Chapter 538: The Legend of Ion
Jeno and Sindra traveled together, passing endless salt pans and magically soaked seas, palm-sized yellow shells raising their pincers to welcome them, and even the peasants with hats couldn't help but glance at Sindra.
Even though the magic of the Newborn Land is abundant, and most people can use it, as it is as common as moving their ears or whistling, it is still rare to see people who can float in the air like Sindra.
The further north they went, the cooler it became, the vegetation grew larger, and finally they entered a sassafras forest.
It took ten days to walk this way, and on the way Jeno had not found a good means of transportation, and he saw that some wooden houses were built on top of huge beasts of burden, but unfortunately they were not taken in the same way.
In the end, he bought a horse at an inn at a high price, where the purchasing power of foreign currency was very weak, and there were very few places where it could be used, and most of the areas stayed at the level of barter, and everyone was pragmatic, even if it was a loss, it didn't matter.
Even on horseback, Sindra still disliked Jeno for walking slowly, and she wanted to use her telekinesis to grab a mountain for Jeno to lie on and fly along, but he refused on the grounds of damaging the environment.
Sindra then offered to carry Jeno all the way north with his telekinetic hand, but Genor refused, saying that he liked the feeling of looking up at the stars with his feet on the ground.
His kindness was rejected again and again, and the angry Sindra began to play tricks on Jeno frequently, and the good-natured Jeno didn't say anything, but the horses under him suffered.
When it found itself jumping dozens of meters, it immediately made a sharp stop, almost didn't drop Jeno, and then stood there pouting its hooves and doubting Ma Sheng.
Jeno faintly heard a laugh, but when he looked up at Sindra, the other party had a cold expression.
Sindra has been a naughty boy since she was a child, and now that her true nature is exposed, she has begun to cause a lot of trouble to the things around her, but fortunately, it is just a small fight.
In addition, Jeno tells Sindra not to use magic in her voice and eyes, and she doesn't know who to show or listen to.
Sindra thought about it, but she couldn't scare Jeno anyway, and she had eaten many meals along the way, and she felt that she was indebted and reined in her magic.
Her voice no longer had a reverberant effect, and it changed from majestic indifference to graceful listening, and the fire burning in her eyes was extinguished, revealing a pair of dark eyes.
Then she shook off the sentence "Satisfied, right?" Without giving Jeno a chance to judge, she held her head high between her legs and flew away first, leaving Jeno scratching his head behind.
Later, Jeno rode into a wood, the peregrine falcon swept through the forest, the squirrels stood in groups of people standing on the branches to watch him, and the ivory chrysanthemum unfurled a petal that was most proud of him, and it was full of life.
But all of this disappeared without a trace after Sindra followed him into the forest.
The dense branches caused Sindra to fly low, perhaps she could have flown over the trees, but that would have caused Jeno to get lost from her vision, the foliage was too lush.
"They're all scared of me." Sindra said.
She flew very low, so low that she had to bend her legs to keep her toes from touching the low bushes.
"It's not something to be proud of, your strong negative energy scares them away, and I like critters very much."
Jeno soothed the horse beneath him, and as Sindra got too close, the dark magic affected it, causing it to tremble involuntarily.
"You talk like you can talk to animals." Sindra's hair accidentally caught in a branch, so she broke it off and threw it away.
"I don't mean no, but I know who can."
"Who?" Sindra asked.
Jeno looked up and saw Sindra crossing her legs with her head bowed, her curious gaze looking at him through the gap between her career line and her legs.
"Ion Thornfoot, you don't know each other, do you?" Jeno swallowed a mouthful of saliva before replying.
The story of Aion is widely spread in Ionia, and it is known that when Emperor Liu was cut down by the invaders and his life came to an end, he transferred its power to the invaders and succeeded in transforming him, so this man took on the duties of Emperor Liu and began to supervise the growth of all things.
"I always thought it was a legend that it could communicate with earthworms in the soil, and that was, wasn't it? Who's going to talk to bait, don't you take it seriously? ”
As Sindra lifted her arms, Jeno couldn't see anything.
"But he just can."
"I think it's all made up, humans can't understand animal sounds, it can make up whatever it wants."
"Then call it over and put on a show for you in person." Jeno said.
"What do you call it?"
"Let me think about it." Jeno began to look around, hoping to spot some animal in the area.
Then he saw a land-walking sharp-beaked bird, which was lying in the grass not far away, apparently murderous to Jeno's foal, but was afraid to approach it because of the magic that Sindra exuded.
Jeno walked up to the lone sharp-beaked bird and said with a smile:
"Chicken, chicken, can you help us get the news to Ion, or I'll take you to the river to roast."
In fact, the sharp-beaked bird is not small, and the one in front of me is even bigger than an adult chicken. They resemble chickens in appearance, and in Jeno's view, they resemble free-range chickens with huge beaks.
Even though it couldn't understand human speech, the beaked bird instinctively sensed the threat from humans, and immediately understood that it was the prey, so it flapped its short and weak wings and cooed away.
"Is that all there is to it?" Sindra looked at the returning Jeno.
"Who knows? I'm just going to give it a try. If Aion finds us because of this, it proves that he heard the beaked bird's plea for help. Jeno rolled over and said, "Let's keep walking, just wait, if we have the chance, we can wait before we get out of the woods." ”
"It's better to take it to the river and roast it." Sindra only felt a little regretful, but kept up with Jeno.
With the delicious food to look forward to, Sindra no longer dreamed of the spirit willow that she had destroyed, and by the way, even the grievances she had suffered as a child began to care less about it.
After a few days of getting along, Jeno felt more and more that he had made the right choice.
Although Sindra has a stubborn personality, she is not impossible to change, and he has indeed seen her change for the better in the past few days.
If Sindra had been awakened during the assassination, then the good things she encountered on the way north might have been destroyed in a bad mood.