7. Magic Sense
At last, he knew what the old Curu's so-called vermicelli meant to the orc tribe, and that it might change the lives of the poor orc tribe a little. Of course, Old Kulu also thought of many other ways to improve the lives of the orcs, such as a blood-stopping powder that could be ground from the royal blood herb, or a bone knife made from the ribs of a wolf, something unique to the Pai plateau that few people had noticed before. They could be sold to those who came from outside, in exchange for fine jade combs or glass mirrors.
Over the years, the old kuru has found many ways of doing this, but whether it is herbs or magical beasts, these are valuable in their own right, and even if they are not rare, they are still limited in quantity, far less so than the ground potatoes that can be found in abundance in the mountains.
Even if they were given to human merchants, no one would want them, they would be given to slaves or composted in the human kingdom, but if they were turned into vermicelli and provided with the means to make delicious dishes, this might be a way out.
The night was cold and rainy, and the drops of ice crystals rustled softly on the cowhide tents. The campfires outside had gone out and the merchants had dispersed to get some rest, and it was late in the night before I knew it as I listened to old Kuru talk about the orcs.
Kurtz was lying on a warm cowhide mattress, dead asleep, perhaps a little tired from the day, and actually snoring. The moment the magic cover disappeared, my body strangely felt the mysterious blue lines emerge again, time stood still, and those blue lines turned into a little starlight and dispersed like the night sky.
Old Kulu saw my unusual expression before he asked with some concern, "What is it, boy? What did you feel?"
"Just like before, I saw some blue lines condensing in strange and complex patterns in front of you, and just now I saw those lines dissipate again, it's hard to describe." I tried to be clear, but I didn't know how to express it, the orcish language itself was not very rich in phrases, and I stammered a little when I encountered such an indescribable situation.
The old kuru's cloudy eyes seemed to brighten all of a sudden, and his eyes became stern, scanning me back and forth like two lamps in the darkness, and he said in an urgent, hoarse tone, "Can you see the magic symbols?"
I was stunned and nodded subconsciously. I knew I looked as silly as a dumb chicken, but the old kuru's disoriented look scared me. He drew another hexagonal formation in the air in front of him with some urgency, and at this moment a strange sensation followed, I could feel the flow of time slowing down in this moment, my body was imprisoned in this moment, while I could clearly see the red magic lines flowing from the tip of Old Kulu's right index finger, continuing to draw a series of mysterious symbols in the centre of the hexagonal star, and when this magic formation was finally completed When the formation was finally completed, a wave of searing fire condensed from in front of Kulu's body and ran straight into the night. The dark red wave of fire made a cracking sound in the air. It was a very cold night in early spring, but when the wave of fire hit the night in the distance, it felt like the moment I stepped off a plane in Sanya in winter wearing a down jacket, and the heat wrapped around my body.
The fire poison from the burning fruit in my body also exploded at once, and I felt like a patient with burns all over my body. Every part of my body that had flesh and blood had that searing pain, a pain that burned to the bone. I was like a red, roasted shrimp, "Heh!" The pain made me let out a dull roar.
"I can't believe you have such a keen sense of perception, hey!" Old Kuru was also frightened and hurriedly drew another pale blue spell, the blue dots of light instantly surrounded me, emitting a subtle wind chime that was beautiful and sharp, connecting in a line. My body became instantly cool, immediately relieving the pain of the burning heat scorching my body.
A few moments later, I sat on the leather mattress trying to calm my breathing, with Kurtz still sleeping like a dead dog beside me, perhaps because the tent had become warmer and there was a restful look on his soundly sleeping face. I began to listen intently to the old kuru as to the reason for his surprise.
Every spell is made up of a perfect combination of mana in the body, drawn spells and chanted incantations to be released. The presence of magical power within the body does not always make a person a wizard, it is just one of the necessary factors to be able to become one. Every magical skill has a different magic formation, and the more complex the formation, the more powerful the magic will be.
