Hey, King!

2021-08-21

Chapter 208 Chapter 208 How to judge fat and thin
"You are afraid of water." In the sleigh, covering his mouth and giggling.

Dagon pats the dog on the head and makes it crouch so he can check that the ropes that pull the cart are secure. The two crossed the glacier with a "sleeping bag sail" and came to the other side, and it was time to use a dog sled again.

Dagon kept his eyes closed the entire time while crossing the glacier, clutching the carriage with both hands, obviously very nervous. And if it wasn't for Shiloai, he might be trapped on the river, blown around by the wind, and couldn't get through at all. "I can't swim, I was submerged in ice water, I almost drowned and froze to death, so it's normal to be afraid." Dagon said: "A strong Jiangu clansman can't float in the water, it's elemental restraint. "

"That's because you don't know how to swim!" Shiloai said, "Jiangu clansman can float, as long as you don't move around. I was doing a winter internship at Canine Fortress one year, and I saw a The catapult and the heavy crossbow of the city defense shattered the ice, and the Jiangu warrior fell, but he floated and followed the water all the way down, and was killed by the crossbow."

"Maybe his feet touched the bottom of the river."

"Hahaha, it's not." Shiloai said, "I read an article that studied whether Jiangu clansman could swim, and it said This is what it says: When Jiangu clansman falls into the water, as long as his arms are completely underwater, then the Jiangu people can float their heads on the water. You are very heavy, and the weight below your neck is heavy, but you can still float naturally. It's just that you like to wear metal Heavy armor, that float does not raise."

"Can float?" Dagon was dubious. If he can float on the water, that would be very good news for the Jiangu family, but he must not be able to experiment now. "I'll go back and pick up a big bucket of water to try..."

"I can find a lake for you, you'll be in charge of jumping, and I'll be in charge of catching it." Shiroai chuckled, making it seem like she wanted to see it more joke. "Dagon, it's not good for me to catch you all the time. Why don't you learn the Water Element spell with me? You only need a simple incantation to get the ability to float, at least you're not afraid of falling into the water."

"Then I definitely want to Learn!"

"Come on, let's practice energy transfer skills first. From earth to gold, gold to water, two levels of energy transfer will do."

Dagon covered his head, Slowly nodded.

The spell isn't that easy to learn, and Dagon is in the worst break-in stage. For the unseen and untouchable spell energy in his body, he had to reverse some physical habits, develop new neural response patterns, and forcefully memorize and apply spell techniques.

This is a lot like when Dagon first started learning the martial skill. He remembered very clearly that when he got a stick, his first reaction was to knock it from the top down, using as much force as possible, feeling that it would be more powerful and stronger. But Tormund told him:
"You are afraid of this weapon, even if it is just an ordinary stick, no point, no blade, no hook. Because you are afraid of it, you always want to use the fastest time Get rid of it, and it becomes your choice to swing as hard as you can.”

“Do you swing your arms as hard as you can? Do you step as hard as you can? You are not afraid of your hands and feet , you should put the same feeling on the weapon. You have to like how it feels around you, until you can't feel it at all. You should do it with the most appropriate movement, not the wrong natural reaction of the body."

"The body is afraid of weapons, because the body knows that weapons have the ability to harm it. But you have to teach the body to live with the weapon and teach it the simplest truth: weapons can also protect it."

spell seems to be the same. It seems to be an instinctive reaction of the body to cast it out in an instant and quickly get rid of the energy running around in the body. Spell training is to teach the body that these energies can be very obedient and protect themselves. Dagon thought about it carefully, he is closer to rune spell, and uses rune more smoothly - compared to incantation. This is probably because he is familiar with rune in the Jiangu language, and naturally feels that it is a part of his own culture and life, a "person of his own" and a "family member".

Feelings of maladaptation must be overcome; efforts must be made to forget that there is a feeling called maladaptation. Dagon told himself over and over again in his mind, and then continued to practice the technique of controlling spell energy. This skill is essentially the same as the strength emission skill in the martial skill. You must first learn to use force before you can learn to use tricks, and finally you can learn "Force".

I understand the truth, but it is still too boring to practice, it is too test of patience, and the progress is too slow. Dagon really felt that he was "honing" his skills with little by little, and felt that the effort he put in was completely disproportionate to the benefits he received. He looked back at Shi Luoai, who would pull down the scarf at this moment and give him a sweet smile; or roll his eyes and shout, "What are you looking at, hurry up and practice"! This is Shiloh, and both reactions are hers.

Siloai is really honing Dagon, because what she teaches Dagon is the spell training skills of elf mages, not the simplified skills that Academy prepares for Jiangu or humans and other short lifespan races. Even if the elves come to practice, they can only grind it step by step. Although this method is a test of patience and requires a lot of time and effort, its final effect is the best, and no matter from any point of view, it is more suitable for a mage than the simplified method.

