Xiao Gu was very depressed for a while, he didn't go to see a doctor, because the only doctor in Duke Town was the priest himself. Xiao Gu is qualified to learn divine arts, and practicing divine arts as a temple priest is one of the daily tasks, but not every priest is an excellent magician, it depends on the individual's aptitude and self-cultivation.
It took several years for Xiao Gu to wake up his power just at the beginning, and it was finally completed under the ceremony presided over by the great magician Ge Lie in the Shuya Temple, but so far he has barely reached the standard of a second-level magician. There are not many low-level magic spells, including blessing magic spells, the most important of which is healing magic spells.
The healing technique in the divine blessing technique is the most important training content for a priest of a village temple. This is not only a guarantee for him to gain the respect of the residents, but also a symbol of miracles.
It has been almost a month since he vomited blood and fainted in public. Master Xiao Gu used many healing techniques on himself. After recovering from it, there was no problem with his body, but he felt sluggish all the time, as if something was blocked in his heart. He had a heart disease that he had to get rid of, and finally when the time came, he called Ma Qi, a servant in the temple, after breakfast that day.
Xiao Gu is the only priest and clerk in the town, but he cannot be the only one in the temple. Many tasks are done by servants and assistants. Master Xiao Gu is pampered, and the work he usually handles himself is nothing more than registration. Ma Qi is his most capable assistant, helping to manage the daily affairs in the temple and managing other servants, and this person already has a third-level physical skill achievement.
Lord Xiao Gu is very amiable today, when he saw Ma Qi, he smiled and said, "Come here, sit down."
Ma Qi was a little flattered: "Sir, is it too impolite for me to sit at the same table with you?"
Master Xiaogu pretended to be displeased and said: "What are you talking about? You are my most capable assistant and most trusted partner. Is there anything wrong with sitting at the same table? Sit down quickly, or I will be angry! "
Ma Qi leaned over and sat down at the table, Xiao Gu pushed a plate of snacks on the table in front of him, it was a fresh wild fruit picked by the servants in the forest east of the town, it was sweet and sour. Ma Qi took one and ate it carefully. Xiao Gu smiled and asked, "Have you already reached the third level of physical skills? You are only one step away from the achievement of an intermediate warrior."
Ma Qi hurriedly replied: "I was just an ordinary miner in the town. It was you who told me that there are similar physical arts in the miner's skills, and you read me the books on practicing physical arts, so I can have this achievement. My lord Don't worry, according to your order, I didn't tell anyone else."
Xiao Gu smiled happily: "There is nothing to worry about. The person I trust the most is you. If you can become a middle-level warrior, I can go to the adults of the city-state to accommodate you. If you are lucky, you can Find a chance to make you a nobleman, or at least make you a warrior of the temple in this town and a deputy with the priesthood."
Ma Qi quickly stood up, pushed away the chair, stepped back and saluted: "Thank you, Mr. Xiaogu, I don't know how to repay you."
Xiao Gu waved his hand: "Sit down, sit down and talk... Ma Qi, have you figured out what I asked you to investigate a few days ago?"
Ma Qi took his seat again and replied seriously: "According to your instructions, I have been paying attention to Amon for the past ten days. In addition to his frequent visits to the old lunatic's house, he also went to the Black Fire Forest alone in the middle of the night. Hidden alley."
Xiao Gu frowned and said, "He is really courageous. A child enters the Black Fire Forest in the middle of the night? What is he going to do?"
Ma Qi shook his head and said: "I don't know." After finishing this sentence, he seemed to feel that such an answer was inappropriate, and after thinking about it, he said: "Did he go to find the mine core again, last time he picked it up in the black fire forest? Do you want to try your luck with multiple mine cores?"
Looking for mine cores in the middle of the night? Xiao Gu was puzzled, and asked in a low voice, "What else do I want you to do?"
Ma Qi also said in a low voice: "When Amon went out in the middle of the night, I went to his house three times, and the drunkard didn't notice at all. There are few and simple things in his house. You don't need to look through them at a glance. I found dozens of them. There are silver coins and two gold coins, according to your instructions, don’t touch anything until you find the sacred stones. Those sacred stones should be carried by Amon all the time, I remember they were wrapped in a sheepskin.”
Xiao Gu moved his body closer: "Ma Qi, tonight, I want you to do one thing..."
