Volume 4: How big is the heart, how vast is the earth Chapter 132: Face Changing Demon - Cloud
Don Angelo, who was standing in the distance, said: “……???”
It wasn't too incredible to flatten a mountain with a forbidden magic. Compared to the forbidden magic cast by high-level spellcasters, Evelyn only blew off the top of a small hill. This power was actually quite weak...
Especially when he saw that Evelyn's magic array was only a small ball, as long as Don Angelo was not crazy, he would not regard her as a high-level spellcaster above level three; the size of the array is equal to the strength of the spellcaster, and the smallest array of a third-level caster is three times that of Evelyn. Such a small array is not qualified to be friends with the big guy.
This made Anqiluo very confused. How could a weak second-level spellcaster imitate the magic fluctuations of a big boss? ! What kind of magical operation is this? !
What made her even more unbelievable was that after using the strength of a second-level spellcaster to release a pseudo-forbidden magic to cut off the top of the mountain, Evelyn was still not exhausted and continued to float in the air and cast spells? !
This is not magic!!
Just when Angelo felt that all this was unreal, she felt the fluctuations caused by Evelin's magic power, and then her face became even more incredible...
Dark elves also pursue the dual cultivation of magic and martial arts. Of course, their pursuit is not as high as that of the snow elves. Generally speaking, as long as they specialize in two or three spells to assist their own combat power, they do not feel the need for a decathlon. The Abyss Scythe, who has the title, is only at the level of a snow elf private in terms of magic training.
From a pragmatic point of view, this level is indeed enough... As a traveler, An Qiluo has first-class body movements on the continent, and with the help of his own spells, if we only talk about single-handed combat, if there is a personal ranking on the continent, An Qiluo will definitely be in the top thousand.
For example, now that Anqiluo has the ability to cast spells by himself, he can at least see where Evelyn is really strong, instead of just shouting 666 ignorantly...
——Evelyn’s magic fluctuations have changed!
The magnitude of the change is quite huge!
If the previous wind magic was a swift and short-lived storm, then the magic Evelyn was brewing now was like the waves that were steadily and slowly hitting the rocks on the shore. The long and powerful waves were so oppressive that it made people feel breathless.
Angelo looked solemn, frowning, and asked doubtfully: "What kind of magic is this... Cyril, have you ever seen such a magical fluctuation?"
Deputy Cyril shook his head blankly. His strength was much weaker than Angelo's. He could only feel that Evelyn, who was floating in the air, was using some dangerous magic, but he could not accurately sense the fluctuations of magic power.
Angelo stared at Evelyn. This kind of magic fluctuation was already very strange, and the casting time that was beyond her understanding made her even more confused. After a few seconds, she thought of something, and her eyes fell on the back of the devil cub on the ground. Her eyes twitched - come to think of it, Evelyn did call him a teacher, so... what would this devil cub teach Evelyn?
The Snow Wolf Clan is clearly a race that forbids magic. It is impossible for him to teach Evelyn magic, so why is he here?
As for the green dragon next to it - the Snow Wolf Clan is more reliable in teaching Evelyn magic than the Green Dragon instructing the forest elves.
There are also dragons coming in and out of the dungeon. How could Anqiluo not know what the dragons are? These guys who rely on their talents to do whatever they want are not as good as the dark elves in their understanding of magic!
The dragons can't even construct a magic circle diagram, and they still use the oldest hand-painted magic circle to protect their nest!
While Angelo was racking his brains, Evelyn finally completed the compression of the air, and a group of "water droplets" of varying sizes appeared in front of her.
These water droplets are not condensed from water elements in the air, but liquid air formed by extremely compressed air. They are carefully wrapped by Evelyn's magic power. They look harmless, but are actually more dangerous than alchemical bombs. Evelyn did not dare to be careless at all. She slowly pushed forward with both hands, carefully pushed the "water drops" towards the mountain, and distributed the water droplets in specific areas according to the experimental requirements.
It took more than ten seconds to fit the magic-wrapped "water drop" to the surface of the mountain. Evelyn breathed a sigh of relief and snapped her fingers at the same time to release the magic that isolated the liquid air.
“BOOM—BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!”
A series of roars exploded on the mountain and the mountain shook violently. Even Anqiluo, who was standing hundreds of meters away, felt the shaking of the earth and his face changed drastically - this was much more powerful than before!
It is impossible to cast forbidden magic twice in such a short period of time. Not to mention that Evelyn is only a second-level magician, even a third-level spellcaster would not be able to do so!
The Scythe of the Abyss cast its gaze towards Xiao Yun, its expression becoming increasingly solemn.
“F*ck, bah bah bah!!”
Xiao Yun, who was standing closer, had his face covered with smoke, dust and gravel, and he hurriedly stepped back.