All the mainstream magic in the world today is based on the Theory of Relativity of Magic and Time, created by His Majesty Augustus 2000 years ago, and it is thanks to this genius wizard that the originally extremely mysterious magic has flourished, and countless magicians have been using this theory ever since. The theory of the relativity of magic and time states that before releasing a spell, each wizard can actually apply a time stopping skill to himself, and the duration of this skill depends on the level of the wizard himself. This time stop does not affect other people in the vicinity, it only works on the wizard himself. At the moment of releasing the magic skill, the first thing that happens is that the magical energy in the body draws a basic formation along the meridians of the body, most of these formations are time formations that have been refined to the extreme after a thousand refinements. The magician needs to use his magic to draw a variety of different magic formations quickly, to form different types of magic skills in conjunction with incantations. This way the spell formations drawn and the spell sent within 0 seconds increase the success rate of magic release to over 80%. For simple low-level magic, even instantaneous release could be achieved.
Before this theory was introduced, wizards would struggle with the problem of "spell formation and spell fit", many wizards could only be proficient in a few magic skills in their lifetime, and the more they knew meant less time to practice, and once the spell formation drawn and the spell chanted over a period of time fit too poorly, then the spell would fail. It was not until later, when the Emperor of Men, Augustus, discovered the connection between magic and time, that the first magic all human wizards needed to learn in their lives was the basic version of "Time Stop", a magic skill that could only keep the wizard in a state of time stop for 1-9 seconds, but of course the higher the level of the wizard, the longer the duration. The higher the level of the mage, the longer the duration. The spell completed in this state is 100% compatible with the incantation. After the talented wizards stopped worrying about failed spell releases, they began to study the skill of Time Stop, and later on, some even used their body meridians to guide the flow of mana, forming a specific spell structure for Time Stop.
When he released his magic shield at night, he also put a 2-second "time stop" on himself, so it was reasonable to assume that no one, not even me, would have been able to see him draw the magic formation in front of him. In fact, I didn't see Kourou drawing a magic formation, but I sensed the magical elements changing around me and sensed the formation of a magic formation.
"I think it's 'magic perception'!" Old Kourou affirmed. "Every magician has the opportunity to awaken their own natural skills during a magical awakening, such as magical precision, magical perception, mana concealment, mana recovery, magical return, fast spell casting, various elemental affinities, etc. This talent will bring many benefits, the most intuitive being that they will be more powerful than ordinary magicians. I think that if you take part in the awakening ceremony, then the possibility of the talent 'Magic Sense' appearing will be very high. Because you can accurately feel the turbulence of the magical elements around your body right now, unfortunately the orc awakening ritual is not very suitable for you, you can only return to the human world and participate in your own awakening ritual. Until then, all I can do for you is to build a solid foundation. Giga, you may have been born to be a wizard."
I rolled my eyes, my ears were starting to glue up at that comment. Old Kuru looked at me with some impatience and shook his head slowly, "I've been reading a lot about 'magic resistance' lately, and the humans have a similar skill called 'magic defence', speaking of which, the core of orc magic is called the magic core that It is formed in the brain. When we orc wizards practise, we generate magical power from our limbs and bones and gather it in the nucleus of the brain. Elven magical cores are in the chest, their magical power is a tidal wave of magic generated with the beating of the heart, the tidal wave of magic emanates from the heart to all parts of the body and the magic is spread throughout the body. The core of a human magician's magic is in the belly. After awakening, every human magician will form a magic pool in the belly, and the magic power generated by the body's limbs and bones will be gathered in the pool, and then distributed by the pool to all parts of the body in a cycle. The way humans gather magic power is somewhat similar to that of orcs and somewhat similar to that of elves. So I thought you might like to learn a little of our orc magic ..."
"But Sensei, I haven't even taken the magic ritual yet, I haven't awakened, I wouldn't even have the most basic mana, how can I learn magical skills, and of an orc at that?" I had a bit of a spit at old Kuru's whimsy, even though he was solving a problem for me, I didn't even have the basics, how could I talk about later?
