After dinner, the master and apprentice left the small building, went out of the small town, and came to a remote dark forest.
The woods are desolate and uninhabited, and only the strange sound of animals skimming over the grass can be vaguely heard.
Eining was completely black, holding a short cane in his hand, and lightly touched the ground.
A circle of silver ripples immediately spread from the end of the hand stick, crossed Garen's feet in an instant, spread in all directions, and soon disappeared into the distant woods.
It wasn't until the ripples dissipated that Eining raised the cane, turned it lightly, and a silver engraved inscription suddenly appeared on the cane. It is very clear at night.
"Now you can start the test." Einin whispered, "I have placed isolation spells around, and mortals can't see here. Although your fluorescent butterfly totem is only an auxiliary totem, it can be replaced at any time in the future. But it is still yours. My first totem has a certain special meaning. I can show you some unique characteristics of the totem. Are you ready?"
Garen stood opposite him, dressed in gray and black, and nodded solemnly. He was holding a big bottle in his hand, and curled up inside was his first totem, the Fluorescent Butterfly.
"I can feel that the totem is like an extra organ of mine, an arm, very flexible and convenient. You can choose to control it, or you can choose to give him a simple instruction for him to complete by himself. This feeling is amazing." he whispered. At the same time open the cap of the bottle.
Whoosh!
With a flash of blue shadow, the fluorescent butterfly jumped out of the bottle and slowly landed on Garen's shoulder. Like a huge blue shawl, it glows with light blue fluorescence at night.
Eining clapped his hands, and a white lynx slowly came out from behind.
It is 1.5 meters long, like a smaller leopard, it walks silently, its shoulders are raised left and right, and it greedily licks its lips from time to time. At night, its eyes glow with a faint green light.
Einin reached out and rubbed the bobcat's head.
"This is my auxiliary totem, Lynx." He smiled, "As long as you can support the auxiliary totem, you can make as many as you want, anyway, it is supported by your own talent. Generally, silver lamp masters can only support one Two. Stronger four or five. Because auxiliary totems are simple in structure and easy to make, they are generally used as consumable tools."
He glanced at the blue butterfly on Garen's shoulder.
"If it's your kind, it should be a little bit more."
Garen nodded and said frankly.
"I can feel that my spirit can support a few more, about two or so."
"In other words, you can still have two auxiliary totems. If you add the core totems, you will have four totems. This is the limit of your talent." Einin nodded. "Okay, let's start, let's see how your fluorescent butterfly is doing in actual combat?"
"good."
The two stopped talking. At the same time, retreat a few steps back and give up the field to the two totems.
Meow! !
The white lynx arched up and let out a cry between a cat and a leopard. Its green eyes stared at the fluorescent butterfly flying opposite.
The lynx began to slowly revolve around the fluorescent butterfly.
Fluorescent Butterfly fluttered its wings, flying higher and higher, as if it did not intend to confront the bobcat head-on.
Suddenly, the Fluorescent Butterfly pulled upwards, and with a meow, a white shadow soared into the air, passed through its previous position, and flew into the air.
The fluorescent butterfly immediately flew up in a curve, shaking from side to side.
laugh!
It dodged another pounce from a white shadow, and calmly landed on a tree branch.
The white lynx jumped into the air twice, and seemed to be a little annoyed instinctively. It paced and circled under the tree where the fluorescent butterfly was parked, making a low whining sound from time to time.
Suddenly, its eyes sharpened, its limbs grabbed the tree trunk, and it jumped up the tree with its strength.
Even the bark of the blue tree trunk was scratched to pieces, and four white marks appeared under its claws on the neat and flat tree trunk. The lynx pounced on the fluorescent butterfly with lightning speed.
Click!
The branch broke, and the fluorescent butterfly fluttered up, flying high, but as soon as the white shadow leaped up after it, held it down with one claw, and fell lightly to the ground.
But the bobcat hadn't taken a few steps when it wobbled with the fluorescent butterfly in its mouth and fell to the ground with a snap.
"It's over." Einin clapped his hands and walked over. "It's a draw. The lynx can bite the fluorescent butterfly as long as it exerts its strength. But it was also infected with the poisonous powder in several pounces. The system in its body was damaged and it couldn't move anymore."
"So I still made a good choice?" Garen also came over and asked.
"To be exact, you did a good job. A real fluorescent butterfly can't dodge the lynx's pounce so easily. It has already won the first cull." Eining shook his head and smiled. "However, the main ability of the fluorescent butterfly, poison powder, is used for self-protection. Its flying speed is good, and it can fly in the rain. It still has a good detection effect in complex terrain. It's just that the concealment is not good."
"Indeed." Garen nodded in agreement, "It emits blue fluorescent light at night, it's really not concealed enough."
