8. Learning on the Prairie
Starting last night, Old Kulu taught me the anti-magic technique in full and told me whether I could do it. He didn't know whether it was possible. After all, a human was learning the magic of the orcs. Although I was not the first one, no one had ever succeeded before, and I was the one with the most chance to succeed.
I sat in the tent and thought for half a night. Sometimes I felt that the conversation between Lao Kulu and me had already exceeded the scope of talking to a child over 7 years old. The lifespan of ordinary orcs is usually less than 60 years, so the orcs are very precocious. Orcs usually have 12-year-old children of the orcs will attend the coming-of-age ceremony, which is equivalent to the age of 18 of humans. I don’t know why Lao Kulu always likes to say things to me that are always difficult for me to understand. Doesn’t he understand that according to the 7-year-old human beings, he just has just passed the dentistry, or is he in a ignorant understanding of the world?
Lao Kulu always believed that it was the guide of the beast god and that it was our meeting. I looked at the sudden spring rain outside the tent and felt a lot. In the corner of the tent was the old man who fell asleep peacefully with a hunched body. The wrinkles on his face were like crisscrossing gullies on the Loess Plateau. It was obvious that he was once tall and strong, and the passing time after his age drew all the flesh and blood of his body, so thin that his skin was covered with bones. But the only thing that has not changed for so many years is his faith, the heart that struggled for the prosperity and strength of the beast tribe.
Anti-magic skills are a continuous consumption magic skill. This is a primary magic skill that is so simple that it can cast spells without even singing. But it is difficult for me because I will not "stagnate time" and I cannot control the magic power in my body along the meridians of my body. I cannot control these things at all. Without magic awakening, I can't even be a magic apprentice, so how can I engrave a magic array in my body?
According to Lao Kulu's theory, when the human race awakens, the magic pool will be formed in the body. After learning to meditate, the magic power in the body can be guided to run 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 the human race magicians form such a magic cycle, they will never have the chance to learn orc magic again, because the orc magic created violates this magic cycle. Their magic method is to gather magic power from the limbs and bones of the body into the magic core, and then accumulate and break through continuously. It is only a monster like me who has not yet formed a magic pool, but has already had fire element magic power. It seems that there is still a little chance to learn orc magic.
I think Old Kuru talked for most of the night, and probably never thought that I could understand his words. In the end, Old Kuru said those words of warning me countless times. That is, before the awakening ceremony, I, with a magical physique, was a piece of sweet cheese in the eyes of some evil magicians. Hiding my talented bloodline and making myself more ordinary will be the best protective color.
The first step I have to learn is how to guide magic to gather on the tip of my fingers and draw the magic array with my hands. According to what methods Lao Kulu told me and the magic array pattern drawn on parchment paper, I tried hard to concentrate my energy elements that burned me to gather towards my fingers. I felt the burning sensation in my body was relieved a little. The fingertips suddenly heated up, and the faint orange-red light was sometimes bright and dark, which seemed extremely unstable. The orange magic array drawn in the air even lasted for less than 1 second before dissipating in the air.
There is no way, the irritable magic power with fire attributes in my body will make my gathered magic power extremely unstable. It will be difficult for me to maintain my magic power at the fingertips now. Seeing the dawn coming, Ye Yu stopped at some point, a white light belt lit up on the eastern horizon, and then the scorching sun seemed to suddenly jump up, the complete horizon in the soil.
I sighed inwardly, and it seemed that I could only continue to study this anti-magic technique tomorrow night.
I took 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 a fist-sized piece. I squatted on the ground and threw the charcoal into the mud stove. The charcoal fire in your stove was almost burned out, and only the faint sparks were splashed around by my fan. After a moment, the charcoal fire in the mud stove burned again. Fill the black iron kettle with water and placed it on the mud stove. This was the first thing I had to do every morning. Last night, I didn't sleep all night and didn't feel any sleepy, so I decided not to have to sleep anymore, lifted up the curtain and walked out of the tent to breathe the fresh air after the rain.
