my age of magic

Chapter 1371 175. Go Forward, Sick Forest

It had just rained in the dense forest, and the surrounding area of ​​the camp looked muddy.

There was a rotten smell in the air, and many dead trees in the forest were covered with a sticky moss in this hot and humid climate.

It was wet and slippery to walk on, and had a disgusting smell of wood pulp.

The tauren Luka nailed the list of merit rewards to the big tree at the gate of the barbarian slave camp, and then stood under the big tree to chat with Justus.

Not far outside the camp, several barbarian slaves were lying on a large wooden bed under a tree, raising their two big feet up high. Several natives supported the huge soles of the barbarian slaves and used a sharp The skinning knife was manicuring the feet of these barbarian slaves.

These barbarian slaves have lived in the Black Forest for a long time. Although they have obtained ointments to disperse mosquitoes and treat damp heat and poisonous miasma from the aborigines, they have stepped on the moisture-saturated leaf mulch for a long time with their big feet. Water will seep out of the footprints. The paws of barbarian slaves are covered with calluses. After long-term exposure to this humid environment, the calluses will be soaked. Recently, the paws of many barbarian slaves They all started to fester.

Although I asked the tauren Luka and Justus to strictly require these barbarian slaves to wear boots, the symptoms of the barbarian's rotten feet did not improve.

I even brought some slaked lime powder from the imperial capital, but unfortunately the climate here is too humid. The lime powder in the pockets is piled up in the camp, and it only takes two days to absorb enough moisture from the air and condense into a Large pieces of plaster came out.

This symptom of rotten feet once made the barbarian slaves miserable. The barbarian slaves had a good personal relationship with the natives of Gilda. By chance, the natives of the Gilda tribe learned that the slaves of the barbarians had been troubled by rotten feet. A small purple flower was collected in the forest. This purple stamen is not a magical herb. After being mashed, it was combined with plant ash. The natives then used a thin-skinned knife to cut off the festering places on the feet of the barbarian slaves and smeared them on it. This kind of medicinal paste, the rotten feet of the barbarian slaves actually improved.

In the camp, it is often possible to see scenes of indigenous people pedicuring the feet of barbarian slaves.

The aborigines made simple clogs out of planks and tree vines, and they gave the clogs to barbarian slaves. It is said that wearing these clogs when walking in the forest would prevent their feet from getting rotten.

Although this statement has not yet been verified, the camp has been filled with 'clicking' sounds.

The barbarian slaves gave some delicious spider leg meat as a gift. Later, the barbarian slaves discovered that these indigenous warriors didn't particularly like the grilled spider leg meat. Compared with them, the indigenous warriors preferred to eat baked wheat cakes and mushroom soup. The slaves saved the baked wheat cakes that were usually allocated to them and gave them to the natives of the Gilda tribe.

There were some basic exchanges between the barbarian slaves and the natives.

The barbarian slaves learned some of the simple needs of native warriors.

Compared with food, these indigenous warriors hope to obtain some standard weapons and armor made by the Grimm Empire, and the barbarian slaves who are good at fighting will occasionally teach the indigenous warriors some fighting skills in order to improve their combat effectiveness.

The native warriors also gradually understood that these barbarian slaves actually didn't like to lie down and sleep in the wet mud, but these barbarian slaves were not good at building tents, although the native soldiers couldn't provide a place for the [-] barbarian slaves in the camp. treehouses, but it is easy to build some simple large wooden beds out of branches in a glade.

When I returned to the plane of Hierro from the imperial capital this time, I found that the barbarian slaves and native warriors could live together in a camp very harmoniously. Even Justus was tsk tsk at this pure friendship that transcended races. Amazing.

As for the simple and honest tauren warriors, I didn't think there was anything wrong with it at all. According to Iluka, shouldn't it be like this?

I think the native warriors have the potential to serve as auxiliary soldiers, just like the knight followers of the Northern Wind Legion who constructed the knights. Now it seems that the barbarian slaves also need an auxiliary soldier to serve them.

