This chapter should have been divided into three chapters.,It's a bit messy together.,It's a little rush.,It's too late to divide it.,Let's just think it's a three-in-one chapter.。

Finally pulled out the arrow on his body, and the culprit was still humming a small tune contentedly on the side, damn it, wait and see, it will let you, an old woman who can't get married, know what feng shui is called feng shui in turn.

"By the way, old drunkard, do you know how to effectively increase the power of magic?" I'm going to have a master to conquer it, and I'll talk to an experienced old drunkard first.

"Enhancing the power of magic? That's not my area of expertise. Kashya took a sip of wine and pondered.

"Don't talk about those magic compression techniques that aren't practical for me as a rookie." I choked what Kasha was about to speak.

"So, if you can't compress it, how about just overlapping it?"

Kasha scratched her head and thought for a long time before she said that although the Amazon also has magic skills, they are used with javelins or bows and arrows, and when it comes to pure magic skills, she is also blind.

"Overlap?" I was slightly stunned, is this okay? There is only one magic mark, can you prepare two at the same time?

"What's wrong with that, look at it."

Kasha cocked her nose, she didn't know much about pure magic skills, but when it came to overlapping skills, it was a piece of cake for her, as she spoke, she held a javelin in each hand, spun around a few times, and then held it firmly in the palm of her hand, made a throwing gesture, and let me see it, and shouted "lightning javelin" in a hurry.

I saw that the two wooden javelins in Kasha's hands suddenly turned into two lightning white snakes, and then she threw them out. Two pillars of white energy flashed, leaving two deep gullies on the ground, which stretched for hundreds of meters before disappearing, and thick scorched smoke continued to emerge from the ravines.

Damn, good BT, this so-called lightning javelin, according to my guess, should be the second-order skill of the Amazon landmark gun and spear - lightning ball, but it is just a second-order skill, which is cast by the old drunkard, and it is no less than Xiaoxue's light column rage breaking attack. Casting two paths at the same time, that is, the power of the Light Column Fury Breaking Attack *2, is it possible that high-level adventures are all monsters like her?

But what surprised me even more was that the old drunkard actually did it, and it was really possible to perform two identical skills at the same time. Is it true that the fact that there is only one magic mark has been ignored?

"I don't know much about pure magic, but I think this is the first step in compression, and if you can't even do overlapping magic, don't dream about compression."

To me, what Kashya said at this moment was authority, and although it was true that she did not have a deep understanding of pure magic, I did not doubt the correctness of what she was saying.

"How do you do that?"

I asked, rubbing my head. There is only one magic sign. Can it still be done in half?

Well, just think of it as if you were preparing the second one immediately after completing the first one, and since it's an instantaneous spell, it looks like it's cast at the same time, so let's just think of it as such, but as far as I know, even the most simple magic will have a little cooldown, just like using the magic mark as a fragile circuit. If the current is continuously applied, the circuit will not be able to withstand the heat and burn out, so each magic mark needs to cool down, and one or two overloads may be fine, but if you do it a few times, the magic mark will collapse sooner or later.

"Well, I can't help you with that. Take your time and figure it out for yourself. "Kasha's face, I'm also for your good.

"Three barrels of ale." I indifferently gestured three fingers at her.

"Deal!" Kashya replied, almost instinctively. === Then he scratched his head in embarrassment.

"It's not that I don't tell you, it's really hard to explain. When you can do it, you can do it naturally, and if you have to say it, I can only send you four words - practice makes perfect. ”

Dizzy, there's still no shortcut, it's right to think about it, for now, if there is no soul magic, I, a magic idiot, will have to explore for at least a few more years if I want to do the initial optimization of magic, in other words, soul magic is enough BT, if BT continues, the Heradic clan can rule the entire Dark Continent. In fact, it's not that there is no compromise, it's just a little troublesome, did Farah teach you the magic superposition technique? ”

"Taught."

I nodded, the so-called earth magic superposition, is to prepare the first magic at the same time, you can save the second magic, the effect is to cast the second magic that has been saved instantly after the first magic is cast, eliminating the chanting time of the second magic, for those rookies who can't do instant magic, this technique is still very useful.

Although it is useful, but there are also certain limitations to the superposition technique, that is, the difficulty of not stacking one will increase geometrically, Farah said that he can stack up to 6 by himself, and it is below the fourth order, so this superposition technique is completely useless to him, and he can almost all of the magic below the fourth order.

