high castle elves

In the spring of 3635 in the Elf Nor calendar, deep forest valley, Kaldor Mountain.

Caldo Mountain at the end of January and early February is the coldest time of the year. The biting cold wind blows on your face. It feels like someone is slapping you in the face with a dry towel that has freeze-dried water. It is as deep as half a person's height. The heavy snow makes every step difficult.

Fortunately, he is not a human, but an elf. He is born to be an elf flying on grass. With his Qinggong, he can easily walk on the snow without leaving a trace.

In a col in Kaldor Mountain, Alamir, carrying a huge star-iron bow and waving a mallet, was driving a copper nail into the ground to fix the crumbling tent.

This is one of his new practices. First he has to learn to survive in the wild. Today's lesson is to choose a camping site and spend ten days in the wild.

The new course was taught to him by Antinoya.The fire singer and blood-haired poet seemed to have reached an agreement with Vesnaka long ago: the two would accept each other's children as their disciples. ,

Decades ago, after Vesnaka left the Lismera Forest, he accepted Gelase as his apprentice, so Geelase was still learning transformation and druid martial arts from Vesnaka - transforming into Bear, wolf, crow, deer, or wield a magically blessed oak staff and practice the Druid martial arts of Hurricane Breath.

The matter of Alamir being accepted as a student by Antinoya was a bit turbulent at first: Alamir hated this feeling of being arranged, even if Vesnaka said it belonged to Gallan Norton and Ipgil It has been a tradition since ancient times that you, as a "Gloria Norton", especially "Alamere", must fulfill your responsibilities.

Alamir refused at first, because he felt that the contract he signed with the staff and sword was already the limit, and there was no need for him to shoulder more family responsibilities for Alamir who was possessed by his soul.

In this regard, Vesnaka and especially Antinoya also expressed their understanding. After all, Alamir's previous "teachers" were two "hims".

No matter how proud the elves are, they still need to show a certain degree of respect to the two demigods.

After Alamir refused, Antinoya's attitude toward him was somewhat unexpected. Only then did Alamir understand that the words "I'm very satisfied" she said when she saw him were not entirely true. She was very satisfied as a party to the stick-sword agreement with her daughter, and more importantly, as a student, Alamir was very satisfied with her.

Because not every elf is so "hard-working" and "motivated", and his talent is quite good - during the time she came,

Although Alamir refused, Antinoya would still teach Alamir a lot of things, including many "basic knowledge" that Alamir didn't know before: wilderness survival, herbalism, biology, language, elves and History of ancient kings, geography, music, literature, poetry, elven genealogy, human heraldry and social structure, elven etiquette, dance and sociology...

The number and complexity of the courses made Alamir dumbfounded. It seemed that just as Vesnaka said, she regarded Alamir as an "exchange student" of Gallan Norton, so that Alamir could grow into a person. The name is "real, in line with his bloodline and family." A truly noble elf...

There is quite an aura of saying that it doesn’t matter whether you call me teacher or not, but I just want to teach.

Regarding this point, when Alamir came into contact with the knowledge that Antinoya imparted to him, he was also somewhat moved. These basic information about the world, as well as the experience and techniques of wild adventure, were exactly what he lacked, especially It was after he went on an adventure that he understood a concept more clearly - only 30.00% of the so-called adventure is fighting and killing, and the rest is all about food, clothing, housing, transportation, local customs and customs.

How to distinguish between dwarves and halflings, what to pay attention to when dealing with dwarves, how to hide traces in the wild, how to handle prey, the specific distribution and etiquette of the wild elf tribe in the southern part of the continent, how to deal with the death banshee, and how to distinguish the Kasar sect. music and Gregorian arias, the distribution of forces in the Underdark and how to escape after accidentally falling into the Underdark...

Except for the last one, everything else is blank to Alamir. In Antinoya's words: As a bard, what he is best at is not force and magic, but poetry, knowledge and knowledge. eloquence.

Antinoya felt that the fighting skills taught by the two demigods were already advanced enough, and Alamil, who became an intermediate at the age of 74, was already a genius. In addition to those chosen by gods and those terrifying epic heroes in history, Alamil They are almost the most powerful group of elves at the same time. Therefore, in order to make Alamil become an "excellent" elf, Antinoya is responsible for teaching other aspects to Alamil.

And these are what the Ipgil family is good at!

Therefore, after the New Year, Antinoya and Vesnaka began to teach Alamil and Gelase respectively, although there was no teacher-student relationship between Alamil and Antinoya, there was actually a teacher-student relationship. .

Moreover, Alamir discovered that Antinoya's swordsmanship and archery skills were very terrifying, especially Antinoya's swordsmanship, which actually smelled like the goblin's secret sword... It was said to be Yip Gil's family inherited the swordsmanship Star Flame, but Alamir, who has been immersed in swordsmanship for many years, has only seen her stab a winter wolf to death with a sword. With just such a glance, Alamir knew that he could not defeat it at all.

Archery is also one of the contents that Antinoya taught Alamir. As a race known for its "good archery" in the multiverse, Alamir looked at the huge star iron bow that Antinoya gave him. It is said that it is She had used it before, and Alamir was guessing how amazing her archery skills were.

I heard that the Ipgil family also has a set of ancient elves' "blade bow combat skills". As a newbie to bow and arrow, Alamir looked at his so-so archery skills and heard that Antinoya would teach him here for 20 years. Aramil suddenly felt that elves still had many advantages as an immortal species.

For example, they have plenty of time to optimize and hone a skill, and more time for trial and error.

But this is all a story later. After studying the history of ancient elves for a few days, looking at the heavily snowing Kaldo Mountain, Antinoya briefly dictated some precautions for outdoor adventures, and then asked him to try camping on his own. .........

This is Antinoya’s teaching method. As an artist, she is emotional and casual, and her courses are fragmented and casual. There is no strict system. One moment she may be talking about a certain hero in poetry, and the next In one second, it talked about the hero's life and the history of that time period, and then in the next second it extended from the hero's favorite drink to the smelting technology of the dwarves at that time, and finally fell to a certain lich who loved to enslave dwarves. .........

"Building a tent that can withstand the severe cold is the most necessary skill when venturing out, especially in the wilderness. Although as elves, we don't need to sleep like humans but use meditation to recover, but how to choose the location to build is still important. Consider your team members, Alamir, this is all necessary." Antinoya gave Alamir a pot of arrows and told him that it would be better not to use his sword skills, but to use bows and arrows to protect himself and obtain enough prey.

"Go, Alamir, the gods will protect you." After the blessing, Antinoya let Alamir step into Kaldor Mountain alone.

Then, Alamir, who had never set up a tent before and had only a few demons doing chores in the wild, suddenly raised his head and looked at the wolves coming over after smelling the smell. He immediately realized that there was something wrong with the location of his tent.

"Hey... I only pay attention to thermal insulation, and forget to consider that this thermal insulation place is also the place where the most wild beasts are. You should choose the downdraft." Alamir recalled Antinoya's teachings, helplessly Picked up the bow.

Whoosh - the arrow missed. The huge winter wolf breathed cold air from its mouth, with a cruel light in its eyes, and arched its back, preparing for the next attack.

In the blind corner of Alamir's field of vision, three other winter wolves with the same color as the snow were approaching quietly, while Alamir was still shooting the wolf in front of him with his bow and arrow in vain.

Alamir, danger!