"Hmph╭(╯^╰)╮!" Balke had a look of disdain on his face. He raised his hand and waved it. A strong wind appeared out of nowhere and swept forward with a whoosh. The dust and gravel that came close to him were blown outwards by the wind and dispersed in an arc.
The green dragon's move was quite extraordinary. The air around him instantly cleared up, and the wreckage of the mountain that was blown down to only its base was very conspicuous...
Evelin floated down from the sky, looking at the dusty Xiao Yun with excitement, tears sparkling in her eyes, her lips moving but no sound coming out. Xiao Yun knew that she was so excited that she lost her voice, so he wiped her face, showed a big smile and gave a thumbs up: "Not bad, you did a great job, Evelin, you put your knowledge into practice."
“Ah~~” Evelyn cried like a kitten, holding her face and turning around three times, then pounced on Xiao Yun and hung on him, “Great, teacher! I can do things that only forbidden magic can do!”
"It's said not to cuddle and hug each other, what a shame..." Xiao Yun grabbed Evelin's head and pushed her away with disdain, "You've worked hard for several months studying intermediate mathematics and elementary physics, isn't it natural for you to achieve such an application effect? And you're comparing it with the traditional magicians' magic application of fighting and killing, you're a bit promising!"
Evelyn didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Well, forbidden magic had no place in front of the teacher. She had used the wrong metaphor.
Balk's face turned black beside him. He felt that Xiao Yun was talking about him...
"Now it's just that the experiment succeeded and proved that our theory is correct. It's nothing." Xiao Yun said seriously, "The road to knowledge is easy to enter but difficult to exit. We have just touched the door of science and magic and stepped in. There is still a long way to go. Evelyn, don't be proud and complacent."
Evelin quickly restrained her expression and said honestly: “Yes, teacher.”
Xiao Yun nodded: "You still have to continue to hone your control over magic. Now that we have the theory, we also need to be able to apply the theory to practice. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Simply studying will not test the truth."
"Okay, teacher. So what should I do next?" Evelyn asked humbly.
Xiao Yun said forcefully: "Join the engineering team."
“…Huh?” Evelin suspected that she had heard it wrongly.
"I say, join the engineering team." Xiao Yun said solemnly and persuasively, "The engineering team builds bridges, paves roads, digs mountains and fills ditches. Every job must be done according to the plan and drawings. You use your air blasting ability to assist the engineering team in the construction. Whether it is digging the roadbed or opening the mountain, you must accurately follow the engineering team's scheduled plan. You cannot delay the construction period or accidentally injure your teammates. This is a long-term test, Evelyn, I believe you can do it."
“…” Evelin was simply shocked!
"Don't look like that. Didn't I tell you this? This is a test, but also a practice." Xiao Yun stretched out his hand and pulled Balk over. "The same is true for Balk's work at the flour mill. Every day, he extracts a large amount of water from the vermicelli without destroying its integrity. This is to hone Balk's ability to control magic and his instantaneous explosive power in applying magic. Look, Balk just blew away all the sand and dust accurately at once without leaking any. This is the result of his practice... You have to lay a solid foundation step by step for everything you do. How can you be afraid of hard work?"
“…” Evelin’s mouth twitched, but she had to show an expression of approval very painfully, and nodded with great reluctance but still with difficulty.
Balk looked dazed: "…" So you called me here just for this! Are you a devil?
“Ha, haha.”
An awkward yet polite, sarcastic yet reserved laugh was heard, and two dark elves approached nearby without anyone noticing.
"Can you make some noise when you walk?" Xiao Yun said dissatisfiedly.
Angelo stared at him with dead fish eyes, his mouth twitching slightly: "Your disciple Evelin saw us just now, but you scared her too much, so she didn't have time to remind us."
"Is that so? I misunderstood you two. Is there anything I can help you with?" Xiao Yun changed the subject smoothly. His attitude changed from being aloof a second ago to a friendly smile with a hint of curiosity. The tone and wording of his speech changed without any flaws.
Don Angelo was stunned by his shamelessness.
Deputy Cyril was completely stunned...
Balk & Evelyn had blank expressions on their faces. They were used to it, really.
That night, inside the tribe.
Xiao Yun led An Qiluo to the door of dormitory 7-9, called out Mumu, and pushed her in front of An Qiluo: "Let me introduce you to Mumu from our tribe. She is 35 years old, female, single, and the chief chef of the Snow Wolf Tribe Food Store in the West Coast Elf Port. She is the most popular chef and is good at hot and sour noodles, various types of noodles, stewed food, and barbecue. There is nothing that the cafeteria can't make that she can't cook. She is hardworking, diligent and lively, and has one year of work experience. If the underground city wants to open a branch of the Snow Wolf Tribe Food Store, I can't find a better person to be in charge than her."
Mumu looked silly and cute: "Meow meow meow?"
