"Are you from Eju? You have a cat with you, and you actually give it food first. "These are what Medanzo asked Amon during the night camp. He had short curly blond brown hair, very white skin, a high and straight nose, and a very handsome appearance, and in the minds of most girls in the world, his smile must have been charming, and the teeth that showed when he laughed were very white and neat.

Amon was puzzled and asked, "Why did you make food for the cat first, it was the Eju people?"

Medanzo: "The Eju people worship cats and regard cats as the embodiment of gods, and only then can they love a cat so much, don't you?" When he saw that the magician who had saved him was so young, he was also surprised in his heart, but Amon did not take the initiative to introduce his origin.

Amon smiled and replied, "Oh, this cat is a friend of mine and I am entrusted with taking good care of it." I do come from Eju, my name is Amon, and I have been studying magic since I was very young, but I am only a second-level magician until now. Just now you said that you are from the royal capital of the Kingdom of Baron, why did you come to the deep mountains in the territory of Hati?"

Since he had already revealed his knowledge of magic in a hurry just now, Suo surnamed Shunshui Tuizhou pretended to be a magician from Eju, and it was impossible for Medanzo to verify his identity anyway.

Medanzo: "Hati? in Barron here...... Well, it's possible that I'm mistaken, and there are no obvious landmarks here. To tell you the truth, my great-grandfather was also a magician, but I came to find his relics when he died in the war a long time ago. Respected Magician, why did you come to such a difficult and remote place?"

Amon remembered something inexplicably, and was stunned for a moment before replying: "My purpose is similar to yours, a high priest lost something here many years ago, ordered me to find it, and told me that this is also an experience. ”

Medanzo blurted out, "Did you offend him by sending a young magician like you here?" and then explained: "I didn't mean to offend you, I just said it casually." ”

Amon waved his hand without mind: "This is indeed a punishment, I myself have something to do badly, and I am willing to accept such a punishment." ”

Medanzo smiled: "It is impossible for an ordinary high priest to come here through the mountains, he must have left something behind while flying in the air, if it is near here, I can find someone to help." ”

Amon was surprised: "Find someone to help? Who can you find here? Aren't you also here to find the relics of your ancestors?"

Medanzo explained, "I've been here several times, and I've gotten to know one of the largest dwarven tribes in the neighborhood. They should be the ones who are most familiar with the area, and you can ask them to help you find what has been left behind in the mountains. ”

Amon: "Cavemen? You deal with their tribe as well, what's going on today, how did you get to that waterhole to alarm those ironclads? I've never seen such mutated ironclads. ”

Medanzo replied with some embarrassment: "Although I haven't found the remains of my ancestors, I am familiar with the dwarven tribes here, and I often exchange some things with them. This tribe doesn't have other good things, but it can smelt refined iron embryos, which is very valuable. And I need money to travel to and from the mountains in the past few years, so I will make some exchanges with them, this may still be in Barron's territory, and it is not smuggling, right?"

Refined iron is officially controlled and sold in any country, and it is suspected of violating the law to carry out this kind of transaction privately, but Amon is too lazy to bother with this kind of nosy, and asks casually: "Then are you here to find mineral sand? Do you still want to smelt refined iron yourself?"

Mei Danzo was stunned: "Isn't it the first time you have come here, how do you know that there is the best refined iron ore here?"

Amon shrugged his shoulders and said, "It's indeed my first time here, but I already knew that the finest refined iron ore could be found in the feces of the ironclad beasts!"

Medanzo was stunned, his expression became very strange in the light of the fire, and he cursed in a low voice before saying, "The so-called finest horse leather steel ore raw material turned out to be the feces of the ironclad beast! ”

Amon was also stunned: "Ah, so you don't know, how did that person tell you?"

Medanzo said hatefully: "The tribe here produces the finest refined iron embryos, much better than ordinary refined iron, which is called horse leather steel in our place, and a small piece of it can be brought out of the mountains to make a lot of money, but the output is very small. I asked the patriarch if he could get more, and the patriarch said that the mineral sand was difficult to mine, and that there was a pool in the mountains where the silt deposited by the side was rich in the best horse leather ore. However, there are ironclad beast kings living in waterholes, and it is very dangerous to collect them, and their people dare not come.

I thought to myself that I was also a mid-level warrior, and I should have no problem dealing with an ironclad beastmaster, so I came quietly. I want to kill the Iron Beastmaster and let those dwarves see how powerful I am. The patriarch didn't tell me there were four, and he didn't tell me that the mineral was the dung of the ironclad beasts. I almost ended up here, but I was lucky to have met you. ”

Amon couldn't help but laugh out loud as he looked at him, and the laughter grew louder and louder, and then Medanzo laughed too. The two laughed at each other, and there was an echo in the mountains at night. Schrödinger, who was dozing off, raised his head and looked at the two of them very dissatisfied, as if to say, "What's so funny! Is there a shame or not?"

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When the sun rose the next day, Amon carried Schrödinger on his back with a branch and continued his walk to the heights under the leadership of Medanzo. While he wasn't going to ask the troglodyte tribe to help him find Bell's whereabouts, it was always useful to inquire about anything of interest in the area.

The clouds on the high mountains looked like a floating sea in the distance, and when they walked into it, they looked like an ethereal fog, and Amon was almost the third time he had crossed the clouds. Halfway through, he suddenly heard a movement in front of him, and he stopped and said, "Medanzo, there seems to be a sound in front, not like an animal, very much like a human footstep." ”

Medanzo jumped onto a large rock, raised his sword and looked forward, and after a while suddenly shouted, "Link, you old immortal, come here quickly...... You've deceived me so badly, look how I clean you up!"

