The leisurely life of a magician

Along with the roar came a billow of smoke and dust, and then saw a lizard man about [-] meters tall rushing towards him, and knocked Odd away.

Odd was knocked into the air by the powerful impact, and his back slammed into the tree. The tree trunk couldn't bear the impact and broke into two pieces and fell to the ground.

"Father, you're crazy!" Odd got up from the ground, patted the dust off his body, and complained to the big lizard man who rushed over.

"You still have the nerve to say this? You didn't come back all night, I thought you died outside!" Aode's father stared at Aode with his eyes narrowed.

"Aren't you coming back now?" Odd came over and said to his father, "And Dad, there are still guests here!"

"Ah?" Odd's father only noticed Li Ke and the others at this time, "I'm making you laugh, taking care of the dog has caused you a lot of trouble."

"What a ghost! I'm not a dog!" Before the three of Li Ke could speak, Ode began to complain again, "We are a lizard clan, why should we be called lizards!"

John: Odd, are you serious?

Rhine: ...

Li Ke: Wife?

Ode's father is called Oka, and Oka is also the patriarch of the Kasang tribe.According to Oka, there are 300 people in their tribe, which is about the same as the population of Bui Village.They are now preparing for war deployment in a week's time.

It is said that the deployment is actually to bury the numb fruit and the grinding stone gun, and there are no other plans at all.The lizard people are a race that does not know magic, so all battles are directly head-to-head.

But even so, human beings may not be able to please them when they meet lizardmen.The lizardfolk's skin is covered with thick scales, and they are immune to most magic.

Therefore, for magicians, lizardmen with rough skin and thick flesh are not easy to deal with.Only knights with strong defenses and magic swordsmen with strong output can compete with them.

"Everyone in the tribe is preparing for battle, so there is nothing good to entertain everyone, please forgive me." Oka took Li Ke and the others into his house.

Orka's house was better than the others', mostly built of stone, with little use of mud.Because the rainy season in the Caracalla Forest is longer and there is more rain, if the house is made of mud, it is easy to be washed away by the rain.

Oka said that there is nothing good to entertain, it is really not modest, this kind of people who are hungry in winter even eat their own clan, don't think they have anything good to entertain.

Fortunately, it is summer now, so there are still many wild fruits in the forest.But the lizard people obviously don't have the concept of food storage, they will eat up all the food they get, which makes them guys have nothing to eat in winter.

Li Ke and the others didn't come at the right time, because they ate up everything last night, and now there were only three wild fruits left in front of them, half the size of a palm.I heard that the Oka patriarch just picked it up from the tribe.

"Is this fruit edible?" John asked looking at the purple-yellow-spotted fruit.

"Yes." Oka nodded, "Eating this fruit will make your tongue numb. It's super exciting! Some guys will have stiff limbs after eating this fruit!"

After listening to Oka's description, John was sure of what he thought.This is indeed a kind of fruit described in the book, this kind of fruit is called Ouba fruit.Ouba fruit contains toxins that can paralyze the nerves, and eating too much can cause shock and death. It is a fruit specially used for catching prey in the wild.

But now it's not intentional for others to entertain this thing, right?Wouldn't it be bad if I didn't eat it?To eat or not to eat?

When John was struggling with this problem, Li Ke said: "We can't eat your fruit, we will die if we eat it."

John: You, you are too direct, aren't you?

"Can't you eat it?" Oka looked at the three of Li Ke with a regretful tone: "It would be great if I could eat it, so that I can have more meat in the winter food."

John thought Orka was sorry for the poor hospitality, but what he said next really shocked him.He never thought that this guy actually wanted to turn them into corpses as winter food reserves.

Rhine is no stranger to lizardmen, and knows that they have this characteristic.But Li Ke said he wanted to take a look, and of course he didn't refuse much. Even if something happened with his strength, he was confident that he could handle it.

Just after Oka finished speaking, Rhine Li Ke drew out his sword and pointed at Oka.At this moment, a large group of lizardmen with stone guns rushed in, almost filling the entire stone house.

"What's the matter? Did something happen?" Odd squeezed out from the crowd, and then saw Rhine pointing at his father with a sword, and said in surprise: "You, what are you doing?!"

"Is this what we should ask you?" Rhine stared at Odd and said in a deep voice, "Your purpose of bringing us to the tribe is to use us as food reserves for winter?"

"This, this." Odd stood on the spot and opened his mouth, but he did not refute Rhine's words.

