wandering fairy

After dozens of days of ups and downs, the dwarf man pulled the four-foot boxcar out of the flat desert and began to enter the rolling hills.

In the evening of the second day, Grimm in the car suddenly yelled to get out of the car overnight: "I'm about to be smothered to death! Ever since we left Harmonwell, we've been staying in the car day and night to escape. I’m always woken up at night, and I haven’t slept well once. I’m going to be afraid of sleep if I go on like this. No matter what, I must sleep on the ground tonight!”

Lelin started bickering with him again: "It was you who made us go on the road all day and night, and now you are the one who wants to stop and rest. It is only 4 or 5 days away from the border of the Principality of Hereford. , It’s safe to get through, why stop at the last moment? In my opinion, wait until the border, when you sleep for three days and three nights, no one cares.”

At the end, he dropped another sentence in a low voice: "It's best to sleep to death, lest those thieves' eyes looking around make people upset!"

With a livid face, Grimm yelled stiffly, "Get out of the car! I want to get out of the car! Even if I'm caught and beaten to death, I don't want to spend the night with this stinky bitch."

Then he saw that the other party looked like he was about to draw his sword, and he took out his arm-long staff without showing any weakness, and pretended to cast a spell.Of course, if there was a fight, he would be dead.

Dong Hezi interjected at the right time: "Then let's stop and rest tonight. I've spent the past few days in the car, and I'm a little uncomfortable when I'm bumped. Anyway, I've already run far away, so there's no need to panic. I believe that those who pursue us cannot travel day and night like us." After speaking, the short and thick tree man who was two tall stopped.

Then I heard Grimm say: "I'm going hunting. These days, nothing but bread is bread. I'm almost turning into bread. I'm going to buy some wild game today to change my appetite. Master, go and prepare those special condiments for dinner." Let's have dinner." Yan Bi slipped out of the car and walked into the bush hills with sparse trees.

"The mage went hunting?" Dong Hezi also got out of the car, smiled and turned to Le Lin and said, "Why do you say that about him? He is already unlucky enough, why do you need to make it worse?"

"Unlucky?" Le Lin said still dissatisfied: "There are [-] gold coins from him in this car. If he wants to be unlucky, what am I? I don't even have a copper coin."

"But he completely lost his title." Dong Hezi said slowly: "This will cut off his future financial resources, and it means losing an important way to be promoted to a middle-level and high-level mage. You also know that if you want to become a middle-level and high-level mage, He needs astonishing money. Now his hopes are half lost."

"But I'm annoyed when I see his wicked eyes." Lelin said, "This kind of lecher is really disgusting!"

Dong Hezi smiled and said, "He's a man, it would be abnormal if he wasn't lustful. Now the pain in his heart is just like yours back then. With no hope in sight, everything in life seems meaningless."

Le Lin remained silent, silently arranging her pair of daggers.

When Grimm came back carrying a rabbit and two pheasants with great difficulty, the thick tree man pulling the cart had already taken root on the spot and turned into a thick tree with open branches and leaves, but the height was still low. Change.

They lit a fire next to the caravan under the trees and made a good soup from the game.

During the meal, Donghezi was still dull, but there was a sense of tension between Lelin and Grimm.It was only because of the existence of Dong Hezi that there was no bickering.

So after dinner, Lelin said that she would continue to sleep in the caravan tonight.And Grimm took down his salute silently, and began to make a floor under the tree.

Dong Hezi asked curiously: "Aren't your mages qualified for the second-level 'Magic Window Technique'? You can sleep in there, why bother to be outside in the wind and rain?"

The magic window technique is to open a window in a different dimension near the ground, hiding the creatures inside so that they will not be affected by foreign spells.Even divination spells cannot be detected, unless these spells can pass through the barriers of the planes.

This extradimensional space can hold up to 8 creatures.It maintains a very pleasant temperature and humidity inside, and is absolutely quiet and undisturbed.What's more interesting is that the creatures in this space can see the outside scene, as if looking at the outside things through a window.But this window is invisible on the Prime Material Plane. Even if the creature can see the invisible window, it cannot see what is inside it.Of course, you have to get out of the "window" before the spell ends, otherwise when the spell ends, everything in this extra-dimensional space will automatically pop out.

As a low-level spell, it is undoubtedly the most useful rest technique.It can make people rest safely inside without being disturbed.It is definitely a must-have spell for wild adventures and travel.

But Grimm was embarrassed, and he hesitated for a long time before saying, "I don't know that spell."

