Schrödinger put down his bones as if he was a little unhappy, turned around and ran down the mountain wall, and soon bounced up again, opening his mouth and spitting out the pupil of the earth. Amon quickly put away the pupil of the earth and shouted: "Schrödinger, let's go!"
From the bushes under the mountain wall came the roar of the Ironclad Beast King, mixed with the sound of shrubs and dwarf trees being broken and swept away. It seemed that this ferocious beast was quite angry. Amon turned around and disappeared on a high place. Before leaving, Schrödinger still reluctantly picked up the bone-shaped thing and jumped into his leather pocket.
When the Beastmaster returned to the pool, the four big iron-clad beasts showed their heads tremblingly from the bushes, with only the frozen pool and the entrance of the nest above the water in front of them. The armored beast king crawled across the ice and entered the lair, and then let out an earth-shattering roar, which shook the nearby ice to make a slight cracking sound.
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On the path among the high mountains and dense forests under the cover of clouds and mist, Link, with a pale face and grinning teeth, was discussing something anxiously with Mei Danzuo: "That guy is really powerful. He chased us so far. Fortunately, he didn't run on the mountain road." Let's hurry up, we shouldn't be chasing after we leave the territory... Mr. Amon is still at the pool, what should I do, I'll go back and gather the warriors of the whole clan to meet him?"
Mei Danzuo: "Is it too late for you to gather the people in the clan? Besides, can those so-called warriors in your clan hold back the beast king's tail? We lured the beast king away, and the remaining four big armored Beast Amon can deal with it, so it should be no problem to get away, his ability is far greater than the two of us."
Link gasped and said, "You're right. Mr. Amon has no problem dealing with the four big iron-clad beasts. I'm afraid he might run into the iron-clad beast king on the way back."
Mei Danzuo spat at him: "I thought Amon was as stupid as you. The iron-clad beast king ran and roared all the way, and he could hear such a loud noise from a long distance away, so he made a detour to avoid it."
The cold sweat on Link's forehead was still wet, but he was still very unconvinced and asked, "Why do you say I'm stupid?"
Mei Danzuo grabbed his animal skin skirt: "Aren't you stupid, who is stupid? Who told me that the iron-clad beast king is as powerful as four big iron-clad beasts combined? Neither of us blocked its blow, thanks to Amon Cover us and run away."
Link leaned on a stone by the side of the road, shrinking his body down: "Take it easy, I'm hurt!... An old man in our tribe told me, I didn't know the truth would be like this!"
Mei Danzuo snorted: "The old man? How old! Could it be that he has competed with the Iron Armored Beast King? He was talking nonsense, and you, the patriarch, believed it, and almost killed us both! I will call that man here to ask Ask, listen to what he said?"
Link's facial features were wrinkled into a ball: "I can't ask, the person who told me died last year... Let's not talk about this, Amon hasn't come back yet, should we quietly go back to meet him?... I feel Well, just now you suffered from ignorance of the situation, but with your swordsmanship, you should be able to withstand it for a while."
"If you are ready and prepared, the two of you can indeed resist for a while, but you still have to run fast, otherwise you will die! ... Link, where did you get the news that the Iron-clad Beastmaster is not difficult to deal with?" Ah Meng's voice suddenly came from behind the stone, and with the sound he walked around the stone and came to the path.
"You're back! I knew you'd be fine with your abilities!" The two shouted in surprise and joy. Link held his arms and bared his teeth and said again: "The messenger of the gods, no, God Amon! I have explained it just now. The old man who told me how powerful the Iron Armored Beastmaster is died last year!"
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I wanted to go to the pool to practice my hand and show off my prestige, but it turned out to be a trick. One of Link's arms was broken, but fortunately, Medanzuo used a splint to fix him on the road, so let's take it easy after returning home.
Link fell ill after returning home, moaning and moaning all day long, not only his arms were uncomfortable, but his whole body seemed to be wrong, there was no good place left. While Amon was teaching Link some time ago, he also practiced simple low-level healing magic. These days, he often helped Link cure his "illness".
However, he found that Link's "disease" was very strange. His healing magic could only alleviate his suffering, but could not eliminate his symptoms. Link's problems are constant, either today it hurts here or tomorrow, it's like being cursed by some god. Amon recalled his experience in Duke Town. For a while, all kinds of old injuries he suffered recurred, and even the old lunatic couldn't heal.
This is not a disease, but the test that a first-level warrior must face when he is promoted to a second-level warrior after awakening the power of two sides of one body—the purity of the body. This kind of test is coming at the same time as the first-level magician is promoted to the second-level magician. Link's test came so quickly, of course, it has something to do with the incomplete earth element magic that he has learned since he was a child. The foundation is still good of.
