The fragrance of pine trees mixed with the fragrance of dew broke into Enleco's nose. This faint fragrance woke him up after a long sleep.
Enleco, who had regained consciousness slightly, felt weak all over, and even his senses seemed to have left him. The numbness of his body was also accompanied by the slowness of his brain.
After a while, Enleco discovered that he was lying on a stretcher made of pine branches, and one end of the stretcher was dragged by something unknown.
Because there are thick pine branches underneath, the stretcher glides on this rugged mountain road without appearing bumpy.
Enleco didn't even have the strength to raise his head, he could only stare blankly at the sky.
The sun that had just risen covered the earth with a light golden red. There were rolling mountains on both sides. They were obviously walking in a valley.
Completely different from the desert, everywhere here is full of life. Even on the edge of the cliff, there are lush pine trees.
The morning dew has not yet evaporated, and the sunlight shines on the pine branches, like crystals and bright jewels hanging there.
The wind in the mountains is extremely cool and carries plenty of moisture. Although it is a bit humid, it can make people feel refreshed.
The wind in the mountains carries bursts of fragrance. The depression between the peaks is like a steamer, mixing the freshness of the trees and the freshness of the grass with the vitality of the rain and dew, turning it into a refreshing fragrance that passes through the waves.
The breeze carries the breeze to far, far away places.
Enleco hadn't enjoyed all this for a long time. He breathed greedily, letting the faint fragrance fill his lungs.
This feeling was extremely comfortable, and Enleco breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ah, you're awake, you're finally awake." A rough voice suddenly came from the front.
Enleco felt the other end of the stretcher being lowered, and then, a dark cloud blocked most of the sky. After Enleco slightly adapted to the change in light, he realized that the dark cloud belonged to a person.
figure.
What surprised Enleco was that this man was so tall that even the great wizard Kobe Leo would look like a dwarf standing here.
"You've been lying down for four days and nights since I picked you up. Do you want to eat something? There are dried seed cakes and bacon here," the man said.
After a long period of coma, Enleco did not feel hungry. His stomach had already dried up and could not secrete any gastric juice.
He licked his chapped lips and said as loudly as possible: "Is there any water? I want to drink some water."
"Drink water? Okay." As he said that, the rough man took out a clay pot from his waist. He put the pot to Enleco's mouth.
This guy obviously had never served a patient before. He kept pouring it so hard that Enleco almost fainted again due to difficulty in breathing.
Looking at Enleco who was coughing violently, the big man shook his head and said: "Your bodies are really too fragile, but God has given you the most powerful power."
After hearing the big man's clueless words, Enleco looked at the big man carefully.
I saw that the big man was wrapped in a thick layer of beast fur, and also covered with a rough breastplate made of rhinoceros skin and rotten iron skin, and a wolfskin apron around his waist. On his feet
No shoes were worn, just simply wrapped in deerskin and tied tightly with cowhide strips.
The big man's skin was dark brown, as rough as the fur of a beast, and his hair was unkempt, curly and disheveled. He had high cheekbones, a slightly protruding lower jaw, and a low forehead.
All of this proves the identity of the big man in front of him.
Although Enleco has long heard that there is a unique human race hidden among the mountains of the Kingdom of Leiding. From ancient times, they gave up civilization and progress and chose to live in isolation.
.
These people are called barbarians.
Enleco had heard about barbarians at Teacher Chris's place.
In fact, the crazy woman even considered capturing some barbarians to use as her experimental subjects.
Because the bodies of barbarians possess extremely powerful strength, they are isolated from the world and have not really given up on progress, but have chosen another path of progress.
Nearly ten thousand years have made them the most powerful creatures besides demonic creatures.
While giving up magic civilization, they turned their bodies into the most terrifying and deadly weapons.
Barbarians possess a special power, which is somewhat similar to the sacred magic "Light of Power" cast by the War God Priest, and somewhat similar to the "Rage Spell" cast by the spiritual magician.