Dong Hezi understood and couldn't say anything more.A mage can theoretically learn all spells, but in fact each spell is very different.It requires not only a high level of intelligence, but also a special way of understanding and habits of thinking.If the way of understanding and the habits of thinking are not on the right track, even the most intelligent people will still not be able to learn it!Therefore, it is impossible for most mages to learn all the spells of their ranks.For example, there are more than 2 basic spells of level 100 and below, and Grimm only knows [-] or [-] at most.

This is already a good study.The same is true for other professions. Dong Hezi himself only knows some druid spells, such as "flame strike".

The night sky was extremely clear, the bright moonlight illuminated the vast land, and the shadows of the trees were clearly visible.In a trance, there is a clear feeling that it is still in the dusk.

The bonfire beside the tree was still burning, and Dong Hezi was sitting cross-legged on one side, motionless like a wood carving for a long time.

Grimm was sleeping on the floor and looked at him blankly, but he couldn't catch his eyes.

"Can't sleep?" Master Dong Hezi opened his eyes at some point and said, "Is it too cold?" In the field in early spring, there were cold dews, which was very damp and cold for an ordinary person.Let alone sleeping in the open air?

"No." Grimm turned over and replied, "I added a 'tolerate environment' to myself, and it feels fine." This spell can protect the subject from cold or hot weather, so that he can comfortably Stay in an environment of more than 40 degrees below zero to more than 60 degrees above zero.Neither the icy permafrost nor the scorching dry desert can harm the subject.

"Are you thinking about Aisha?" Master Dong Hezi asked again: "She is also helpless, everyone wants to live a better life. And she desires this even more. Therefore, in addition to using her young beauty By currying favor with those who can get her out of a hard life, there is no way to get out of the ordinary, depressing and hopeless life of a peasant woman. It is her inevitable choice to turn to Palique. There are many things in this world that we cannot change. You can only hurt yourself if you think about it. It's better not to think about it."

He paused, and then comforted the silent Grimm: "Besides, she is neither a beautiful woman nor a person who is in love with you. From now on, when you learn high-level arcane arts, you can find more beautiful and more beautiful women." The right person for you."

Grimm interrupted his wordy reassurance: "Not thinking of that splash. I'm angry!"

Dong Hezi was suspicious: "Angry? Who are you angry with?"

Grimm sighed again, and said with a depressed head, "I'm angry with Palik. I can't figure it out, he already has level 5 magic, if he goes to any small country, he will be regarded as the best by the king." Dazzlingly seated as a guest. How could he come to the most remote mountain to compete with me for the position of a little baron? Look at him, he has so many high-quality equipment on him, as well as those amazing high-level scrolls! If I had these things, I would have gone to the countryside to buy a few small manors, raised a few beautiful girls, and played happily for the rest of my life! Why do I have to come here and fight to the death with others?"

Dong Hezi also pondered, what happened this time is indeed too weird.He felt that Palick looked very much like those large companies on the earth that were maintained by loans.On the surface, it is infinitely brilliant and needs wind and rain. In fact, it has already been burdened with amazing debts. Like a fragile but gorgeous high-rise building, it will collapse at any time and turn into a pile of dust that no one cares about.Therefore, they have to do some unimaginable vicious things in order to survive.

Is it the same for Patrick?

Grimm continued to stare blankly, looking lost in thought.It took a long time before he slowly opened his mouth and said: "I don't know when I will become a high-level mage. Maybe I won't be able to become a high-level mage in my whole life. Do you know? In Jifen City, there is an old man named Wei Jinli. Learning arcane art, he is more than 13 years old this year, but he is still an elementary apprentice who only knows second-level arcane art. Even today, he is not qualified to register as a formal mage."

Dong Hezi continued to comfort him: "Maybe his talent is not good enough, you are still young, and you have already obtained the second-level arcane art, no matter what, you will not be able to reach his level."

Grimm was silent for a while, and said: "But what about the money? Now I only have 3 gold coins. It is a lot for an ordinary person, but it is far from enough for learning spells! If you are unlucky Otherwise, I can’t even be promoted to level [-]! What should I do now? It’s impossible to return to the baron’s position, where will the tuition fees come from in the future? Is it possible to join the so-called adventure team like everyone else? That’s really ridiculous, I know two witty ghosts who know second-level spells, one is Rodney and the other is Jarawee. At the beginning, they were also full of confidence in wandering around, but in the end, they died within half a year without even finding a piece of their body! Only with Some leftover clothes were buried as corpses. I am not as smart as them, wouldn’t it be worse to die?”

"There are also some people who were deceived and went to join the mercenaries, thinking that they could earn some money by working hard. Cut! That's even more absurd! It's good to be able to support yourself, so what are you talking about accumulating money? Even if you're lucky and earn some money, I also have to buy those expensive spell items first to save my life. In the end, I bought a bunch of items and consumed them. I didn’t make a lot of money. You said, what should I do now? Where is the way?"

