The cold wind poured in through a gap in the curtain at the edge of the leather door of the cowhide tent, causing the dim oil lamps in the tent to flicker and flicker, the flames of the lamps making the three of us reflected in the shadows on the leather walls, and for dinner we ate the same old black bread and dried meat and vegetable soup. The merchant group cooked broth that was like Chinese medicine, and I was speechless to hear Kurtz say that he was still living so well.
Old Kulu told me that the orc world's economic system had collapsed and that it would take years to recover. I didn't expect the situation of the tribe to deteriorate this badly after only a few years of my absence. Even now the orcs in the entire Pai Plateau could not even afford a large-scale war. Then when it came to the vermicelli, Old Kulu decided to implement it secretly in the tribe he belonged to, the Gurudin Lycans, not for the orcs themselves, who still had to eat the ground potatoes, but these delicious vermicelli had to be sold to human traders, preferably in exchange for some cotton, hemp, iron and other basic living materials.
When I told old Kulu about seeing Master Leipas and his retainers in the free market today, his brow finally unfurled a little and he asked with interest, "So, they've been secretly looking for where the vermicelli came from?"
I nodded and said, "I suppose so."
"The more they care, the more valuable this stuff is, so it seems this may not be a way out!" Old Kulu exhaled a foul breath, and seeing the relief showing on his face, I asked the same question that had been bothering me for so long.
I had always wondered why both humans and orcs liked to marinate their meat a little and then dry it into jerky, which was so hard and raw that it tasted like a stick when cooked in wild vegetable soup. It was a sin to have to eat all the way from this otherwise delicious meat to this state. So I asked Old Kulu: there is no shortage of bison in the Star Lake grasslands or on the Pai plateau, but why is it that the caravans and adventuring groups have no interest in these animals, and the poor orcs on the Pai plateau have no interest in these one-horned bison, and wouldn't it be better to kill them and sell their skins and flesh to the human traders?
Old Kuru looked at me in disbelief and said, "Bison tendons are good for bowstrings, but what else can you do with the skins but make tents and drums? Those nobles in the Green Empire don't like to live in tents. As for the bison hides, no merchant would buy them. As for the bison meat, the Imperials like to eat fresh meat, but it's too far to transport it, and if you make dried meat, only travellers would eat it except for orcs. Otherwise you wouldn't be trapping chickens and rabbits with Aziz and coming up with brilliant ideas like making vermicelli, which no one wants to eat. So who would go to all the trouble of hunting a herd of bison just for the sake of beast tendons? Aigoo!"
Old Kuru sighed, as if lamenting the poverty and destitution of the beasts who lived here in abundance.
"Why don't you drive the surplus cattle down to the plateau and sell them?" I asked him, thinking I could always get the live cattle down the mountain, remembering what Katrina had told me about how beef wasn't exactly cheap over in the Empire, and how it would be a resource if I could sell them. The problem was that the herds of bison on the Pai Plateau and the Star Lake Steppe were huge, with millions of head of cattle in more than just three or five herds, and the herds of one-horned bison were so large that they could trample the Star Lake Steppe into barren land, so it was clear how large they were.
Old Kulu craned his head at me and said, "What animal do you think could survive the Road of Death?"
"The thunder rhinoceros! Oh, okay! I see!" I didn't know what to say for a moment, yes! The Pai Plateau surrounded by mountains has a heavenly danger that is the Road of Death, and on this 3,000 kilometre death line, no amount of cows would be enough to die. The Gurudin Lycans are not that far from the province of Sloot, but the winding, craggy mountain roads are thousands of kilometres long and are so barren that no huge supply line could sustain such a road of death. The mountains of the Pai Plateau, which even airships can't climb over, are so vast that only a thunder rhinoceros could carry the goods out of the plateau without eating or drinking for a month.
I was going to say that it might be possible to make jerky or meat loaf out of the bison, but then I swallowed my words. I didn't want to just talk about it, promise Old Kulu a big pie, and then find out that the merchants wouldn't want it at all, and that it wouldn't help Old Kulu at all. But I thought I'd at least make some to try out. Maybe the raw jerky that was cured and then dried in the sun brought too many nightmares to the travellers and the orcs, and I thought it would be easier to start with the meat loaf.
