my age of magic

Chapter 142 142. The Value of Salt

According to the original plan, after we have sorted out the magic scrolls we need to use, and when everything is ready, we will set off for the drowned berth on the edge of the death swamp, which was once the home of the Raitu tribe.Yesterday, Kurz had informed Elder Gribasqin that the orc girls of the Raitu tribe had set off at dawn to cross the barren wasteland around Gludin Town, which had been completely occupied by hungry orcs. , They even dug out the edible grass roots.The more you go to the periphery, the more you can find something to eat, but there are magical beasts in those places - wind wolves.We have to take the orc girls in the tribe to avoid as much as possible those orcs who are looking for food in the surrounding wilderness.At the same time, doing so can minimize trouble.

Just the night before departure, Chief Kut and two wolf orc elders from the Presbyterian Church in Gludin Town approached Qige and me because all the shops in Gludin Town had run out of salt, and at least there were The two caravans transporting salt did not arrive at the town of Gludin on time. No matter what the reason was, whether it was a natural disaster or human harm, no matter what kind of coincidence or conspiracy, the problem had already arisen, and This will be a major event that endangers the safety of the entire western wilderness.

No matter who does not eat salt, their physical fitness will decline. Even if meat contains a small amount of salt, but in such a famine period, there is no way to provide enough meat for the blood wolf army in Gludin Fortress. If this is the case If it cannot be resolved within a month, then the combat power and morale of the blood wolf army will drop. Those [-] blood wolf troops guarding the Gludin Fortress, in such a catastrophe year, their families are starving. In difficult times, it is already extremely difficult to stay in the fortress.Once the matter of salt shortage was delayed for too long, they thought of their family members outside, and under their impetuous emotions, it might cause a mutiny in the barracks, and that would be a big deal.

During this period of time, Chief Kut and the Presbyterian Church have contacted many business houses, hoping that some merchants can bring some salt here.A human businessman has already promised to rent an airship in the airport and immediately go to the Green Empire to bring back some salt to meet the urgent need.But the Presbyterian Church cannot put all its eggs in the same basket and only pin its hopes on these profit-seeking businessmen.

In the past few days, we have sold magic herbs, magic antelope leather and some weapons of unknown origin in Gludin Town.Qige and I came to the caravan of Steward Leipas again, which made some people think that we were the children of some merchants in the caravan where old Kuru and Kurz belonged, so Kurt would personally find me and Qige, wondering if we can contact other merchants to ship salt to Gludin Town.

"Salt?" Qige smiled like a kitten who stole salted fish after hearing Kurt's intention.

Sitting on a chair in the living room, Qige put his chin in his hands and asked Kut with a smile: "Instead of always buying salt, which is always controlled by others, it's better to make salt yourself. If the blood wolves have the method of making salt..."

Obviously, Kut, the current chief of the Blood Wolf Clan in Gludin Town, is not a very good businessman. He was so dull that he didn't respond at all. Hear the meaning in Qige's words.

The orc werewolf elder of the Presbyterian Church who was sitting beside me raised his eyelids and asked suspiciously, "We make our own salt?"

"Why not? There is no shortage of salt mines in the wasteland!" Qige always smiled when talking to outsiders.

"The salt water is poisonous! Even if we orcs have such a strong body, we will die if we eat that poisonous salt." Another orc elder who completely wrapped his body in sackcloth said hoarsely.This voice made me shudder, and I suddenly remembered that in the wasteland at the northern foot of the foot, the liger Biflon who was killed by us had such a hoarse voice. Sour in the joints.

Qige stretched out a finger, and her voice was as light as a yellow warbler. She stood up and smiled at the three most influential figures in Gluding Town in front of her and said, "That's why I said the work of making salt We have a way to remove the poison in the mineral salt.”

"Hiss!" At this moment, even Kurt finally understood what Qiger and I were talking about: we have a way to make salt.

"What do you want? Rare magical herbs, thorium, and pure gold?" The orc elder who wrapped his head in the sackcloth raised his head and asked urgently. His left pupil unexpectedly appeared a dark golden color. And the pupil on the right is pale green. He is actually a liger, which made my hairs explode in fright.

It is self-evident how meaningful the salt making matter is to the future of the Blood Wolf Clan.Qige's eyes almost turned into little crescents, and he almost covered his mouth to make the deal. Right in front of Kurtz and me, he chatted with Kurt and the two elders of the Presbyterian Church. Dadui, blatantly sold this salt cooking method that I gave to Kurtz to the Gludin Presbyterian Church, but one of the conditions is that the Presbyterian Council must let Kurtz do the job of making salt.Kurtz and I were actually quite worried that Qige would open his mouth and ask for some overly precious things in exchange for this worthless salt-making method, which annoyed Kurt. I was very worried that the few of us would be carried out of Gludin sideways.

