My Magic Age

The morning in the Black Forest was full of steam. Starting from the lake at the source of the valley, our team had been walking in the jungle for ten consecutive days. In this dangerous jungle, the most terrifying thing was not the threat of those high-level monsters to us, nor the spears of those spider warriors who fled and walked in the jungle, but the primitive ecological environment of this Black Forest.

The giant python with the same color as the bark coiled on the ancient vine, motionless, like the stem of a parasitic plant. When you walk past it, it will spit out the scarlet snake tongue and open its cold eyes. Their fangs often have paralytic neurotoxins. If they are on people, if there is no antidote, it may directly kill people.

There is also a kind of poisonous ant. These groups of poisonous ants have a hard shell and can secrete a corrosive acid in their mouths. The most terrifying thing is that the poisonous ants in western Zhejiang have the ability to fly. Each one is almost as big as a locust. They are overwhelming in the jungle, like a group of black clouds. Although this kind of poisonous ant is afraid of fire magic, the number of colonies is huge, and it is difficult to get rid of it once it is targeted.

Fortunately, there is a lizard maid in our team who has rich experience in jungle life. She can easily see through the various camouflages in the jungle, and can also identify poisonous grasses. She is proficient in elementary herbal medicine and can skillfully help Qige to handle various herbs.

However, she also has some shortcomings. She is not good at cooking.

In Takama's eyes, walking in the jungle, all food can be grilled, and her recipe is very simple. Any edible thing, roasted on the fire, is delicious to her, and she has a good appetite and dares to eat anything.

Qige is also helpless about this.

In our team, not only Qige is picky about food, but Lucia, as a half-elf, is also very demanding about food. She has a degree of paranoia about things. Elves like to eat fruits and fish. Fruits are easier to find. How can we find some delicious fruits in such a large forest? But we haven't caught any fish for several days since we left the valley. Recently, Lucia has been eating fruits and wheat cakes to fill her stomach. She has not supplemented enough protein. Her physical strength has declined rapidly. I must find a way to get some fish back, otherwise, this journey of experience may drag her body down.

Hiram and Jonathan are also from noble families. They have never suffered and are not very accustomed to the diet of travelers. I heard that some noble circles in the imperial capital are popular with spider leg meat, so when I hunted a giant spider the day before yesterday, I roasted a few spider legs. I didn't expect that these two people were so disgusted that they didn't even eat dinner.

As for the few portions of "secret roasted spider legs", the lizard maid Takama ate them with relish.

Those giant spiders escaped from the spider camp and scattered in the forest. They lurked in the treetops and secretly foraged for some birds and small animals in the forest.

After getting familiar with the temperament and characteristics of the giant spiders, we began to use the giant spiders to hone the combat skills of the team members. Now, the members of the team are all members of the Sword and Rose Society. Lucia decided that the first training task of the team in the jungle is to try to fight the giant spiders in close combat.

When she made this proposal, Hiram and Jonathan's faces turned green, but these two seniors with aristocratic pride happened to be the veterans of the Sword and Rose Society. When they were in the Royal Magic Academy, they joined the Sword and Rose Society in order to get close to Lucia. Now, it is also to pursue Lucia that I have tried every means to come to the Yello plane and be in the same plane with Lucia.

As for the suggestion made by Lucia, it is also reasonable.

The purpose of our club is to let magicians have some basic martial arts, so that when the warriors rush to us, at least we can draw out the long sword to block their weapons.

So the two of them could only bite the bullet and raise their hands to say they agreed, but in their hearts they still hoped that Qige and I would raise some objections.

After all, Qige is a teacher who traveled with the group. The main purpose of coming to the Yelo plane is to collect rare magic herbs in this black forest and find new species of magic plants. Qige has the responsibility to supervise the safety of the team. But obviously they don’t understand Qige. Qige has a strong spirit of adventure in her bones and likes to face all kinds of new challenges. It is impossible for her to stop Lucia’s proposal.

