"Ah, there's a bed!" Hallumi yelled and jumped onto the bed. She hugged the blanket and rolled around excitedly. Although Kaya did not yell, she did the same thing. Almost as soon as they entered the door, the two girls jumped on them.
It was easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. The two girls were used to lying on soft beds. They had slept in the bumpy campsite for many days. They felt wronged. In fact, it was not only the two girls who felt wronged. Lin Zai also felt his back ache these days.
Now that they had a chance to relax, and they were a little tired of eating wild game, Lin Zai had already asked around for a place in the fortress where they could have a delicious dinner. He did not want to start a meal himself.
Since it was not dinner time yet, they organized the things they had brought with them for this trip. When they left, they were in a hurry. They threw the important things into the car and did not sort or organize them. They could use this free time to organize and count what they had brought with them.
When the sky turned dark, the four of them headed to the largest tavern in the fortress. There was no lighting equipment on the streets. The cliffs on both sides of the fortress blocked a lot of the moonlight. Only the windows of some houses let in a faint light. Coupled with the fact that no one was walking around, it made the deserted streets in the fortress seem a little eerie.
But as soon as they entered the tavern, they heard the familiar hustle and bustle. Originally, there were not many people in the fortress during the day. There were only a few dwarf security squads patrolling the streets. But in the tavern at night, a bunch of people would appear out of nowhere. They would eat, drink, and be noisy.
For the bustling scene of Wulian City that they had seen for more than a year, the deserted scene outside was completely different from the tranquility of Wulian City. It was only when they entered the tavern that they felt like they were still alive.
And what surprised the three of them the most was that in the tavern in the Dwarf Fortress, there were many non-human species of Homo sapiens. The main species of Homo sapiens in the southwest peninsula were humans. If they had to count, they could also count the uncivilized goblins that caused trouble everywhere. When Lin Zai and the others were in Wulian City, the non-human species they saw the most was the elven sword dancer who fought against Finn – Liana Titov.
In this place, apart from the dwarves who made up the majority of the population, as well as the humans whom I was tired of seeing in the first half of my life, there were also many beastmen. Unlike the orcs known as Oker, the orcs had very obvious animal features on their faces and bodies. However, they walked upright like humans, had hands, and could use all kinds of tools.
The most famous beast-like races were the Dolphin People, the Gnolls, the Lizardmen, and the Draconians. However, they didn't see any Beastmen of the above races here. Instead, they saw quite a few … feline Beastmen?
Most of them were Black Panthers, Leopards, and Mountain Cats. There were also a few Tiger Men who seemed to be the core of the team. They were all wearing light leather armor, and some of them were bare-chested.
From the insignia on their leather armor, it was obvious that they belonged to the same group. Judging from the badge, it was probably a mercenary group.
This was a common occurrence in the Mystic Continent. Although the various species of Orcs were considered Homo sapiens, they were still rather wild in nature. Therefore, many Orcs would gather together and form mercenary groups that were more inclined towards war, looking for opportunities to make money.
For some lords who couldn't afford too many standing soldiers, in the face of war, these mercenaries were the best choice. Among them, the Orcs were the most popular. Because compared to humans who were too petty, the Orcs had more professional ethics.
However, in some animations or comics on Earth, these people would be depicted as quite handsome, and they would even be specially depicted on the female body. To be honest, when Lin actually saw them, he only felt a sense of horror. They looked almost like a human body, but they had the head of an animal, and it wasn't even a CG effect. It was really hard to accept that he wasn't used to looking at them.
However, before the three of them angered others with their gazes, they stopped staring at someone with curious eyes.
Mashed potatoes, wild boar meat, ale, and a pot of vegetable soup with a very special taste. For the group of people who had been camping for a long time, this kind of dinner was impeccable. However, after the full meal, a small incident occurred. Two little girls, who were either 15 or 16 years old, argued that they wanted to drink ale.
"We're already adults!" Hallumi complained as she knocked on her bowl in dissatisfaction. Even Kaya, who didn't like to talk much, agreed, "We're already adults." "So what's wrong with us wanting to drink?"
"Yes." Lin's eyes were a little dazed. Take the Americans' laws, where 21 was the legal drinking age, as an example. In the past, saying that they were underage was just an excuse. More often than not, the reason was that he didn't know if they were good at drinking. If he went crazy drunk, he would be troubling others, but if others went crazy drunk, he would be troubling himself. These were two completely different things. He didn't have the patience to take care of two girls who went crazy.
But …
"I want to drink, I want to drink!" The two girls hadn't gone crazy drunk yet, but they were already acting like rascals, which attracted the attention of others in the tavern.
