My Magic Age

The broken mountain range floating in the void is divided into nine sections, but they are connected by the giant roots of the World Tree on the main peak of the mountain. The floating mountain where I am is in the middle section, floating in the turbulence of time and space. It is seven or eight hundred miles long and one or two hundred miles wide, forming a small world of its own.

Meteors drift quietly from the void from time to time. Some fast meteorites will bring a fiery red tail, instantly lighting up the sky.

The huge valley is covered by the atmosphere like a silkworm pupa, but the air here is very thin, just like standing on the Pai Plateau, there is always a little panting when breathing.

There are no four seasons and day and night here. It is warm like spring all year round. Although it rarely rains, the land is not dry, and the flowers, plants and trees grow lushly.

Looking around, there are whole groups of argali and wild donkeys running in the endless meadows. The roar of tigers can be heard from time to time in the dense forests. From time to time, you can also see the traces of wild boars and wild bears in the dense forests. This section of the floating mountain has a very complete food chain. I also know that the most powerful monsters here are saber-toothed tigers in the forest. As long as you take precautions in advance, these jungle kings will hardly hurt people.

Our group of five people came out of the cave of the giant tree and looked up to see the orc village built by the stream not far away. The clear stream meanders through the middle of the village. Several simple wooden houses in the style of orc tribes are surrounded together. The smoke rising from the open space in the center is curling and floating straight up to the sky.

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I remember that when I came here last time, this small beast village was just in its infancy. Now, the simple wooden houses have been basically built. Several beast children were playing happily by the stream. Two older children were standing in the shallow stream, holding bamboo baskets in their hands, looking like they were fishing. Beast girl Kalancuo's daughter Ella was also among them. She looked wet all over. She stood by the stream with a row of neat little white teeth showing and kept laughing.

A group of beast girls stored up a hill of reeds in the village's threshing ground. These reeds will be woven into straw mats after drying. Several young beast girls were bare-chested, revealing their healthy wheat-colored skin. Their faces were ruddy and shiny at this time. Watching their flexible hands flying up and down, the fine reed mats were woven into shape in their hands bit by bit.

A little further away, there were rows of wooden racks with some of the lowest-level magic herbs drying on them. Kalancuo and another beast girl were hanging some new magic herbs on the wooden racks. The big braid behind her head swung up and down as she bent down from time to time to pick up bundles of herbs.

Several older orcs squatted at the entrance of the village and basked in the sun leisurely. They placed the magic herbs they had just collected next to them. They chatted leisurely while identifying whether these herbs were mixed with other weeds. After all, the old orcs had more experience in survival.

There were no traces of young orcs in the village. It seemed that those orcs should have gone out hunting. Xinliu Valley was not short of food, but the goblins in the underground caves were struggling on the edge of life and death. They were very short of food, and they dared not get out of the caves to avoid being punished by God. The newly arrived orcs had established some connections with the goblins. The orcs used some food in exchange for the mineral deposits controlled by the goblins.

The little beast girl Ella was the first to discover our group. The tall figure of the tauren Luka was particularly conspicuous in the crowd. The group of orc children ran towards us happily. The reason why they were so eager was mainly because Luka would bring a few pieces of maltose every time he came, but the quantity was always not enough. The orc child who ran at the back last time did not get the delicious candy, which made his eyes red.

Seeing the thriving scene in front of him, Ying Li turned around and said to me happily: "They seem to be very adapted to life here!"

She knew that I brought the orcs who lived in poverty in the civilian area of ​​​​El City into Xinliu Valley. Seeing that the Xinliu Valley, which seemed a little desolate, was well managed by this group of orcs, I knew that I had rashly taken the right path to bring these abandoned orcs to Xinliu Valley, and now I have begun to make some profits. Seeing those magic herbs and metal ores that have been processed in the early stage, these are the supplies prepared by the orcs for me, and I need to take them back to El City.

"These orcs have the most tenacious vitality. They are like the most common alfalfa in the wilderness. As long as they are given a little living space and rain, they can grow very luxuriantly!" I said to Ying Li.

The tauren Luka ran forward a few steps and picked up Ella with one hand. He put Ella on his shoulder with a simple and honest smile. Ella's crisp laughter like a silver bell came from all over the field. The orc children left behind looked at Ella enviously, and danced happily on the plateau around Luka.

The old orc Zewang came over from afar, saluted me deeply, and said seriously: "Welcome back, my master!"

"Although you are my followers, I would rather you call me by my name, call me Jijia!" I did not stop and continued to walk towards the orc village by the stream. The orc women who were busy working also came out together, standing neatly outside the village with happiness on their faces.

"Where are the orcs in the village?" It was only then that I realized that there was not even a single strong orc in the entire orc village. There were only a group of women, children and the elderly left.

"I have been with Miss Su to the depths of the valley to look for the world branch for a long time..." Beastwoman Kalancuo answered beside me. In name, she is still my slave girl. To the beastmen here, she is my spokesperson here. Not only does she think so, but everyone in the village thinks so.

The only bad thing here is that there is no distinction between day and night. If there is no hourglass to measure time, you can't remember how long it has been.

"After Sister Su left, Ella was hungry about thirty-two times!" Little Ella sat on Luka's shoulder and added to me. Obviously, she disdained her mother's vague concept of time, but she couldn't describe time, so she had to use eating as a node of time.

I calculated carefully, and the beastmen almost continued the two-meal system. The thirty-two times mentioned by little Ella was exactly sixteen days.

It seems that Su should have returned to the orc tribe the day after I left last time, but she did not stay in the tribe. She set off again with all the men in the tribe. She had previously told me in a few words that she would do the last thing for me in Xinliu Valley, and then return to El City before her body was completely demonized. She wanted to spend a few quiet days under the lemon tree in her backyard.

