I was tempted to restrain the smile on my face and make myself look a little more reluctant, so I decided to let myself walk a little slower, lest I give the old magician a frizzy impression. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

In the crevices of the pebbles by the lake, some young grass as thin as cow's hair poked out its head, stretched out its slender blue and yellow figure, stepped on it, it seemed that I could feel the moaning of those grass*, the breeze blowing on the lake blew the soft Misoli robe against my body, I squinted my eyes in the wind, and looked at the old mage standing on the road by the lake.

He was too old to tell how old he was, maybe more than one hundred and fifty, who knows!

He stood on the side of the road with his hands and a smile looking at me and Ruka, a lotus-colored magic robe exuding a faint aura of magic, the minotaur Ruka's steps were relatively large, he was already standing in front of the old mage and kept laughing, the little tail exposed outside the leather pants behind his ass was still wagging constantly, looking like a pug who wanted to please his master, not a majestic minotaur.

I was worried that Ruka the Minotaur had said the wrong thing, so I quickly quickened my pace to keep up.

The old mage had already begun to interrogate Ruka about something, and we heard the first few words clearly, only to hear Ruka's "uh-huh" reply.

“...... The Pai Plateau is a good place, the wasteland there is rich in hemostatic herbs, but unfortunately this is not the war years, otherwise those hemostatic herbs are more expensive than food, and those hemostatic herbs are probably not so valuable now. The old mage's pale blue eyes showed a deep gaze, and he turned his head to look northwest, as if there were memories buried in his long dust.

Apparently Ruka did not see that the old mage's face was full of heavy thoughts, but followed the old mage's words and continued: "Well, the leaves of the hemostatic grass are too bitter, except for those one-horned bison and yellow sheep, other animals do not like to eat them. ”

Hearing the words of the Luka urn, the old mage suddenly came to his senses, and the memory of his youth a moment ago completely disappeared from his eyes.

The old mage's face softened and said, "Young Minotaur, does your tribe have an ancestral lineage?

Ruka said honestly: "Well, the minotaurs of our tribe are all surnamed Whitehoof, and my name is Ruka Whitehoof. ”

It's also the first time I've heard Ruka say his last name, but I didn't expect Ruka to be a minotaur in a big tribe.

The old mage opened his mouth slightly, his face was even more surprised, he stood in front of Ruka, facing Ruka more than two meters high, the old mage could only touch Ruka's thick chest, the old mage said to Ruka: "I went to your tribe when I was young, I lived there for a while, and learned some knowledge of gathering art from the great shaman of your tribe at that time, Ukrul Whitehoof, he was a kind and generous elder, he taught me a lot of knowledge in the wasteland. The old magician's eyes flashed with remembrance.

He stared into Ruka's eyes tightly, and then asked Ruka, "Tell me, young man, how did you get here, and if you need help, I think I can help you fulfill a little wish!"

Hearing the old mage say this, Ruka turned his head to look at me, his eyes full of excitement and excitement.

I didn't expect Ruka to have such a relationship with this old mage, Ruka stretched out his hand and scratched his head, and asked the old mage with a stupid smile: "Ah, is it really possible?"

The old mage only looked at me at this time, and I felt that his sharp gaze seemed to be able to see everything, and I saw the inexplicable emptiness in my heart, so he turned to Ruka the Minotaur and said, "Of course, this is the promise of an old magician, as long as it is within my ability." ”

"If I could, I'd like to visit the garden!" said the Minotaur Ruka, gesturing to the location of the island in the middle of the lake, his brow furrowed and a look of excitement appeared on his face.

"That's all?" the old mage opened his drooping eyelids slightly, and with a hint of surprise in his eyes, he asked Ruka the Minotaur.

The minotaur nodded innocently, and then looked at the old mage expectantly like a curious baby.

"Is this your idea, or his?" the old mage asked Karui casually.

"I wanted to check it out, and Jia said there were some plants I had never seen before, and it used to be a water magic ecological garden. The minotaur smiled, then looked a little worried, and said with some hesitation: "If it doesn't work, then it's nothing."

