Chapter 4: The Pillar of Earthflames
"My lord, welcome back to your realm!"
Ivy hadn't been away from the village for long, and she hadn't even met the snake king far from the village, so the three of them quickly rushed back to the village.
And the moment Ivy stepped back to the village, all the villagers who were busy in the territory quickly put down their work and respectfully rushed to greet Ivy as the lord, and every villager's eyes showed a feeling full of joy and peace of mind.
Obviously, every villager was very happy that their lord had returned safely.
However, Ji En felt a strangeness, and began to feel that something was not quite right, tilting his head to look at these villagers, thinking deeply about memories in his mind.
And Ivy, who is the lord next to her, is naturally not stunned, she still has a lot of discomfort when she is a lord for the first time, although it is a game, but the feeling it gives her is so real that she almost forgets that this is a game.
She has always been modest, she is not used to others kneeling down to greet her, and immediately said to the villagers gently: "Get up, don't kneel, next time it would be good to welcome and say hello, there is no need to gather so ceremoniously." ”
Hearing Ivy's words, the villagers looked at each other in a daze, and then respectfully shouted to Ivy, "Yes, lord!" ”
Ivy stuck out her tongue and walked into the village with an embarrassed smile.
In the center of the village, Ivy asked the villagers to bring a relatively large, wide and clean wooden plank, and took out a small part of the snake meat that had just fallen from the python king from the system space, and placed it neatly on the clean wooden plank.
【Take out a large amount of snake meat x1】
Just one piece of snake meat, the planks have been piled up, this pile of snake meat has weighed more than forty catties, this one piece of snake meat can fill the entire village now, and there are twenty-nine portions of snake meat in this amount, you can imagine how heavy the python king is to drop so much food.
This made Ivy a little hard to imagine in her heart, how powerful Chi En had to grab the python king with one hand, and then easily pinch him to death!
"Why are you suddenly looking at me again?" Ji En, who was originally going to go to pranayama to restore the magic value, suddenly felt Ivy's gaze, and felt a little inexplicable, and didn't understand Ivy's admiration.
The other villagers had already begun to sort out the ingredients under Ivy's instructions, and these villagers were still very experienced in cooking, but experience was experienced, but it was a bit difficult to do without the corresponding equipment.
The best thing about this game is that it is true and free, but the bad part is also in truth and freedom.
Too real and free, in some ways idle, like now.
Although there is delicious and nutritious snake meat, all the snake meat that falls is raw, and there is no such thing as a normal game, where the food dropped from the monster becomes cooked.
Although raw snake meat can also be eaten, the villagers present naturally do not want their lord to eat raw snake meat, and the shortest in the village, Bande, as the most experienced among all the villagers, just wanted to prepare these excellent ingredients, but only then did he remember that the village was too simple now.
There were only two original thatched huts, not to mention the cooking room, and they had to huddle together tonight.
"I can only grill these snake meats." Ivy thought for a while, and thought that was the only way to come.
It's also really convenient to barbecue, just light a fire and find some dry wood and branches.
After the order, Ivy also began to think: "Now that there is no shortage of food for the time being, you can do a good job of the foundation of the village first, the thatched house is too small, it is estimated that they will not be used to living in it, so let's build a larger wooden house and cooking room first."
Ivy observes the entire village from within the system and begins to plan.
Now a few crooked neck trees and messy stone piles near the village have been cleaned up by the villagers, not to mention clean and tidy, but they are also pleasing to the eye and leveled, and there are also felled and piled trees next to it, and there are many tree resources behind the village, which are completely sufficient.
Although Ivy has little experience in construction, the good news is that the villagers are people with various life skills, and she doesn't have to worry about building wooden houses.
Chi En also sat in place to recover the mana, although it was very cool to use the Titan Colossus real body skill when fighting the python king, but it was not so easy to recover the empty mana, even if there was a golden snake power staff to speed up the recovery, but it was not possible to recover it in a short time.
Ivy also accompanied the villagers to find firewood at this moment, although the villagers wanted her to cultivate in the thatched hut with peace of mind, but the lord's instructions could not be disobeyed, so she naturally followed.
However, when she returned, Ivy was in a bad mood.
"Alas, there are only rotting and damp dead branches and leaves, how can we make a fire now?" Ivy's brow furrowed slightly, the situation was a little bad.