"Er, actually, how can I put it! Let me think about it." Old Kuru also had times when he couldn't explain, so he thought about it silently for a long time and tried hard to organise his language before saying to me, "If you were an ordinary human child, then you would only be able to experience the magic power circulating in your body after you awakened, except that there was some small accident before, after you accidentally ate the Burning End Fruit, those fire poisons are actually fire-attributed magic power, and they They formed in your body's limbs and bones, but there happened to be no magic core or magic pool in your body, so the magic power could not be gathered together and could only stay in your body. Then over time the accumulated magic power starts to burn your body."
"So you're saying that if I succeed in the awakening ceremony I can get rid of this damn fire poison?" I finally had a little hope, or a quest to come into this world, maybe becoming a magician was the priority.
"Exactly!" Old Kuru said calmly, "But before that, I have also thought of a solution for you. That is, your limbs and bones can produce magic power but cannot converge to the magic pool, so that means that before you awaken to form the magic pool, you have a chance of learning the magic of our orc race. Although the magic power you generate is weak, the anti-magic is not a strong major spell, so perhaps you could learn the lowest level of anti-magic, and then you would be largely free of the fire poison. I wouldn't advise you to learn anti-magic too early, as your current state will increase your resistance to fire, and patience doesn't come from practice, it comes from chance. This will be of great help to you later on after your development ..."
The old kuru blah blah blah said a bunch of things, finally I heard and understood, learn anti magic can make fire poison, and my physique is special, can learn. So what are you waiting for? The damn fire poison would turn me into a cassoulet one day sooner or later.
I suddenly thought of what Kuzi had said to me during the day, that old Kulu wanted to sew me a warm, waterproof sleeping bag out of those guinea pig skins, and I said I didn't need it, but he said I would definitely need it.
"Son, you have helped me find food that is of great importance to even the Orcs. Maybe in the not too distant future I can buy them for the foreign traders, and maybe Phaeales will be sexually interested in buying some back, haha, that's a wonderful idea. I hope the secret belongs just between me you and the three Kuz, can you understand?" Old Kulu finally got around to talking about the vermicelli I had made and what to do about the whole vermicelli thing. I thought, "You just want me to spread it around, and how dare I. I had given the whole caravan of 200 people a big bowl of vermicelli and they were laughing about it, but if they knew the vermicelli was made from those damned potatoes, they would have chopped me up and thrown me into the lake.
"I'm sure I won't say anything, teacher! I understand." I had to make myself appear mature.
Old Kuru nodded in satisfaction and said, "The creed of the orcs speaks of repaying favours, and in return I think about it. We can learn skin making and skinning at Ferred's."
I was expecting a few gold coins, but unfortunately he didn't mention it. But I'd helped Uncle Fred brush up on his leather saddle sets for the sake of learning those family skills.
"There's a shield warrior over in the adventuring group, Sain, who owes me a favour, so maybe you can learn something from him, preferably something that will save your life. Oh, and I remember helping a Ranger heal his leg wound, for an Elven Ranger, wilderness survival would be his natural skill, I hope you can learn it."
Old Kuru finished looking up at the Pai plateau to the south, where the mountains were hidden in the night. With a long sigh he said, "This trip will be my last out of the orc tribes and for the rest of the day I will select some of the orc children, hoping to find potential among them. So this trip to the Pai plateau will be my end, and you, my child, that will be when we part, you will return to the human kingdom with the caravan, you will try to integrate into their society, you will survive in a small town, knowing that you can take part in the magic awakening ceremony and become an apprentice wizard, you will have a new life."
"Ah, Sensei, don't you leave me!" I suddenly felt a little scared, I was a little intimidated about the road ahead, after all I was such a young boy.
"I will ask Paeleus to look after you, it will do you no good to stay with the orc tribe, our fighting skills and magical skills are not suited to human children, so you will have to go and find your new life, until then I will work hard to get you to learn some survival skills, you will also have to learn to protect yourself, and until you attend the awakening ceremony, do not show your unique abilities to outsiders Never show your unique abilities to outsiders before attending the awakening ceremony, that could put you in danger. You would make a good hearth in the eyes of some evil wizards." Old Kuru's admonition echoed repeatedly in my ears.