Last night's rain made the grass wet and there were low-lying puddles everywhere. As long as you walk around the camp, the grass covered with rain will make the trouser legs wet. At this time, you will feel better if you wear dry leather pants.
Uncle Fred walked around from the dance troupe camp and looked pretty in good spirits. In the caravan, not many people could find mistresses in the dance troupe. Uncle Fred is also a little capable. I have never seen what his mistress looks like, but I heard Uncle Fred boast that he was a young and pink little girl, and a very status maid under a dance troupe celebrity.
"Ha, morning, Jijia!"
"Uncle Fred, good morning!" I tried to make myself look more well-behaved, because that is the best way for every child to protect himself. No one would hate well-behaved children, right?
Fred concealed his embarrassment. After all, being found mingled with the little girl in the dance troupe was not allowed by the caravan master and the aunt in the dance troupe, so Fred quietly returned to the caravan camp on the eve of dawn. When Fred passed by me, he thought of something and suddenly pressed my shoulder and bent down and said to me: "Gijia, the caravan has to rest in Fanxing Lake these days. If there is nothing to do during the day, should I go to the grassland with me to try my luck? Maybe I can meet a few magic antelope."
"You want to take me out for hunting?" I said a little excitedly.
Fred looked at me with contempt, then snorted slowly: "What do you think? Can you ride a horse or pull the ironwood bow? We are just going to see the pile for the adventure group. Do you understand it? Forget it, I don't understand it if you tell your child that you don't understand. Get it clean 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, and then added some water to the stewed meat left in the iron pot, put it on the mud stove, cut the black bread into triangles and neatly placed on the edge of the pot, and put it on the heavy and burnt wooden pot lid.
Fred touched his stomach, glanced at the iron pot with joy, and asked me, "What was left yesterday?"
"kindness!"
"I heard that yesterday you and Kuz made some stewed meat from the caravan, so that the caravan almost couldn't get up? What good things are so delicious? I haven't got a piece of meat yet. You kid are still willing to leave some left for me." Uncle Ferred rubbed his hands, and his mouth full of imperial slang made me dizzy. He leaned over and there was a faint vanilla smell on his body, which was sweet. I think it must be that woman.
Soon the water in the iron pot began to heat up, and began to melt the stewed meat in the pot, which condensed into white frosty oil, and the fragrance slowly spread out. The vermicelli in the pot was picked up by Kuz, but there were no tools such as forks and chopsticks in this world. Everyone used spoons to eat, and the smallest spoon was almost the size of an egg, and it was heavy to pick it up. The gradually hotter edge of the pot roasted neatly black bread slightly burned, and the light wheat aroma was roasted out by the fire to lure Kuz in the tent. Although he was still sleeping in a daze, his cute big nose moved slightly, guiding Kuz like a sleepwalking Kuz, which looked a little ridiculous.
The three of them sat around the mud stove, not afraid of being scorched. They just held the roasted black bread in their hands, and held a big spoon tightly in their other hand. You scoop a spoonful of spoons and I will divide the stewed meat in the soup pot like a wind and clouds.
The devout orc shaman just drinks a cup of hot water and eats two or three pieces of dry and cold jerky every morning. Old Kuru will not eat too greasy things in the morning, so he naturally did not join me. He just told Kuz and me not to follow the adventure group to hunt, especially to keep an eye on Kuz, who had always wanted to hunt a demon antelope in the playground, but even if it was just a herbivorous antelope, it was the lowest level of monster. After it was furious, it could even pierce the skin of the rhinoceros beast with its sharp long horns.
Not long after, with the angry Chaoyang, I followed Uncle Fred and some of the leather-making experts in the caravan, and drove in a few ox carts behind the adventure group and headed deep into the playground. The ox was borrowed by the leader of the two adventure groups from the dance group's aunt. A total of 5 ox carts followed by more than 20 horses. Only then did I have the opportunity to sit on the ox cart and look at the mysterious members of the adventure group carefully.
