"Marakanda, a northern town in the Tocharian Empire, is an important stop from the Great Gobi to the Golden City,"
"Where do you come from and where are you going?"
"Same as you, Mr. Jonah, I came from the Great Gobi to go to Bactria, but I was arrested by the herdsmen of Malakanda,"
"It really hurts to hit someone with that big barrel..."
"It hurts like hell,"
The two men in the small stone house looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Jonah spent a while with his new roommate, and he already fell in love with this oriental man who was always smiling. "Am I..." The astrologer apprentice suddenly thought of something. , the man named Asai completed the second half of the question for him: "You have eaten the food that belongs to me and drank the soup that belongs to me. Don't worry, they have already given me food before. Then you Still in a coma,"
"Oh," Jonah patted his heart reassuringly and looked up at the starry sky outside the small window. "Has Arcturus risen so high? It's almost midnight now. I've been unconscious for so long."
Asai took out a tattered steam mechanical pocket watch from his pocket, pressed the spring, and the small steam puppet engine emitted white smoke, creaked and turned the spring, and the two hands on the pocket watch passed by for a while. After a chaotic jitter, it slowly pointed to the correct time: eleven fifty-seven. The Easterner looked at the boy in the room with surprise: "It's so accurate, how did you do it?"
"The stars know everything," Jonah sighed, "Asai, can you tell them if they can let us out tomorrow? I must get to the Golden City before May 15th, where my friends are waiting for me."
Asai put the broken pocket watch back into his pocket, and was burned by the steam on the watch. "Ouch" he quickly pinched his earlobe with his fingers, "It's so hot, so hot... You'll have no problem wearing that badge. The Tocharians are right." The members of the five major guilds are very respectful. By the way... can you take me out? I can't beat them... The uncle with the bucket is very powerful..."
"Of course, of course," he agreed, while Yona looked at his new companion doubtfully. His figure and sword should have some fighting ability. There is no reason that he is so weak that he can't even defeat a herdsman. Even though the flying bucket It is indeed both accurate and powerful, leaving the astrologer's apprentice with lingering fears.
While the two were chatting, a green light lit up in Jonah's deerskin bag, and the Moonlight Elf rushed out, circling around in the room, shouting: "What happened to the big stupid beast, what happened to the big stupid beast, what happened to the big stupid beast?" What happened to the big stupid beast?"
"It...went to heaven," Jonah replied in a low voice.
Xiaoguai suddenly hovered in the air, and then slowly landed on the human's shoulder, lowering his head lonely: "Although I have guessed it a long time ago, it is still a bit... He is a very cute big guy... Wait, who are you? ," the green-haired elf opened his sapphire blue eyes and stared blankly at the other man in the room. There was fear, wariness, and deep doubt in his eyes.
"Oh, little darling, his name is Asai. He is a traveler from the east. He is a very easy to get along with." The astrologer apprentice introduced, "Asai, she is little darling, the moonlight elf who signed a contract with me. Because For some reason... I can only go out and exercise for five minutes a day,"
"Nice to meet you, the legendary magical elf lady," the Easterner smiled and nodded.
"Asai," the little boy muttered, holding Jonah's chin with both hands and turning his face away, so that the astrologer apprentice could hear a miserable cracking sound coming from his neck: "Hey, hey, Don't make random friends while I'm sleeping. A weak guy like you needs to protect yourself. If you die, I'll be finished, you bastard."
Asai showed a harmless and gentle expression: "Don't worry, Miss Magic Elf, Jonah and I have become friends, and we get along very well."
The moonlight elf looked at him suspiciously, as if he was a little undecided, "Don't bully my idiot Jonah, do you hear me, or else..." She bent her little arms, showing off her almost negligible hips. Head muscles.
The Easterner laughed loudly and nodded repeatedly: "I promise, I promise, no one is stupid enough to make a magic elf angry, especially a weak guy like me. By the way, it's a new day now, right?"
After getting Jonah's affirmative answer, Asai waved his hand to everyone to get out of the way, "Yona and Xiaoguai move to the corner...Okay, thank you, I want to test how much strength has been restored,"
"What does recovery mean?" the elf asked doubtfully.
The Eastern man turned to the wall made of bluestone, assumed the posture of drawing his sword, and stood in a simple side step. Jonah could feel that the muscles, tendons and blood of his whole body were gradually adjusting to the best posture, and his body was full of energy. There is some mysterious sense of coordination, but no energy fluctuations can be felt.
"brush,"
A bright red sword light illuminated the hut, and then dimmed again. "Qiang," the dagger returned to its scabbard. Jonah was unable to see clearly the true shape of the blade. Asai stood quietly in front of the wall. The braids fell gently back onto his shoulders, and he maintained a relaxed but powerful stance without speaking.