The barbarian's violent blow was such that not even the paladin dared to resist it head-on.
Legend has it that the rite of passage for barbarians is to hunt a dragon alone.
However, savages are extremely rare. They live in inaccessible places. It is even rarer for savages to come into contact with human society.
However, once they appeared, they were extremely popular with the locals. Because these barbarians would exchange large amounts of dragon bones, ivory, gold and silver for much cheaper goods.
Everyone who does business with the barbarians will become one of the few wealthy people in the area.
However, no one would ever intend to rob a barbarian.
Unless a magician is invited to take charge, the enraged barbarians can easily bloodbath the entire city.
But magicians are definitely not so easy to invite. They are special people who are above the others. What's more, they will not take action just to rob the barbarians.
The friendship between magicians and barbarians in the Kingdom of Leiding is much deeper than that of ordinary people.
Because magicians conduct magic experiments, they need a large amount of precious mineral deposits. Most of these precious mineral deposits are buried in inaccessible mountains, which are the homes of barbarians.
Meeting one or two barbarian friends is a shortcut for these magicians to obtain precious magic raw materials.
Enleco stared at the barbarian blankly, and after a while he asked: "Did you save me?"
Although he knew that this question was stupid, Enleco could not think of anything else that would be more appropriate to say at this moment.
"Yes, I picked you up on the way and saw that you were bleeding a lot. You were lucky. You were covered in blood and didn't attract the wolf. Otherwise, when I saw you, you would have been nothing but blood.
It’s a skeleton.” The barbarian said with a grin.
"Where am I now?" Enleco asked.
"In the mountains, there are mountains all around. You should be able to tell. If you want to ask about the name of the place you divided, I can't tell you. But I am about to take you to the town ahead. In three days
, you can stay with the same people as you." the barbarian replied.
Enleco looked at the barbarian in front of him in surprise.
This barbarian speaks so fluently. Although his accent is a bit stiff, his speech does not appear to be stuttering, nor does it feel like the pauses are not smooth.
"Why did you go to the town? Are you carrying goods?" Enleco asked, but he did not see piles of ivory and leather bags containing gold sand and silver nuggets.
"The goods have almost been sold in the previous town, and the food exchanged should be enough for our tribe for three years. In that town, I heard that a grand ceremony is being held in your capital, as if you are preparing for war. Yes.
Many highly skilled people are gathered there, and I want to see how powerful the highly skilled among you are." The barbarian explained.
"Do you know the road?" Enleco asked in confusion.
"I don't know you, but just ask along the way. Anyway, I still have some gold with me. Don't you like these things the most?" said the barbarian.
Enleco suddenly remembered something and asked: "Are you the leader of your tribe? How should I call you?"
"Chief? I used to be the leader. However, since I am no longer in the tribe, someone else will take my place as leader. My name is Langya. If you think this name is not easy to accept, you can call me Maklu
.This is the name given to me by someone who knows me well." The barbarian said.
"Maclu? Forest Wolf? That friend of yours is a magician?" Enleco asked. He was very familiar with the name Maclu. It reminded him of the rogue old wolf he met in the magic forest.
.
This guy's scientific name is Maclu. However, this name is only mentioned more often among magicians. Ordinary people call them magic wolves or three-headed magic wolves.
"Yes, that guy is indeed a magician. And I heard that he has a very high status among you." Barbarian Maclu said as he took out dry food from his arms and started chewing it.
"You are also a strong man." The barbarian asked.
Enleco was stunned. He didn't know how this barbarian could see this.
"Why did you say that?" Enleco did not answer the question directly, he asked instead.
"Don't you carry a knife with you? I have never seen such a powerful knife. If you are not a strong man, how could you have it?" Barbarian Maclu explained.
Only then did Enleco realize that the "dark red teardrop" was lying next to him, but now this strange scimitar had an extremely rough sheath.
There is a rope attached to the scabbard, tightly tying the scimitar and the stretcher together.
