"Are you from Eju? You brought a cat with you, and you even cooked it first." This was what Medanzuo asked Amon when he was camping at night. He has short golden-brown curly hair, fair skin, a high and straight nose bridge, and a very handsome appearance. In the eyes of most girls in this world, his smile must be very charming, and his teeth are very white and neat.
Amon asked puzzledly: "Why do you cook for the cats first, so you are the Ejus?"
Medanzo: "Eju people worship cats and regard cats as the incarnation of gods. Only in this way can they love a cat so much, don't you?" When he saw clearly that the magician who saved him was so When I was young, I was also surprised, but Amon didn't take the initiative to introduce his background.
Amon smiled and replied: "Oh, this cat is a friend of one of my elders, please take good care of it. I am indeed from Eju, and my name is Amon. I have learned magic since I was very young, but until now So far, you are only a second-level magician. Just now you said that you are from Baron City, the capital of the Baron Kingdom, why did you come to this deep mountain in Hatti?"
Since he had already exposed his magical skills just now in a hurry, he simply pretended to be a magician from Eju. Anyway, it was impossible for Mei Danzuo to verify his identity.
Medanzuo: "Hatti? This is in the territory of Baron!... Well, it is also possible that I made a mistake. There is no obvious landmark here. To tell you the truth, my great-grandfather was also a magician, but he was in I died here in the war a long time ago, and I came to find his remains. Dear magician, why did you come to such a difficult and remote place?"
Amon thought of something inexplicably, and he was stunned before replying: "My purpose of coming here is similar to yours. A high priest lost something here many years ago, and ordered me to find it, and told me that this is also a kind of experience. .”
Mei Danzuo blurted out: "Did you offend him by sending a young magician like you here?" Then he explained: "I didn't mean to offend you, I just said it casually."
Amon waved his hand indifferently: "This is indeed a punishment. I have done something bad myself, and I am willing to accept such a punishment."
Mei Danzuo said with a smile: "It is impossible for an ordinary high priest to come here through the mountains. He must have left something while flying in the air. If he is nearby, I can ask someone to help."
Amon said in surprise: "Looking for help? Who can I find here? Didn't you come to find the relics of your ancestors yourself?"
Mei Danzuo explained again: "I have been here several times, and I have met the largest dwarf tribe nearby. They should be the most familiar with this area. You can ask them to help you find things left in the mountains."
Amon: "Cavemen? You also deal with their tribes? What's going on today? How did you go to that water pool to disturb those iron-clad beasts? I've never seen that kind of mutated iron-clad beasts."
Mei Danzuo replied with some embarrassment: "Although I haven't found the remains of my ancestors, I have become acquainted with the dwarf tribe here and often exchanged things with them. This tribe has no other good things but can smelt refined iron embryos. It’s very valuable. And I’ve also needed money to travel to and from the mountains these past few years, so I’ve made some exchanges with them. This place may still be in the territory of Baron, so it’s not considered smuggling, right?”
Refined iron is officially controlled and sold in any country, and private transactions of this kind are suspected of breaking the law, but Amon is too lazy to meddle in this kind of business, so he asked casually: "Then you are here to find ore? Do you still want to smelt refined iron yourself?"
Mei Danzuo was taken aback: "Isn't this your first time here, how do you know that there is the best fine iron ore here?"
Amon shrugged and said, "It's indeed my first time here, but I've known for a long time that the finest iron ore can be found in the feces of iron armored beasts!"
Mei Danzuo was stunned, his expression became very strange under the light of the fire, and he cursed in a low voice before saying: "The so-called raw material of the best horse leather steel ore is the feces of iron armored beasts! That damn patriarch is not like that!" tell me."
Amon was also stunned: "Ah, so you don't know, how did they tell you?"
Mei Danzuo said bitterly: "The tribes here produce the best refined iron embryos, which are much better than ordinary refined iron. They are called horse leather steel in our place. You can make a lot of money if you take a small piece out of the mountain. , but the output is very small. I asked the patriarch if he could get more? The patriarch said that the ore is difficult to mine, and that there is a pool in the mountain. The silt deposited by the pool is rich in the best magegang ore. The words were so dangerous that none of their clansmen dared to come.
I thought to myself that I am also a middle-level warrior, and I should have no problem dealing with an armored beast king, so I came quietly by myself. I want to kill the Iron Armored Beastmaster so that those dwarves can also see how powerful I am. The patriarch didn't tell me that there were four of them, and he didn't tell me that the ore was the excrement of iron armored beasts. In the end, I almost lost my life here. Fortunately, I met you. "
Amon looked at him and couldn't help laughing out loud. The laughter became louder and louder, and then Medan Zuo also laughed. The two laughed at each other, and echoes echoed in the mountains at night. Schrödinger, who was dozing off, raised his head and gave the two people a dissatisfied look, as if saying—what's so funny! Shame or not
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After the sun rose the next day, Amon leaned on a tree branch and carried Schrödinger on his back, and continued to walk to the high place under the leadership of Medanzo. Although he didn't intend to ask the tribe of troglodytes to help him find Bell's whereabouts, it was always useful to inquire about places of note around here.
The clouds on the high mountain look like a floating sea from a distance, but they look like a misty fog when entering. Amon has almost passed through the clouds for the third time. Walking halfway, he suddenly heard movement in front of him, he paused with his staff and said, "Medanzuo, there seems to be a sound in front, it doesn't sound like an animal, it looks like human footsteps."
Mei Danzuo jumped onto a big rock, raised his sword and looked forward, and after a while suddenly shouted: "Link, you old bastard, come here quickly!... You have deceived me so badly, let's see how I deal with it!" you!"