"This is just your first totem, you can choose to change it in the future. There is no rush." Einin waved his hand, "There is another key thing, about the totem."
He raised his handcuff and lightly pointed it in front of Garen.
The point of the battle slapped against Garen's calf.
"Huh?" Garen showed a strange expression instead. "This is."
He felt that the tip of the spear did not touch the skin of his calf, but seemed to be blocked by something.
He looked carefully at the point of the battle, there was a transparent light blue film between it and the trousers.
"This is the light of the totem." Einin withdrew his staff. "It is a protective force field fed back to the owner after the totem is formed. It covers and surrounds the owner's whole body without any dead ends."
"This is the light of the totem?" Garen stretched out his hand, and saw the extremely thin layer of light blue light stretched out as he stretched out his hand, like a deformable water film, which was amazing. "How protective is it?"
"It's usually more than twice the size of the totem itself." Einin smiled, "Do you know how this came about?"
Garen shook his head and waited intently for the teacher's answer.
"A silver lamp master has many totems, and each totem will give the owner a protective force field. The superposition of such force fields is definitely much stronger than the force field of a single totem. Moreover, the protection of the light of the totem itself is stronger than that of a single totem. It's stronger than the totem itself." Ening paused, "That's why the battles between silver lamp masters are all carried out with totems, and generally they don't attack the master first."
Garen understood.
"Indeed, in this case, the silver lamp master is actually much more protective than the totem. The most important thing is to solve the totem first."
"That's it." Einin raised his hand, and the white lynx on the ground turned into a white light and flew back behind him.
The fluorescent butterfly also flew up again, fell into the big bottle in Garen's hand, and he stuffed it in and covered it.
Eining looked up at the night after seeing him put away.
"It's still early, let's go back and talk while walking."
"Okay, teacher." Garen nodded.
The two walked slowly towards the town along the returning route.
Eining leaned on his cane and watched Garen carefully walking ahead to explore the road, lest he step into a puddle or deep pit. A gratified smile suddenly appeared.
"Garon, the ability of the totem itself will not harm the owner. You have to remember. In addition, almost the vast majority of silver lamp masters, their auxiliary totems are no different from real creatures. There is no difference in strength. Any augmentation. As you see with the form species."
"A lynx is a lynx, and a fluorescent butterfly is a fluorescent butterfly? They are the same as the original creatures, and the auxiliary totems are rarely enhanced, right?" Gallon understood.
"That's right. But the core totem is different." Eining sighed, "For example, my core totem white bear, in addition to the super strength of the white bear itself, he also has thicker fur than ordinary white bears, which can resist super strong sharps injury."
"Teacher, your white bear shouldn't be an ordinary bear?" Garen asked in a low voice.
"Naturally." Eining nodded, "My lineage specializes in three kinds of animals: giant polar bears, black cheetahs, and tusk tigers. Giant polar bears are indeed not ordinary bears, but large polar bears from the bitter cold regions of the north. It's the animal overlord there."
Garen nodded knowingly.
Eining continued: "This kind of super strong fur has been continuously strengthened by us from generation to generation. It is much stronger than the defense of ordinary giant white bears. Ordinary bears will not have any accidents when dealing with it. They will be completely defeated. So you If you want to choose a core totem, it is best to choose a core totem that has accumulated, so that you can go further on the basis of the predecessors. Instead of starting from scratch again."
He sighed: "You have to understand that in the world of silver lamp masters, without strength, even self-protection is a problem."
Garen nodded silently. He suddenly remembered the large number of silver lamp masters who died in the war.
In the two consecutive catastrophes, the first war broke out between the Royal Alliance and the Heitian Society, and hundreds of silver lamp masters died.
The second war broke out between the Heitian Society and the Dihua Society, and thousands of silver lamp masters died.
In the end, the remaining silver lamp masters are less than one-third of the thousand in the world. A large amount of knowledge is lost because there is no record. In the era of silver lamp masters, except for the most peak part of knowledge, it will eventually become a situation where there are only a few lines of inheritance.
And Einin was also affected and killed in the first war.
"Okay, let's not talk about this. Go back and start learning the three basic techniques from me." Eining smiled, "These three basic techniques are actually very simple. The difficulty is here." He pointed Point to your own head.
"Is it the accumulation of knowledge?"
"Yes. Silver lamp masters with insufficient knowledge can't even analyze the weakest bugs. And silver lamp masters with sufficient knowledge can hardly analyze creatures." Eining replied with a smile. "I will give you the three basic spells. Then you can enter my underground library and study on your own. During the period, if you want, I will teach you the knowledge I have about giant white bears."
Eining looked at Garen. Originally, he just planned to lead this little guy to the beginning. But when he saw his master-level precision drawing, the balance in his heart suddenly fell on this guy.
(end of this chapter)