Chapter 63: Pretending to be a Ghost (4000 words)
After a night, the weather was not very good, and the wind blew and the sand and dust were blown up, resulting in a sky full of yellow sand, which was not conducive to a long journey.
That's not good for the Dark Ages, it seems that there is a little too much sand, as if you can see it everywhere.
Brother Gro followed Angela with a desperate face, and under Angela's force, his legs made marks on the ground.
Arriving at the screaming shed again, Gro's little brother trembled with fright and let out an ugly scream.
Then, he was thrown out by Angela.
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On the large rock, Angela looked at the ugly corpse and held up a crystalline object.
This time, the big stone was still covered with a magic array composed of magic runes, and this time it was condensed with magic power.
When the corpse is placed on it, some crystalline objects begin to appear, and then, the entity still changes to the same form as before.
Angela returned to her residence and began to study the crystal, and eventually found that it contained subtle special magic, and using this crystal as a medium, she could manipulate liquids more freely, similar to those special gems.
Angela was a little excited, it took so much time to finally find some signs!
It seems to have something to do with magic, but as for why the glass armor is so useful, in Angela's opinion, it should have something to do with the tightness of the glass.
This glass armor was not simple to make, and it required a perfect fit, just enough to maintain both flexibility and sealing.
However, you have to try it out.
After many days of experimentation, Angela's experiment finally made a breakthrough after the death of the last werewolf.
For this last experiment, Angela made a new set of glass armor, but this time this set of glass armor is much simpler, and the sealing is very good, but the flexibility can be said to be almost non-existent, and it is difficult to even walk.
Angela can be said to have carried this last experiment to the screaming shed, and then opened a hole behind his armor, and after waiting for a while, knowing that the werewolf gave up the struggle, Angela closed the hole, and after three days, the werewolf inside completely turned into water, and because it was completely sealed, Angela also refined that special thing.
This is a very special kind of magic crystal, closely related to water and gemstones, using it as a medium, Angela's control of water has been raised to an incredible level, but the problem is that this process consumes too much for this magic crystal, and it cannot be replenished.
Moreover, the magic crystal, or this special magic itself, is the deadliest poison, as long as any creature is contaminated, the magic in the body will be like cancer, and it will begin to be assimilated by this special magic on a large scale.
Then the rest of the material except water will be quickly burned out by the high temperature, and in the process, most of the temperature will be extracted, so the temperature of the water in the body will drop rapidly and condense into ice.
At the same time, this magic will spread outward to a certain extent, and if there are other animals around, then these animals will be infected.
But the magic is that as long as it doesn't come into contact with flesh and blood, it doesn't have that kind of dangerous reaction, and that's why Angela can use it.
But no matter how you look at it, no matter how you use it, this is a very powerful disposable weapon.
Even those gems that possess this property are just turning one time into multiple times, and they are also just consumables.
Therefore, if Angela wants to master this special magic for a long time, she must analyze and understand this special magic until she can know how to create it.
After more than a busy month, Angela began experiments on some animals.
Finally, in a scorpion, Angela got the initial success.
The success of this experiment was just a coincidence, but Angela already saw hope.
Most of the scorpion's body has crystallized, which has greatly increased its defense, and the poison needle on its tail has changed dramatically.
Angela locked it up with a poisonous snake, and when the poisonous snake was pricked by the scorpion, the poisonous snake began to struggle, and after three minutes, the poisonous snake, known for its tenacious vitality, died, and after half a day, the poisonous snake completely turned into a puddle of liquid.
This process made Angela ecstatic.
Then, she started to enter the rat hole through the screaming shed, and after collecting a large number of special gems, Angela left the place, she was looking for a quiet place, she needed a lot of resources, and all this was very unrealistic for her alone.
The Valley of Plzeň, located in the western part of the Duchy of Roses, near the coast of the West Sea.
Here, it is a rare paradise for mankind in the Dark Ages, and it is the territory of Count Grossi, the third son of the Grand Duke of Rose.
No one would have imagined that the fifth heir to the Principality of Roses, known as the "mongrel" and "coward", would become the last official member of the Clark family.
It was precisely because he was sacrificed to this remote place that Count Grossi escaped the capital of the principality, which was full of werewolves and vampires and ghouls, and avoided the fate of being destroyed with the Clark family.
The Valley of Plzeň, because it is surrounded by mountains, the roads are crooked and narrow, the magnetic force is chaotic, and it is easy to get lost, and it is extremely difficult to enter or get out.
What's more, there are also Pilsen tribes everywhere here, coupled with the loess everywhere, there are few places suitable for farming, which has led to poverty and backwardness here.
However, it is precisely because of this environment that the darkness here is not as rapid as the outside world, but has undergone a long process of change, which gives people time to adapt, plus the population itself is not as large as the outside, it belongs to a vast and sparsely populated area, and it is already poor, so that the proportion of people here whether they are werewolves or ghouls is not as good as the outside world, resulting in the great change caused by the darkness here is not as great as the outside world, and the people who are already tough quickly adapted.
Coupled with a series of benefits such as increased potato production brought about by the darkness, as well as the benevolence and status of the new lord, Count Grossi, even some regions have made life a little better than before the Dark Ages.
The mainstream population of the Principality of Roses is the Xihai people, who belong to outsiders, invaders, and have a very big conflict with the Pilsen, who are mainly tribal. At the beginning, in order to pacify Pilsen as soon as possible, the Rose Duke welcomed the Pilsen saintess, and later the Pilsen saint gave birth to Grossi, so Grossi is not only the "prince" of the Xihai people, but also the "prince" of the Pilsen people, so he can calm the conflict between the Pilsen people and the Xihai people very well
For ordinary people, the roads that dot the mountainside are difficult and dangerous, but for Angela, they are only more difficult than the flat roads.
