my age of magic

Chapter 215 15. The Art of Water Magicians
Surrounded by mountains, the whole fish lake is like a shining pearl on the territory of Sloit province.

This is across from the shore of the lake that is far away from the battlefield, and the lake several kilometers wide completely separates the two sides.The scouts that the savages spread out like a net did not extend the scope of their search to this place. Every plant, tree, flower and bird here are still enjoying the gifts bestowed on them by nature.There is a towering oak forest on the shore of the lake. The forest is full of green trees, and some low shrubs grow unknown blue wild fruits.

I was squatting on the grass by the lake, looking at the giant oak tree nearly [-] meters high in front of me, worrying my brain.Next to it is a stone circle surrounded by cobblestones. Inside the stone circle, a 'Scroll of Concentrating Fire' is constantly burning. Next to the red campfire is a wooden shelf built with some simple branches. My clothes are hanging on the shelf. Above, the faint water vapor is slowly evaporating.

Several white scale fish cut from the back, skewered on sharp wooden sticks.One end of those wooden sticks was inserted obliquely into the soil next to the campfire. The flames roasted the white scale fish sizzling, and the fat dripped down continuously. I turned around and used a small homemade brush to evenly brush the sauce On top, the aroma immediately wafts away with a savory note.

Smelling this tempting aroma, I realized that I hadn't eaten anything all day, and I was really hungry at the moment.

In fact, I was just thinking about how to cut down those giant oak trees on the bank and drag them into the water.These huge logs with a diameter of about two or three meters are the most ideal natural ships.As long as there is a way to send them to the other side, the human light cavalry trapped by the lake can escape with these giant trees.But I am weak alone, even if I have the ability to cut down the oak trees, there is no way to drag these huge oak trees into the lake.

I thought of many ways, such as when cutting down the oak tree, let the direction of the oak tree fall towards the shore of the lake.Before the oak tree falls, place a row of small logs, and then clean up the oak branches, so that the oak can be pushed into the lake with less effort, but unfortunately I still can't push it, I think if there are a few at this time Thunder Rhino is fine.Later, I even thought of finding a few boats, but after the barbarians ravaged in recent years, large tracts of land have been left unused.

Fish Lake belongs to the outer suburbs of El City. The residents who used to live here were either captured by those hunting barbarians or forced to relocate. There were some natural villages here more than ten years ago, but now as the residents continue to As the land moved southward, the area around Yuhu Lake had become deserted, and it was not easy to find a few fishing boats.Perhaps the only way is to hurry back to El City, tell the news to the Council Hall, and let those big figures in El City find a way to rescue them, maybe they already knew...

I was wearing a pair of white shorts at this time, squatting shirtless by the firepit and touched the linen shirt beside it. It was still slightly damp. I reached out and took a grilled white scale fish. I took a bite and it was charred on the outside and tender on the inside. The meat was extraordinarily tender. Sweet, but the taste of those sauces overwhelmed the umami of the white scale fish.Putting too much seasoning is sometimes not a good thing, this is the only fly in the ointment.However, the advantage is that the fire is well controlled, which is due to the very balanced flame heat wave of the fire-gathering scroll.

Just as I was feasting, a child covered in animal skins ran out from the oak forest. He squatted under the oak tree timidly, his messy hair was unkempt, as if there was a bird's nest on top of his head.He swallowed quietly, I thought he must be a little hungry, and seeing that there were still a lot of grilled fish left, he reached out and pulled out a skewer of grilled fish and handed it to him.

He was probably a kid from the surrounding villages, and I thought maybe he knew where to find the boat.At first, he was taken aback by my actions, maybe because I was also a child, and I looked very friendly, without any hostility. The boy cautiously reached out to touch the grilled fish, and was severely burned Suddenly, he was frightened and got behind the oak tree.

I didn't expect that he didn't know that the grilled fish was hot, and I looked at the direction in which the boy disappeared in a bit of amazement, speechless for a while.

I didn't expect him to be so timid and run away. I was about to turn around when I suddenly found a child's head protruding from behind the oak tree. The child was still staring at the grilled fish in my hand.I held up the grilled fish and said to him: "This is very hot, take it here!"

He looked at me blankly, as if he didn't understand.Suddenly I had an idea, and tried to speak to him again in the orc language. This time his eyes lit up a little, showing joy, obviously he could understand what I said in the orc language.According to my words, he carefully stretched out his hand and held it on the wooden stick, greedily smelled the aroma of grilled fish, then looked at me eagerly, and started to eat voraciously.