Kuz and I were squeezed in the middle of the ox cart. The adults were worried that we would be thrown off by the bumpy ox cart, especially for the thin people. Everyone was very happy, and this was one of the few opportunities to earn extra money on the journey. The hunters of the adventure group would hunt back the valuable monsters on the grassland, and then the skilled thin-skinned masters on the ox cart quickly dismembered them, and all the valuable things would be handled well. The monsters in this batch of prairie are not just magic antelope, but they are more. In fact, there are other more aggressive monsters, such as the grassland wind wolf, salamander and flying squirrel.
The number of these two adventure groups is actually not so equal. One of them is a team of six people. Their captain is a demon hunter. He is wearing soft leather armor with exquisite magic patterns, but the leather armor is also wrapped in a ragged linen cloak, which makes it difficult for me to see the whole picture of the leather armor. One person-high giant longbows are wrapped in white cloth strips, just like a mummy. Only the hard leather at the waist is inlaid with gold edges looks extremely exquisite. The feathers of each arrow are exposed outside, neatly fiery red. Kuz told me that it was the tail feather of the Fire Eagle, which is very precious and will add some fire damage to the arrows. Seeing Kuz's drooling eyes, I think this regiment leader should not want to know that there is an orc boy with unfinished hair that has been thinking about his feather arrow!
The only ranger in their team is very familiar with me. Just seven months ago, when our caravan passed through the New Siakis Mountains, the adventure group found a big earth bear deep in the mountains. The bear almost killed Kuz. Kuz also stole a can of honey from the bear's nose. The adventure group found the earth bear that had just advanced to level 2 monsters based on this clue. I didn't listen to them about the hunting process, but according to Lao Kulu, almost everyone was injured. The worst was the ranger Tia in the team. This young man had a broken leg by the bear's claws. Tia's leg was very serious. Not only was the thigh bone broken, but many tendons caused torn and broken trauma, but for herbal experts,
Old Kulu was not a big deal. At that time, I was so scared that I didn't know why I was crying. In fact, I didn't want to cry very much at that time, but I couldn't help it. When I thought of living in this wild world, I would inevitably be hurt in the future, and I would be very scared. Tia is the only skill of this team that is good at scouts and concealing whereabouts. I am also kind to children. I often chat with him, so I know one or two about this team. The remaining four team members are warrior Johnbach, swordsman Doronle, water magician Guoguo, and warrior Yuelun. Although this team has fewer people, they are all masters who have successfully registered in the guild, which is far more elite than the other adventure team with more than half of the apprentice-level team members.
Speaking of this, we have to talk about the level of the World Adventure Group profession. The profession was initially divided into magic and warriors, and the warriors were divided into a wide variety of series such as shield warriors, swordsmen, archers, assassins, rangers, etc. Take the archer as an example. Warriors who first entered the war school system to study the archer department were called archer apprentices. After all the indicators met the requirements of the archer guild, they could apply for archer certificates from the trade union after examination. This certificate does not mean that after hard work, those who graduate successfully in the War Academy can get it. Each war profession has a very strict level system, and each level of archer has a rigid indicator. Each level of archer has a clear standard for attack distance, arrow speed, and accuracy. The exam is very strict. Only warriors who can get the certificate are qualified to form an adventure group team.
Tia ran over from a distance on a strong Gubolai horse, raised the short bow in my hand, and I nodded to him. He rode very quickly, thinking that he would pass our carriage like a whirlwind, and catch up with the leader of the adventure regiment in front of the team. It seemed that there must be good news. Sure enough, a quarter of an hour later, the large army was ordered to stop, and more than half of the two adventure regiments were running out of the team, rushing towards the direction when Tia came, leaving only four adventure regiment members to guard the large army and stand on standby.
I don't know what happened, Uncle Fred said to me and Kuz with great experience: "We are really lucky. We met a big guy as soon as we came out. I'm afraid the prey will not be too small. Haha, Jijia and Kuz will help me later."
"What's the point of peeling off a skin?" Kuz said in a muffled voice.
Chapter completed!