I reforged the glory of the magic ring in Middle-earth

Chapter 24 The Praying Dwarf
"Yeah, as expected."

Tanes glanced at Qili, who was sitting on the ground because he failed to cast a spell even with the staff, and nodded.

After delivering breakfast to Teacher Seren at the post station, he took Fili and Qili to an open space outside the castle of Moren City.

Teacher Seren was also curious about how the dwarves in this world learned magic, so he followed Tanes with breakfast.

Seeing the dwarf's failed spell, she said, "Apprentice, are you conducting an experiment? One look at their bodies should reveal the absence of any magic. This has nothing to do with talent; it's simply that they've been barred from the gates of magic, unable to ever enter. Why waste your energy teaching them magic?"

Although Cerrian spoke quietly, it was loud enough for Fili and Kili to hear.

Qili showed a lost expression again. Fili comforted him for a few words, then looked at Tanes: "Mr. Tanes..."

Tanes said, "Teacher Cerrian wasn't targeting Qili or you. She was simply stating the facts. I was just verifying whether you could use magic with your staffs, and it seems you can't."

Qili pounded the ground beneath him in anger.

After watching, Tanes smiled and said, "But don't worry. You may not be able to learn magic, but that doesn't mean you can't learn to pray."

"Prayer? What is that?"

Qili raised his head and looked at Tanes with anticipation. Even Fili, who was comforting him, was attracted by what Tanes said.

At this time, Se Lian sat on the ground with great interest. She wanted to see if her apprentice could teach these two dwarves to use prayer.

Theoretically, if there is no magic power in the body, even prayers will not be possible.

Tanes naturally understood this principle. However, when Thorin was in the Blue Mountains before, he was able to use the combat skills attached to the Frozen Shell Axe normally, so it can be confirmed that there is a possibility that dwarves do not need to consume magic power to perform borderland combat skills, magic and prayers.

Now, as for combat skills and magic, the former has been confirmed to be able to be performed by consuming physical energy, while the latter has been verified to be unusable.

Then the only path left to be verified is prayer.

Anyway, even if Kili couldn't learn to pray, Tanes had prepared a weapon for him to use in combat, as a reward for helping him destroy the Orcs last night.

He looked at the expectant dwarf brothers, and suddenly two silver metal bars in the shape of fingers appeared in his hands. Their ends were melted together, like a keychain.

It was the [Holy Seal of the Finger], a basic catalyst for prayer given by the Finger-Removing Witch.

Tanes clenched his fist and took out the [Holy Seal of the Finger]. Then golden light emerged from the gap in his fist, and finally turned into ripples that spread outward, including Fili and Kili.

Not until the last, brightest ray of golden light disappeared did Tanes let go again, revealing the holy seal lying quietly in his palm.

Qili said in surprise, "I feel full of energy now. I don't feel tired at all from the fierce battle last night."

Fili nodded as well. "I feel the same way. All the fatigue in my body has been swept away. Mr. Tanes, did you do something just now?"

Tanes smiled at Fili and Kili, waving the holy seal on his finger at them. "This is a prayer. I just cast a small prayer to restore your strength. If you were injured, it should be able to heal your wounds. But it seems that for now, it will only restore your physical strength."

Qili's eyes lit up at first, then dimmed again when he remembered that he had failed to cast magic before. "I hope I can successfully learn this spell called 'Prayer'."

In fact, prayer is not a spell. It is better to say that it and magic are two completely unrelated fields.

Tanes shrugged and didn't explain too much. Instead, he asked another question: "Qili, do you prefer to fight the enemy in close combat or kill them from a distance?"

Qili pondered for a moment and said firmly, "I still prefer to stand side by side with my comrades and fight side by side. It's really not my habit to hide behind and let my compatriots block danger for me."

Tanes was a little surprised. He knew that Qili was good at archery and thought that he would choose a fighting method that could kill the enemy from a distance. Unexpectedly, he chose close combat.

Well, then I have to teach him a different prayer.

A medium to short range prayer, this should be quite suitable for dwarves.

Tanes replaced the Royal City Ancient Dragon Faith Prayer that he was originally going to teach with the Beast Prayer.