"Where did this come from? I have never seen such a beautiful stone. Seeing it is like seeing the starry sky at night." Just as Enleco struggled to reach for the scimitar,
He heard the barbarian Maclu talking as if to himself.
Turning his head, Enleco was shocked to find that the astrolabe he had carefully crafted was in Maclu's hand.
Maklu made a net with straw rope to cover the astrolabe, and tied a leather rope to it.
Judging from the appearance of the barbarian, it was obvious that he liked this dark green jade bead dotted with streaks of gold threads and a little bit of gold stars.
"Mr. Macru, can you return that thing to me? It is very important to me, but it is just a decoration for you. I can use other things to repay your life-saving grace." Enleco
begged.
The barbarian curled his lips and said disapprovingly: "I like this thing very much. I won't care about anything else you give me. Among our tribe, since I saved you, then everything you have will be yours."
It should belong to me. I left that knife to you as a brave man, and we will not take away a brave man’s weapon. Because it means the dignity of a brave man, but all other things are at my disposal."
Enleco did not intend to refute Marklu's argument. Ever since he saw how the Kaoqi people proposed marriage, Enleco already knew how much influence tradition has on a person.
As long as it has something to do with tradition, it's hard to convince anyone.
Reasoning doesn't work, there is only inducement, but Enleco obviously doesn't know what this barbarian likes.
"Mr. Macru, maybe I can use other methods to compensate you for saving my life. You just said that a brave man cannot be deprived of his weapon. In fact, that thing is really my weapon. It has a powerful
Strength, if I lose it, I will not be able to regain it." Enleko said with a long sigh.
"Weapon? I can't see it. You can show it to me after your injury is healed. If this is indeed your weapon, I will return it to you. But before that, I will keep this stone for the time being."
Then the barbarian thrust the astrolabe into his arms.
Enleco suddenly thought that besides the astrolabe, he had several important things, among which the sealed soul ring was particularly important.
Ever since this soul ring was unearthed on the prairie of Stryer County, it has become Enleco's indispensable assistant.
Enleco touched his pocket with difficulty, but it was empty, with nothing in it.
He shook his head and asked helplessly: "Mr. Macru, I have another weapon, a ring. I don't know if it is with you."
"Ring?" The barbarian thought for a moment and said, "Is it the thing you wear on your finger? If that's what you're talking about, you don't have to look for it anymore. I've already sold it in the town ahead.
." .
Seeing the barbarian's nonchalant look, Enleco felt angry and funny. Such a powerful magic weapon was sold by this ignorant guy casually.
The person who took the soul ring must also be an ignorant guy.
Enleco felt that he had no choice but to take good care of his health as soon as possible.
He couldn't be more familiar with that soul ring.
As long as the magic power is restored, and with his understanding of the soul ring, Enleco is absolutely confident that he can retrieve the soul ring.
Just as a precaution, he placed tracking magic on his soul ring.
As long as you go to the more prosperous city ahead and buy an emerald with a slightly better texture, you can make a "reasonable heart".
Using the "rational heart", one can easily find the magic fluctuations emanating from the soul ring.
However, all of this can only be done after your body has fully recovered.
"Mr. Macru, can you give me some food?" After waking up for a while, Enleco felt a little hungry.
The barbarian threw a leather bag on Enleco.
Enleco struggled to take out a handful of kneaded dry seed cake from the leather bag. This can be said to be the most unpalatable food Enleco has ever eaten.
There is no salt in the dry seed cake, and there is a bitter taste after being burnt.
Enleco frowned, and after finally swallowing two mouthfuls, he couldn't eat anymore.
The barbarian looked at Enleco's painful look, shook his head and said, "You guys are too delicate. If you were in my tribe, I'm afraid you wouldn't survive even a day."
Enleco was really speechless, so he had to change the topic: "Mr. Macru, do you often interact with people here? I originally thought that you rarely have contact with others."
