"
But why can Jia?
”I looked at Kige a little speechless, and I didn't know how to explain it for a while.Do you want to say that I ate a burn fruit and was not burned to death by fire poison?
When the fire poison was stored in my body, and slowly corroded my body, my body developed natural resistance, and later, those fire poisons were stored in my body in the form of fire elemental mana, and these mana from all over my body could be used to cast orc magic.As for why I was able to unleash orc magic?
That's because old Kuru boldly guessed at the time that the magic power in my body did not belong to any of the three magician systems of the human race, the beast race, and the elf race.In such a coincidence, in order to be able to solve my problem from the pain of obtaining burns, old Kuru taught me the first magic "anti-magic", this magic is completely to burn the excessive fire element mana in the body, and then there is a "heating" that can increase proficiency by draining mana, and now my heating level has successfully crossed the threshold of level 5, and the magic recovery speed has increased by 50%, although the base is small, but this attribute is also very powerful.The third magic "Shadow Cloak" is completely my life-saving skill, and by chance, when I released the skill, I accidentally entered the deep meditation space, which strengthened the ability to cast spells without being interrupted by the outside world.The fourth magic "Fire Tongue Weapon", the additional damage of this fire attribute, has a little explosive damage effect, and when I killed the demon antelope, I clearly found that this damage effect actually has a penetrating effect.Why was Kutz so surprised?
Because at this time, I have touched the mystery of the root of the orc's magic skills, that is, totem spells.At the very beginning, after each shaman is recognized by the shaman's guild, he will get a stone drum like this in the guild according to his own strengths, and the orc shaman also calls this thing a totem, and these primary totems are usually divided into four types: the thick and solid earth element totem, the water element totem full of life vitality, the passionate and extremely irritable fire element totem, and the smart and light wind element totem.Usually the Grand Elder of the Shaman's Guild will issue different types of stone drum totems according to the different characteristics of each orc shaman.As for the stone drum that Qige obtained, it was completely to give Qige a psychological comfort, and everyone knew that such a totem was almost useless to a human magician who had awakened the magic pool.But they never expected that I would be able to control such a fire-type stone drum totem.To be continued.