This is a very, very puzzling transaction. The two elders in the Presbyterian Church and Kurt are confused, because Qige only asked for one thing, and this kind of thing is rare for ordinary orcs It's a thing, but for the Gludin Presbyterian Church or the Gludin Shaman Union, it is just an ordinary thing that cannot be more ordinary.In fact, in the end, I didn't understand why Qige used the "salt making method" to replace a stone drum that couldn't be beaten.

This is a stone drum carefully polished and carved with a tiger's eye stone the size of an adult's fist.This kind of 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 union. Like the trade union medals issued by the apprentices, the meaning of the symbol is greater than the practicality. It is said that this stone drum can be used with the magic skills of the orcs to cast some group magic. It is said that it can be used simultaneously with the war dance in the orc tribe.But except for the orc shaman, this stone drum can't be used by magicians of other races!

The elder of the ligers and tigers was even a little embarrassed, thinking that his appearance frightened us, so he asked Miss Qi to just symbolize and accept a useless stone drum as a reward.These stone drums are piled up like hills and covered with dust in the warehouse of the shaman union.He personally asked someone to bring a stone drum carved from tiger's eye stone. In fact, this stone drum is not much different from stone drums carved from ordinary stones, but the stone is more precious. Afterwards, more like an ornament.

In this way, a few of us had this trip to Qinghai Lake.

After Chief Kut left with the two orc elders in the presbytery, the four of us got together and began to discuss the next thing.It seems that we must go to Qinghai Lake once, which is the most famous sea of ​​death in the Pai Plateau, only there is enough salt.Originally, I thought it would be just a few of us to go and come back with a batch of salt, but Kurtz said that he would pass Night Wolf Cliff on the way. The place is famous for its many wolves. He has a pot of wind wolf teeth arrows, and he has been thinking about hunting wind wolves all day long. What he wants is not just a pot of arrows.

Let me say: Since we must hunt wind wolves, it is a waste to discard some wolf meat. It is better to let Raitu's tribe follow us. At that time, we can divide our troops from Qinghai Lake and send some The people sent the salt back to Gluding Town, and the large army could just walk south from Qinghai Lake to the edge of the Death Swamp, and then head west to Drowning Park.

There must be very few orcs on this road, because between Qinghai Lake and Gluding Town, there is a dangerous mountain pass like Night Wolf Cliff. Only powerful orc hunters dare to cross there, and ordinary orcs dare not take the risk. Die here.Because of this, there must be a lot of wild vegetables and magic herbs waiting for us to pick along the way. I guess maybe after Night Wolf Cliff, we may find some sweet potatoes, maybe!
The four of us got together and talked nonsense for half the night. Kurtz said that his grandma asked him to bring the most capable maid this time, and he didn't show any surprise when he saw me and Qige Looking puzzled, he asked, "Why aren't you surprised at all?"

I really want to say, you don't even have a maid by your side, how can you look like an orc noble young master?In the end, it was Qige who blinked and gave him a sentence: "Don't nobles all have maids?"

Kuz suddenly realized, "Hehe" smirked, and laughed at himself: "So I am also a nobleman, why didn't I realize it before?"

Finally, Kurtz finally asked Qige what I wanted to ask the most. He asked: "Why did you want a stone drum? What's the use of this thing?"

Qige pinched her waist with one hand and leaned against the wooden door frame by the balcony, holding this gorgeous tiger-eye stone drum with one hand, and brought it closer to her eyes for a closer look. There was nothing strange about Shigu, so he raised his head and replied nonchalantly, "I'm curious, no way!"

Kurtz and I felt: In order to satisfy the curiosity of Miss Qi, it is indeed possible to do this. Anyway, the method of making salt was intended to be given to Kurtz from the very beginning.At that time, I was thinking that one day he would become the leader of a certain tribe. With the method of boiling salt, his tribe would not go hungry even in a catastrophe year. alright.

Qige didn't see any secrets in this stone drum, found a piece of red string from the bag, quickly tied the stone drum into a small pendant, and the tiger eye stone drum with shiny yellow pattern was tied On the red string, very nice looking.Holding the red rope, she shook the stone drum back and forth in her hand, and said, "However, this thing still has a little effect."

As soon as he finished speaking, he stuffed the tiger eye stone drum into my arms, and said to me: "You must keep this well. If you dare to lose it, let me see how I will deal with you."