"That's not necessarily the case. You have a lot of food, which we want very much. And we have a lot of gold. I know you like these things that you can neither eat nor drink. As long as you have a little gold, you can get
There is a lot of food in exchange for it. Why not socialize with you?
"What's more, there are our natural enemies in the mountains, those hateful goblins. They are our nemesis. We have nothing to do against them. But the magicians among you can make these goblins dare not act rashly. But these goblins also
They can prevent people who chop wood and mine gold from entering our forests. Isn't this great?" Barbarian Maklu said with a grin.
Enleco never expected that the barbarian in front of him had such superb knowledge. Originally, like most people, he thought that these barbarians lived by instinct with well-developed limbs and were closer to beast-like existences.
"Elf? You mean the elf." Enleco heard another thing that interested him from Maclu's mouth, and he immediately asked.
"Fairy? Elf? I can't tell. In my opinion, they are exactly the same. It's just that one has a fixed territory, and as long as you don't mess with them, nothing will happen to you; while the other kind can be encountered at any time. At that time
There will be great trouble." The barbarian Macru waved his hand and shook his head. Apparently these two races had troubled him quite a lot.
"I thought that since the war between gods and demons, the goblins have completely disappeared, but I didn't expect that they are still not extinct." Enleco's temper was immediately raised.
"I really want to see these nasty guys become extinct as soon as possible. They are countless times more troublesome than elves. Two or three people of my tribe disappear every year. This is what those goblins do.
"As for the elves, except for the dry season, when we and they sometimes fight over water sources, we usually get along well." Although he said this, the barbarian obviously didn't have a good impression of these two races.
"Do the fairies feed on humans?" Enleco asked curiously. Although he had read a lot of information on magical creatures in Teacher Chris's laboratory, there were always very few descriptions of fairies in those materials.
few.
These evil creatures who sided with the demons in the war between gods and demons always walked alone, even among the same kind, they never traveled together.
Among the demonic creatures on the demon side, goblins are the most abhorrent life forms after the vampires. They have the ability to capture and manipulate other creatures.
Enleco's knowledge of elves is limited to this. But what he knows about elves is much more complete.
Compared with goblins, elves have much more contact with humans.
Although most elves do not like to interact with people, some of them live in the mountains and forests close to humans.
Elves are natural magicians of the four elements. They have the power to manipulate magical elements from the moment they are born. However, compared with human magicians, although elves have talents, they lack the ability to create.
Their interactions with humans make up for their shortcomings in this area.
Human magicians also use these elves who can manipulate magic elements extremely finely to conduct some magic experiments that they cannot do.
There are also elves in the Kingdom of Sophie. Their original destination for the magic apprentice trial and test, Kechen Island, was where many elves lived.
Similarly, Kechen Island is also the center of the magical culture of the Kingdom of Sophie.
Enleco even heard that some elves and humans love each other so much that they get married. Such a union can also have offspring.
When Chris, a crazy woman, was exiled to the Magic Forest, one of her major crimes was that she deceived a child born between an elf and a human to conduct magic experiments.
This incident caused such a big fuss that the elves living on Kechen Island almost had a war with the human magicians.
The Magic Association took the opportunity to once and for all kick Chris, the greatest threat and most unstable factor in history, deep into the desolate magical forest.
This kind of exile finally calmed down the anger of the elves.
After all, for the relatively gentle elves, exile is already the most severe punishment. In the world of elves, there is no physical punishment.
Enleco admired these elegant creatures, and he wanted to see these magical races with his own eyes one day.
Of course, in front of those elves, Enleco would never say that he was a disciple of Teacher Chris. In Teacher Chris's laboratory, when Teacher Chris knew that he was a disciple of Victor, he gave him
Enleco still remembers the pain he experienced.
He definitely doesn't want to go on another journey to the devil world.
Regarding Enleco's question, the barbarian Maclu shook his head helplessly. Even for them, goblins are mysterious creatures.