Angelo stared at the snow wolf, especially his chest, for about three seconds before reluctantly looking away: "You mean, female?"
"It's clear that Ms. Anqiluo has never had much contact with us grassland people." Xiao Yun calmly turned his body to the side and gestured to her to look at the residents playing and fighting on the kang in dormitory 7-9. "Can you count the male and female snow wolves and cats in there?"
Angelo: “Uh…”
Xiao Yun shouted inside again: "Dahe, come here."
Daha walked over leisurely from the kang.
Xiao Yun put his hand on Da He's shoulder and turned to An Qiluo: "Are you talking about a man or a woman?"
Anqiluo was caught off guard and was almost blinded by Dahe's overly handsome face and exposed chest muscles: "Hmm..."
Xiao Yun called out the lynx from the cat tribe again: "Guess whether this is a girl or a boy?"
Don Angelo bowed his head and said, "I'm sorry. I was wrong."
Evelyn, who was accompanying him, looked at the Scythe of the Abyss with sympathy. If you apologize to the teacher for the first time, there will be a second time... It's a full sense of déjà vu again!
After dragging the bewildered Mumu away, Xiao Yun continued to walk towards Xia's dormitory and called out the once ambitious leopard: "This is Xia, the leader of the cat tribe, a smart, flexible, energetic and motivated young man. Let him team up with Mumu to open a shop in your dungeon. As long as none of your big dark elves families are looking for trouble, there will be no problems."
...No one present thought that there was anything wrong with the tone of Xiao Yun, the young man, praising the young man.
Leopard Xia finally calmed down completely after bringing back twelve disabled cats.
It is difficult for ordinary people to know their own worth without experiencing great pain and hardship. After all, Xia is better than ordinary people. Xiao Yun observed him for a whole winter and found that this guy finally knew that his last name was not Long Aotian, and that he had to lower his head and work hard before achieving great things, so he thought about giving him a chance to take off.
Xia, who had no problem with his IQ and a keen sense of smell, knew that Ayun had seen the changes in him when he saw Ayun coming over with the dark elf.
If it was the old Xia, he would be angry that Xiao Yun's behavior was not "respectful" enough to him, but now... he would only admire Xiao Yun's differences from the bottom of his heart. When a person gets out of the stupid stage and looks back at his life, he will understand himself thoroughly. If he had always been standing on a high place and looking down on others, he would not be so kind to his "defeater".
Thinking that you are capable and being able to prove that you are capable are two completely different things. Xia, who has experienced all kinds of things since the changes in the tribe, has been able to recognize this.
Anqi Luo smiled proudly: "Don't worry, the title of Scythe of the Abyss is still useful in the dungeon."
Xiao Yun really appreciated this kind of arrogance that comes from strength, and happily pulled Xia and Mumu together to continue picking people from each dormitory - the good thing about having a large population is that if you need to do something, you can just pick out candidates at will, without having to count with your fingers like before.
A team of fourteen people, six snow wolves and eight cats, were brought to the activity room and told to go out to the underground city to work and earn money, and to establish a base outside the city. If they work behind closed doors, they will fall behind, and if they fall behind, they will be beaten. Therefore, the people of the grassland should not only develop themselves, but also have a window to the outside world, understand the outside world and let the outside world understand the people of the grassland. Opening a food store outside is the best way.
Xiao Yun did not intend to hide these truths and let others guess. There was no market for any emperor's mind schemes with Xiao Yun. Anyone who delayed work efficiency just to show off should be dragged out and beaten... So he didn't try to create a mysterious personality at all. After he assembled the team, he immediately explained all the details of their "field" mission, and explained clearly why each step was done in a certain way, so that no one would misunderstand his intentions.
Even when explaining these things, Xiao Yun asked Tang Angelo to sit next to him... After all, even if the grassland people and the dark elves were collectively hit by the aura of reduced intelligence, there would be no direct conflict of interest. When doing things, you should be as open as possible and don't be afraid to talk about it in the sun, because if a misunderstanding occurs, it will take a lot of time to resolve it...
So Don Angelo listened numbly to the one-hour on-site guidance of the Devil Cub, "Intelligence information collection using food stores as a window, training on worldly affairs and human relations", and two hours of "Food store operation manual, employee regulations one and two, pricing and cost accounting, how to deal with bad customers, how to guard against bad guys" ... and so on.
If he hadn't been in someone else's lair, Anqiluo would have had a strong urge to kidnap the cub Ayun - it was such a waste for this guy to be born a snow werewolf!
"It would be convenient for the forest elves to tie him up, but these greenskins are too proud to do such a thing. They are so reluctant to let a spellcaster become their apprentice. Ha... Oh, what a pity!" Anqiluo couldn't help but sigh. This pity was for the dark elves. The dark elves also had many spellcasters, but to convince those guys to take a snow wolf cub as their apprentice... Even if it was her, the Scythe of the Abyss, who said this, they would definitely have to fight.