After some secret words, Ma Qi's face turned pale and his expression was a little stiff, and he didn't speak for a while. Xiao Gu stood up and walked behind him, reached out and patted his shoulder lightly and said, "The twenty sacred stones belong to you. As for the blue sacred stone, please enshrine it in the Temple of Goddess Mu Yun." Don’t be discovered by anyone, this is dedicated to the goddess. I won’t be there, and you didn’t give it to me, remember?”
Seeing that Ma Qi hadn't answered, Xiao Gu put his hand on his shoulder and said: "If you can become a middle-ranked warrior, I will definitely apply for the position of a temple warrior for you, so you don't have to pay taxes and can still go back to work." Receive the salary. As for the money, if it is given as a gift to the city-state lord, you may have the opportunity to become the third nobleman in this town. How you live is up to you, but don’t forget that right now, I am treating you as Be the most trusted assistant."
Ma Qi gritted his teeth, the flesh on his face twitched a few times, finally nodded and said: "My lord, I understand, everything is according to your order!"
Xiao Gu went to the corner and poured two glasses of wine, sat down again and handed a glass to Ma Qi, then shook his head seriously: "Wrong, you must remember that this is not my order! If someone finds out, you can only You said that you wanted to follow Amon, trying to find the place where he picked the ore core, but I didn't know."
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In the middle of the night in the deserted Black Fire Forest, Amon sat by the spring and practiced the summoning of water elements. He did not practice the magical arts taught by the old lunatic that day. After all, children's nature likes to play, and Amon regards the water element magic as a game. The water in the environment is controlled and condensed into tiny crystals, like a layer of mist, which floats on the water and changes into various shapes, which is very interesting!
Sometimes it is tiny water droplets, sometimes it is fine ice crystals, and sometimes it dissipates in the air.
Amon was having fun when he suddenly felt something was wrong. The muscles on his back tensed up, as if someone was staring at him. He stopped, quietly took out the Youlan Water Heart with his left hand, and held a stick beside him with his right hand. Crossing the gloomy black fire forest in the middle of the night, Amon certainly did not empty his hands. He brought a very special stick, which was the most valuable thing in his house besides the god stone.
Amon's father was an alcoholic, especially after the death of Amon's mother, but he was also the best blacksmith in Duke Town when he was young. The stick was a souvenir left by the alcoholic father many years ago. It looks like a branch that is not straight. Refined iron embryo.
The miners in Duke Town were forbidden to turn the processed iron into armor weapons, and no one taught them how to make them. What they produced were only iron embryos and refined iron embryos. The finest fine iron ore is not mined in the mine, but extracted from the excrement of a kind of armored beast living in the iron-rich mountains, which is very rare.
When Amon's father was young, in order to test his skills, he secretly collected the finest iron ore and smelted it to create such a raw material. Later, he never exchanged this "stick" for wine, but put it in the fire room as a fire stick for stirring coals. Every time Amon passed through the Black Fire Forest at night, he would hold this stick as a crutch, and it could also be used for self-defense.
The gloomy Blackfire Forest is not as dangerous as it looks. If you don't get lost, it's actually a very quiet place. But occasionally there will be hares and wild dogs, and they will flee far away when they hear people's voices. However, in the hungriest time, wild dogs may also attack people or flocks, so it is always good to be careful.
Holding a stick in his hand, Amon quietly looked around. The moonlight was quiet and silent, and he found nothing. Surrounded by black strange rocks and overgrown bushes, it is the most suitable environment for hiding, even if there is something hiding, it is difficult to see. For some reason, Amon always felt uneasy. He suddenly closed his eyes and clenched Youlan Water Heart with his left hand.
The blue water center emitted a faint blue light, but it was held by Amon and did not shine out. Unknowingly, a faint mist rose from the spring and floated in the surrounding jungle. With the help of Youlan Water Heart, Amon maximized the simplest water element summoning magic he knew, and found something was wrong!
Within the scope of the divine spell, the water mist in the air was quietly summoned and sensed by him. Amon could feel the shapes of stones and bushes amidst the water mist even when he closed his eyes. Behind him, about a few dozen steps away, there was a person ! This person was hiding behind a strange rock, with half of his head exposed and looking at him through the bushes. He was holding something familiar in shape, which was the most common miner's sledgehammer in Duke Town.
Elemental magic is usually not used for detection, because its sensing range is much smaller than that of detection magic, and the casting speed is also slow. If the opponent is a shrewd magician, he may be aware of it in an instant. The divine detection technique is a middle-level divine technique, the most typical of which is the puppet eye technique, which can detect situations in a large range and a long distance.
