131. Stone pillar totem
The news of the defeat of the army of the undead by the orc tribes of the Pai Plateau fell from the sky like snowflakes fluttering in the sky, making this winter in the Grimm Empire particularly unpeaceful.
The front page of the magic newspaper in the imperial capital is a photo of more than 20 orc warriors standing on the mountain of bones, the scenery in the photo is a little blurry, there are countless zombies and skeletons fighting with the orc warriors on the battlefield around them, a lich king fell next to the bone pile, the white bone scepter in his hand is cut in two, the soul fire in his eyes is completely extinguished, looking up at the blue sky of the Pai Plateau hollowly, four huge stone pillars stand above the battlefield, the stone pillars are covered with various relief paintings, it looks like the stone pillars of a certain sacrificial ceremony。
Behind this photo is a report about the Orc powerhouse of the Pai Plateau killing two Lich Kings in the Forest of Death, it is said that this group of orc powerhouses who came out of the beast god temple in the Great Snow Mountain, led the powerful orc warriors like sharp knives, directly into the Black Forest, and completely swallowed the two undead armies.
The third article of the newspaper is the opinion of some lords on the invasion of the undead army on the Pai Plateau, these lords high-profile expounded that the orcs had just recovered from the catastrophe, and they encountered the invasion of the undead army, but this invasion of the undead army did not seem to be on the same scale as the previous times, and the undead did not even survive the long winter and were defeated by the orc coalition army, some lords thought that this was because the commander of the undead army underestimated the enemy, and some lords thought that this was the new generation of talents of the orc tribe, and even some lords thought that maybe the dwarves joined the war against the undead army。
All in all, news of the victory came from the Pai Plateau, and the inhabitants of the entire imperial capital city cheered for it.
I didn't expect the victory of the orc tribe to come so quickly, I remember that the last time it was reported that the orcs successfully blocked the undead army in the Death Forest was more than a month ago, a floating airship sailing to the Pai Plateau just set off yesterday, the ship was loaded with hard leather armor with a cotton lining and wheat flour, these are all materials ready to directly support the front line of the Death Forest, and the final destination of this magic airship has been changed to the orc coalition camp in the front battlefield.
The Magic Seal Workshop in Xinliu Valley is still printing the Holy Silver Crossbow Arrow, this kind of Holy Silver Crossbow Arrow that can purify the soul fire is also specially made for orc warriors, and now it seems that there is no need to continue doing this, and the victory of the war has made the Holy Silver Crossbow Arrows piled up in Xinliu Valley meaningless.
This is the fourth snow since the beginning of winter in the imperial capital, Marven stood in front of the door of the warehouse, an empty sleeve tied around his waist, his other hand holding a wand, his pale face hidden in the black hood, saw me coming from the door, nodded to me slightly.
"What the hell is it?" I asked Marven.
"It is said to be a precious gift from the orc tribe, what exactly...... I don't know. After saying that, he turned around, and Marven asked his assistant to push the warehouse door open.
Marven and I glanced at each other, and walked into the warehouse full of various materials together, Arya and Betty followed behind us, in addition to the finished products of various magic rune plates, the warehouse was also full of boxes of rune board substrates made of ordinary metal, as for other materials are placed in different areas, this warehouse is already full of neat shelves, seeing that each shelf has a clear mark, I have to secretly praise Betty for managing this place very well.
After walking dozens of meters from the warehouse gate, I stopped at a place full of imported goods from the orc tribe, a huge blue-green tarpaulin was covered on top of the behemoth more than three meters high, and the straw ropes unique to the orc tribe tied the tarpaulin tightly on the behemoth, I glanced at Marven suspiciously, Marven shrugged his shoulders at me and said: " This time, in order to transport this big guy, the magic airship brought almost nothing back with other supplies, and the letterhead sent from Guruding Town was only standard and important materials, but it didn't say what they were. ”
I pulled out my skinning knife, and Caterina suddenly appeared in front of me, stopped me with one hand, and walked over alone and cut the straw rope on the tarpaulin with a pitch-black dagger, and as the straw rope fell to the ground one by one, Marven's two assistants stood on one side, struggling to break the huge toma, .......
