Chapter Twenty-Three: The First Stop
"First of all, let's understand what magic is and what Mana is. In many knight biographies and wizard novels www.biquge.info novelists who don't know anything about Mana not only coined the absurd term "magic", but also regarded Mana as if it were physical strength, believing that once the so-called "magic" was exhausted, the wizards would not be able to cast spells. If you've ever read a biography of a novel like this since then, forget about it all now. —The Little Lighthouse Wizards' Guild and Apprentice's Handbook, by Simmons Philizaniworth
"Four kings, you've lost again. Harradik smirked and picked up a charcoal pen and slashed a note on it, then said, "Let me count, one, two, three...... You owe me twelve Doyles now. ”
Beata hugged her knees and glared at the smiling elf with a gloomy face, and said angrily, "You cheat!"
"Oh, yes. Haredith shuffled the cards and replied nonchalantly, "Then you're going to tell me how I cheated?"
When she asked this, the little girl was a little speechless, and it took a long time to hold back a sentence: "I, I don't know, you must have cheated anyway, otherwise why can you get such good cards, and I have a bad hand!?"
The Drow shook his finger at Beata and said, "Listen, little ghost, you can only point fingers at others for 'cheating' when you catch them, and if you don't, it only means that I'm smarter than you." ”
Beata pursed her lips and said disdainfully, "Where did this fallacy come from!"
"Take my words to heart, you'll need them for the rest of your life, but do you want to continue?" Haredith said to her, shaking his playing cards.
"Of course, no one has won yet!" said Beata, holding up her little face that didn't admit defeat.
"Ha, that's a good girl!" said Hareditike, smiling appreciatively, and expertly handing five playing cards to the girl.
Beata glanced back and forth with the poker in her hand, then drew two cards from it and said, "I'm going to change two this time." ”
"If I change it, do I want to raise?"
"Plus!" said Beatta, her eyes lit up as she took the two cards she had drawn.
"So happy?
Beata stuck out her tongue and said, "I won't tell you!"
"If you don't tell me, then I'll think about it...... Well, I'll bet with you. Although the expression on the little girl's face had betrayed her, Haredik still pretended not to know and said deliberately.
"Yay!" Beata waved her little fist excitedly, then spread out the cards in her hand and said proudly, "I have a pair of aces and a pair of queens!
Hareddick put on a stinky face and twisted his facial features a few times, and said dejectedly: "Alas, I don't have a single flower card, only ...... I'm winning again!, little imp!" Suddenly, Harradik smiled evilly.
"You're cheating!"
"You didn't catch me, do you want to continue?"
"Of course!"
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Time slipped away silently in the noise between the aristocratic maiden and the drow elves, and the long night, which had seemed to be slow, came to dawn in the blink of an eye. After a night's rest, the team members had clearly recovered a lot of spirits, and after a brief freshening, the team left the oasis and set out on the journey again.
This oasis brought the team not only a comfortable night's sleep, but also a sense of trust in Haredik. So when Hareddik said that if everyone could pick up the pace a little bit, they could get to the next oasis before dark, everyone took their own steps and strode forward.
After three days of arduous trekking in the desert, the convoy from Azonica, which had been traveling in the desert for almost half a month, finally reached their first stop, the Desperate Rock Wall. ...,
The majestic stone wall that would cut off the entire continent was the immortal work of nature or the Creator God, and even the giants of the bard's lyrics seemed small compared to it. The wall of desperation stretches from north to west, and no one can accurately measure how long the wall is, and even if one leans back at the foot of it, one cannot see the sky behind it. Once upon a time, even dragons thought that this was the end of the world, the end of all things.
"Wow, wow, wow!!" Beata used three interjections in a row to express her most accurate view of the desperate rock wall.
Hareddick, who was sitting in the carriage, handed a pair of dwarven monoculars to Hanlon beside him, pointed to a spot in the rock face, and said, "Look over there, that's the rift we're going to go through." ”
Hanlon took the binoculars and looked at them carefully, nodded, handed the telescope back to Haredith and asked, "How do we get there?"
