Volume 1: The Land of the Dead Chapter 26: A Calm Morning
In the Necromantic Underworld, which is shrouded in dark clouds all day long, it is a troublesome thing to tell when it is morning by the sky, and the first glimmer of light cast by the clouds in the early morning is only a bright spot in the sky, and it is difficult to dispel the night that covers the earth.
In the legend of the undead, the clouds that cover the sky are fantastical creatures called Akbar, born from the light of the first bloom of the plane, and wander like a mayfly in the endless void of the plane. One day, it caught a glimpse of the sun that belonged to this part of the world, and the greedy Akbar coveted the sun's brilliance and finally waited for an opportunity to devour it, so that winter came, and all beings withered.
The god who saw everything discovered it all. In order to punish it, the gods turned Akbar's body into a cloud of light, and every time it roared angrily, lightning struck it, and the light sent out brought light to the earth, and then it was the day of the underworld, and every time it repented, there would be a strong wind to soothe its wounds, and then it was the night of the underworld, so that the earth returned to the order of time, so that the bizarre legend fascinated Roger.
"Having said that," Alway rubbed his hands ill-willedly, looking at Roger, who was dozing off with his head hanging in front of him, "That's why you lost the tent during your vigil and let us sleep in the open?!"
The sleepy-eyed Roger yawned, and he didn't care about taking care of the hair draped over his shoulders, but just tied it into a ponytail with his hands, and in the face of the nervous Elway, Roger didn't have much energy to say: "It's not that yesterday in order to bring you out, my mental strength was squeezed dry, and I haven't recovered yet, and I have arranged a vigil for the sick number, you are inhumane, okay." ”
"I'll arrange for you to hold up for a while before dawn, and then you lose the tent we slept in with a squint? Roger, you are a pit!" Elway, who was holding his arms, mercilessly counted Roger who was still half-asleep and half-awake, seeing that Roger did not have the slightest intention of introspection, Elway angrily ran to the side to pack his luggage.
After dealing with Alway, who was getting closer to his housekeeper's mother-in-law, Roger bent down to pick up the water bag, poured a large mouthful of water, raised his head and rinsed his mouth, still feeling groggy in his head, Roger simply snapped his fingers, and a ball of water suddenly appeared above Roger's head, and then fell suddenly with a bang, drenching Roger into a soup chicken.
"Whew~ It's sober. Roger, who was drenched in the morning, shivered all over his body by the cold wind in the morning, and suddenly became energetic, and opened his eyes just in time to see Ryan looking at the magic himself released casually with an envious expression.
After yesterday's explanation of magic along the way, although there were still some doubts, it did not prevent Ryan from learning the formal theory of magic, and one night was enough for Roger to hand him the simplest magic model of the six elements. However, given that Ryan still has a habit of releasing magic directly out of his body, he still has a long way to go before he can unleash true magic.
Seeing Roger look over, Ryan, who was in a trance, scratched his head embarrassedly, remembering that he still had something to do, and hurriedly walked up to Roger, and said, "Brother Roger, I just walked around our camp and found messy beast footprints over there, it seems that the tent was stolen by the group of zombie monkeys who have been making trouble around here." ”
Hearing this, Roger straightened his face, startled Ryan, and hurriedly asked, "Is that lost tent important?" I know the nest of the monkeys, we can ..... it."
Before Ryan could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Roger in a serious manner, "These are small things, mainly other problems. ”
"I'm only sixteen this year, doesn't calling me big brother call me old, come and be good, call me Roger Oba...... Oh, Elway, do you have a grudge against my head!"
Finally slapped Roger's head hard as he wished, and the satisfied Elway ignored Roger, who was fangs and claws, and said to Ryan: "Don't listen to that bastard half-elf over there, don't look at him like this, he is much older than you, of course, only physical age, as for mental age." Glancing at the shapeless Roger again, Elway said helplessly: "Probably hopeless." ”
Seeing Ryan's ignorant nod, the heartbroken Roger strongly condemned Elway's behavior of slandering his image, of course, this was unsurprisingly ignored by Elway's graceful disregard, Elway, who knew Roger well, knew that Roger knew that it was okay to ignore Roger at this time, otherwise don't think about purity today.
Picking up the messy package that was turned over by Roger, Alway stuffed the water bag into it, and said to Roger angrily: "Don't play tricks, there is time to quickly drag up the guy lying there and pretending to be asleep, we don't have much time to delay, but yesterday I said that you insisted on keeping him, so I will leave the work of watching him to you." ”
"Cut"
Impatient, Roger squatted down and poked Tariq's bearded face with a small wooden stick, this time it was much more elastic, "Hey, what about you, don't pretend to be asleep, we can see if you pretend to be asleep, hurry up and hurry." ”
"No, this is your water bag, save some drink, is there more. ”
Throwing the smaller leather water bag in front of Tariq, who opened his eyes weakly, Roger yawned and turned away. Staring at Roger's defenseless back, in Tariq's heart, the urge to step forward and choke Roger's neck surged uncontrollably, and soon spread like wildfire.
At the moment when Tariq wanted to burst out, Roger's demonic smile flashed in front of his eyes, and cold sweat soaked his back, hesitating again and again, Tariq, who had suffered a lot, still silently picked up the water bag and honestly got up to keep up with Roger's footsteps.
"Oh, you really can't hold back? This kid is also a ruthless character. While complaining to Elway, who kept holding his arms and urging him, Roger looked at the five big and three thick men behind him, and thought silently in his heart, "So my index finger's 'trend' ability hasn't broken, but what's the use of keeping this kid?"
Copying his hands, symbolizing the resistance to the aura and the magic model of the fireball technique faded in Roger's mind, because of the consumption of the crab meat rich in magic power of the thorny sand crab, Roger, who has been in a state of magic exhaustion for a long time since coming to the underworld, unexpectedly came to the peak of the magic apprentice realm, and now he has the spare strength to barely complete the sequence release of magic, that is, the overlapping construction of the magic model in the spirit, and the uninterrupted release of magic, which originally belonged to the advanced skills in the magic theory, but as Roger, who saw the establishment of modern magic theory, such skills are not a problem for him。
For example, if Tariq had just rushed up and had been knocked away by the Aura of Resistance without having to reconstruct the magic model of the fireball spell, Roger would have been able to make Tariq feel the art of explosion from the magician.
Using sand to hastily cover up the traces of a few people, Alway turned his head to see Roger following slowly behind him, and couldn't help but say, "Can you hurry up, Ryan said that their stronghold is still some distance away from here, and I don't want to sleep in the desert without a tent today." ”
"Got it, bastard elf. Roger, who had begun to doze off again, replied listlessly, and it seemed that the after-effects of this were going to last for some time because of the concept of over-the-limit use.
"By the way, Roger," Elway came back to his senses as he looked towards the place where the Truth Society was hiding, "what kind of dumb riddle did you play with Ryan last night?"