My Magic Age

Making traps has always been one of the means for hunters to survive. It, along with archery, camouflage, tracking, and taming wild beasts, has become the five directions for hunters to develop. Orc hunters in the wilderness prefer to pursue archery and tracking. In the wilderness, any camouflage will be fully exposed under the sky. Orcs will also tame wild beasts, but they prefer large non-combat pets, such as taming thunder rhinos or sub-return beasts. Powerful hunter kings can also tame dragons, etc. Kuz told me that many real wolf hunters like to go hunting with hawks and falcons, which can easily track the herd. However, traps have always been ranked at the bottom of hunter skills, even lower than camouflage. Hunters in the wilderness do not like camouflage, but in the wild swamps and jungles in the south, the barbarians in the swamp kingdom are famous for taming wild beasts and camouflage. Those salty lizardmen can even tame wild bulls and swamp dragons.

Many hunters do not pay attention to traps, thinking that traps are low-level skills. Only low-level hunters will make some wild beast traps to assist their hunting. Those beast traps weighing dozens of kilograms are somewhat effective for ordinary beasts, but they are beyond the power of powerful monsters. Even the lowest-level demon antelope among monsters can escape after stepping on such beast traps. Moreover, such heavy beast traps are not very convenient to carry, unless you have a thunder rhino.

But generally speaking, the thoughts of these female beastmen in the wilderness are still stuck on the idea that ordinary beast traps can only hunt some small beasts, and they need to be carefully maintained at ordinary times, which is far less convenient to use and easy to carry than bows and arrows. For these small bird traps, they even think that these are children's toys. Each child in this tribe will have more than a dozen in their hands. Especially in such a famine year, hunting some small flying birds is also a way for children to find food to fill their stomachs. If not, Kuz would not be able to collect hundreds of bird traps in a short time, otherwise he would not be able to arrange them into a trap belt that is three meters wide and three hundred meters long.

We stood on the sand hill and looked around. On the west side of the sand hill on the north slope, there were more than 20 demon antelopes lying in a disorderly manner. Most of them had frostbite on their limbs to the same extent, and some were wrapped in ice. But just looking at their eyes, we could see that they only lost their ability to move for a while, but their bodies were not seriously damaged.

The magic power of the frost scroll was still too weak. Although Qi Ge intentionally reduced the proportion of tranquilizing flower juice when preparing milky white ink, the material of tranquilizing flower juice is a very effective stabilizer, but the more it is added, the less powerful the scroll will be. In order to maximize the power of the scroll, Qi Ge reduced the use of tranquilizing flower juice to the greatest extent within my acceptable range when preparing the potion, so that the power of the frost scroll increased by about 10%. Even so, it can only freeze a pair of sheep legs against the demon antelope with a certain magic resistance attribute.

In fact, the three-meter-wide trap belt seems extremely narrow to the running demon antelope, and it can jump over it with just a light jump. However, the bird trap is thrown in the weeds, and even if you walk close, you have to look carefully to distinguish it. For the galloping demon antelope, each jump has a rough location. As long as one demon antelope steps on the trap, it will cause a chain reaction, causing the traps in this area to be stepped on one after another by the demon antelopes that slow down and stop suddenly. The power of a single frost scroll is only two meters square, and if the surrounding temperature is not too cold, the ice will melt easily, and the demon antelope will soon regain its ability to move. But if the frost scrolls are detonated one after another, the temperature of the surrounding air will be reduced from below zero degrees, forming an ice circle of more than ten meters in radius. All the grass and trees in the ice circle are wrapped in ice crystals, and the twenty or so demon antelopes will lie on the snow.

Kuz, who was running in the front, shuddered at the extreme cold. When he stood outside the ice circle, his breath instantly condensed into a ball of white mist. It seemed that the temperature was even lower than we thought. As early as when we fought with the leader of the lion-tiger people, we discovered that the frost scroll had the characteristic of superimposing magic effects. At that time, it was only intermittent traps. Now, after the magic antelopes chained and detonated traps within a radius of more than 20 meters in the trap belt, the freezing effects were instantly superimposed together, and the power was naturally not too small.

Unfortunately, without the ice grass, even such an ice explosion did not completely freeze the magic antelope.

Kuz held a short axe in his hand, like an old farmer stepping into a cabbage field, waving his hand and chopping the neck of a magic antelope with an axe. Immediately, a large cut of more than a foot long was cut on the neck of the sheep, and the aorta was directly cut open, and blood spurted more than two meters away. I saw that Kuz was very excited at this time, so I swallowed the words in my mouth again. In fact, I wanted to say that there was no need for such blood.

Qi Ge, who was running over from the other side, was so surprised that she screamed: "Az, you bastard, you cut a big hole in my demon antelope skin, can't you just use a skinning knife to kill it?"