As for me, I even raised my hands to agree with Lucia’s decision, because I need... those spiders.

…

In a clearing in the woods, several of us stood in front of a giant spider with all its legs cut off, watching it lying on the ground with its back facing the sky and shivering.

Jonathan kicked the giant spider hard, rubbed his muddy leather boots on the soft skin of the giant spider's abdomen, and spit roughly on the giant spider's body.

Just now, when he was fighting with the giant spider in close combat, he was almost injured by the giant spider, so he looked angry.

Hiram on the side quickly reached out and grabbed Jonathan, preventing him from continuing to abuse the giant spider, and then said to me: "Giga, aren't we a little too cruel? It would be better to kill the big guy directly. Why do we have to cut off all its legs and let it fend for itself in the forest? I guess it will be eaten by other beasts in the forest, or starved to death. This goes against our chivalry!"

Hiram is a nobleman, and he has the virtues of a gentleman in his bones.

If it hadn't been for my ice shield just now, Josena might have been slightly injured. However, his arrogant and frivolous temper should really be changed, otherwise, he would definitely suffer a big loss from it.

Josenna didn't want to kill the giant spider so easily. He wanted the giant spider to pay more.

So he immediately retorted to his friend: "Hey, Hiram, we are magicians, don't use the knight's code of conduct to restrain us, okay?"

What Josenna meant was very explicit: We are not knights and we do not have to abide by knightly morals.

Hiram shrugged his shoulders, exhaled slightly and said, "Anyway, I don't think it's a good idea to do this! I stick to my opinion."

I squatted in front of the giant spider, the kukri knife in my hand swaying in front of its eyes, and its eyes followed the kukri knife constantly turning left and right in fear.

I pondered for a moment, and then said calmly: "My approach must be very cruel to the giant spiders, but it is a help to the original people in the Black Forest. These giant spiders are very helpful to the carnivorous people in the Black Forest." For animals, they are very strange existences. They came to the abyss. They have almost no natural enemies in the Black Forest. Their arrival will inevitably cause certain damage to the original ecological environment of the Hierro plane. What we need to do is to clean up those giant spiders as much as possible. , obviously, with our current capabilities, we simply can’t do it.”

This is a crisis in the black forest of the Hierro plane. If it is not handled well, it will really be like what I said. In a few years, this place will become a lifeless devil's forest.

I continued: "However, we can help the original animals in the black forest and become familiar with these big guys. For example, we can cut off their legs and wait for the carnivores in the jungle to eat them. This is a process from scratch. If these guys have no natural enemies in the black forest, then it won’t be long before these spiders take over the dominant position in this forest.”

I paused, looked over everyone's faces, and said, "No one wants to see that happen, do they?"

Hiram's momentum weakened and he whispered: "Of course, Jijia, what you said...is correct!"

I successfully convinced Hiram. This guy has been struggling lately. After subduing the giant spiders, I always don't kill them directly. Instead, I just cut off the spider legs and then ignore the giant spiders. Letting them fend for themselves, Hiram thought, was un-chivalrous.

I naturally have my reasons for doing this.

In fact, what I really want to do is: I want to transport these giant spiders without the ability to resist back to the underground warehouse in Xinliu Valley. Every giant spider is a very valuable asset to me. They are like a textile machine. A machine that can spit out tough spider silk to make tough spider silk magic pattern cloth.

Therefore, every time after subduing a giant spider, I would use an ax to cut off all the legs of the giant spider, and then persuade them not to kill the spider and leave them in the black forest, Lucia and Josenna I don’t have any special opinions on this, but Hiram is a very stubborn person. He thinks that what I do is a bit too cruel, and always wants to persuade me to directly end the lives of those spiders after defeating them.

Fortunately, I convinced him.

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At noon, our team usually hides in a cool place and takes a short lunch break.

The hot and humid environment in the Black Forest will make us sweat a lot. Wet clothes are difficult to deal with in the hot and humid jungle. The only way is to dry them with the help of a campfire.