"What's your name?" I sat beside him, seeing that he might be extremely hungry, and it took almost no time to eat the first grilled fish quickly, so I quickly handed him the second one, And took the opportunity to ask him.

He hesitated for a moment, and then said two words in vague orc language: "raccoon!"

"Is your home near here?" I hurriedly asked again.

He took the grilled fish without hesitation, and wanted to put it on it with a big mouthful. Then he pointed to the wide fish lake, indicating to me that it was his home, and I looked into the lake with some surprise.Then asked him: "Do you live in a lake?"

He didn't speak, just nodded, his mouth was full of food, he didn't know what he was talking about, his orc dialect was too strong, and he was chewing grilled fish, so it was difficult Distinguish what he said.But obviously after the two grilled fish, he has listed me as his friend, and his guard against me has been completely eliminated.

"Are you an orc?" I asked again.

The child nodded, then pointed at me with some doubts, which obviously meant to say, "Aren't you too?"

I tilted my eyes a little guilty, looked at the grass beside me from the corner of my eye, and said: "They said that I have the blood of a werewolf from the orc race in my body, but I should be considered a human being. My friend Qige thinks I am the same as her. They are new humans with orc blood!"

His eyes were brighter, and then he wiped the sauce from the corner of his mouth with his cuff, and pointed at himself, nodding hard to me.That means: "Then I am also a new human being!"

He pointed to the campfire and asked me for the third fish. I was a little hesitant. Even an adult would find it difficult to eat three fish in a row with such a large white scale fish. I was worried that he would eat enough, so I said: "Are you sure you can still eat it without making your stomach hurt?"

He patted his stomach and said it was okay.

The orc boy eats a lot. He eats five grilled fish in a row before he leans on the oak root and rolls his eyes. I am worried that his body will be damaged by eating, and I want him to exercise a little after eating, but no matter what No matter how you tell him, he is like a lazy pig all the time, groaning and refusing to get up.

To be honest, his orc language is also very bad. Sometimes he doesn't speak, but simply uses movements and expressions, but I can understand what he wants to express better. Once his orc language with strong local accent is mixed, I want to It took a long time to figure out what he meant.

After eating, he sat with me under the tree in a daze. I watched the oak tree and continued to think of ways to save the human army, while he sat with me. When I was not talking, he was very quiet daze.At this time, I even imagined that there would be a Noah's Ark descending from the sky to save those extinct warriors.

I also tried to ask Tanuki if he knew where to find the big ship.But he also shook his head blankly to express that he didn't know.

In fact, I didn’t believe this, so I asked: “Didn’t you say that your home is on the fish lake? If you don’t have a boat, how do you live on the fish lake?”

The orc boy didn't explain, and I didn't continue to ask, I thought about my own way, and he looked at the sunset in the distance.

The clothes were already dry, and it was already dusk. I hurriedly put on my clothes, splashed a magic waist bag from the ground beside me, tied it around my waist, inserted the wolf-toothed dagger back into the scabbard, packed up my luggage and was ready to leave , I am a little annoyed that I wasted half a day in vain, otherwise at least I can rush back to El City before dawn. As long as I bring back the news here, maybe those soldiers can still have some hope of life.

I prepared my luggage, and was about to turn around to say goodbye to that orc boy, but I found that there was a middle-aged man beside him at some point, or it would be more appropriate to call him a middle-aged uncle. The white cotton shirt was washed very clean, and his whole body was also well-groomed. The stubble on his face seemed to be shaved every day, and now he looked a little blue. His golden hair was tied into a ponytail. He sat with a boy. Looking into the distance together on the stones on the shore of the lake, the pale yellow sunset is about to sink into the mountains to the west in the mist like smoke.

"Look, how beautiful the scenery is!" As soon as the man spoke, he spoke fluent Imperial language, which was very standard, and even had a little accent of the imperial capital. Rap on some special syllables.

I looked at his side face carefully at this time, he looked very manly, he didn't even turn his head to look at me, but I knew he was actually talking to me again.I asked, "Who are you?"

