Being an otaku in the world of American comics

#131 - How should a mage choose skills?

The next day, just as dawn broke, a fierce wind swept over the hills, followed closely by a heavy rain.

The rain poured down like a waterfall, but in the distant sky, sunlight still pierced through the dark clouds.

Rays of light shone through layers of rain and the dense forest above, falling in beams.

Walking in such a forest, even the monotonous journey seemed to gain a touch of sacredness.

After completing his routine practice, Liang Yue continued to carry the spherical camera, following the dwarves who were several kilometers away, separated by two ridges.

During the journey, he soared, he jumped, he shuttled back and forth between the rocks and trees…

Just like yesterday's journey, relying on his increasingly refined and agile lightness skill, Liang Yue became more and more adept at the journey.

Rushing on, it was no longer just a monotonous and tedious adventure, it became a kind of training, and a ladder witnessing Liang Yue's self-growth.

What made him even more deeply involved and unable to extricate himself was that he could clearly feel this growth himself!

There were almost no obstacles, and no so-called shackles of human limits. It seemed that as long as Liang Yue was willing to calm down and carefully hone himself, his body and consciousness would always be in a state of rapid progress!

"This is probably the greatest benefit I have received after obtaining the system, right?"

Recalling his previous life, when Liang Yue was just a carefree high school student, he considered himself young and energetic, and habitually shed his sweat and exuberant hormones on the basketball court.

However, an occasional intense basketball game made him suddenly realize the cruelty of life, and he grew a lot from it.

Because in this intense confrontation, Liang Yue understood the limits of himself as a "human being."

He, who had always considered himself to have unlimited potential, could exhaust his physical strength, his muscles could weaken, and his spirit could be sluggish, but predictable growth would always accompany his life.

However, at a certain moment in that basketball game, Liang Yue truly realized the upper limit of his body.

At that time, he still had plenty of physical strength, and all his strength was yet to be exerted, but a certain insurmountable threshold and boundary in the dark made him experience the feeling of deficit and powerlessness for the first time in his life.

Although this feeling was quickly compensated for in a few breaths, Liang Yue suddenly realized the end of his body.

That invisible sense of restraint made him feel angry and helpless, and instantly gave rise to a sense of apathy.

At the same time, at the end of Liang Yue's state of mind, there was even a faint trace of inexplicable sadness.

However, after being reborn into this life, although the real world is full of crises, Liang Yue has always felt exceptionally satisfied in the depths of his heart.

Because now, he can clearly feel that the limit that once hindered him has disappeared without knowing it.

As long as he is willing to work hard to cultivate and constantly challenge his limits, Liang Yue can always maintain a high-speed progress mode visible to the naked eye.

This feeling is simply intoxicating!

… …

Soon, the monotonous journey passed by, and a day's time passed by like this.

Liang Yue walked and stopped along the way, stepping through the air with lightness skill, freely shuttling between the dense forest and the hills.

When his internal strength was exhausted, he stopped to use the "Mixed Yuan Gong" to breathe and transport internal strength. When he was hungry, he took out a beef pancake from the storage space to fill his stomach~

After a day's journey, both his internal strength and lightness skill have made considerable progress.

Especially for the practice of "Crossing the River with a Reed", it is almost about to break the current restrictions and advance to the fourth level of the exercise!

Even Liang Yue, as the person who experienced it, was surprised by this speed of progress!

In comparison, the group of dwarves, who were separated from him by several hills, seemed to be having a bit of an unpleasant time.

At this time, they were in a dilapidated mountain depression, where there was originally a farmer's hut, but now it has been completely abandoned, leaving only ruins in the weeds.

However, the dwarves still plan to camp here tonight.

Thorin and Gandalf had an argument, and then the two parted ways, and Gandalf left the group and disappeared.

Even Liang Yue at this time, after carefully searching every area around with the camera, failed to find the wizard's figure.

"No wonder he's called Gandalf, that old boy really has some tricks~!".

After searching the display screen for a while, and still not finding it, Liang Yue gave up.

As a serious servant of God, a demigod-level creature, Gandalf obviously has many secrets and cannot be measured by simple combat power.

Of course, if judging from combat power…

The level of this old wizard is at most able to draw with the Balrog of Middle-earth, and then die together.

So~ Liang Yue didn't take it too seriously.

At this time, the sun was gradually setting in the west, and as dusk approached, the light in the forest quickly dimmed.

Liang Yue wielded the iron pickaxe at will for a while, and in a short time, he dug out a simple room under a stone cliff. After setting up the magma stove, he began to cook.

If he remembered correctly, the orcs would not come to attack Thorin's group of dwarves tonight.

Besides the fact that Liang Yue had eliminated a scouting team of orcs last night, temporarily cutting off their source of information.

It is even more because the group of dwarves has now come to the territory of several trolls.

Trolls are a race that is stronger, taller, and more evil than orcs. Their attributes are more inclined to darkness, and they possess powerful combat power at night.

But their brains are very stupid, and once they are extremely hungry, they will eat anything that comes, no matter what it is.

Even small-scale orc scouting armies are unwilling to easily provoke them.

However, in this Middle-earth world, the weakness of trolls is also very obvious.

That is, they are afraid of sunlight~

And they are extremely afraid, no less than vampires!

Once directly exposed to sunlight, this kind of creature will turn into a stone statue in a short time.

Liang Yue found it hard to imagine how trolls with this fatal weakness could gain a foothold in this world~

"Excuse me, knight from~ unknown land, would you mind letting this old man come in and sit for a while? Hmm~ it would be even better if I could have a hearty dinner while I'm at it."

"… … Gandalf? Please come in."