"Haha, I'm a little excited!" Kuz said excitedly, and quickly hung the short axe in his hand on his waist, pulled out a bone-cutting knife from his thigh, and went straight to the next demon antelope.

I was worried that the ice and snow world created by magic would melt quickly, and the magic antelopes that were paralyzed by the cold would regain their ability to move and escape, so I rushed to the edge of the ice and snow circle. Gerile and other beast girls shouted loudly. The orc said: "Hey, Sister Gerile, you and others can help kill the sheep! Whoever kills the sheep, we will give her the four sheep hooves with the calf meat..."

The beast girls on the field suddenly exploded, pulling out the bone-eliminating knives on their thighs one after another, and pounced on the magic antelopes regardless of the cold.

The beast girls have never killed the magic antelope, but they have killed those ordinary yellow sheep. The magic antelope's leather is just stronger, but if you stab it with a sharp knife at close range, no matter how solid the magic antelope skin is, it can't stop the sharpness. Boning sharp knife. Qige, Catalina, and I stood at the edge of the field. I helped Gerile count the number of sheep killed. Whoever killed the sheep quickly made a mark on the sheep's ear with a carving pen. It was the first time I saw Gerile’s sunny smile, like a sunflower in autumn.

Unexpectedly, this hunting would end in just one morning. The beast girls watched with some reluctance as the slaughtered demon antelopes were thrown onto the back of the Yagui beast. The demon antelope weighing more than a hundred kilograms Although the antelopes were not heavy, the twenty-three magic antelopes still made Aguimon scream miserably.

"Whoever is willing to carry the magic antelope back to the tribe, then we will give her the sheep head with the magic core. Well, we can also borrow our big iron pot to cook these sheep heads and mutton legs..."

There was no need to say anything at all. In an instant, Aguimon's back was empty, and the beast girl who had the least amount of backs also had two magic antelopes on her shoulders.

It has to be said that hunger makes everyone more diligent.

"You... usually... catch sheep like this?" Gerile sat next to Kuz and turned to me to ask.

I shook my head repeatedly, patted the shotgun on my back and said, "If the number is small, Aziz and I will use alloy bows and shotguns to deal with them. Only groups of magic antelopes would do this."

I carefully took out a frost scroll from my pocket, leaned forward and handed it to Gerile. She looked at me in astonishment, a little at a loss, not knowing what I was going to do, and looked at me blankly.

"I'll give you one to play with. You can also follow our example and put it on a bird trap to make a simple trap. This one can hunt magic antelope, but I'm afraid it won't work with high-level monsters. The power of ice is not very good. Enough." I said with a smile, and continued: "This thing is not valuable to us."

Gerile looked at the frost scroll in his hand with some surprise, his bronze skin shining in the sunlight.

I leaned on Catalina's arms and squinted my eyes. On such a warm afternoon, it was really a pleasure to sit on the back of Aguimon and drive in the warm spring breeze.

After the threat of hunger is gone, the beast girls have happy smiles on their faces. When they look at us, their eyes are no longer so contemptuous, but more awe-inspiring. Maybe they are not in awe of our true strength, but just fearful. The scrolls we have, but what does it matter!

...Beautiful dividing line...

Three days later, we and the old orc Gribaschin prepared to cross the canyon of the Ulutu River in the Yelian Mountains. At the mouth of the canyon, everyone took a final rest. The Ulutu River reached here, and the water was no longer so smooth. It was cold, but due to the huge difference in terrain between east and west on the plateau, the water in this river was very fast. Even if a pebble the size of a washbasin was thrown into the river, it would be washed away more than ten meters.

The width of the river is only a dozen meters. Strong orc warriors can cross directly to the other side of the river without even running. However, it is impossible to ferry across such a fast river. There is a plank road paved with pebbles on the east bank of the canyon. The road follows the bank of the Ulutu River until it reaches the center of Yelian Mountain, and then separates from the Ulutu River at a sharp bend. The road will go up the mountain. At this point, large livestock will be unable to move any further, because the mountain road is very narrow, and even Aguimon can barely pass through.

These days, Qi Ge hangs out with those female orcs all day long. I don’t know what kind of price Qi Ge has spent. They seem to listen to Qi Ge’s words. Miss Qi will always lead this group of female orcs to collect food in the wilderness. Various magic herbs, gradually I discovered that the herbal package tied to the back of Aguimon actually looked like a mountain.

Catalina has returned to her former self and still likes to follow me so much. Even though I have recovered well now and no longer have nightmares every night, she still pretends not to know and cuddles me to sleep. I don't know if Catalina's courage has increased in the past few days, but her cooking skills have definitely improved a lot.