I don't know how many I can stack now, I used to remember that I could only stack one land, I haven't used this technique for a long time, and I don't know what the current level is.

"That's right, let's use this superposition technique, save the first magic, and cast the second magic at the same time, isn't it no different?" Kashya snapped his fingers and said excitedly.

"yes, I didn't think of that."

I jumped on the spot, if Kasha was a hundred years younger, I would have to kiss her.

Just do it, I immediately prepared the first fire storm, the fire storm is now I can instantaneously, so the attack is ready in the blink of an eye, and then wait for the cooldown time of the fire storm, the first-order skill is a little better, it only took less than two seconds to cool down, and then save the second fire storm, after the completion, I feel that there is still room for it, and I can't help but wait for another two seconds. The third Firestorm was also equipped.

In other words, I can now stack two spells, and of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that Firestorm is only a first-order magic.

"Super Firestorm."

With a soft shout, three fire storms rose from the ground, and then three turned into nine, spreading crookedly, looking even more spectacular than the sea of fire in the mage land.

It was done, I clenched my fists happily, and wiped the sweat oozing from my forehead. There is a vague feeling of tiredness in my mind, which will have such side effects, one is that I am not very proficient in this exercise, and the previous practice has consumed a lot of my mental energy, as for the second reason. Of course, it's because the cost of magic stacking and casting three spells at the same time is too huge.

"I'm exhausted, it's really not human work."

I exhaled, shook my head, and said, but anyone can see the joy in my heart, although it is small, but it is indeed a huge improvement.

After filling a bottle of mana potion and sitting down to rest, I also pondered the inadequacy of this technique.

First. It's a matter of attrition, of course. If I were to separate the firestorm normally and cast it one at a time, I wouldn't have a problem casting it hundreds of times in a row, but as it is now, I estimate that I can only use it more than 20 times at most, and this number is still an estimate after I am proficient in using it.

Second, it's a matter of time, a single fire storm I can instantaneously. But once you stack, you have to wait for a two-second cooldown, and if you stack twice, it's four seconds, which is a terrible time, and there is no way to shorten it now. *****

Thirdly, the control of the zhì problem, a single fire storm I can now control the direction of its spread as I like. But three words. It's enough if I can show it, so don't say anything about manipulation. This will probably improve after becoming proficient, well, probably.

Calculating all kinds of gains and losses before and after, and at the same time simulating various battle scenes in my head, I added several optimization magic techniques that I have now mastered to find out the environment in which various magic can be used, and suddenly, my mind flashed.

I was able to cast three Firestorms together, and if I changed the second stack to Lava Rock, and then combined Firestorm and Lava Rock, I guess it would be okay, and I would have those two seconds of cooldown left, which would be a lot of money.

Thinking like this, I realized that my mental strength had recovered a little, and I couldn't wait to stand up.

First, there was the fire storm, which was ready in an instant.

Next is the lava boulder, this second-order magic with the help of the attributes of the Book of Kane and the Hradik Cube, I can almost do it instantaneously, and the time is definitely not more than 1 second, that is to say, casting Fire Storm + Lava Boulder saves about one second more time than Fire Storm + Fire Storm.

After preparing the molten boulder, I felt that the two magics were jumping up and down under my own control, which was already the limit of what I could control, and I couldn't superimpose the second one, and the second-order magic was the second-order magic.

I didn't talk about it, I was sweating and controlling the two magics, and my face was flushed, well, it's a little strange, why the two magic just wouldn't get together.

At this time, Kasha next to me also showed my strange appearance, and his face couldn't help but change: "Wu, do you want to superimpose different spells and then cast them together." ”

I nodded with difficulty, unable to speak, and the two different magics became more restless and riotous as I tried to merge aggressively.

"Are you an idiot? Quick, hurry up and release them separately one by one. Kashya said with a rare panic.

I wanted to too, but now it's hard to ride a tiger, and the two magic can't be torn apart, and they won't get together, like maltose sticky, which makes me want to vomit blood in depression.

"Boom-"

There was a loud explosion, accompanied by thick black smoke billowing up, and the flame snake in the sky engulfed my entire body, and the clearing suddenly turned into a sea of fire, and after a while, after the fire calmed down, the place where I was standing had become a large pit several meters deep.

