My Magic Age

For a long time, Old Kuru explained to me that he was looking for a way to relieve the poverty of the orc tribe, and he was also learning business methods by following the human caravan. However, I always felt that it was a bit far-fetched. There must be part of this reason, but not all. As I flipped through the sheepskin books on herbalism that Old Kuru carried, I found that the magic herbs introduced in those books could not be found in books like the "Encyclopedia of Herbalism" on Qige's bookshelf. , and Qige’s elementary textbook at the Magic Academy only briefly introduced the functions and properties of various herbs, which was not as comprehensive as the parchment I saw, and there were also different opinions on various herbs. . For a magician like Qige who specializes in magic potions, her strongest point is definitely her knowledge of magic herbs. Most of her books are about herbalism.

But when I read it, I always felt that some of the statements in the book were very different from the parchment that Old Kuru gave me. That’s why I followed Kuz so firmly this time into the Northern Foothills Wilderness. I wanted to find Several elementary magic herbs were used to confirm that what was written in that book was correct.

"Kuz is the teacher's grandson, so it's not too much to take Azman around the world!" I tried to defend Kurz.

Qige looked very cute with her anger. She sat in the leather saddle next to Catalina and pointed at Kuz and said: "Ask your werewolf brother how many brothers and sisters he has. Your teacher Old Kuru How many grandchildren will there be?"

This is something I have never thought about. I have brought some memories from my previous life to this life, and I have never thought about what the families in the orc tribe would be like. I turned my gaze to Kuz. He scratched his hair in embarrassment, grinned and said, "My grandfather has twenty-three sons and eighteen daughters. My aunts have long since married into other tribes." , I don’t know how many children they gave birth to. I only know that before I went out to travel, My father, the eldest son of my grandfather, already has thirteen sons and four daughters. Actually... well, I can’t count how many grandchildren my grandfather has. I am very young. He was taken out to be raised alone, and there were many brothers and sisters that I had never even met.”

"So, you were brought out by the teacher to travel around the world because you also have... a rare blood talent?" I looked at Kuz in surprise.

Kurtz proudly showed me the strong muscles on his arms and said unabashedly: "Of course! When I was three years old, I was predicted by the tribe's divination priest Elder Kuranoman to have the power to survive. Instinct talent, after completing the first wilderness hunt when he was seven years old, he was taken out of the Gurudin tribe by his grandfather and lived in the wilderness. Later, I joined this business group in the Green Empire for no apparent reason. After traveling through most of the Green Empire, I crossed the New Siakis Mountains and arrived at the Dwarf Kingdom. Didn’t we just pick you up on the edge of the Burning Forest? Yes, you and we will climb over the New Siakis Mountains again, and we will soon reach my home."

"How come you never told me you had a survival instinct?" I asked.

"But Jia, you never asked me! In fact, Jia, let me tell you too! I can guarantee that I will take you out of this wasteland safely. Not only is this my home, but my talent can allow me to be in the most beautiful place." When you are in danger, I will take you to the safest place in the wilderness. There is nothing special about the talented knight I have. It is just that I can feel the breath of beasts in the wild. This is very important for hunters, but it is not. It’s not very powerful. The reason why this talent can be included The five legendary talents are because orcs with "survival instinct" will become very powerful hunter kings. Hunter kings! Hunter kings who can lead other orcs into the wilderness to organize hunting. Jia, you know how short of food we are now, every day If a tribal leader is a hunter king, he will lead his tribe to survive even in the most miserable environment. This is the strongest point of the hunter king." Kurtz turned his head away again and continued to drive Ya. Return to the beast and move forward.

"It turns out that you also have great talents!" I suddenly realized.

At this time, Kurtz was raising his head to carefully observe the starry sky above his head. He even used his fingers to make gestures between the night stars and his eyes, as if he was looking for a reference. I still don't understand how Kurtz determines our location. All I know is that he used the night sky as a reference to determine his approximate location in the wasteland. So I curiously asked again: "Using star map positioning, is this also a survival instinct talent?"

"That doesn't count. This is the secret of the Pai Plateau star map. Actually, it's not a secret. It's the star-gazing experience that we orcs have slowly accumulated over the hundreds of years of living on this plateau. If you want to learn, You have to watch the stars on the plateau for three years, and then I can teach you this skill, otherwise you won’t understand it even if I tell you now.” Kurtz continued to look at the starry sky above his head.