To learn the best, Dagon's potential deserves the best approach. Shirouai felt that if Dagon could teach her such a good mana burst method, then she should also teach him the best mana control method. Well, on the other hand, she felt she had to show Dagon the value of his approach, preferably by giving him some contribution points to make him happy.

"Eh? Dagon, Mana Eagle found something strange, just in the direction we're heading. About two miles away, a little to the left and forward." Hiloai pressed her forehead with two fingers, Said: "I lined up the mana eagle descending reconnaissance, it seems to be some ice sculpture, half ice sculpture."

"Let's go and see." Dagon said: "I haven't seen any animals foraging. I don't feel right."

The dog sled made a slight turn after two miles and came to a place about fifty meters away from the glacier. There are many large and small stones, although smoothed by snow, but not frozen, so it is not suitable for sleds to approach. The two put the dog and sled behind a large rock for shelter from the wind, then walked over and saw the "ice sculpture" found by Mana Eagle.

It was two people, two yaks, and three moose, you just need to look at the legs to be sure, and only the legs, because they only have legs. In the snow, more than a dozen broken legs were stuck in the snow, maintaining a frozen state, and the upper part of the calf was gone. Dagon and Shiroai could clearly see the cross-section, and could roughly imagine what happened at that time.

"They were completely frozen first, probably a large block of ice. Look at the snow marks here." Shiloai pointed at him and said, "There are traces of being pushed outwards here. , it was the ice that drove the snow away. After that, part of the ice melted, and it became a thin layer of ice, which was covered with snow."

Dagon's nod, agreeing with Shiroai's inference, but he didn't understand Said: "How can the ice melt in such a cold day?"

"The ice formed by the spell melts because of the escape of natural elemental energy, not because of the temperature." Shiloai said. "You look at the state where the snow on the ground was pushed away, it seems that they were attacked from above. A lot of ice wrapped them all at once, freezing them in an instant, and then that thing-probably the head dragon, the White Dragon has the most Possibly—standing on the ice and eating them bit by bit. At the end of the meal, White Dragon felt full, or found new prey, and left some wreckage here.”

“ Hiss..." Dagon touched his broken foot in the snow with his head axe, and it was still firmly frozen, and simply didn't shake. "The White Dragon is attacking from the sky, it's too dangerous. Can your mana eagle see the White Dragon ahead of time?"

"No problem in cloudless weather like this. If the same as the previous two days Then it snows and the top is full of thick snow clouds, then it will be difficult.” Shiroai said: “When the White Dragon is hiding in the clouds, the naked eye of the mana eagle cannot be seen, so I can only hope that the White Dragon will not be able to see it. Cover up your mana and let me catch the energy fluctuations.”

“Is the energy fluctuations easy to find?”

“It can give me an early warning distance of ten-twenty thousand meters, and also It's a little bit earlier than it rushes down from the clouds." Shiroai said: "Fortunately, Dragon Clan is proud, and unless it feels that it is under a major threat, it will not deliberately restrain energy fluctuations. It wants to show Dragon's Might, the standard If you leave your own territory, you'd better scare the prey by the way."

Dagon lowered his head and looked at the broken foot on the ground, feeling that something was wrong. "Hiroai, I've also heard of Dragon's Might, it can scare the ordinary person, and the livestock will either run for their lives, or panic to the point of being stiff and scared witless. But you notice no, there is no sense of running away here, animals There is no frozen excrement and urine around."

"The angle of your observation is very unique, but the reasoning is not wrong." Shi Luoai took a closer look, frowned slightly, and said: "It is not true. The performance of intimidation, on the contrary, they are walking very clearly and clearly. Look, this is normal walking in the snow, one person is holding a rope, and a docile yak is in front. The yak pulls the moose with its weight and cannot run around. In the end, there is a fat yak and the deferred person."

"How can you tell that the yak is fat?"

"You can't tell that it is thin!" Loai snorted, and then gestured and said: "They avoided the area that is easy to collapse by the river, and were walking through the rocky area. At this time, they suddenly felt a gust of wind above their heads, and then it was freezing to the bone and darkness enveloped. Maybe they were frozen. You didn't die instantly when you were in the ice..."

"Will you stop telling stories like that? It always feels like a bad taste." Dagon picked up the broken foot, looked at his shoes, and then Throw it away. "Fur, leather and grass, and simple linen socks. They keep warm and should have adapted to the climate here by now."

"Tonight when you cook Wash the hand that touched the broken foot." Shiloh poohed twice and said, "Now you know why you can't find the prey? Either you are scared away, or you are scared to death, and we may have to meet. To a White Dragon that is starving again."

"Then be more careful."

"I'll prepare a dragon warding spell so that it can't see us, or think we're not. Food."

"Like protecting the town in front of the Chimera?"

"Er...I wasn't thinking about protecting the town." Shiroai said: " But you're right, like that time."

(end of this chapter)