Although the convex mountain vividly depicts this towering hill rising from the ground and extremely disproportionate to its surroundings, it cannot hide the perfunctory and incompetence of the namer. It separated the Catholic Territory from the United Kingdom of Hoya like a raised finger, casting a large shadow on the Thunder Army's garrison, shielding them from the scorching sun that afternoon. Feige and Shani were sitting on the top of the mountain, their backs against a huge rock, completely hidden in the shadows, looking out at the barracks at the foot of the mountain.

"Do you want to eat sausages? I have venison and horse meat left, which one do you choose?" Feige gently touched Xia Ni on the shoulder, and after receiving a reply, said, "I actually guessed that you would like venison, so I asked the cook to prepare some more." There is always some benefit to managing the food in the camp. ”

Feige took out a raw intestine slightly thicker than his thumb from the space bag and cut it into three to four centimeters with a knife. Since there is no concept of time in the space bag, this venison sausage is exactly the same as when it was put in, and it has just been filled and processed by the chef. Feige held the sausage in the palm of his hand, and the magic formed a hot red spot on his skin, quickly heating the sausage.

The wind blows away the aroma, the soil buries the grease, and the mouth and stomach wipe out the traces of the sausage. It's rare that Xia Ni doesn't have to wear a veil, all her snake hair dances freely, and some of them even mischievously snatch the sausage just now. Feige wore an anti-paralysis amulet and tilted her head to stare at Shanny, which made her a little embarrassed. "Don't always look at me, you're here to scout the Thunder Army. ”

"I have Eagle Eye Meditation and they can't run, which allows me to spare my eyes and just stare at the most beautiful view. Feiqi said a good thing in the previous paragraph, but not later: "I was just thinking, why does your snake hair also grab food to eat, does it also have a digestive system?"

In an instant, at least forty snake hairs spat out snake letters at Feige to express their displeasure, while the rest stared at him directly. Xia Ni brushed her hair and said, "No, snake hair can't eat, they're just joking." However, some snakes do have teeth that can bite off the flesh, but then spit it out. Do you think that's weird?"

"It's weird, it's a little bit, but it's more interesting. Mainly after seeing you and getting to know you, I became more and more firm in a feeling......" Feige paused for a moment, and after making eye contact with Xia Ni, he said in a soft tone: "How colorful and beautiful life is. ”

The wind blows from the side, and the snake's hair sways with it, like the leisurely dance of seaweed. Shani smiled, leaning relaxed against the rock, looking at Feige with a gentle gaze. "It's good that you can say that. My dream since I was a child was this: to find someone who is not afraid of me like this, who can withstand the power of paralysis, and who can treat me well for the rest of my life. ”

"Then your request is too simple, isn't it?

"Of course I like you, it's my luck. "My Medusa bloodline has been getting stronger with age, and the elves have been unable to stop this trend with many methods, so I know from a young age that I have little choice in the future, that there are basically no people who can withstand the paralyzing gaze, and I don't want to find another monster." ”

"I ...... It's almost a monster. ”

"No, you're not a monster, neither am I, we're just different. "I don't think I'm any different from other girls, except for my paralyzing eyes and snake hair. And you, Feige, are just a very shape-shifting mage, and you haven't changed your mind or soul in any form. And in comparison, you are now a human body, and I will never be able to get rid of these snakeheads. Unless I can fully control the use of paralyzing powers. ”

Xia Ni raised her left hand, and the earth elemental command ring's smoky quartz core gem reflected a crystal clear light on her middle finger, and magic flowed through her fingertips. Finely fragmented sand and gravel flew around Shani's arm, converging in the center of her mind to form a rough stone ball. She threw the stone ball out, and with a snap it shattered on the rock, reducing it to fine pieces of sand.

"You gave me two things, magic and earth command rings, which are very helpful for me in practicing controlling my paralyzing gaze. Xia Ni said, "After you teach me the magic matrix and mana meditation, I can control the surrounding earth elements through the ring. At the same time, I found that the paralyzing gaze also contains a part of the earth elemental power, which can also be channeled. I'm practicing this now, and although I can't stop the paralysis in my gaze, I can focus and guide it in the direction of no one, so won't it become safer?"

