My Magic Age

Kalancuo and I stood in front of a wooden cage. There were some small white silk cocoons hanging on the cliff next to us. According to Kalancuo, those silk cocoons were filled with restless goblins. As long as there were goblin slaves who were lazy, sick, injured or wanted to escape, once they were discovered, they would be sent here and made into white silk cocoons and hung on the wall. These were all food for giant spiders.

It seemed that these giant spiders had plenty of food. I was curious about how many goblin slaves Bernd had caught back to have so many problematic goblins. You know, these goblins are timid and afraid of death. When their lives are seriously threatened, it is impossible for them to expose so many shortcomings.

In the underground cave, a huge wooden support was erected every ten meters. There was a dim oil lamp next to the support, which made the tunnel look not completely dark. There was a faint light, which gave people a psychological hint, that is: hope.

The air here is not stuffy, but the humming sound of the spinning wheel can be heard from a long distance. I asked Kalancuo in surprise: "Does your orc tribe make spinning wheels?"

She looked at me blankly and asked: "What is a spinning wheel?"

Well, I didn't say it!

I shrugged my shoulders, spread my hands, searched for words, and said to her simply and clearly: "A machine for spinning spider silk."

She suddenly realized, then paused, thought about it seriously, and said to me: "Ji Jia, don't mention it, our tribe really has a 'spinning wheel', although the style is a bit simple, but it is very convenient."

The disgusting and hideous head of the giant spider appeared in front of the square wooden cage, with eyes of different sizes, watching the surrounding movements in horror, and making a 'hissing' sound from the mouth. When they saw Kalancuo and I slowly approaching, the breathing of the book lungs in the abdomen became rapid.

I looked at the cages of giant spiders and asked Kalancuo, "Didn't you say to transport these spiders back to the orc village? Why, have you changed your mind?"

Kalancuo folded her arms in front of her chest. The double-edged sword on her back shone coldly under the dim light. She smiled faintly and said to me, "Bernard has some new ideas, so we decided to store these spiders in the underground cave for the time being."

Then she added, "Bernard always has endless ideas. The dwarf you found is really an interesting person."

It seems that Kalancuo has begun to slowly try to accept the dwarf warrior.

At this time, I checked the giant spiders in the cages one by one. The broken parts of the legs on the abdomen of some giant spiders have completely healed. No new spider legs have grown on the wounds, and the remaining small section of the spider legs have also fallen off automatically at the joints. It seems that they have lived in the cave for a while. The dampness and coldness here have no effect on these strong guys.

The only thing that made them feel uncomfortable was probably the feeding method that was like force-feeding.

Some of the newly caught giant spiders had fresh wounds, and the remaining half-foot-long spider legs were still constantly leaking purple liquid. Whenever I approached these spiders, their breathing became particularly rapid. In the dim light, countless spider eyes stared at me, making me feel a sense of horror.

The back of the wooden cage also had a square opening, and under the fat abdomen, the spinneret was exposed. At this time, I noticed one thing, the spiders in the wooden cage were all placed upside down in the cage, and their huge bodies were stuck in the wooden cage, and there was no way to move at all, so the spinneret was exposed to our sight very clearly.

The giant spiders that lost their legs were locked up in the animal pen, their bodies were imprisoned and unable to move. The spinners at the tip of their tails were trembling slightly. Not far from the tail of each giant spider, there was a windlass-shaped spinning wheel. There was a very thin silk thread connecting the spinning wheel and the spinner.

There were seven beast girls sitting in front of the spinning wheel, shaking it quickly, and seven very thin spider silks were spit out quickly from the spinners at the tails of the spiders.

No, to be precise, the spinning wheel rotated at high speed, pulling out the spider silk quickly. Each spinning wheel was like a large windlass, but it could be seen that each windlass was equipped with a very delicate tile shaft, so that the windlass could rotate at a high speed. Moreover, while the windlass was rotating at a high speed, the cam device placed in the center of the windlass could also make the windlass swing evenly from side to side, so that the spun silk would be evenly wrapped around the spindle.

This is a very clever mechanism, and such a linkage mechanism is undoubtedly like a divine book to the orcs in the orc tribe. They have no way to make this thing.