The man smiled and didn't answer my question, as if he was talking to himself: "There are many beautiful things in nature, we just find them out, and many people call these beautiful things art." , Just like painting, it is just copying every beautiful moment. In fact, no beauty belongs to eternity. Painters freeze those beauties on paper, we call them art, and they are called artists. "

"It's like music. Those beautiful melodies are the beats of nature. The musicians just select them. Those beautiful singing voices are art. We call singers artists. But all beautiful things are what I pursue Yes, so you can call me an artist!" The man finally talked about himself and introduced himself to me like this.

I thought to myself, is there anyone more shameless than you?Tell each other you're an artist like a charlatan when you first meet?
"........."

I was a little speechless, and I didn't know how to answer it decisively. In fact, I was ready to leave. I pondered for a while. Just as I was about to say goodbye to the orc child, the middle-aged man suddenly turned his head and looked at me approvingly. , nodded and said: "You and the raccoon are really saying the same thing, you are very good!"

Where are these!I was a little confused, but since I made up my mind to return to El City, I couldn't hesitate anymore, and then waved to the raccoon beside me and said, "River, I'm leaving! I'm going home!"

"You really don't know me?" The middle-aged man was as surprised as if he saw a new land.

I rolled my eyes upwards. I really have nothing to say about such an extreme narcissist. It seems that he and Tanuki are very familiar, so that's fine, so I turned around and wanted to leave.

"Hey Hey hey……"

I jumped back and forth on the pebbles by the lake, and ran straight into the distance.

The reason why I hid here for half a day is to avoid those barbarians who hunted me down. Whenever night comes, I will feel a sense of security. Even if I meet barbarians at night, I will get away very easily .

At this time, a huge water polo suddenly appeared in front of me. Obviously, it was a water polo formed by the magic power of the water system. The much larger water polo must have been made by a magician.

"Water Gathering Technique!"

This water polo obviously blocked my way, but it didn't mean to hurt me. Otherwise, if such a huge water polo hit me, it would be enough to knock me into the lake.

I turned around and saw in amazement that the middle-aged man who boasted to me that he was a very great artist was holding a magic wand in his hand. It seemed that the water ball that stopped in front of my body seemed to be his, his magic The staff continued to draw graceful arcs in the air. I think his movements were deliberately fancy, but the magic pattern circle drawn was very precise.

The water polo slowly unfolded in front of me, turning into a transparent wall of water.

The meaning is very obvious, this guy doesn't want me to leave now, and he is a water magician, and his ability to control the water system far exceeds that of the previous Guoguo sister. At least, Guoguo sister has nothing to do Squeeze water balloons into water walls.

Then he said another word: "Ning!"

The entire wall of water instantly turned into a wall of ice, with a trace of icy breath, crashing down in front of me, my heart became tense for no reason, I thought of the evil mage Montetroia, and before my eyes Could this be that kind of perverted mage?

But just looking at his proficiency in manipulating water elements, he is a very powerful water magician.

"Your grilled fish is so delicious, obviously you must be someone who pursues beauty. Look at my works. My idea this time comes from the ice flowers on the glass window in winter morning... Look at me The reliefs on the ice wall..."

To this middle-aged man in front of me, I am already very speechless. I didn’t expect him to spend countless mana in front of me. The purpose of setting up an ice wall is to let me see the reliefs he made on it, but he can cast magic. It is a kind of miracle in itself, and the person who created this kind of miracle is a very inconspicuous magician, and his ideal is to be an artist!

I was a little surprised to see the scene of the entire fish lake carved on the ice wall at this time. It seemed that he made it temporarily, but I didn't expect it to be so exquisite.

"Scared by my art! Haha."

He was a little proud, obviously not because of his superb magic, but because he was able to create reliefs on the ice wall, and then he said with some gloom: "I have been trying to carve by myself, and I don't want to use magic to create Such a beautiful relief, this sculpture obviously does not have any soul, every knife of a perfect sculpture has its profound meaning. After all, it is still inferior to those created by magic!"

I really didn't want to hear him continue talking, so I simply saw his magical ice sculpture, and reached out my hand to take out a green apple from my pocket. I picked it from an apple tree on the way. It was a little green, but Sweet, sour, and crisp, it is still very tasty to eat one occasionally.

At this time, I took out a green apple the size of a fist, and then took out a magic carving knife from my bag. I just followed the familiar scene in my memory to carve a beautiful rose smoothly. The action directly stunned the middle-aged man.

(End of this chapter)