"It really is like this..." Although Odd looked friendly, he was still a lizardman.

"Odd is not like this, is he?" Compared with Rhine, John is more willing to believe in this guy in front of him.Although they only got together for one night, he believed that Ode didn't really want to hurt them, and he had reasons.

After Odd glanced at John, he lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry."

John didn't expect, Odd, did he admit it?

"Patrolling at night is my task, but I also have another task: looking for food." Odd still lowered his head, "I brought you back because I really want to treat you as food."

"You..." John felt his head go blank.He had never encountered such a thing when he was growing up. When he was in Bui Village, everyone would sometimes fight, but they would not frame others casually, nor would they think anyone particularly bad.

Even if someone did something wrong, there must be a reason for it.

When he met the dean and the others at Harder School of Magic, he at least knew that this was caused by the noble class system, and those students who poured dirty water on him and Li Ke were only forced to do so because of threats.

Therefore, he can understand all these.

But what about Ord?Was he compelled?

"I was not threatened by anyone, it was voluntary from the beginning."

This sentence directly killed John's idea of ​​defending him.

John murmured: "Why, how could this happen..." After all, John is a 15-year-old boy, and he can't accept these things immediately.

"Then what are you going to do?" Li Ke looked at Oka.

"Us? Of course we left you to make jerky!" Oka laughed loudly, the disguise on his face was completely exposed, "We haven't tasted human flesh for a long time. I, on behalf of the people, thank you for your generosity." -"

Before Oka finished speaking, a wind blade slid across his neck, leaving a clean line of blood.Then I saw Oka's head fall off his neck and land on the ground.A large amount of blue blood spurted from the bowl-sized neck, dyeing the gray stone houses blue.

It was Li Ke who shot.

It is true that his life needs to be leisurely, but he is not so leisurely that he is threatened with his life.

"Who's next?" Li Ke made a gesture and slapped the palms of the lizardmen crowded at the door, and then saw those lizardmen scrambling to leave the room, surrounding the whole room from the outside.

At this time, only Ord remained in the house.

"Kill me, I am willing to make atonement." Odd knelt on the ground, looking down at the ground.

"John, leave this to you to decide." Li Ke said.

"What, what?"

"Whether he lives or dies is up to you to decide."

"Sooner or later we have to face it." Li Ke said lightly when he saw John froze in place.

John actually knew that some things were inevitable, but he was obviously unprepared.

After stopping in front of Odd, John said, "None of this is true, right? Odd." He still wanted to trust Odd again, even if he was deceived.

But Odd didn't look at John, but this action has made his attitude clear.

John took a deep breath, and pulled out the dagger from his waist: "Then I'm sorry." Then, he clenched the dagger and slashed towards Ode's neck. When it was less than one centimeter away from Ode's neck, the dagger stopped suddenly .

Odd thought he would be killed like his father, but he didn't expect the other party to stop.

"You go." John retracted the dagger and said to Ord.

Sure enough, he still couldn't make a move. After all, he knew this guy, so he should be considered half a friend...

"Thank you." Odd stood up from the ground with his head down, and quickly grabbed the stone gun on the ground with one hand.

John ignored him and walked towards Li Ke, and then he saw Li Ke stretching out his palm to him.

whoosh-

It was as if a gust of wind had slid past his ear, but he knew it wasn't wind, but a wind blade.Why?He didn't understand why Li Ke still made a move. Didn't he intend to let Odd go from the beginning?

He turned his head to look at Ode behind him, and saw Ode raised his arms high, holding a sharp stone spear aimed at his back. If Li Ke hadn't shot quickly, the stone spear would have pierced through It might be his body.

Odd's head was cut off with the wind blade, and before John could dodge, he was chilled by the blue blood.

"Don't just hand over your back to other people." Li Ke frowned, a little dissatisfied with John's actions: "If you die, who will protect me? Oh, there is Rhine here, so it's fine, you go all the way ah."

John suddenly recovered, he knew that Li Ke was angry.Moreover, he doubted Li Ke just now, and felt a little ashamed.But he realized that sometimes he was kind to the enemy, and he might be the one who died.

But it is impossible for him to be decisive now.

Rhine understands what Li Ke wants to do, but is such a concise teaching method really useful?Obviously there are other better ways, but why not use it?

He looked at Li Ke, who was yawning, and was taken aback.

...wouldn't it be troublesome?