My Magic Age

The adventure group's hunting ended in the afternoon of the second day. Kuz visited me once in the morning and comforted me by saying that he had left a dried leg of lamb for me to cook with when I got better.

The little orc was respected in the merchant group recently because he could make delicious food with various secret medicine powders. Kuz enjoyed the friendly eyes of others and told me a lot of things happily. Then Uncle Fred came to visit me and said that fortunately nothing happened. Fortunately, fortunately.

Tia stayed outside the tent and refused to come in. He told me that if Guoguo knew he had been here, he would definitely freeze him into an ice block.

I asked him: Can't you beat Sister Guoguo?

Tia immediately became like a fighting cock with its feathers blown up. She straightened her neck and said to me: I'm not afraid of him. If the muscular man Qiangbahe hadn't always been behind her to support her, would I be afraid of a mere magic rookie who just graduated from magic school?

In short, I'm still afraid!

The direct benefit of having a magician sister is that I can understand what magic is faster.

There are still many differences between the body structures of humans and orcs, and their understanding of magic is completely different from the most basic source. The theories that Old Kuru told me are all heresy in Guoguo's eyes. She always said to me: Those are things that only barbaric orcs would do. They have been doing it recklessly. In fact, the truth is like this... and so on.

However, she agreed with Old Kuru's last idea. Practicing anti-magic can offset the damage caused by the fire magic element in my body. Given that I have a talent for magic perception, Old Kuru's seemingly impossible proposal has become feasible.

She always secretly taught me magic at night. She told me that the first class for new magicians in human magic schools is to teach them how to meditate, and then a full half semester of meditation classes and basic theoretical knowledge.

In the first half of the year after enrollment, magic freshmen cannot be exposed to any spell skills. For a wild person like me, without awakening the magic pool, I don’t even know how to meditate, and I have to learn to use magic skills. It is indeed a bit like a blind man touching an elephant.

Meditation is a discipline that originated from the elves, but it has been developed by humans. Meditation is the most basic discipline that allows magicians to feel magic elements more delicately, train magic perception and mental power, and accumulate and expand the magic pool.

I couldn't learn meditation, but Sister Guoguo told me her experience. She asked me to try not to think about it, not to control it with my heart, but to slowly feel the fire magic power accumulated in my body and savor the movement trajectory of those magic powers.

I originally thought that all the fire magic power in my body was contained in my flesh and blood and was motionless.

Later I found that these magic elements in my body were more like star maps or nebulae. Their movement trajectories did not look very obvious and were very slow, but all the magic power was moving around a specific trajectory. Sister Guoguo once said that she was curious about what kind of achievements I would have if I could become a magician. I smiled and said that I only had a one in a thousand chance, how could I be so lucky.

Sister Guoguo said that after having magic perception, the chance of awakening can be increased to one percent, I think it's better than nothing.

The first time stable magic energy appeared on my fingertips, it was when I was in a state of emptiness. At that time, I felt that I had forgotten about condensing magic power. I just felt the magic energy burning on my fingertips. The whole finger was like a candle, very bright. Sister Guoguo said that ordinary people can never see the light ball on my fingertips, unless they are also magicians.

Trying to draw a magic circle with such a magic pen is like another mountain pressing down on me.

Because the magic power in my body is evenly distributed throughout my body, I can only mobilize the magic power nearby, and I can't control the magic power that is a little further away.

Guoguo said that for things like drawing magic circles, you only need to practice more and think more, and then it will come naturally.

During the day, I would follow Uncle Fred. Whenever someone asked him to make leather, I would carry his knife and wallet like a little follower. Unfortunately, there was no such good thing as going out hunting. The people in the caravan were busy making final preparations for entering the plateau. Various blankets and leather tents for heating began to be repaired. Uncle Fred was carefully repairing the damaged leather saddle cover all day and night. I, a young apprentice, could occasionally do some rough work, but unfortunately I couldn't get paid.

There are only three kinds of coins in the empire, thumb-sized copper coins. One hundred copper coins can be exchanged for one silver coin. The silver coin is slightly larger than the copper coin. One hundred silver coins can be exchanged for one Green Empire gold coin.

I have only seen Green Empire gold coins once at Master Pailes's place. The main coins in circulation are usually silver coins. I watched Uncle Fred shaking two silver coins and putting them in his pocket.

I prayed in my heart: God, let one fall out, let one fall out quickly!

The caravan began to collect a large amount of meat, cook and dry it. It is said that after entering the winding mountain road of Pai Plateau, sometimes you may not have a hot meal for several days.

On the mountain road that stretches for hundreds of miles, there is almost nothing to find except ice chips and gravel. Bring enough fried rice, cooked meat, and some burnable fuel, dry wood, and dry cow dung, which will be neatly stacked in bags. Looking at the dozens of small mountains of supplies in the camp, I am quite worried about the thunder rhinos who are having fun in the Star Lake.

Old Kuru began to go out to collect herbs all day long. He even refused to bring Kuz. When he came back before sunset, he couldn't see what was added to the medicine basket. He always said, "What are you lying about? That's my way home."

