my age of magic

Chapter 8 8. Learning on the Prairie
Starting last night, the old Kuru taught me the anti-magic completely, and told me that he didn't know if it could be done. After all, a human being learned the magic of the orcs.I wasn't the first, but no one had ever made it before, and I was the one with the best chance of doing it.

I sat in the tent and thought about it for half the night, and sometimes I felt that the conversation between the old Kuru and me had already surpassed the scope of a conversation with a 7-year-old child.

The lifespan of ordinary orcs is usually less than 60 years, so orcs are very precocious. Generally, 12-year-old children of orcs will participate in the coming-of-age ceremony, which is equivalent to 18 years for humans.

I don't know why the old Kuru always likes to say things that are always difficult for me to understand. Doesn't he understand that according to the human 7-year-old child, he just spent babbling, or is he in an ignorant cognition of the world?
The old Kuru always believed that it was the guidance of the beast god, and we met. Looking at the sudden spring rain outside the tent, I felt a lot of emotions.

In the corner of the tent is the old man with his hunched body sleeping peacefully. The wrinkles on his face are piled up like the criss-cross ravines on the Loess Plateau. It can be seen that he was once tall and fit, but the passage of time after getting old exhausted him. The flesh and blood of the body is so thin that the skin covers the bones.

But the only thing that has remained unchanged for so many years is the belief in his heart, the heart that strives for the prosperity and strength of the orc clan.

The skill of anti-magic is a continuous consumption magic skill. This is a basic magic skill that is so simple that it can be cast without any singing, but it is difficult for me because I don't "time stagnation".

There is also no way to freely circulate the magic power in my body along the meridians of my body. I can't control these at all. Without magic awakening, I can't even be considered a magic apprentice. How can I engrave a magic circle in my body?
According to the old Kuru's theory, after the awakening of the human race, a magic pool will initially form in the body of the magician apprentice. After learning to meditate, he can guide the magic power in the body to circulate along the meridians of the body, and finally form a preliminary cycle. The endless magic power will continue to grow and slowly accumulate in the magic pool.

But as long as human magicians form such a magic cycle, they will never have the opportunity to learn orc magic, because all the orc magic they create violates this magic cycle. Their magic method is to gather magic power from the limbs of the body to the magic core , and then continue to accumulate breakthroughs.

I'm the only freak whose body has not yet formed a magic pool but already has the mana of the fire element. It seems that there is still a slight possibility of learning the magic of the orc.

I think the old Kuru babbled for most of the night, maybe I didn’t think that I could understand what he said, and the last words that warned me, the old Kuru repeated countless times, that is the awakening ceremony Before, I, who had a magical physique, was a piece of sweet cheese in the eyes of some evil magicians. Hiding my natural talent and making myself more ordinary would be the best protective color.

The first step I have to learn is how to guide the magic to converge on the fingertips, and draw a magic circle with my hands.

According to the methods that old Kuru told me and the magic circle pattern drawn on the parchment, I worked hard to concentrate so that the burning fire element in my body converged to my fingers, and I felt that the burning sensation in my body was relieved a little. The tip suddenly became hot, and the faint orange light flickered on and off, making it extremely unstable. The orange magic circle drawn in the air even lasted for less than a second before dissipating in the air.

There is no way, the fiery magic power with fire attribute appearing in my body at any time will make the mana I have gathered extremely unstable, and it will be difficult for me to even maintain the magic power on my fingertips.

Watching the dawn come, the night rain had stopped at some point, a white band of light lit up on the eastern horizon, and then the scorching sun seemed to jump up suddenly, forming a complete horizon in the earth.

I sighed secretly, it seems that only tomorrow night can I continue to study this anti-magic.

I dug out a piece of charcoal the size of a football from the woven bag outside the tent, picked up the hammer next to it, and knocked it into fist-sized pieces. I squatted on the ground and threw the broken charcoal into the clay stove. The charcoal fire in the tandoor was almost burnt out, only faint sparks were scattered by my fan, and it took only a moment for the coal fire in the tandoor to burn again.

Fill the black lacquered iron pot with water and place it on the tandoor.This is the first thing I do every morning. Last night I didn't sleep all night and I didn't feel sleepy at all, so I decided not to sleep anymore. I lifted the curtain and walked out of the tent to breathe the fresh air after the rain.

Last night's rain had made the grass sodden with puddles everywhere.As long as you walk around the camp, the rain-soaked grass will make your trousers wet. At this time, you can only feel better if you wear dry leather pants.