Inside the pit, I stood in the center like a stone sculpture, my whole body was charred black, and there was smoke on my clothes, so I paused for a few seconds, and finally opened my mouth and spit out a puff of black smoke.

"This, as a self-detonation skill, is still pretty good."

After saying this, the sky swirled, and I fell straight down.

"Boy, are you awake? Brains blown out? ”

As soon as I opened my eyes, the gloating face of the old drunkard magnified in my eyes.

"What the hell!"

I exclaimed in a smooth, emotionless tone.

No doubt about it, a blow to the head, bastard, doesn't this guy know that I'm a wounded and really wants to beat me up as a fool?

"Count your kid lucky, you can still be unharmed, you must know that overlapping the same magic and overlapping different magic, the difficulty is not a level at all, it's a shame that you idiot can implement it as a matter of course. There are many mages in history who have a gut to the bottom, and they are also like you, and then they become fools, or a puddle of meat foam. ”

As soon as I stood up with a curse, Kashya's serious appearance immediately made me shiver. ^^^^

"Is there no way, is this barrier really impossible to cross?" I muttered a little reluctantly.

"Who said there was no way. You look at the dead old man, not to mention overlapping two different magics, even different types of magic, he can also fuse, think back then, that old guy's best trick was the lightning ice ring, a composite magic fused by the lightning fourth-order skill chain lightning and the ice-based fourth-order skill icicle, well, by the way, I will explode some fierce news for you. That guy is a stunt. It is a permafrost arrow hell fused with chain lightning and ice sixth-order skill ice ball, tsk, every time the chain lightning hits an enemy, it will burst out of an ice ball, it is simply a purgatory covered by ice arrows, that scene is ......"

Kasha shook her head, and said a word.

"Sassy bag, and its sassy bag."

Just as I was immersed in that fantasy scene of countless frozen balls exploding. Kashya struck me with the wooden bow in his hand.

"This is an exclusive secret, don't tell sù that old guy that I sued you, that old sao bao doesn't seem to like to mention his past, it's best not to tell him, otherwise I won't help you if you mess with him."

I nodded hurriedly.

"Well, it's good to know, let's get down to business. So it's not that you can't overlap different magics. The point is that your magic control power and magic proficiency are too different from Farah's, after all, that old guy has been practicing for hundreds of years. You little hairy kid can't beat the pole, so practice more in the future, and don't rely too much on that soul magic. ”

"Come on, I know."

I pretended to be impatient and shook my hand, but I was secretly grateful in my heart, it seems that this old drunkard is not bad, it is estimated that this time in addition to suing me about the matter of the three princesses, it is also with the intention of guiding me.

"The ungrateful stinky boy and the dead girl are really printed in the same mold." Looking at me, Kashya's teeth were naturally clucking.

"Then again, how do you explain this to Akara?"

I looked around, the back garden of the church was in a mess by my self-explosion, and what was even more serious was that the old drunkard was probably too excited just now, and even aimed two lightning javelins directly at the church, and as a result, the originally pink and white beautiful chapel was pierced into two large holes, and it was only one step away from collapse.

The big hole I made was easy to do, just fill it with soil and find some flowers and plants to plant it, but the two holes of the old drunkard were not so easy, and maybe the whole church would have to be overturned and rebuilt, so my face was very faithful to show a gloating smile.

"Wu, that, you see, I'm also here to show you, you can't be so ruthless, let me be responsible alone."

The old drunkard suddenly panicked, if she still has someone to fear, it is Akara, although Akara is usually tepid, with a calm style, but the more this kind of person, the more terrifying it is, well, probably so, right......

"Forget it, I'll pay for the repairs, but you'll have to explain it to Akara."

I thought about it, and felt that the old drunkard didn't have much oil and water to squeeze, and besides, she did help me a lot today, so let's make a little effort.

"Ahh

The old drunkard suddenly stretched his face at the thought of facing Akara, but it was rare that my Grandaeken was bleeding, and she was also a little relieved, and her eyes purred, probably because she was afraid that I would suddenly regret it, so she left a sentence of "I'll tell Akara to go immediately" and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Next, eh, the mental power is almost exhausted, so that's all for today's practice, huh. Now it's a question of whether to go and bring the three-nil princess back immediately, or soak in the "new" Rogue bar for a while and let her suffer a little more. *****

Just when I patted ** and wanted to leave the church ground, the old drunkard who had just left turned back again, wasn't she afraid that I would regret it? Oh, there is a person behind me, and if I look closely, it turns out that I haven't seen Farah for more than a month, which makes me almost suspicious that she has been sent to college at home.