Fei Qi thought for a moment and shook his head slightly: "I think it's better to find a way to control this power so that it can be turned on and off as you like." Any spell has a price, and the essence of mana is still the power of the soul. I'm afraid that paralyzing the gaze will keep draining your soul. ”

"I don't feel that way. Xia Ni was taken aback by Feiqi's statement, thought about it carefully, and then shook her head with all the snakehair, slapped Feiqi with a smile, and said, "Don't worry about it, have you ever seen a dragon weaken from spitting fire? ”

"Won't there be more scarecrow-like elves on Elven Island?" Feige also laughed: "Are the elves kind to you?

Xia Ni put her hands on her cheeks, tilted her face slightly, and said, "At that time, my gaze only made the elve's body itch, and scratching it with my hands didn't work, it was very interesting." The elves didn't hit me, they just ignored me. Aside from what I eat and drink, and the most basic Elven language and customs of the church, I am transparent to them. Later, they found out that they were paralyzing and asked a little more, but it was also about my abilities, not about me. ”

"Then your childhood on Elven Island was really miserable. ”

"Well, at least Anne and Beni, who later met Georgdor. Xia Ni said: "Chaudor is a natural child king, he is very smart, he has a strong ability to communicate, he just likes to talk nonsense, especially to people he has just met. I still remember the beginning, it was he who asked the three of us to try to seduce you and test your character. ”

"I didn't think something was right. I'm just a little handsome, and I'm not going to let three big beauties pounce on me together. ”

"Hahaha! You're so embarrassed to say!" Xia Ni reached out and pinched Feiqi's belly, "You're chubby, not handsome!"

"Give me some time, I'm very malleable. Fitch gave up the idea of eating another sausage and asked curiously, "What would have happened if I had been tricked at the time?"

"Bennie will beat you up, or I'll numb you for a while, and then write in ink on your face. But I didn't think if it was stupid or lustful. Shani blinked, all of her snakehair smiling wildly. "Now that I think about it, if it weren't for them, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to make it until you show up. The elven druids have been trying to figure out what is going on with me, so they called me to go and check it with a spell ritual in three or two days. It doesn't hurt much, but it bothers me. ”

"If you're going to settle accounts with the elven druids, I can sneak back and beat up those in the camp. By the way, is the elf who bullied you in the camp?"

"No, I don't hold a grudge against them. But Bennie said all day long that she was going to find an opportunity to beat them, and she was worse than me. ”

If you are worse than you, it means that you are also miserable. Fei Qi sighed and hugged Xia Ni into his arms: "You rarely talk about things in your childhood, if you have any uncomfortable memories, vent them." Those won't happen again......"

"It's not as miserable as you think!" said Shanny, slapping Feige on the chest. "When I put on the veil, my paralyzing gaze is cut off, and I can go anywhere, and the elves will not stop me. However, Bennie's bloodline will go berserk when it encounters emotional outbursts, so she has to endure wary stares wherever she goes, and many elves don't want her near them at all. The most I could do was get my eyes covered, and she'd been beaten up many times by the Elven Rangers and Druids after she went berserk. ”

"Six-armed snake demon blood...... The six-armed snake demon is a very powerful demon, and the power of chaos is in this bloodline, which is indeed very difficult. But I'm more curious about your father, where did he find your mother, and Beni's mother? ”

"I don't know, she didn't say anything when I met Beni. However, I see that she is very happy when she is with Marellis, and her mood has been good, which is a good sign, indicating that her blood problems have not recurred. Xia Ni suddenly sighed and said, "I almost forgot, Beni said that there was a gift for you, and I put it in the space bag." ”

Xia Ni has always liked to carry all kinds of things for her daily life so that she and Feige can take them out when they need them, so Feige gave her the largest space bag. She stuffed a lot of fabric, thread balls, and sewing tools into it, so it took a while to get the "gift" out.

It was an oak box, rough but not abrasive, hung with a clasp and tightly sealed. The lock was opened, and eight thick cigars were lined up, with twenty-four long alchemical matches and small scissors at the bottom. Inside the lid is a picture of how to use the tools inside to taste the cigar, and then there is a handwritten message from Beni and Marellis to Feige.

