Uncle Fred washed the saddle cover off Thunder Rhino's body, told me to focus on the place to wash, and staggered away humming an unknown tune from his hometown. Before leaving, www.biquge.info he told me: If there is any leftover guinea pig broth, leave some for him. The leather boots under the feet stepped on the grass, bringing up the moist and fertile black soil, and the crumbs of the tender grass carried out with their unique fragrance.

Each Thunder Rhino will be assigned three people, a pilot and two deputies. Fred was the deputy who carried the elder Kuru, Kuz, and my Thunder Rhino, and was usually responsible for keeping watch and guard, as well as giving the Thunder Rhinos water and cleaning the leather saddle covers. Another deputy is responsible for feeding the Thunder Rhino. The rider only needs to control the Thunder Rhino during the march of the team, and usually pay attention to the health of the Thunder Rhino. Uncle Fred was very enthusiastic, and during the time I was lying on the back of the Thunder Rhino and could not move, he was always helping old Kuru fetch me water, and sometimes secretly stuffed me with a piece of beef jerky that was not very large. He always keeps an optimistic mood, but he has a bad habit of drinking, since the caravan came to the dancers, Fred always has to go to the magic carriage to have some fun, Kuz secretly said to me: "This time to run the business, Fred estimates that there is not a single copper left." Whenever there's a copper plate, this guy will be stuffed into the little dancer's bulging chest. Why do you always have to work for him?"

I stood bare-backed, wearing only a wide pair of leather trousers, in the shallow water, holding a small brown-bristled brush, and brushing the stained leather saddle cover, and before I could speak, old Kuru sat on the grass on the shore of the lake, and suddenly smiled and said to the two of us, "What is the specialty of the Pai Plateau?"

"Grey Dwarf Bandits!" Kuz's reply caused Old Kuru to cough and smack Kuz on the head with the rotten wooden staff, which smelled of hatred of iron and steel.

"Is it herbs, teacher?" I guessed.

"It's also one, but there are no high-level herbs on the Pai Plateau, only some low-level herbs such as Silver Leaf Grass, Thorn Grass, and Demon Emperor Flower. It is not uncommon for these herbs to be found everywhere on the continent. The real specialty that we all have on the Pai Plateau is the magic antelope. The highland climate here is the most suitable for the growth of the magic antelope, the fertile land grows the moss, the favorite grass of the magic antelope, the deer moss, the cool highland climate makes the summer very short, and there are no herds of hyenas here. Old Kuru spread his eyes to the savannah in the distance, and his eyes were full of affection.

"Demon antelope!" Kuz and I opened our mouths wide, our caravan was stationed on the west side of the lake, and across the lake, we could see herds of demon antelopes drinking water on the east side of the lake, and they were not afraid of people at all. "What can these antelopes do, should they be made into fur coats and boots, or should they be dried and sold?"

"Demon Antelope Skin is the lowest level material that can carry a magic circle, and many mages need to use them to make primary magic scrolls, and skilled inscription masters will also use these Demon Antelope skins to make primary inscription constructions. Many adventuring groups and demon hunters love to come here to hunt demon antelopes, and every year more than 800,000 demon antelope skins are transported from the plateau to all parts of the mainland, and they bring great wealth throughout the Pai Plateau. ”

Old Kuru took out a parchment scroll from his arms, the pale yellow paper scroll exuded a magical halo, I could even clearly feel the rich fire element contained in the scroll, it was a very mysterious feeling, in fact, there was nothing to see on those magic elements, but I could clearly feel their existence, and I could feel those magic elements attached to the light parchment, following a certain rule and slowly flowing, but the magic circle was not very perfect, and there was a trace of fire element dissipating.

"Is this the magic scroll?" I asked, looking at the scroll with wide eyes in amazement. There is really magic in this wonderful world, I remember the other day I asked Kuz if there were any dragons on this continent, and Kuz replied very seriously that there is, and I want to become the brave title of the orcs, and before that, I need to have the title of dragon slayer.

"Hehe, they all say that magicians are rich. Having said that, as long as you are a junior magician who can awaken the magic pool, making magic scrolls is a compulsory course and the most convenient means of making money. This primary magic scroll contains three fireballs, which are not very powerful. But travelers to the north take some with them, and that's a good thing. No one wants to travel in the cold winter months and be blown into ice sculptures overnight by a blizzard. Haha!"

