Chapter 70: The Space Ring
Barrett put on the ring, and Old Will simply taught him how to use the spatial ring.
The Spatial Ring is quite simple to use, but unlike the calfskin bag, it uses psychic power to open and close the half-plane contained within. Ordinary people's spiritual power is not as large as that of mages, and there are very few opportunities to use it, so if ordinary people want to use the spatial ring, they need to use it flexibly after repeated exercise.
Not only that, because ordinary people's mental power is relatively scarce, so the number of times you can use the space ring every day is generally limited, if you use it too many times, your mental power will be exhausted, followed by exhaustion, dizziness, blackness in front of your eyes, and even fainting, and even more serious, there will even be a risk of death.
But that wasn't the case with Barrett. He had mastered how to use the Spatial Ring after just two simple attempts, and after that, he had used it several times in a row, but he didn't even feel a trace of fatigue mentally.
Old Will was quite curious about this, he said that Barrett's total amount and flexibility of mental power could even catch up with that of a magic apprentice, but Barrett could not feel the omnipresent magic power in the entire multiverse through mental power, which was really a bit contradictory and special, and in the end, the mage could only attribute it to Barrett's talent.
After that, everyone shared the precious roast chicken worth a spatial ring. Everyone present ate some of them to a greater or lesser extent, and the scene was more like some special mourning ceremony than a sharing of food at a dinner party.
Old Will ate a small amount of chicken breast and sweet corn, especially sweet corn, which he said tasted better than chicken, the half-elf had a chicken wing and a little mushroom, and celery for the side of the plate, the dwarf tore a piece of the roasted chicken's back, and the brown and tempting skin of the roasted chicken, and Barrett ate a chicken thigh, along with a whole shanf, and the rest of the roast chicken was given to the ogre......
During the meal, Old Will also told a long history of the barbarians about "sharing food", and that history Barrett also knew, and almost all Nords knew.
History takes place before the founding of the Magic Empire, and some of the barbarian tribes of that period had a similar tradition of "sharing food", except that instead of roast chickens, they shared people, dead relatives.
The tribes believed that such rituals would allow the deceased to become one with them, and that the souls of the deceased would bless the living and bestow their strength and wisdom on those who enjoyed their bodies.
It is unclear whether the living will actually be blessed by the dead, but cannibalism is not tolerated by intelligent beings after all, unless this race is on the verge of extinction, like the orcs of the Magic Empire.
Then, when the Empire was founded, the mages of the Empire, in order to unite all the barbarians, forced them to abandon the rude customs and replace the burial and this 'integrated' form of mourning with cremation.
At that time, the villagers of a barbarian village found that it seemed that the effect (taste?) would be better when the deceased was cremated halfway through and then taken out for a "fusion" ceremony, so they often did it secretly.
But the mages still knew about it, and unsurprisingly, the Empire sent a mage to punish the village. The mage first caused a raging flame to rise around the village, and then let the raging flames slowly press down on the village, eventually reducing the entire village to ashes.
At that time, there were many other barbarians who were forced by this mage to come to watch, and they all witnessed the terrifying and shocking scene, and some barbarians heard the mage casting spells, and muttered angrily, "Do you like to eat your own clan?
After that, the bad habit no longer existed.
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Before leaving, Old Will also asked Barrett if he needed to introduce the Alva mage who was good at history and writing to him, but Barrett politely refused, and he gradually felt that the [Mission Log] thing seemed to be okay, and it seemed to bring him some unexpected gains.
If there is a problem later, then talk about it later.
The group of 'Dirty Novels' left in a little hurry, and as soon as everyone finished eating the roast chicken, the carriage prepared by Misty Castle for Old Will came to the outside of the 'Fortune, Fortune' tavern.
In front of the carriage were six tall and sturdy horses, three red, two black and one white, made of fir wood from the Misty Forest, and the whole carriage was tall and spacious, otherwise the ogre would have suffered. The surface of the carriage was painted silver-gray, and the door was stamped with the Order's distinctive golden alfalfa emblem.
The carriage was too big, and Barrett never understood how it had come through the paths of the Bay of Pigs, and he had gone through all the routes that could get here, and found not a single way for the carriage to pass, and in the end it was due to the fact that the coachman was as "gifted" as he was.
Out of the carriage came a knight with two delicate beards, and the knight whispered a few words in Old Will's ear, after which the mage said a brief goodbye to Barrett and left with the rest of the 'nasty novel', the ogre Moglock not even waiting for his beloved roasted clams.
However, Old Will promised to give him enough to eat when he passed through the town of Talen on his way to Garano.
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After parting, Barrett returned to the dilapidated cabin. The door was opened, and it seemed that someone had entered, but Barrett didn't care, there was nothing of value in the house, and the only "thing" that might be valuable also drove him away.
He entered the room, lit a flame in the fireplace, and stared at the flame in a daze for a long time, then sat on the edge of the bed, staring straight at the spatial ring on the finger of his left hand.
There was some noise outside the house, because Bay of Pigs woke up, like a real pigsty. From time to time, there was a loud and noisy noise—the clanging of blacksmiths, the seductive laughter, the quarrels of adventurers and merchants......
The sounds were no different from the snorting of the pigs as they searched for food – all about survival.
The voices didn't give Barrett any slack, which he had long been accustomed to. After a long time, when Barrett felt a faint sour look in his eyes, a line finally appeared on the translucent parchment of the journal system.
[Ring of Space 'Song of Saran': Maker Scott Young.] 】
[This is a ring with a long history, and Scott Young, a mage from the Magic Empire, created this ring for a Nord girl named 'Saran'.
The ring is made of an alloy of black steel and mythril, which is dark black throughout, but transforms into a dull purple color in the moonlight. The space of the inner half-plane of the ring is a free, intact half-plane in its infancy, and it will grow at an extremely slow rate, doubling in size every hundred years.
The current space size is: 782.46 cubic meters]
[Additional Attributes: When worn with Nord blood, it provides the wearer with a bonus of 1 agility and 1 strength. 】
[Note: The most beautiful songs will bring the inheritance of blood......]
Barrett was very pleased with the spatial ring, known as the "Song of Saran", which was not only very spacious inside, but also had additional attributes.
Although this kind of quantification of a person's comprehensive attributes always makes Barrett feel very weird, the effect of many magic accessories created by mages is even more unpredictable than this, so Barrett is not surprised by this and accepts it calmly.
Of course, a large part of the satisfaction with the ring is due to the fact that it is almost given for free, and the payment is nothing more than a roast chicken worth less than a silver coin.
There's a small amount of stuff in the ring right now— Two winter wolf furs, not yet tanned, but there is no need to worry about rotting and deteriorating when placed in the space ring; a pile of beautiful gold coins, Barrett didn't count, but he thought it should be 100, he took out a few of them and observed them in his hand, and found that these gold coins should be issued by the Magic Association; a large piece of irregularly shaped amber, with a small flash butterfly inside, which was discovered by the dwarf and Barrett at the same time, and he didn't think that Old Will gave it to him; two bottles of sky blue liquid, Barrett remembered that they should contain the cold blood of frostworms; the hard forelegs of three frost spiders, monstersThe hard part of the monster's body contains metal, and it has always been a good material for forging weapons and armor......
In addition to these gains, there are a few things in the Spatial Ring that don't look like they were harvested in an adventure, as Barrett knows everything he gets in the Misty Forest, so he can easily tell which ones were from the last adventure and which ones aren't.
These non-risked items belong to the previous owner of the Ring, Elend, Barrett guessed. His mental power swept over the objects, and the appearance of all the objects appeared in his mind, and one of them managed to attract his attention.
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