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A team of constructed knights carried the repaired magic pattern structures back to the constructed knights' camp. When they passed by the gate of the barbarian camp, they happened to see a very eye-catching wooden board hanging on a big tree. They looked up curiously, and found that there were lines of messages on the wooden board that made people's blood boil.

Impressively written on the wooden board: merit exchange list.

The unidentified black magic crystal itself has certain merits. After a war is over, the nobles can use these merits to advance to the title, while the knights without noble status cannot be promoted to the title, but they can use these achievements to promote themselves to the barracks The middle ranks can also privately sell these unidentified black magic crystals to those low-ranking nobles who do not want to go to the battlefield to fight their lives, but want to squeeze into the upper class.

An unidentified black magic crystal was almost ten times as valuable as ordinary magic crystals at the beginning of the plane war.

But as plane wars continued to break out in various planes, some planes continued to win the war, and a large number of black magic crystals frantically poured into the imperial capital.

This not only led to a substantial depreciation of the black magic crystal, a piece of black magic crystal that can usually be exchanged for ten gold coins can only be exchanged for five gold coins after the depreciation.

The initial price of these unidentified black magic crystals with merits was also very expensive. At one point, one unidentified black magic crystal could be exchanged for ten magic crystals.

There are still a lot of noble sons holding a lot of gold coins in the hands of the Green Empire, and they don't care about using gold coins to buy themselves a beautiful title.

After the Prince of Wales fought on the Kempato River in the Warsaw plane, the value of the black magic crystals with merits depreciated. At that time, one black magic crystal could be exchanged for at least seven magic spar stones. The connection channel between the plane and the forces of the dark abyss was completely sealed, and the black magic crystals in the skulls of those Nacoma could only be exchanged for four ordinary magic crystals at most.

Therefore, the merits of one hundred black magic crystals can only be exchanged for three hundred magic crystals at most under the premise of retaining the value of its own magic crystals.

As for how precious the magic materials on those spider warlords are, naturally needless to say, just a set of spider warlord hard leather armor without inscriptions is worth at least two hundred magic crystals, "power of the giant bear" and "shield of the earth" ''Serpent's Fang', these top-level magic pattern structures, are also sought after by many lords in the imperial capital, and the only Yerkes scholar who can sell these three magic pattern structures does not accept orders at all. Normally, a set is only worth 150 magic spar for a top-level magic pattern structure, but now someone is asking for [-] magic spar, but there is no market for it.

Now these constructed knights of the North Wind Legion saw this news on the wooden board hanging on the tree, and they all expressed great interest.

It's just that these construction knights, even if they are the luckiest among them, only have five unidentified black magic crystals. If the construction knights want to obtain these magic pattern constructions, in addition to working hard to earn merits , only by piecing together everyone's achievements can they be exchanged for these ten sets of magic pattern structures.

After a while, Earl Desmond led a team of knights over and asked me in front of the board under the tree: "Earl Jijia, what is written on the list at the gate of the camp is that you can exchange merit for magic equipment?" , Is it true? It is also effective for the constructed knights of our North Wind Legion?"

"Of course." I replied.

At this time, I said in my heart: Of course it is specially prepared for you, but I am not ashamed to hang it at the gate of your camp. As for where the group of barbarian slaves and orc warriors will use these, I will give it to whoever I say .

Hearing my direct admission, Earl Desmond was refreshed, and immediately asked: "One hundred black magic crystals can be exchanged for a whole set of spider warlord's hard-skinned magic pattern structure, regardless of the 'power of the giant bear' , 'Earth Shield', or 'The Serpent's Fang'?"

I coughed lightly, and said to him: "Ahem, Earl Desmond, you are repeating the text description on the list, isn't it already written clearly!"

Earl Desmond smiled sarcastically, and said frankly, "I just want to confirm with you again."

Before I could say anything, Earl Desmond said again: "In this case, on behalf of the North Wind Legion Constructed Knights, I will exchange with you the ten sets of spider warlord's hard-skinned magic pattern constructs on the list."

Directly in the name of the Constructed Knights of the North Wind Legion?Earl Desmond acted quite decisively!

As soon as I wrote it, all of them were exchanged. I thought I would last for a few days.

