Chapter Twenty-Six: A Study
After taking a bath, the red dragon shook off and returned to the cave, seeing that Xiaolan still ignored it. The bored red dragon lay down on the pile of gold coins and began to count the gold coins.
I don't know how long it took, but the red dragon finally confirmed that he now had a total of 1111 gold coins. Then he turned his head and saw Xiao Lan next to him who was paralyzed on the ground weakly.
Would you rather starve to death than give in?? Feeling the hunger signal coming from his belly, the red dragon put down the gold coin in his claws and got up and walked out of the cave.
In fact, Xiaolan had already calmed down, and decided to forgive the red dragon, but when the red dragon came back from the bath, he was already hungry and speechless.
Then, Xiaolan watched as the red dragon began to count the gold coins one by one!
When Xiaolan had already hallucinated that he had become the first dragon in history to starve to death, he finally saw the fragrant food placed in front of him, and then almost became the first dragon in history to die.
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The next day, Ember woke up early in the morning and took Xiaolan to fly towards the island next door with the morning glow.
As a result, he found that his neighbor, the blue dragon who had forgotten his name, was sleeping soundly, so the red dragon left without disturbing them.
Ember decides to start today and move towards her goal: to become stronger!
The red dragon remembers a famous saying in humans: knowledge is power. So it came to the dragon library, intending to borrow some books to study.
Walking into the library, I saw from a distance that the old bronze dragon Ilios, the librarian of a small hill, was lying face to face with a blue dragon about the same, and the four dragon eyes were staring intently at something on the ground between them.
Ember recognized the blue dragon at a glance as the accomplice of the red dragon named Spitfire who had taken away his mother yesterday. The little red dragon took a closer look and saw the small black and white chessboard between the two dragons, which turned out to be chess.
Chess is an entertainment prop for human beings, but I didn't expect it to be introduced within the dragon family.
Although the chessboard and chess pieces are special, and a chess piece is the size of a human being, the two dragons do not use their claws to move the chess pieces in chess, but use the basic magic levitation technique. I saw a magical stance with the color of the caster's pupils appear on the chess piece, and then it floated up and moved.
Halfway through the chess game, the two dragons played very slowly, and it seemed that it would not be over for a while. So the little red dragon turned his head and began to look at the bookshelves around him.
I took out a copy of "Practical Course in Dragon Language" and put it back after reading it for a while, and then picked up a copy of "Dragon Clan Melee Quick Strategy", frowned and read a few pages of Red Dragon and put it back in place, and finally found a copy of "Modern History of the Dragon Clan", so Red Dragon held this book and read it with relish.
After looking at the history for about a hundred years, the two giant dragons next to them finally ended this long chess game with a slight advantage over the bronze dragon. The blue dragon stood up, said hello, and then glanced at the little red dragon twice before leaving.
"Little one, are you here to borrow a book?" said the old bronze dragon, turning around and smiling.
Xiao Honglong put the book down and said with some frustration: "I originally wanted to borrow some books that can quickly improve my strength, but I can't seem to read it." ”
"Why do you want to improve your strength quickly?"
"His Majesty the Dragon King has given me the task to go to the mainland to find something. ”
Hearing this, the old bronze dragon looked the little red dragon up and down, and then said with some doubts: "Is that guy Aristod stupid? Send a young dragon on an official mission? Where have the other dragons gone?"
Under the mouth cannon attack of the talkative old bronze dragon, the little red dragon told all his recent experiences.
After hearing about Ember's experience of not being a legend but being able to write a biography, the old dragon Ilios thought for a while and then said, "Do you want to become stronger?
Dragons are rectum-like, and like to fight straight up, hand-to-hand at close range, and breathe at a distance. That's why many dragons don't pay attention to the study of magic, and they waste that great talent.
Saying that, the bronze dragon put the basic thick book in front of the little red dragon, and saw that the top cover read "Fire Dragon Language Magic Encyclopedia".
Ember has a lot of dreams about magic when she learns that her mother had razed a large city to the ground with just two Sanctuary spells.
"If you're interested, take these books back and take a good look at them, and come back to me in a few days, and I'll teach you a few meditation methods. After listening to the old dragon's words, the little red dragon nodded, put away a few thick magic books, and then said goodbye and left.
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Back at the residence, the red dragon first took out a copy of "Introduction to Magic" and read it.
Magic is a skill in the application of an element. It is made of magic power and spiritual power as hardware, and the caster's spellcasting means to structure the software, and the combination of software and hardware constitutes a complete magic.
There are many types of magic in the world, and there are ten main types of magic: water, ice, fire, earth, wood, wind, thunder, light, darkness, and the undead.