"Because of the Mystic Mist, you don't like smoking mages, but these are gifts, not for you to change your preferences. "It seems that Marellis is a good tobacco maker, and Beni is learning from him. Maybe he used his superb tobacco skills to arouse the favor of the six-armed snake demon and Medusa, who can say for sure?"

"I've got a trick up my sleeve too!" Feige closed the lid of his cigar and reached out, stroking Shannie's hair gently. Shani loved the feeling of Feige's fingers digging deep into the snake's hair, directly touching and rubbing her scalp, and she would always giggle at that point.

"Okay, don't make trouble! you have to look at the Thunder Army below!" Xia Ni broke free from the claws, and then said: "According to what you said, this is a time of war, and when it is serious, you can't come out for an autumn outing." Why didn't you do it when you came here? You can't go back and report to the Earl that you have been watching from the top of the mountain for a long time, and you have found nothing or done anything?"

"It's not like I didn't do anything. Fei Qi put the cigar box into his space bag and continued to show it in front of Xia Ni: "You can see below, on the surface, it looks like a makeshift camp built next to the village, but it is actually very learned. I was also able to understand it after this period of training and studying. The commanders below made full use of the terrain, buildings, and magic circles to protect the camp layer by layer, greatly increasing the difficulty of infiltrating. I even suspected that a trap had been set up inside, and as soon as I could conjure or teleport to try to get in, they would immediately surround me and catch me. ”

"Yes? I don't see it at all. All of Shani's snake hair had a questioning expression.

"Hey, hey. Feige raised his right hand and shook it, and a white Mithril ring on his thumb was wide and thick, like a wrench to prevent a cut from an arrow. He had his palm upward, and only then could he see that the ring was sunken in the middle of his finger, and that it was inlaid with a pearl not much larger than a grain of rice. The thumb is shaken three times in a row, and the pearl rolls down to the palm of the hand, and then quickly grows larger. The crystal ball "Eye of Koktar" has revealed its true form.

A vicious snake head appeared in the crystal ball, its eyes smoldering with purple flames, and the flying flames continued to change into runes before dissipating, hovering above the snake's head. It opened its mouth to reveal its sharp, misaligned teeth, swayed its head to reveal the dagger-like bone spurs on the back of its neck, its spear-tipped claws swaying wildly in the void, but Koktar's eyes were full of tame gaze. It soon stopped swaying, and waited as quietly as a servant for orders.

"Show me what's going on at the camp below. ”

The snake turned its head and disappeared from the crystal ball, but the image inside the ball began to move. In Feige's opinion, this "eyeball" crystal is a monitor, and Koktar's Chaos Phantom Serpent is a drone. Unlike drones in the general sense, Koktar itself has the ability to move in space, and distance and obstacles are not a big problem, but only slightly increase the user's mana consumption. And Koktar, as a chaotic phantom snake, can be completely invisible, untouchable, without sound, no smell, and no mana fluctuations. Even with the ability to distort reality, it can make itself "non-existent" and thus deceive the barrier formed by the spell. It can choose what method to use to complete Feiqi's instructions, and all it needs is a little mana.

Feige holds the crystal ball in his right hand, moving forward, backward, left, right, up and down, and left and right, and the image in the crystal ball moves with the gestures. That way, the two of them could see everything inside the camp.

Koktar walked through the tent, weaving underground, galloping as he pleased, until Feige found the Thunder Army's command tent and saw the paladins leading the way. This is a stout middle-aged man with extremely broad shoulders and a very thick chest, with short black braids and a beard. He's got solid muscles and sharp eyes, and he's the kind of guy you never want to be punched by him. Three priests and four paladins sat in front of him around the map, all with serious faces and silent faces.

"Don't say anything, I'm not leading an army of dead men. The voice of the strong man in the crystal ball came from the crystal ball. "The archbishop made it very clear that you can't cross the border line, you can't go beyond the convex mountain. What we have to do is to show strength and thus compromise those wavering aristocrats. Now that we're here, we've got ideas on how to improve our defenses! The number of scouts on the other side has been greatly reduced, and it is likely that Earl Hall is going to send his son out. We have to defend, and we can only defend!"