Mysterious journey

After dinner, the master and apprentice left the small building, went out to the town, and came to a remote dark forest.

The surrounding woods were deserted and uninhabited, and only the strange sounds of animals flitting through the grass could be heard.

Aining was dressed in black, holding a short cane in his hand, tapping it lightly on the ground.

A circle of silver ripples spread out from the end of the hand stick, instantly crossing the soles of Garen's feet, spreading in all directions, and soon disappeared into the distant woods.

It wasn't until the ripples dissipated that Aining raised his cane, turned it slightly, and a silver inscription suddenly appeared on the cane. It looks extremely clear at night.

"The test can begin now." Aining whispered, "I have arranged isolation spells around me so that mortals cannot see here. Although your fluorescent butterfly totem is only an auxiliary totem, it can be replaced at any time in the future. But it is also your The first totem has a certain special meaning. It can show you some unique characteristics of the totem. Are you ready?"

Garen stood opposite him, dressed in gray and black, nodding solemnly. He held a large bottle in his hand, and curled up inside was his first totem, the fluorescent butterfly.

"I can feel that the totem is like an extra organ, an arm, very flexible and convenient for me. I can choose to control it, or I can choose to give him a simple command and let him complete it by himself. This feeling is amazing." he whispered. Also open the cap of the bottle.

Whoosh!

The blue shadow flashed, and the fluorescent butterfly instantly jumped out of the bottle and slowly landed on Garon's shoulder. Like a huge blue shawl, it glows with light blue fluorescence at night.

Aining paused, and a white lynx slowly walked out from behind.

It was one and a half meters long, like a slightly smaller leopard. It walked silently, with its shoulders raised from side to side, and it licked its lips greedily from time to time. At night, its eyes glowed with a faint green light.

Enin reached out and rubbed the bobcat's head.

"This is my auxiliary totem, Bobcat." He smiled, "As long as you can support it, you can make as many auxiliary totems as you want. Anyway, it is your own talent that supports it. Generally, a silver lantern master can only support one Two. A stronger four or five. Because the auxiliary totem has a simple structure and is easy to make, it is generally used as a consumable tool."

He glanced at the blue butterfly on Garon's shoulder.

"If it's your kind, it should be a little more."

Garen nodded and said calmly.

"I can feel that my spirit can support a few more, probably about two."

"That is to say, you can still have two auxiliary totems. If you add the core totems, there are four totems. This is the limit of your talent." Aining nodded. "Okay, let's get started. Let's see how your fluorescent butterfly performs in practice?"

"good."

The two of them stopped talking. At the same time, he stepped back a few steps and gave up the space to the two totems.

Meow! !

The white lynx hunched up and let out a sound between a cat and a leopard. Its green eyes stared at the fluorescent butterfly flying opposite.

The lynx began to circle slowly around the fluorescent butterfly.

The fluorescent butterfly flapped its wings and flew higher and higher, seemingly not intending to confront the bobcat head-on.

Suddenly, the fluorescent butterfly pulled up, and with a meow, a white shadow rose into the sky, passed through its previous position, and flew into the air.

The fluorescent butterfly immediately flew up in a curve, swaying left and right.

laugh!

It escaped another attack from a white shadow and landed calmly on a tree branch.

The white lynx pounced twice, seemingly a little annoyed instinctively. It paced and circled under the tree where the fluorescent butterflies were parked, making low purring sounds from time to time.

Suddenly, its eyes sharpened, it grabbed its limbs on the tree trunk, and used its strength to rush up the tree.

Even the bark of the green tree trunk was scratched to pieces, and the neat and flat trunk had four white marks constantly appearing under its claws. The bobcat pounces on the fluorescent butterfly at lightning speed.

Click!

The branch broke, and the fluorescent butterfly flew up, flying high, but as soon as Bai Ying followed it and jumped up, held it down with one claw, and fell lightly to the ground.

But just after the bobcat took a few steps, it staggered and fell to the ground with a fluorescent butterfly in its mouth.

"It's over." Ening clapped his hands and walked over. "It's a draw. The bobcat can bite the fluorescent butterfly with just one force. However, it was also infected with poisonous powder during several attacks. Its internal system was damaged and it could no longer move."

"So I made a good choice?" Garen also came over and asked.

"To be precise, you did a good job. A real fluorescent butterfly cannot avoid the bobcat attack so easily. It has already won the first kill." Aining shook his head and smiled. "However, the fluorescent butterfly's main ability, poison powder, is for self-protection. It has a good flying speed and can fly in the rain. It still has a good detection effect in complex terrain. But its concealment is a bit poor."

"Indeed." Garen nodded in agreement, "It emits blue fluorescence at night, which is indeed not concealable enough."