An Qiluo knows his own family affairs and is quite clear about the character of his own people.
Evelin, who was accompanying the guests, was very calm. No matter how awesome or shameless Teacher Ayun was, she just had to get used to it.
After giving everyone an emergency pre-employment training and letting them go back to rest, Xiao Yun looked at the two elf ladies again, and his serious face quickly changed to a friendly and sociable smile: "Evelyn, you are also very tired today, go back and rest first."
Evelin understood immediately and got up and left without saying a word.
"Ms. Anqiluo, thank you very much for providing our tribe with the opportunity to enter the underground city and learn about the outside world." Xiao Yun said with a smile, "I heard that the underground world is also an adventure destination. A large number of adventurer teams come in and out every year, and they have to pay 30% tax to you dark elves?"
"Haha...Mr. Ayun is really direct." An Qiluo laughed stiffly.
"Of course, the more openly we disclose important matters, the better." Xiao Yun's expression remained unchanged. "Ms. Anqiluo, you can see that our tribe is not wealthy, and everyone lives a difficult life..."
"From what I've seen in the royal court, the tiger tribe is not necessarily as good as the snow wolf tribe at accumulating wealth." An Qiluo said seriously. No one has ever been able to take advantage of the dark elves in terms of money, and she will not admit defeat in this regard!
"That's not the case. The Tiger Tribe was so busy preparing for war that they neglected the development of people's livelihood. Our financial resources are far inferior to those of the Tiger Tribe." Xiao Yun said with a smile.
An Qiluo was not surprised that the remote Snow Wolf Tribe also knew about the Tiger Tribe's situation. To be honest, after seeing this cunning cub, nothing that happened here would be enough to shock her: "Please understand, Mr. Ayun, the tax revenue from the dungeon is an important source of funds for us dark elves. This is the consensus of the mistress and all the big families, and it is not something that a small walker like me can interfere with."
Xiao Yun sighed, "In this case... I can only say sorry. It's not easy for us poor people on the grassland to make a little money. We can't afford the taxes in the dungeon. We'd better open this branch in the forest elves." He forced a smile and said, "Of course, I personally hope to see the prosperity of the dungeon. If there is a chance in the future, please forgive me, Ms. Anqiluo."
An Qiluo: “???” Is this how you negotiate? ! Can you change your face a little slower? !
Xiao Yun added with a smile: "The forest elves only charge us one-thirty percent tax, and they treat the Adventurer's Association the same. In the second half of last year, the fleets from the Elf Port came again and again. This year, there will surely be more people coming. In the future, you two elves can exchange experiences in running adventure resorts."
Anqiluo's mouth twitched with anger - no wonder she often heard adventurers mention the Elven Forest, it turned out that these greenskins broke the rules... So you deliberately sent Evelynn away just to threaten me with this matter? !
Xiao Yun showed a longing look: "It's really enviable that you can receive adventurers from all over the place nearby. It would be great if we grassland people also have such strength. Adventurers have to pay for food, drink, accommodation and sleep when they enter the grassland. We can make a lot of money just by opening hotels and food stores in the places where adventurers must pass. We can also use the convenience of being a landlord to sell information, such as which route has valuable monsters, which team is short of people, who is in a hurry to use money and has good goods to sell... If we sell all this information, it will be a considerable income. By the way, if the capital is enough, we can also set up a trading house in the tribe to buy at the bottom. Anyway, the adventurers' harvests have to be resold by merchants, so we might as well make the money from the resale ourselves... The more adventurers we attract, the more we can make. This business is too cost-effective."
Before Anqiluo's angry expression disappeared, he was shocked, which lowered the beauty of this supermodel-level girl by a lot...
"There are so many ways to make money from adventurers, and make them willingly pay and be grateful to you. Why do you dark elves control such a large underground world but only focus on collecting taxes?" Xiao Yun showed a perfect childish expression of doubt, staring at Anqiluo's eyes curiously, "Could it be that you dark elves are very busy and don't have the manpower to manage the dungeon, so you can only choose such a simple, crude and disgusting profit model?"
He deliberately sighed heavily, his eyes showing sympathy, and whispered softly: "It's really not easy for the Dark Elf Matron..."
An Qiluo almost spat out a mouthful of blood... If she couldn't hear the hidden meaning of Xiao Yun's words, then her life would be in vain. This guy was simply despising them, the followers trusted by the mistress!
Xiao Yunduan picked up the cup and drank water leisurely. Now it was time to make a choice and he didn't need to rush.
The great god of the forest elves is too close, and we have no choice but to bow our heads. As for the dark elves, please don't act cool before you deal with the dwarf king... No one has ever taken advantage of us in terms of money. The forest elves can't do it, and neither can you dark elves. He will never admit defeat in this regard!