Obviously, the old mage would not refuse such a simple request from the Minotaur Ruka, and he glanced at the Minotaur Ruka deeply, as if he was a little disappointed that the Minotaur had wasted such a precious wish. Perhaps he would have thought that Ruka the Minotaur didn't really grasp the meaning of his words, but he didn't say much.

"Okay, if you can help me get rid of the weeds in the phoenix flame grass nursery, I can let you wander around my magical herb garden. The old magician finally agreed, and said to me, "If you want to take a boat, the pier is over there, and you can row to it yourself." ”

After saying this, the old mage didn't even look at us more, turned around and left.

......

Originally, I just wanted to design a chance encounter, meet this old mage by the lake, and then maybe get caught, just like the "Guide to Life in the Academy of Magic", and be assigned by the old mage to the magic ecological park on the island in the middle of the lake for half a day's labor, which is exactly what I expected.

My purpose is very simple, I don't just want to see what the rare magical herbs cultivated in the ecological garden of the Royal Academy of Magic are precious, but I want to recommend Ruka the Minotaur to the old mage in the magic herb garden, I want to make Ruka a gardener in the herb garden, so that Luka can rightfully stay in the Royal Academy of Magic, the underground cave is undoubtedly like a prison for Ruka, and he has been suffocated these days. Originally, I told Ruka to let him return to the world of Xinliu Valley with the orcs on duty in the underground cave, and take a casual walk, but unfortunately he was worried that I would not be able to find him at a critical moment, and no matter how much I persuaded him, he refused to go too far from the teleportation altar in the underground cave.

I saw in that booklet that there was such a nursery in the Royal Academy of Magic that cultivated magical herbs, and a bold idea came to my mind, that is, I would use the ' The Hammer of the Time Breaker opened the portal and summoned the Minotaur Ruka from the underground cavern, and then led him to this secluded lake, silently waiting for the old mage to appear, and expecting him to summon the students of the Magic Academy to the nursery in the Water Ecological Park for half a day of physical labor as usual during his walk.

Through this half day, I want the Minotaur Ruka to fully demonstrate the true innate ability of the Minotaur people, which is the so-called planting and cultivation, which is the innate talent of the Minotaurs.

For the Minotaur race, they are born with an affinity for natural magic, and they are born with a keen insight into magical herbs, so it can be said that both the Minotaur and the Night Elves have the talent of affinity with nature, and they are both races that are easy to cultivate druids.

And I also gave Ruka a drop of 'life essence', the most direct use of this precious magic material is to dilute it with water, and then pour it into the rhizomes of those plants that are on the verge of death, the dilution of life essence can bring any plant back to life, find an appropriate time, show a hand in front of this old mage, maybe the old mage will leave Ruka in the water ecological garden.

The three drops of 'Life Essence' in my hand came from the World Tree, which grew on a small island in the middle of the lake in the circular valley of the Xinliu Valley, and it promised to give me one drop of the 'Life Essence' every year. Life essence' is an extremely rare magic material, which contains an extremely powerful breath of life, many high-grade magic potions need this kind of magic material, I am ashamed to say, this is also one of my few high-grade magic materials, in addition, maybe the demon blood in the blood pool on that side can barely be regarded as a high-level magic material, originally I also had some precious core stones, but unfortunately it was exchanged for some magic items by President Sicy in the Magic Guild of Sloit Province.

In fact, I have been thinking about the problem of Xinliu Valley, because I have occupied one of the nine floating mountains in Xinliu Valley, and I also wanted to let the orc warrior Karantso take the orcs to find the one-way portal to the main peak, I heard that it is the richest place in the entire Xinliu Valley, in the past three years, Karantso has not had any news about the one-way portal, I am like a treasure hunter wandering alone outside the treasure gate, but there is no key to the treasure gate in my hand, I can only look at the treasure and sigh, ha, the topic is a bit far。

In my opinion, that "Guide to Life in the Academy of Magic" The part that describes the old mage, it seems to have some hearsay flavor, when I met the old mage, I deeply realized the wisdom of his eyes, maybe he walks every day by the lake behind the academy, not looking for those free labor, but constantly giving these students in the Royal Academy of Magic a chance to learn, for magical herbology, what can be seen in books, will never be seen in the nursery, every scholar of magical herbology, need a lot of time to practice in the field, and in the wild to find those cherished magical herb species, how can it be more convenient and direct than the nursery in the magic herb garden。

Although I met the old mage and didn't leave a good impression on the old mage, and things didn't develop step by step according to the steps I designed, the final result was undoubtedly able to make people feel a little happy, no matter what, Luka and I were successfully mixed into the water system ecological park, and since the first step has been taken, then it is half the success......

