Chapter Ninety-Seven: Fallen Leaf City

Warm around the campfire.

Aladdin is preparing a late-night snack, which is actually a sliced piece of meat and sprinkled with spices to roast. Plot: Aboriginal halflings are people who know how to enjoy themselves, and they will use at least half of the wealth obtained from adventures to make their lives more comfortable, and halflings will not take risks for a long time, and often choose to retire after earning a sum of money. Vivien couldn't eat anymore, and Goliath had a rare burp, and then she blushed and entered the carriage.

Sauron's appetite is good, and the stronger the physique, the better the digestion, and the amount of food he eats has doubled compared to before.

For example, he now carries jerky with him, mainly to avoid a battle and no time to cook, he can directly take jerky for a while, and wait until he breaks through the fourth order, and his endurance will be greatly strengthened at that time, even if he doesn't eat for seven or eight days in a row, it doesn't matter. He still knows a little about barbecue, and the two of them sit by the fire and eat slices of meat, probably because there is an extra gourmand around him, and Sauron accidentally unlocks the basic skills of cooking.

It's already 20 o'clock.

There are many types of basic skills, in addition to the ability to directly affect combat, it will also include forging, cooking, tailoring, and so on. The role of these skills is not very large, and generally few people specialize in training, weapon forging and armor forging have limits, and if you want to create extraordinary-level equipment, you must cooperate with alchemy. One of the most typical is the wizard's robe, many high-level robes require special materials, such as tough spider silk from the dark region, and this kind of spider silk is not something that ordinary tailors can do.

As for the wizard himself, you can't expect him to be proficient in the craft of sewing while learning so much.

Therefore, the number of high-level transcendent items has always been very scarce.

Aladdin leaned against the carriage and smoked his pipe, handed Sauron a small bag of tobacco, and said with a smile: "Try the tobacco of the Norodotus family, this is the best tobacco in the north of the Shire." ”

Sauron didn't refuse. He basically doesn't drink alcohol, and can use tobacco to relieve the pain if necessary, and sometimes to distract from the injury. Halfling-grown tobacco is basically expensive and hard to come by, and they are a good thing that many wizards are keen on, and when lit, they carry a faint fragrance that can help refresh the mind when necessary. The effect is similar to that of the incense lit by Goliath, except that tobacco is mostly a hobby of male wizards.

The night was getting deeper.

The halfling spread out a blanket, then rolled up and shrunk into it to sleep, not knowing if he was asleep or not. After all, it's hard for loiters to fall asleep.

Wanderers are the heaviest of the adventurers' team, and they must be on their toes at all times.

The Wanderer is definitely the first character to be questioned if they are accidentally attacked, so for a long time the Wanderer liked to walk alone because their task was so hard. When encountering dangerous terrain, they have to be at the forefront, and they have to deal with pathfinding traps, and at night, the mages are meditating, and the warriors are sleeping. Wanderers, on the other hand, should always be vigilant and take a moment to rest when it is safe to do so. It's good to have a high-level ranger to replace it, but if you don't keep vigil in many dangerous places, it's useless at all, and you don't know when the enemy will stealthily touch it.

It's still a one-person activity, just go. Say stay and stay, it's quite comfortable.

A faint wolf howl could be heard in the distance.

Sauron sat in the carriage to rest, Vivien tugged at the corner of his coat with her little hands, and Sauron smiled and touched her little head. It means that you don't need to get into the carriage. Although the halfling is very friendly, he will not take it lightly, even if there is a vigilance circle arranged by the witch. He still thinks that his vigil is more steady, otherwise he won't be able to sleep well at night. The weather is getting colder and colder, and it may be that this year's winter will come earlier, and it looks like it will be much colder than usual.

Aladdin gradually slept soundly, and it is estimated that what he wanted to go with him most was not to be able to ride, but to be able to sleep well.

In the wilderness, I guess he didn't dare to sleep peacefully.

Sauron sat upright under a blanket, occasionally standing up and walking cautiously, listening to distant noises where the wolves had spotted the campfire, but he was very interested in not bothering him. If the wolves are not very hungry, they still feed on wild beasts, and attacking travelers will reduce their population, and it will be difficult for the pack to reproduce.

By the next morning, Sauron's body was covered in a patch of hoarfrost.

It's really cold.

Sauron, who has a 20-point transcendent physique, doesn't care very much, but when Vivian woke up and saw the hoarfrost on his eyebrows, a distressed expression appeared on his little face, wiped the hoarfrost off his body with his little hands, and opened his small mouth to blow up, holding his palm and rubbing it vigorously: "Brother? Is it cold? ”

Sauron kissed her on the forehead and smiled, "It's not cold. This chill is nothing. ”

The weather has really changed.

When she got up in the morning and exhaled, it was already a white mist, and Goliath frowned, and whispered, "This year's winter has come more than a month earlier than usual. ”

Sauron nodded slightly, but didn't say anything.