Seeing that Dong Hezi didn't speak, he suddenly laughed at himself: "I thought about it, if I can't do it anymore, I'll go to be a male prostitute! Use the maiden skills you taught me to fuck those rich and beautiful rich women. I used to be in Jifen When I was in the city, I heard that many young and handsome low-level male mages were also taken care of by rich women, and the tuition fees were paid by those rich women. ***, I will also find some women to be taken care of by them!"

He lay on the ground again and jokingly asked: "Look, with my appearance and bed quality, how many can I get?"

Dong Hezi couldn't help laughing: "Why do you think so again? Didn't I say it? This skill is only shallow to strengthen essence and protect the body, reduce wear and tear, so as to maintain the health of the body. Deep skill can only prolong life and cure diseases. But don’t emphasize its beneficial effect one-sidedly, once you indulge in lust, it will be difficult to contain them. Those rich women are like wolves and tigers, how many of you can block them with your little ability?”

Grimm asked hastily: "Didn't you say before that you can practice to fight against dozens of women without defeat?"

Dong Hezi shook his head helplessly when he heard the words and said: "That is to use special herbal medicine and the 'Qi Refining Technique' to cooperate. Even so, ordinary people have to practice for decades to have any hope of success."

Grimm stood up and asked cautiously, "Can you teach me? You can teach me a little bit!"

Dong Hezi pondered for a while before saying: "The technique of herbal medicine can be taught to you, but the 'Qi refining technique' cannot. This skill can only be passed on to the successors of our secret art druids."

Although Grimm was sorry, Dong Hezi had already said this to himself several times.I didn't have much hope at first, so I changed my mind and asked, "What kind of skill is that 'qi refining technique' you mentioned? Why is it so mysterious?"

Dong Hezi gave a little introduction: "The so-called 'Qi Refining Art' is to strengthen one's own 'Qi'. If it is shallow, it can prolong life; if it is medium, it can protect the body; Together, there is unpredictable power in every gesture, and the power to split mountains and divide seas. Even I can't explain clearly."

Grimm suddenly realized: "In this way, the deepest practice of imperial female art is only equivalent to the superficial level of 'refinement of energy'? Then how to protect the body?"

Dong Hezi explained: "It is divided into many functions, and each function must be practiced in a special way to achieve it. What I practice is only a small part of it, which can improve the body's strength and toughness. The ability to resist willpower. For example, if the enemy uses the death cloud technique to attack me, as soon as the enemy touches me, the "Qi" in the body will counterattack by itself, as if the strength and toughness are doubled. Therefore, the death cloud technique is completely ineffective against me. Another example The enemy attacks me with the ability to 'dominate human beings'. Once the magical energy falls on me, the 'Qi' in my body will play a protective role to prevent it from affecting my mind, as if the willpower has been multiplied. The enemy's method will not work. "

Suddenly, Le Lin's voice sounded from the side: "Then, can 'Qi' also resist the priest's 'command technique'? Last time when Palik used advanced command technique to control me, a wave of 'Qi' and against it."

It turned out that Le Lin didn't sleep well in the car, and was awakened by the conversation between the two.As soon as Dong Hezi started talking about 'Qi Refining Art', he pricked up a pair of cute pointed ears to listen in, because Jiuzhuan Yimai ** is also a kind of 'Qi Refining Art'.

When he heard that 'Qi' had the ability to strengthen willpower immunity, he finally couldn't hold back, and jumped out of the car to ask about the weird phenomenon that occurred when he was fighting against Palik's "command technique" that day.

At this time, she came to the situation of the day one by one, looked at Dong Hezi with hopeful eyes, and waited for him to say how to improve the Fortitude save and Will save - these two things can resist many spells Come in handy, if you can learn it, you can resist most spells even without mage resistance!Why not make people look forward to it?

After hearing this, Dong Hezi explained openly and honestly: "The force rising from your lower abdomen is not 'Qi'! Because the 'Qi' I mentioned is not a real thing, but refers to the overall coordination between various organs and tissues inside and outside the body. The function of running, including the activities of the mind. If this function is strong, we say that "Qi" is strong or sufficient; if this function is weak, we say that "Qi" is exhausted or insufficient. Although in language It is treated as a real object, but its essence is a function, not a substance. The force rising from your lower abdomen is not 'Qi', but the physical and mental resistance triggered by the function of 'Qi'. This resistance The ability does not appear normally, but when the 'Qi' is mobilized—that is, when the internal and external organs and tissues of the body are guided to be in a highly coordinated state, this resistance ability is displayed."