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"Did you learn the art of gathering before you came out of the tribe?" I said to Ruka as I walked in front of him, without looking back.

There is a gentle breeze blowing on the surface of the lake, but it is only to let the dazzling sunlight reflect the clear surface of the lake, and stepping on the slightly undulating waves, it is like an alpaca standing in the shallow sand, with the magical state of 'walking on water', I can run freely on the lake.

Karui the Minotaur behind him stepped on the water cautiously, it felt like he was walking on thin ice, and I could hear his slightly rapid breathing, and he seemed a little nervous.

Although the magical skill of 'walking on water' allowed him to walk freely on the water, the obstacle in his mind made him seem nervous, and he never crossed that step.

"Primary gathering, there are still some, when I was a child, I followed the older children in the tribe to collect primary magic herbs around the tribe, which is what our Minotaur children must do every day, yes, it belongs to our childhood life. Ruka said to me truthfully, and then came back to his senses and asked me with some concern: "Hey, Jijia, what do you want to do?"

"Hey, hey!" I turned to walk side by side with Ruka the Minotaur, and then comforted him, "Don't worry, I won't let you do those things against your will." ”

Seeing that the Minotaur Ruka had not yet stretched out, I had to add: "If you are left by the old mage to watch the garden, you must know a little basic knowledge of herbology." ”

Ruka was relieved, with a smile on his face, and hurriedly followed.

For Yoruka, although he has a very good temper and is also very honest, it is often difficult to change some things that he recognizes.

Obviously, he had already put the old mage in the good file at the first time, so that he would not allow me to do something detrimental to the interests of the old mage, and his stubborn character also made me have nothing to say.

We didn't take the canoe that the old mage said, but I directly used the magic skill 'Walking on Water', and then we directly crossed the lake in front of us a few hundred meters wide, in fact, standing on the lake and looking back at the shore, it was like standing on a square with a wide field of vision, and I saw only a vague green shadow on the horizon in the distance, which was a very strange scenery, and then it made me feel that the scenery on the shore of the whole lake was also beautiful, but when I sat on the shore of the lake with Ruka, I didn't feel this way.

Looking inside through the magic light shield, there was a large area of dense tropical plants, those thick green palm leaves hanging down from the thick trunks, where had the Minotaur Ruka seen such large-leaf plants, looking at the green trees in the ecological garden, all kinds of unnamed tropical plants were scattered around the island, and even some trees were full of fruits, he was a little fascinated for a while.

Stepping through the light curtain gate under the magic shield of the ecological park, a wave of heat rushed to my face, and the sudden change in temperature made me and Luka feel very uncomfortable, just standing for a while, a layer of fine sweat appeared on my forehead, and my whole body seemed to have a fire burning, but the rich water element around me made me feel very comfortable, I felt that all the pores on my body had been opened, and every pore on my body was greedily devouring the water element floating in the air.

Ruka shook the clothes on his body, the sweat on his forehead immediately dripped down his face, he was so hot that he opened his big mouth and gasped, his lips also looked dry, the fat bull's tongue added a little dry lips, the minotaur looked at the fresh fruits on the branches of the tropical trees, he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, he stretched out his hand, tore off a leaf from a cattail tree next to him, fanned himself casually, and said to me: "Jia, it's so hot here!"

Before I could speak, the leaves in the bushes on the side shook slightly, and a man with glasses wearing black arcane trousers and a white shirt appeared in front of us, and he was still holding a handful of weeds in his hands, but even so, he still looked extraordinary, full of a weak and windy magician, but at this time he looked at Luka the Minotaur a little stunned, and pointed a finger at Ruka's nose, and said to Ruka, "You...... How can you, a minotaur, destroy the vegetation here at will?"