54. Fire Tongue Weapon (Part 2)
The most time left on the journey was boring time, especially when I couldn't meditate, even if I used a magic trick to consume the remaining fire magic power in my body, I had to carefully hide in the bathroom. Without parchment scrolls filled with ancient orcs, and without a small mud stove that would never turn off, I felt that my body was rusting. I kept asking Lao Kuru about some things, so on the next day, I finally got on the long-lost Thunder Rhino and sat on the familiar seat. At this time, I felt that the scenery between heaven and earth suddenly became vivid. Kuz patted my shoulder excitedly, and had a lot of things to say to me.
Standing on the back of the Thunder Rhino more than eight meters high, I thought I could see the exit of the valley. The V-shaped valley exit was dozens of kilometers away. I could even see the wasteland on the northern foot of the Pai Plateau through the entrance of the valley. The blue sky and the earth were connected there. A few white clouds like marshmallows floated in the blue sky, so low that it seemed that they could reach them with your hand.
"You look much better." Old Kuru nodded and said to me, pulling his hand out of his sleeve and putting it on top of my head. I felt a cool feeling pouring from the top of my head into my whole body. He continued: "It seems that throwing you into the human race is good for your growth. As we have been there for too long, your wildness and your nature are two extremes. They run opposite to your spiritual world. If they are allowed to grow freely, one day they will tear your soul apart."
"But your studies have been a bit abandoned these days. In fact, you can try meditation. In the human world, even if human children who do not have the awakening magic pool will practice meditation in their daily lives for the sake of illusory rumors, they will increase the chance of awakening magic pool. Although the effect is very small, if you learn meditation in a magic caravan, it will not appear so abrupt. Every morning from now on, you will need to go to me to get a roll of parchment paper and memorize the words, and I will take your test every day."
I said with some disappointment: "But I can't come back yet, right?"
"In a few more days, you and Az can go to the northern wasteland to experience it, and now you need to cultivate well. There is no better place than a caravan." Old Kuru replied, looking at me with his muddy eyes. Facing his bright eyes, I looked down at me without daring to look at each other.
"I heard that you had a conflict with the people in the adventure group yesterday?" Old Kulu patted my back with his dry big hands.
I thought of Ming Qian's gloomy eyes and said with some embarrassment: "Well, maybe they will cause trouble for me in my wasteland. But I can't beat them."
"Don't worry, my child, in the endless wasteland, can't hide any danger. Do you still remember how you avoided the dwarf robbers' collision?" Old Kuru's voice was calm and peaceful.
I recalled that moment, after being knocked out by a dwarf warrior, my body was knocked away due to the huge power gap. I was about to hit the mountain wall, and my body seemed to be unable to move. At that time, I suddenly entered deep meditation and immediately displayed the "Shadow Cloak". I turned into a black piece and hit the wall in a flash. Fortunately, I was not dead.
"I remember that I couldn't move all over at that time, but I still wanted to make the final effort to cast the "Shadow Cloak". I didn't think too much at that time, but I knew that if I couldn't release the "Shadow Cloak", I would die if I was thrown on the wall. So I inexplicably entered a state of deep meditation. I don't know why the magic circle drawn in my hand was not good, or even just a curved spline, but the casting was successful." I carefully recalled the scene at that time, and Old Kuru was also listening carefully to every word I said.
When he heard me say that the spell casting was successful, his eyes were filled with a flying expression and he muttered: "It's true, it's true!"
I don't know what Old Kuru is saying, but after a moment he calmed down, he said to me: "Deep meditation cannot bring it into the magic state of time stagnation, but it can allow you to gain spiritual concentration effect. Deep meditation has always been crucial for the beast shaman. Especially for the more aggressive elemental shaman, each elemental shaman hopes to understand the powerful earth-attribute magic skill of "The Gift of Mother Earth" in his life, but this is a gift from the ancestors after all. Shaman who has the luck to comprehend this skill may not be able to appear for hundreds of years, so some elemental shamans will be different.
I took a path and began to study the unconventional magic effect of deep meditation. Later I came to a conclusion that when casting a spell, there is a certain chance that the current magic skill will be strengthened. The direction of strengthening is several aspects. The best one is to increase the magic casting speed and turn it into instant magic, and increase the power of magic skills, increase the continuous effect of magic gain, reduce the magic value consumption of magic skills, and obtain the spiritual concentration effect. The casting cannot be interrupted, and the success rate of spell casting is more than 90%. I think maybe your "Shadow Cloak" skill has been strengthened in the spiritual concentration."