Uncle Fred wandered over from the dance troupe's camp. He seemed to be in good spirits. Among the caravans, not many could find mistresses in the dance troupe. Uncle Fred was quite capable. I have never seen what his concubine looks like, but I heard Uncle Fred boast that she is a young and pink girl, and she is also a high-ranking maid of a certain dance company boss.

"Oh, good morning, Jijia!"

"Uncle Fred, good morning!" I tried my best to look obedient, because that is the best way for every child to protect themselves, and no one would hate obedient children, would they?

Fred concealed his embarrassment. After all, it was not allowed by the master of the caravan and the lady of the dance troupe to be found to be having an affair with the lady of the dance troupe. That's why Fred quietly returned to the caravan camp before dawn.When Fred passed me by, he thought of something, suddenly pressed my shoulders and bent down to me and said: "Jijia, the caravan will be resting in Starry Lake for a few days, if there is nothing to do during the day, Would you like to go to the pasture with me to try your luck, maybe you can meet some magic antelopes."

"You want to take me out hunting?" I said a little excitedly.

Fred looked at me contemptuously, and then snorted slowly: "What are you thinking, can you ride a horse or pull an iron and wood bow? We are just going to show the adventure group, do you understand? Forget it, I don’t understand if I tell you kids, pack up early and bring the skinning knife I prepared for you, I’ll talk to the leader of the adventure group later.”

"Okay! Uncle Fred, do you want to eat something first?" I agreed, then added some water to the stew left in the iron pot, put it on the clay stove, and cut the black bread into triangles neatly stacked on the edge of the pot, and buckled the heavy wooden pot lid that was burnt with a hole.

Fred rubbed his belly, glanced at the iron pot with joy, smiled, and asked me, "What's left over from yesterday?"

"kindness!"

"I heard that yesterday you and Kurtz made some stewed meat that made the boys in the caravan almost unable to get up? What kind of good food is so fragrant? Uncle, I haven't caught a piece of meat until now. Well, you still have a heart, and you know to leave some leftovers for uncle and me." Uncle Fred rubbed his hands, his mouth full of imperial slang made me dizzy, and there was a faint smell of vanilla on his body , the sweet kind, I think it must belong to that woman.

Soon the water in the iron pot began to heat up, melting the hoarfrost-like grease from the stewed meat in the pot, and the aroma slowly came out.

The vermicelli in the pot has been picked by Kurtz, but there are no tools such as forks and chopsticks in this world. Everyone eats with spoons, and the smallest spoon is almost the size of an egg, and it is heavy to hold.

The edge of the pot that is getting hotter gradually burnt the neatly sliced ​​black bread, and the light smell of wheat from the fire lured Kurtz out of the tent. Although he was still sleepy, but the cute His big nose twitched slightly, guiding the sleepwalking Kurtz, which was a bit ridiculous.

The three of them sat around the clay stove, not afraid of the heat, just holding the browned brown bread in one hand, and tightly holding a big spoon in the other hand, you scoop a spoonful, I will take a spoonful Divide the stewed meat in the soup pot like a whirlwind.

The devout orc shaman just drinks a cup of hot water and eats two or three pieces of cold jerky every morning. Old Kuru doesn't eat too greasy things in the morning, so naturally he didn't join me.

I just told Kurz and me not to go hunting with the adventure group, especially let me keep an eye on Kurz, he has always wanted to hunt a magic antelope in the playground, but even if it is just a grass-eating antelope , but that is also the lowest level of Warcraft, after it is furious, it can even pierce the skin of a rhinoceros with its sharp horns.

Not long after, with the angry rising sun, I followed Uncle Fred and some leather craftsmen in the caravan, followed the adventure group in several ox carts, and headed for the depths of the playground.

The cows were borrowed by the heads of the two adventure groups from the lady of the dance troupe. There were a total of 5 ox carts behind more than 20 horses. Only now did I have the opportunity to sit on the ox cart and look at those mysterious adventure groups carefully. member.

Kuz and I were squeezed in the middle of the bullock cart. The adults were worried that we would be thrown off by the bumpy bullock cart, especially those who were thin.

Everyone's beaming, this is one of the few opportunities to earn extra money during the trip.

The hunters of the adventure group will hunt those valuable monsters back on the grassland, and then these skilled thin-skinned masters on the bullock cart will quickly dismember them, and all valuable things will be handled well.

