Chapter 22 The Shield of Bones
"Qin Lun, Qin Lun~~" As soon as Michelle walked out not far under the leadership of the Great Druid Vima, the team rushed over from behind with panting.
"Michelle?" Qin Lun was slightly surprised. Could it be that the Centaur girl changed her mind temporarily and was unwilling to be an apprentice to Hallke?
"This... Master Holk asked me to hand this to you!" Michelle flushed and stuffed a spell scroll with a golden rune into Qin Lun's hand, then turned around and ran away with his ponytail.
"This is OK!" Several apostles in the team were stunned.
"This obviously does not conform to the principle of equivalent exchange!" Hansen said expressionlessly, "It is a good thing for a young man to be popular. In the next world, I will also change my face!"
"Okay, don't envy it. You have the monkey bloodline, and you don't have the temperament of an elf when you change your face!" Hill sarcastically mercilessly.
"Haha, Qin Lun, do you want me to say hello to Holk and let you stay!" Weima, who is also an elf, asked with a smile.
"No, no need!" Qin Lun looked at Michelle's back, his eyes flashed slightly, and he put the scroll in his arms.
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"Everyone rests here for a night and continues to go on the road tomorrow!" The druid jumped out of the "carriage" and said to everyone with a smile.
The "carriage" they ride is a van pulled by a forest reindeer. Compared with the main world of Nars, the world does not have modern technology and daily life is relatively simple.
Qin Lun looked up at the wooden house in front of him. This was a station on the way set up by major forces to facilitate communication and trade. Every force in the inner world is actually equivalent to a living area. Apart from the animal and plant of the inner world itself, there are not many intelligent lives.
There are thousands of people in a settlement that are considered a great power. This is because there has not been a big war in the world in the past hundred years. The world is full of magical elements, and most creatures, including non-intelligent creatures, have strong vitality. Even the lowest-level horned rabbits and hamsters have certain magical abilities.
If you don’t have the ability to protect yourself, it will be quite dangerous. Therefore, new lives born in the inner world are often sent to the outer world and handed over to a special institution for raising. When they grow up and if their parents are still alive, they will be taken back to the inner world, or let them live independently in the main world.
"Welcome to the Unicorn Hotel!" As soon as everyone arrived in front of the inn, the wooden door opened automatically. The originally dim room had orange lights lit up, and everyone suddenly saw a strange creature standing behind the door.
The body of this creature is composed of a head and tentacles, which is a bit like the legendary evil eye monster. The head is like a huge light bulb, with a huge eyeball in the center, and eight thick and flexible tentacles are connected below. Four of them support the body, and the other four tentacles hold rags, brooms and other objects, which is amazing.
"It is called Fenx, it is a plain demon-eyed monster. It is hired by the sheltered camp and is here to manage the inn!" Weima smiled and introduced to everyone, "Fenx is very capable. Tell it if you need it!"
"Master Weima, are they the visitors to the watch world you are receiving this time?" Fenx's huge eyeball cracked a big mouth full of jagged teeth, looking at everyone.
"Hello, Fenx!" Everyone was a little furious when they were seen by it, and went into the station sideways and sat honestly around the large round table in the center of the hall.
Except for Fenx, there are no other guests. The world is vast and sparsely populated. It is already quite busy to have visitors once a month.
"Fenx, I'll go upstairs and rest for a while, you'll come to entertain them!" Weima yawned lazily and walked towards the stairs.
"Guys, what do you want to eat?" Fenx turned around from behind the bar and placed a board on the dining table, full of food and drinks.
Everyone looked at the names of these foods that they had never seen before, and they were a little overwhelmed.
"Fenx... sir, do you have any good suggestions?" Sass asked carefully. This time he decided to ask clearly before eating, so as to avoid eating something strange.
"Hehe, what I want to say is that the plain giant mite meat is good, tender and juicy, and fried green-winged locusts are also OK, and then a cup of fluorescent bat urine..." Fenx tilted the giant, grinned, revealing his big mouth full of serrated teeth, and looked at everyone with a smile.
"Hey, Finks, don't bully newcomers, give them a menu to show the world!" Weima showed her head from the entrance of the stairs and warned with a smile.
"Yes, Master Weima!" Fenx rolled his eyes wide, showed a boring expression, lazily took back the menu and turned back to the bar.
When it turned back, it put down a few large wooden plates in front of the everyone's table. Everyone became familiar with the food in it. Mashed potatoes, a few roast chicken, a large plate of beef, some pastries and a small bucket of dark beer.
"Well, gentlemen, I only prepare these world-renowned foods here, you can eat them all!"
"I understand. At Holk's house, those grassland elves must have fooled us!" When Fenx turned and left, Hanson's face suddenly changed and he said gritting his teeth.
