I'm not a magician

After the training class at the Combat Academy was over, the pharmacist professor had forgotten the papyrus in his pocket. He pulled Ivan and asked excitedly for a long time, and finally figured out the source of the special phoenix butterfly.

The professor returned to his residence as if he was sleepwalking, and hung his coat on the hanger, and the papyrus that had been hidden for a long time fluttered down from his pocket.

"Oh!" The professor picked it up for a while, then patted his head, "I forgot to give this to Ivan!"

He glanced at the deep twilight outside the window, hesitantly put the papyrus on the shelf at the door, and muttered in a low voice: "There is no appointment time, it should not be urgent, I will bring it to Aiwen tomorrow..."

So, when Ai Wen saw Ji Chi's notes the next day, Ji Chi was already in the southernmost part of the mainland.

The southernmost part of the Demon Sword Continent, the place where bones are buried.

The Boneyard is an uninhabited gray area. The map sold on the mainland only draws a rough outline. The outline is completely dark, which means that there is almost nothing here.

It was also Ji Chi's first visit to Boneyard—whether in the real world or in a holographic game.

This is a game map that has not yet been developed by the production team. Players have very limited understanding of it. They only know that it should be a spooky place, and minors should not enter it.

Oh, by the way, it is also the origin of most undead monsters, filled with a strong death energy all year round.

Ji Chi just came here, and his eyes were smeared at this time. He doesn't have any first-mover advantage belonging to future players, and all clues are only two plausible poems.

"There are thorns growing, and the river Styx flows in the shadows."

"The sea of ​​bones is lingering, and the abyss appears behind the river."

Ji Chi chewed these two lines of poems over and over again, then swung the magic sword angrily, and the heavy scabbard smashed the skeleton soldiers who were staggering towards him with a bang.

The Riddler is what bothers me the most!Ji Chi kicked away the rolling skulls and sat cross-legged on a pale hemispherical boulder angrily.

He ignored the wandering shadows in the gloomy mist, and frowned while resting his cheeks on his hands.

He is very familiar with the first sentence of the poem. He used to have a piece of legendary equipment called [Amulet of Thorns by the River of Shadows], but it was a pity that he was cheated by a few friendly friends.

This talisman was made by the former god of forging, Hephaestus, and Bard recognized it immediately because Hephaestus had mentioned it to him.

Bud had previously mentioned a story about this amulet to Ji Chi.

"Do you still remember the talisman I recognized when we first met?" Bard suddenly became interested one day, and said to Ji Chi, "A long time ago, my student saw about it in the Handbook of the Forging God. its description."

As Bud spoke, his eyes showed yearning: "Did you know? Equipment engineers usually get their inspiration from the scenery they have seen and the events they have experienced. These are unique treasures, and they are also indispensable for building equipment. material."

"Ah, according to the legend, the thorn amulet was created by the god of forging who traveled to the Boneyard." Bud said slowly to Ji Chi while knocking on a piece of red-hot iron, "he Followed the thorns, followed the shadows to find the River Styx, and experienced the difficulty of life there, so he made the guardian amulet."

Bud stopped to rest for a while, wiped his sweat with a towel on his shoulders, and sighed, "I really want to see what kind of river it is that will touch the God of Forging so deeply."

The memory ended here, Ji Chi casually picked up a piece of bone at his feet, scratched and wrote on the ground: [Shadow Thorn = Styx]

What is the shadow, what is the thorn, Ji Chi put a mellow question mark on these two unknowns.

He raised his eyes to the flat and bare burial ground. There were no buildings here, nor a clump of plants. There were only white bone fragments all over the ground, and undead monsters gradually approaching in the dense fog.

clack clack-

Suddenly there was a tooth-stinging bone rubbing sound behind him, Ji Chi's ears moved, he jumped up nimbly, and the conditioned reflex flashed to the side!

A slender white bone tail rubbed against his toes, and whipped on the skull of the monster he was sitting on. The hard skull instantly split into pieces, and the sharp fragments flew everywhere.

Ji Chi turned around quickly, meeting the bone dragon's black bone eye sockets.

This is a bone dragon of lv.60, which can be regarded as a mid-to-high-level boss in the big world, but Ji Chi glanced around and found that it was in the Boneyard, so it can only be regarded as a surrounding mob.

"Wow...is this map so difficult? Isn't the production team afraid of being scolded to death by cute new players?" Ji Chi, who had won the early access to the new map, sighed, and silently lit a stick of incense for the distant production team.

However, such difficulty may be a nightmare for Mengxin, but for a god-level player with a magical brain circuit, there is no difference between lv.60 and lv.1. Things that can be solved.

A second later, the Bone Dragon crashing to the ground attracted the attention of many undead, and it was moving towards him in the thick fog, gradually approaching like the shadow of death.

Ji Chi was not in the mood to tangle with them, so he had to move his legs to change places.

But as he was walking, he glanced across the uneven ground from the corner of his eye, and suddenly stopped, looking back at the broken bones of the bone dragon.

The pale white skeletal remains branched irregularly, and clumps were spread on the ground, which looked like white thorn bushes, adding a bunch of messy signs to the Boneyard.

"Follow the thorns..." Ji Chi murmured as he walked towards the bone dragon's remains and searched around it, "Follow the shadows..."

He found that under the silent bones, a shadow was silently printed on the ground.

Ji Chi looked up into the sky. The Boneyard was surrounded by a sea of ​​fog all year round, and the sun's rays were scattered by the thick fog. According to common sense, the direction of the shadow could not be clearly reflected at all.

Ji Chi rubbed the dark shadow under the bones with his toes, and raised the corners of his mouth happily: "I found you."

There is no difficulty in the next road. At the beginning, the bone dragon smelled the smell of fresh blood and gathered towards Ji Chi. Now Ji Chi saw the bone dragon's figure, and jumped on it like crazy, brutally They were broken into a pile of bone fragments.

After countless bones and thorns were added to the Boneyard, Ji Chi finally saw a black river not far away, spreading on the white ground like a black ribbon.

Ji Chi walked slowly in the direction of the river, getting closer and closer, the river was already close in front of his eyes, but he couldn't hear the sound of water flowing.

"I found it so quickly, it seems that you have experienced a lot..." On the bank of the Styx River, a tall and thin person like a shadow said softly with his back turned to him.

Ji Chi came to him and saw clearly what he looked like under the shadow—this was a man with a mask on the right half of his face, his pale left face was very youthful, but there were endless desires hidden in his eyes. sad.

The man Chao Jichi pulled out a shallow smile: "I thought you would come with your friends."

Ji Chi took a look at him, then turned his gaze back to the Styx River: "Drawing my friends to see the God of Death or something, it sounds like I have a problem with my mind."

The man was amused by him, and he was not surprised that he guessed it early in the morning: "You are right, my status is really not a good reason."

"Then, Lord Death, why did you come to me?" Ji Chi knelt down on the bank of the river, reaching out to touch the dark water.

"Don't touch them, those are not beautiful things." Death first reached out to stop his movements, and then explained softly, "I came here to give you half of my godhead."

His tone always contained a touch of lingering sadness, like the Styx in front of him, silent and heavy.

Ji Chi retracted his paws into his arms, and looked up at him vigilantly: "Although it's not a secret that I collect godheads, is it really okay for you to give them to me so simply? What are the conditions?"

"I can give it to you, but I put the other half of the godhead in a place where I can't get it. You need to get it yourself." The god of death smiled faintly, then lowered his eyes, "As for the conditions..."

He pondered for a while, then said to Ji Chi, "Then listen to me tell a story."