Four stone pillars with a diameter of two meters and a height of four meters are erected in front of my eyes, these four stone pillars have a moire disc base underneath, and the whole stone pillar is surrounded by strange patterns composed of various forms of runes, some of which are like crying and laughing grimaces, some of which are like hand-made graffiti or stick figures, the runes on the four stone pillars have a very obvious difference, the runes of the four elements of water, wind, fire and earth are clearly carved on the stone pillars, and the top of the stone pillars is a smooth dome.
Marven looked at the four giant stone pillars and couldn't help but say, "My God, that strange kid didn't say what exactly is in it on the letterhead, Ji Jia, ...... this?"
"Betty, go find a copy of yesterday's magical newspaper. ”
As if she had thought of something, Arya immediately instructed Betty beside her.
Just as Betty was about to turn to leave, I said to everyone, "Don't guess, this is the totem pillar of the orc tribe. In the orc tribe, each orc shaman has a set of totem pillars. ”
"So, it must have been given to us by an orc shaman...... Oh no, I'll give you a set of totem pillars?"
Marven looked incredulous.
I shook my head, standing in front of these four huge totem stone pillars, an indescribable heat flow surged in my heart, the heat flow poured into my heart one after another, I even felt that my breathing became very disordered, a throbbing washed over my body, the front totem stone pillar, clearly engraved with two beast words: 'brother', I touched these two beast words with my hand and almost integrated with the surrounding runes, and suddenly the appearance of the lively orc boy appeared in my mind.
The orc boy who has been inspired to become the orc king since he was a child has probably become the big chief of the commander's side now!
I calmed down my excitement a little, and took out the four series of stone drum totems from my magic waist bag, the four stone drums kept rotating around my body, but in front of these four totem stone pillars, these four stone drum totems began to crack non-stop, and countless rock fragments cracked on the stone drum totem, scattered around my body, and unconsciously formed an irregular gravel ring under my feet.
At the same time that the stone drum totem slowly collapsed, the totem stone pillars standing in front of me were ignited by the power of the elements one by one, and I felt that some of the four elemental powers in my body spread, like countless thin lines slowly winding around the four stone pillars, so that I had a subtle connection with the four stone pillars, this feeling was not felt on the stone drum totem, every time the heart of the chest paced, it seemed that the runes that were slightly emitting light on the four totem stone pillars were also flickering and fainting.
I don't know why these four totem pillars are like an extension of my body, I can clearly feel the state of the flow of the elemental power on the totem stone pillars, and my magic perception can also extend outward from the four totem stone pillars, and at the moment when I sacrifice the four series of stone drum totems, it seems that I am destined to be closely connected with these four totem stone pillars.
In the next second, this huge wind totem stone pillar appeared in the position of my sight, a wind circle surged out from the totem stone pillar, I looked down at a white air ring that appeared under my feet, and tried to take a step forward, but I didn't expect to take just a light step, and it was like an invisible air cushion under my feet to hold me up, so that one step out of more than two meters.
I was looking at the other three totem pillars, and those three totem pillars disappeared in an instant, and under the surprised eyes of everyone around me, the three stone pillars towered around me.
“...... This totem pillar given to you by the orcs is too exaggerated!" Marven was pushed away by a white air flow a few meters away, and kept screaming.
Then he asked me aloud, "How the hell did you manipulate the orc tribal totem?"
Obviously, these four totem pillars stimulated him.
Without answering Marven's question, looking at these four totem stone pillars with a sense of the vicissitudes of the ages, I suddenly felt that there was a lingering spiritual power on the totem stone pillars, so I closed my eyes and entered my spiritual sea, feeling myself floating above the golden sea, and in the world of my spiritual sea, four optimus stone pillars appeared in the sea, and the stone pillars stood in the golden sea, straight into the clouds.