"Maybe it's just blood-sucking. Sometimes we find abandoned corpses of missing persons. Their corpses have all become extremely old. In addition to being covered with white hair, they are even more skinny. But we have never seen any mutilated corpses.
"Maklu said while thinking.
"Have you ever seen a goblin before?" Enleco asked again. He really wanted to see this legendary extinct creature. Of course, that was only after his body recovered.
As long as he has the astrolabe, Enleco is confident that he can retreat unscathed from any enemy.
"No, that's why I can live to this day. Moreover, this time when I go to your capital, in addition to seeing how powerful the strong among you are, I also want to ask my friend how many chains he wants.
.In recent days, for some unknown reason, the fairies suddenly became active. We and several nearby tribes have had members disappear one after another, and even members of the elves have disappeared. This is almost impossible in normal times, and fairies never
Take the initiative to attack the territory of the elves." The barbarian Macru told what happened in the mountains in detail.
"This is really interesting. I really want to meet these legendary fairies." Enleco said what was in his heart.
Macru glanced at Enleco, and suddenly grabbed Enleco with his huge hands, turned him around and examined him carefully for a while, and then said in a rough voice: "I can't see how much power you have.
Your arms are not strong enough, and even among you humans, you are relatively thin. Unless your power comes from magic, but except for my friend, other magicians I have seen do not.
Dare to provoke those goblins."
Having said this, he seemed to want to understand something and threw Enleco back into the stretcher, shook his head and said: "I can see that you are quite young among you humans, so you would say this."
Well, at your age I already have three children."
"Then how many children do you have now?" Enleco didn't care about Maclu's rudeness, otherwise how could these guys be called barbarians? His interest was completely in something completely unrelated to his current situation.
on things.
Macru grinned extremely proudly and said, "I now have five sons and seven daughters."
Hearing this answer, Enleco was secretly stunned. Although he could not tell how old the barbarian in front of him was, the number was enough to surprise him.
"So how many people are there in your tribe?" Enleco couldn't help but ask.
"Two or three hundred." Macru frowned and thought for a while, then replied uncertainly: "I don't know how to count. Others will be responsible for this matter."
Enleco estimated that the size of a town of two to three hundred people was not small, and the population of his hometown Severna was less than one thousand.
"Are other tribes like you?" Enleco asked.
"Absolutely, who knows? We will never go to other tribes if we have nothing to do. If it weren't for those annoying goblins, I wouldn't go all the way to such a far place." Maklu said.
"How far away is the town ahead from here?" Enleco asked.
"We'll probably be there at noon the day after tomorrow." Macru replied vaguely, obviously he wasn't very good at anything related to numbers.
Seeing this guy looking like this, Enleco couldn't help but become worried.
Although I don't know which city he is talking about, I can be sure that this guy must have been defrauded of all the gold before he got there.
"By the way, when we go to the city and find a bald man wearing red clothes, it would be great if we could also learn this skill. Those bald heads can restore patients to health with just a touch of their hands." Maclu said helplessly.
"Apart from those bald heads, the other thing we envy is the magicians among you. If you have magicians, we don't have to worry about those nasty fairies, and we don't have to look at the elves' eyes. Every year, it's the dry season.
, most of the water sources are controlled by them. They don't think it's enough, and they come to steal it from us." At this point, Maclu gradually couldn't restrain his emotions, and the more he talked, the more excited he became.
Enleco began to be a little afraid that Chi Yu would be harmed. He didn't want to be punched by the extremely strong barbarian in front of him because of such an inexplicable thing.
That would definitely cost him his life.
However, what Macru just said made his heart move.
I think back then, he was an ordinary person who was not suitable for learning magic. It was once his biggest wish to allow most people to use magic.
When he was in Chengdaville, he tried hard. It was precisely because of this that magic mercenaries appeared.
In a sense, I have gained a little.
Since it has been proven that relying on the help of the magic circle can indeed enable ordinary people with better qualifications to learn magic in a short period of time, it may be equally useful for barbarians.
