Winter has just entered in the south, and the snow coverage rate in the wild here is already very high. Only some of the trees and the sides of the rocks still retain their original colors, and they will probably be buried by snow in a few days.
From the haunted town to the Magic Well area, there is no formal road along the way, and you need to often pass through the forest area. At this time, the horse-drawn carriage is very difficult to use, so the team changed to riding a horse-drawn sleigh.
The sled has a simple and reliable structure, low friction, and a stronger load capacity than a horse-drawn carriage. However, the horse-drawn carriages sold locally to adventurers are all narrow-bodied vehicles, and their actual loads are about the same.
In terms of camping, sleighs are obviously not as friendly as horse-drawn carriages, and they often need to use snow piles to block wind walls by hand.
The locals in the main world are not used to this area. On the contrary, Wang Qi and other outsiders feel some familiarity after entering the snowfield.
The time scale from when the Eight King Kongs were able to participate in collective outings to when they were arrested by Wang Qi was not as long as after they were transferred to the exile.
But their memories of the snowfields are deeper.
After all, even if you are a bandit, you have to survive every day between the hunting grounds of sharp blade prototypes and reptiles. One mistake can cost you your life, and there are no serious learning institutions to teach survival skills. You just survive while learning while you are alive, and you become someone else's when you die. rations.
Bai Xiaojiao is also very interested in snow. When setting up camp at night, he will remove his armor and let him roll in the snow.
After all, it is old. Although its attributes are there, its energy level is not as high as that of the little bear. Playing for more than ten minutes every day is enough.
"Teacher, is the magic well really still running?"
It was Carter who called the teacher first. His home must be close to the center of power, and he himself was more thoughtful. He probably thought that changing the title would bring closer relations.
Wang Qi has an indifferent attitude towards titles. Sir, teacher, dean, there is no difference, as long as they are not insulting words and you know who you are calling.
"I don't know yet, but the magic level around here is definitely higher. Can't you feel it?"
"...can't feel it."
In fact, most mages are not particularly sensitive to the level of natural magic power, and the concentration of natural magic power has little to do with the recovery speed of human magic power.
"It doesn't matter if you don't feel it. If we go further, we should be able to see the difference visible to the naked eye."
This is a rule of thumb, with reference to changes in the penal colonies.
As the plates cracked in the penal colony, the magic level skyrocketed for a period of time, and then the plates took off.
Regardless of whether there is an inevitable causal relationship, as the magic level increases over time, there will be other changes.
For example, a new vein of magic crystal is forming.
This situation has not occurred in the Phoenix Kingdom, but it is also within the scope of trade. Several lords around the area involved have killed some people. Unfortunately, after the export of artificial gemstones, these mines have completely lost their economic value and can only be used for making Research.
The formation process of new magic mineral veins is very strange. It is not the metamorphosis of the original mineral crystals, but the growth of new crystals on calcite and crystal minerals. The process is very slow. The known new mineral veins are estimated to be about 5 million cubic meters in size. In the mineral deposits, several kilograms can be grown in a year.
In addition, high concentrations of natural magic affect both animals, plants and people, and the proportion of affected individuals is very low. At this stage, it can be completely defined as "natural magic syndrome".
Compared to the penal colony, the Magic Well has existed for a long time.
The history of the main world, the part that Wang Qi could see, first recorded the period when the Sun God Cult evolved into the Church of Light, which was about two thousand years ago.
At that time, the magic well had exploded.
From the information Wang Qi possesses, it is inferred that the timeline should be the same period when the problem with the magic well occurred and the transformation of hell into the demon world.
Perhaps it can be said that the magic well is a remnant left over from the previous era. Now that he has no access to first-hand historical information about the demon world, Wang Qi will naturally want to take a look at the magic well.
It has been discovered that the level of magic power is relatively high. Even if the concentration of magic power inside is not particularly high, in a long enough time, some strange things should be produced.
No relevant output was found in the haunted town, perhaps just because the locals are used to it and do not regard those things as valuable commodities.
The team continued forward and did not see the strange object very quickly - it was too slow.
The snow is not very thick now, and in most places a horse's hooves can reach the bottom with one foot. However, the frequent need to avoid wind and snow affects the speed, and the horse can only move about twenty kilometers a day.
If you move forward at this speed, there may be problems with supplies.
The team brought a month's worth of grass seeds, plus beans, and each horse had to drag more than two hundred kilograms of food for itself when it set off, accounting for almost half of the entire team's load.
In order to ensure that they had enough time to explore, Li Xiang and Bai Xiaojiao had no choice but to leave the team and search for some special places to replenish their feed.
When Li Xiang and Bai Xiaojiao move freely, they can move close to 300 kilometers a day, and even further. However, Bai Xiaojiao will roll around when he is not feeling well, which is very frustrating.
Calculated based on a radius of one hundred kilometers, it is equivalent to five days of travel. Taking action every five days should be used to maintain Bai Xiaojiao's exercise.
As for the special places being searched, they are usually mountain streams and geothermal areas.
The local geothermal area is not volcanic geothermal, but slightly warmer. Mountains or rocks must block the normal direction of the cold current to maintain a small area of land or cold pool with temperatures above freezing point.
It doesn’t need to be too big, as long as it’s a few dozen square meters and has some dead grass, it will definitely attract wild beasts, especially predators, who will prefer to sit here and wait for their prey to come.
Grass?
No, the real target is not grass, but meat.
It is true that horses want to eat grass, but after all, the hay stems in the snow are different from forage grass. They have lower energy levels and are more difficult to digest. It is better to use minced meat mixed with grass seeds to make simple porridge.
This kind of thing is not to the horse's appetite, but they will still eat it if they have nothing else to eat.
Letting them eat food they don't want to eat, Bai Xiaojiao is more important. As long as it is around, the horse will not dare to move around, and the work of the Eight King Kongs will be saved.
On the twelfth day after entering the snowfield, the team had already passed through two woodlands of different tree species, and finally found "evidence of magic concentration" on the edge of a coniferous forest.
A rock golem!
"The puppet should be man-made." The exchange student's world view was a bit broken, trying to convince himself that the thing in front of him was the legacy of an adventurer.
The biggest difference between the rock puppet and the artificial puppet in front of everyone is that it floats, and its "head" and "arms" are separate.
Exchange students are all magicians with the lowest third level. Even if they are not in the creative department, they have learned some basic knowledge. The magic power consumption of this structure is not suitable for long-term use. A disposable puppet with extremely high cost and no combat effectiveness, no one It would be such a hassle.
If floating separately doesn't explain the problem, then the size and raw materials of this puppet do.
It is about the same height as a seven or eight-year-old child. The texture and shape of the stone are natural and even aggressive.
Unfortunately, it was too small and soon became an immovable stone in the hands of the Eight Great Vajras.
The exchange students had something to do on the way.
