CHAPTER XXII

After entering the grocery store, Lin Juexiao found that the furnishings inside the Magic Jungle grocery store, except for some goods, were no different from those in Pearl Harbor.

The girl sitting at the counter, with a little freckles on her face and long green wavy hair tied into a ponytail, glanced at Lin Juexiao with her squinting eyes, and asked very skillfully, "What do you need?"

Lin Juexiao had already thought about what to buy on the way here, and he picked out a map of the Enchanted Jungle, a roll of mats for sleeping, a few bottles of drinking water in glass containers, two large packets of white bread wrapped in oiled paper, and a small jar of honey—a total of one hundred and five gold coins. After Lin Juexiao bought it, there were about ninety gold coins left.

He tucked his things into the ring of his backpack and was about to walk out when he caught a glimpse of what looked like a lamp on the shelf, but there was no oil or candle in it. So he picked it up and asked, "What is this?"

The pony-tailed girl took one look at it and replied, "The magic lamp, the lamp used in the bedroom, has the magic in it that lasts for three hundred hours." Sixty gold coins. ”

Lin Juexiao thought about it, and it could be used in the tree hole at night, so he bought it.

By the time he stepped outside, the light was almost gone, and everything was starting to dim. In the magical jungle that obscures the sky, the days seem shorter.

He walked briskly, hoping to reach his lovely new home, the hollow of the tree, before it was completely dark.

At this moment, an "ugly thing" at Lin Juexiao's feet—the kind of dark green, upright sleek vine—suddenly emitted a soft light all over his body, which was between white and blue, which was very comfortable to look at.

Lin Juexiao was feeling strange, and the "ugly things" in the vicinity all lit up one after another, one, two, ten...... Like a tide, the entire magical jungle was lit up by countless soft glimmers.

Lin Juexiao was stunned by this scene: the magical jungle in front of him suddenly became a sea of light.

A fairy lady in a red dress walked by, and Lin Juexiao hurriedly asked, "Excuse me, what are these lights?"

The goblin turned his head to look at it, revealing an expression of "what, it turned out to be a human", and said lightly: "That's the magic light vine." ”

"Why do they glow?" Lin Juexiao asked curiously.

"Absorb the rich magic of the forest during the day and release it in the form of light at night. Miss Leprechaun replied—though she was a little unsure, for the teacher had been on the runaway when she had been on the off during biology class at the Leprechaun Academy. Worried that the human would continue to ask, she quickly walked away.

"Demon Light Vine, ......," Lin Juexiao muttered to himself. It's a very vivid name.

He walked on the fluorescently lit branches, looking at the magic light vines near and far, as if he was in a fairy tale world. After a while, he followed the landmark he remembered and found his tree hole.

He took the mat out of his backpack, spread it on the floor, and lay down comfortably on it. Then take out the magic lamp you bought from the grocery store, place it next to it, and turn the knob clockwise on it – the more you turn it, the brighter the light becomes.

It seems that the level of civilization development in this world is no worse than that on the earth. Lin Juexiao thought to himself.

He ate some white bread smeared with honey, drank water, and rested. Then he began to practice the magic bullet that Hans taught today. He threw his "leaky magic balloon" out of the hole one by one, and later, I don't know what it was like, but I remember that I didn't fall asleep until my magic power was exhausted.

When he woke up the next day, the gentle light unique to the magic jungle shone in from outside the tree hole, waking Lin Juexiao with a biological clock.

He rubbed his eyes, smoothed his hair, and put the contents of the tree hole back into his backpack - what if it was stolen? Lin Juexiao was running out of gold coins now.

When Lin Juexiao arrived at the magic library, Hans was still floating in the air—he was motionless, as if he was sleeping.

"It's a good habit to wake up early. Hans said suddenly.

It turns out that the teacher is not sleeping, he thought to himself.

"Good morning, teacher. Lin Juexiao said.

"Good morning. I don't know what your name is. Hans smiled.

Lin Juexiao. ”

"Well—how is the magic bullet doing?" asked Hans.