The two villains of Camp Rog walk together. At this moment, the fifth hairs on my forehead bangs counted down from the left side came out with a strict red alert - only in earthquakes, tsunamis, and even the end of the world, the yellow alert will be issued, and the red alert has been issued, so you can imagine how flustered I am now.

The thought flashed through my mind. The body had involuntarily jumped sideways, and a lazy donkey rolled into the jungle next to the road, rolled a few times, and suddenly its body seemed to hit some dead tree root-like object and stopped.

Eh, it looks like there's no obstacle in the direction I've chosen.

When I looked up, Farah's "kind" smile appeared above me.

"Dear Wu, why are you so interested. Playing and rolling on the ground. ”

"Whew-"

I shuddered. "Dear Wu"? This old man hasn't called me that for many years, there is a conspiracy, there must be a conspiracy.

"Ahem, Veras is still waiting for me to go back for dinner, so I'm not going crazy with you."

I fled, but within a few steps, the collar was grabbed by the old drunkard from behind.

"Old woman, let go. Aren't you afraid that I won't pay for the repairs you need to get out of the church? I threatened in a loud voice.

"It's okay, it's okay, our Mage Guild can still get this little money." Farrah, who was slowly following behind him, said with a smile.

I said why is the old drunkard so angry, it turns out that he has found a backer, and then these two bastards usually don't get along? Why did one nostril get out of air today? One gave me a headache, and with these two, it seems that I am in a catastrophe.

"Come on, come on, don't be shy. Let's get the three elders together. Let's talk about the future of Roggodi. The old drunkard said with such righteousness and awe, and then dragged me back to the back garden of the church.

Shy of you, sister. Who's going to get together with you two bastards, Rogge's future is your sister's business.

Under the suppression of the power of the 78-level Amazon, I was obediently dragged to the center of the clearing, and then, the two old guys locked me in a mysterious position, and even the possibility of heaven and earth.

"Hmm-" Farah nodded contentedly, his dry palm reaching into the inventory, cautious, not knowing what he was holding.

I said, even foreplay is exempt? Is there even foreplay to discuss the future of Camp Roger? Are you all that impatient, bastard?

Finally, a glass test tube appeared in Farah's hand, containing two-thirds of the cloudy white solution.

"Come, Wu, drink it and have a look." At this moment, the smile on Farah's face was like a doctor who comforted a child with an injection, well, a psychopathic doctor who secretly studied chemical weapons.

"What is this?"

I trembled my lips and said, thinking that I will probably never see my lovely Sarah and Veras again in the future, Princess Sanwu, probably only obediently locked up for half a month, and the little ghost ......, hey, I said little ghost, can't you come out to relieve your husband and me? Can you accept me becoming a cyborg monster?

"It's the energy potion in those chapters of the Codex of Lord Talasha, and I want to thank you for that." Farah said with a smile, the test tube getting closer and closer to my mouth

I deserve to die, I have done my own iniquity, and I shall not live.

"Why do you have to ask me for an experiment, a cat or a dog."

Being held by Kashya, I could only shake my head from side to side to avoid the test tube approaching.

"Animals can't bear the ingredients of potions, only to change jobs, you are an elder, don't you feel that there is such an obligation?"

"I'm going to resign, now, immediately, right now."

"Don't worry, although the old guy's character is not very good, but the level is indeed commendable, and he hasn't killed anyone in the previous experiment." Kashya said kindly and comfortingly, which made me a little relieved.

Of course. The old fellow had never tested on humans before, just with some small animals, and I wasn't lying, Kashya added in her heart, and couldn't help but be complacent at her wit.

"Wait, there is an energy potion, what about the spiritual power potion, there should be one, just try the mental power potion first."

I can't escape the fate of the white mouse, so I can only make a choice. How can I say that I have consumed a lot of mental power just now, and it is better to drink energy potion than to drink mental power potion.