The main world of Nars and the inner world are always communicated. Master Holk is also a human. Even if he often eats some rare foods full of magic, it is impossible to completely cut off human food. When the grassland elves receive everyone, they obviously deliberately teased everyone with food such as the harp's eggs.
"Hehe, the food on the surface of the world is barren and unnutritious. What's the food? Since you have entered the inner world, you must learn to get used to the food here!" Fenx seemed to have not used supper yet, and was eating a large plate of food on another table.
When everyone heard this, they looked at what it was eating and looked ugly. It was a big beetle jumping around. Each one was the size of a fist and had a hideous shape. However, Fenx ate with relish, skillfully lifted the beetle's back shell with tentacles, put it in his serrated mouth to suck. The green juice slowly dripped down his mouth.
"Vomit!" Cola's face turned pale, he sighed, and pushed open the tray in front of him, and could not eat it at all. Anyway, even if the apostle didn't eat for a few days, he would only reduce his health and would not die.
After using some food, Qin Lun went upstairs alone to rest. This inn was not very big, and he could only have a room for two people. However, the clean and tidy room and the furnishings made him feel relieved.
Qin Lun took out the scroll that Michel gave him before leaving and found that it was a defensive and consumed spell "Bone Shield". This scroll can be activated by will, and will produce bone shields rotating around the body on three sides, and has good defense capabilities for both physical and spell attacks.
Hallke would not look at Qin Lun differently, it was obviously a self-defense item that Michel specially asked for him.
There was nothing to say all night, and the next day Weima came together and urged everyone to continue on the road.
The reindeer carriage is actually not slower than the cars in the main world. Its speed is no less than 100 kilometers per hour on the vast plain. Moreover, the carriage has a protective layer inspired by magic crystals, which has both protective effects and buffering and shock absorption, which basically does not make everyone in the car feel very bumpy.
After two consecutive days of rushing, they saw a huge forest like a surf on the horizon on the next evening, and the silent forest finally arrived!
"I finally got home!" Weima's tone was filled with joy.
"Master Weima, how much time will it take to get from outside the forest to the camp?" Qin Lun leaned against Weima and asked softly.
Along the way, because Qin Lun has the elf bloodline, the druid has the gentlest attitude towards him, and basically has questions and answers. The rest of the team were happy and relaxed. In Hansen's words, it was the duty of a young man.
"Haha, the Silent Forest is huge, occupying forty percent of the southern hills. If we were walking, we would not be able to reach the center of the forest for a week. However, there is a small teleportation array outside the forest that allows us to enter the camp directly, which doesn't take much time!" Weima replied with a chuckling.
More than half an hour later, everyone came to a forest clearing. The woodland was empty, with a bluestone altar engraved on it, which was engraved with a huge teleportation array. There were some empty tents and broken wooden stakes around the altar, and a long-extinguished mud bonfire.
The Great Druid looked up at the sky and said to everyone: "At this time, the camp has restricted teleportation. We have to stay here for one night so that we can teleport into the camp tomorrow morning!"
Everyone took out sleeping bags and food from the carriage, cleaned the camp, picked up some dead branches and firewood from nearby, and lit a bonfire.
The warm flames dispelled the cold air from everyone's body. Weima took out a small package from her arms and threw some dry mushrooms into the big pot. There were also lamb and vegetables that everyone had taken from the inn. They could only eat the big pot meal for this evening.
"Master Weima, what are you putting?" Seeing Weima put some red and green powder into the big pot, Kora asked quickly with lingering fear.
"Haha, don't worry, these are the seasonings I made myself. They are basically powders ground from the roots of the plant and fruits!" Weima threw the small bag in her hand to Kora, "I'll give you the rest. You just arrived at the camp and there will be some inconvenience in food, clothing, housing and transportation. You should adapt to the daily life in the camp as soon as possible!"
"Master Weima, do you need to take turns to serve nights at night?" Hill asked cautiously.
"No, this is the periphery of the forest, there are no large beasts, and there are warning magic circles around it, so animals will not cross the line!" Weima shook her head without any worries, "You guys have a break early, tomorrow..."
"Ao!" Before Weima finished speaking, a giant bear, nearly four meters tall, stood up in the grass in front of the camp, and raised his palms to roar at everyone. The giant bear looked very similar to the bears that everyone remembered, but the hair on its body was very long, and the mane on its head was even more hung down like a Beatle.
"That's..." Everyone stood up nervously.
"Sit down, it's a long-haired bear, attracted by the fragrance of food. Don't scare it!" Weima took out a large wooden plate, shook a few spoons of mutton from the big pot, and walked towards the long-haired bear, which was several times the size of hers.
"She told us not to scare it!" Sass looked at the big druid's back and smiled bitterly.
"She said there were no large beasts outside the forest!" Hansen said expressionlessly.
Chapter completed!