The only thing that worries Enleco is whether Macru can understand what he means.
Although Macru was not as stupid as a beast like the barbarians he originally imagined, his intelligence was not inferior to ordinary people in Enleco's opinion.
However, Macru's lack of understanding of numbers makes Enleco uncertain whether this guy will also be lacking in other aspects.
Magic can be said to be an extremely mysterious knowledge.
It is very likely that this barbarian cannot understand the mystery of magic at all. It may not be an easy task to explain it clearly.
Just when Enleco was hesitating, Most, a guy who was unwilling to be lonely, quietly emerged from the depths of Enleco's soul.
"This big guy is quite strong. You can consider using him to conduct some experiments. Such experiments are not easy to find." Most said quietly in Enleco's mind.
When Most said this, Enleco was indeed quite moved, but he was still worried about whether he could make this barbarian understand the profound magic.
Most, who knew what Enleco was thinking, immediately said: "No need to worry anymore, I know how to teach this big guy to use magic.
"Don't forget, you were no different from this guy tens of thousands of years ago, and were even more stupid and clumsy than him. But after our training, you can slowly understand the mystery of magic.
"In fact, what you are learning now is just the method that is most suitable for most magicians to learn and master magic discovered after a long period of exploration. It is not the essence of magic.
"Magic is very simple to put it bluntly. It is just using mental power to control the magical energy and magical elements of the outside world. You can also do this by using other methods.
"You would never think that newly born elves and magical creatures have more advanced wisdom than you. The natural tattoos on the elves and the magic core buried in the brains of the magical creatures play the same role as the magic circle.
.But you will definitely not see any similarities between the two. The natural tattoos of elves can not only quickly gather magical energy and elements, but also finely control all of them. As for the magic core, it can gather extremely high concentrations.
High magical energy and magical elements.
"You can't make this big guy understand the magic you know, and that will most likely be completely useless. However, you can try to find magic that this big guy can understand. By that time, you must really understand magic.
What is it?"
Although Enleco still found it difficult to understand everything Most said, he seemed to have seen a completely different world.
This world is a strange world that he has never seen or heard of before.
The only thing that bothered Enleco was that in this world, he was the only one wandering alone in the vast ocean.
He didn't know where the land was, and Most was the only sign to identify the direction.
However, according to Enleco's understanding of Most, this erudite dark life form would never point him in the right direction straightforwardly.
Enleco was quite happy to have the opportunity to explore the true meaning of magic. He was now more and more able to understand the mood of Teacher Chris at the time. Of course, Enleco was still worried about Chris's vicious methods.
"Maclu, I can try to teach you how to use magic." With Most's support, Enleco spoke more confidently.
"Magic? Are you a magician?" Maclu glanced at Enleco with distrustful eyes and said: "Most of the magicians I have seen are guys with white beards, and those without beards
Magicians are extremely weak, but even the weakest among them is much older than you."
Enleco can completely understand Marklu's disdain. In the magical world, under normal circumstances, strength is indeed directly proportional to age.
However, there are occasionally some exceptions, and he, Kate and Bertina, and even Teacher Chris are the exceptions among the exceptions.
Kate and Bertina's strength was created by their painful experiences and Teacher Chris's inhumane training methods.
As for me, it was because Most, a monster full of wisdom, was secretly helping me.
Although Enleco didn't know why Teacher Chris was so powerful, he absolutely believed that Teacher Chris used extraordinary methods in order to obtain such powerful power.
Enleco tried his best to convince the barbarian in front of him to become his experimental subject.
In the next hour or so, Enleco finally learned the stubbornness and stubbornness of the barbarians.
After talking for a long time, the barbarian Maclu finally agreed to wait until Enleco recovered from his injury and demonstrate his power to Maclu.
After receiving the promise, Enleco lay down on the stretcher contentedly. Now he is only thinking about how to recover as soon as possible...