I hold the Tiger Eye Stone Drum in my hand like holding a hot potato. I can imagine Miss Qi's angry look once I accidentally break this stone.I held this tiger-eye stone drum with both hands, and after a close observation, I discovered that there are various magic circles carved on the stone drum. The symbols in these magic circles are all things I have never seen before. Ancient and special, very awkward combination, it seems that there are no rules at all, but they form a special pattern when they are put together.

I foolishly asked: "What use is this thing for me?"

Qige blinked, and said to me close to my ear: "Try to control the fire magic power in your body, slowly input it into the stone drum, and feel the difference."

According to what Qige said, I gathered the burning magic power in my body to my fingertips. I know that those are violent fire magic elements.Originally, these irritable fire magic elements were very resistant to my temptation, but later, with my fine control power, I forcibly sent them into the Tiger Eye Stone Drum. Originally, the simplest magic pattern on the surface of the Tiger Eye Stone Drum Immediately, the array was dyed a layer of rose red color.

At this time, I was still holding the tiger eye stone drum with one hand, and suddenly felt a wave of heat spreading from the stone drum.

With a sound of "Huh!", Katerina's body beside her was shaken by the heat wave, and she was almost pushed down by the sudden heat wave. hold the body.The heat wave blew past, and the gauze curtain on the balcony was blown outside. The room seemed to be swept by a strong wind, and the items were scattered all over the place in a mess.

And Qige stood a little further away, covered her mouth in surprise, and looked at me with rounded eyes, showing a look of surprise in her eyes.

I asked strangely: "What's wrong with you? Is there something wrong with this magic vessel?"

Qige jumped over and snatched the stone drum in my hand, looked at it carefully, and then said with great interest: "This is the tiger's eye stone drum, not some magic vessel, it is a symbol of the orc Sasha. It's a totem with full status, but it seems that I guessed it right. This stone drum is indeed a totem with fire attributes. The first-level magic skill is 'resist fire ring'. This skill is very good, but its power is a bit small !"

Kurz could stuff an apple into his mouth, and said in surprise: "Jia, you can use the magic tools of the orc shaman!"

I thought to myself: What is so surprising about this? It’s not like you don’t know. In the caravan, the old Kuru has taught me the magic skills of four beast races. What’s the fuss about me being able to use the magic artifacts of the beast race? of?

Qige played with the Tiger Eye Stone Drum in his hands for a long time, and finally put the Tiger Eye Stone Drum into my hand with a frustrated face, and said somewhat unwillingly: "Sure enough, I still can't do it, human magicians can't do anything about it." I can't use the stone drum totem like the magic tools of the orc shamans! But why can Jia?"

I looked at Qige speechlessly, and didn't know how to explain it for a while.Do you want to say that I ate a burning fruit and was not burned to death by the fire poison. When the fire poison stored in my body and slowly corroded my body, the body developed a natural resistance. Later, the fire poison Poison exists in my body in the form of fire elemental mana, and these mana from all parts of the body can be used to cast orc magic.

As for why I can release orc magic?That's because old Kuru boldly guessed at the time that the magic power in my body does not belong to any of the three magician systems of the human race, the beast race, and the elf race.

Under such a coincidence, in order to avoid the pain of burning, the old Kuru taught me the first magic "anti-magic", this magic is completely to burn the excessive magic power of the fire element in the body , and later there was a "heating" that can increase proficiency by depleting mana points. Now my heating level has successfully crossed the threshold of level 70.00, and the speed of mana recovery has increased by [-]%. Although the base is small, this attribute is also very is strong.The third magic "Shadow Cloak" is completely my life-saving skill. By chance, when I released the skill, I accidentally entered the deep meditation space. This strengthens that the spell will not be interrupted by the outside world. troubled.The fourth magic "Fire Tongue Weapon", this additional damage of the fire attribute, has a little burst damage effect. When hunting the devil antelope, I clearly discovered that this damage effect has a penetrating effect.

Why is Kurtz so surprised?Because at this time, I have touched the root mystery of the orc magic skills, that is totem spells.

At the initial stage, after obtaining the approval of the Shaman Guild, each shaman will get such a stone drum in the guild according to his own specialties. Orc shamans also call this thing a totem. These primary totems are usually divided into Four kinds: the thick and solid earth element totem, the water element totem full of vitality, the passionate and violent fire element totem, and the agile and light and uncertain wind element totem.Usually, the great elders in the shaman 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 got, it was purely to give Qige a psychological comfort. Everyone knew that such a totem was almost useless to human magicians who had awakened the magic pool.But they never expected that I could control such a fire-type stone drum totem.

(End of this chapter)