026, bones (below)

Schrödinger seemed to be a little unhappy and put down his bones, turned around and ran down the mountain wall again, and soon jumped up again, opening his mouth and spitting out the pupils of the earth. Amon hurriedly put away the pupil of the earth and shouted, "Schrödinger, let's go quickly!"

The roar of the Iron Beast King could be heard from the trees below the mountain wall, mixed with the sound of shrubs and dwarf trees being broken and swept away, and it seemed that this ferocious beast was not small. Amon turned and disappeared into the heights, and Schrödinger still picked up the bone-like thing in his mouth as he left, and jumped into his leather pocket.

When the Beastmaster returned to the waterhole, the four large ironclad beasts shivered out of the bushes, and all they saw were the frozen pool and the entrance to the lair that was outcropping. The Ironclad Beastmaster crawled over the ice and into the lair, followed by an earth-shattering roar that shook the nearby ice with a slight cracking sound.

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On the path between the mountains and dense forests covered by clouds and mist, Link, who was pale and grinning, was anxiously discussing something with Medanzo: "That guy is really powerful, he chased us so far, fortunately he didn't run as fast as us on the mountain road, and he shouldn't chase him again when he left the territory." ...... Mr. Amon is still at the waterhole, what should I do, I will go back and gather all the warriors of the clan to meet him?"

Medanzo: "Is it too late for you to gather the people in the clan? Besides, can the so-called warriors in your clan be able to stop the Beastmaster's tail? We lured the Beastmaster away, and the remaining four big ironclad beasts Amon can deal with it, and it should be no problem to get out, his ability is much better than the two of us." ”

Link gasped and said, "You're right, Mr. Amon has no problem dealing with the four big ironclad beasts, I'm afraid that he will run into the ironclad beastmaster again on the way back." ”

Mei Danzo spat him: "I thought Amon was as stupid as you, that ironclad beast king ran and roared all the way, such a big movement could be heard from afar, and he had already avoided it." ”

The cold sweat on Link's forehead did not dry, but he was still very unconvinced and asked, "Why do you say I'm stupid?"

Medanzo grabbed the placket of his beast skin: "You're not stupid, who is stupid? Who told me that the Iron Armored Beastmaster is just as powerful as the four big Iron Beasts combined? Neither of us blocked its blow, but fortunately Amon covered us and ran away." ”

Link leaned against a stone on the side of the road and shrank down, "Tap on, I'm hurt...... An old man from our tribe told me, and I didn't know it would be like this!"

Medanzo snorted: "Old man, how old! Could it be that he still compared himself to the Iron Armored Beast King? Nonsense, you, the patriarch, also believed it, and almost killed both of us! When I go back, I will call that man and ask him to hear what he said?"

Link's facial features were already crumpled: "I can't ask, the person who told me died last year...... Let's not talk about that, Amon hasn't come back yet, should we go back quietly to pick it up?...... I feel that I just suffered a loss that I didn't understand, and with your swordsmanship, you should actually be able to resist for a while. ”

"If you are ready to put yourself in a position, you two can indeed resist for a while, but you still have to run quickly, and you will die if you are slow...... Link, where did you get the news that the Ironclad Beastmaster wasn't difficult to deal with?" Amun's voice suddenly came from behind the stone, and with the sound he rounded the stone and came to the path.

"You're back, I knew you'd be fine!" shouted both of them in surprise and delight. Link gritted his teeth and said, "Messenger of the gods, no, God Amun! I have already explained, and the old man who told me how powerful the Iron Beast King really is, died last year!"

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I wanted to go to the waterhole to practice my hands and show my majesty, but it turned out to be looking for a pump. One of Link's arms was broken, but fortunately, Medanzo used a splint to fix it for him on the way, and he took it slowly when he got back.

Link got sick after he went back, humming and chirping all day long, not only in his arms, but also in his whole body, and there was nothing left of him. While Amon taught Link a while ago, he also practiced a simple low-level healing technique, and often helped Link cure his "illness" in the past few days.

However, he found that Link's "illness" was very strange, and his healing magic could only alleviate his suffering, but not eliminate his symptoms. Link's problems are constant, either today or tomorrow, as if he was cursed by some god. Amon remembered his experience in Duketown, where there was a time when all kinds of old wounds were recurring, and even the old madman could not be cured.

This is not a disease, but the test that a first-class samurai has to face when he is promoted to a second-level samurai after awakening the power of two sides of the same body - the purity of the body. This kind of test came at the same time as the first-level magician was promoted to the second-level magician, and Link's test came so quickly, of course, it was related to the incomplete earth elemental magic he had learned since he was a child, and the foundation was still good.