Suddenly, there was a thick book made of wild animal skin in his hand. When Fili and Qili looked at the book, they seemed to hear the roar of a wild animal.

At the same time, an oval gray stone the size of a pebble appeared in Tanes' other hand. There were three hideous marks left by animal claws on the surface of the stone.

[Holy Seal of Claw Marks] is also one of the prayer catalysts used by Tanes in the early days.

At the border, he had exchanged the [Dead Root] for this prayer catalyst with the beast priest Gulang.

This means that the prayer system that Tanes intends to teach Qili is the beast system.

The reason why he chose this type of prayer was because the catalyst of the beast-type prayer - [Claw Mark Holy Seal], was one of the few catalysts that could rely on strength to increase the power of prayer.

Tanes was quite familiar with the dwarves and knew that they were a very strong race.

If they learn Beast Prayer, they can use their own strength to make up for their lack of magic power.

With this thought in mind, Tanes raised the thick book containing the beast prayers in his hand, shook it a few times, and said with a smile, "I hope you can understand the words in this book, Qili. The most difficult part of learning prayers is that you need to understand the story behind the prayers. Only then can you use them more skillfully when praying. However, Grunger should have been the one to orally teach you, but he's not here now, so for now, you'll have to make do with this book I wrote down of the beast prayers."

Qili's originally excited face immediately fell. Fili secretly pinched him behind his back to remind his brother not to be picky, then reached out to take the book containing the beast's prayer.

Philip said a little embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Tanes, my brother doesn't like reading very much."

Tanes nodded. He could also see that Kili didn't like reading very much. After all, Thorin's way of training him was to hope that Kili could be more free.

This is completely different from Philip who was trained to be the crown prince.

"How about it, Qili, can you understand the words in the prayer book?" Tanes was more concerned about this issue.

He relied on Yiru to solve the problem of the Middle-earth language.

But whether the intelligent creatures in Middle-earth can understand the words written in the border area is another question.

Qili frowned and flipped through the pages for a few seconds before nodding and replying, "Although I don't recognize the words on it, strangely enough, their meanings automatically come to mind when I see them."

Very good, it seems that Yiru’s language patch is perfect.

But Qili soon made a bitter face again, pointed to a passage and said, "However, although I know what this text says, I don't understand what it wants to say. What does it mean that 'beasts symbolize civilization'? Shouldn't beasts be a symbol of bloodthirstiness and barbarism?" Tanes blinked, then understood what Qili was saying.

I can understand each word individually, but I can't understand them when they are put together.

This is probably what Qili wanted to express.

In other words, he needed Tanes to explain to him the difference between the beasts in the Borderland and Middle-earth. Otherwise, based on the Middle-earth knowledge in Qili's mind, he would not understand the story of the Borderland recorded in the book.

Tanes came over to Kili and sat down on the grass. "Let me explain it to you, Fili. If you're interested, you can come closer and listen. If you have any questions, just ask me."

So in the following time, Tanes answered the questions raised by Fili and Kili in detail, and Seren also moved closer after enjoying breakfast.

Although she is not good at praying, she has a wealth of knowledge about the border area and can help answer some questions that Tanes cannot figure out from time to time.

Just like that, as the sun quietly climbed up the clear sky and shone brightly on the earth, time passed quickly behind the conversation of the four people.

It was about an hour later that Qili finally understood the first prayer recorded in the book.

He exhaled from the words recorded in the book: "Perhaps this is the longest time I have spent reading a book since I was born."

Se Lian said calmly, "If you truly immerse yourself in the ocean of knowledge, you will find that a day is as short as morning dew."

Qili shook his head repeatedly. "No, no, no. I'm afraid I'll just drown in the ocean of knowledge."

Tanes threw the Claw Mark Holy Seal toward Kili. "Since you think you've mastered it, give it a try. Don't worry about failure. If even prayers don't work, I've prepared a special weapon for you. You can harness the magical powers imbued within."

Qili intercepted the claw mark holy seal from mid-air with incredible precision. "I still hope to be able to use it. After all, Mr. Tanes and Ms. Serlian have taught me so patiently. I don't want to let you down."