Old Kuru rarely made a joke, and the joke was a little cold. Kuz looked at the meadow in the distance, his eyes looking for the guinea pig trail, visibly absent-minded. But I'm very interested, magic is an unknown and mysterious existence for me. The thought that Harry Potter could even fly in the sky on a sweep is cool just thinking about it. I suddenly understood what old Kuru meant, and immediately said, "Are you saying that a large number of demon antelope skins will be made into magic scrolls? This is a wealth unique to the Pai Plateau? Will too many people hunt demon antelopes and make them extinct?"

I thought of the animals that had been hunted in large numbers and became endangered, and I expressed my fears. Old Kuru paused for a long time, and after listening to my words and thinking for a long time, he raised his head and said, "These demon antelopes have few natural predators on the Pai Plateau, they are natural athletes, and they can run twice as fast as wild horses. Even swift prairie lions don't like to hunt them, and they are very reproductive, giving birth to their cubs three times every two years. There are too many of them, and even with such hunting, the number of demon antelope populations continues to increase, and they compete with us orcs for pasture. We need large areas of pasture to graze cattle, so the vast majority of orc tribes are still welcome to enter the Pai Plateau to hunt demon antelopes. The paper used for the primary magic scroll, magic parchment accounts for nearly one-third, and there are also a large number of luminous paper made of leaf order grass from the Eternal Night Forest and a kind of primary magic paper made of reeds growing in the Great Wilderness Swamp, so that the profit of magic parchment is very thin, and only the most basic adventure team will return to the Pai Plateau to hunt demon antelopes, after all, this work can't make a lot of money. ”

Old Kuru changed the subject, and then said to me, "But if you have to accompany a caravan, it will be different. The caravan has a strong capacity and can even buy some leather outright. That's why we have two adventuring groups following us. Fred's hunting skills are a little worse, but he has a good set of leather-making skills. Jijia, I asked you to brush the leather saddle cover for him, and I also wanted you to learn how to make leather from this guy, but unfortunately Kuz is impatient. ”

Seeing the doting in old Kuru's eyes when he looked at Kuz, I suddenly understood why old Kuru would do so much to save me and let me grow up with Kuz, probably there are many complementary places between us, Kuru hates learning, and even a little disgusted, he prefers the bone hunting knife. Old Kuru seemed to be able to see through my heart, and said to me lightly: "You are the most special human child I have ever seen, very smart, with a good magical talent, a natural fire element affinity, and you have awakened the true name of your bloodline talent without going through the magic awakening ceremony, your life is destined to be extraordinary." But these are not the main reasons why I chose you, I value your heart more. ”

"Can you see my heart?" I didn't understand, but I knew that Old Kuru would tell me next.

"Yes, because I'm an orc shaman, and my full name is Kuru, Shaman, Wind Protection, Earth Walker, Soul Walker...... Niamander. ”

The name of this orc old man is too long, and there is a shaman in it, and he is the most mysterious and rare spiritual leader shaman in a certain tribe of the orc clan. I glanced at Old Kuru in shock, and almost threw the leather saddle cover in my hand into the lake, I have learned a lot of knowledge about this world these days, whether it is a human or an orc, a dwarf, an elf, a demon, a strong person, will have a long full name, because the name will have the real name of their awakened bloodline, the strong in the orc clan have many titles, cannibal war demons, tyrants, overlords, but shamans are the most mysterious, they hold the inheritance of the soul power of the ancient ancestors of the orc race. This is more like the archbishop of the human race, the druid who can communicate with the World Tree in the elven world, is a strong man with transcendent status and powerful abilities.

I was a little dazed, looking at this powerful orc who claimed to have hidden his identity, but I didn't feel the slightest strength in him, and I didn't think that an old orc like him could be a powerful shaman. I thought maybe it was the dream of old Kuru when he was younger, the old guy always liked to brag about his adventures, I think old Kuru was an orc witch doctor when he was younger. But now that old Kuru says he's a shaman, I see no reason not to believe him. So he asked, "Are you a shaman?"

"Yes, your heart is pure. The moment you opened your eyes to look at me, I could feel that there was no racial discrimination in your heart, that you didn't look at the orcs or dwarves around you in a different light, maybe only a human child born in the Northern Regions like you would be like this, and you might become a close friend of Kuz in this life. And all I need to do now is to teach you and Kuz what I've learned in my life. Kuz prefers to fight and hunt, but this is just the instinct of every orc child, maybe he will become the guardian of the earth or the hunter of the beastmaster in the future, since you can call me a teacher, and the two of us can meet at the edge of the burnt forest, this is the fate given to us by the beast god king, I will tell you what I know slowly, but after all, the magic in the eyes of the orcs is very different from the human race, we don't call them magic, but call them the power of totem, I look forward to seeing you grow up. "Old Kuru said these words, and the voice could reach my ears very clearly, but I noticed that the other people around me didn't seem to feel it at all, as if there was no old Kuru sitting on the grass and talking to me, this was his usual little trick, called 'Soul Whispering' magic, I think it was magic, Old Kuru always emphasized that this was the ability of the soul walker. The deputies of the caravan by the lake who were in charge of cleaning the saddles of the Thunder Rhinoceros were still talking and laughing, and they were like old Kuru as air, and someone asked me with a kind smile: Hey, little Jijia, is it impossible to brush it, do you need me to help you?