The magic beasts in this batch of grasslands are not only the magic antelopes, but there are more of them.In fact, there are other more aggressive monsters, such as prairie wind wolf, salamander and flying squirrel, etc.

The numbers of these two adventure groups are actually not so equal. One of them is a team of six people. Their captain is a demon hunting archer. A tattered linen cloak was wrapped around the armor, which made it difficult for me to see the whole leather armor.

A giant longbow one person tall was wrapped in white cloth strips like a mummy, only the gian jug with hard leather on the waist and gold rims looked extremely exquisite, and the arrow feathers of each arrow were exposed, neatly fiery red .

Kurz told me that it was the tail feathers of the Flaming Eagle, which was very precious and would add some fire damage to the arrows.Seeing Kuz's drooling eyes, I think the leader probably doesn't want to know that there is a shaggy orc boy who has been thinking about his pot of feather arrows!

The only ranger in their team is very familiar with me. Just seven months ago when our caravan passed through the New Siakis Mountains, this adventure group found a big earth storm bear deep in the mountains. Killed Kurtz, and Kurtz stole a jar of honey for me under the nose of the bear.

Based on this clue, the adventure group found the earth storm bear who had just advanced to a second-level monster. I didn't hear them talk about the hunting process. According to the old Kuru, almost everyone was injured. The most important one was the ranger Tia in the team. This young man had a leg broken by the bear's paw.

Tia's leg was seriously injured. Not only was the femur broken, but many tendons were torn and fractured. But for the old Kuru, an expert in herbal medicine, it was not a big deal.

At that time, I was so frightened that I didn’t know why tears were streaming down my face. In fact, I didn’t really want to cry at that time, but I couldn’t hold it back. When I thought about living in this wild world, I would inevitably get hurt in the future, and my heart was full of tears. will be very scared.

Tia is the only member of this team who is good at field skills such as scouting and hiding whereabouts. He is also kind to children. I often chat with him, so I know a thing or two about this team. The remaining four members are warriors Janbach, Swordsman Duo Lunlie, Water Magician Guo Guo, Warrior Yue Lun.

Even though this team has fewer members, they are all masters who have successfully registered in the guild, far more elite than the other adventure team with more than half of the apprentice-level players.

Speaking of this, I have to talk about the ranks of the adventure group professions in this world.

Occupations were initially divided into magic and warrior, and warrior was subdivided into shield warrior, swordsman, archer, assassin, ranger and many other series.

Take the archer job as an example. The soldiers who first entered the war school system and learned the bow and arrow department are called archer apprentices. After all indicators meet the requirements of the archer guild, they can apply for an archer certificate to the trade union after passing the exam. This certificate does not mean After hard work, anyone who successfully graduates from Zhanzheng College can get it.

Every war profession has a very strict ranking system, and there are rigid indicators for each level of archers.

Each level of archer has clear standards in terms of attack distance, arrow speed, and accuracy. The examination is very strict, and only fighters who can obtain a certificate are eligible to form an adventure team.

Tia ran over on a strong ancient Bolai horse from a distance, and raised the short bow in his hand to signal me, and I nodded to him.

He rode very fast, overtook our carriage like a whirlwind, and caught up with the leader of the adventure group in front of the team. It seemed that he must have good news.

Sure enough, after a quarter of an hour, the large army was ordered to stop, and more than half of the two adventure groups ran out of the team and rushed in the direction where Tia came, leaving only four adventurers The members of the regiment escorted the large troops and stood by.

I don't know what happened. Uncle Fred said to Kurz and me very experienced: "We are really lucky. We met a big guy when we came out, and we can make two adventure groups go out in full force. I'm afraid they will be prey." It won’t be too small, hehe, you two, Jijia and Kurtz, will help me later.”

"Skinning, what's the problem?" Kurz said in a low voice.

"Hey, boy, you usually come into contact with some wild beasts. How can ordinary beasts compare with monsters? Even the most basic monsters, it is very difficult to cut their leather. There is a lot of knowledge in this."

Fred laughed, not paying attention to what Kurtz said.Then he whispered to me: "The orcs are born with strength, even if the knife is not fast, they can cut through the tough leather. Ji Jia, you should learn more from me. I am good at making leather, but I dare not say that I am good at other aspects." What a superior place, but I have some experience in cognitive textures. A few days ago, old Kuru suddenly wanted me to teach you two boys, and I agreed. Who in our caravan does not owe old Kuru a favor? But How much you can comprehend depends on whether you two boys pay attention."

(End of this chapter)