However, I am the only one who knows that these spinning wheels must be in the hands of these orcs. Because even I am not sure whether this thing can be bought in Green Empire.

I looked at Kalancuo in confusion. When he saw that I found the clue, he hesitated for a moment and said to me: "I promised Bernd that I would not say anything nonsense, and he didn't do anything. He just made a few more sophisticated windlasses. It's not difficult."

Seeing that I was still staring at her, she lifted her hair a little embarrassedly, and then said: "Okay, I knew I couldn't hide it from you. Yes, he looked at a few drawings in the treasure chest, and then helped us make this thing. With it, we beast girls can wind the most exquisite silk spindles even if we are dozing off while shaking the spinning wheel."

"You won't blame me, will you?" (You won't make trouble for him, right?) Kalantso asked me cautiously.

"Of course, there's nothing wrong with that! However, since it's all done like this, have you ever thought about using waterwheels or windmills as power? This kind of human-powered spinning wheel is a bit too low-level after all!" I sighed. , since Kalantso said this, it means that he has taken the responsibility on himself, and he does not want me to blame Bernd for peeking at the drawings in the treasure box.

I can only give up on this matter, and think about it from another angle, this may not be a bad thing.

Except for me, there are still people in the underground cave who can understand these drawings, and the most commendable thing is that some mechanisms in these drawings have been very cleverly applied to real equipment.

But obviously, Kalantso didn't understand what I meant. After thinking about it, she thought I was telling her: There are not enough beast girls spinning silk.

So she spread her hands and said to me: "I only have so many manpower, so the top priority now is that you have to find more slaves for me. The construction here needs manpower, and the development of the orc village needs manpower. Managing the savages at the foot of those mountains requires manpower, development The circular valley also needs manpower. We have hunted a total of twenty-seven giant spiders. Now the spiders that can spin silk are only a fraction of the total number of spiders - seven. The other spiders can only be left idle in wooden cages to breed. You know what? This is a huge waste!"

"Okay, I will find a way as soon as possible to buy back some slaves, but before that, can you enslave those goblins? Since you have let them dig caves, why not let them spin silk?" I suggested. .

Kalantso complained and said: "Don't you think I haven't tried it? As long as those goblins smell the smell here or hear any sound made by these giant spiders, they will become paralyzed and have no strength to work. I thought they were just pretending, but after killing several of them, it was still the same, so I gave up the idea out of desperation.”

At this time, an orc female warrior suddenly stopped and the spinning wheel stopped rotating. She touched the extremely fine spider silk with her hand, frowned, picked up a rattan and stood up, walked to the giant spider, and fiercely He whipped the softest part of its abdomen several times, and the spider let out an uncontrollable hiss of pain.

Kalancso walked over and asked the beast girl: "Is this guy spitting out thin silk again?"

The beast girl nodded, whipped the giant spider a few more times, then turned around and walked back to her seat and began to continue spinning.

Sure enough, at this time, the silk spun out of the giant spider's abdominal spinner became much tougher. It turns out that these spiders can also be lazy sometimes.

There are two neat rows of spider silk ingots on the wooden shelf beside it. These are the best materials for making magic pattern spider silk cloth. It seems that in such a short period of time, there is quite a harvest. Who would have thought that, In this dark underground cave, there is such a special spider silk processing workshop.

It is said that the spider silk of this kind of spider silk magic pattern cloth is almost equal to one spindle of gold and one spindle of yarn in the trading market. Looking at the silk spindles on the shelf, the joy of harvest fills my heart.

At this time, I suddenly thought that a large number of slaves in the imperial capital slave market came from various planes. Those slave traders transported the natives and defeated people from various planes back to the imperial capital, and then forced them to sign a magic slave contract, which was tied to their necks. Put a metal collar on everyone and become a slave.

In this way, the Hierro plane must also be a large-scale slave transportation place, so there must be a very prosperous slave market in Tanton City. The final destination of our team's trip this time is in Tanton City. I might as well buy some slaves at the slave market in Tanton City.

Then, I went to look at the square stone chambers dug out of the tunnel. Almost every stone chamber covered an area of ​​hundreds of square meters. The smooth rock floor was actually carved with straight lines. These carvings were The longitude and latitude lines on the flat ground divide the floor of the stone chamber into one-meter-square floor tiles. Each floor tile is polished with anti-slip patterns, which looks extremely elegant.

