Chapter Fifty-Eight: Ordinary Tasks
A month later, the Endless Forest. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Compared to the Bone Swamp, the Endless Jungle is much less dangerous. There are no monsters lurking everywhere, and there are no dangerous plant traps one step at a time. It has very few monsters and places that can threaten wizards, and it is also scattered in the vast forest, even if you walk for ten days, you will not encounter a single one. In fact, there are countless avenues all over the Endless Forest, all of which were established in some small countries in the Endless Forest, and for so many years, I have never heard of anyone being attacked by demon beasts next to the avenue. So, even ordinary people can survive here, and because of this, this is a place where some wizard apprentices who are not so qualified often come to do tasks in the very beginning.
As for the Cordes Mountains and the Black Heath and the Bone Swamp around the Academy, the only people who can do the tasks in those places from the beginning are the ones at the top of each class.
Phil knows this very well. And the people who die doing tasks in those places are almost always because they are not qualified.
Now, Phil is mixed in a squad that can only do tasks in the Endless Jungle, and he usually uses fireball skills, and there is nothing outstanding at all. It's because he wants to hide it.
However, there are really people who think that Phil, as the second echelon, is nothing more than that. This kind of thinking is not unrelated to the fact that they stay in the high-pressure state of ordinary people for a long time.
Now, it was the rest time after a day of camping, and Phil was crouching under a tree in the corner.
"Phil, you're so free, why don't you go and make dinner?" someone walked over and said.
Phil looked up at the comer, who was the most powerful of the people who thought Phil was just that.
"Okay, no problem. Phil replied, and by the way took away a branch from the ground, and a swarm of ants appeared under the branch, and scattered in all directions, but they all split into two streams, one towards the distance and the other towards the nest. It was he who had placed the branch in the path of the ants.
Phil walked to the campfire, and when Phil passed by him, he deliberately glanced at the ants on the ground: "Actually playing with ants, Phil, you are really free." ”
Phil didn't respond to him, this person's name is Allen, and he is considered to be the most powerful in this team, according to others, he has just learned a zero-level witchcraft not long ago, and he has already learned a new witchcraft.
Phil walked, paused, and then continued as if nothing had happened.
He heard the sound of Allen behind him trampling all the ants to death after he left.
Phil came to the bonfire, and the girl who was fiddling with the raw meat of the beast caught during the day glanced at Phil, and then said with a little respect: "Phil, in fact, I am enough here alone, you don't need to come." ”
This girl's name is Avril, and she is also a freshman in this class, and she is not anyone's slave or subordinate, but these days, she has been doing the task of a slave. It's all because she's too poor. This is also the norm of every session, there are always some talented and stupid people who struggle between the ordinary world and the wizard world, and they can't even learn a simple zero-level witchcraft. I didn't want to be left behind too much by my peers, so I had to force myself to learn a simple and easy-to-learn auxiliary witchcraft first, and rely on assisting others in the task to make myself a little qualified to follow the task, to earn magic stones, and look forward to being able to keep up with everyone.
But often they will be involved in that auxiliary witchcraft, one day of assistance, lifelong assistance, and always the identity of helping others.
This is due to the nature of the wizard. Every full-fledged wizard, because of his knowledge, at least has the means to protect himself in any battle or in any situation, so support roles are not indispensable for wizards, at most they make themselves more convenient and easy, and even sometimes carrying a support is a drag. And if you get used to the existence of a support character, once you lose the support, the wizard will not be able to fully recognize his strength, which is very fatal. What's more, wizards like to keep everything in their hands, and assistance is very redundant for them.
Therefore, Avril Lavigne, who has learned an auxiliary witchcraft, is really the lowest in this squad, how to have a knight slave, she is just a little higher than a knight slave. In fact, when she's not fighting, she's pretty much the work of a knight's servant.
Most importantly, Avril is mediocre.
Phil looked at the girl in front of him who was not surprising even if she was thrown into the world of ordinary people, and shook his head: "It's okay." ”
Phil takes over the work of cutting the meat for Avril. Without the knife that Avril hastily sent, Phil pulled his dagger from his leg and lowered his head to cut the meat.
His movements were strange, his arms, wrists, fingers, blades and incisions were almost parallel, without a trace of trembling and dissonance, as if they were one. Phil's dagger was sharp, and the tough tendons were like tofu in front of the blade, and the pieces of meat were cut precisely along the lines, which seemed to be different in size, but each piece looked intact along the lines.
