Chapter 16: The Ambitions of Drunkard Bird and Little Harden
The disappearance of the old mage caused the baroness to ask, Xie Yu just made a casual excuse and fooled it over, but without the supervision of the old mage, Xie Yu felt that he had no goal and motivation all of a sudden, except for taking time out every day to practice stick magic and do housework, at other times, Xie Yu lay in the room, studying the magic notes and storage ring that the old mage left for him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Over the years, the little flamingo has grown to about a foot long, and he has long been addicted to eating Xie Yu's barbecue, and every day in addition to playing with the eight-year-old little Harden, he flies out to forage for food, and brings back the prey to let Xie Yu barbecue it, and the life is really carefree.
In the past seven years, the little flamingo's body has not grown much, only from the original palm size to about a foot, this growth rate is extremely slow in Xie Yu's opinion, according to the teacher, this little guy can single out the golden dragon when he becomes an adult, and the head of the golden dragon alone must be the size of a room, not to mention the strength of the dragon magic and the physical body, but the change in the strength of this little flamingo in the past few years is- The electric arc that erupted grew from the original thickness of one chopstick to the thickness of two chopsticks, and occasionally when he held his breath, he would spew out a palm-sized ball of fire, the only use of this kind of fire ball was that Xie Yu could help make a fire when he was barbecuing.
Considering various factors, Xie Yu judged that the bird was still far from adulthood, at least for now, if this beautiful bird of more than a foot long was allowed to challenge the dragon, uh...... It's better to simply persuade the little bird to commit suicide, so as not to bring humiliation on himself.
And one of the fastest aspects of the little flamingo's growth is - its amount of alcohol, the old mage has been pouring bird wine since the second year he moved in, the old mage originally hit Xie Yu with the idea, but Xie Yu's tragic experience of drinking a lot of wine and falling into the sewer in his previous life left a shadow in his heart, and more importantly, he really couldn't drink the old mage, so he couldn't accompany the wine after half a year, and the old mage shifted his goal to the little bird.
And the little flamingo is worthy of the spirit beast of heaven and earth, by the fourth year, the old mage can not drink it, originally there was a small underground wine cellar at home, the baron in the cellar treasured many years of good wine so that the old and the young two drunkards drank it in less than a year, the baron had to buy the cheapest copper horn and a pot of rye wine to give them both to drink, but with the growth rate of the bird's wine, relying only on the baron's salary, it was soon found that even the cheapest rye wine was almost unaffordable, so the baron had to justifiably issue a ban on this person and a bird, which made a person and a bird very dissatisfied, and when it was really uncomfortable, the bird sneaked out at night, ran to the kitchen of the tavern in the city to steal wine and drink, and after drinking, he didn't forget to carry two jars with his paws, and came back to share the blessings with the old mage.
Little Harden also unknowingly grew to the age of seven, and inherited his father's handsomeness and the tallness of the family genes like his brother.
When Harden was five years old, Gandalf took out the crystal ball again to test Harden's magical talent, Harden's mental power is only slightly stronger than that of ordinary people, far less than Xie Yu's strength is perverted, and the magic induction is also average, and Xie Yu can sense seven colored points of light with the help of a black rod, Harden can only sense the water element floating in the air, the old mage's evaluation of Harden is - there is no problem in becoming a magician, but it is difficult to achieve great achievements in magic.
And in order not to waste the excellent physical condition of the old Duke family, the old mage forced Little Harden to learn a set of swordsmanship and a set of fighting qi cultivation exercises, called Qingyun swordsmanship. This set of sword books and fighting qigong methods were also turned out of the magic bag by the old mage, and they may have been stolen from some master or simply robbed of them, which made Xie Yu feel that the old mage was actually more like a martial arts teacher.
Regarding the question of Dou Qi Gong, Xie Yu once asked the old mage why he only had martial arts but no exercises, and the old mage's answer was - you don't need to practice Dou Qi.
Then no matter how Xie Yu asked, the old mage didn't speak, but the disdainful look on his face and the disdain for the Dou Qigong method made Xie Yu a little puzzled.
However, Harden doesn't seem to have a great interest in the cultivation of magic and martial arts, but he was excited for a while at the beginning, just like a child getting a novel toy, and as soon as the novelty passed, he basically threw it aside, only cultivating under the supervision of the old mage, and the rest of the time he basically threw himself into the study of his father, who Xie Yu used when he was a child.
Unlike Xie Yu's preference for biographies and mainland history, Harden basically reads everything, astronomy, astrology, aristocratic etiquette, art, imperial power, equestrianism, dance, etc., at a young age, he is like a child of an aristocratic family, polite, meticulously dressed, a pair of big eyes from time to time with cunning and intelligence, and at a young age, he will use a knife and fork to cut food into thin pieces, and then put it in his mouth and chew it slowly.
Compared with his younger brother, Xie Yu is rude and rude, has a loud voice, likes to walk with his legs skimmed, and is not particular about eating, drinking and dressing.
Xie Yu doesn't care about this, everyone's interests and preferences are different, and he has no ambitions to eat and wait for death, but his younger brother should be more suitable for development in officialdom and politics.
Since getting the magic notes left by old Gandalf, Xie Yu has been reading them almost every night, and some magic problems that have been plaguing Xie Yu in the past few years can almost be solved in the notes, and most of the magic spells left behind are intermediate and high-level magic, and there are even a few forbidden spell magics, although they have long been memorized by Xie Yu, but with Xie Yu's current magic strength, he can only cast some low-level magic, such as fireball magic, and with Xie Yu's excellent elemental sensibility, there is basically no need to chant spells, and intermediate-level magic, Xie Yu is very difficult, although he can barely cast it when the magic is abundant, but once he casts intermediate-level magic, the magic power of the whole body will be drained immediately, for example, once tried to petrify, and then the spirit was drowsy, the whole body was weak, and he couldn't get out of bed for a day.
Although magicians can replenish their magic power through meditation, once the magic power is drained, it takes a long time to accumulate magic power, and if you barely cast a powerful magic beyond your own magic strength, the damage to yourself is also huge, and in serious cases, it may even cause magic backlash, which is quite dangerous, and even worse, it may be drained alive.
Therefore, most magicians have mana storage tools, such as crystals or gems, etc., and will also make magic scrolls in advance, once the magic power is insufficient, they will throw it out, and only need a little magic power to detonate the scroll, as a means for magicians to win or escape.
Although Xie Yu has occasionally insisted on meditating at night to improve his mental power in the past few years, after all, the time to learn magic is still short, and the magic ocean is vast and endless, with the current level of magic power, if it is calculated according to the current magic level on the continent, Xie Yu can only barely be regarded as a second- or third-level magician.
As for that set of stick method, since the old Gandalf left, Xie Yu still insisted on practicing diligently every day, and the stick method was as free as his own arm, without the slightest feeling of sluggishness.
Xie Yu's mentality was also very conflicted about such diligent practice, but he couldn't find a reason, probably out of respect for the old mage in his heart, and he didn't want him to be disappointed when he saw him again.
Sometimes, in the dead of night, Xie Yu would also inject magic into the red and white beads at both ends of the black rod, conjuring up the arrogant sunset bow, and the various scenes when he first met the old mage came to his mind, and then silently looked at the sunset bow, stunned.