Chapter Twenty-Five: The Direction of Dak
The next morning, Duck woke up, and everyone had already eaten, and they brought Duck a portion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biqugeγ info Yupanki picks some wild fruits from the woods, Royce catches a few fish in the river, George cooks a pot of mushroom soup, and it's a good meal.
Duck was fed, and the crowd briefed him on the situation, and it turned out that he had slept all day, and was carried around on a stretcher for most of the time.
After Kuruma's vanguard was wiped out by the black-armored giant ants, there was no news of the pursuers, probably thinking that everyone had been buried in the belly of the giant ants or in the vast forest. So the team slowed down and marched north in the direction of the creek, and after another day's journey, they came to a fast-flowing river and camped, where they stopped to recuperate, searched for supplies, and waited for Duck's wounds to heal.
Under Isabella's divine skill and careful care, his wounds healed well without any after-effects. The two agreed that Duck was ready to walk on the ground, so Riley helped him take a slow walk on the grass.
"Brother, you don't know, we've done a lot of things in the past two days!"
"Oh, let's hear it. β
"The covert communication tower is fully operational, and it is already capable of making iron dragonflies. β
"What is an iron dragonfly?"
"A flying alchemy prop, don't underestimate it, it's equivalent to a flying True Vision Circle, we can receive real-time images from it!"
"It's an amazing invention, and with it, we don't have to worry about getting lost. However, since it is a 'small' prop, its observation range and flight time estimation are not ideal; the communication tower is not supported by a magic energy reactor, and it only relies on itself to extract resources from the surrounding environment, and the speed of making iron dragonflies is estimated not to be much faster, and finally, it can only survey the general terrain and landforms of this dense forest terrain now, right?"
Riley looked at him in amazement: "Awesome, brother, you sleep this day, you are good at it!"
Duck smiled: "I don't study as much as you, but after all, I have been dealing with alchemists for so long, and I can still tell some truths." β
Riley looked around at no one and said in a low voice, "Brother, I'll tell you some good news: I talked to Sister Lala, and she doesn't blame you." β
"I don't care if it's weird or not. β
"Ouch, who is going to ask for blessings with a shy face?"
Dark's face suddenly turned into a monkey's ass: "What do you ask for, how can you have! The priest forgot to bless, can't you remind me? Stinky girl, dare to make fun of me!"
"You're both just as dishonest. Brother, please, at least chase girls seriously, okay?"
"People are pastors of the Cult of the Illuminati, and it is absolutely impossible to get married. Now that I can cooperate with our acting to this point, I have done my duty. What else do you want to do?"
"My good brother, you and she are dead over there in Port Snell, why do you care about this? Now that she is alone, how much you care about her, how good!"
"No, it's called taking advantage of people's danger. I don't do this kind of thing, old sister, the matter of the Bright God Sect, she can't let go, even if I drag her over, sooner or later she will run away. β
"It's too simple," Riley patted her brother on the shoulder, "How about the script 'The sinister Cult of Darkness warrior seduced the holy Cult of Light priest, and the young girl fell into the deepest darkness'?"
"It's not good, is your brother and I so unbearable?, okay, this matter is over," Duck sighed and said, "Sister, in just a few months, we have run to a place that we couldn't dream of before, and we have encountered so many strange things, this life is really difficult to fathom......"
Riley smiled, "Brother, do you regret it?"
"I don't regret it, I'm just a little depressed. β
"Depressed what?"
"When do you think I'll be like George?"
"Brother, stop dreaming. We don't have a god-level alchemist father. β
"I didn't mean that, dad is one thing, but George's brain is ......"
"That's also from a young age without worrying about food and clothing, plus the ears and eyes are slowly grinded out, now I don't have that environment and no time, I'm afraid it's not easy to do this. Riley thought about it, felt that she couldn't say anything, and said, "If you want to catch up with him, you have to talk about twenty years of hard work, right?"
Duck shook his head: "I didn't mean that, it's just ...... Do you think I'm like a thug?"
"What is called, it is. Hee-hee, don't be angry, don't be angry, just kidding. You see, our squad has a very good professional match, there are warriors, assassins, priests and mages, plus logistics support and coordination like me and George, in time, we must be Doland, no, the best mercenary team in the whole continent! Everyone has their own things to do, let George go to the top, he is not as good as you!"
Duck sighed, "You still don't understand what I mean. You see, George's approach to solving problems is different from all of us. The gap between us and him is not a matter of strength level, but of ideas and methods. If this matter is not solved well, even if I become a god of war in the future and you become a god-level alchemist, you can only rely on stupid methods and brute strength to solve the problem. β
Riley looked thoughtful and said, "That's true. He has a very broad horizon and a lot of strange tricks, but we can't learn it!"
"I think the main reason is that he knows a lot of things, is well-informed, and has a lot of courage, so he can think of places that others can't think of. I'm just now realizing that I know so little and too little. Sister, can you teach me alchemy?"
"You want to learn alchemy?"
"It's not for the exam, it's just to learn more. β
George's voice suddenly rang out: "I recommend that you start with the Hundred Objects Law Chronicle - I came here to find some materials, and I just happened to hear your conversation." β
Riley said: "Isn't the Law of a Hundred Things an introduction to mages, and what does it have to do with alchemy?"
"All disciplines are interconnected, and this book introduces some of the currently known minerals and the division of the six basic elements of earth, water, wind, fire, light and darkness. For beginners, it's relatively simple, and the key is, there are diagrams. β
Duck was speechless for a while, and said to himself, Do you think I am a newly literate child?
George said, "Duck, let me ask you, do you really want to learn something useful, or do you want to decorate the faΓ§ade?"
Darker replied in the same vein: "Learn more things to solve problems, I often have to rush to the front, as long as I know even a little more than my opponent, it is enough to decide the winner." β
George bowed slightly, and said: "There is no end to learning, and there is no end to learning, if you don't want to drown in the ocean of knowledge, you must know where the shore is." What is your goal? Don't tell me you want to outdo me. β
Duck smiled: "You know so much more than I do, it's hard to outdo you." However, in terms of how to 'use', you may not be as good as me to play. For example, climbing ant towers. If you are unique with new ideas and new methods, why can't I make a breakthrough in new practices and new applications?"
"It's good to have that idea, but it's all about how," George said. Go find Isis in a moment, she will be happy to teach you. Within five days, after memorizing the "Hundred Things", I will arrange the next stage of the course, but I can't memorize it, and don't mention it later. β
After George finished speaking, he turned around to leave, and suddenly turned his head again and said, "By the way, in these five days, you should do nothing less." β
"Cut, isn't it just a broken book, and I'll read it to you when the time comes!"
"Brother, the text-only version of that book is more than 130 pages. β
"Ahh Now, right away!"