"The spiritual power potion has not been finished for the time being, and it will probably be a few days, so let's try the energy potion first, don't worry, even if it doesn't work." We won't joke with your life, or Akhara won't kill me. Farah said awkwardly.

"Then why don't you put the old drunkard to the test?"

"It's not that I don't want to, but people of our level are like primary healing potions, this primary energy potion is no longer effective for us, and Kane and Akara can't afford it, so they can only look for you."

After Kashya's explanation, I felt a little better.

"But I don't have much body consumption right now. Even if you drink the Energy Potion. It doesn't necessarily have any effect. ”

"Ah, I'm in a hurry to do the experiment, how did I forget this stubble, so what should I do?" Farah slapped her head abruptly, anxiously going back and forth in circles.

"Forget it, I'll admit it today, help you." I shook my head and sighed, since there was no danger. Then it's time for us to do our duty as elders once in a while.

As he spoke, I stood up, and after standing for a moment, I suddenly raised my head to the sky and roared, my body magnified dozens of times in an instant, and the blood bear more than ten meters tall turned into a violent and domineering demeanor.

It's worth mentioning that I'm now able to control that frenzied force even if I don't have to merge with the little ghost. Another benefit that soul magic has given me. It's just that it can hone the power of the soul, but. It's a wonderful feeling to be one with the little ghost, and the contact and tolerance between the souls is more enjoyable than that, and the little ghost probably feels the same way, so the two of us know each other.

"I don't believe that Varif said that you can already control this power." Kashya took a few steps back, looked up at me, and said aloud.

I rolled my eyes at Kashya, I don't know what the bloody bear was like rolling his eyes, there was no mirror, and the old drunkard was happy anyway.

Speaking of the quickest way to consume energy, the energy cannon must be the best, at the moment, the violent black thunder slowly gathered in my mouth, and the air flow emitted by the black energy ball made the entire clearing blow a gust of wind, and the already crumbling church finally couldn't bear it anymore, and collapsed into the ground with a bang.

Farah and Kashya, who had already seen the power of the energy cannon, also hid behind a broken wall with their heads in their hands, and looked at it with their heads out of the back, as if they were afraid that I would make a mistake and harm myself.

When the ball of energy was the size of a football, I stopped condensing, opened my mouth, and made a ready-to-shoot stance - who knows if the energy potion would work.

The black thunder ball instantly expanded several times, and under my control, it showed a thick black energy pillar of a bucket of lightning flashing light, disappearing in the distance where the green and blue intersected, and the huge ravine generated by the energy pillar extended for thousands of kilometers before gradually disappearing, and it was many times more powerful than the lightning javelin of Kasya.

Canceled the transformation, I collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath, at this time, the two villains of Rogge saw the danger passing, and finally flashed to his side with a smile.

"Boy, it's amazing, even I can't make such a powerful move." Kasha looked at the spectacular ravine, patted me on the shoulder and sighed.

Cut, Amazon is not known for its great power, what she is good at is control, don't look at what Kashya said is true, but if the two of us really fight, it will definitely not take ten minutes for her to beat me up.

"Here, drink it and see."

Farah looked at me with excitement on his face, and now in his eyes, there was probably nothing else left with this energy potion.

Holding the test tube and shaking it like a cocktail, I didn't hesitate to raise my head and take a sip, smacking my mouth, it smelled a little fishy, but it was not bad.

"How?" Farah asked, shaking her beard.

"It's a little fishy, and it tastes better than I expected." I said what I thought.

"The main ingredient of the Energy Potion is Warcraft blood. There must be a little fishy smell, I'm asking about the effect, the effect. ”

"Uh-" I was stunned, then suddenly stood up.

"Haha, my waist is not sore, my legs are not weak, I feel strong all over my body, this thing works, it really works."

I said overjoyed, though this energy potion couldn't fully replenish the body I had just lost. But at least it also made me return to ninety percent of my combat effectiveness, how can I not be happy, with this thing, in the future, the energy cannon will not be put into two, one is a dozen monsters, and the other is fireworks?

There were others who were happier than me. I saw Farah dancing with his hands, like a mute who was so excited that he couldn't even laugh out loud, more than a month of research without sleeping and forgetting to eat was not in vain, and the joy of success that was rewarded after paying for it was difficult for outsiders to understand.

"Is this thing left, how about a few dozen bottles for me? Money is not an issue. I salivated and stretched my hand towards Fa.