"This 'Shadow Cloak' skill was originally a dark magic of the demon race. The original skill had only one effect, which was to hide whereabouts under the shadow, and was a simplified version of the invisibility skill. However, according to what you said, you can integrate your body into the magic skill, and you can slowly move with the magic mist after the demonization in the shadow, and it will not appear when you move. This should be explained by the fact that the magic skill is strengthened under deep meditation."
Lao Kuru continued: "When you first experience deep meditation, your mental power is strengthened. When you read magic books, you are automatically pulled into your spiritual sea, and your memory and reading ability are enhanced accordingly. During that time, you thoroughly understand the overall situation of the spiritual sea in a deep meditation state. But your second deep meditation was inspired by the critical moment of life and death, which strengthens the magic skills that are most useful to you at present. Your luck is really great."
On the steep ridge on one side of the valley, there is a huge rock across the peak, like the cap on the top of the chicken leg mushroom. And it is extremely flat. Standing on this big rock, I found that there were such strip-shaped valleys everywhere, and there are many mountains on the northern foot of the Pai Plateau. The mountains here are like ditches in the fields, arranged very neatly, but there is a valley near here running through the mountains on the northern foot of the mountains. The other valleys are like closed valleys, with no traces of survival at all, and everything is in its original state.
I was held in my arms by Old Kuru. I didn't know what was going on. I suddenly got into the soil, like a ground dragon, crossing most of the mountains along the way. With the rumbling sound of stones around me, Old Kuru took me to this large stone with a wide view. He stood on the big stone with his hands on his back, and I was sitting on the side. This should be the product left after the glacier movement, otherwise no one could place such a huge stone about three hundred meters long and eighty meters wide on the mountain.
Old Kuru said with a serious expression: "In a few days, you will enter the wasteland with Kuz and he will experience it. Every spring, when the orc children reach your age, they will follow the older orc children to experience it in the wasteland, so as to practice the survival knowledge they usually learn. This is very important to the orc children. I hope you can complete this experience smoothly."
"Teacher, I don't have enough confidence in myself." I lowered my head with some shame.
Old Kuru was not at all displeased and said gently: "You can recognize your true heart and be able to bravely express your fears. This is great. This is why I want to bring you here. Your physique is worse than that of ordinary orc children. You have not received archery training since childhood. Your arm strength is not enough to pull the hunting bow. So before entering the wasteland, our caravan will pass through a free market. You and Az might as well try your luck to see if you can find a weapon that suits you. Today I want to teach you a simple magic skill. Don't underestimate magic skills, no matter how bad they are, they are magic."
Old Kulu sat cross-legged opposite me, where you can clearly see the caravan moving forward along the valley, and after walking forward for dozens of kilometers, the caravan will enter the vast wasteland of the Pai Plateau. At this moment, those magic caravans were only the size of a matchbox in my eyes.
"Although you have magic power in your body, in fact, there is not much magic power stored in your body, and you can't even maintain a simple primary magic. Among many orc magic, I have looked for some magic skills that can be cast without consuming too much mana. This skill is called "Fire Tongue Weapon", which is a magic infusion skill. It can inject the caster's weapon into the power of flames and make the weapon obtain additional fire-type magic damage." After Old Kuru finished speaking, he told me in detail this magic spell and a simpler magic array.
After listening to Lao Kulu's detailed description, I realized that although this skill is simpler and easier to learn than "Shadow Cloak", this magic skill has already involved the unique insights of the beast shaman witch doctors on magic elements. The unique magic pattern structure of the magic circle alone illustrates the uniqueness of this magic.
Old Kulu left me here on Juefeng, and it would not be disturbed by others. It was the best place to practice magic. He turned into a pile of yellow sand and disappeared into the huge rocks. It is said that it was the advanced earth escape technique of orc shamans. Maybe I would never have the chance to learn it in my life. Old Kulu told me that he would come to pick me up before the sun sets.
I suddenly realized that I had a very strong desire to learn new magic, just like now I have firmly remembered the magic spells of the "Fire Tongue Weapon" and the structural diagram of the magic pattern array, and sat on the huge rock and started practicing tirelessly. In fact, this is an extremely simple primary magic, and the magic value consumed is very low. With the magic power in my body, I can maintain six spell castings.
