my age of magic

Chapter 472 269. Skiing
The falcons hunted the solitary savages in the woods between the Antioch mountains north of Ayr, and they finally paid off.

Some barbarians who came out of the wild forest began to sense the danger. They stopped instinctively and began to look for their companions. I don't understand what kind of connection exists between the barbarians, but they can clearly feel the safety. Due to the dangers in the Anthia Mountains, some barbarians got together and united to enter the forest sea in the Antihia Mountains. They searched for the corpses of their companions buried under the ice and snow.

When the savages found out that those companions who had lost their left ears died miserably with unwilling and grim faces, those savages roared angrily throughout the valley.In the past few days, more than [-] barbarian fighters have rushed into this mountain forest, and some unrestrained Falcon squads have begun to suffer casualties. They often ambush and kill a single barbarian. They were able to kill barbarians with thunder, and were besieged and killed by barbarians who rushed over from the surrounding area. Some people escaped safely, some were injured, and some died because of it.

These barbarians should have listened to the call of the trumpet and continued to gather under the city of El, but along the way, news of barbarians being killed in Mount Antiea continued to spread, and the horror of death was constantly in the ranks of barbarians. Let those barbarians become irritable, and finally some irritable barbarian teams ignored the call of the horn, entered the forest of Antioch, and launched a series of revenge actions.

It's getting more and more dangerous here for us falcons. Cynthia has already set a date for us to leave here. Maybe our next destination will be the fishing lake area, maybe somewhere else, who knows? , Anyway, I can't stay here anymore.

There have been some bad news from the falcons. The whole team was besieged by barbarians in this mountainous area. As long as they are discovered by the same number of barbarian teams, without special means, it is difficult to get rid of those who are walking over mountains and mountains. The savages of the flatlands.

The atmosphere began to become tense...

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A team of nearly a hundred slaves from the Green Empire walked in the mountains and forests. Among these slaves were only middle-aged men and some teenagers. They were chained together and walked on the snow with difficulty. Hunger, injury, fatigue, and cold all the time Instead of torturing their bodies, more than a dozen barbarians were scattered around the team, holding long snakeskin whips in their hands. Whenever they saw someone moving slowly, they would wave their hands like a whip.

These are the residents of the outskirts of El City. They will be driven back to the ice and snow tundra by the barbarians, and they will spend their entire lives digging in the dark mines until they die.

It's a pity that they are too tightly protected by these barbarians. Unless the regular army of the North Wind Legion comes, no one can save them.

When this group of slaves passed the temple on the hillside of Antiia, the temple had already closed its gates, and the priests on the tower looked a little ruthless, usually shouting 'Gods have mercy on the world', but seeing those who were The surrounding residents captured by the barbarians were indifferent, but stood quietly inside the wall, fearing that a throwing ax would come and cut off their heads.

Those barbarians wandered around the temple for a long time, after all, they did not dare to offend the priests who were blessed by the Statue of Liberty. Even the warriors in the barbarian tribe could not withstand the blatant blow of God's Hammer of Retaliation, so they decided to Abandon the capture of the temple.

The barbarians bypassed the steep bluestone walls around the temple, carrying hundreds of catties of supplies and huge crude weapons, each drove their own slaves, and poured into the forest behind Mount Antiea.

Standing on the commanding heights of the mountains, we can have a panoramic view of all this.

Many falcons chose to leave this forest and go to other places to look for the solitary barbarians. They successively evacuated from the secret ancient roads in the western mountains, and we also set the retreat route there.Now, we have successfully pinned down hundreds of barbarians and firmly sucked them into the Antiya Mountains. In fact, we have accomplished our intended goal, and everyone knows that it is time to leave.

Hundreds of slaves, herded like cattle by a dozen barbarian warriors, entered the mountains of Antioch.

Looking at those strong barbarians walking on the mountain road, Captain Cynthia's chest was heaving violently, her face was a little flushed, I could feel the surging fighting spirit in her heart, angry fire burst out from her eyes, and she gritted her teeth Cursing: "These bastards!"

Wayne tightly held Basile, who was about to rush down, and rationally, I could only watch this group of barbarians quietly pass through the pass of the valley.

Now in this mountain range, even if we can easily surround a single barbarian, as long as he is willing to roar, other barbarians will rush over to support them in a short time. At that time, we will bear a large number of people. The pursuit of the savages, no one can outrun those savages in the mountains.

"Let's go!" Cynthia forced herself to issue the order.

We climbed over the last mountain in the west of Mount Antiea, and retreated from the ancient road at the foot of the mountain before the barbarians surrounded it.