I never thought that the people in this small team were all from extraordinary backgrounds. For example, Qige is a fox girl with the royal blood of Etia and the blood of the Sky Fox Clan. The women of the Sky Fox Clan are born magicians. As long as they reach a certain age, they will automatically awaken. Qige told me this when she brought me back to the magic caravan. But I never thought that Az was also a child who was trained in the orc tribe. He has the talent of "survival instinct", which allows him to feel and predict danger in the wild, and also makes him a natural hunter. And I am also a child with the blood talent "Blue Flame" and the magic talent "Magic Perception". No matter which talent, it is an excellent talent plundering target for magicians. This reminds me of a cartoon I watched when I was a child, "Ginseng Doll". Now I am the ginseng doll that can be eaten to become immortal! For the beastmen, both Qige and Katarina are excellent inheritors of bloodline talent. The former has the noble bloodline of the Sky Fox Clan, and the latter shows the bloodline talent of "Killing Heart". Both of them are excellent bloodline inheritors. If the beastmen in the tribe consider their descendants more, they will take them back to their tribe at all costs and make them tools for reproduction. As long as there is an inheritor with such a strong bloodline in their small tribe in the next ten or twenty years, then in the next hundred years, he will lead the beastmen of the entire small tribe to gradually become stronger.

Qige and Katarina are very attractive to the beastmen. Even an honest child like Kuz becomes extremely hot after knowing the bloodline talents of the two women, let alone other people. I never thought that Katarina also has the "Killing Heart", but it is very pitiful and sealed. Although I can't figure out what the sealing of the "Killing Heart" has to do with my courage and bravery, I think it is more or less related!

The cool night breeze blew on everyone's face, making people more sober. At this moment before dawn, I thought that the road ahead might not be smooth, and I needed to cut through the thorns and move forward, but my heart was calm as if I was standing outside a painting and looking at the scenery in the painting. At this moment before dawn, several of us sat on the back of the Yagui beast. The bumpy road in the wilderness seemed to never end, but we seemed to be one step closer to our destination.

After Qi Ge took back the magic power, the magic pattern on the snow-white skin under Catalina's neck gradually faded and finally disappeared on the surface of the skin. Her eyes became unfocused, as if she was lost in deep memories. She told us some stories from her childhood:

Fragment 1:

"That little girl with red eyes is a bastard, and her mother is also a bastard. Let's go! We won't play with her. They are all slave girls, only fit to live in the woodshed and eat potatoes. Can you stand the fishy smell of potatoes?" The girl with golden hair stood on the corner of the street full of sewage, stopped a group of poor children in rags and said loudly.

The little girl with red eyes standing in the corner, holding a two-year-old boy in one hand, looked at the children in the slums going away with grievance, tears on her face full of grievance, and a pug also jumped out of the trash can nearby, looked at the group of children running away, turned around and barked at the little girl a few times, turned around and chased after the group of children. Originally, the group of children wanted to go to a small restaurant in the city to ask for some slop and leftovers to fill their stomachs, but no one was willing to take this lowly child born by a half-orc slave girl. Children born by slaves are born slaves.

The girl had to run home with her brother on an empty stomach, and said to the woman lying on the sickbed aggrievedly: "Mom, we are not slaves! I don't want to eat potatoes all day. Other children dislike me and don't want to play with me!"

The woman lying on the sickbed stared at the tattered straw mat wall with lifeless eyes. She didn't know if the next heavy rain would completely collapse this thatched house, but now this tattered thatched house could still shelter them from the wind and rain. She was once a beautiful dancer with the blood of the orc rabbit people. The trick of fate made her fall to this point. Her skinny cheeks looked extremely sallow, and her withered hair was like a pile of grass on her head. The pair of clear eyes that were once thin now stood out in her eye sockets, like the lowest skeleton of the undead. The wound on her waist was already oozing with foul-smelling pus. She knew she didn't have much time left, but when she saw her two children, her eyes were still filled with deep attachment. Ah! How much she didn't want to leave like this. How would the children live without me?

Looking at the two skinny children, the woman on the sickbed feebly moved the girl to her side, panting weakly and saying, "Remember what your mother said, Catalina! Never marry a soldier in the future, no matter how brave and fearless he is on the battlefield, no matter how superb and gorgeous his fighting skills are, I hope you can marry an ordinary person in the future, I hope you can live well with your brother, don't follow your mother's old path."

The red-eyed girl nodded as if she understood and agreed to the terminally ill woman on the bed, saying, "I swear! I will take good care of my brother!"

That year, Catalina was eight years old. When her mother was carrying stones in the mine, she was hit by a big rock rolling down from the mine and injured her waist. She eventually died of illness in a straw hut in the slum, leaving Catalina with only a broken straw hut with air leaking everywhere and a two-year-old brother who was crying for food. Survival is the most important thing for the two people at the moment.