Food Poems

Chapter 11 Snowy Owl: I am self-taught!

It turns out that the equipment-touching session is waiting here!
Yeats rubbed his hands.

Now that things have come to this, I can only accept the result with tears in my eyes.

"Gray, take out that backpack and see if there's anything good inside."

"why me?"

"I'm afraid of ghosts or something like that."

Yeats said seriously.

"I'm scared too!"

Gray sighed and said, "If you get hurt at work, you'll have to pay compensation plus medical expenses according to employment law."

"Got it, go quickly."

Yeats thought, was there such an employment law in the Middle Ages?
It seems a bit urbanized!

Gray walked slowly to the skeleton, pushed away the dirt with her foot, and accidentally kicked the skull more than half a meter away.

Bang, bang, bang.

Gray turned around awkwardly, only to see Fokas's hands tapping on both sides of his shoulder armor, then looking up at the sky.

Yeats muttered to himself.

What a sin, what a sin, Bodhisattva... No, may the holy light bless you.

Gray had a frozen expression on her face. She picked up the dusty bag and trotted back to Yeats.

Snowy Owl glanced at Gray, and his arrogant look seemed to say, I have to take action!

then.

The Snowy Owl dug a hole in the ground with its claws and dug out an oak stick.

The oak cane was coated in a warm, oily sheen and had a concave top with a dusty aquamarine set in it.

"This is actually a magic wand!"

Phokas said in surprise, holding the cane handed to him by Snowy Owl.

"The bird has done a great job." Yeats said happily.

"Gu~" The snowy owl stood on Ye Zhi's shoulder and combed its feathers with its beak.

Owls have sharp eyes, and the Snowy Owl, as an owl with magical talent, has a keen sense of magic.

If it hadn't given the hint, it would have been a lot of hard work to find the relics.

Ye Zhi poked the snowy owl's round head and took the staff from Fokas.

Although he didn't know how to identify the staff, when he opened the panel, a small line of game-like instructions appeared next to the staff.

"Rain Staff, a first-level staff. When using this staff to cast water spells, it will gain a bonus. Enchantment: Water Creation."

According to the setting of "Phantom Wings", magic power does not originate from the wizard's body, but flows through all things in the world, like a huge magic web.

If a wizard wants to call upon magic power, he often needs to use a medium such as a staff.

A staff is expensive.

And this is even an enchanted staff.

Yeats smiled.

I found a good piece of equipment!

The water creation spell that comes with the enchantment is a first-level spell that can create fresh water out of thin air. The charging conditions are also very simple. It can be placed in fresh water such as a river.

This rain staff is useful for cooking or traveling.

It can even be of great use in agricultural irrigation in the territory!
"What else is in the bag?"

Yeats sounded expectant.

"There is also a scroll, a manual, a parchment contract, a colorless crystal and five gold coins."

Fokasi counted them one by one and said, "From the lacquer print on the scroll, the spell recorded on it is..."

"It's actually a second-level spell."

The white-haired old man's hand holding the scroll trembled.

"Second ring, Strong Wind Spell, a wind spell that creates strong wind to drive away poisonous fog, push back enemies, and cause damage!"

"Is it a two-ring scroll?"

Gray's eyes widened: "It can be sold for a lot of gold coins!"

Scrolls have two main uses: one is for one-time casting of spells, and the other is as teaching materials for learning spells.

This scroll, 'Strong Wind Spell', is a spell that Snow Owl can learn, and its combat power is expected to be improved!
But when it comes to spells, no one in the team can teach Snowy Owl.

Plus, this is a second-level spell, and it's extremely difficult to learn.

For the time being, Ye Zhi did not hold out much hope that Snow Owl could master the second-level spells.

The five gold coins in the purse were enough to buy a working ox, which was a huge sum of money picked up.

“The needle doesn’t poke.”

Ye Zhi nodded repeatedly: "As expected of a wizard, he is very wealthy."

"What is the parchment contract? Is it used to summon the undead?" Gray asked.

"It's a piece of parchment that can be used to sign a contract with a monster. The material required is colorless crystal, which I also brought with me in my backpack."

Fokas speculated: "Presumably, this necromancer intended to contract the Flame Sheep, but was harmed by it in return."

"So—"

Gray looked around at Ye Zhi and Snowy Owl and blinked: "Is this the contract that was delivered to my door?"

Taming a magical pet requires a special step called a 'contract', and animal trainers are the best at this.

Currently, the Snowy Owl is still in the wild and is only traveling together temporarily.

But after the magic of the contract, it will officially become Ye Zhi's magical pet.