Gabriel, the captain of Falcon's seventh team, questioned her most behind Captain Cynthia: "Should we let those dozen or so barbarians enslave our compatriots, and we just ignore it and ignore it?"

Standing at the gate of the ancient road, a man of 1.9 meters tall was as helpless as a child. He hammered his shoulder with his fist and asked Cynthia: "Are we going to break our vows in the academy?"

The spirit of chivalry is not only used by knights. Every student of the Warrior Academy took the oath with the instructors in the first public class.

Gabriel raised his fist high and shouted loudly: "Humility, honor, sacrifice, valor, mercy, honesty, spirit, justice, have we all forgotten these?"

Gabriel continued to ask Cynthia: "Captain Cynthia, what are you hesitating about?"

"That is a tomb. I promised everyone in the team that I have the responsibility to bring them back to El City safely. This is my responsibility. It is more valuable for us to live than to stay here to die. We are hunters. Eagle, as long as we live, they will never sleep peacefully." Cynthia yelled at Gabriel hysterically: "Don't expect to fight like the soldiers of the North Wind Legion, Falcon must have the style of Falcon!"

Gabriel pleaded hard to Captain Cynthia: "We have five Falcon squads here who are willing to stay and take a risk. If there is a high chance of success, our seventh squad will complete the mission of the rear, and I will block those barbarians." Outside the ancient road, let you have enough time to safely evacuate. Stay and kill those beasts with us, we need the strength of these fighters in your team."

Gabriel is a shield warrior, with a hemostatic bandage wrapped around his strong chest, but I know that the knife wound should be fine, but the dried blood on the bandage makes him look a bit embarrassed, and his body The armor was also dented by blunt objects in many places. Just looking at his worn armor, one can imagine what kind of bitter battle he has experienced.

Two days ago, when he ambushed and killed the lone barbarian, he was wounded by two other barbarians who arrived in time. It happened that our team and the fifth team also passed through this valley, and they captured the falcons of the seventh team Saved from death.

Just two savages and we paid a fair price.When dealing with those two barbarian warriors who looked like lunatics, almost one of the barbarians rushed in front of Wei En. The spear in his hand was pressed against Wei En's ribs and nailed to the big tree beside her. Any more precision and Vayne would get hurt.Even so, during the battle, Cynthia, Luka, and Xiu all suffered minor injuries to varying degrees.

If Gabriel hadn't seen my 'hydrotherapy', he might have stayed silent and left the valley with his team.

When I saw him, his breastplate seemed to be cut open by a sharp axe, and his chest was smashed to a bloody mess. The kind of injury made me think that he would die. Technique', allowing the vitality of the water element to inject into his wound. Although he appeared to be in pain, his wound was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In just one day, Gabriel's tyrannical physique completely healed the wound on his chest. He is a very strong shield warrior with an extraordinary physique.

"I can't take them on a risk!" Cynthia said to Gabriel without any hesitation.

Under the gaze of several falcon teams, our team walked into the ancient road.

After walking a kilometer, Basile suddenly stopped, cleared his throat, and said to Cynthia, "I'm sorry, Cynthia, I can't leave like this. I choose to stay. I'm sorry that I can't fight with you next, to be honest, I am very happy to fight with you!"

"Is this your choice?" Cynthia stopped and looked back at Basile's handsome face.

"I'm still wearing the military uniform of the El City Guard Battalion. If I leave too, I don't know how many people will have the courage to stay and fight tomorrow!" Basile turned and left, leaving only this sentence.

Wei En kicked the snow on the ground hard, and said in a low voice: "What an idiot!"

"let's go!"

Cynthia walked at the front of the line with a straight face.

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Finally, before nightfall, we walked out of the Antiya Mountains along this ancient road, and we entered the hilly area, where golden apple trees are planted on a large area of ​​land.

On a winter night, there was a piercing north wind blowing outside the tent. Five members of our team sat in the tent silently, and the atmosphere seemed very dull.

A pot of water was brought to a boil by the fire-focusing scroll, and only the Tauren Luka sat in the corner, biting dry wheat cakes.

The flames reflected on Captain Cynthia's face. She was a little absent-minded, and her heart was always tangled. She couldn't convince herself to give up the residents of El City like this, but she didn't have the confidence to rescue them smoothly in the hands of the barbarians. Those ordinary residents, if not done well, we will fall into the situation of being hunted down.

She let out a long sigh, her heroic face was very tangled.

"Leader, let's eat something first!" Wei En stuffed a piece of wheat cake into Cynthia's hand.

Xiu stood up and said, "I'll go outside to see what's going on, and set up a few warning traps!" Then he got out of the tent.

After Xiu walked out, Wei En finally couldn't help but stared at Cynthia and asked, "Captain, I know you really want to save those civilians from the hands of the barbarians, why don't we stay and help them?"

