my age of magic

Chapter 31 32. Valley Anecdote

We only found out the next day that a Thunder Rhinoceros in the caravan stepped on the air and fell on the edge of a cliff. It accidentally broke a leg, and the entire mountain road was paralyzed. You have to move.

Its three intact legs were not enough to support its huge body and the tens of tons of cargo it was carrying. It crashed to the ground and could no longer get up, because its internal organs had been crushed by its own weight, and the corners of its mouth, eyes and nose Thick and viscous purple blood is flowing out of the ears, if you keep waiting like this, there will be no turning point.

Even the old Kuru couldn't cure the fallen Thunder Rhino. If it was delayed any longer, maybe everyone would be trapped and die here. In desperation, he had no choice but to give up that Thunder Rhino, and finally put the body on it. The goods are all unloaded.

It was the old Kuru who sang a sad song of the orc race to comfort the soul to return to the embrace of the beast god, and personally killed the thunder rhinoceros that had tears in its eyes and screamed in pain.

This is somewhat sad for the old Kuru. You must know that it is very difficult to cultivate a domesticated thunder rhinoceros. Every thunder rhino is a very precious asset for orcs. More importantly, a thunder rhinoceros was suddenly abandoned like this, and the old Kuru couldn't turn his head for a while.

I still read those endless parchments every day, and sometimes I just sit up and meditate when I get tired.

If it is not necessary to use anti-magic to clear the fire element in the body, I don't even use those magics.I practice the several postures taught by Jenbacher uninterrupted every day, and now I can maintain it for a long time. I am looking forward to seeing that he can praise me when he sees that I can do so well.

Kurz seemed to be getting more and more silent, and always liked to sit beside me in a daze. He said that this place is not too far from his home, and I didn't know what to say, so I sat with him on the back of Thunder Rhino. He crossed his legs with the soles of his feet facing the soles of his feet, touched his ankles with his hands, lowered his head silently, and his big hairy ears drooped downwards.

I put my hands on my curled knees, curled my body into a small ball, looked up at the mysterious starry sky above my head, and wondered if there was my former home in this vast sea of ​​stars.

After 27 days and nights, we finally stepped out of this road of death, and finally stepped out of this narrow mountain road where we slept worrying about whether we would roll into the mountain stream.

We did not encounter extreme blizzards or freezing rain that is most likely to occur in spring, nor did we encounter unpredictable dragon hurricanes in the valley. Just a small disaster, such as a road collapse or a landslide, would kill us, but we The caravan finally came out successfully.

Looking around, it is no longer a narrow mountain road, but suddenly opened up a lot. The narrowest distance between the two mountains is 60 meters away. Moreover, the valley here is flat, and there are a lot of purple moss growing on the ground. Looking around A piece of vitality.

Dozens of Thunder Rhinoceros gathered in this open field, and everyone in the caravan stood on Thunder Rhino's back, raising their hands high and giving deafening cheers.

At this moment, everyone finally let go of the fear in their hearts, and all the people in the caravan spontaneously started singing. It was a widely circulated folk song praising Roland Continent for its rich products, simple folk customs, fearless of difficulties and obstacles, and bravely fighting against demons. , Low and melodious songs echoed in the valley, and the caravan's flag fluttered in the cold wind.

Old Kuru pointed to the chisel-like traces on the steep mountain walls on both sides and told us that this valley used to be a glacier belt, and the steep mountain walls on both sides were carved into what it is today by huge glacial movements. Here The last glacier has also melted away decades ago. If you want to see the glacier, you have to walk a hundred miles along the mountain stream into a deeper valley to see the largest glacier belt at the northern foot of the Pai Plateau.

These days, we haven't seen any traces of duerwarves, which makes us think that maybe in spring, we just happened to catch up with the duerwarves entering the Pai plateau to hunt or something. The dead atmosphere suddenly became lighter.

At the entrance of this slightly spacious valley, there are not only large areas of purple moss growing, but also wild vegetables such as purslane and scallops growing behind the large rocks. There were patches of bushes, some men in the caravan began to gather dry firewood to prepare for dinner, and some unloaded the heavy supplies from Lei Tingxi and began to build tents.

Caravans came out of the mountain road one after another, and the faces of the girls in the dance troupe were reflected in every car window, watching them hug each other and laugh with tears streaming down their faces, letting go of the depression and confrontation that had lasted a month. The fear of death, I think maybe the girls who have experienced these things will grow up a lot overnight, and the flowers in these greenhouses will have more insights into life.

The vanguard of the adventure group was rushing to the next stop of the convoy without stopping. Just as I stood on the back of Thunder Rhinoceros and carefully checked whether there was Sister Guoguo in the vanguard scouting team, I saw Tia riding a horse very fancy He immediately turned over and waved to me. His thin face was covered with young stubble, but he seemed in good spirits. It turned out that he was in the team of scouts.Until the last horse disappeared from my sight, I still did not see Sister Guoguo.

At this moment, I heard a familiar voice under my feet: "Hey! What are you looking at, I haven't seen you for a month, and I feel like I've grown taller again."

There was a youthful smile on that snow-white face. The moment I looked at her mouth, the corners of her mouth turned upwards and bloomed into a blooming crabapple. Sister Guoguo had already taken off her heavy leather armor and was only wearing a thick suit. In the long skirt, a large piece of snow-white was exposed at the neckline. Standing at Lei Tingxi's feet and looking up at me, in the afternoon sun, her long chestnut hair fluttered in the wind.