Amon still doesn't know what Detecting Divine Art is, and he has never even heard of Puppet Eye Art. But in doing so, he inadvertently used the simplest water element magic to achieve the effect of detecting magic, and it also conformed to the most basic principle of detecting magic. Ma Qi, who followed and lurked in the dark, didn't know that he had been exposed at this time.
Amon didn't move, and still sat there quietly. The night was getting deeper and deeper, and the surrounding cold seemed to be getting heavier and heavier. Ma Qi finally couldn't bear it anymore. He almost thought that Amon was sitting there and fell asleep, so he walked out of the bushes lightly with a sledgehammer.
A first-level samurai has extraordinary explosive strength, a second-level samurai usually needs agility in addition to strength, and reaching the third level of physical skills requires mastering the coordination of strength, speed, and endurance. The third-level samurai in Rod Dick's personal guards can pierce several cows with a single blow. Although Ma Qi has not received this kind of training, he still moves like a light civet cat with a heavy sledgehammer, and he hardly emits a word. Little voice.
There was a small open area beside the spring. Ma Qi walked out of the bushes and came to a position that Amon could see when he turned his head. It was only more than twenty steps away. At this time, his eyes were fierce, and he rushed over suddenly, swinging the mining hammer with his right hand. For a third-level warrior, this distance can be reached in the blink of an eye, so Amon has no time to react, and Amon seems to have no reaction at all.
However, just after Ma Qi took two steps, an accident happened. His foot slipped and his body suddenly swayed. He tried his best to stabilize his figure, but the other foot slipped again. Due to the inertia of rushing forward, he could no longer stand still, and fell to the ground with a plop, and the hammer slipped into the spring water all the way out of his hand. When he reacted and wanted to get up, he was suddenly hit hard on the shoulder, and almost passed out without pain.
Ma Qi raised his head reluctantly, and saw Amon standing in front of him, holding a branch in his hand and pointing at his face, and stepped on his shoulder with the other foot. The child's strength is so great that he couldn't turn over because of the step on him. The ground next to him was so cold that he couldn't help shivering, but Amon asked in surprise: "Ma Qi, how could it be you? You followed in the middle of the night What am I doing here?"
Ma Qi deserves to be unlucky today. Under normal circumstances, if a third-level warrior is on guard and prepared, he doesn't have to be afraid of a new-level magician in close combat. But Ma Qi never dreamed that Amon would know magic. Although it is only the simplest first-order water element magic, the effect of controlling and using it is so abnormal!
After Amon discovered Ma Qi, a slippery layer of ice quietly condensed on the way he came over, and covered the reflection with mist to make it difficult to detect. If Ma Qi walked slowly, the situation might be better, and he rushed hard It must be a heavy slip and fall. This is the power of divine art. It doesn't need to be very powerful, but it is another kind of power to master. Amon also used Youlan Water Heart.
Ma Qi was very annoyed, and stretched out a hand to grab Amon's ankle, while shouting: "Amon, let me go! You can come here, but I can't come? You child, how can I come here?" But so rude?"
"Of course you can come to the Black Fire Forest, but why did you follow me in the middle of the night?" Amon didn't let go, and tapped the back of Ma Qi's hand lightly with the "branch" in his hand. Ma Qi gritted his teeth in pain, his bones were not broken, only then did he realize that the stick in Amon's hand was not a branch, it was harder and heavier than pig iron.
Ma Qi panicked, and suddenly realized that in this place, the stick in Amon's hand could kill him with a single slam, and no one would notice. His original idea was to kill Amon quietly in a secluded place, but he didn't expect the situation to be reversed now, and he quickly explained: "Amon, I followed you just to see where you picked up those ore cores of? I also want to try my luck!"
Amon narrowed his eyes: "You think I'm here to find the mine core, it's midnight?"
Ma Qi: "Isn't it? Otherwise, what are you doing in the Black Fire Forest every day?"
Of course, it was impossible for Amon to tell Ma Qi that he was learning magic in private, and suddenly he realized one more thing. He must have noticed something when he used magic just now to make Ma Qi fall down. This is a secret that cannot be revealed. He raised the iron rod in his hand, but did not drop it, and asked coldly, "Tian Tian? Have you followed me many times? Why did you rush over with a sledgehammer just now?"