In front of outsiders, Wei En has always been on the same front as Cynthia, no matter what Cynthia decides, he will be the first to jump out and choose to support.But she will have her own ideas after all, and when her own ideas conflict with Cynthia's decision, she will obey Cynthia's choice.

But that doesn't mean Wei En has no doubts in her heart.

"You can't win!"

Cynthia explained her reasons, and her eyes looked towards the golden apple trees scattered all over the mountains outside the tent.

The west of Mount Antiea is an endless hilly area. Many nobles' fiefs are here. There are a lot of fruit trees planted here. The golden cider of El City is more famous than ale.

At this moment, I understood what Cynthia meant. She meant that if those barbarians chased out from Mount Antiea and entered this hilly land, not only would the rescued civilians have no way to escape to safety, but Even we will be exposed to the sight of the barbarians, and we simply cannot outrun those barbarians who are faster than galloping horses.

The barbarian's running speed is not affected at all in the snow.

And we stepped into the deep snow, and then pulled it out with difficulty, trekking through the snow-filled valleys, the speed was more than twice slower than usual. Although there are endless hills here, they are not Like mountains, there are many visual blind spots, allowing us to calmly avoid the pursuit of barbarians.

Now the entire mountain has been occupied by a large number of barbarians, and we are forced into this hill. Once we are entangled by those barbarians in this hilly land, no one can run past those barbarians.However, this was exactly what Cynthia was most worried about.

"Captain Cynthia..." I inserted a piece of browned and oily luncheon meat with a dagger, and said to Cynthia seriously with my eyes wide open, "I have a way to make us run faster!"

"Jijia, how is it possible!" Cynthia looked at me in disbelief.

I took out the Moonlight Stone Drum Totem and let it float between my hands. A breath of wind element came out from the Stone Drum Totem, circled and gathered at Cynthia's feet, forming a stream of wind under her feet. Wind ring.

'Wind Rush'

Cynthia looked at the wind circles under her feet in surprise, she couldn't help trying to lift her legs, jump, and run lightly, and found that her body suddenly became much lighter.

"What kind of magic is this?" She asked me curiously.

I didn't know how to answer, and said apologetically, "This is not my magic, Captain Cynthia!"

Both she and Wayne looked at me curiously.

I continued to explain: "Simply put, it is the power of wind magic contained in this magic item!"

When I said this, Cynthia could understand immediately.

Many magic accessories have some magical abilities, and Cynthia thinks that my stone drum totem is similar to those precious magic accessories.

Cynthia tried and made some movements in the tent, and she was really more sensitive, and she seemed a little excited.But not long after, she became frowning again, sighed and said to me embarrassingly: "Speaking of which, this level of magic effect is also very good. It can increase my combat power a lot in battle, but it's just In these words, we still can't outrun those barbarians!"

At this time, two thin and long wooden strips appeared in my hand, which were made of tough and light indigo wood, one of which was slightly tilted upwards, looking like a pole. There are two iron clip-like devices placed in the middle part. This is a snowboard made by myself.After the first heavy snowfall, I saw the snow scene of El City, a thick layer of snow on the straight central street was firmly trampled by pedestrians.

So I suddenly thought, if I can ride down the Central Street of Central Mountain where the Academy of Magic is located, it might be a very exciting thing.

It seems that skiing is not an activity in the entire northern part of the Green Empire. I searched in various grocery stores and hunter firms in El City, but no one knew what a ski was.So I went back to Xinliu Valley and asked Kalancuo for a piece of indigo wood (indigo wood is much tougher than iron wood), and then asked the craftsmen in the carpentry workshop to make it according to my description. bought ten pairs of skis.

I originally wanted to give it to friends around me as a small gift, but before I could send it out, I was recommended by Teacher Heidi and became a member of Falcon.

In the past two days, I had forgotten about this matter. If Captain Cynthia hadn't worried that we were in the hilly area and couldn't escape the pursuit of those barbarians, I wouldn't have thought of the bundle of skis in the magic pocket.

"Jia, what is this?" Captain Cynthia asked me curiously.

I got out of the tent with two snowboards more than one meter long and said, "We should call them snowboards!"

After finishing speaking, I put the skis on the snow and put my feet into the clips of the skis. The iron springs of the clips are still a bit strong, which made my toes and heels hurt a little. I should wear hard leather boots That's fine, but just to demonstrate.I stood firmly on the skis, took out two thin wooden poles with short iron rods on the top, and gently propped them on the snow. When I stepped on the skis, it was like a gust of wind, with a 'whoosh' , unexpectedly rushed out without a sound...

(End of this chapter)