"It doesn't seem like anything. Lin Juexiao replied, I practiced yesterday, and I fell asleep in a daze.

As he spoke, he raised his wand in his right hand and waved it—a fist-sized magic bullet slammed into the protective shield of the magic library, exploding, startling himself: "Huh?"

Hans laughed, "Looks like you're working hard." ”

"Sort of......" Lin Juexiao didn't know that there was such a huge result last night.

"Effort is very important, even if a person with high talent does not put in the effort, it is in vain. Hans said.

"Hmm. Lin Juexiao nodded, he naturally understood this truth.

"The body of a mage is not as strong as a warrior, and it is not as agile as a flying man, so you have to use magic to protect yourself. Hans said.

Lin Juexiao listened and knew that the teacher was going to teach knowledge again.

"The magic shield is one of the defensive magics, which can use magic to cancel out most of the damage when the body is damaged, which is an adaptive defense. Although it consumes a lot of mana, it is an important magic to protect magicians. Hans said.

Next, Hans taught the magic shield to Lin Juexiao. It's actually a bit like defending with fighting energy, but it's not quite like it - the magic shield is more like lurking in the body, waiting for the attack to come, and when a threat is detected, it will instantly condense into a pure magic shield that blocks the attack in the part of the body that is being attacked. It is precisely because of this that it is destined to consume a lot of mana once it is activated. Therefore, the magician has developed various other defensive magics, but they are not what Lin Juexiao can learn now.

The so-called micro-knowledge, touch bypass. Lin Juexiao, who mastered the basic control of magic power, quickly learned the magic shield.

Hans was also quite pleased to see his rapid progress, and said, "Now, you can go to the outskirts of the magic forest and destroy the green water spirit." Magic can only be understood when it is applied to combat. After collecting twenty Green Water Orbs, come back to me. ”

So, Lin Juexiao walked out of the magic library and began to look for the green water spirit.

"Well, the Green Water Spirit......" he looked at the map of the magical jungle drawn on vellum in his hand, which contained the haunts of some common monsters.

"The northern outskirts of the Enchanted Jungle...... Where is it close to the wind?" Lin Juexiao looked at the place marked on the map where the green water spirit haunted, which was the "place close to the wind" on the northern outskirts of the magical jungle.

"Interesting place names, go check it out. Lin Juexiao identified the direction and set off.

He headed north, and as he was about to get out of the enchanted jungle village, a voice called out, "Hey, adventurer. ”

When Lin Juexiao heard this, he looked towards the source of the voice: a handsome goblin with big eyes was looking at him.

"What's wrong?" said Lin Juexiaoqi.

The goblin, with slightly curly silver hair, was dressed in green clothes, and was about the same size as Lin Juexiao, leaning against the door of the room, beckoning to him and motioning for him to come over.

Lin Juexiao walked over suspiciously and said, "Who are you?"

The demon said secretly, "I'm Wei Ying. Do you want to be a part of my magic experiments?"

"Magic experiment?" Lin Juexiao asked curiously.

"Yes. I'm about to graduate from Ellene Academy and I'm working on my dissertation. But I still need to do some magic experiments to make my paper more convincing. Fairy Weiying said excitedly.

"Hmm. Lin Juexiao listened to the words of this goblin Weiying, and didn't know what he was going to do.

"I'm too busy, if you're willing to help me collect some green liquid balls, I'll give you some payment, how about it? Not much, just fifteen, and you can get it by killing the green water spirits. Wei Ying said.

It turned out that I wanted to help, I don't know how much the remuneration is, I am short of money, maybe I can make a small profit. Lin Juexiao thought to himself.

"How much are you going to pay me?" Lin Juexiao asked very bluntly.

"A ball of green liquor...... How about I give ten gold coins?" Wei Ying looked at him, as if worried that he would not want to.

"No problem. Lin Juexiao agreed. Anyway, I'm going to destroy the Green Water Spirit, and it's best to earn some gold coins by the way.

"Great, thank you for your help! Please try to give it to me by tomorrow night. Green water spirits are everywhere and easy to find. Wei Ying said happily, and ran into the house to work on his experiments.