The old kuru turned his gaze to Kurtz, grinned when he saw the tarp-wrapped alloy bow he was carrying and said, "You bought this today?"
"Ah! Master, I bought an alloy bow today." Like a child offering a treasure, Kuzi saw that old Kulu had finally noticed his new bow and immediately untied the alloy bow with a smile on his face and quickly ripped the tarpaulin off and placed it down in front of old Kulu. Kurtz lived a simple life and was happy when he got something out of it.
Old Kru looked at the fine alloy bow in his hand and once again his face showed a look of consternation. I think he knew how much savings Kuz and I had, and when Koko brought me the loot that belonged to us, Kuz was the first one to tell old Kulu about it. I even think that according to Kuz's character of not being able to pretend things, old Kulu knew very well how many coins we both had in our balance.
"This bow actually has a magic pattern spell?" Old Kulu's old, dry fingers fondled the wonderful runes carved into the red copper, a sharp gleam in his cloudy eyes, and he said steadily, "This bow is not cheap!"
The first was that this bow was not cheap and how much you paid for it. The second was that it was not cheap, and how did you have so much money to buy it. But he prefers not to say through, but two points and want to know, to the young grandson such independent release of the nurturing method, and too embarrassed to ask directly out.
"That girlfriend of Jia's ..." Kuz opened his mouth and said the first sentence I was full of black lines, this introduction of how I sounded so awkward ah.
The first thing I did was to tell the story of what happened, including how I clashed with the young noblemen of the Prosperity Adventure Group after sharing the money in the restaurant. , turning to me and asking, "Magic was used?"
I nodded calmly and then said, "I ducked into the dead center of the column when the spell was cast, he shouldn't have seen it."
"Eh, there are also battle skills similar to the magic skill 'Shadow Cloak', such as the assassin skill 'Infiltrate' which is good at assassination skills, and professional rangers who are good at jungle combat wilderness survival, they can also learn 'Concealment' both have similar effects. It's relatively easy for them to mistake you for having learnt these combat skills, and it's unlikely that anyone would think that you can actually use magic when you haven't even awakened your magic pool. So for the time being, don't worry about revealing the hidden bloodline talent in you. I'm afraid those noble boys won't give up this opportunity to hunt in the wilderness, and might be waiting for you two deep in the wilderness." Old Kuru helped us analyse the situation at that time and made a definite conclusion.
The magical talent "Magic Perception" and the magical bloodline talent "Blue Flame" that I had awakened in my body would not be revealed for the time being, but the bloodline talent "Self-Healing" of this fighting werewolf had already been in the caravan. "I am the disciple of an old witch doctor, and it is only my luck that I survived the infusion of his bloodline power. It is not uncommon to find orc bloodline powers such as "self-healing" among the human race, and such bloodline powers are not favoured by wizards, so it can be said that almost no wizards are willing to plunder combat bloodline talents. Moreover, that evil ritual of plundering bloodline talents can only be performed by high level magicians, so few warriors are willing to endure such a danger as blood dissolution and instead drain the blood from their bodies and replace it with blood that possesses bloodline power.
Old Kuru's idea was also to make me normally act more like a warrior, as a way of hiding what was special about me. All afternoon I had been on tenterhooks, fearing that my magical gifts would be revealed and that I would be killed. But after Kulu's analysis, I let my heart drop and let out a long breath, wiping the oily sweat from my forehead. Old Kulu was worried that the noble folk would not give up and come after us in the wasteland, but I was worried that Ming Qian would not dare to come after me, and I thought that, as a qualified werewolf warrior, it would be better to settle this feud with Ming Qian in the wasteland.
Old Kulu added: "Speaking of 'hiding', a combat survival skill revered by human rangers, it really originated from two different civilisations. The 'Hide' skill learned by the Scout Ranger comes from the Dark Elves, and no one can find a Dark Elf who deliberately tries to hide in the Forest of Eternal Night. The 'Hide' skill learned by the Treasure Hunter comes from the Orc tribe, and is the first hunting skill that Orc werewolves learn after their Bar Mitzvah, which is more of a booby trap skill that werewolves usually use when hunting beasts stronger than themselves."