But Link's foundation on the other hand is poorer, and his body is not as good as Amon's. Amon's strong body is not only due to the training of the miners in Duk Town, but also to the mysterious cold pool bath and purification. The environment in which the dwarven tribe lives in the wild is very harsh, and I don't know how many injuries have been suffered, and some of the injuries are superficially healed, but they still leave hidden dangers in the body, and they continue to attack when this test comes.

Fortunately, Link has been the son of the previous patriarch since he was a child, and he has not experienced too many dangers in the dwarven tribe, otherwise this level would be even more difficult.

Since Amon thought of the reason, he told Link the truth that he should use tenacity to overcome all kinds of suffering, and not to give up the exercise of physical arts. This is a test and a threshold, after passing it, you can have the achievements of a second-level magician, and at the same time, you can also cultivate second-level physical arts.

Link was originally scared, suspecting that there was some strange poison on the tail of the Iron Beastmaster, or that he had fallen under some unknown curse, but he was relieved when he heard Amon say this. Although he still hummed with his arms in his hands, Link still insisted on exercising his physical skills every day, and often went to Medanzo for advice.

Link exercised with "illness", and Medanzo was not feeling well these days, he actually caught a cold. Medanzo really had a minor illness, and he felt that something was wrong with his body, and he always had a sense of powerlessness, which was similar to the appearance of being energetic and having nowhere to vent the other day. Since Amon knew how to heal divine arts, he also came to Amon to see a doctor.

Medanzo's situation made Amon ponder for most of the day, and finally vaguely determined one thing, he also encountered the test of "purity of the body".

Medanzo was already a fourth-level warrior, and he had already passed this test unintentionally, and when he was awakened to the power of two sides of the same body, it was much easier than Link to go through this test again, that is, he had a minor illness by the waterhole a few days ago. Amon told Medanzo something similar, and if he persevered, he could become a second-level magician, and Medanzo was overjoyed.

The second test of these two people came so quickly that Amon was a little surprised, but it was not unreasonable to think about it. They had been cultivating incomplete divine arts and regular physical techniques for a long time, and once they were awakened to the power of the two sides of the same body, it was not difficult to reach the peak of the first-level achievement.

Seeing that the two "students" were almost at the same level as themselves, Amon, the "teacher", also had troubles and troubles. The disaster predicted by the old madman has not appeared for a long time, and he can't see the information left in the pupil of the earth, whether it is a second-level divine technique or a second-level physical technique, he has already cultivated to the peak state, but he can't wait for the test of "firmness of faith".

Could it be that the old madman's guess was wrong? Amun's heart was also a little bottomless, and in the past few days, when he practiced the most basic meditation of divine arts, he was always restless and unable to settle down, and his strength had almost not increased at all, as if the achievements of divine magic had ended forever.

Schrödinger has been very happy these days, and he is always jumping around the village during the day. People have a lot of respect for this cat, and regard it as a waiter of the gods, not to mention that it is delicious to eat and drink. The lazy and greedy fat cat in Duk Town finally had a time to raise his eyebrows, and he was so moist in the cave-dwelling savage tribe that even his coat became oily and clean.

Schrödinger took out a bone-like thing from the Ironclad Beastmaster's lair, and when he returned, he put it in his haystack, and even pressed it with one paw when he slept. Amon had also taken it out and looked at it, and it was oblate, elongated, curved, with one pointed end and one blunt, reminiscent of the shape of a ship on a temple fresco.

Seeing this thing, Amon subconsciously touched his ribs, it was too much like a human rib! Its surface was smooth like polished white stone, and if it were bones, it would have rotted away and should not have been.

Amon didn't study it, anyway, it was something Schrödinger picked up, so he put it in its grass nest. If it were a different time, Amon might still try to study in various ways, but he has not been in this interest lately, he seems absent-minded in everything, he is always easily irritable and distracted, and he will even think crankily when he sees a bird flying by while walking, but he doesn't seem to think about anything.

Such a state is impossible to cultivate divine arts, is it because the first attack suffered a setback from the Iron Armored Beastmaster, which hit the confidence of this young man? One night, Amon sat in the room and practiced meditation, but he was unable to settle down and enter that state of concentration. All kinds of chaotic thoughts came flooding back, and he couldn't help but recall all kinds of things in the distant town of Duke.

He was wondering what his father's life was like, how much alcohol he had drunk during this time, what was the great catastrophe prophesied by the old madman, and how would Dukezhen be affected by this catastrophe? Thinking about it, he naturally couldn't practice divine meditation. Realizing this, Amon sighed, only to hear Schrödinger sigh in the grass nest.

This sigh seemed to remind Amon of something, and he suddenly patted his head and said to himself: "Why am I so stupid! Isn't this a test of cultivating divine arts? Firmness of faith is the stability of the soul and the firmness of faith!"

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