my age of magic

Chapter 83 84. Katerina

For a long time, the old Kuru explained to me that he was looking for a way to save the poverty of the orc tribe. Following the human caravan is also learning the means of doing business, but I always feel that it is a bit far-fetched. There must be part of the reason, but not all.As I flipped through old Kuru's sheepskin books on herbalism, I found that the magical herbs introduced in those books could not be found in books like "Encyclopedia of Herbalism" on Qige's bookshelf. , and Qige's primary textbook in the Magic Academy only briefly introduced the functions and characteristics of various herbs, which is not as comprehensive as I saw in the parchment, and various herbs have different opinions .For a magician like Qige who specializes in magic potions, she must be best at understanding magic herbs. Most of her books are about herbalism.

But when I read it, I always feel that some of the statements in the book are very different from the parchment given to me by the old Kuru, so this time I will follow Kurz into the North Foot Wilderness so firmly, I want to find Several kinds of the most elementary magic herbs, to verify that what is written in the book is correct.

"Kurz is the grandson of the teacher, so it's not too much to take Azi to travel around the world!" I tried to defend Kurz.

Qige looked very cute, sitting in the leather saddle next to Katerina, pointing to Kurtz and said: "Ask your werewolf brother, how many brothers and sisters does he have? Your teacher, old Kuru How many grandchildren will there be?"

This is something I have never thought about. I have brought some memories of my previous life into this life. I have never thought about what the family in the orc tribe would be like.I turned my gaze to Kuz, he scratched his hair in embarrassment, grinned and said: "My grandfather has 23 sons and [-] daughters, and my aunts have long been married to other tribes. I don't know how many children they had. I only know that before I came out to travel, my father had thirteen sons and four daughters. I am the seventh son of my father. Actually ...Okay! I can't figure out how many grandchildren Grandpa has, I was brought out to be raised alone when I was very young, and there are many brothers and sisters that I may have never even met."

"So, you were brought out to travel the world by your teacher because you also have... a rare bloodline talent?" I looked at Kurtz in surprise.

Kurz was a little proud of the strong muscles in his arms that I showed, and said without any concealment: "Of course! When I was three years old, I was predicted by the tribe's divination priest Elder Kuranorman to have the 'survival Instinct' talent, after completing the first wilderness hunt at the age of seven, he was taken out of the Gludin tribe by his grandfather to travel in the wilderness. Later, he joined this business group in the Green Empire for no reason, and traveled most of the Greenland After the empire, they crossed the New Siakis Mountains one after another to reach the dwarf country. Didn’t we just pick you up on the edge of the burnt forest? Then you and we crossed the New Siakis Mountains again, and we will soon arrive at our home."

"How come you never told me that you have a gifted survival instinct?" I asked.

"But Jia, you never asked me! In fact, Jia, I'll tell you too! I can promise to take you out of this wasteland safely. Not only is this my home, but also my talent allows me Take you to hide in the safest place in the wilderness when you are in danger. There is nothing special about this talented knight I have, but I can feel the breath of beasts in the wild. This is very important for hunters, but it does not Not too powerful, the reason why this talent can be included in the top five legendary talents is because the orcs with the "survival instinct" will become very powerful hunter kings, hunter kings! Hunter kings who can lead other orcs into the wilderness to organize hunting, Jia, you know how much we lack food now, if every tribal leader is a hunter king, then even in the most difficult environment, he will lead his tribe to survive. This is where the hunter king is the strongest." Kurz turned his head away again, and continued to drive Yagui Beast forward.

"It turns out that you also have a great talent!" I suddenly realized.

At this time, Kurtz was looking up at the starry sky above his head carefully, and he was still gesticulating between the night star and his eyes with his fingers, as if looking for a reference.I've never been able to figure out how Kurtz figured out where we were.All he knew was that he judged his approximate position in the wasteland based on the starry sky at night as a reference.So I asked curiously again: "Using the star map to locate, is this also a survival instinct talent?"

"That's not to say, this is the secret of the star map of the Pai Plateau, and it's not a secret. It's the experience of star-gazing that we orcs have slowly summed up after living on this plateau for hundreds of years. If you want to learn, You have to honestly watch the stars on the plateau for three years, and then I can teach you this technique, otherwise you won’t understand what I’m telling you now.” Kurz continued to look at the starry sky above his head while talking.