Every being gifted with magic is born with an affinity for one or more magical elements, and the higher the affinity for a certain element, the faster the rate at which it can be practiced. For example, dragons have a high affinity for the magical elements of their respective attributes.
Unlike humans, who communicate with the outside world and borrow magical elements to perform magic, dragons and most magical beasts store the magic power obtained from meditation in a special organ in their body, the magic sac, and when they use magic, they will automatically balance with the outside world to draw magic power.
Meditation is the foundation of magic, and it is also the most important thing, and if you don't meditate, you won't be able to obtain magic power.
I don't know how long it took, but Red Dragon finally finished reading "Introduction to Magic" and felt quite accomplished. After deciding to start practicing magic, I first had to learn a few meditation methods.
Dragons pay attention to the equivalent exchange, how can they exchange from the bronze dragon claw to the meditation method?
Thinking about it, there were only gold coins, and when the red dragon was distressed, the little snake on his head spoke: "Doesn't the old dragon like to play chess, I know a few kinds, you make a pair and send it over." ”
So, under the guidance of the little snake, the red dragon began to tinker with this thing called "Chinese chess". After half a day of experimentation, the red dragon gave up using stones as the material for the chess pieces, went outside and cut down an unlucky tree with a sword, and then squatted on the ground with a dagger to carefully cut the wood into thirty-two squares of about the same size, and engraved dragon characters such as carts and horse cannons on the chess pieces.
Cut out a wooden board, carve out the chessboard with the tail measurement, and then find a piece of charcoal and a piece of red ore near the volcano to color the chess pieces, and a simple Chinese chess match is ready.
As soon as he turned around, the red dragon saw a huge head staring at him, and he took a big jump to recognize that this was the big blue dragon he had seen for the third time.
While still speculating about why the other party would find him, the big blue dragon spoke: "Hey, you're Ember, right? My name is Meteor, I want to ask you for a favor." ”
"You say. The little red dragon didn't give this guy who "captured" his mother a good face.
"That's right. The big blue dragon didn't care about the little red dragon's hostility at all: "I have a collection that was stolen into a hole by a small bug, and the hole is too small for me to enter, so I have to ask the little dragon to help." ”
"I'm not available right now. ”
"It's okay, it'll be fine in a few days, I'll ask my nephew Kevin to take you there. The Blue Dragon Meteor said with a big grin, "I'll give you fifty gold coins as a reward." After saying that, he handed a money bag to the little red dragon with a blinded face, and then flapped his wings and left.
Ember looked at its back speechlessly, then opened the money bag and counted carefully, exactly fifty gold coins, no more, no less.
Now I have 1,161 gold coins.
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The red dragon took the chess with him and went to the library again.
After handing over the set of Chinese chess to the old bronze dragon and explaining the gameplay, the old bronze dragon was very happy, and generously taught the little red dragon two sets of meditation tips with a wave of his big paws.
One is the fire dragon recipe exclusive to the red dragon, which can absorb the fire element when it is usually running, and it is a must for the red dragon mage.
The other is a bit interesting, called the Sleeping Dragon Technique, as the name suggests, the dragon can also meditate in his sleep to absorb the magic power. However, according to the old bronze dragon, this set of formulas is somewhat complicated, and the dragon with average magical attainments cannot grasp it.
The little red dragon who got the meditation method couldn't wait to stay in the volcano and practice meditation. After a week and two thoughts of giving up, he finally succeeded in running the Fire Dragon Technique, and his body began to slowly absorb the fire elements inside the volcano.
"Fireball Technique!" the red dragon roared, only to see an egg-sized fireball form from the tip of the red dragon's raised claws, and then flew to the opposite tree, burning a branch.
The red dragon summoned the flames in his body again, formed a huge fireball in his palm, and smashed his claws into the poor tree, quickly burning it to ashes.
Ember sighed, and he understood why the lazy dragon didn't like to practice magic, and it was much worse than his own strength in the early and middle stages.
He tried to run the Sleeping Dragon Technique again, and found that the difficulty was not at the same level as the Fire Dragon Technique, so Ember gave it up for the time being.
If you want to become stronger, you have a long way to go! At this time, the red dragon also found that he had only focused on practicing magic and neglected physical exercise, so he hurriedly went out and flew around.
I didn't want to meet my neighbor as soon as I went out - the juvenile blue dragon whose name was Kevin was ninety-five years old and thirteen meters long.
"Hello Ember, my uncle Meteor asked me to take you to him. Blue Dragon Kevin said as soon as he came up.
The red dragon thought for three seconds before remembering that there was still this matter, and the fifty gold coins before were not taken for nothing.
Looking back, he felt that there was nothing to bring, and the red dragon waved his paws and said with a big grin: "Lead the way!"