A group of people came out from the woods at the turn of the mountain road, and the person at the head was what Mei Danzuo called "Immortal". He didn't look very old, he should only be around thirty. His skin is slightly darker but he is already considered the whitest among these people. He is wearing clothes made of animal skins and a pair of hemp straw shoes. He is the only one among these people who wears shoes, and he is also the patriarch of the cave dwelling savage tribe in the mountains.
As soon as Link saw Mei Danzuo, he hurried forward and said, "You have wronged me. I heard that you went to the cold pool where the Iron Armored Beast King lived to mine ore. It was dark and I couldn't come to you. I gathered the clan at dawn. The warriors in the world are here to rescue you."
Look at the more than 30 "warriors" behind Link, some of them are holding simple bows and arrows, some are holding spears with wooden handles and iron heads, and the weapons of several people are very interesting. A slender and rough flat iron bar, sharpened on one side and sharpened, it can be stabbed or chopped, but it is not shaped like a knife.
The stature of these people is not too short, but the patriarch Link said that they are the strongest warriors in the clan, and they should be the tallest, but they are about the same height as the average adult. It's not without reason that they are called dwarves.
As soon as Mei Danzuo saw Link, he jumped off the rock and tried to knock him on the head with the spine of his sword: "Wait until you come to save me, I've already been eaten by an iron armored beast! Didn't you say that there is an iron armored beast king? I Why did I meet four of them!"
Link let out an "ah" with his mouth wide open, and blocked it with a short staff in his hand. His short stick was made of some kind of beast's bone, and there was actually a divine stone inlaid on it, much like the magician's staff.
He looked Mei Danzuo up and down and said, "Can you come back safely? Yesterday you left quietly before you could speak clearly. I have repeatedly told you not to go without authorization. What you met was not the Iron Armored Beast King, but the guard." The big iron-clad beasts in the Beastmaster's lair, the Ironclad Beastmaster usually doesn't come out until late at night... Four big iron-clad beasts! Are you alright?"
Mei Danzuo took out a yellow-black five-inch-long pointed hook from his pocket, which was the "trophy" he had obtained yesterday. The animal claw he cut off with a single sword waved a little braggingly: "You guys Look at what this is! Fortunately, a noble magician helped me, and I cut off this sharp claw myself."
Everyone exclaimed, and Link looked at the claw in Mei Danzuo's hand with some envy, and asked curiously: "Magician, what magician? Is it your friend?"
Mei Danzuo replied proudly: "Not only my friend, but also my savior, you old guy who has no experience. You haven't even heard of magicians? You are much more powerful than your two moves! "
Only then did Amon come out from behind the big rock. These cave dwellers had never even heard of magicians, so they avoided the trouble of introducing themselves. Everyone only regarded him as Meidanzuo's friend and a guest in the tribe, who was welcomed to the mountain together with Meidanzuo.
This tribe really has the characteristics of "caveman savages". It was built on a flat half-slope under a low stone wall. There are many natural caves along the stone wall, which can be inhabited after artificial excavation. A fire was lit in the largest cave, and some members of the clan took turns to fetch firewood every day to keep the fire burning. It was a common source of fire for all the families of the clan.
Although the dwarves here already know how to make fire with flint, that pile of fire is also a symbol of the whole clan. The big cave with fire is equivalent to a temple in an ordinary town, and the open space in front of the cave entrance is also a place where the whole clan gathers. . There are also houses on the hillside not far from the stone wall, built of wood and thatch, with mud on the walls, simple but solid.
The people who live in the house are all people with higher status in the clan. It seems that Medanzuo is very respected here, and there is a house specially for him to live in. Amon also lives in this thatched house.
At dusk that day, there was a gathering in the tribe. A group of people bounced around a pile of firewood in the open space, passing the animal claw cut off by Medan Zuo to each other, imitating various chopping The movements were as if the animal claws were cut off by themselves, with an intoxicated look on their faces.
Amon and Medanzuo, who joined forces to fight the Ironclad Beast, sat in the most honorable position, right in front of the big hole where the fire was burning, with the patriarch Link. Medan Zuo whispered in Amon's ear: "This is the happiest time of the day for them. They can dance until the fire is extinguished before going back to sleep."
Amon also asked in a low voice: "What are they doing with that claw? Everyone seems to be drunk."
Medanzuo: "It's a kind of ritual, fantasizing about gaining the power to kill wild beasts, giving them confidence and courage, not having to be afraid when hunting, and being able to succeed every time, anyway, it's a kind of witchcraft prayer."
While talking, the sky was getting dark, and a dwarf took a branch to get fire in the big cave, and it seemed that he was going to light the firewood in the open space. Amon suddenly remembered something mentioned in the message left by the old lunatic, and stood up with a fine iron branch in his hand, and pointed to the distant firewood pile with his other hand.
A gust of wind whirled around the woodpile, and a bright light appeared in the wind, and the light turned into a filament of fire, which turned into a tongue-like jumping flame in the wind, and the flame ignited the firewood pile. Although it is only the simplest fire element summoning magic, but when combined with the air element magic, the effect is both magical and dazzling.
The dwarves who were dancing around the fire stopped, and the others who were sitting in a circle also stood up, and then Amon saw that everyone was prostrate and saluted towards him, with reverence and fear on their faces. Patriarch Link was also saluting him, and Amon heard him clearly saying: "Messenger of the gods, you have brought warmth and light!"
Seeing everyone doing this, Mei Danzuo stood up and bowed to Amon, but quietly squeezed his eyes and whispered: "You are really good, this hand is so beautiful! It's a pity that I am not a magician, otherwise It’s been played like this for a long time.”
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Introduction to the characters in this chapter—
Link: The patriarch of the caveman tribe, who knows a little simple magic, is also equivalent to the status of a tribal priest.