I don't know why these four totem pillars always make me feel extremely familiar, if it was Kuz who gave it to me, I think he should write me a letter, but these four totem pillars have no other information on them except for the word 'brother' engraved on them.
When I opened my eyes again, the perception of magical elements was countless times sharper than before, and I could even feel countless magical elements floating in the air like tiny particles floating in the air, these magical elements were not static, just like the stars in the starry sky overhead, moving slowly in an imperceptible state, and around my body there was a vortex of mana like a storm, with me as the center of the constant rotation, and the minute elemental particles in the air were sucked into the magic vortex the moment they touched the magic vortex。
I could also feel the fiery pool of magic in Marven's body, but there was no swirl of magic around his body like mine.
The world suddenly changed in my eyes, which made me feel unreal, and I could even see a door of nothingness in the faint mist in front of me, although I had never seen that door, but there was a feeling in the dark that behind that door was the elemental world parallel to our world, and Scholar Sean once told me about this wonderful feeling, that is, when the affinity of the magical element reaches a critical value, the body will form a very wonderful commonality with a certain element in the outside world, and you can make yourself an elemental body through some magical ritual。
When the magician has the ability to incarnate into the body of the element, the world in his eyes will be different, not only will he be rejected by this world, but also a door to the elemental world will appear in front of him, in fact, this is what every second-turn magician has to experience, only when the magician enters the elemental world and signs a summoning magic contract with an elemental envoy in the elemental world, it can be regarded as a successful completion of the second-turn transfer ceremony.
But what about me? What is this?
Obviously, I am only a thirteen-level magician, and there is still a long way to go before the second turn, but at this time, I used the power of totem to break through the critical point of my elemental affinity, so this door to the elemental world also appeared in front of me, I looked at the door of the elemental world in front of me a little speechlessly, trying to restrain my urge to push open this door.
Scholar Sean has told me that the Elemental World is actually very dangerous.
I retracted my magic perception little by little, and the world in front of me was slowly becoming real, the free elemental particles in the air and the door under the mist were gradually disappearing, and I slowly exhaled, as if after fusing with these four totem pillars, how to manipulate the totem pillars was as natural as how to use my own hands.
Then I naturally received the four-series totem stone pillar into the magic waist bag, and all that was left in the open space of the warehouse was a large tarpaulin and straw ropes scattered all over the ground.
Marven stared, still searching for the four totem pillars around my body, and for a moment I couldn't guess where they had gone.
For most people in the Grimm Empire, the orc tribes of the Pai Plateau are already full of mystery, and the shamans and witch doctors in the orc tribes are even more mysterious, and many people have never even heard of 'totems'.
If it weren't for the magic photo on the front page of the magic newspaper the day before yesterday, which vaguely showed the ruined scene after the war, more than two dozen orc warriors, the Lich King who fell to the ground and disappeared with soul fire, and four very eye-catching stone pillars occupying 90% of the picture, I'm afraid Arya wouldn't have let Betty find a newspaper.
I then opened a teleport, and the orc warriors and barbarians of the Valley of the Willow Valley came out of the portal in a line, and without my command, they began to transport the supplies in the warehouse to the Valley of the Willow, and Marven and I stood at the door of the warehouse.
After Marven began to calm down, he was silent for a long time before he looked up and said to me, "You provided them with a large number of Holy Silver Crossbow Arrows...... So these are gifts from the shamans of the orc tribe in return? I think they can compensate us with the loot captured by the army of the undead, or magic herbs or something, and there is no need to take out the most mysterious totem of the orc tribe! I don't understand why the orc shaman is willing to take out the mysterious totem as a gift?"
I glanced at Marven and said, "Maybe the orcs on the Pai Plateau don't treat me as an outsider." ”
"Cut~~" Marven expressed considerable disdain for this......