Chapter 592: The Magic House's Feeding

Mimi has strong mobility; don't let its long legs and feet fool you with their seemingly slow movement, for every step it takes covers a great distance! Moreover, because of its long legs, the overall height of the house exceeds the average height of the trees in this mountain forest, so they don't have to consider the undulations of the terrain at all when moving, nor do they face the problem of being blocked by tree roots, which is common in forests.

Before long, Mimi returned to its previous position and sat down with a boom.

Jier pushed open the door and discovered that outside the door was already the clearing in the mountain hollow.

Most of the things he had set out to do on this trip were completed, and Jier felt a great sense of relief that he had managed to handle Yamila, the 【Messenger of Flame】, through peaceful trade, because he was completely unable to deal with this Magic House controlled by Yamila; if Yamila insisted on getting involved in the battle at the Jiedian and becoming his enemy, then things would become very complicated.

Things would exceed the scope of what he could control, and by then, the Warriors under his command would inevitably suffer heavy casualties, and if he himself wanted to defeat the enemy, he would likely have to bring out all his skills. As for the Villagers of Changmai Village, who were the primary targets, he was not optimistic about how many would survive.

"Then I'm setting off. You all just wait here for me; I guarantee I'll bring Mimi the animals it likes to eat before dawn!"

Jier waved his hand, linked the night vision of the Shadow Bird to his own field of vision, and strode into the Forest.

After Jier walked into the Forest, Yamila immediately stood up from her lounge chair, intending to have Mimi return to the previous clearing, but she stopped just as she opened her mouth.

"Sigh, forget it. If I were Jier, I definitely wouldn't go hunting first, but would instead transport and move the Metal Ingots hidden in the clearing. How awkward it would be if we ran into each other. I'm not a woman who lacks dignity and morality just to make money. Forget it, today's harvest has already been great, right Mimi?"

"Mi!" Mimi called out happily, seemingly pleased by the 'big meal' Jier had promised for tomorrow.

Yamila drank another cup of Flower Tea, then stopped pretending, took the Lion Magic Puppet she had just bought, ran to the laboratory upstairs, and began to carefully study the materials and structure of this object.

Jier naturally did as Yamila had guessed; he did not go hunting first, but after striding into the Forest, he broke into a run and sprinted all the way toward the direction of the clearing.

With the help of the Shadow Bird, which could see in the night, Jier could run even in the nearly pitch-black forest environment.

He met the Spirit Dog, Big Nose, halfway, so he flipped onto its back and turned around to charge toward the clearing.

Big Nose's movement speed in the forest was even faster than Jier's, and it arrived in just a few minutes. Jier rode Big Nose straight toward a hidden pile of Metal Ingots.

After moving the fallen large tree that was covering them, Jier once again activated the 【Grass and Wood Source】 Blessing Ability on his body, using infinite energy as the cost to quickly enter and exit the lady's dream, storing all the remaining Metal Ingots on the scene into the Pond Yingdi within the dream.

Because he had only been moving them temporarily before, he had placed the dozens of tons of Metal Ingots right next to the spot where he entered and exited the dream each time. Now that he had moved the Metal Ingots to the Pond Yingdi, in the future, once he mastered the technique of forging and obtained a set of forging tools, he could carry out forging work on his own in the dream.

In fact, when he had previously known the armor Craftsman in Kendall City, he had discovered that those forging techniques were not very complicated; if he wanted to learn, as long as someone taught him, he estimated it wouldn't take long before he could learn the production of general leather and metal material armor.

But the problem was, in terms of teaching, no Craftsman would teach an outsider like him; they guarded their techniques very tightly. Except for some skills that didn't require technical secrecy, such as tanning or processing materials, which they weren't afraid of others learning, other Craftsmen regarded those skills with technical requirements as more important than the heavens.

When Jier had worked in the Craftsman District of Kendall City, he had heard the apprentices working for him complain that in the first year an apprentice arrived at a workshop, one could only do odd jobs and moving work; it was impossible to let you get your hands on the actual work. If you were discovered privately touching the workshop's tools, the light punishment was a severe scolding, and the heavy punishment was being directly expelled from the workshop.

In the workshop, everything had to be done according to the requirements of the Craftsmen. Only when your own character and temperament were seen through by the Craftsman would a Craftsman take you in to become a close apprentice under them; only then would the Craftsman begin to teach the apprentice some basic techniques.

And once you learned something, you had to take on the corresponding technical work in the workshop; the more you learned, the more you had to do.

Even so, the workshops in Kendall City were already considered friendly. In some other places, the apprentices in the workshops were practically like slaves under the Craftsmen, with little pay and still having to do the work for them. After all, as for the skill of a Craftsman, once you learned it, as long as you didn't forget it, you could eat off that technical skill for a lifetime.