I didn't expect this game,The seasons are so distinct.,Judging from the slightly cold weather,It's estimated that the game world is now in the early spring.,And it should still be just after the spring rain.,The surrounding ambient air is humid.。
Their only way to get fire now is to drill wood for fire, but it is too difficult to find enough dry trees and flammable materials in such an environment.
"Do you really have to eat it raw?" Ivy sighed.
"Anyway, snake meat should have a lot of parasites, and it must be killed by high temperatures, otherwise it will be infected with parasites, alas, what am I thinking, this is just a game, it shouldn't be." Ivy began to think crankily.
However, this game is so realistic, it is not necessarily true.
It doesn't matter if they can be resurrected, but they are all ordinary villagers, there is no doctor here, and if they are infected, they will be dead, except for Ji En.
"That's right, Ji Eun! He might have a way. Ivy looked at Ji Eun, who was pranayama in the hut.
Three steps trotted to the thatched hut not far away, squatted in front of Ji En, and hurriedly asked with a hint of expectation: "Ji En, can you set fire?" ”
The sudden appearance of Ivy made Ji En stunned, and Ji En didn't understand her words for a while, and there was confusion in his eyes.
Tilting his head in confusion, he looked at Ivy and only said one word: "What?" ”
He really didn't understand what Ivy was trying to say, after all, as soon as he came back and glanced at it a few times, he sat in the thatched hut and began to meditate and began to concentrate on the recovery of the magic value, and he didn't care about anything else at all.
And when Ivy saw Chi En like this, she subconsciously thought that maybe Chi En couldn't help it, and said with some guilt: "We want to find firewood to make a fire to roast snake meat, but the surrounding firewood is a little damp and can't make a fire, so I really can't help it, so I want to ask you." ”
Ivy was actually a little nervous, after all, Ji En's belonging to the village itself was very low, and now everyone prepared the ingredients for her, but she couldn't do anything.
Would a villager as powerful as Ji Eun be willing to stay with her, a lord who can't even solve the problem of food?
"Ao, you want to make a fire, no problem, you can gather the firewood in front of the grass shed, and you can also use it if it is wet." After understanding what Ivy meant, Ji En readily agreed.
Although the mana has not recovered much, it is definitely enough to start a fire.
Hearing Ji Eun's answer, Ivy's sadness turned into joy, and seeing Ji Eun's gentle and smiling face, the original worry in her heart was also a lot more relieved, and she immediately arranged for the villagers to carry the firewood she had just collected to Ji Eun's front with her.
There was a lot of firewood collected, but most of it was damp and rotten, and it was difficult to light firewood, let alone start a fire, even as a combustion.
"Looks like you're going to have to use a little bit more skill." Ji En looked at the fire skills in the skill list, and a somewhat unfamiliar fire skill piqued his interest.
After all, it is normal to forget the skills accumulated in the past ten years, so I just took this opportunity to test this skill.
【Skill: Earth Flame Pillar】
The ground of a pile of rotting and damp firewood began to turn red in a circular shape, and as time passed, the crimson of the ground gradually deepened, and the originally damp firewood began to scorch under the red ground.
Although the ground is not on fire, the crimson of the ground is already a naked sign that it has brewed a terrifying wave of flames that will erupt at any time!
"It turned out to be a charged skill.,I'll just say how can this skill at this stage consume so little mana?,It turns out to be a time charge to consume mana.,The longer the charge time, the greater the mana consumption.,The more terrifying the power of the flames that erupted.。 Ji Eun suddenly realized.
"Oh no, it's been too long." At this time, Ji En recalled, the mana was already beginning to be consumed rapidly.
【Release】
"Boom !!"
There was an explosion, and the crimson was close to pure red at the moment of release, and the earth's veins surged, and flames rose from the ground to the sky, like a torrent of flames forming pillars, and everything in the center of the firewood became gaseous at the moment of the explosion.
The surrounding temperature, which was still somewhat cold, became scorching under this flame, and it was difficult to breathe, as if the air had been burned out.
It took a while before it subsided.
And watching from the sidelines, except for Ivy and Sean, who are better, the other villagers are dumbfounded at the moment, what is the situation, is it a god who has sent down heavenly punishment?
"That, it's not well controlled, can you get some firewood again, there won't be a problem this time." Ji En scratched his hair, turned his head, and said to Ivy with an embarrassed smile.
However, at this moment, Ivy, like the other villagers, had not yet woken up, and was still looking at the large blackened round hole.