"So what can be felt is definitely not 'Qi'! Because 'Qi' is only an abstract function, and 'function' cannot be directly perceived. Only by observing its various effects can we pry into its existence. There is In the process of practicing 'Qi Art', many people chase after feelings. They mistakenly think that those feelings are Qi, so they go astray. They even become crazy and confused, and they are not as good as ordinary people. Just because you are practicing Jiuzhuan Yimai now* *, I have to remind you: Don’t chase the feeling! Come and go as you go. Be careful with the principle that “one who is qi cannot feel it, and one who can feel it must not be qi”. Otherwise, once you chase the feeling too much, you will be biased physically and mentally, destroying It hinders the operation of qi itself. On the contrary, it hinders the deepening of the 'refining qi'."

"Conversely, if the body and mind can maintain a high degree of coordination, we call it "Qi" flourishing. It is difficult for all external forces to disrupt the stability of the body and mind to play a role. This process is like the formation of diamonds. You know, the so-called diamond is actually made of Charcoal powder changes. But ordinary charcoal powder cannot maintain the overall coordination, so it is soft and weak. After the experience of flame and high pressure, its internal structure changes, and it can maintain a high degree of coordination with each other, so it becomes It is extremely stable, and can carve gold and chisel iron. The so-called "Qi refining technique" is similar to this kind. Therefore, sometimes Qi is called real power to show its immateriality."

Although Lelin and Grimm seem to understand, they also understand: the so-called magic is "a force that destroys the stability of the mind and body".Then qi refining is their nemesis.As long as it is refined well, it will naturally resist powerful spells like a diamond!

Grimm asked again: "Then, what did you say just now that you can mobilize the power of the universe when you practice deeply? Could it be that you have formed a magic-like ability?"

Dong Hezi smiled and said, "It's not a magic-like ability, but a supernatural ability."

Grimm asked curiously: "What are the differences between the two? I have only studied spells, and I still don't know much about supernatural powers."

Dong Hezi replied: "According to my observation, both magic and supernatural power are methods of mobilizing the power of the universe. But the working principles are completely different. Therefore, there are differences. Magic is to mobilize the universe with the human soul as the core. The supernatural power is to use the human body as the core to mobilize the power of the universe. Although its changes are not as exquisite and beautiful as the magic, it is more stable. Therefore, both the magic and the magic are easy to be dispelled , and the supernatural power is very difficult to undo.”

Grimm asked again: "The last time you studied secret arts behind closed doors, did you mean these supernatural forces?"

Dong Hezi didn't hide anything: "That's right. Last time I learned some methods of mobilizing supernatural power from the storm messenger Mukula, and found that it can be integrated into another secret technique, so I studied it behind closed doors. Not only will the A kind of supernatural power called Lei Gongzhuan has been trained, and several other abilities have also been trained."

Talking about mobilizing the real power to display the "hygienic halo".

A burst of invisible force suddenly enveloped the things within a foot (about 6 meters) of his body. He introduced: "This is the 'hygienic brilliance', which is the same as the courage aura of a paladin. It is a supernatural force."

Although invisible, Grimm and Lelin immediately felt a sense of physical and mental comfort and peace, as if sitting in a solid and warm castle, all tension and uncomfortable feelings disappeared.

Especially Lelin's feeling is particularly obvious. The first feeling is similar to the magic effect of "enduring the environment", the second feeling is like the magic breath of "removing diseases", and the third sense seems to have the ability to "neutralize poison".The three are mixed together and cannot be separated. In addition, there are some unclear effects hidden in it, which have not yet been revealed.

This suddenly reminded her of the Druid who blessed herself with a third power when she was fighting against Palik, that kind of power that mixed the effects of five spells but was not a spell. It was indeed too strange.

Immediately, he told Dong Hezi about it again.

Dong Hezi gave a faint "Oh" and said: "The power you mentioned is also my latest training. It is shaped by my real power combined with the power of heaven and earth. Some of the effects can be strengthened according to the needs of the practitioner. You have practiced Jiuzhuan Xuangong, it should be easier to control it. When it is applied to you, it will immediately fuse with your qi, so it is strengthened by the scheduling of qi It belongs to the "luck technique" of will and spiritual power. That's why you get rid of the control of the command technique. If you practice the Nine-turn Yimai ** in the future, you can control it independently. When you need to strengthen your strength, you can use it All the effects are used to strengthen the power, and when the senses need to be strengthened, all the effects are used to strengthen the senses. And it can be changed at any time. It is much stronger than those single and easily dispelled magical effects."

Le Lin asked happily: "Then what is the name of this supernatural power?"

Dong Hezi was stunned for a moment, then said immediately: "I don't have a name yet. But I would like to use it to commemorate a special day. Let's call it—Blessing of the Wild."