The second mount
"Master, are you calling me?" What appeared in front of Ashu Rufate's eyes was a girl wearing a half-naked nightgown and rubbing her eyes lazy. This should have been quite attractive. However, her body and the surrounding environment were completely inconsistent and out of place, and it was a complete phantom.
"What's going on with you like this? You're just a phantom."
"I just present a look that might make you happy." In just a moment, Carrie has become normal. She is wearing ordinary local Dirlo, and only she still has that weird and cute rabbit ear hat on her head.
“It’s time for us to start the magic practice.”
"Well, Carrie will help you."
He walked to the farthest distance from the black magic symbol and began to practice. The feeling of being exposed to magic was strange, which was completely different from the feeling of holding a sword. This made him believe that before he lost his memory, he should be a warrior who was good at fighting weapons, rather than a mage.
"Yes, Master, that's it, coordinate the energy and start the spell."
He opened his mouth and spit out several complex syllables. With each syllable, energy surged wildly in the air. In an instant, the Withering Battle Blade appeared in his hand, and the red blood armor appeared on him... Except for the helmet barely retained above his head, other armor parts fell to the ground one after another.
It failed again. Originally, this magic was to instantly teleport weapons and armor from afar to the body, but it was passed, but it was not delivered.
"No, it's already good. Master, you're making great progress. You can now practice teleporting your equipment back to your original location."
Ashrufate began to drive another magic, armor, and weapons, to disappear from his hands one by one, and then reappeared on the edge of the black magic symbol.
"Very good, master, you've mastered it. This way you can summon your weapon and armor when you need it, without taking it with you, and attracting attention. As for teleportation, you can only rely on long-term practice to make perfect."
"Magic seems to be very difficult, why do I think it's not particularly difficult?"
"Master, that's because you are no longer a human being. You belong to... well... magical creatures. So it's natural for you to dominate magical energy and come naturally. You should practice other magic now."
"Not a human? Then how could I be tired and hungry in the desert and thirsty... I had enough torture? But you told me that I could travel through the desert without any equipment!"
"Have you not successfully crossed the desert? Although you are thirsty, hungry, and tired, you will never die because of this. The reason you feel this way is because of your cell replacement speed..."
"What is cell replacement speed?" Ashu Rufate interrupted Carrie impatiently.
"Sorry, you only have the second level of artificial intelligence use permission." Carrie stuck out her tongue. "I can't explain these nouns."
Ash Rufate could only roll his eyes. Alas, forget it, there will always be no mistakes in protecting his body.
"Okay, start other magic practices."
At dawn, he left the basement.
"Okay, Carrie, you can rest."
"Okay, but Carrie still wants to suggest to you that you should get a mount, otherwise it will not be in line with your noble status...and it will not be conducive to your long journey."
"With the little salary that the miser provides, how can I buy a good horse?! Let's talk about it when I have money!"
"I think buying horses is not a good choice. I suggest you make a mount by yourself."
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Because the city of Tyro is indeed an extremely peaceful place where birds do not shit, the main job as the garrison captain is to do nothing. After breakfast, Ashu Ruffat went to the military camp and announced the mayor's plan to the soldiers. Although this decision caused a little complaint, most people were still happy to carry out an expedition. Because they were very quiet and thoughtful, as soldiers, they naturally wanted to move.
After completing this, Ashu Rufate returned to the city. The city of Tyro is a small place and nothing can be hidden from anyone. He remembers that a horse died a few days ago.
"Boss, it seems you are in a little trouble." When Ash Rufate walked into the inn, he saw the boss sitting on the stool with a frown.
"Little trouble? Haha, I really hope it's a little trouble. Three days ago, my old horse died. Well, this was expected, because that poor old guy is too old and can no longer carry people. Yesterday, my most proud 'Chasing Wind Horse' also died. I've suffered a lot now!"
Ashu Rufate looked in the direction pointed by the boss's hand and saw the dead black horse.
"Yeah, dead?"
"That's right, it's as true as you came to my house! The horse meat that died of illness cannot be eaten at all. So I suffered a huge loss!" The inn owner said with a wry smile.
"How about let me reduce your losses? I'm willing to pay... fifteen silver coins to buy this dead horse!"
"Ha, really? Why are you interested in dead horses?"
"Because you need a complete picture of horse skin... Of course it doesn't matter to you."
"Of course, of course, Captain, tell me how to get me those fifteen silver coins."
"It's very simple. You just need to drag the dead horse to the edge of the river beach outside the city. After lunch, I will wait for you with my money and skinning tools. Then you can leave with the money and I will do it myself and get myself a complete horse skin."