"Okay, okay, stop fooling around." He was most afraid of people acting like rascals, and this time, they had inexplicably escaped in the middle of the night, so the two girls couldn't help but complain. So he called the tavern's waiter to give each of them a cup of ale, and secretly prepared the Vanda Knocking Spell, commonly known as the Stun Stick Spell. If the two girls showed any signs of drunkenness, they would be immediately dealt with with the Stun Stick Spell.
Amidst the cheers, the two girls each received a cup of ale. They raised their cups in unison and downed it in one gulp. Then, they put down their cups at lightning speed and spat all the ale on their teacher's face.
A certain someone didn't have time to go to a tavern to eat, and he even prepared an automatic defense spell on himself. Naturally, his face was washed … Were they trying to stun him?
As for a certain Lich, he had already moved his chair away and sat far away. Plus, the two girls consciously pointed at their teacher, so this vicious and evil former Demon King didn't get sprayed at all.
The two girls wiped their mouths in unison. Hallumi, on the other hand, was making a big fuss. "You guys are so weird. How can you guys drink this weird stuff?" "It's so weird," Kaya chimed in.
This interesting scene was, of course, witnessed by everyone in the tavern. A certain someone was sprayed like a drowned rat, and of course, it attracted everyone's mocking laughter. Lin could guess how pathetic he looked, so he couldn't blame the others for laughing. He could only glare fiercely at the two girls who looked unwilling and treated the wine like a poisonous snake or a ferocious beast.
She pushed the cup of ale in front of her teacher, and hugged the cup of milk, curled up in her seat. Her eyes drifted elsewhere as if nothing had happened, but she didn't dare to look at a certain someone directly.
Just as he was about to say a few words to mock the two girls, a bearded dwarf came up and asked, "Hey, young man, you're a magician, right? Do you recognize this? " After saying that, he tapped a Red Glow magic stone in his hand and opened the Magic Mirror screen for the browser, showing an image.
Lin glanced at it and knew that the dwarf wasn't using a browser, but a magic stone book technology. Using a browser to download images, a Red Glow magic stone could only download a few images, and there would also be a list of URLs on the image, but what he saw in front of him was the image in editing mode.
This was an editing software developed by others after the magic stone book technology was made public, as well as after the P language was announced. There were many similar kinds of software, so Lin couldn't be sure which one it was at the moment. But no matter which one it was, there was no difference. The important thing was the image that the dwarf showed.
It was the design of a special magic array. Different from traditional magic arrays, it had a clearer purpose, such as enchantment, trap, defense, summoning, attack, and so on. This special magic array had a supporting function. It was meaningless to have it by itself, and it wasn't complete.
As for why a certain someone could see it clearly at a glance, it was because this pattern was a part of the modified light bullet magic array of the Tower of the Great Sage. And the design was derived from the runes of the dwarves. Perhaps it was this factor that made the dwarves want to understand what their runes would look like when they were in someone else's hands.
Intellectual property rights in this world weren't so strict, and the Society of Sorcerers only protected registered magic knowledge. Dwarven runes, elven runes, and so on, whoever could figure it out could take it and use it. The Society didn't care about this.
If the knowledge of the dwarves and elves was stolen, would they come out and take care of it? It also seemed to depend on the situation. Like the situation in front of them, someone else used their own thing for a different purpose, and they couldn't even judge it, nor could they reproduce the purpose. How could they blame someone else? Rather than holding them accountable, they were more interested in understanding the reason behind it. Technological progress wasn't made step by step.
And this rune was a rather famous one among the dwarven craftsmen. It also had an exclusive name, "Anyinte." Its function was to seamlessly extend the effect of supporting magic.
The magic equipment effects in the Mystic Land weren't permanent, but were similar to the magic that mages applied to themselves, using the magic on the equipment. This would consume magic power and authority, but at the same time, it could be exchanged for significant enhancement. Another layer of meaning was that when magic wasn't used, it could be used as a general weapon.
But the concept of attaching magic effects to equipment wasn't like the electrical appliances on Earth, which could be used all the time as long as the switch was turned on. Instead, after the effect of one spell was produced, it would wait for the effect to disappear before actively casting a second spell. This way, it was inevitable that there would be a problem with the connection between two spells. If the magic effect suddenly disappeared in the middle of a battle, it could be fatal.
The dwarven rune, "Anyinte," could actively activate the supporting magic again, making the previous spell disappear and the second spell work seamlessly, creating a "pseudo" switch effect. This was a unique technology of the dwarves. Even the elves didn't have it.
The magic equipment of the elves relied on the race's unique spirituality and control of the rhythm of battle to achieve a seamless connection of manual magic.
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