Chapter 6: The Vigil

"Vigil?" Naxi couldn't believe his ears, "Mages need to get enough sleep to effectively cast spells. ”

Naxi, who has read a lot of adventure novels, knows that mages rarely take on the role of night watchman in the adventure team. The mage is the core of the team in most cases, and in order to maintain the necessary combat effectiveness, the mage will not be assigned to keep vigil unless there are special circumstances. In addition, he didn't call himself for the vigil last night, so he has always been naΓ―ve to think that the reality will be as written in the novel, but he didn't expect to encounter the treatment of the vigil now.

Naxi's words obviously made the dwarf Gangze a little unhappy, and said: "What mages don't have to keep vigil, who do you listen to? We have to keep vigil here except for Jisma!" From that eager tone, Naxi felt that Gangze might not be able to suppress his impulse at any time and pounce on him and beat himself.

Gangzawa was right, the captain Lidona arranged two groups of people to keep vigil based on the consideration of numbers. One group is Gonzer and Dulles, and the other is himself and Raikkonen. The two groups take turns to be in charge of the vigil that night. Because Kissma was a priestess, Lidona didn't arrange for her to do the job out of consideration for her safety.

At this time, Ji Sima made a V gesture towards Naxi: "Yes, this girl is afraid of the dark, so there is no need to keep vigil." Naxi, you are also afraid of the dark, you are a man. ”

"You're afraid of the dark!" Naxi, who couldn't stand this contempt, replied to Jisma. As a big man, he would never accept this suspicion.

"Oh?" Lidona didn't react much to Naxi's refusal to participate in the vigil, "What you said actually makes a lot of sense, if there is a ** division in the team, I naturally won't consider letting him go to the vigil, and we don't even have to keep a vigil." As long as the master summons two elemental creatures or golems to patrol around, we can rest easy. May I ask Mr. Naxi, are you a ** teacher, did you bring a magic puppet?"

This question directly made Naxi question dumb. Naxi is very clear about his strength, and he may not be able to be promoted to the ** division in this life. So how could the existence of elemental creatures be summoned by themselves. Moreover, there are magic puppets and other things, even the entire Chart Academy does not have them, how can a junior magician have such high-end goods.

It seems that the vigil can't be avoided, who calls himself just a junior magician. Thinking of this, Naxi sighed and regretted why he hadn't fought hard in the first place, at least he wouldn't have been driven to the vigil.

The thought of keeping vigil with the dwarf Gangze made Naxi's heart tremble.

Not long after joining the team, his crappy fireball technique burned half of the dwarf's beard, who knows if this old man will take advantage of everyone to fall asleep. You must know that the dwarves have been shouting about the burning of their beards for the past two days, which makes Naxi feel very stressed.

"Why did I keep vigil with Gunze?" Naxi found that it was Dulles who was keeping watch for the rest of the night. He didn't understand why Dulles was keeping vigil alone, and he had to follow Gangze.

Gangze scolded directly: "What? You kid doesn't want to keep vigil with me, if it weren't for Miss Lidona's arrangement, I wouldn't have bothered to pay attention to you." The reason for this arrangement is because you are a rookie who doesn't understand anything, and I have to teach you something that a night watchman should understand, which is a compulsory course for newcomers. We're a professional adventurous party, and we're not down to the point where we have a vigil with someone who doesn't know anything, so what's the difference between that and no one. ”

Lidona didn't comment on this, just looked at Naxi indifferently. The somewhat hollow eyes stared at Naxi uncomfortably.

Already knowing that there was no possibility of refusal, Naxi's eyes were wandering, and he was wondering if he could change his partner, or tomorrow night. After all, the others seemed to be better off than Gangze, and he didn't want to risk being beaten up by the dwarves.

Who can guarantee that this half-burned beard dwarf will not go berserk in the middle of the night.

Just when Naxi was hesitating whether to follow the others to keep vigil, Dulles, who was sitting at the farthest point, gave him a look: "Young man, come with me for the rest of the night, let's talk about life! ”

Seeing the lewd eyes of the holy warriors, the first thing that came to Naxi's mind was the gladiators who came in and out of the Pink Cowherd's custom shop. He suddenly felt a chill and shivered, and very firmly rejected Dulles's kindness: "Forget it, I like to keep watch in the middle of the night. Uncle Gangzawa, please teach me the skills of vigil tonight, I am a diligent and studious student. ”

Since the time was still a little early, in order to pass the time, several people played cards for a while. Naxi, who had been hungry for a day, finally had a chance to draw the cards, and he almost burst into tears when he caught the cards in his hand.

However, his opponent's skill turned out to be unexpected, and when Gangze, Dulles, and the silent Raikkonen faced him, it was like switching personalities. In particular, the dwarf Gangze showed far more skill on the card field than the average dwarf in this regard, and once almost forced Naxi to the point that he couldn't play a single hand.

After a few rounds of entanglement, Naxi finally figured out the tacit understanding between them, and when he was about to start killing, the dwarf Gangze gave up playing.

"Hey, stop playing, get ready for the vigil!" the dwarf threw the cards in his hand into the pile, stood up and pulled out the tomahawk stuck in the ground.

"Why don't we play a little longer, it's still early anyway. Naxi didn't want to give up the game so quickly, and he didn't have enough to play and wanted the dwarves to stay......

Seeing that Naxi was still sitting, Gang Ze suddenly became angry, and his tone became a little bigger: "Boy, let's go, what are you doing here." ”

As a novice, Naxi certainly didn't dare to disobey Gangze's orders, so he had to pick up his oak magic staff and follow Gangze to keep vigil.

About thirty meters away from the rest of the group, the dwarf found some firewood and lit it for a while. When the fire was up, the dwarf sat on the ground and watched the fire in a daze. The flickering bonfire seemed to remind him of some embarrassing past.

Because of the unpleasant thing that happened to Gangze, Naxi didn't sit with him at first. He paced back and forth outside the fire with his magic wand in his hand, not daring to come near the fire until the dwarf called out to him.

"The most important thing about the vigil is that no matter how sleepy you are, you have to stay awake at all times. A bonfire can keep the beasts of the forest from approaching, and at the same time keep mosquitoes away. If you are camping in secret, you can't light a campfire, otherwise your location will be revealed. Gang Ze picked up a small wooden stick and poked the extinguishing firewood as he explained to Naxi the precautions for the vigil.

Although Naxi was still a little reluctant, Gangze did not carry negative emotions and explained his doubts as much as possible.

After a pleasant conversation for a while, Naxi realized that the dwarf was not as difficult to communicate with as he had imagined, but rather very easy to get along with.