My Magic Age

It had just rained in the dense forest, and the area around the camp seemed muddy.

There was a rotting smell in the air, and many dead trees in the forest were covered with a sticky moss in this hot and humid climate.

It was wet and slippery when you stepped on it, and had a disgusting wood pulp smell.

The tauren Ruka nailed the list of merit rewards to the big tree at the entrance of the barbarian slave camp, and then stood under the big tree chatting with Justus.

Not far outside the camp, several barbarian slaves were lying on the big wooden bed under the tree, with their two big feet raised high. Several indigenous people held the huge soles of the barbarian slaves and used a sharp knife to The skinning knife is giving these barbarian slaves pedicures.

These barbarian slaves have lived in the black forest for a long time. Although they got ointments from the indigenous people to repel mosquitoes and treat damp, hot and poisonous miasma, their big feet have been stepping on the water-saturated leaf soil for a long time. Every time they step on, Water will seep out of the footprints. The calloused feet of barbarian slaves have been exposed to this humid environment for a long time, and the calluses have slowly been soaked. Recently, the large feet of many barbarian slaves have been soaked. All began to fester.

Although I asked the minotaurs Ruka and Justus to strictly require these barbarian slaves to wear boots, the symptoms of the barbarians' rotten feet have not improved.

I even brought some hydrated lime powder from the Imperial Capital. Unfortunately, the climate here is too humid. The lime powder in my pockets is piled up in the camp. It only takes two days to absorb enough moisture from the air and condense into a powder. Big chunks of plaster came out.

This symptom of rotten feet once made the barbarian slaves miserable. The barbarian slaves had a good personal relationship with the Gilda natives. By chance, the Gilda natives learned that the barbarian slaves had been troubled by rotten feet. A kind of purple was collected in the forest The purple stamens are small colored flowers. This purple stamen is not a magic herb. After being mashed and mixed with plant ash, the indigenous people use thin-skinned knives to cut off the ulcerated areas on the feet of the barbarian slaves and apply this medicinal mud. The barbarians The slave's rotten feet actually improved.

In the camp, you can often see scenes of indigenous people giving pedicures to barbarian slaves.

The indigenous people made simple clogs out of wooden boards and tree vines. They gave these clogs to the barbarian slaves. It is said that walking in the forest will prevent your feet from getting rotten when you wear these clogs.

Although this statement has not yet been verified, the camp was already filled with sounds of 'tapping'.

The gifts from the barbarian slaves were some delicious spider leg meat. Later, the barbarian slaves discovered that these indigenous warriors did not particularly like the roasted spider leg meat. In contrast, the indigenous warriors preferred to eat baked wheat cakes and mushroom soup. The barbarians The slaves saved the baked wheat cakes usually allocated to them and gave them to the indigenous people of the Gilda tribe.

There was some rudimentary communication between the savage slaves and the natives.

The savage slaves learned some of the simple needs of the native warriors.

Rather than food, these indigenous warriors hope to obtain some standard weapons and protective equipment made by the Green Empire, and barbarian slaves who are good at fighting will occasionally teach the indigenous warriors some combat skills to improve their combat effectiveness.

The indigenous warriors also gradually understood that these barbarian slaves actually did not like to lie down in the wet mud to sleep. It was just that these barbarian slaves were not good at setting up tents. Although the indigenous warriors could not provide shelter for eight hundred barbarian slaves in the camp. It is easy to build a tree house in a forest clearing, but it is still easy to build some simple large wooden beds with branches.

When I returned to the Hierro plane from the imperial capital this time, I found that barbarian slaves and indigenous warriors could actually live harmoniously in the same camp. Even Justus was amazed by this simple friendship that transcended race. Amazing.

As for the honest Tauren warrior, he didn't think there was anything wrong with this at all. According to Iluka, wasn't it the way it should be?

I think the indigenous warriors have great potential as auxiliary soldiers, just like the knights' retinues who formed the knights of the North Wind Legion. Now it seems that the barbarian slaves also need an auxiliary army to serve them.