Xiaoguai stretched her neck to look curiously, and then couldn't help but fly to the wall and circle around, "Tch, I thought you were so good, you rookie," she snorted from her nostrils with disdain after seeing the results of the sword test. Take a breath.
The Oriental man turned around and stuck out his tongue: "Now I can only go so far with my best efforts. If it weren't for the gift of Taotie, I wouldn't be able to break through the stone wall."
Jonah walked over and took a look. The sword he just struck left a faint white mark on the wall. The sword mark penetrated into the rock about half an inch, and the edges were covered with burrs, showing the swordsman's lack of strength. "What is Taotie? The name of the sword?" He stretched out his hand to touch the mark, then turned around and asked.
"That's right," Asai spread his hands: "It's my treasured weapon with a very strong temper. Now I can't mobilize its enthusiasm at all. Just because of this weak attack just now, this guy is still here. You are having trouble with me,"
"Are weapons also conscious?" This statement was quite new. The astrologer apprentice stared at the short sword curiously. The scabbard was made of dark green leather, and the hilt was wrapped with a plain black cloth strip. There was no special decoration. .
The Oriental narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Of course, the best weapons have their own souls. My Taotie is a bad-tempered and greedy guy. Yesterday, it was because it was so hungry that I wanted to stab the cow. I took some blood out of the skin, but I didn't expect that this guy was too excited and stabbed the innocent cow to death... On the way to escape, unfortunately we met the herdsman uncle holding a bucket, so we were caught."
This was the first time that Jonah saw this guy who was so calm even though he was so weak. He couldn't help but look at the staff in his hand, "You mean, if, just if, this staff of mine is also very..." Even powerful weapons also have their own souls,"
"Nonsense," the moonlight elf interjected, "you are an extremely slow fool,"
Asai smiled at Xiaoguai, "Not everyone can communicate with the spirit of weapons. It requires getting along with each other for a long time and having the strength to be recognized by the spirit of weapons. In the East, there are nine such weapons in total. They are all named after the sons of dragons. My 'Taotie' is ranked fifth, and by the way, the second-ranked 'Chi Kiss' is in the hands of a woman. She is quite powerful. You must not underestimate women."
The astrologer's apprentice didn't pay attention to the second half of the Easterner's words, but stared blankly at the staff Shiela Pina. If the seals of the gods also have their own souls, wouldn't it be possible to communicate directly with the main god Shiela through the artifact? Can the first-generation mentor listen to the instructions of the Lord God when he possesses the seven artifacts?
The magic elf frowned: "We have to wait until my idiot Jonah is strong enough to conquer this staff, which will probably lead to the end of the world..."
"By the way," Jonah came back to his senses and suddenly remembered the strange thing he picked up when he was sacrificed in the Ghost Bahamas, and took out the crimson flake from the bag, "Look at what this is. "
Xiaoguai flew over, picked up the shiny flakes that were neither gold nor jade, sat on Yona's shoulder and looked at them: "I didn't see them yesterday. Did the big stupid beast leave them to you?"
The astrologer apprentice nodded: "Yes, it disappeared in the explosion, and then this piece fell down and was embedded in the rock. I think it is a piece of dragon scale. Do you think it looks like it?"
"I don't know," the Moonlight Elf turned over to study, "I have never seen anything like this. If it is a dragon scale, there is no reason for it to grow into this shape."
"Is that okay?" The Orientalist politely extended his right hand, and Xiaoguai hugged the thin film tightly: "What are you doing?"
"It's okay, let him see, my dear, Asai knows a lot," Yona quickly came to the rescue.
"Just take a look at it. Return it to me after you finish it. This kind of shiny thing is not something rough people like you can appreciate..." The moonlight elf reluctantly put the thing in Asai's hand.
The Easterner took back his right hand with a smile, observed it under the starlight, and touched the surface of the sheet with his fingers: "This is not a dragon scale. Dragon scales are opaque and have natural lines on the surface, and they cannot be so small: the most compact The dragon scales are also two feet square and in the shape of a rhombus or a fan." He thought for a while and then said uncertainly: "If you ask me, this shape is a bit like the sacred symbol of Oli, the god of agriculture, one of the main gods of the Eastern Continent. Olly’s logo is half a circle, in other words it’s the shape of an arch bridge, do you think it looks like it?”
Jonah took the thin slice and took a look at it, "It does look a bit like it. So what is this? The emblem of the main god Ollie that fell from a dragon."
Xiao Guai shouted: "Yes, yes, the father of the big stupid beast was originally the giant dragon from the East. Maybe it was something the black dragon brought from the east at that time,"
Before he finished speaking, there was a sudden "dong dong dong" knock on the door. "What's the noise going on inside?" a rough voice shouted in the common language of Nandalu,