A group of people came out of the woods at the turn of the mountain road, and the leader was the "old immortal" that Medanzo scolded, and he didn't look very old, probably only about thirty. He was the only one of them who wore shoes but was the whitest of them, dressed in clothes sewn from animal skins, and had a pair of straw shoes on his feet, and he was the only one of them who wore shoes, and he was also the patriarch of the caveman tribe in the mountains.

As soon as Link saw Medanzo, he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "You have wronged me, I heard that you went to the Hantan where the Iron Armor Beast King lives to mine sand, and there is no way to come to you when it gets dark, so I will gather the warriors of the clan to save you as soon as it is dawn." ”

Looking at Link's follow, there were more than thirty "warriors", some holding rudimentary bows and arrows in their hands, some holding spears with wooden handles tied to iron heads, and a few people's weapons were very interesting, that is, slender and rough flat iron bars, sharpened on one side, which could be stabbed or chopped, but not shaped into the shape of knives.

These people are not too short, but the patriarch Link said that they are the strongest warriors in the clan, and they should be the tallest, but they are about the same height as the average adult, and it seems that it is not for nothing that cavemen are called dwarves.

As soon as Medanzo saw Link, he jumped down from the stone and tried to knock him on the head with the spine of his sword: "By the time you come to save me, I have already been eaten by the Ironclad Beast!

Link let out an "ahh He didn't know what kind of beast bone his short staff was made of, and it was actually inlaid with a divine stone, much like a sorcerer's staff.

He looked Medanzo up and down and said, "Can you come back safely?" Yesterday you left quietly alone before you could make your words clear, and I repeatedly told you not to go without permission. It's not the Iron Beast King you meet, but the big Iron Beast guarding the Beastmaster's lair, and the Iron Beast King usually doesn't come out until the middle of the night. ...... Are you alright?"

Medanzo took out a yellow-black hook-like thing more than five inches long from his pocket, which was the "trophy" he obtained yesterday, and the beast claw that he cut off with a sword, shook it a little ostentatiously, and said: "Look what this is! Fortunately, a noble magician helped me, and I cut off this claw with my own hands." ”

Everyone let out an exclamation, and Link looked at the claw in Medanzo's hand with some envy, and asked curiously, "Magician, what magician? Is it your friend?"

Medanzo replied proudly: "Not only my friend, but also my savior, you ignorant old fellow." You haven't even heard of a sorcerer, have you?

Amon had only then come out from behind the big rocks, and these cavemen had never even heard of the magicians, so they didn't have to introduce themselves. Everyone only thought that he was a friend of Medanzo and a guest of the tribe, and he was welcomed to the mountain with Medanzo.

This tribe really has the characteristics of "cave dwelling savages", built on a flat slope under a low stone wall, and there are many natural caves along the stone wall, which can be inhabited by artificial excavation. A fire was lit in the largest cave, and the people of the tribe took turns to fetch firewood every day to keep the fire burning, and it was a common source of fire for all the families of the clan.

Although the dwarves here already use flint to make fire, the fire is also a symbol of the whole clan, and the large cave with fire is equivalent to a temple in a town, and the open area in front of the cave entrance is also a meeting place for the whole clan. There are also houses on the hillside not far from the stone wall, built of wood and thatch, and the walls are plastered with mud, although simple but strong.

The houses were inhabited by people of higher rank in the clan, and Medanzo seemed to be very respected here, and there was a special house for him to live in, and Amon also lived in this thatched house.

At dusk of the day, there was a gathering among the tribes, and a group of people were bouncing around a pile of wood in a clearing, passing the claw that Medanzo had cut off to each other, imitating various chopping movements, as if the claws had been cut off by themselves, and they looked very intoxicated.

Amon and Medanzo, who had joined forces to fight the ironclad beasts, sat in the most honorable position, right in front of the mouth of the large cave with a burning fire, with the patriarch Link. Medanzo whispered in Amun's ear, "This is the happiest time of their day, dancing until the fire is extinguished, and then going back to sleep." ”

Amon also whispered, "What are they doing with that claw?" ”

Medanzo: "It's a ritual to get the power to slay wild beasts, to give them confidence and courage, not to be afraid when hunting, to succeed every time, it's a kind of witchcraft prayer anyway." ”

As he spoke, it was getting dark, and a dwarf took a branch to the cave to make a fire, apparently to light the pyre in the clearing. Amon suddenly remembered something mentioned in the message left by the old madman, and stood up with a fine iron branch in his hand, and pointed to the pyre in the distance with his other hand.

A wind whirled around the pyre, and a bright light appeared in the wind, and the bright light became a filigree, and in the wind the filigree turned into a tongue-like leaping flame, and the flame ignited the pyre. Although it is only the simplest fire elemental summoning magic technique, when it is combined with the qi element divine technique, the effect is both magical and dazzling.

The dwarves who were dancing around the fire stopped, and the others who sat in a circle also stood up, and Amon saw everyone prostrate towards him, with reverence and trepidation. Patriarch Link was also saluting him, and Amon heard him clearly say, "O messenger of the gods, you have brought warmth and light!"

Seeing that everyone was doing this, Medanzo next to him also stood up and bowed to Amun, but quietly squeezed his eyes and whispered: "You really can, this hand is too beautiful! It's a pity that I'm not a magician, otherwise I would have played like this a long time ago." ”

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Introduction to the characters in this chapter -

Link: The patriarch of the Caveman Savage tribe, who knows a little simple magic, is also equivalent to the status of a tribal priest.

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