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A group of construct knights carried the repaired magic pattern constructs back to the construct knights' camp. When they passed by the gate of the barbarian camp, they happened to see a very eye-catching wooden board hanging on a big tree. They looked up curiously and found that there were actually blood-curdling messages listed on the wooden board.

Written clearly on the wooden board: Merit Exchange List.

The unidentified black magic crystal itself has certain merits. After a war, nobles can use these merits to be promoted to nobility. Constructed knights without noble status cannot be promoted to nobility, but they can use these merits to promote themselves to the military camp. In the middle class, these unidentified black magic crystals can also be sold privately to low-level nobles who do not want to fight on the battlefield, but want to squeeze into the upper class society.

An unidentified black magic crystal, at the beginning of the plane war, was worth almost ten times that of an ordinary magic crystal.

However, as plane wars continued to break out in various planes, some planes continued to win the war, and a large amount of black magic crystals poured into the imperial capital like this.

This not only caused the Black Magic Crystal to depreciate significantly, but after the depreciation, a Black Magic Crystal that could normally be exchanged for ten gold coins could now only be exchanged for five gold coins.

The initial price of these unidentified black magic crystals with merits was also very expensive. At one time, one unidentified black magic crystal could be exchanged for ten magic crystals.

There are still a lot of noble princes in the Green Empire who hold a lot of gold coins, and they don't care at all about using gold coins to buy themselves a beautiful title.

After Prince Wells fought at the Battle of the Kempato River in the Warsaw plane, the black magic crystal with merit depreciated. At that time, one black magic crystal could be exchanged for at least seven magic crystals. Later, the Mo family stationed The connection channel between the Kenda plane and the forces of the Dark Abyss was completely sealed, and the black magic crystals in the skulls of the Naqma people could only be replaced with four ordinary magic crystals at most.

Therefore, the merits of one hundred black magic crystals can only be exchanged for three hundred magic crystals at most while retaining the value of the magic crystal itself.

As for how precious the magic materials on the Spider Warlords are, it goes without saying. Just a set of Spider Warlords' hard leather armor without inscriptions is worth at least two hundred magic crystals, the "Power of the Bear" and the Shield of the Earth. "Devil Snake's Fang", these top-level magic pattern structures, in The Imperial Capital is also sought after by many lords. The only scholar of Yerkes who has the ability to sell these three magic pattern structures does not accept orders at all. Normally, a set is only worth 150 magic crystals per turn. The top-level magic pattern structure, and now someone is asking for 200 magic crystals, but it is only a price but no market.

Now the construct knights of the North Wind Legion saw this news on the wooden board hanging on the tree, and they all expressed great interest.

It's just that these construct knights, even the luckiest among them, only have five unidentified black magic crystals. If the construct knights want to obtain these magic pattern constructs, they must work hard to earn merit. , only by piecing together everyone's achievements can we redeem these ten sets of magic pattern structures.

After a while, Count Desmond led a group of knights over and asked me in front of the wooden board under the tree: "Count Jijia, the list at the entrance of the camp says that you can use your merits to exchange for magic equipment. , is it true? It is also effective for our construct knights of the North Wind Legion?”

"Of course." I replied.

At this time, I said in my heart: Of course it is specially prepared for you, but I am not embarrassed to hang it at the door of your camp. As for the group of barbarian slaves and orc warriors who will use these, I don’t give them to whomever I say. .

Hearing my direct admission, Count Desmond was refreshed and immediately asked: "The equivalent of one hundred black magic crystals can be exchanged for a set of Spider-Man Warlord's hard-skinned magic pattern structure, regardless of the 'power of the giant bear' , 'Earth Shield', or 'Demon Serpent's Fang'?"

I coughed lightly and said to him: "Ahem, Count Desmond, you are repeating the text description on the list. Isn't it already written very clearly?"

Earl Desmond smiled and said frankly: "I just want to confirm with you again."

Before I could say anything, Earl Desmond added: "In that case, on behalf of the Knights of the Beifong Legion Constructs, I will redeem with you the ten sets of Spider-Man Warlord's hard-skin magic pattern constructs on the list."