After a while, the flesh and bones separated. Avril next to her was stunned, and then looked at the meat she had cut on the side before, thinking that genius was really like this, even cutting meat was different from a stupid person like her, so powerful.
Phil didn't see her gaze, and even if he did, he didn't care, and continued to handle the other food.
Cooking dinner is actually not too much for Phil, although he has been through many difficult times, he has always been so meticulous when eating. In fact, almost everyone in the team that Phil had been in before was quite serious about eating, at least when someone was in charge of cooking, and the people next to him would pay some attention to it. It's not like now, everyone does his own thing.
This is a very dangerous behavior, eating is the only act of taking in a large amount of substances into the body, if they can't guarantee the absolute safety of these things, they will never be so stupid to eat with confidence.
But at the moment, these people ......
Maybe this is the difference between the top team and the ordinary team, even in some details, there is a huge difference.
Phil had been paying careful attention to Avril cooking for the past few days, and although nothing had happened, this behavior had become a habit, and Phil had no intention of changing it. Now that Phil is in charge of this matter, Phil is more at ease.
So Alan asked Phil to cook, and he didn't hesitate much.
Avril follows Phil to do things, she can only play down, and sometimes playing is an obstacle, but if Avril has the heart, she can learn a lot by watching Phil cook, moving knives, controlling fire, and speed...... But it was clear that she didn't have this kind of realization, and she didn't have any thoughts other than feeling powerful.
Xu was relaxed for too long, Phil glanced at Avril and actually reminded her: "Look at how I do it." ”
Avril was stunned for a moment, and quickly nodded yes.
So, at Phil's suggestion, Avril really observed carefully, and occasionally Phil pointed out a few words, and she also wrote them down by heart.
It's just that, looking at her appearance, it seems that she completely sees this as the secret of cooking in the future, and she doesn't think of anything else at all.
It doesn't matter how much he can learn, Phil only occasionally rises and doesn't care. You may wake up the next day and forget about it.
Doing tasks in the Endless Jungle really feels like going on a trip, and after dinner, almost everyone gathers around the campfire, chatting and laughing. Some people with a little craftsmanship took out their handy instruments and played them, some people drank wine and laughed, some people sang, and some danced to the music.
For a while, laughter and laughter were endless, and around the bonfire, the firelight was shadowed.
Avril turned to look at the movement of the campfire and asked the person in front of her.
"Phil, why don't you go over and have a chat?"
Since dinner, Avril has followed him like Phil's shadow. Maybe it's because Phil taught her something, or maybe Phil doesn't want everyone else to look at her like a slave.
Phil didn't answer, he found a nest of ants here, and the official knight's eyesight would not hinder much at night, so Phil could still observe the form and movement of these ants very clearly.
"Hey, Phil!" suddenly someone in the crowd around the campfire called him.
"I heard that you and Thomas used to be very close, I wonder if you have been in touch recently?" Alan looked back at Phil, a smile with an unknown hint on his face.
Phil paused as he played with the ant's branch, but didn't look back.
"I've also heard that you've done missions with them before, how about it? It should be easy, right? Did you play with ants then, as you do now?"
Xu drank some wine, and Alan stood up and didn't let Phil go.
Phil still ignored him.
Avril became nervous, looking at Phil and then at Allen, at a loss.
Phil had long heard what they were talking about, and it was also one of their pleasures to eat and drink and gossip.
Things like the one who were recruited as students by the wizards are often the case among these students. Although I haven't seen them for a long time, in the world of these people, they have never gone away, and they have always stood on the top of the mountain above their heads, leaving only a back.
It's just that there are very few like Allen. Phil is not the only one who has done tasks with those people, but the others are the same as others, there is no difference between ordinary people, except for Phil, because he does not often do tasks with others, he is somewhat peculiar and alone, and he can't integrate with them.
Therefore, Alan is very unaccustomed to him. Even in Allen's heart, he thinks that there is not much gap between himself and those who were recruited as students by wizards, which has nothing to do with the fact that he fought with one of them, maybe they performed similar at that time, so Alan has always wondered, but it was just a short time apart, how that person stood out in that mission, and he could only be confused.
And Phil's situation is similar to him, except that Phil's peculiar solitude makes him a little surprised.
Using the power of alcohol, Alan stood up and walked towards Phil.
At this time, he found that Phil also stood up, but instead of looking at him, Phil looked into the dark depths of the endless forest.