Chapter 90: Snowman II
This is a very simple locator.
A simple rune, plus a piece of inferior rune paper - whether it is broken rune paper or wrinkled rune paper, it doesn't matter - no complicated rune feet, rune galls and other structures, just a little magic injected into it, it is enough.
"What a bad joke. The young student muttered, rubbing the locator in his hand vigorously and crumpling it into a ball.
A few points of spark sounded in Zheng Qing's palm with a crackling sound like a leak.
A wisp of green smoke, before it could fully emerge, was enveloped in the surrounding wind and snow, and dissipated.
"Very common jokes. Nicholas smiled and comforted, "You're lucky, they just put a locator on you and let two very normal snowmen run around after you...... When it snowed the year before last, I don't know which bastard transformed a 'stinky snowman' and smashed out the snowball...... Tsk, miserable. ”
Zheng Qing grinned, trying to restrain himself from thinking about that bad picture.
"Do these snowmen have runes on their noses?" he said, lowering his head and kicking a carrot at his feet—the one that had just been rolled off the nose of a snowman—curious, "How did they find me through the locator?"
"Naturally, it's through another talisman. Nicholas took a few steps, bent down, and dug through the snowdrift that had just been left after the snowman's death, and soon found a hard, wood-like talisman from it, wiped off the remaining snow stains, and handed it to the young scholarship student.
As a wizard with a good foundation in talismanology, Zheng Qing could easily distinguish the 'ingredients' of the paper talisman in his hand.
The charred color of the rune paper and the hard feel of the paper told him that the paper was made from papyrus.
These carriers originating in Egypt weren't very suitable carriers of runes - in a sense, they were only suitable for a range of magic in ancient Egypt - but from an economic point of view, papyrus was much cheaper than the yellow paper, mulberry paper, etc., which wizards used to draw symbols, and in the Grimm grocery store, a copper could buy a large pile of blank papyrus.
If the wizard doesn't have too high requirements for the level and effectiveness of the paper symbols, this papyrus is a good choice.
Raising the paper talisman and sniffing it under his nose, a pungent smell rushed towards him, and the young student involuntarily sneezed several times - this is the smell of ginger ale, which wizards often use as a catalyst to interact with the cinnabar on the talisman and promote the flow of magic between the runes.
"Too much ginger juice is smeared on the rune paper, although it can stimulate the effect of cinnabar for a short time, but it can easily cause magic disorders. Zheng Qing wiped his nose and commented angrily: "The inferior products of inferior quality are not picked up if they are thrown on the ground...... Aren't they afraid of blowing themselves up with this kind of rune paper?"
As he spoke, a red light flashed on the paper talisman in the hand of the public student.
The young wizard screamed, shook it hard, and the paper charm swooped back into the snowdrift in front of him. It was only in the blink of an eye, but there was a muffled sound, and the snowdrift in front of the wizard burst open, and the soft snow ball smashed over the head and face, and the two wizards fell one after the other.
"Phew...... It's like this. Nicholas spat out the snowflakes that had exploded in his mouth, shook his head and shook off the dregs on his body, and explained in a muffled voice: "What if it is blown up? ”
"Anyway, everyone was playing in the snow. ”
"In addition, except for those masters of the Alpha Academy, when the people on our side play games, no one will use inferior grade or higher rune paper to waste...... Well, except for you. ”
"I heard you're using a talisman now? That's a gold-burning thing. ”
Hearing Nicholas's slightly envious tone, the young public scholarship student felt very useful, but at the same time, he habitually waved his hand and said modestly: "I draw the talisman by myself, wrap it in paper and play it by myself, and it doesn't cost a few dollars." ”
"That's even better!" Nicholas gave a thumbs up and exclaimed, "In the school, not everyone has the ability to draw so many runes above the standard level casually." ”
Zheng Qing continued to wave his hands modestly, but he couldn't contain the smile on his face no matter what.
At this moment, a fat snowman swayed through two large trees and passed unhurriedly in front of the young public-funded students. It can be seen that its maker has put a lot of effort into it, with two deep nostrils on the nose of the bright red radish and a bright red wool scarf hanging around his neck. Its two arms are not wooden brooms that students have 'borrowed' from behind the classroom doors, but arms that are also made of snow.
Compared to the 'broomstick arm', an arm made of snow obviously costs more mana.
This means that the paper charm stuffed in the snowman's stomach is most likely not an inferior product, but a standard or even higher level of paper symbol.
The young public-funded student watched the snowman sway away, and suddenly remembered a question, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at the old student who was still standing next to him:
I remember a few days ago, because of a group of sand insects, the whole school was jumping around, and I sent a professional insecticide agency outside the school to come. ”
Nicholas was tilting his head up, squinting, as if feeling the sensation of snowflakes falling.
Hearing this, he was stunned, and only replied after a while: "It's different, it's completely different...... The Sand Worm is a natural and magical creature, and these snowmen are just tossed around by the students themselves. In terms of economic benefit and danger, the sand insects have thrown off seventy or eighty streets of the snowman. ”
"It's like the talisman we just looked at, it's the real core of the snowman's activities, a primary ...... No, the beginner's beginner's snowman charm. ”
"Very shoddy, less than two hours of holding. ”
In other words, if they don't get broken in the Yeti Wars, you don't have to worry about anything, and in another two hours, the snowman will still be a quiet snowdrift. ”
"Other than that, these snowmen don't stay in school all the time. ”
"Most snowmen have a short lifespan, and as soon as the sun comes out, they melt, so why waste manpower to clean them up on this snowy day?"
"Most?" Zheng Qing couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
"Well, mostly. Nicholas nodded, his eyes showing a bit of seriousness: "Magic is a very magical power, and it is always good at making miracles. ”
"Although we all know that it is nothing more than an inferior talisman that supports the activities of these snowmen, sometimes it is these inferior talismans and their loose bodies that can give birth to real miracles under certain harsh conditions...... Grow from a normal snowman to a real snowman. ”