And because the vegetation area here is relatively small, the number of dangerous creatures here is also smaller, this dark age, for Angela is more walkable, and even in some better weather, she can travel overnight, so the speed of travel is faster.
It only took Angela a month to get from Redstone to Plzen.
After a month of sleeping in the open, she finally arrived at a tribe of Pilsens.
With the fair skin of the Xihai people, the skin of the Pilsen people is bronze, but the hair color and eye color are quite fragrant, they are all dark, they look more robust than the Xihai people, because of the cultural relationship, they are not as calculating as the Xihai people, but very stupid.
Yes, that's right, they give others the impression that they are stupid and easy to cajole.
The people of the West Sea used to be able to help them mine stones for a day for the price of just two loaves of bread, and quarrying was not an easy job, similar to mining, but slightly safer than mining.
Later, after a long time of contact with the Xihai people, the Pilsen people found that they had suffered a big loss, so they asked for four loaves of bread for one day's stones, and launched a war for this, and the final result of this war was that the Pilsen people quarried stones for the Xihai people for one day, and the Xihai people had to pay three breads for the Pilsen people, which was the famous war of a bread.
However, the people of the West Sea did not pay more than two loaves of bread, because they began to mix sand with the bread.
It was also because of this incident that the contradictions between the two sides became bigger and bigger, until finally it could not be controlled, and the Xihai people once lost their rule over Pilsen, until the Xihai people gave in, and the Grand Duke of Rose welcomed the common saint of more than a dozen tribes of Pilsen.
Pilsen lacked everything, that is, there was no shortage of loess and stone, so most of their houses were mainly loess and stone, and they were not the usual square buildings, but irregular round bags.
The tribe did not welcome Angela's arrival.
With the sound of whistles, they gathered around, making intimidating gestures and speaking a jumble of local dialects, as if trying to get Angela out of the place.
However, it can be seen that they are still very restrained and do not make any moves to hurt Angela.
It wasn't until a tall old man arrived that these irascible Pilsons quieted down.
The old man said to Angela in an awkward lingua franca: "Xihai people, please get out of here!" ”
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to disturb your tribe, I just wanted to spend the night here. Also, I'm from the South, not from the West Sea. ”
The old man looked at Angela carefully, and then said, "You really don't look like a Xihai person, but outsiders are not welcome here. ”
"Why?"
"Because you're dangerous, and we don't have much food."
Because of their long struggle with various harsh environments, the Pilsens have a skill similar to that of a race, and that is that they have the instincts of beasts.
Of course, this intuition is in the sense of danger, not in other aspects, otherwise it would not have been so badly deceived by the people of the West Sea.
It is also because of this intuition that these Pilsner talents show such restraint.
"I can pay a price." Angela laughed and said, "Look, what is this?" ”
I saw Angela put on gloves and carefully took out a special gem and called it a water source gem, and that special magic power was also called water source power, preventing it from coming into contact with her skin.
Then, the water source gem was suspended in midair, and the liquid began to condense towards the gem, and soon, a cloud of water three feet in diameter condensed.
The people around were startled, took a few steps back, and looked at Angela in horror.
They have never seen a wizard, but they have seen monsters, in their opinion, those who can have this kind of magical power are not easy to mess with, it takes several warriors to cooperate with each other to fight, and even these warriors are in danger of their lives.
The best hunters of the Pilsens are called Warriors, and each of them can run for tribal chieftaincy
Angela smiled slightly and said, "You see, this is water, no different from what you drink, and I can trade with you at the price of it, and get the right to rest here for a day." ”
Plzeň is short of water, and if you want to drink water, you often need to dig a very deep well, and rivers and streams are very rare, and those who can occupy these places are either the people of the West Sea or those powerful tribes, so Angela offered a lot of money.
The tall old man hesitated, and he said, "You are a generous person, and that is because you are too dangerous." ”
"So...... So be it! ”
Angela said, her fingers twiggling across the ground.
They didn't know what Angela was doing, they just stared at Angela dumbly, and some of the children wanted to come over to see the excitement, but their mother grabbed them, dragged them into the house, and looked through the window.
Ten minutes passed, and the ground began to shake, and then a large hole opened.
The Pilsons screamed in panic, some ran wildly, some knelt on the ground and begged the gods for protection.
The old man also looked at Angela with a frightened expression, and beads of sweat began to appear on his forehead.
He took the spear from a young man, held it, and threw it at Angela in that moment whenever he shot at them.
The cracks grew bigger and bigger, and finally a huge pit was formed.
The balloon fell into the pit, and then the water continued to spread up.
This is Angela first using the magic circle to attract the ground, opening a passage to loosen the ground, and then using the water source gem to attract the groundwater and impact the surrounding soil.
Rumble!
A column of water rose into the air, and the old man looked up at the column of water rising into the sky in amazement, and the spear fell to the ground, and then knelt down.
This water gem ran out, and Angela felt a little heartache and pretended to be big.
The ground stopped shaking, and the boiling water calmed down.
The Pilsens looked at a pool of water and knelt down reverently.
"God, you must be a messenger sent by God."
The old man's face was full of fanaticism, and the water in this pool represents the prosperity of a tribe!
"I'm not a messenger of God, I'm just a magician, so can I stay here for a while?"
"Magician, stay still." The old man hurriedly said that he didn't know what a magician was, but in his opinion, a magician was a messenger of the gods, and a messenger of the gods was a magician, and there was no gap between the two.
As for whether he can't live there, of course he wishes that Angela could live, and if Angela is willing to live forever, he will even build a temple for Angela and send beautiful and pure young girls to serve Angela.
As for the fact that Angela is dangerous, it is not a matter at all, if the envoy of civilization, the magician, is not dangerous, and a little stronger, then is it still worthy of their worship?