my age of magic

Chapter 20 20. My ideal is an inscriber (Part [-])
The accumulated water in the camp became a river. Uncle An and several men in the camp were digging a drainage ditch with shovels. Uncle An was wearing high-waisted leather boots and accidentally stepped into the puddle. He could not stand still and staggered I almost fell into the muddy water, but fortunately the person around me was quick to support me, but the sewage splashed by the leather shoes when I stepped into the water covered the body and face of the person beside me.

"Damn, be careful." The person next to him muttered, and wiped the muddy water on his face with his hands, and now his clean face was stained.The fertile and soft black soil and the green grass that just came out were trampled into mud. All the roads in the entire camp are almost difficult to walk. When you step on it, the black mud directly reaches your ankles. If you don’t have a lot of strength, you can’t think Pull out the shoes stuck in the mud.

Uncle An vigorously shoveled up the sticky mud, threw it into the pile of dirt beside him and cursed, "This damn weather."

"Old An, you should feel lucky. If this rain is three or five days later, we will all be frozen into lumps of ice on the iron-salt road. Even if we don't freeze to death, once that road is frozen, the three in your family The little daughter-in-law just wait to be kicked out by the people in the street." The face of the man next to him was covered with black mud, and he only showed his white teeth when he was talking.

Uncle An stood up and saw that he was standing at the edge of the camp, so he planted a small red flag on the ground and said, "Come on, I've been busy all morning, let's dig here!"

The most important step in repairing the drainage channel is to select the lowest point of the entire camp, dig out a pool, and use the drainage ditch to draw all the accumulated water in the camp. Clean up the muddy road and put some dry soil on it.The most indispensable thing in the caravan is the big men with two hands of strength, and dozens of them can be called out to clean up the mud and water with a single shout.

The ladies of the dance troupe retreated into the magic caravan, and the bored women sat on the edge of the car, eating melon seeds and chatting, pointing at the men working in the camp, looking from a distance, rows of The flowery skirt swaying in the wind reminded me of the girls' dormitory on the university campus.

The dancers who are willing to come out are all ordinary dancers in the dance troupe, and those pillars who are honored as girls hide in the caravan all day long and refuse to come out.I heard from Uncle Fred that these caravans are luxuriously decorated, but I have never seen them.

I have to admit that Kurtz cooked 27 pieces of guinea pig skins to be very soft. We sat on two stone piers and worked all morning to cut these guinea pig furs into standard squares, which is very neat.

In these respects, a wolf orc like Kurz, who is usually careless, has a lot of patience, and he may want to cut the fur as neatly as possible.

The cooked guinea pig fur is shiny indigo blue, and it feels very smooth and soft to the touch. No matter how you knead it, as long as the fur is placed flat, the fluff will automatically return to its original smooth appearance, which is even more surprising The most amazing thing is that no matter how much water is sprinkled on the fur, it will scatter into even drops and slide down, while the fur itself does not stick to water.

Kurtz said that this thing is the best sleeping bag, moisture-proof and waterproof, warm in winter and cool in summer.

I think what he said is a bit unrealistic. I can accept it being warm in winter, but cool in summer?hehe.

Kurtz and I were trying to figure out how much silver it would cost a master dancer tailor to make me a sleeping bag.

Our two boys are cleaner in our pockets than our faces, Kurz said to me: "How about we go to the pasture to try our luck in two days?"

I put the leather knife back into the knife storage, dusted off the scraps on my body and said, "Unless we can meet a lonely magic antelope, but can you catch it?"

Kurz sighed, just touched the hunting bow on his back, and said depressedly: "If I can have an iron and wood bow, maybe I can."

"It will." I comforted him softly.

Kurtz has always wanted an iron and wood bow, but failed.

There were old Kuru's reasons for obstructing it, and there was also a barely usable iron and wood bow that cost at least 15 silver coins, which was equivalent to half a month's wages for ordinary people's hard work. How could Kuroz afford it.

I was thinking wildly whether I should draw the wild boar trap from memory, ask the caravan blacksmith to make a few, and use it for hunting with Kuz on the Pai Plateau, or do something else, the most important thing is to earn some money. money.

Nowadays, even among the orc tribes, everyone likes to use imperial gold coins for transactions.

In the afternoon, the road in the camp was covered with a new layer of soil, which made it much easier to walk.

I sat next to old Kuru and listened to him tell me about the scrolls of high-level magic herbs recorded in the ancient orc language on the parchment, and there were many vague and obscure words.

Even the old Kuru seems to have to think about it for a long time, but he did show too much piety to the things on these parchment scrolls, so I have to pay attention to it. The meaning behind what the old Kuru said is nothing more than These scrolls are the first-hand precious materials that the orc martyrs spent their lives on, and they are ancient documents engraved with blood and sweat.

It turns out that many kinds of high-grade magic herbs are ground, mixed with different proportions of ore powder, and processed into final magic dyes through complex processes, which can be used to draw magic patterns.

Speaking of this, the old Kuru looked up at me and said: "Currently, there are nearly a thousand dye formulas known to the public. The inscription masters found that they can fine-tune the composition ratio, and obtained new dyes through continuous experiments. Formulas, many dye formulas have been improved by inscribers and become more targeted than before. It can not only improve the success rate of drawing, but also improve the attributes of magic patterns, and some even add new attributes. The old guys in the tower do better. There is a famous Sluit Ivory Tower Magic Academy in the northernmost province of Sluit in the Green Empire. What is valuable is still the core secrets of the major magic academies and magic guilds everywhere."

