Druid Pittman's shout stunned Gawain for a moment. He didn't realize what the other party meant by the life response for a while, and he didn't realize until two seconds later that he was talking about the ball.
"When the amber was bounced off just now, there was a weak life reaction inside the sphere," Pittman repeated again, and carefully moved to the side of the sphere, reaching out his hand to take out a dry and wrinkled leaf from his pocket, while While rubbing the petiole, he continued, "But the life reaction lasted for a moment and then disappeared... I have never seen such a strange phenomenon..."
While rubbing her ass, Amber looked at the stone ball in disbelief: "What the hell... is this thing really alive?"
The three soldiers who were still trapped on the stone ball suddenly became more nervous.
Gawain, on the other hand, was more suspicious of the professional skills of an unreliable druid: "You must be wrong, right?"
Pittman glared immediately: "Impossible! I'm a real druid, a professional from the Spirit of Nature School, how could I make mistakes in such a basic field!"
Gao Wen: "...Aren't you from the Heart of the Forest School?"
Pittman was taken aback: "Did you say that last time?"
Immediately afterwards, he looked at Amber: "The last time you told people which school I belong to?"
Gao Wen: "..."
"Anyway, my induction is not wrong." Noticing the awkward atmosphere, even with Pittman's face, he couldn't hold it any longer, so he could only change the subject abruptly, "No matter which school of druids, it is very important to sense the vitality." It's the foundation, without which you can't cast any druid spells...and you see, that's the proof."
As he spoke, he showed Gao Wen the dry and wrinkled leaf in his hand: the leaf had become full and plump at some point, and now it was showing a verdant green state, as if it had just been plucked from a branch. Same.
"Although it looks lifeless on the surface, there is a certain form of life reaction inside..." Pittman walked around the stone ball, saying very seriously and professionally, "This seems to be a very deep sleep, and it may be Is it because it has not yet become a complete form?"
Amber blinked her eyes, and she didn't know what thought was turning in her head, and suddenly said: "Wait a minute, isn't this an egg?!"
"Egg?" Gawain was taken aback, thinking that if the thing that Gondor researchers had studied for a long time in the mountains a thousand years ago was really an egg, then this matter would be very interesting, but then he became even more curious. Confused, "What creature's eggs are so big?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly had an idea, and answered casually: "Could it be a dragon's egg?"
Amber and Pittman fell silent immediately. They looked at the big stone ball in the middle of the tent with horrified and nervous faces, while Gao Wen rubbed his chin and fell into an inexplicable entangled state—what kind of ancient story? , Obtaining dragon eggs or something after crossing a different world, this kind of routine was out of fashion several years before he traveled, did this kind of prehistoric routine actually fall on his own head
But then he thought about something else—even if it was a dragon egg, God knows how long it took to hatch, judging from the lifespan of tens of thousands of years in the legend of those giant dragons, I'm afraid it would be wrong for them to hatch an egg It has to be calculated according to the millennium. Picking up a dragon egg is probably the way to hatch for a lifetime, and I may not have enough for a lifetime, and I have to hatch the eggs for generations. I was taken away, and I didn't necessarily say thank you when I left... Maybe this is the usual routine of giant dragons
But if you really want to count it by a thousand years, this "egg" was taken out of a relic with a history of one thousand years, maybe it is about to hatch
Probably because he suddenly came into contact with such a familiar routine, which activated some memories deep in his mind. Gawain just stood there and fell into a state of serious distraction. Amber next to him called him several times, but there was no response. In the end, the half-elf lady simply Jumped up and bumped his head on Gao Wen's chest: "Wake up!!"
"Ugh—"
Gao Wen was not wearing armor now, and he was almost knocked out of his breath. After waking up, he immediately stretched out his hand to grab Amber's ear: "There's something wrong with you, you hit someone with the head so directly!"
"Nonsense, you left all the metal objects on your body before you let me in. I need a warhammer and still need to hit my head?" Amber nimbly dodged Gawain's claws this time, and retorted confidently, "What happened to you suddenly froze?"
Although he really wanted to ask the other party what he was going to do if he had a warhammer, Gawain still turned his attention back to the stone ball: "I'm thinking if this thing is really a dragon egg... how should I put it like this?" Turn off the damn 'energy field'."
Three more soldiers were sucked here and couldn't move.
"The ability to manipulate the power of metal can affect the flow of magic power. According to legend, there is a subclass of dragons called metal dragons or 'earth dragons' that do have this ability," said half of the scholars (the other half are cooks, Thief, appraiser, and fortune teller) Pittman touched his chin and began to fiddle with the unknown knowledge in his mind, "If you really associate it like this, the probability that this thing is a dragon egg is indeed very high."
Gao Wen didn't expect the old man to have something in his head, so he showed interest: "Oh? Then do you know how to stop this power?"