After these few days of traveling together, Ye Zhi had made up his mind to sign the contract. He took the contract from Fokasse, walked up to the shaking Snow Owl, and said:

"Would you consider signing a contract with me? From now on, I will provide you with food and lodging."

Snow Owl was stunned for a moment, then heard Ye Zhi say:
"If you don't sign, you won't get a share of today's Demon Flame Lamb dinner."

"Gu!" Without thinking, the Snowy Owl placed its paw on the parchment.

The colorless crystal emitted white light, wrapping the entire piece of parchment.

Then, the parchment burned on its own, turned into ashes, and drifted away in the wind.

Yeats felt a vague connection with the snowy owl.

Communicating with each other and giving instructions becomes easier.

Ye Zhi gave a look, and saw a snowy owl flying over, landing on his outstretched arm, with its head held high.

In this situation, Yeats smiled and couldn't help but think of a classic line.

Snowy Owl, conquered!

The goal is to become the world's number one magic pet training master!
Uh...it seems that there is no such title in this world.

Whatever.

In this world between humans and monsters, eating and being eaten coexist.

As long as you are not eaten, you succeed!
As he was so excited, Ye Zhi's middle school feeling burst out and he said loudly:

"Gray, what is our goal?"

"Hunting ancient dragons!" Gray said excitedly.

Ye Zhi's heart was extinguished, and he said expressionlessly: "Just pretend I didn't ask, and don't mention hunting ancient dragons anymore."

"why?"

"What's the difference between that and seeking death?"

There was a manual left in the necromancer's legacy. Yeats thought he could inherit the mantle like the protagonist of the novel, so he opened the cover with full of anticipation.

After reading two pages, Yeats's expression gradually became strange.

Because necromancers often need corpses for research, embalming and preservation techniques are very important to them.

This manual records a meat-curing technique invented by the Necromancer, and even a fermentation method using mold, which can greatly extend the shelf life of food.

Yeats closed the manual silently.

I thought it was a secret book.

It turns out to be a production guide...

late at night.

After the first half of the night of hunting the Flame Sheep, everyone was exhausted.

Yeats told Fokkas and Gray to go to bed, and he and Snowy Owl stayed up all night.

Gray got straight into her sleeping bag and fell asleep; Phokas was so moved that he burst into tears, and after much persuasion from Yeats, he finally leaned against the carriage and fell asleep with his clothes on.

The bonfire was burning, and Yeats held a teacup in his hand, relying on hot black tea to sustain his life.

Beside me, a snowy owl stared with its bright yellow eyes, turning its head 270 degrees from time to time.

"You are really energetic." Ye Zhi held his cheek and said lazily, "Why don't you open the scroll and study it? How much you can learn depends on fate."

After the contract, the snowy owl was able to understand complex commands. It flapped its wings, came to the backpack, and took out the scroll inside.

The snowy owl pecked open the seams of the scroll with its beak, smoothed it out with its claws, and stared at the magic words on the scroll with a serious expression.

Ye Zhi brought a cup of refreshing lemon tea and placed it next to the snowy owl.

Then, there is the bizarre scene of the Snowy Owl taking a sip of tea and glancing at the scroll.

Ye Zhi: “…”

I seemed to be dazzled, and thought of the emoticon of a snowy owl wearing glasses and reading a newspaper!
The condition for using the scroll is, first of all, to understand the words on it.

Yeats' magical talent has basically said goodbye to reading scrolls.

Although the Snow Owl has a certain foundation in magic, it is only one link after all.

Ye Zhi estimated that it would take at least two to three months to learn the second ring strong wind technique...

The next day, early in the morning.

At daybreak, Ye Zhi glanced at the little fellow beside him and found that its attention was still focused on the scroll.

"You studied all night."

Ye Zhi smiled and said, "Don't worry. After all, learning magic doesn't just depend on staying up late..."

The words have not yet fallen.

The Snowy Owl's eyes sharpened.

call!
The strong wind from their wings blew out the campfire and shook the forest, causing the trees to sway in the wind.

The silver-haired boy's hair was blown by the wind and he stood there in a daze.

Immediately, Ye Zhi opened the panel and looked at the information of the Snow Owl in the Magic Pet column.

In the list of spells mastered, there is a new second-level spell!

Ye Zhi's voice trembled and he said in shock:

"Strong Wind Technique, have you learned it?"

"Goo!"

The Snowy Owl tilted its head.

I had nothing to do at night, so I kept staring at the scroll, and I learned it by dawn...

Yeats understood the meaning of the snowy owl's cry and was moved.

Got it. I'll give you more spell scrolls in the future so you can learn on your own!

(End of this chapter)