So Lin Juexiao continued to the northern outskirts of the Magic Jungle, to go to the place that was close to the wind.

After setting off from Fairy Weiying, about an hour later, he looked at the map and saw that he had roughly entered the northern outskirts of the Magical Forest.

"A little further on, it's close to the wind. Lin Juexiao thought to himself and continued to walk, while also raising his vigilance.

It's not much different from the Enchanted Forest Village, except that there are no houses, complicated branches, roads, rope ladders, or wooden bridges. The branches were neat one by one.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, when Lin Juexiao turned the trunk of a tree, he saw a green water spirit beating on the branches not far away. They resemble a large transparent bun filled with green water, with a line extending from the top of the head and a green bead at the end.

These green water spirits were half as tall as Lin Juexiao's body. At this time, they were jumping up and down on the branches of each other, about twenty or thirty in all.

Lin Juexiao looked at them, not knowing what skills these green water spirits had, and planned to test them first.

He found a lone green water spirit, took out a wooden short staff, and threw a magic bullet at the green monster from a distance of more than ten meters.

After a lot of practice, his magic bullet has begun to take shape. A fist-sized magic bullet flew straight into the green water spirit, and the magic energy exploded with a "snap". The green water spirit was in pain, and immediately jumped towards Lin Juexiao.

Lin Juexiao is now very proficient in using magic bullets, and soon threw three more magic bullets, before this green water spirit jumped in front of Lin Juexiao, his body softened - turned into a puddle of green water, and then slowly disappeared, two things lying quietly on the ground: a bead, and a green bun.

Lin Juexiao was overjoyed and hurriedly ran over to pick it up.

The bead was crystal green, with something like a rope tied to it, which was what Hans called the green water spirit bead, and the other was like a transparent green bun, which was supposed to be a ball of green liquor.

"Haha, it's not difficult, it's not difficult. Lin Juexiao smiled softly, and suddenly found a green water spirit next to him, he was slightly startled, and looked around: he was surrounded by several green water spirits.

"Ah, oops. As soon as he finished speaking, a green spirit jumped up and crashed into him, a bit like a flower mushroom's attack. In a hurry, Lin Juexiao retracted his magic power, put the wooden short staff into his backpack, took out the short sword, and condensed his fighting spirit - with a "bang", the green water spirit hit the short sword.

Although Lin Juexiao felt a pressure coming, he felt that it was not very violent, it was not as good as the impact of the flower mushroom, and he was a little relieved at the moment. At this time, his back was suddenly hit by another green water spirit, and it hurt slightly, and he said in his heart: You can't be beaten here.

So he poured his legs into his air, jumped hard, and pulled out of the green water spirit's encirclement, hiding in a nearby tree. The green spirits were gone, and they were jumping around as if nothing happened.

Seeing this, Lin Juexiao thought to himself: Monsters seem to have their own range of activity, as long as humans don't enter their territory and don't attack them at the same time, they won't be attacked. That said, just attack them at the edge and avoid being surrounded.

With that in mind, he found a better location and threw a magic bullet at the nearest green spirit.

Sure enough, only the attacked green spirit jumped over. The other Green Water Spirits did not attack Lin Juexiao because they did not find humans in their respective territories and were not attacked.

Lin Juexiao was overjoyed in his heart, and four magic bullets in a row eliminated the green water spirit - he deliberately waited for the green water spirit to reach him before destroying it, so that he could collect materials more safely.

Lin Juexiao picked up a green water spirit bead and a green liquid ball, this time there was no green water spirit to besiege him.

"If a novice magician is here alone, without fighting spirit, and if he doesn't look closely, he is likely to be in danger if he is besieged and activates his magic shield and runs out of mana. He thought to himself.

After Lin Juexiao put the materials into his backpack, he found a good position and threw a magic bullet at the nearest Green Water Spirit - after mastering the trick of eliminating the Green Water Spirit, he immediately turned into a "Green Water Spirit Killer". Although the speed is not fast, it is safe to collect green water spirit beads and green liquid balls.