This unexpected gain made the inn owner look a little excited. After the garrison captain left, he did not delay for a minute and started to earn fifteen silver coins. If Zhui Fengma was alive, it could be worth at least fifty silver coins, but if he died, it was really worthy of being able to sell fifteen silver coins.
Captain Ashrufate was very trustworthy. At noon, the innkeeper saw him on the edge of the river. Ashrufate was carrying a huge backpack and was wearing a bunch of various tools.
"Okay, I'll do the rest myself." Ashu Rufat took off his bag and handed the boss fifteen silver coins. The latter hadn't had lunch yet, so he went back to have dinner without stopping for a moment.
Seeing the boss go away, Ashu Rufate opened his backpack and poured out the things inside. This was all kinds of rags he bought from the leather maker, blacksmith and carpenter in the city in the morning.
Then he arranged the skinning tool and prepared to take action. Although he had a special skinning knife in his hand, he didn't know how to take action for a while when facing the huge dead horse. There was nothing he could do.
"Carry."
“Yes, master.”
"You can help me."
"Yes, Master, on the premise that you are completely voluntarily, I will temporarily obtain the authority to dominate your body."
"Okay, I'm completely willing, you can do it quickly."
Ashu Rufate relaxed his body, and then he felt his hands start to move. He cut the first hole from the horse's abdomen. His fingers flexibly manipulated the skinning knife, which was extremely quick and accurate to peel the horse off the dead horse. The skillful and rapid movement was enough to make a professional butcher amazed.
A piece of horse skin was completely complete and spread out on the ground without any leakage.
But that's more than that. Under Carrie's manipulation, he used the same speed, high speed and clever dismembered the horse's corpse and peeled the bones out of the muscles and internal organs.
When he completed the work thoroughly, the horse corpse was made into three parts. One part was useless horse flesh and internal organs, one part was complete horse bones, and the last part was horse skin.
"Are you sure it's okay? Carrie?"
"No problem, the current master will definitely do it!"
Ashrufate concentrated the power of magic and injected a whole mass of magic power into the horse bones. The magic connected the originally motionless horse bones... Then he saw the horse's bones stand up, just like it was still flesh before it was alive, with unclean light flashing in his eyes.
This vision made him take a step back. This is the power of black magic, how incredible.
"Don't be surprised, master, this is a very basic technology for you. Leave the rest to me."
Carrie used his hands to skillfully fill the metal and leather into the bare body of the skeleton horse. After stuffing everything in, Carrie lifted up the horse's skin and wrapped the horse's skin back on the skeleton horse with the power of magic. Finally, he picked up the horse's eyes and stuffed it back into the horse's sockets.
Although all the meat and internal organs were dug out, the horse looked exactly the same as before.
"Can this horse be ridden?" Ashu Rufate touched the horse. Because of the leather materials filled in the body, it felt very similar to a real horse.
"Of course, because it is all driven by magic, it is much better than an average horse. It is absolutely tame, fast, and there is no need to worry about getting sick and dying and lame."
"Why do I need to use horse bones? Can I make one directly with wood or something and then use black magic to drive it?"
"You can drive, but every detail, that is, every step and action of the horse, you must cast spells. The wood itself does not have the instinct to move. So I suggest that even if you are a wooden horse, you should install a horse's skull. In this way, your mount has the instinct to move and is effortless to manipulate. And borrowing horse bones can avoid the trouble of shaping the body. It takes a lot of effort to carve a wooden horse with the same structure as a real horse..."
"Okay OK, anyway, I understand! What are you doing below?"
"I suggest you let it leave first and make it accustomed to manipulating this new body. In a sense, it is a brand new creature, a magical creature. Although its power is in your magic, it still has some instincts from its lifetime."
"There is no saddle anyway!" Ashu Rufat let go of the magical connection, and the newly resurrected horse was free and ran away invisible.
"How do I get it back?"
"Go back here when you need it, just concentrate magical energy. Its instinct will bring it back to you. Because its new life comes entirely from your magic. Once the magical energy is exhausted, it will become a dead object again."
It was getting late. Ashu Rufate quickly lit a fire on the river beach and burned the horse meat to avoid spreading the disease. After completing the work, he packed up his remaining tools and walked towards the city of Tilo.
The following thing is to buy a saddle... Why is the saddle so expensive? Damn it, you shouldn't use fifteen silver coins!
A figure blocked the road far ahead.
It was dusk, and it was when farmers were about to set out from the fields and walk home. There shouldn't be anyone here on the river beach. Ashu Rufate chose to deal with the dead horse here, and he saw this.
That posture, blocking the middle of the path without moving... What does this mean? Are the robbers blocking the road?
But that figure, the long braid behind it... it was a woman.
Chapter completed!