"It's just such a bottle, don't worry, it will be mass-produced next. You are a hero. As the person who drank the first bottle of energy potion in all darkness, you're going to go down in history, how about it, happy? ”

"Why don't you give me a hundred bottles of energy potions?" I sniffled and said nonchalantly.

"You bastard......" Farah was so angry that he didn't know what to say.

"Wu boy, I can say that in the front, the effect of the energy potion is only to stimulate the potential of the human body, which is equivalent to the advance of the body. But don't drink too much in a row, otherwise you will suffer side effects. Before leaving, Farah said this to me, and as he spoke, a teleportation disappeared.

This is only the most basic energy potion, and there are intermediate ones, advanced ones, and probably super ones. Only these potions are truly suitable for advanced adventure use. There are also mental power potions, and the most important thing is that remote teleportation magic array. Just thinking about it makes me feel how busy Farah is, and I haven't wanted to see him for more than a year.

After Farah left, Kasha also flashed away, and when I looked back at the huge gully that I had created for thousands of meters in the ground, the collapsed houses, and the cracks in the ground, I was intoxicated for a while, and I was suddenly stunned.

Ale, could it be that the loss of maintenance costs has become all paid by me alone?!!!

"It probably takes ...... to fill the pit, well, and the church, woo

Along the way, I twisted my fingers and toes, counted and counted, and felt that without 10,000 gold coins, I didn't want to restore the whole church to its original state, and I couldn't help but feel so distressed that my eggs hurt.

"Wu, where are you going?"

At this moment, an amiable voice came from not far away, and when I turned around, it turned out that it was the blind nun chief, and the head of the Rogge camp, Akara, was greeting me with a cane,

"It's Lord Akara, ahaha......"

I felt a little cramped on my smile, and now that I saw Akara's smiling face, I felt like a hole had been dug into my purse, and the gold coins were flowing in it.

"I see, uh-huh, I see." When I was done, Akara laughed.

Woo damn it, cheap old drunkard.

"Akara, you won't be angry, will you?"

I asked cautiously, after all, when she taught me the key, she told me to be careful.

"Hehe, it's okay, it's okay, you didn't mean it, and besides, didn't you promise to rebuild the church? I still have nothing to be angry about, but luckily I don't have much to do with the church lately. ”

I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Unexpectedly, Farah has already developed the energy potion, which is great news." Looking at Akara's face, it was obviously a look of joy, and sure enough, she was still a reasonable boss.

"By the way, Wu, are you free? Why don't you come with me? Seeing my stunned look, Akara laughed.

"I know, you've probably been wondering where I sometimes disappear, how about it, are you interested?" After saying that, she didn't wait for me to answer before she took a step.

Isn't this a clear temptation to me? After secretly killing a cat with curiosity ninety-nine times, my heart sank and I resolutely followed.

Obviously she was blind and on crutches, but Akaradi's steps were not slow at all, I was just stunned for a moment, she had already walked a hundred meters away.

"Akara, where are we going?"

Along the way, I couldn't help but ask, the way she is taking me now is something I have never seen before, and I have been in Rogge for three years, and I never knew there was a place like this.

When a layer of magic fluctuations faintly came, my eyes widened in surprise - not because I didn't know anything about the camp, it was obvious that this place had been covered by a huge magic array, and I couldn't enter it without permission, and if I hadn't mastered soul magic, I wouldn't have been able to see this layer of magic fluctuations at all.

What was it, what was the important thing, that was worth the expense of hiding the entire area, and with such doubts, I followed in the footsteps of Akara and watched as she opened one magical barrier after another, and finally, finally came to ......

Khan, what kind of place is this? When I walked out of the magic barrier, my eyes lit up, and in front of me was a huge camp, just like the North District training camp, but the facilities inside seemed to be more comprehensive, covering almost all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation, it was simply a small self-sufficiency base.

Within sight, some white figures were on the training ground, and a white light flashed from time to time.

"Could it be that this is ......" I looked at Akara with a puzzled look.

"That's right, this is the secret training ground of Camp Rog, welcome to you, Wu, from now on, you will also be a member of this place."

Akara opened her hands, condescendingly hugged the entire base, and said proudly in an impassioned tone, the nun's robe blowing in the wind made her look as if she was a high sage, unattainable.