Kobold Wizard's Journal

Chapter 42 Time and Life

Ruger was woken up by his own snoring. Once he was overtired, he would snore loudly. The snoring started from the moment he fell into a deep sleep and ended with the lingering sound when he woke up. Just from the two sounds he remembered, he could barely tell that it was a folk song from his hometown. Sometimes, if he lay in the wrong position, the snoring would be a few notes higher.

The insect meat that he had eaten a few bites of before going to bed had fallen to the ground without him knowing when. He picked it up with sleepy eyes, brushed off the dirt and dust, and stuffed it into his mouth in two or three bites.

He smacked his lips and ate another bottle of shaved ice.

While eating, he took out the black book and read it.

If a dog-headed man doesn't work hard, no matter how talented he is, it will be in vain.

A second-level wizard apprentice? He hadn't yet taken the awakening potion that the half-man had given him, claiming it would boost his mental strength and eliminate side effects.

He had no plans to use it now, as the speed at which his mental power improved through meditation practice was already much faster than Half-Man had expected.

A long-lost moment of quiet meditation.

The second magic scar required twelve runes to construct, six old ones and six new ones. He had already mastered two new runes before setting off. The difficulty of the runes was gradually increasing, but his mastery speed did not slow down much.

Sometimes he even thought that if meditation methods had a degree of compatibility like spells, then he and the Black Book, or rather the Magic Scar Meditation Method, must be extremely compatible. The feeling of progress made it difficult for him to imagine that his mental growth would hit a bottleneck. Of course, it could also be that his level was still too low, and the difficulties were yet to come, beyond his imagination, jumping out to scare him.

The spiritual space is still so beautiful, a kind of quiet beauty that is both real and illusory.

The calm sea surface spreads to the mysterious distance. A magic scar like an illusory canyon hangs high in the sky. Many spell models guard it and revolve around it. There is also a shining star at the highest point, which solidifies the zero-ring spell position of the foul-smelling skin. If you want to add another star, you may have to wait until you become a formal wizard.

He calmed himself down and tried the new runes in the black book, only to find that everything was progressing faster than he had imagined.

He still remembered the wizard apprentice with a special appearance.

The light grey translucent crystal that breaks when squeezed.

His mental strength has really increased, he thought, I hope there won't be any bad side effects.

He had anticipated this before in the wild, but he didn't dare to conduct exhausting meditation exercises and spell tests there. After trying meditation this time, he mastered two new runes in succession. After recovering, he started to build continuously from the first rune, and barely completed ten runes in one breath.

Just two more, he thought.

After recovering, he decided to bring some barbecue to Aisijin and the others. Although the storage bag's special space prevented it from spoiling, he wasn't sure if it would still be delicious after so many days, so he had been holding back on eating during the journey. Now thinking about it, he was too nervous at the time. He should have been more shameless and asked the apprentice wizard who played with fire for some seasoning.

Luger was about to stand up, but sat back down.

He heard footsteps in the distance and judged it was Aisijin, who probably knew from Bald Tooth that he was back.

"Brother Ruge, every time I feel hungry, I come here to check on you. You are never here." The ogre girl said this, but there was no complaint in her tone at all.

Ruger knew in his heart that she was simply stating the facts.

"look."

Ai Sijin held up a black fruit with both hands.

"Da Hengheng and I would go out looking for it every time we had a full stomach, and would not come back until we were very hungry. We finally found it, a strange-looking tree. Every time I came here, I always wanted to tell you that you were not here..." Ai Sijin smiled and held the black fruit in front of Ruger's eyes, almost touching his nose.

"Is this the fruit that Dashaheng ate?"

Luger was a little surprised that they actually found him.

You have to know that the fruit wasn't picked up by Dashaheng or himself. It was given to him by the previous Black Claw Saint. It can be said that there is absolutely no clue. "Yeah," Ai Sijin nodded happily, "There are still some on the tree. I only took a few. Old Jinya wouldn't let us eat them. He said he had to wait for you. I'll listen to you, and I'll listen to you."

Luger took the fruit and sniffed it, then held it in his hand and began to pace back and forth.

The shackles of the short-lived kobolds not only bound him and threatened him, but also became a necessity for the friends who had helped him. It was a shackle they could hardly escape on their own, like a shackle tightening around their necks. He looked at Aisijin, that simple, direct smile, which he might soon see no more. He believed it deserved to remain in this world for a while longer.

I remember Old Gold Teeth said that Dashaheng missed a precious opportunity by eating the black fruit. The first transformation is the easiest to succeed. Combined with what Bald Teeth said about what happened in their Red Horn Tribe, if they want to use items with less dragon blood and sub-dragon beasts with impure blood to transform into a dragon-born dog-headed man, they will most likely fail.

Therefore, this fruit cannot be eaten rashly.

However, Dashaheng's super self-healing ability should be unique to this fruit. After all, Lao Jinya said that normal dragon-born gnolls do not have this condition.

"Can you still find it there? Take me there, I want to see the tree," he said.

There must be something strange about the place that can grow such a strange fruit and has the aura of a dragon.

I just hope it wasn't some injured dragon that spilled a tiny bit of dragon blood while passing by decades ago, and it happened to be watered on the tree. This kind of bizarre situation would only be of some value if it appeared in legends.

Upon hearing this, Ai Sijin nodded vigorously, as if she had been prepared for it.

Seeing her excitement, Ruger suspected that Aisijin had perhaps practiced ahead of time to guide him, perhaps even picking the shortest and easiest route. She was capable of it, though he had never pointed it out. Deep down, she always wanted to appear clever.

The two kobolds started on their way.

At the beginning, Aisijin was still following her usual habit and was very careful along the way.

But gradually, she found that being with Ruger was no longer as easy as before, and it was even easier than traveling with the hunting team.

The two people were getting farther and farther away from the residential area.

Ruger was a little impressed by them for daring to come so far. At the same time, he remembered that he seemed to have warned Aisijin to just catch insects nearby and not go too far.

Judging from Dashaheng's situation, he would never dare to disobey. The only possibility is that Aisijin forced Dashaheng to go out and look for him together.

Seeing that she was still a little uncomfortable, Ruger had already decided in his heart that he had to scare this bold guy.

As we move forward, the environment becomes more and more complex.

A small group of lizardmen who could have been missed were led by him into the encounter head-on.

Ai Sijin immediately bent down and tried to hide in a pothole.

And this critical moment.

Ruger seemed to be distracted and didn't see her movements. He was just a step slower and had no time to hide. Then he just stood there stupidly.

This scene really scared Aisijin silly.

She had never seen Ruger fight against a group of lizardmen, so naturally she couldn't imagine that scene.

He stood there, listening to the lizardmen screaming a few steps away. Everything happened in the blink of an eye. It was not until the flying spear was about to hit him that he turned to look at Aiskin.

"I remember I said that a kobold wandering alone is very dangerous. Even if you bring Big Shaheng with you, it won't change much."

(End of this chapter)