Chapter 317 The view from the top of the mountain
Although the Tushan vividly depicts this towering hill that rises from the ground and is very disproportionate to the surrounding environment, it cannot conceal the perfunctory and incompetence of the name. It separates the Cult and the United Kingdom of Hoya like a raised finger, and at the same time casts a large shadow to the Thunder Army's garrison to block the sudden and vicious sunshine that afternoon. Feich and Shani are sitting on the top of the mountain, leaning against a huge rock, completely hidden in the shadow, looking at the military camp at the foot of the mountain leisurely.
"Do you want to eat grilled sausage? I have venison and horse meat left here. Which one do you choose?" Feiqi gently touched Shani with her shoulders, and after receiving the reply, he said: "I actually guessed that you would like venison, so I asked the chef to prepare more. It is always beneficial to manage the food in the camp."
Feiqi took out a raw sausage slightly thicker than his thumb from the space bag and cut it into three to four centimeters with a knife. Since there is no concept of time in the space bag, the venison sausage is exactly the same as when it was put in before. It was just completed by the chef. Feiqi held the sausage in his palm, and the magic formed high-temperature erythema on his skin, quickly heating the sausage.
The wind blew away the fragrance, the soil buried the oil, and the mouth and stomach destroyed the traces of the meat sausages. Shani was rarely wearing a veil. All her snake hair was dancing freely, and some even mischievously went to grab the meat sausages just now. Feiqi took the anti-paralytic talisman and stared at Shani with her head tilted, which made her feel a little embarrassed. "Don't always look at me, you are here to detect the Thunder Army."
"I have Hawkeye meditation, and they can't run away, which allows me to save my eyes and stare at the most beautiful scenery." Feiqi said a good sentence in the previous paragraph, but it won't work later: "I was just thinking, why do your snake hair also grab food? Does it have a digestive system, too?"
In an instant, at least forty snake hairs spit out snake letters at Fitch to express dissatisfaction, while the rest stared at him. Shani closed her hair and said, "No, snake hair cannot eat, they are just making fun of it. However, some snake hairs do have teeth and can bite off the flesh, but they will spit it out later. Do you think this is strange?"
"It's strange, there's a little bit, but it's more interesting. It's mainly because after seeing you and knowing you, I feel more and more firmly..." Feiqi paused for a while, looked at Shanny's eyes before saying in a gentle tone: "How colorful and beautiful life is."
The wind blew from the side, and the snake's hair swayed, like the leisurely dance of seaweed. Shani smiled, leaning on the rock relaxedly, looking at Feiqi with a gentle look. "It's great that you can say this. My dream since childhood is this: find someone who is not afraid of me, can withstand the power of paralysis, and can treat me well for the rest of her life."
"Then your request is too simple, right? First of all, it shouldn't be your favorite?"
"Of course I like you, it's my luck," Shani said. "My Medusa lineage has been getting stronger with age. The elves have used many methods to stop this trend, so I knew since I was a child that I had almost no choice in the future. People who can withstand paralyzed eyes basically do not exist, and I don't want to find another monster."
"I...is almost a monster."
"No, you are not a monster, nor am I. We are just different from others." Shani said: "Apart from the numb eyes and snake hair, I don't think I am different from other girls. And you, Feiqi, you are just a master who is very good at transforming. No matter what form you use, you have never changed your mind and soul. And in comparison, you are the human body now, and I will never be able to remove these snake hairs unless I can completely control the use of the numb ability."
Shani raised her left hand, and the earth element commanded the ring's smoke crystal core gem to reflect a crystal clear light on her middle finger, and the magic power flowed through her fingertips. Some fine sand and stones flew around Shani's arm, gathering as she wanted to the center, forming a rough stone ball. She threw the stone ball out, smashed it on the rock with a bang, and restored it to fine sand and stone.
"You gave me two things, magic and earth element command rings, which are very helpful for me to practice controlling paralysis of gaze." Shani said: "After you taught me the magic matrix and mana meditation, I can control the surrounding earth elements through the ring. At the same time, I found that paralysis of gaze also contains part of the power of earth element, which can also be guided. I am practicing this now. Although I cannot stop paralysis in my eyes, I can focus and guide it to act in the direction of no one. Isn't it safe?"