But this time, Kalancuo should have known something. I heard some ancient elven words "World Tree... Branches" in her words. It seems that after Su came back, she must have had some detailed explanations with the orcs. I looked up and asked Kalancuo beside me: "What did Su say to you when she came back? Do you know where she took the orcs? Did she bring the "Shadow Body" potion?"

Helena and Becky were full of hostility towards Kalancuo. They were not friendly to this beastly female warrior with a very tasteful appearance, especially when they saw her wearing extremely simple orc leather armor and whispered a sentence in elven language.

In the past six months, I have learned a lot of ancient elven phrases, so I can understand that Helena said "cow", probably mocking Kalancuo.

"Miss Su came back just to find some helpers to hunt a guardian beast in a deep valley. It is said that the guardian beast is the branch of the world tree that guards this valley. I don't know the exact location, probably only Miss Su's pet can find it. She took away all the "Shadow Body" potions!" Kalancuo said to me.

Ying Li stood aside and repeated in surprise: "World Tree... Branch... World Tree..."

I know that Ying Li's knowledge of magic is far more than mine. She usually has almost no hobbies, but she likes to soak in the library and read those magic books.

At this time, she was chanting repeatedly in ancient elven language, as if she remembered something, and raised her head and said to me: "I remembered that I saw such an introduction in a book about "Journey to the Planes". The magician predicted: Every small plane has an independent world system. Generally speaking, any plane is supported by the world stone or the world tree, the origin water or the earth's core fire. Then the broken plane smaller than the small plane also has the origin power to support this small world, and the world tree branches mentioned by Su should be the origin power supporting the world of Xinliu Valley."

"Original power?" I repeated.

"It should be right!" Ying Li's eyes lit up, looking at the huge roots outside the floating mountain. It was those thick tree roots that closely connected the nine floating mountains. She pointed to the giant tree roots in the void and continued: "Those should be the roots of the world tree!"

"World tree?" I know very little about the knowledge of the world tree. Old Kuru rarely talks about elves. Orcs and elves are born enemies.

I only know that the World Tree is the origin of the elves' lives, and where there is a World Tree, there is the civilization of the elves.

Ying Li said that those huge dead tree roots in the void outside Xinliu Valley are actually the roots of the World Tree, but I didn't see any elves here in Xinliu Valley!

"This should be a dead World Tree. It should be because this World Tree died unexpectedly that the complete Xinliu Valley world slowly collapsed. The original Xinliu Valley should be at least hundreds of times larger than it is now. Unfortunately, it finally fell apart and broke into countless broken meteorite fragments and returned to the void. The nine sections of floating mountains we see now are just a few large pieces of land closest to the main roots of the World Tree, which are tightly entangled by the dead World Tree roots, and finally formed this small half plane." Ying Li speculated on the origin of the entire Xinliu Valley, but I think what she said is still very well-founded.

"As for the signs of life in these floating mountains, it is actually because this dead world tree still has some branches alive. These branches of the tree of life are the source of life for the entire Xinliu Valley." Ying Li made the final inference and said to me: "Su should have gone to find the branches of the world tree here!"

"Why is she looking for the branches of the world tree?" I asked in a strange way.

"Because mastering the source of power here is equivalent to mastering the rules of this world. For example, the most basic restriction of this valley: restricting magic apprentices and warrior apprentices above level seven from entering this world. If the branches of the source of power world here are in your hands, you can try to change it..." Ying Li said to me seriously.

After hearing what Ying Li said, my heart suddenly started beating wildly. Yes, it was the joy of suddenly having great wealth. I clearly knew how much wealth Xinliu Valley would mean to me. Yes, there were natural magic herbs and magic minerals here. It was vast and rich. I pressed her shoulders with some excitement, looked into her eyes seriously and asked, "Do you mean that as long as you master the world branches here, you will master the entire Xinliu Valley?"

Ying Li nodded.

Suddenly, I felt that the whole world was spinning around me. The huge wealth contained in it was self-evident.

Yes, from the day I had the 'Time and Space Breaker' warhammer, I found that the 'Time and Space Breaker' had a deep connection with the altar on the ruins of the goblin civilization, which could create a time and space gate and freely shuttle between the main plane and the demiplane.

What I worry about most every day is that one morning when I wake up, I will find that I have become a seventh-level magic apprentice, and I can't walk into the time and space gate created by the time and space breaker. That is my biggest worry. If I really find the branch of the world tree in this valley as Ying Li said, changing the rules of this valley means that I will completely own this rich valley in the half plane.

"Do you know where Su and the others went?" I asked Kalancuo beside me.

She put two fingers into her mouth and whistled loudly, and the sharp whistle penetrated the sky.

"Roar~"

A tiger roar like thunder came over, startling a flock of flying birds in the dense forest in the distance. Those three-colored birds were like a dark cloud, flying away from the dense forest all over the sky. A few frightened wild deer ran out of the jungle and ran stupidly in the meadow.

A white light flashed through the forest and ran towards us like lightning. It turned out to be the white saber-toothed tiger next to Su. In just a few breaths, it ran in front of us at lightning speed and roared at us.

The orc children standing next to Luka were so scared that they sat on the grass...

The orc girls left behind in the tribe were also scared and pale. Only Ying Li and I were in a better situation. We killed more than a dozen saber-toothed tigers in the previous expedition in Xinliu Valley. At this time, we no longer feared saber-toothed tigers.

Kalancuo slowly approached the saber-toothed tiger and gently pressed his hand on its forehead...