Aladdin woke up and moved a little, and then began to find some dry firewood to make porridge, his fellows were complete, and the group simply ate and continued their journey. Probably because the previous journey was swept by the caravan, and they didn't encounter any monsters along the way, the journey lasted for two days, until they finally reached the area of Fallen Leaf City after the fifth day.

This is the territory of the half-elves.

Half-elves are very common here, with slightly pointed ears, a more slender and flexible body than humans, and a slightly handsome and beautiful face. However, most of the half-elves have been mixed many times, the proportion of human blood is very large, the proportion of elven blood is reduced, and the village is similar to that of humans, but there are a lot more arrow tower sentry towers. There are more longbowmen than the elves, because the elves are not as strong as humans, and although they are very agile and use longbows, they get tired easily.

Human strength is sufficient, but skill is not, and training a longbowman takes too much time, far less than a crossbowman or a normal archer.

The half-elf combines the strengths of both sides, that is, it has good strength. He also inherited the elves' talent for bows and arrows.

Almost every village here has longbowmen, and some towns can also see longbowmen guards. Of all the half-blood races, the half-elves are the best, and the others, such as the half-orcs, are now either vassal slaves or wandering around. It's xenophobic, and half-elves are repulsive to any creature that isn't half-elf, and they will look at outsiders with a wary gaze. Because they have been in the same way in the society of humans and elves.

Racial harmony is nothing more than a slogan preached by idealists.

Sauron and the others did not stop, and directly headed towards Fallen Leaf City, and finally reached Fallen Leaf City on the sixth day of their trip.

"Alright. I'm going to the Iron Dwarves. ”

The small halfling jumped out of the carriage. He waved at Vivien, who was about as tall as him, and walked away very freely. "Goodbye. Lovely little girl. Good bye. Your Excellency the Witches, Goodbye, peers. ”

"When I have time to travel to the Shire, I invite you to eat grilled sturgeon."

It's a normal thing to be separated.

Even if you are a team of adventurers who have been together for a long time, there will be separate moments.

Vivien's expression was a little disappointed, but she quickly recovered, smiling as she sorted out the gifts she had received, her little face full of joy. She actually liked the halfling a lot, because the other party gave her a feeling of a little friend. Compared to other children, she still seems too smart and mature. So only when an adult looks like a child-sized halfling, the little girl has the joy of meeting a little friend.

Deciduous City has the style of the elves.

Most of them believe in the elven gods, and a few will devote themselves to other faiths. Half-elves also have their own gods, but they are very weak, and they are only gods of the weak divine power level, and they can't protect them at all. The Fallen Leaf City is full of plane trees. In autumn, the leaves are falling and look very poetic, and they worship the legendary immortal birds. So they also love the plane tree.

There are many names for immortal birds.

Warrior monks like to call it the Phoenix, priests call it the Sunbird, and wizards name it Arcane Ashes.

It existed during the Arcane Empire.

After that, it was basically hard to see, rarer than gods, more powerful than dragons. It is said that the god of the fire element, who possesses great divine power in the elemental plane, has sent them an olive branch, and these beautiful and deadly beings have long since left this world. Legend has it that the sky they fly over leaves a brilliant fire, and when they hit the ground, everything will turn to ashes. The flames on their bodies only extinguish the moment they die, and this holy flame can deal hundreds of divine flame damage per second.

So they are beautiful but not to be approached.

There are two iconic buildings in Deciduous City, one is the sculpture of the immortal bird in the central square, which is thirty meters high and more than twenty meters wide. The other is a domed tower more than 300 meters high, where the territory of the Akiba Council is located, that is, the Spellcaster Council inside the half-elves. These are not the most eye-catching, what is even more striking is an iron pillar on the top of the domed tower, which emits a silvery-white glow that will be a little dazzling when viewed closely in the sun.

It was the brilliance of Mithril, and the pillar that looked like a lightning rod was actually the legendary Magic Crystal Cannon.

In the imagination of mortals, the magic crystal cannon should be a very cumbersome cannon on the city wall, just like the cannon used by the dwarven gnomes in the story. In their imaginative brains, it was difficult to determine what the legendary Crystal Cannon looked like, only to imagine that the wizard would fill it with something called the Crystal and use a spell to induce it to fire, and then with a loud rumbling sound, the Crystal Cannon knocked a dragon down.

Uh-huh.

It's just this feeling, and it's very emotional to think about.

But in fact, this is not the case, the attack of the magic crystal cannon is not a parabola, but a straight line strike, and it is simply an ornament on the city wall, and one shot can kill all of your own people. It was born during the Arcane Empire and was used in conjunction with the Floating City, with a maximum attack range of 1,000 kilometers, and it was used to destroy targets from the air superiority.

That's right.

Its full name is called the Magic Crystal Superconducting Pulse Cannon. (To be continued......)