Feiqi thought about it and shook his head gently: "I think it's better to find a way to control this power so that it can be turned on and off as you wish. Any spell has to pay a price, and the essence of mana is the power of the soul. I'm worried that the numb eyes will continue to consume your soul."
"I don't feel this way." Shani was startled by Feiqi's statement, thought about it carefully, then shook her head with all the snake hair, smiled and slapped Feiqi, and said, "Don't worry, have you ever seen dragons weaken because of spitting fire? When I was a child, I had been staring at the elves for a while, constantly using my numb eyes, and never felt tired."
"Stay looking at the elves? Then won't there be more elves like scarecrows on the Elf Island?" Feiqi also smiled: "Are the elves treating you very well? Wouldn't you be beaten with a naughty look?"
Shani held her cheeks with her hands and said with a slightly tilted face: "At that time, my eyes only made the elves feel itchy, and scratching them with their hands doesn't work. It's very interesting. The elves have never hit me, they just ignored me. In addition to paying attention to my food and drink, the most basic elves and customs that taught me, I was transparent in their eyes. Later, they found out that they asked more questions after they numbed eyes, but they were also abilities to me, not caring about me."
"Then your childhood life on Elf Island is really miserable."
"It's okay, at least Anne and Benny, and later met Qiao Duo." Shani said: "Jo Duo is a natural child king. He is very smart and has a strong ability to communicate. He just likes to talk nonsense, especially for people he just met. I still remember that at the beginning, he asked the three of us to try to seduce you and test your character."
"I felt something was wrong at that time. I was just a little handsome, so I wouldn't have let the three big beauties pounce on each other."
"Hahaha! You're so embarrassed to say it!" Shani reached out and pinched Feichi's belly, "You are a little fat, not a little handsome!"
"Give me some time, my body is very plastic." Feiqi gave up the idea of eating another grilled sausage and asked curiously: "What would have happened if I had fallen into the trap?"
"Benie will beat you up, or I will numb you for a while, and then write in ink on your face. But I didn't think about whether it was stupid or lustful." Shanie blinked, all her snake hair was posing a crazy laugh. "Think about it now, if it weren't for them, I probably wouldn't have been able to hold on until you appeared. The druid among the elf had been trying to figure out what was going on, and he called me to go there in a few days and check it with spell rituals. Although it didn't hurt, it bothered me."
"If you want to settle the score with the elf druid, I can sneak back and beat the camp up. By the way, are the elves who bullied you in the camp?"
"No, I don't hold a grudge against them. But Beni said all day long that she wanted to find an opportunity to beat them up, she was worse than me."
Being worse than you means you are also miserable. Feiqi sighed and hugged Shani in his arms: "You rarely talk about childhood things, and you can vent all the uncomfortable memories. Those will not happen again..."
"It's not as miserable as you think!" Shani slapped Feich's chest. "After I put on a veil, my numb eyes were blocked, and I could go everywhere, and the elves would not stop it. However, when Benny's bloodline was in an emotional outbreak, it would lead to crazy, so she had to bear the guarded eyes wherever she went. Many elves didn't want her to approach herself. At most, I would only be blocked by her eyes, and after she went crazy, she was beaten by the elves and the druids many times."
"The six-armed snake demon bloodline... The six-armed snake demon is a very powerful demon. The power of chaos is in this bloodline. It is indeed difficult to deal with. But what I am more curious about is your father. Where did he find your mother and Benny's mother? Think about it, the six-armed snake demon and Medusa, which are very rare in Yongli Continent."
"I don't know either. She didn't say anything when I met Beni. But I saw that she was very happy when she was with Marelis and was in good mood. This is a good phenomenon, which means that her blood problems did not occur again." Shani suddenly said, "I almost forgot. Beni said that she had a gift to you, so I put it in the space bag and stood it."