But Link's foundation on the other hand is relatively poor, and his body is not as good as Amon. Amon's strong body not only benefited from the miners' training in Duke Town, but also from the mysterious cold pool for bathing and purification. The living environment of the dwarf tribe in the wild is very harsh, and they have suffered countless injuries, big and small. Some injuries appear to be healed on the surface, but hidden dangers are still left in the body, and they flare up continuously when this test comes.
Fortunately, Link was the son of the former patriarch since he was a child, and he didn't experience too many dangers in the dwarf tribe, otherwise this level would be even more difficult.
Now that Amon thought of the reason, he told Link the truth, he must use a tenacious will to overcome all kinds of suffering and troubles, and don't give up physical training. This is a test and a threshold. After passing it, you can have the achievement of a second-level magician, and at the same time, you can practice second-level physical skills.
Link was terrified at first, suspecting that there was some kind of strange poison on the Ironclad Beast King's tail, or that he had been hit by some unknown curse, so he was relieved after hearing what Amon said. Although he was still moaning and moaning with his arms raised, Link still insisted on practicing gymnastics every day, and often went to Mei Danzuo for advice.
Link was exercising with his "sickness", and Medanzo was not feeling well these days, and he actually caught a cold. Mei Danzuo really suffered from a minor illness, and felt that everything was wrong, and he always felt a sense of powerlessness, which was completely different from the previous few days when he was full of energy and had nowhere to vent his energy. Since Amon can heal divine spells, he also came to Amon for medical treatment.
The situation of Medan Zuo made Amon ponder for a long time, and finally he vaguely confirmed one thing, he also encountered the test of "purity of the body".
Mei Danzuo is already a fourth-level warrior, and he has passed this test unintentionally. When he is awakened by the power of one body and two sides, when he goes through this test again, it is much easier than Link. I caught a cold by the pool for a few days and fell ill. Amon told Mei Danzuo similar words, and if he persisted, he could become a second-level magician. Mei Danzuo was overjoyed.
The second test of these two people came so quickly, which surprised Amon a little, but it is not unreasonable to think about it carefully. They have been practicing incomplete divine arts and regular physical arts for a long time. Once they are awakened with the power of two sides of one body, it is not difficult to reach the peak of level one achievement.
Seeing that the two "students" have almost reached the same level as him, the "teacher" Amon also has troubles and troubles. The disaster predicted by the old lunatic has not appeared for a long time, and he can't see the message left in the pupil of the earth. Whether it is a second-level divine art or a second-level physical art, he has already cultivated to the peak state, but he has not waited for " Firmness of Faith" is a test.
Could it be that the old lunatic's guess was wrong? Amon was also a little confused. When practicing the most basic meditation of divine arts these days, he was always restless and unable to calm down. His strength hardly increased, as if the achievement of divine arts had come to an end forever.
On the contrary, Schrödinger has been very happy these days, always running around the village during the day. People respect this cat very much, and regard it as the servant of the gods. It goes without saying that it eats and drinks well. The lazy and greedy fat cat in Duke Town finally had the time to feel proud. It lived very well in the cave dwelling savage tribe, and even the color of its coat became shiny and clean.
Schrödinger took out a bone-shaped thing from the Ironclad Beastmaster's lair, put it in his grass nest after returning, and even held it down with one paw when he was sleeping. Amon also took it out and looked at it. This thing is oblate, slender, and curved, with one pointy and the other blunt, reminiscent of the shape of a ship on a temple mural.
Seeing this thing, Amon subconsciously touched his ribs, it was too much like a human rib! Its texture is completely different from ordinary bones, it is light and weightless, but hard beyond imagination, even a sharp iron knife can't scratch a trace. Its surface is as smooth as a polished white stone. If it was a bone, it would have decayed long ago and should not be like this.
Amon didn't study it to understand, anyway, it was picked up by Schrödinger, so let's put it in its grass nest. If it was another time, Amon might still try to use various methods to study, but he has not been so interested recently, he seems absent-minded in everything he does, always easily irritable and distracted, even walking and seeing a bird flying by will be cranky , but it seems like nothing.
In such a state, it is impossible to practice divine arts. Is it because he suffered setbacks at the Iron Armored Beast King for the first time, which hurt the boy's confidence? One night, Amon sat in the room and practiced meditation again, but he was still unable to settle down and enter that state of concentration. All kinds of messy thoughts flooded in, and he couldn't help but recall all kinds of things in the distant town of Duke.
He was thinking about how his father was living and how much alcohol he drank these days? What is the catastrophe predicted by the old lunatic, and how will Duke Town be affected by this disaster? Thinking about it, he naturally couldn't practice divine meditation. Realizing this, Amon sighed, but heard Schrödinger sighing in the grass nest as well.
This sigh seemed to remind Amon of something, he suddenly slapped his head and said to himself: "Why am I so stupid! Isn't this the test of practicing divine arts? A firm belief is the stability of the soul, and it is also a firm belief! "