"Then I don't know," Pittman spread his hands, and continued before Gawain hit someone, "and it's useless even if I know—if it's really a dragon's egg, it's just me, a low-level druid. How could it be possible to deal with it? The dragon is a legendary species, don't look at it as an egg, a creature like a dragon has the magic power equivalent to a human middle-level magic class when it is still an egg."
Gao Wen was dumbfounded: What is the meaning of this god-damned setting? Would it be better for human beings to spend half their lives tossing one fertilized egg
At this time, Amber suddenly looked over: "Aren't you a legendary hero? Cutting a magister is like cutting beans. Can't you handle it?"
"The abilities of knights and legal professions are different." Gawain said with a frown. He knew how much moisture his "legendary level" had, although he had been getting used to this body more and was learning. Mastering the abilities contained in the body and memory, but after all, the long sleep consumes too much power, plus the combat experience is not my own, it is quite difficult to integrate, I am afraid that there is more power that can be used in actual combat As a discount, it may be okay to be the number one master in today's territory, but if you rush out of Novice Village, you may die on the way...
What's more, the egg in front of me (assuming it's really an egg) is completely out of the realm of knight skills.
But after thinking about it carefully, Gao Wen still decided to give it a try: "Let me try it first."
Knights' abilities are indeed not as varied and convenient as mages' abilities. Most of the skills memorized in Gawain's mind are used to draw knives and cut people. It's not like mages who have seven or eight flavors in just one water making skill. But to deal with this egg in front of him... Maybe some basic abilities can also come in handy.
Since this egg not only has a life reaction, but also can interact with magic power, how about using magic power to communicate with it
In this world where everything is driven by magic power, any extraordinary profession knows the basic use of magic power. Knights also use magic power, but it is different from the way mages use it.
But at the most basic level of perception, guidance, etc., there is not much difference in the use of magic power between knights and mages.
Gawain came to the stone ball and pressed his hands on its rough surface, and the three soldiers who were sucked on the stone ball suddenly turned their heads a little nervously and looked over: They didn't know what method their lord was going to use to deal with this " "Stone Ball", and I don't know whether my life will become a victim in the process. Although the life and death of almost all civilians in this era are controlled by the nobles, but when this time comes, they still can't help being nervous stand up.
Gao Wen noticed the eyes of the soldiers, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm safe."
After that, he no longer cared about the reaction of the three of them, but instead concentrated on sensing the flow of magic power.
Another "vision" appeared in his mind.
That is the distribution of magic power within a certain range around them. Although it is not as clear as what mages "see" in meditation, it is still enough to indicate the flow of magic power. He saw that the inside of the tent seemed to be shrouded in a very thin layer of mist, and there were faintly subtle flows in the mist, and there were several more obvious "gathering points" in the mist, two of which were slightly stronger. Amber and Pittman were nearby, and three other very weak magic groups gathered together, obviously the three soldiers who were ordinary people.
And what about the "stone ball" that was guessed to be a dragon's egg
It is a pitch-black black hole.
In the "field of view" of magic perception, the center of the tent is absolutely black as if a piece of space has been cut out of thin air. It is pitch black without any reflections and no details. There are only two possibilities: either, the stone ball It is a substance that should never exist in this world and has no magic power at all. Or, the stone ball actively shields all magic power effects on it.
The first one can be ruled out, because Hetty once sensed a magical reaction from the stone ball. Although that reaction was very strange and different from the known forms of magic, it did exist.
So this stone ball should have entered some kind of "self-protection" state now
While guessing, Gao Wen carefully guided his spirit and moved closer to the darkness.
Amber has already proved the strength of this layer of "self-protection" by using his face to detect landmines. Too strong stimulation may cause him to be "bounced away" like Amber, so he must be careful and careful.
In this way, after touching it very carefully, he found that he did not trigger the "rebound" of the stone ball.
He didn't know whether a "dragon egg" had the ability to communicate, so Gao Wen could only try to strengthen the idea of communication in his mind.
At first, this was unresponsive.
But after a few seconds, he heard some buzzing voices echoing in his mind, and it wasn't an auditory hallucination.
The stone ball was whispering to itself.
Gao Wen's spirit immediately cheered up, and he almost lost the link due to his emotional turmoil, but soon he re-stabilized this fragile connection, and sent his first greeting: "Hello, I have no malicious intentions, You can call me Gawain."
And the mental fluctuations from the stone ball became more and more clear, and finally changed from a whisper like a broken thought to a clearly audible sentence, it was a voice with a metallic sound, and it was impossible to distinguish between male and female : "Is it safe outside now?"
Gao Wen suppressed the excitement in his heart, and tried his best to convey his sincerity: "This place is safe, you can rest assured."
"If you don't believe me, get out."
Gao Wen: "..."