Shani has always liked to carry all kinds of things for life with her to take out when she and Feich needed it, so Feich gave her the largest space bag. She stuffed a lot of fabric, thread and sewing tools into it, so it took a while to take out the "gift".
It was an oak box with a rough surface but no hand grinding. It was hung with a lock and sealed tightly. Open the lock, eight thick cigars were arranged inside, twenty-four long alchemy matches and small scissors were placed at the bottom. The lid was painted inside how to taste the cigars using the tools inside, and then there were blessings written by Benny and Marelis to Fitch.
"Because of the mysterious mist, you don't like smoking mages, but these are gifts, not to change your preferences." Shani said: "It seems that Marelis is a good tobacco master, and Benny is learning from him. Maybe he used his superb tobacco technology to arouse the favor of the Six-Armed Snake Demon and Medusa. Who can tell me this accurately?"
"I have a trick too!" Feiqi closed the lid of the cigar, reached out and began to gently stroke Shani's hair. Shani really liked the feeling of Feiqi's fingers penetrated deep into the snake's hair, directly touching and rubbing her scalp, and she would always giggle at this time.
"Okay, stop making trouble! You have to look at the Thunder Army below!" Shani broke free from the clutches and said, "As you said, now is the war period, and it is a serious time, so you can't go out for autumn outings. Why don't you do as you come here? You can't report to the Earl when you go back, saying that you have been watching on the top of the mountain for a long time, and have not discovered anything, and have done nothing, right?"
"I didn't do anything." Feiqi put the cigar box into his own space bag and continued to show off in front of Shanny: "Look below, it looks like a temporary camp built next to the village, but it is actually very knowledgeable. I can only see it after this period of training and learning. The commander below made full use of the terrain, buildings, and magic circles to protect the camp layer by layer, greatly increasing the difficulty of infiltration. I even suspected that there were traps inside, and they would immediately surrounded me and seize it when I tried to enter the illusion or teleportation."
"Is there any? I didn't see it at all." Shani's snake hair was posing in doubt.
"Hehe." Feiqi raised his right hand and shook it. A white mitral ring on his thumb was wide and thick, like a ring cut by an arrow feather. His palm was facing upward, and he could see the ring sunken at the fingertips, and there was a pearl not much larger than the rice grains. He shook his thumb three times in a row, and the pearl rolled down to the palm, and then quickly became larger. The crystal ball "Eye of Koktal" showed its true body.
A ferocious snake head appeared in the crystal ball, its eyes were smoldering with purple flames, and the flying flames kept changing into runes before dissipating, hovering above the snake head. It opened its mouth to reveal its sharp and disordered teeth, swinging its head to show the bone spurs like a dagger behind its neck, and its claws like a spear-tip waving rebelliously in the void, but Koktal's eyes were full of tame gazes. It quickly stopped swaying, waiting quietly for the orders like a servant.
"Show me the situation of the camp below."
The snake turned its head and disappeared in the crystal ball, but the image inside the ball also began to move. In Feiqi's view, this "eye ball" crystal is a display, and the chaotic serpent of Koktal is a drone. Unlike the drone in general, Koktal itself has the ability to move space, distance, and obstacles, and it will only slightly increase the user's mana consumption. As a chaotic serpent, Koktal can be completely invisible, untouchable, without sound, smell, and mana fluctuations. Even with the ability to distort reality, it can make itself "not exist", thus fooling the barrier formed by spells. It can independently choose what method to use to complete Feiqi's instructions, and all it needs is a little bit of mana.
Feiqi held the crystal ball in his right hand, moving back and forth, left and right, and swinging left and right. The image in the crystal ball moved with the gesture. In this way, the two of them could see everything in the camp.
Koktal passed through the tent, shuttled and galloped freely until Feich found the Thunder Army's command camp and saw the Paladin who led the army this time. This was a strong middle-aged man with extremely wide shoulders and super thick chest, with a short black braid and a beard. His muscles were solid and sharp eyes, and he was the kind of person who would never want to be punched by him. Three priests and four paladins sat in front of him around the map, each with serious expressions and silent expressions.
Chapter completed!