It was not for nothing that Hanlon asked this question, the western sand sea was at its hottest time of the year, and the scorching sun scorched the desert and the desperate rock walls made of rocks. The rocks on the rock wall absorb the heat and bounce it back into the surrounding air, creating a hot wave that even people about a kilometer away from the rock wall feel like they have been put on a frying board and scorched. Not to mention having to pass through the rock wall, even one step closer could almost kill them.
"Normally we'd set up camp here, and then we'd wait until the evening, early hours to be exact, until the walls had completely released the heat absorbed during the day, and then we'd pass through the rift valleys," Haredik said. ”
"I wish you had a 'but' here, because it's not just me, but everyone here doesn't want to sit in the desert with the sun above you until night. ”
"But," Haredith continued, after a pause, "thank you kind-hearted Tepeni for adding this good thing to me to the things I asked you to prepare. With that, Haredith patted Beata, who was sitting next to him, to get out of the way, rolled over onto the luggage rack on the roof of the car, pulled out a package from the neatly stacked luggage, threw it to Hanlon, and jumped off the luggage rack.
Han Long couldn't help but be stunned when he opened the package and saw what it contained, at which point Xiuqi leaned over to take a look and then said to Hareddic, "Is this a wizard's magic scroll?"
"Good eyesight. Hareddick casually complimented Shuki and continued, "This scroll can create a magic shroud made of water, which will cover the entire convoy and keep all the heat out of the water shroud, so that we can safely pass through that rift without fear of the heat emitted by the rock wall." ”
Han Long and Xiu Qi's eyes widened, and after glancing at each other, Xiu Qi complained dissatisfiedly: "Why didn't you take out such a good thing earlier, so that we have suffered so much in the past few days"
Hareddick spread his hands and said helplessly, "Because there is only one scroll, and I don't know magic, or according to the language of wizards, I can't communicate with Mana." And I don't think any of us can use magic, so this scroll can only exert less than one percent of its power, which means that it only lasts for about an hour. ”
Hearing Haredith say this, both of them nodded in understanding, and then Xiuqi joked and said, "You can let our warlock try this scroll." ”
Hearing this, both Haredik and Hanlon couldn't help but laugh.
Han Long smiled, "Haha, that's right, it's time for our Warlock Lord to do some work." ”...,
"Let the Warlock use magic? If you do, maybe the Warlock will be so angry that he forgets to use his spell and just takes his baton and breaks your head. Haredith laughed along, and Beata looked at the three of them with her big eyes open, not knowing what they were laughing at.
Han Long waved his hand and interrupted the conversation and said, "Okay, let's be serious, Nemo, are you going to use this scroll?"
Hareddick nodded and said, "That's right, although I have lost the blessing given by Gwendrin, I am an elf after all, and Mana is more willing to be close to me than you humans, and the power of the scroll can be slightly greater." ”
Hanlon patted Halledik on the shoulder and said, "Then it's up to you, let's go check the team and let the team go at any time." After saying that, he said hello and ran towards the back of the convoy.
At this time, Beata said to Haredith with a pair of big eyes shining expectantly, "Are you going to use magic? I have seen a few traveling wizards in my house before, but I have never seen anyone else use magic!"
Hareddick fiddled with the magic scroll and said to Beata, "No, it's just a magic scroll, written by a wizard in Mana, with a magic seal in it, and anyone can use it as long as they spread it out. ”
"So I can use it too?!" the light in Beatta's big eyes grew brighter and brighter.
Hareddick tilted his head and said, "Hungry, so to speak......"
At this time, Beata immediately raised her hands in the air, jumped and jumped like a baby begging for candy, and shouted: "Then use it for me, use it for me, I want to be an archmage!"
Hareddick slapped Beata on the forehead with his hand, and the overexcited aristocratic girl covered her forehead and screamed in pain, only to hear Haredith say: "Don't even think about it, this is not a toy, just play with your doll." ”
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