Old Kuru looks a little nostalgic for the days when he studied and researched at the Sloit Ivory Tower Academy of Magic and Magic, and these stories have been told badly to us.

"Every excellent inscription master will have his own unique dye formula, so this requires the inscription master to have a deep knowledge of herbal medicine. We orc mages have a different understanding of herbal medicine than you, and there are also great differences on the road of inscription. Different, we are more inclined to say that these mysterious magic symbols are engraved on some stone carvings containing magic, which can enhance the various skills of the warriors and exert special effects that cannot be achieved under normal circumstances. This kind of inscription products was called by later magic scholars It is a totem. Thousands of orc tribes, large and small, on the Pai Plateau have inherited the totems of various abilities from their ancestors. This is the secret of the real orc inheritance. The ancient sages who can make totems are honored by us For the weavers."

He looked at me and said: "The scholars in the Magic Association of the Human World pay more attention to the research of magic scrolls. Their research is more inclined to commercialization. How to reduce production costs and increase the success rate is at the forefront. The magic scroll is short. Improving attributes and skill effects directly and effectively within a short period of time, the high-level magic scrolls that are currently popular in the auction market are all from the magic guild. Making magic scrolls is also a must for most junior inscribers."

"The research of the inscribers of magic schools in various places tends to develop the potential of the magicians themselves. They prefer to carve magic lines on the bodies of the magicians with a certain increase effect, but this kind of inscription is very demanding on the inscriber. , they need to be able to more accurately depict the magic circle, and only after thousands of times of practice and the success rate meets the requirements of the Inscription Masters Guild, can the inscription masters be qualified to inscription on the bodies of other magicians."

"The research of inscription masters in the elf world tends to engrave inscriptions on magic equipment. They stubbornly separate the inscription masters who can engrave magic patterns on weapons from those who can engrave magic patterns on magic defense equipment. The former follows the The ancient title of the elf world is called an enchanter, and the latter will be called an inscriber by the proud and paranoid elves. Ha ha."

Old Kuru was obviously dissatisfied with the elves, and his tone was full of disdain and contempt.Kurtz sat drowsy, barely opening his eyelids, but even an idiot could tell the kid wasn't listening.Until the old Kuru said: "The last law-weaver of the orc clan is called Kuru Shaman. Weaver. Soul Walker Mandani, who is my great-grandfather. He returned to the embrace of the beast god at the foot of the sacred mountain three years ago in 170 .”

Kuz shuddered all over, suddenly opened his sleepy eyes as big as copper bells, and looked at old Kuru respectfully, as if listening.This is to show respect to the ancestors.After what the old Kuru said, it is far more detailed than what Sister Guoguo described, and it seems that the so-called inscription master of the orc clan has broken the inheritance?I was thinking wildly like this, and heard the old Kuru say something: "This time I return to the orc tribe, I will inherit the position of Gludin orc tribe's weaver elder, and become a new generation of orc weaver in the orc tribe for a hundred years."

Fuck you, it turns out that the old orc in front of me turned out to be a quasi-spellweaver, I didn't realize it anyway.

Suddenly there was a wonderful feeling of winning a grand prize of 500 million. Just when I was secretly happy, the old Kuru said: "The magic inheritance of the orc tribe is in the hands of the elders in the tribe. Once you become an elder of the tribe, you need to follow the rules of your ancestors. Our will is to protect the interests of the orc tribe as much as possible. At that time, according to the rules of the tribe, as a tribe weaver elder, it is impossible to be allowed to have a student of the tribe, because at that time I will inherit the inheritance of the ancient orc weaver , then it will be the end of our master-student relationship, so before that, I will try my best to teach you some useful knowledge, and then I will arrange for you to go to the human world to live a normal life, until one day you will When you grow up, you can be strong enough to pass through the thirteen gates of the orc clan alone, and I will allow you to come and see me when the time comes, otherwise you and I will never see each other again."

Sometimes, knowing the truth is worse than being concealed.

I was a little panicked, because what the old Kuru said meant that after arriving at the orc tribe Gludin, I would be forced to separate from Kurz and the old Kuru, which was something I was afraid of.

Old Kuru has always been the strongest umbrella behind me. If it weren't for Old Kuru, I wouldn't be able to live happily in this caravan.

Kuz was clearly aware of these things. At this moment, he took my hand and said, "Jia, why don't you learn something else? In my opinion, become a magician, oh no, you may not be able to do this, Zhan Crazy! If you want to become a war mad warrior, you can stay. Those orcs will never care that you become a war mad warrior, or a hunter king, as long as it is not a spell weaver. .”

The old Kuru shook his head helplessly, looking at his grandson's sincere eyes, it was difficult to spit out words of reproach.

My eyes became firm after a moment of hesitation, and I said ruthlessly, "But I still want to learn inscriptions."

I think I have obsessive-compulsive disorder, as long as I believe in something, I can't get it back.

I admit that sometimes I have the idea of ​​going to the human world to see those exotic towns, maybe I will stop at every place with good scenery, and I will look at the ancient streets under the light rain to find something interesting There are no beautiful girls who will look for tall windmills along the paths in the fields by the side of the road, or open restaurants only at night in quiet places.

But at this time, I want to hide under the umbrella, savor the strangeness of this world, and then plan my life well. Now that I am alive again, how can I not cherish this opportunity.

The dark clouds cleared, and the afternoon sun shone through the clouds, pouring on the face and making people feel extra warm.

(End of this chapter)