Kili handed the animal-skin prayer book to his brother Fili, then stood up from the grass and patted his clothes.

"call--"

Qili took a deep breath, tightly grasped the claw mark holy seal, and recalled the prayer story recorded in the book in his mind.

Tanes pulled Ceremony and Fili a few steps back away from Qili, to prevent Qili from accidentally hurting them if he was not proficient in the prayer.

Qili closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and with a low roar, his physical strength was absorbed by the claw mark holy mark like a tide.

Then his body posture was like a beast about to take off into the air, and the arm holding the holy mark was like an outstretched claw.

A beige light suddenly shone from Qili's palm, the faint outline of a beast's claw visible within it. He swung his hand upwards, and the light transformed into a sharp claw shadow, slicing through the air and leaving five deep claw marks that etched themselves into the grass like physical objects, sending dirt swirling and blades flying.

"Hahaha, I succeeded! Mr. Tanis, I really succeeded!"

Qili opened his eyes and looked at the claw mark holy mark in his hand with excitement and surprise, then lay on the ground like a curious baby, checking the movement he had just made.

"Pap-pap-pap-pap."

Tanes was genuinely happy for Qili and applauded him.

"Qili, do you feel any discomfort anywhere in your body?" Tanes asked.

When Fili heard Tanes' words, he looked at Qili nervously.

Kili laughed and shook his head. "No, I feel great now. Just a little drain on my energy, but it's nothing serious!"

Fili breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this, and walked over to Qili and hugged him to celebrate.

Se Lian tilted his head in surprise. "Hmm, that's interesting. Using physical energy to replace magical energy consumption? But why can't magic be used?"

After hearing what Seren said, Tanes thought for a moment and said, "Perhaps this is the difference between prayer and magic. Magic ultimately requires energy, like mana, to perform, while prayer is more like a firm belief in something, and can be performed with anything. However, this is just my initial speculation, and I don't understand the specific reason."

Se Lian smiled faintly and said with interest, "Very interesting. It seems that this world won't make me feel too bored."

Tanes said at this time: "Fili, do you want to try to pray too? You just learned the contents of the prayer book, so it should be no problem."

Qili handed the claw mark holy seal in his hand to Fili: "Yes, brother, you should try it too. This feeling is really novel!"

"Okay, then I'll try." Fili took the catalyst handed over by Qili, handed him the prayer book, and then motioned his brother to move away a little.

The next moment, Philip also used the [Beast Claw] prayer, making the already messy grass even messier.

Qili excitedly pumped his fist and said, "I knew you could do it, brother!"

Philip walked over and looked at the catalyst in his hand in disbelief, as if he had not yet recovered from the shock of praying.

It wasn't until Kili stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Fili's face that he came back to his senses.

Fili immediately pulled Qili to Tanes and Serlian, and bowed deeply with his brother. He said respectfully, "I really don't know how to thank you. Words cannot express my excitement, Mr. Tanes, Ms. Serlian. No, I should call you Teacher Tanes and Teacher Serlian!"

Se Lian shook his head decisively: "Forget about the teacher. I didn't teach you any magic. I just told you some trivial stories. Just call me your apprentice."

Tanes smiled and said, "When we trade with the dwarves of the Blue Mountains in the future, I hope they can give us more preferential policies for the golden trees."

Fili straightened up, looked up at Tanes and nodded vigorously: "I will explain this matter in detail to Uncle Thorin!"

Kili's face was also full of joy, and then he suddenly looked behind Tanes in confusion: "Why did Mr. Dwalin come here in such a hurry?"

Ok?
Tanis turned around and saw Dwalin, with his smooth forehead tattooed with the Dwarven language, jogging towards him.

Before he even reached the crowd, he shouted breathlessly, "Mr. Tanes, this is incredible, this is truly incredible."

"My fellow farmers who are responsible for planting crops told me that the seeds I planted yesterday afternoon have already sprouted this morning!"

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　　You can also see that the author's arrangement for the dwarves is to use the things in the border area to strengthen their own abilities, rather than simply letting the protagonist protect them like a hen leading her chicks.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)