It has been nearly two months since I learned the magic of anti-magic and heating. For this period of time, anti-magic has been consuming the fire-type magic force that has been constantly producing in my body, causing these magic elements that originally burned me to be consumed. Now I almost forgot what kind of pain is burning. However, anti-magic has never been stronger because of the increase in the number of uses. Instead, the magic skill of heating has changed twice in a row. Each change is when casting, which consumes some more magic power, but the effect is also very obvious, that is, the effect of gathering magic power in the body is twice as fast as before.
I asked Lao Kuru, and he told me that the two changes should be that the magic skill of heating has been successfully upgraded. If it feels that there are two obvious changes, it means that my heating skill has reached level 3. The effect of the third-level heating is: the magic power recovery speed increased by 30%, which means that the magic recovery speed brought to me by the heating now is three times faster than the previous ten%. Note that this is just a magic power recovery speed of 30% faster than my current magic recovery speed. In other words, when I don’t have a magic pool now, I have some mental power, and my own magic power is still very weak.
Even so, after every fifteen minutes, I had enough magic points to recast the Fire Tongue weapon.
Spell casting failed!
Spell casting failed!
fail!
I could even feel how frustrated I felt. After practicing for more than fifty times, I still failed to successfully use the fire tongue weapon. I carefully thought about any flaws in the spell I recited, and then repeatedly compared and gestured on the stone slab based on the magic pattern structure diagram on the parchment paper, but still didn't find out where the problem was.
Sitting on the edge of the cliff, I had seen the sun sinking on the horizon of the western wasteland. The sunset in the sky was like delicious roast chicken. I had been sitting here for a whole day, hungry and thirsty, but I had no progress in the new magic skills. At this moment, I couldn't help but take out the skinning knife in my arms, fantasizing about cutting the sunset like roast chicken, putting the delicious juicy chicken leg on the plate, and cutting it into pieces with the peeling knife, eating the delicious chicken meat voraciously. Alas! I touched my gurgling stomach and sighed: I was so hungry!
The magical force in my hand finally gathered enough to use the flame tongue weapon again. While I recited the spell, my fingertips gathered with magical force at one point, and quickly drew the perfect magic pattern array. The next moment, the magic pattern array suddenly formed a fist-sized fireball in the air. With a "huh", it drilled into the blade of the peeling knife in my other hand. The sword made of steel turned pale red for a moment. I could clearly feel a strong and irritable fire magic power flowing in the knife.
I'll push you!
It turns out that when casting this skill, it takes the weapon in my hand to succeed. I am really a mud horse.
"It seems that you have mastered it very quickly, my child. Your magic perception is very sharp. You have learned this magic in just one day. It's already late, so I'll take you back to the caravan." Old Kuru's voice came from behind me.
I shouted in my heart with grief and anger: My relatives, do you know that I am about to starve to death?
…beautiful dividing line…
Kuz, this silly kid, waited for me for a whole day, but in the end he couldn't say a word to me.
I was thrown near the magic caravan by Old Kuru. I was even hungry and weak, my legs were sore and weak that I could not climb up the slow-moving magic caravan. If it weren't for the honest kid Kong Zhen being assigned by Katerina, I would have been abandoned in the wilderness of the valley if I hadn't been sent tonight.
Watching me greedily drinking a whole wheat cake and a large bowl of broth without leaving a drop, the four girls in the dormitory looked at me in amazement. Lea lay on the upper bunk and poked out half of her body, like a female ghost hanging on the roof, and then shouted: "My God, Jia, you won't have eaten all day, right?"
"In fact, it's true!" I patted my stomach that was about to be broken, and lay on the bed without moving. My feet were on the ground. I felt dizzy and faint. I felt Caterina gently burning my feet for me, then took off my clothes and wiped my face with a hot towel. Not long after, I felt a soft and warm body crawling into the quilt and hugging me tightly.
She put her head on my forehead, her beautiful red hair completely covered my head, trying to calm her tone, and said to me in aggrieved voice: "You have been walking all day, I thought you won't come back, I thought you won't come back."
I don’t know what Katerina and I are at this time. We have mutual attachments and friendships that experience life and death together, but there is no love. Who would be crazy about talking about relationships with a hairy child who is over five years old and has not yet retired?
Chapter completed!