During the hottest part of the day, we chose to rest. At this time, the lizard maid Takama was in charge of guarding. In addition to the necessary rotation of guarding at night, Takama was in our team and took almost all the guarding duties. Task.

As usual, I left the camp during my lunch break and walked into the forest. Takama was used to me sneaking out during this time. She was sitting on the trunk of a big tree. When I looked at her, She just nodded slightly to me and then turned her attention to other places.

I returned along the original path and found the giant spider. I have been doing this in the past few days. Then I opened the portal and called out the Minotaur Luka. He would lead the orcs to kill the spider that had lost its ability to resist. The big spider was dragged back to the underground warehouse.

Today I did not return to camp as quickly as usual.

Instead, he followed Luka into the underground warehouse.

I saw the dwarf Bernd taking some orcs to build a new stable deep in the cave.

These animal pens are made of thigh-thick square oak wood, nailed into very regular cages. Each giant spider is put into the cage, just enough to fill the square animal cage. This dwarf is proficient in forging, although he does not know how to forge. , but he is still very good at making some ordinary utensils. The most important thing is that the young orc warriors respect him.

When he saw me, he quickly stood up and hurried towards me. It seemed that he wanted to see me for something.

I stopped and saw Bernd walking over with his two short legs buried in his legs, standing in front of me, and said to me: "Hi, Jijia, I just have something to discuss with you!"

"I can't stay too long. I just came over to see what's going on here. Why don't we talk while walking!" I said to Bernd.

"Okay! Then I'll make it short." He rubbed his hands, touched his big red nose, hesitated for a moment, and said to me: "Ji Jia, I want to borrow the drawings in your treasure chests."

I stared at Bernd, because I wanted to know the answer from him: why did he have this idea!

"When I was cleaning up those goblins recently, I seized a batch of drawings, and there were some drawings about architecture. I want to take them out for research!" Bernd looked at me nervously. His big nose was a little red, and it was obvious that there was a strong smell of alcohol in his mouth. This guy originally wanted to hold his breath and try not to let me find it, but at this time, he suddenly burped loudly.

"Hehe..."

The surroundings suddenly became very quiet, and the orcs who were chatting while nailing the wooden cages stopped talking.

The atmosphere became a little awkward.

"Okay, but you must make sure that you are clear-headed when you flip through those drawings. I don't want you to accidentally soak those precious drawings in the wine barrel!" I raised my head and glanced at Bernd lightly, saying.

Afterwards, I ignored the drunk Bernd and turned around to continue walking inside with Kalancuo.

I wanted to see how those giant spiders were doing in the underground cave.

A few days ago, Kalancuo had shown me a spindle of spider silk. The spider silk was thin and tough, and its fire resistance was much better than ordinary hemp, cotton, and silk. So, I was a little curious about how those rough-handed beast girls spun the threads, especially this precious magic pattern spider silk thread.

Kalancuo talked about some things that happened in the underground cave recently while walking. She told me that Bernd had hunted a lot of goblin slaves from the underground cave and wanted to renovate and expand the underground warehouse, including a wine cellar and warehouses with various functions. This matter was supported by her, so the food was consumed very quickly in recent times. It won’t be long before I will face the food problem again.

Kalancuo and Bernd have always opposed my blind construction of the mountain city outside the circular valley. They are more concerned about the expansion project of the underground warehouse.

Kalancuo said she was going to return to the orc village and gather people to transport some wood and copper ingots to the underground warehouse, and would also bring back a batch of meat products. It seemed that they wanted to expand this place into a stronghold, and they had already started the preliminary preparations. The goblin slaves they had captured had already started to dig some new storage rooms.

I guess the wood that will be transported in the near future is used to support the excavated caves. I found that this section of the tunnel, under Bernd's suggestion, built a supporting wooden frame every ten meters, which looked like a mine.

This dwarf Bernd really has a lot of experience in underground caves, but he just loves drinking too much.