"This is just your first totem. You can choose to change it in the future. There is no rush." ​​Aining waved his hand, "There is another key thing, about the totem."

He raised his hand and pointed it slightly in front of Garen.

The tip of the sword slammed against Garen's calf.

"Huh?" Garen showed a strange expression. "This is."

He felt that the tip of the stick did not touch the skin of his calf, but seemed to be blocked by something.

He looked carefully at the tip of the sword. There was a layer of transparent light blue film between there and the pants.

"This is the light of the totem." Ening took back his cane. "It is a protective force field that feeds back to the owner after the totem is formed. It covers and surrounds the owner's whole body without any blind spots."

"Is this the light of the totem?" Garen stretched out his hand and saw the extremely thin layer of light blue light film extending as he stretched out his hand, like a deformable water film, which was very strange. "How protective is it?"

"It's usually more than twice the size of the totem itself." Aining smiled, "Do you know how this came about?"

Garen shook his head and waited intently for the teacher's answer.

"A silver lantern master has many totems, and each totem will give the owner a protective force field. The superposition of such force fields is definitely much stronger than the force field of a single totem. Moreover, the protective nature of the totem's light itself is It's stronger than the totem itself." Ainning paused, "This is why battles between silver lantern masters are all conducted with totems and generally do not attack the owner first."

Garen understood.

"Indeed, in this case, the Silver Lantern Master is actually much more protective than the totem. The most important thing is to deal with the totem first."

"That's it." Aining raised his hand and the white lynx on the ground suddenly turned into a white light and flew back behind him.

The fluorescent butterfly also flew up again, falling into the big bottle in Garen's hand, and he stuffed it in and closed it.

After watching him put it away, Aining looked up at the night.

"It's still early, let's walk back and talk while walking."

"Okay, teacher." Garen nodded.

The two of them walked slowly towards the town along the return route.

Aining leaned on his cane and watched Garen carefully walk ahead to explore the path to prevent him from stepping into puddles and deep pits. A relieved smile suddenly appeared.

"Gallen, the ability of the totem itself will not harm the owner. You have to remember. In addition, almost the vast majority of silver lantern masters have auxiliary totems that are no different from real creatures. There is no difference in strength. Any enhancement. As you see the morphological species."

"A lynx is a lynx, and a fluorescent butterfly is a fluorescent butterfly? They are just like the original creatures. The auxiliary totems rarely have enhanced ones, right?" Garen understood.

"That's right. But the core totem is different." Aining sighed, "For example, my core totem is the white bear. In addition to the super strength of the white bear itself, it also has thicker fur than the average white bear, which can withstand super strength. sharp object injury."

"Teacher, your white bear shouldn't be an ordinary bear, right?" Garen asked in a low voice.

"Of course." Aining nodded, "My lineage specializes in three animals: the giant white bear, the black cheetah, and the fanged tiger. The giant white bear is indeed not an ordinary bear, but a large white bear originating from the bitter cold regions of the north. It’s the dominant animal there.”

Garen nodded in understanding.

Aining continued: "This kind of super-strong fur has been continuously strengthened by us from generation to generation. It is much stronger in defense than ordinary giant white bears. When ordinary bears deal with it, there will be no accidents and they will be completely defeated. So in the future, you If you want to choose a core totem, it is best to choose a core totem that you have accumulated, so that you can go further based on the previous ones. Rather than starting from scratch again."

He sighed: "You have to understand that in the world of silver lantern masters, without strength, even self-protection is a problem."

Garen nodded silently. He suddenly remembered the large number of silver lantern masters who died in subsequent wars.

In two consecutive catastrophes, the first war broke out between the Royal Alliance and the Black Sky Society, and hundreds of silver lantern masters died.

The second war broke out between the Black Sky Society and the Earth Flower Society, and thousands of silver lantern masters died.

In the end, the remaining silver lantern masters were less than one-third of a thousand in the world. A large amount of knowledge has been lost because there is no record. In the era of the Silver Lantern Master, except for some of the most peak knowledge, it will eventually become a situation where only a few lines of knowledge are passed down.

And Aining was also affected and died in the first war.

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. When you go back, start learning the three basic techniques from me." Aining smiled, "These three basic techniques are actually very simple. The difficulty is here." He pointed Point to your own head.

"Is it the accumulation of knowledge?"

"Yes. A silver lantern master with insufficient knowledge cannot analyze even the weakest bugs. A silver lantern master with sufficient knowledge cannot analyze almost any creature." Aining replied with a smile. "I will hand over the three basic techniques to you. Then you can enter my underground library and study on your own. During this period, if you are willing, I will teach you the knowledge I have about giant white bears."

Aining looked at Garen. Originally, he just planned to lead the little guy to get started. But when he saw his master-level precision drawing, the balance in his heart suddenly fell on this guy.