What Xiao Chen and the other two were going to conquer was a branch of the Black Mountain Range in the north. Although it was called a branch, it was actually a real high mountain. The mountain was so high that it had already surpassed the snow line, forming an endless expanse of white.
Crossing such a mountain quickly was a very strenuous task even for masters like Roger and Evelyn. The mountain range was steep and sparsely populated, with no roads in most places. They had to cross dense jungles, swift rivers, and inevitably trek on snowy mountains. If they were ordinary people, it would be basically impossible to cross. Only those with a considerable level of fighting spirit could cross the most dangerous places.
Roger and Evelyn took turns leading Xiao Chen forward. In some places, they needed to hold him and jump on the treetops. In some places, they had to climb up the almost vertical cliffs and then pull him up. Leading a magician who couldn't use magic was much more difficult than climbing the mountain by themselves.
By the afternoon of the next day, they had reached the snow line. The three of them were wearing the elf cloaks donated by Evelyn, but even so, Xiao Chen was still shivering with cold.
At 3 pm, the cliffs further up were extremely difficult to climb. Roger found a sheltered hole in the rocks to let everyone recover their strength.
"How is it? Can you hold on?" Roger asked Xiao Chen.
"Not bad." Although Xiao Chen's lips were frozen purple, he was in good spirits. "At least I won't fall asleep this way. If I fall asleep, I might go back to that world. In that case, it will be much harder for you to carry the unconscious Xiao Chen."
"Thanks a lot."
"Nothing. This feeling right now is very strange. I feel that this is who I am. Everything is very familiar to me, as if I have just opened up the memories of another world. Many of the things I see and feel in this world are impossible to feel in the original world. This life experience alone is worth it no matter how you calculate it."
Evelin suddenly thought of something and pointed at the Traveler's Heart ring on Xiao Chen's hand and said, "Don't you have mental power? Do you want to try to open this ring? Xiao Chen has a lot of stock, maybe you can find some scrolls and try to use them. Touch the ring with your mental power, and if the fluctuations of your mental power are really consistent with Xiao Chen here, you can open it."
Xiao Chen looked at the black and white ring on his finger and became curious. He used a mental force to probe into the ring. Without encountering any obstacles, he went straight inside. "I can! Wow, my consciousness seems to have entered a big house."
Evelin said, “We can’t use the other things for now, so see if there are any scrolls or something like that and take them out.”
Xiao Chen found a stack of dozens of scrolls, and Evelyn took them and read them one by one. Although the dark elf was a ranger, as a member of the elves, she had some magical talents. After flipping through the scrolls, she picked out two scrolls and handed them to Xiao Chen, "One of them is the magic of levitation, and the other is the magic of flight. Although it would be best if you could activate the magic of flight now, levitation is much simpler than flight. If you can cast this scroll, it will be much easier for us to take you forward later."
"I heard that by studying the way mental power works in the scrolls, you can learn magic, right?" Xiao Chen asked as he flipped through the two scrolls.
Evelyn said, "That's true, but it's not a simple matter. People with less talent will need to use a lot of scrolls, and it's not something that can be learned in a day or two. Although you are definitely very talented, you've never really released magic, right?"
"Maybe you can give it a try." Roger expressed his support, "We originally planned to rest for half an hour to recover our fighting spirit. You can give it a try."
Xiao Chen picked up the scroll of flying and began to study it. He obviously didn't know how to control the scroll at first. The magic halo on the scroll flickered, as if the spell was about to fail. But soon his talent began to work, and the route of his mental power became more stable.
Half an hour passed quickly, and Roger and Evelyn's fighting spirit had recovered by more than half. Evelyn saw Xiao Chen lost in thought, thinking something was wrong, and asked, "How is your research going?"
"It seems I can do it." Xiao Chen raised his head, and his body slowly floated up with the help of magic. He performed a levitation spell with ease. Then he flew into the sky, turned in a circle in the air about seven or eight meters and then fell down.
Evelin said, “So you know it all. Then why were you so sad just now?”
Xiao Chen said: "Just now, under the guidance of the scroll, I used my mental power to contact the world and magic of this world for the first time. I suddenly realized that I have come into contact with similar things in my world. When I was practicing my mental power, I occasionally encountered these small light spots floating around."
"What does this mean?" Evelyn asked.
"That means that world also has magic, although it is much thinner than this one, too little to successfully construct magic, but it does exist. And I found that the feelings I get from the two are of the same origin."
Xiao Chen's discovery did not move Roger and Evelyn much. But it made him determined to study magic after returning to that world. During his next few breaks, he studied several different scrolls and learned several relatively simple spells such as magic missiles, ice shields, and rockets.
After mastering the spell, the three of them moved faster and faster. They did not sleep that night, but took advantage of the good moonlight to travel all night. By nine or ten o'clock, Xiao Chen could already cast acceleration magic on Roger and Evelyn. This talent really surprised Evelyn.
She was very surprised and said, "It's true that your compatriots are very fast in cultivation. But even when our Xiao Chen was learning these spells himself, it wasn't that easy, right? How could he learn seven or eight spells in less than a day and be able to use them all?"
Roger also said: "Indeed, when the master was learning the Ice Shield Technique, I was beside him. It took him three or four hours to learn it, and it took him at least two days to be able to use it proficiently."
Xiao Chen said: "I don't know if it's right or not, I have a strange feeling that these magics are something I already know. It's not that I learned them today, but I already knew these magics, but for some reason I forgot them, and today I just remembered them again through those scrolls. I have a feeling: your Xiao Chen and I seem to be one in some way." (To be continued)