I reconfirmed to Earl Desmond and said, "You have decided to choose ten sets of top-level magic-weave structures, haven't you?"

Earl Desmond smiled, patted his chest and said to me: "I'm sure! This kind of top-level magic-weave structure is hard to buy even in the Green Emperor."

"Okay, tell me what kind of magic pattern structure do you want?" I asked him.

Earl Desmond thought for a while, and said to me: "Five sets of 'Power of the Giant Bear' and five sets of 'Earth Shield' magic pattern structures."

After speaking, Earl Desmond untied a money bag full of black magic crystals from his waist and handed it to me directly. I asked Katerina to take out a thousand ordinary magic crystals and return them to Earl Desmond. He said that these ten sets of magic patterns will be handed over to him within five Grimm Empire days.

Earl Desmond, who had exchanged for ten sets of magic-weave outfits, seemed in a good mood. After he talked a lot in front of me, he exchanged his next destination——Sickwood Forest, this forest It's already in my travel plan.

"What exactly is the magic pattern structure exchanged for five hundred merits?"

As soon as the subject changed, Earl Desmond couldn't help asking.

"That's a magic pattern that can be painted on the body." I said to him, thinking he would hold back from asking.

When Earl Desmond heard what I said, a look of understanding appeared in his eyes. He opened the buckle of the shoulder armor, rolled up the cotton shirt inside, and revealed a magic pattern structure of "strength boost" on the shoulder. , It was a dark cyan magic pattern tattooed on his body, and there was a trace of non-attribute magic flowing on it.

"Like this?" He asked me casually.

I hesitated and said, "That's it, just a little different."

I actually meant 'slightly different', but Earl Desmond mistook it for 'that's it'.

"Earl Jijia, do you know how much magic spar it took me to tattoo this magic pattern on my body?"

He pondered for a while, and after getting closer to me, he pointed to the magic pattern structure and asked me.

Without waiting for my answer, he gave the answer directly: "You only need fifty magic crystals, and you can ask a famous inscription master in the imperial capital to draw a magic pattern that suits you."

In the end, he came to a conclusion: "The price of five hundred achievements to exchange for such a magic pattern is too high."

I smiled and asked him: "It's still different, how about it, do you want to try it?"

Earl Desmond shook his head and refused without even thinking about it: "Forget it, even I don't have so many merit points..."

Then he said: "As for the knights under my command, they are very interested in those advanced magic weapons."

I sighed softly, "That's really a pity."

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In this way, after I returned to the camp of the Bridge of Sunfury on the plane of Yero, our team immediately left the Bridge of Sunfury and headed for the sickwood forest in the southwest.

Perhaps it was because of this list of merit rewards that the whole team seemed to be active at once. Many times, there would be construct fighters who would take the initiative to ask for a fight, to clean up some small strongholds of spider fighters along the way, or wandering in the forest. Spiderman scouts, in the past these chores of cleaning up garbage were done by Kalancuo and the orc warriors. Now, under such circumstances, the Construct Knights are much more active.

Since we have obtained the approval of the ancient trees of war, the dryads have opened up a tree-lined road for us in the Black Forest, so the road is not difficult to walk.

Walking through the black forest for the past few days, I seized every spare moment, and finally made ten sets of spider warlord's hard-skinned magic pattern structures and delivered them to Earl Desmond.

A piece of magic-weave structure with mana glow flowing around was placed in the magic-sealing box. Earl Desmond asked a knight of the structure to replace the magic-weave structure of the Spider Warlord on the spot. Seeing that the knight of the structure During the competition, easily crush a companion who is stronger than him.

At this time, the constructed knights in the North Wind Legion began to face up to these so-called top-level magic pattern constructs.

After the Nibru spiders suffered a defeat at the Bridge of Sunfury, they abandoned several large spider camps in the southwest one after another. When our army arrived at the white dead wood forest, these spider camps had already turned into a dead area. Even giant spiders are hard to find in the camp.

For this kind of dead wood covered with white spider silk, we usually set fire to it before moving on.

(End of this chapter)