At the campfire, Barrett stared intently at the bust, and with his previous experience, he was now more comfortable doing it. The appearance of looking at something without blinking is indeed a bit silly, and it is also a little weird, but fortunately, there are no others around to observe him at this time.

When Barrett was on an adventure before, he once met a companion who could sleep with his eyes open. When the barbarian first found out about this, he was really startled by the strange state of his companion.

And when he had been with that companion for a long time, and gradually got used to it, the strange feeling still lingered, but became stronger and stronger. So much so that when the companion's neck was bitten off by a wild beast, Barrett looked at the round-eyed corpse and felt as if he was still alive.

......

A moment later, the strange words jumped out and floated above the statue.

To Barry's surprise, the text that appeared this time was much longer than the one he had shown when he observed the object, and instead of simply describing the object in one or two sentences, it spread a long text in front of him like a "catch frost worm alive" mission.

There is a ballad at the beginning of the text, which is not like the cheerful and seductive little tune sung in the tavern, but like the love ballad of the bard in the square playing the lute, and singing in a clear voice:

"You gently wrapped my waist with both hands

Leaning over and whispering softly in my ear:

'When the golden ears of wheat wither,

I will return from afar with the harvest';

But the newly planted apricot trees are already fruitful,

And you and I are still separated by heaven and water;

Don't ask for a wedding dress that can be dressed in gold,

I only wish you would wear a camellia for me.

......”】

Underneath the ballad is a long passage that reads:

[An ordinary adventurer who could no longer be ordinary, when carving, poured his overflowing nostalgia into this figurine carved from fir branches. Unfortunately, the statue was not completed and will never be completed. But this kind of regret that can never be completed makes the emotion of longing become like substance.

Equip: Wearing a statue on your body (except in space equipment) increases Perception by 2. - Missing is a very mysterious thing. ”

Quest "Homecoming": Return the statue to Doris in Moya Village, Griffon Kingdom, to gain 50 Soul Energy. - I'm coming, waiting for me, in that birch forest. ”】

Barrett looked at the wooden statue over and over again, and her doubts deepened. This thing is actually like a magic ornament, and it can also improve the owner's perception?

The barbarian has dealt with mages not less, and he knows that most magic trinkets can only provide some small tricks such as "cast light once a day" and "cast acid splash once a week", after all, ordinary people's mental power cannot control high-level spells, even through magic trinkets.

Only those high-grade magic trinkets, which are scarce in number and expensive in price, have the effect of altering the owner's physique, providing the wearer with some strange and powerful abilities.

There was once an adventurer in the Bay of Pigs known as "Raul the Grizzly Bear", who had a pair of spiked metal fists. Whenever "Grizzly Raul" wears gloves, his strength becomes much greater than usual, and even the steel sword can be easily smashed with a violent punch, which is very obvious to improve his strength, physique, and combat power.

However, after wearing the gloves for a long time, 'Grizzly Bear Raul' has become more and more fond of eating food with honey, and his temper has become more and more irritable, and he will fight without scruples if there is a slight dispute.

Later, in an ordinary quarrel, he brutally killed 4 adventurers who quarreled with him, and then broke through the encirclement of other adventurers who rushed to hear the news, escaped from the Bay of Pigs at night, and disappeared into the vast world, no one knows where he went.

Of course, more magical trinkets for ordinary people won't be as useful as Raul's gloves, and the implied side effects won't be as severe. After all, the main purpose of those mages who are proficient in alchemy is to sell magic jewelry for money, and while earning thousands of times the huge profit, they also help ordinary people realize their dreams of casting spells, rather than specifically to harm the users of magic jewelry.

Well, it doesn't rule out the bad tastes of individual mages.

......

Could it be that the statue in front of him is a magical ornament made by mortals? Barrett looked at the statue in his hand and couldn't help but wonder. But what puzzled him even more was how much of a difference the so-called "two-point perception" could be brought about, and he had never heard of such a thing as "feeling" being able to quantify it.

Does this mean that as long as he carries this bust with him, he will be able to see and hear farther, and his sense of smell will become more sensitive?

If this is the case, then the function of this statue is still very practical, but it is not very convenient to carry - according to the description of the text, if you want the statue to work, you can't put it in the space equipment.

Holding the statue in her right hand, Barrett straightened up, looking past the "ogre gate" into the darkness outside the cave. After a long time, he didn't realize that he could see farther. The darkness remains dark, and the depths remain deep.

He knew that this did not mean that the words had deceived him, or that the statue did not work, but that the range of observation offered by night was not determined by sight, but by the extent of the light source.

Not without change, though, as Barrett focused on his other senses, he finally noticed something slightly different from before.

The brute found that his sense of smell seemed to be sharper than before—the smell of the buried food scraps passed through the compacted dirt into his nostrils. He could even distinguish the distinctive aromas of goat cheese and black pepper in that hint of miscellaneousness.

If he wanted to do this before, he could only put his nose close to the dirt and sniff it as hard as a dog. It's nothing, he's done it a lot before.

In the pursuit of prey in the Misty Forest, the role of hearing tends to be the greatest, while the use of sight is minimal.

Of course, this is not the norm. When Barrett doesn't have his full attention, those breaths are directly ignored by the brain. Because these smells are not dangerous, Barrity's years of adventure can allow Barrett to subconsciously refine those dangerous elements in the environment, without having to be in a state of concentration at all times.

In addition, the so-called "soul energy" appeared in the reward again, but in half the amount compared to the task he was currently doing.

Could this be based on the difficulty of the task? Barrett did not know, and he could only guess out of thin air. And what exactly this soul ability can be used for, Barrett is not at all clear. In the meaning that the strange words instilled directly in him, this kind of thing is an energy on a soul level, nothing more.

Clueless, Barrett once again chose to put the issue on hold. After Old Will completes this mission and gets the reward, it shouldn't be too late to think about it carefully.

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