After a long, deep cry, a thunder rhino suddenly jumped out of the water from the lake beside me. Its short, thick tail rolled up huge waves, pushing its nearly ten-meter-long body out of the water.

The lake water flowed down the gaps in its thick leather armor, like a waterfall in front of me. Its thick limbs were funny and close together along its body. I never thought that the thunder rhino was actually a good swimmer.

"Plop!"

The sound was like thunder in the rain. When the thunder rhino plunged into the water again, the waves it raised were like a downpour, soaking me sitting on the lake ice next to it.

Fortunately, the volume of the floating ice I was on was much larger than I imagined. Although I could only see that the part floating on the water was only a few meters square, the weight of the entire floating ice was definitely more than a hundred tons.

The huge waves hit by the thunder rhino's short tail did not affect me at all, but the waves behind the water pushed the floating ice out several meters away.

The next second, Kuz emerged from the water with a spearhead made of a magic antelope horn. His upper body was lying on the floating ice at my feet. He was only wearing a leather jacket, but he was not afraid of the cold. He shook the two-foot-long herring on the harpoon and said to me, "Jia, grill the fish tonight!"

After the adventure group hunted, the leather workers all received a small amount of silver coins. In fact, I also wanted a few silver coins. As the saying goes, if you have money in your pocket, you will not be in a hurry. I didn't get what I wanted.

Kuz and I each received only a not-so-long magic antelope horn as a reward. Kuz liked the magic antelope horn that could almost pierce the iron shield, so he made a harpoon for himself. We exchanged the pole with two secret smoked rabbits from Uncle An. Originally, this long pole was a whip pole for driving the thunder rhino, but it was accidentally broken by the driver, so the long pole of purple vine wood had no value. After we heard about it, we acted decisively and exchanged it for the smoked rabbit.

Kuz polished the magic antelope horn very sharp. A hole was made at the end of the horn, and one end of the wooden pole was cut slightly thinner and smashed directly into the hole at the end of the horn. Two long nails were chiseled into the antelope horn to firmly fix the wooden pole. The harpoon was initially made.

I left my antelope horn only as long as my palm and ground it into a sharp awl. I usually put it in a leather case and hang it close to my body.

The short awl made of antelope horn was polished very sharp. I could easily pierce the rawhide tent without even trying hard.

Okay. Actually, I just wanted to modify my fur coat. I was not used to the fact that the fur coat needed something like a rope to tie it tightly. This made me look like a shepherd, so rustic.

I just wanted to make a few wolf bone buttons. I had already found the materials, but I just couldn't find the tools to make holes in them. It wasn't until I had my own sheep horn awl that I was able to make those bone buttons. I tied them to one side of the coat's lapel with a tough cow tendon rope, and poked a row of holes in the other side of the lapel with a sheep horn awl. In this way, a rough leather coat with a slightly exotic style was formed. In fact, I also wanted to sew a few pockets on the leather coat, but I couldn't find the right leather.

I took a pair of leather pants I had worn before, and used the two tools I had, the leather knife and the sheep horn awl, to transform them into more fitting and durable trousers.

It can be said that the aesthetics of orcs are very different from mine. They think that comfort, convenience, and durability are enough, but I want to match the leggings with a calfskin belt. I have already prepared the belt buckle. I asked the blacksmith in the caravan to make it last night. After watching him roast an iron bar on the campfire, he took out a small hammer and made a beautiful belt buckle for me according to my instructions.

The blacksmith was very proud to see my admiring eyes.

I always think of ways to make myself more comfortable when I am free, just like thinking of ways to distribute food. Now that I have learned some superficial leathermaking techniques from Uncle Fred, I immediately modified the leather clothes on my body according to my own ideas.

Kuz was extremely disdainful of my show-off. When he saw me wearing the tight trousers that made my legs look slimmer, he said that these trousers were not suitable for running and would bring some resistance during running. But he liked my belt very much. He saw me insert one end of the belt into the belt buckle and tighten the trousers with just a slight pull, and told me that it was magical.

No one in the caravan used belt buckles except me. They were more accustomed to using straps or ropes.

However, two or three days after I made the belt buckle, the blacksmith suddenly received a series of requests. Some people followed suit and asked him to help make more belt buckles. The initiator of the matter was Uncle Fred. Under my protest, he used a piece of magic antelope skin scraps to make himself a beautiful belt. Then the whole caravan was boiling, and the belt buckle trend became more and more intense.

Later, even Sister Guoguo came to me privately. I immediately drew several other decorative styles of belt buckles on parchment, which Guoguo took back to the camp as if they were treasures. She came back to remind me not to leak the styles of these belt buckles, and promised me that when the caravan reached its destination, she could even open a small shop specializing in belts in Biel City. She said to me happily: The shop will definitely be very popular, and then it will be considered as a joint venture between the two of us.

The caravan has been hoarding supplies these days, preparing to climb the mountains on the northern foot of the Pai Plateau and enter the Pai Plateau along the Salt and Iron Plank Road.