I smiled down and thanked me.

"Kid, you have a lot of magical talent, even in the human realm, there are not many children in this continent who have magical talent. In large cities with millions of people, perhaps less than a thousand people are able to awaken and practice magic. This even includes some families with strong bloodlines, as well as royal families. If you can become a magician one day, then you will know that what you are learning now will be a great asset. ”

I was a little dizzy and thought, "What the hell is this old orc god stick trying to say?" ”

"Many magicians are more concerned with herbology and apothecary, which may have become a regular course in the human dark magic academy, I have been to some magic academies and seen the human world explain the value and function of herbs in more comprehensive detail. But very few magicians can also practice leather, and I once searched for "The Relationship between Animal Skin Texture and Magic Array" at the famous Sloitt Ivory Tower School of Magic, which has the most complete collection, but unfortunately I couldn't find it. Leather making is ......"

Old Kuru said a lot, but the phrase "Child, you are very talented in magic" lingered in my ears, my God! Maybe one day, I will become a mysterious magician? This thing is very domineering! Think about it, when I hold a crystal wand in my hand, flash into the group of monsters, and shout: "Break, break, break!" There will be an ice ring that freezes all the demonic beasts around me into ice slag, how dazzling this is! This is more promising than me squatting in a big hotel cutting shredded potatoes and carving radish flowers.

I decided to follow what old Kuru said, and first go to the big math of the leather making technique with Fred, this thing is not too powerful. After scrubbing the leather saddle cover, I thoroughly washed my leather jacket inside and out, and hung it on the hemp rope that held the stakes to the outside of the tent, and as long as I dried it and applied a layer of mutton fat on the outside of the leather jacket, the coat would look like new. Keep warm and damp insulated. Then I took out the packets of spices that I had painstakingly collected in the package, and put those seasonings such as peppercorns, dried chilies, star anise, cumin and other seasonings on the tent to dry.

While I was busy arranging my tent for the night, preparing cooking utensils and seasonings for the guinea pigs that Kuz was about to hunt, and began to light dry cow dung to make soup for the caravan's sick, old Kuru and Steward Leipas stood on the dirt slope and sat on a piece of limestone that had been broken into several pieces by weathering and talking about me.

"This kid always discovers something that we have overlooked, and those royal apothecaries of the Human Empire probably could not have imagined that these inferior herbs could make food so delicious. Sometimes I have to admit your human ingenuity. ”

"Hehe, old man, I like this kid more and more. Industriousness, humility, honesty, bravery, these good qualities appear in a child who is only seven years old, and I really wonder which ancient family can teach these to their children before the age of five, and imprint them in their hearts as if they were born with them. Steward Leipas narrowed his eagle-like eyes, one hand gently twisting his thin black beard.

"Leyi, do you think he could be the family that inherited the fire magic talent?what happened to make them abandon such a bloodline awakener?Did the people you sent back find any clues?" Old Kuru took a deep breath.

"It's hard, old man. You must know that the area is burned out of forests, to the east is the territory belonging to the king of Stan, to the west is the Death Desert, and to the north is by the wild glacial tundra, and there is no territory within a radius of 3,000 miles that belongs to the Terran lords. There is no clue as to where he came from. ”

"However, I think he will need to be educated in a formal magic academy in the future, and a good magician with a solid foundation of magic will take him far. You're a shaman, after all, and while the magic elements have a lot in common, it's orc magic, and they're better suited to orcs. Jiga must go to the Terran Academy of Magic. Reipas rubbed the smooth bronze hilt in his hand, and the delicate lines of fine fish scales wrapped around the entire Roman sword, and it was obvious that only a dwarven master could make a delicate weapon.

"I don't know if there is any magic academy on the continent that will take in a wanderer without any identity, or if I write a letter of recommendation to my old friend? ”

"Don't bother, I'll arrange this...... I will take him to find a suitable city, as long as he has a regular job and has lived there for 3 years, he will get the status of a city resident, and he will be allowed to participate in the magic awakening ceremony organized by the city junior magic school. Steward Leipas said this, and the wrinkles on Old Kuru's face seemed to stretch a little.

"That's fine. ”