"Huh! So Ja you can totally say you learned 'Hide'. And it's a skill I happen to know ..." Old Kuru suddenly laughed, his voice a little hoarse, but his mood grew with his own words, and he was actually a little browbeaten by the end of his sentence.
I suppose this could only mean that old Kulu cared for me, and when he heard the news of my fight with Kurtz, his heart went into complete turmoil. But then the more he spoke the more he found that he was able to sweep the matter under the carpet, so his mood changed from gloomy to sunny all of a sudden, and the fact that Old Kulu cared for me so deeply made my heart rise again with an inexplicable feeling of emotion.
When Old Kru held the alloy bow, the magic pattern on the alloy bow simply burst out with a dark green light, and the whole alloy bow seemed to be carved into emerald, and then the whole magic glow disappeared into the magic pattern of the alloy bow. Kurtz was still sitting beside old Kulu without feeling anything, while my eyes were almost blinded by the dazzling green light, and old Kulu was looking at me and asking, "Can you see it?"
I nodded and said, "A very dazzling blue light, when I held this bow, the blue light was not this thick, and when Kuz took this bow, only a little blue light wanted to arc directly in his hand. Teacher, what is this?"
"This is a senior inscriber's magic spell, only inscribers who specialise in weapon inscriptions have the ability to enchant weapons, this is not only a magic weapon, but a magic weapon with attribute requirements, I guess this is a magic weapon that requires mental power to meet the requirements in order to trigger the skill on the magic spell 'speed excitation ', this kind of magic pattern can only be seen on excellent weapons!" With an unbelievable speed as he spoke, Old Kulu put a feathered arrow on the bowstring.
He slowly explained, "This is actually the power of inscriptions, and the power sealed by such conditional magic formations is extraordinarily powerful. Three gold coins will actually be sold for it, it seems that this bow has been sealed in dust for too long."
"In fact, the green light you just saw is the attribute of this bow itself, it is an excellent magic weapon with attributes, although it only has a single attribute and can only reach the excellent level, but it is very rare among low level weapons. Jia, you can feel the green magic glow, it seems that your magic perception is at least no different from that of a real magician." Old Kuru said to me.
What I was concerned about was certainly not the strength of my magic perception, because I found that after every battle, my magic perception increased slightly, and I felt that my current level of keen perception of the magic elements should even exceed that of the fourth level magician, Sister Gogo. Even she couldn't control three balls of the Force in one hand at the same time like I could, her limit was only two balls of the Force moving in a slow, same-track following motion. I asked Old Kuru, "Teacher, the magic weapons you mentioned are also graded, so is this single attribute magic weapon of the lowest grade?"
"That's right, you actually need to know this knowledge after you really become a warrior, since you are asking now, then I might as well tell you two, the difference between ordinary weapons and magical weapons is not the inscriptions engraved on the weapons, but the attributes that the weapons themselves carry, weapons with a single attribute are called excellent class weapons, when the user meets the minimum required conditions for the weapon's attributes When the user meets the minimum requirements for an attribute, the weapon itself will reveal the attribute and fuse it with the user, so the green glow you see is the glow of the attribute weapon itself unsealing itself, also known as a green weapon. Weapons with two to three attributes are called exquisite weapons, and when the user meets the minimum conditions for the use of the weapon's attributes, it glows blue, which we call a blue weapon. Weapons with four to six attributes are called Epic weapons, and when the user meets the minimum requirements for the use of the weapon's attributes, it glows purple, which we call a Purple weapon. A weapon with seven or more attributes is known as a Legendary weapon, and when the user meets the minimum conditions for use of the weapon's attributes, it glows orange, which we call an Orange weapon." Old Kulu spoke slowly, before adding, "Usually these rare attribute weapons only appear in all types of auction houses and large weapon shops, I remember seeing a Green Martial Short Declaration Axe with a single strength attribute sell for 30 gold coins at a large weapon auction in Black Iron City, Stann Kingdom two years ago."
I sat in the tent dumbfounded, thinking to myself: never would I have thought that the first time I shopped in this magical world of magic, I would somehow pick up a bargain. And Kurtz smiled like a child, refusing to take his eyes off the alloy bow any longer.
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