I never thought that the people in this small team are all of extraordinary backgrounds. For example, Qige is a fox girl with the blood of the royal family of Aitia and the blood of the Tianhu clan. The women of the Tianhu clan are born magicians. At a certain age, it will automatically awaken.Qige told me when he brought me back to the magic caravan.But I didn't think that Aziz was also a child who was trained in the orc tribe. He possessed the talent of "survival instinct", which allowed him to feel and predict danger in the wild, and also made him a natural hunter.And I am also a child with the bloodline talent 'Blue Flame' and the magic talent 'Magic Perception', no matter what kind of talent, it is an excellent talent to plunder for magicians, which reminds me of an animation I watched when I was a child The movie "Ginseng Doll", now I am the ginseng doll who can live forever after being eaten!For the orcs, both Qige and Katerina are excellent bloodline talent successors. The former has the noble bloodline of the Sky Fox family, while the latter shows the bloodline talent of the 'Slaughtering Heart'. Both of them are excellent bloodline inheritors. If the orcs in the tribe think more about their offspring, they will spare no effort to plunder them back to their tribe and become a tool for reproduction. In 20 years, as long as there is an inheritor with such a strong bloodline in his small tribe, then within the next hundred years, he will lead the orcs in the entire small tribe to become stronger gradually.

Qige and Katerina are very attractive to the orc people. Even an honest child like Kurz, after knowing the blood talent of the two women, his eyes become extremely hot, let alone other people. people.I never thought that Katerina still had a 'Heart of Killing', but it was poorly sealed.Although I can't figure out what the seal of 'Killing Heart' has to do with my guts and courage, I still think it has something to do with it!
The cool night wind blows on everyone's face, making people more sober. At this moment before dawn, I think that the road ahead may not be smooth, and I need to go all the way through the thorns and thorns, but my heart unexpectedly Calmness is like standing outside a painting and looking at the scenery in the painting.At this moment before dawn, the few of us sat on the back of Yagui Beast. The bumpy road to the wilderness seemed to never end, but we seemed to be one step closer to our destination.

The magic circle on Katerina's snow-white skin under her neck gradually became lighter and lighter after Qige withdrew her magic power, and finally disappeared on the skin surface.Her eyes became slack, as if falling into deep memories, she told us some past events when she was a child:
Fragment one:

"That red-eyed little girl is a bastard, and her mother is a bastard. Let's go! We won't play with her. They are all slave girls, and they are only fit to live in a woodshed and eat sweet potatoes. Can you stand the sweet potatoes? Does it smell like blood?" The blond-haired girl stood on a street corner full of sewage and said loudly, stopping a group of poor children in rags.

The red-eyed little girl standing in the corner held the two-year-old boy with one hand, and looked at the group of children in the slums who had gone away with grievances, tears rushed two ditches on the face full of grievances, A pug also jumped out of the trash can on the side, looked at the group of children running away, turned back and barked at the little girl a few times, turned around and chased after the group of children.Originally, the group of children wanted to go to a small restaurant in the city to beg for some slop and leftovers to fill their stomachs, but no one wanted to take this lowly child born of a half-orc female slave, and a child born of a slave was born a slave.

The girl had no choice but to run home with her younger brother on an empty stomach, and said aggrievedly to the woman lying on the sickbed: "Grandma, we are not slaves! I don't want to eat sweet potatoes all day long. Take me to play!"

The woman lying on the sickbed stared blankly at the dilapidated straw mat wall, wondering if the next heavy rain would completely collapse the thatched cottage, but now this dilapidated thatched cottage can still provide some shelter for them A little wind and rain.She used to be a beautiful dancer with the blood of the orc rabbitman, but a trick of fate brought her down to this point. Her thin cheeks looked extremely sallow, and her haggard hair was like a pile of grass on her head. Those originally clear eyes are now It was so thin that it protruded in the eye sockets, like the lowest skeleton of the undead.The wound on her waist was already bleeding foul-smelling pus. She knew that her time was numbered, but when she saw her two children, her eyes were still full of nostalgia, ah!How much I don't want to leave like this, how will the children live without me!

Looking at the two scrawny children, the woman on the sickbed feebly moved the girl to her side, and gasped weakly, "Remember what mother said, Katerina! Never marry a soldier in the future, no matter where he is." How brave and fearless you are on the battlefield, no matter how superb and gorgeous his combat skills are, I hope you can marry an ordinary person in the future, I hope you can lead your brother to live a good life, and don't follow the mother's old path."

The red-eyed girl nodded half-understood and said to the terminally ill woman on the bed, "I swear! I will take good care of my brother!"

That year, Katerina was eight years old. When her mother was carrying rocks in the mine, a boulder rolled down from the mine and injured her waist. She eventually died of illness in a straw hut in a slum, leaving Katerina with only one room. A broken thatched shed with air leaks everywhere and a younger brother who is more than two years old and needs to be fed.Survival is the most important thing for the two of them right now.

(End of this chapter)