On the surrounding stone walls, there are relief-like stone pillars not far away. Only when you walk in can you find that these stone pillars are actually closely connected with the stone walls. These stone pillars extend upward to the vaulted dome of the ceiling. The nearly ten-meter-high dome makes this stone chamber look very spacious. The exquisite round arched dome better prevents the possibility of roof collapse in these underground stone chambers.

I don’t know how those goblins excavated such a large stone chamber in such a short period of time. If you want to study it carefully, it will undoubtedly lead to a history of blood and tears of the goblins. I don’t care about the life and death of those goblins. For Xinliu Valley, controlling the population of goblins is an urgent matter.

I didn't have time to stay in the underground cave for too long. After inspecting these, I returned to the altar.

At this time, Kalancso had helped me prepare several herbs I needed, and of course, a few fish.

Those fish were a few herrings caught by the orc warriors from the creek next to the orc village. As a half-elf, Lucia has had a bad appetite recently, especially after I finished roasting the spider legs that day. We all survive by eating fruits. Our team travels across the entire Black Forest and requires a lot of physical exertion every day.

Moreover, there are many ferocious beasts in the black forest, which requires every member of our team to stay in top physical condition.

It is difficult to find fish in this forest, so I asked Kalantso to send people to Xinliu Valley to bring back a few herrings.

Also, I have become a bit tired of eating barbecued game in recent times. Maybe tonight I can try another way of eating fish: 'fried fish'.

As for those herbs, they are the last few herbs that Qige needs to prepare 'Xueluo Ink'. Although they are ingredients, without these herbs, the mixture is not 'Xueluo Ink'. They are not like Ningshen Grass. It doesn't matter if you put more or less, the most is that the ink state is unstable.

Without these ingredients, it is impossible to make 'Xueluo Ink'. Qi Ge has tried and made it several times on the road, but all ended in failure.

No way, it just so happens that these ingredients are in stock in the underground herbal warehouse in Xinliu Valley. Xinliu Valley is an extremely huge medicine garden of low-level magic herbs. Hundreds of low-level magic herbs grow in this world.

In my underground warehouse, these magic herbs have been stored for a while. Now when I take them out, I can only find an excuse to say that they are buried in the innermost part of the magic backpack...

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Recently, Qige has been in an almost crazy state, mixing those magic potions. The reason is that we found a piece of dragon's blood grass on the edge of the lake in the valley. Although the leaves of those dragon's blood grass are not as deep as the legendary top-quality dragon's blood grass. The purple but reddish-brown dragon's blood grass also shows that these magical herbs are only one step away from the best dragon's blood grass.

It is said that dragon blood grass can refine a potion called 'powerful troll power'. It is said that warriors who take this magic potion are like being possessed by trolls, possessing endless power.

Therefore, Qi Ge has been learning about the characteristics of these 'dragon blood grass' recently.

I returned to the team camp and handed those magical herbs to Qige. Qige also looked up at me in surprise, and then said to me: "Give it to Takama and let her handle it. Before that, Don't bother me, I will help you prepare the Luoxue ink before dinner, and inform the team that I will take a half-day break this afternoon. I need some time to experiment with the medicinal properties of these dragon blood herbs. You can come over and help me soon!"

"...Okay!" An ominous premonition enveloped my heart. Although I grimaced, I agreed without hesitation.

At this time, Qi Ge, who had been burying her head on the desk, slowly raised her head, an intriguing smile appeared on her beautiful face, and a sparkling light flashed in her eyes as clear as the water of Weiyang Lake. The ruby ​​gleamed brightly. She gently pushed the scattered black hair behind her ears, looked at me seriously, and said softly: "Fool!"

At this time, I had opened the curtain of her tent, turned around and walked out.

Although it can be considered that one chapter is updated every day, the update time of these two chapters is very close, which makes it feel like updating two chapters in a row. Hehe, let’s say some words of thanks. I have been seeing it since it was unblocked. Encouragement from book friends, eh! There are also rewards, and then this is considered an extra update! Thank you all for your continued support. Come and follow me to visit Catalina in Trum!