I jumped off the eight-meter-high Thunder Rhino without any hesitation, without any buffer. Sister Guoguo was stunned. The ball turned into a magical feather in an instant, and it floated to my feet and grew to a length of more than two meters in an instant, directly catching my body firmly.

Before the magic feather completely fell to the ground, I jumped off the magic feather like a monkey, and jumped onto Sister Guoguo's body, hooking her snow-white neck with my hands and hanging in front of her, Shout: "Sister!"

"You little monkey, you scared me." Sister Guoguo put her hands under my armpits and held me up in the air for more than half a circle. Her long skirt bloomed in the rotation, reflecting her fair face. Can not party things.

In the empire, ordinary civilians are still afraid of magicians.They all walked around the road carefully as much as possible. Whenever they came near me, the laughter of the men would be much restrained, and they would look carefully with strange fearful eyes.

This made me and Sister Guoguo a little uncomfortable, so Sister Guoguo simply dragged me to a place where there were few people. Kuz hid behind and looked at me eagerly. I waved to him and called him over. Only then did Zizi cheer and follow us.

We were talking about the difference between civilians and magicians. Sister Guoguo was blunt. She told me that once she became a magician, she would automatically be granted the title of nobleman of the empire, and then get some rewards. Generally, junior magicians He is a third-class baron, and his military exploits and level promotion can improve his title.

This also precisely explains why after becoming a magician, he will reach the sky in one step. In fact, the gap between ordinary people and magicians in big cities is not that big. It will give good benefits to the awakened magicians among the civilians, like free government housing, free access to the city library, and priority to leave the city when leaving the city, or farms and shops under the name of magicians only need to go to Pay 50.00% commercial tax and so on.

Of course, there are also down-and-out magicians hired by some commoner businessmen, and this is only a rare example.According to my understanding of what Sister Guoguo said, the special group of magicians is more like senior intellectuals like university professors in the original world, and they are not particularly high-ranking.

But why are these people in the caravan so afraid of magicians?No one would leave their hometown and go out for a few years to do this hard work without worrying about food and clothing.

There are three types of people in the caravan.

The highest category belongs to Master Leipas and his deputy, and of course the special old Kuru must also be counted.

The second type of people are those who are only responsible for driving Thunder Rhinoceros. They are hired by the big bosses behind the caravan with a lot of money.

The third category of talents is the deputies and the handymen of the caravan. These people belong to a group of people who need to earn a property for themselves, or are exiled, wanted, or homeless. People who are afraid of magicians.

Because there is a special departmental referee in each city, many magicians will be invited to be executive officers, and their task is to arrest those vicious criminals that exist in the city.The reason why the mysterious magicians have a bad reputation is precisely because of those court executives who despise money and power and only pursue justice and truth to eliminate all evil forces.

I curiously asked Sister Guoguo: "Sister, are you an executive officer?"

Sister Guoguo grabbed my little hand, and with the other hand, she carried the skirt across the puddle on the ground, stood up straight and brushed the messy hair scattered on her forehead, and put it behind her ear before saying: "When I was in the Magic Academy, when Executive officer has always been my ideal, the salary is good, and you can accumulate achievements, and there are many brothers and sisters in the institute, you will get a lot of care, and their uniforms are also very cool, but then I gave up and went to Then there will be no other opportunities to make money. Self-discipline is the most basic rule of executives, but I need money. I also want to buy Su a fake prosthesis from Orianna's famous brand store. I have seen it Yes, it has the same appearance and feel as real legs, and it has three magic circles of 'lightness', 'elementary wind sprint' and 'elementary agility' inside, and it can also be inlaid with elementary magic crystals. If you go back this time, you should Can it! Hehe, that is a giant double-headed mutant wind wolf, we dug out two magic cores, which are dual-attribute magic cores!"

Sister Guoguo was in a good mood, and she took us to sit outside the camp against a large rock that was quiet and sheltered from the wind, and Kurz and I picked up a lot scattered outside the bushes in the valley. Kurz skillfully ignited a bunch of dead leaves with a scythe, the red flame engulfed the pile of dead leaves with green smoke, and ignited the shrub branches.

Kurtz skillfully set up the grill, and the three of them sat around the fire and began to talk about what they had seen and heard on this road of death.While chatting, we baked the pancake until it was slightly burnt, and the three of us shared it while it was still hot.

Later, when the flame gradually became smaller and only a pile of glowing charcoal was left, Kurtz took out a leg of lamb tightly wrapped in oil paper, tore off the wax-sealed oil paper, and put the leg of lamb on the grill. Slowly turning on the rack, it didn't take long for the leg of lamb to be roasted brown, and the oil began to drip down continuously, falling into the charcoal fire with a sizzling sound, seeing Kurtz carefully brush the sauce on the leg of lamb ingredients and honey look.

Sister Guoguo also sighed in surprise: "The news from the caravan said that they have two orc children who are the best at cooking. They have the secret recipe of the orcs in their hands, and the food they make is extremely delicious. , is it you who are talking about?"

Kurtz and I looked at each other, pointed at each other and said, "He did it!"

(End of this chapter)