After a while, Richard walked to the deck.
In the night, the deck was pitch black, and many people gathered there, but no wizard appeared. Everyone was talking quietly, obviously a little confused.
"Where is the wizard?"
"Yes, where is the wizard?"
"Didn't Master Wizard ask us to come to the deck?"
"It won't be like last time and suddenly disappeared, right?"
"But what exactly is going on this time? We should explain it first, right?"
"that is… "
Richard was a little confused after listening to everyone's words. At this moment, a voice echoed throughout the entire deck.
You can't see where the speaker is, but you can clearly hear the voice - the voice of wizard Dempsey.
"I am Demps, and I would like to inform you now that there will be a second test tonight. Well, the second test, but don't be nervous, it is an informal test. As long as you are careful, you will not be eliminated, On the contrary, there is quite a harvest. Now, look up."
Everyone looked up when they heard the sound.
"Watch it." Dempsey's voice said.
I saw a golden ball of light with a diameter of half a meter suddenly appeared in the mid-air in the middle of the night, more than ten meters above the deck of the giant ship, like a sun.
With a "bang", the "sun" exploded and turned into thousands of light spots, floating down from the mid-air, like a sea of stars descending, and like a swarm of fireflies gathering, covering the entire giant wheel.
"So beautiful!" Some students couldn't help but exclaim. In their admiration, a black image was attracted and suddenly rushed into the area shrouded in light spots.
If you look carefully, you can see that it is a bird the size of a seagull, covered with colorful feathers, flying quickly in the area covered by the light spots, constantly devouring the light spots as if hungry and thirsty.
One appeared, then the second, the third, the fourth... and finally dozens or hundreds of the same birds appeared, flying continuously in the area shrouded by the light group, constantly devouring the light spots.
Everyone changed from exclamation to surprise, and then from surprise to vigilance.
Because everyone discovered that although this kind of bird looks beautiful, its attack power is not weak. Several birds crashed into the sail in order to eat the light spots, and their sharp beaks directly broke a big hole in the strong sail. If it hits someone, even if it doesn't penetrate, it will still be a bloody hole, so you have to be vigilant.
At this time, Dempsey’s words rang out again.
"The bird you see now is called the 'Griffin Colorful Bird'. It is the lowest demonized creature. It lies day and night and likes light. It is easy to attract one or two by lighting up the lights on the nocturnal seagoing ships. If we create a large area of light like now, it is possible to attract hundreds of them.
Of course, it's not guaranteed to be successful. This time, it was because we happened to encounter a flock of 'Griffin Colorful Birds' circling nearby that we attracted so many people.
This means you are relatively lucky.
You must know that this 'Griffin Colorful Bird' is a very valuable creature. Their feathers can be used as casting materials for many spells, their flesh and blood can be used to make potions, and their bones and internal organs can also be ground into powder. Used to raise some special animals and plants.
The most valuable ones are their feathers, which are purchased at a high price in the White Stone Tower.
This time, informal tests exist precisely because they exist.
I will create conditions for you. You can find ways to capture them, obtain the materials on them, and wait until you reach the White Stone Tower to sell them to people in need, and get a certain amount of compensation to help you improve your lives.
Of course, 'Griffin Colorful Bird' is aggressive, but compared to the pirates you encountered before, it is much safer. Therefore, as long as you are careful and catch one, you will benefit a lot. Okay, that’s it for now, you can get started. "
After Dempsey finished speaking, almost everyone looked at the so-called "Griffin Colorful Bird" with burning eyes. When searching for pirate ships before, not everyone got anything satisfactory, but now looking at the "Griffin Colorful Bird", I finally feel like there is a way to compensate.
According to what Dempsey said, catching even one bird will benefit a lot. If you catch a few more birds, wouldn't it mean that you will make a fortune
The next moment, no one knew who would take the lead. Everyone started attacking, and the deck suddenly became lively.
Richard squinted his eyes in the crowd, looking at the so-called "Griffin Colorful Bird" thoughtfully, and couldn't help but guess:
Could this 'Griffin colorful bird' be the raw material recorded on the parchment - the "rainbow bird"
It's possible, very likely.
Considering that One-Eye has little contact with the wizarding world, the name "Rainbow Bird" is probably made up by himself. The real common name is "Griffin Colorful Bird" mentioned by Dempsey. Dempsey also said that the flesh and blood of this bird can be used to make potions, which is exactly the same.
But is this too much of a coincidence
Although based on probability calculations, after discovering that there was a lack of raw materials for the medicine such as the blood of "Griffin Colorful Bird", the next moment he was informed to participate in an informal test. The content of the test was to kill the attracted "Griffin". Colorful Bird” is totally justified.
After all, Griffin birds are nocturnal and are easily attracted by lights. This is probably how One Eye obtained the blood of the "Colorful Griffin Bird" before and then made the potion.
Everything can be explained by logic.
But then again, even if you use logic to explain past events, sometimes it still feels unreasonable.
For example, if a coin is thrown heads nine times in a row, the probability of it being heads on the tenth toss will be 1/2. But the tenth time you really throw out the positive, it will always feel unscientific, even if it is obviously scientific from a probability perspective.
If the number of coin tosses is expanded to nineteen, twenty-nine, ninety-nine, or nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine times, under the premise that the previous tosses keep getting heads, the next time it will be heads, this kind of weirdness will more obvious.
From a certain perspective, this phenomenon can be regarded as a coincidence or a drama.
Just like the plots that are often deliberately set up in novels, or the "it happens" that is constantly told in modern life on earth.
The current situation can be completely explained by logic, probability and science, but Richard always feels that something is a little wrong, a bit... stiff.
But Richard did not continue to think about it, because the time was not yet ripe, or in other words, he did not want to take too much risk and go deep into an unknown area before he reached a certain height to prevent him from getting stuck in it and unable to extricate himself.
It still has to be done step by step.
"First of all, let's confirm whether the 'Griffon Colorful Bird' that keeps flying in the night sky and the 'Rainbow Bird' on the parchment are the same thing. If not, then you are really thinking too much. "Richard said to himself.
He looked up at the "Griffin Colorful Bird" in mid-air and was thinking about how to take action when he suddenly heard a voice behind him: "Hey, do you want to borrow my sword?"
"Um?"