Directly in the name of the Knights Constructed by the Legion of the North Wind? Earl Desmond was quite decisive in his actions!

As soon as I wrote it down, it was all redeemed. I originally thought it would last a few days.

I reconfirmed with Count Desmond and said, "You have decided to choose ten sets of top-level magic pattern structures, right?"

Earl Desmond chuckled, patted his chest and said to me: "I'm sure! This kind of top-level magic pattern structure is difficult to buy even in the Green Capital."

"Okay, tell me what kind of magic pattern construction do you want with magical attributes?" I asked him.

Count Desmond thought for a while and said to me: "Five sets of 'Power of the Bear' and five sets of 'Earth Shield' magic patterns."

After saying that, Count Desmond took off a purse filled with black magic crystals from his waist and handed it to me directly. I asked Catalina to take out a thousand ordinary magic crystals and return them to Count Desmond. He said that these ten sets of magic pattern structures would be handed over to him within five Green Empire days.

Count Desmond, who had redeemed ten sets of magic pattern structures, seemed to be in a good mood. After he talked a lot in front of me, he also talked about his next destination - Diseased Wood Forest, this forest. Already included in my travel plans.

"What exactly is the magic pattern structure that can be exchanged for five hundred merits?"

When the topic changed, Earl Desmond couldn't help but ask.

"Those are magic patterns that can be painted on the body." I told him, thinking that he would hold back and not ask.

When Earl Desmond heard what I said, a look of understanding appeared in his eyes. He opened the buckle of the shoulder armor and rolled up the cotton shirt inside, revealing a magic pattern structure of 'strength amplification' on his shoulder. , which is a dark blue magic pattern tattooed on his body, with a trace of attributeless magic flowing on it.

"Like this?" he asked me casually.

I hesitated and said, "That's it, just a little different."

Actually, I meant 'a little different', but Earl Desmond mistook it for 'that's it'.

"Count Jijia, do you know how many magic crystals I spent on tattooing this magic pattern on my body?"

He pondered for a moment, then came closer to me and pointed at the magic pattern structure and asked me.

I gave the answer directly without waiting for my answer: "You only need fifty magic crystals, and you can ask a famous inscription master to draw a magic pattern suitable for you in the imperial capital."

Finally, he came to a conclusion: "It's too expensive to exchange such a magic pattern for 500 merits."

I asked him with a smile: "It's still different. How about it? Do you want to try it?"

Earl Desmond didn't even think about it, and shook his head and refused: "Forget it, even I don't have so many merits..."

Then he said: "As for the knights under my command, they are very interested in those high-level magic weapons."

I sighed softly: "That's a pity."

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Just like that, after I returned to the camp of the Sun Wrath Bridge in the Yello plane, our team immediately left the Sun Wrath Bridge and headed towards the sick forest in the southwest.

Perhaps because of this merit reward list, the whole team suddenly became active. Many times, there were construct warriors who took the initiative to fight to clean up some small strongholds of spider warriors along the way, or spider scouts wandering in the forest. In the past, these garbage cleaning jobs were done by Kalancuo and orc warriors. In this case, the construct knights seemed much more active.

Since we have been recognized by the ancient war trees, the tree spirits have opened a tree-lined road for us in the Black Forest, so the road is not difficult to walk.

During the past few days of walking in the Black Forest, I seized every free moment and finally rushed out ten sets of Spider Commander Hard Skin Magic Rune Constructions and delivered them to Earl Desmond.

One by one, the magic rune constructions with mana glow flowing around were placed in the magic box. Earl Desmond asked a construction knight to change into the Spider Commander Magic Rune Construction on the spot. He saw that the construction knight easily crushed a companion who was stronger than him during the competition.

At this time, the construction knights in the North Wind Legion began to take these magic rune constructions, which were called the top of the first turn, seriously.

After the defeat at the Sun's Wrath Bridge, the Nibru Spiders successively abandoned several large spider camps in the southwest. When our army arrived at the white dead woods, these spider camps had become a dead place, and even giant spiders were difficult to find in the camps.

For this kind of dead wood forest covered with white spider silk, we usually set it on fire before moving on.