After moving all the Metal Ingots to the Pond Yingdi in the dream, Jier ended the infinite energy on his body that had not yet reached its time limit. His eyes, which had been emitting a faint cyan light, became dim and then turned pitch-black like shadows; that was Jier once again adding the Shadow Bird's night vision ability to his eyes.

Afterward, he rode Big Nose and began to run toward the surrounding mountain forest, preparing to get some prey that would satisfy the Magic House, Mimi.

After all, since he had promised, he had to do it as soon as possible.

When the sky overhead was slightly brightening, while the ground in the mountain forest was still plunged into pitch darkness, Jier was riding on Big Nose's back, and on his right shoulder, he was carrying a Dwarf Soldier Spear, with a hundred-kilogram wild boar hanging from each end of the spear.

One wild boar had an arrow shot into its eye socket, while the other had a hole broken in its head, having died after being pierced by a sharp blade.

And on the tip of his Long Spear, there were some dried bloodstains, which was clearly the reason for the death of the wild boar that had been killed.

At the same time, Jier was holding a Forest Deer with its neck twisted in his left arm, and his left hand was still tightly gripping the neck of a fawn; this fawn had also been killed by having its neck twisted.

These two deer were caught after Jier discovered a small group of Forest Deer and rode the fast-moving Big Nose to hunt them in the mountain forest. For these animals with no offensive capability, Jier rushed over directly and twisted the neck of the doe, and the fawn actually didn't leave, circling the dead doe and crying out in sorrow. Seeing that this little thing didn't flee with the other escaping Forest Deer, Jier casually twisted its neck as well.

Don't let the graceful posture and beautiful fur of these Forest Deer fool you. In fact, they are not clean. They look fine from a distance, but after holding one in his arms, Jier discovered that the animal stench on the Forest Deer was actually greater than that of the wild boars; although the wild boars looked shaggy, rough, and savage, they were actually cleaner.

They had fewer parasites on their bodies, unlike the Forest Deer, which looked good, but after ruffling their fur a few times, one could see many parasites existing beneath the hair.

Fortunately, the strong Life Energy on Jier's body drove away many parasites that wanted to crawl in through the gaps in his armor, and some stubborn parasites were killed by the Life Energy on Jier's body after biting him.

The Life Energy on a Knight possesses a very strong exclusionary nature; except for the person themselves, this energy is very dangerous to any other living creature. Back when Knight Kela left a portion of his Life Energy on a puppet, every time Jier touched the puppet, he would feel a faint pain like a needle prick.

"So, projecting the Life Energy from one's own body to attack others can also directly kill the enemy?" Jier muttered to himself.

But he quickly shook his head: "What am I thinking? If I have that amount of Life Energy, why not use a weapon directly to kill the enemy with a lower consumption method? Why wastefully use Life Energy to attack the enemy directly?"

Swinging a sword or stabbing with a Long Spear, or even drawing a bow and shooting an arrow, consumes less, but the lethality is not inferior, and is even better, further, and stronger. Because one can count the power of the weapon, and the power of a weapon, under the blessing of magical supernatural power, has almost no upper limit.

Compared to this, spending energy and time to study the external projection of Life Energy is far less cost-effective than letting Life Energy fully support the battle, while the power of the battle relies on more powerful weapons to provide.

And this is also the direction chosen by the vast majority of Knights and Knight-rank Warriors.

Of course, it is still too early for Jier to consider those things; he should first accumulate his own Life Energy to the maximum capacity of his body. And because he currently lacks high-energy food like Monster meat or Magic Beast meat, his Life Energy is not growing quickly, and because there has been constant consumption in battle, the total amount of his Life Energy has grown by less than ten percent since leaving Knight Kela.

If he worries about being scolded by Knight Kela when he sees him again, it will likely be inevitable. Jier worried about these things, riding Big Nose through the air, carrying two wild boars and one large and one small Forest Deer, and returned to the front of the Magic House in the mountain hollow.

"Hey! Mimi! I've brought back the food you like!"

Jier called out loudly.

Mimi immediately extended its large hands excitedly from the windows on both sides of the first floor, rubbing its hands excitedly in front of the main door.

Jier gasped, cautiously not approaching immediately, but seeing that there was no light in the first-floor hall, while a light was constantly on in a window on the second floor of the house, it was clear that Yamila was not in the hall.

"Yamila! I've brought back some animals here; should I just throw them to Mimi to eat? You're not in the hall, right?" Jier shouted toward the wooden house.

Soon, a glass window on the second floor opened, and Yamila was wearing a mask on her head that could cover her eyes. The eye positions of this mask were a strange glowing Magic device, and other parts of the mask were also glowing slightly, with light bands constantly connecting from the device at the eye positions all the way to the sides of the mask.

Yamila lifted this thing to the top of her head and carefully examined Jier in the dark forest in the distance: "Is that Jier? Or some shapeshifter from the mountains? If it's Jier, use the Ruby Glowing Ring I sold you to light it up."

Jier was helpless, so he had to search for it, took off his glove, put the Red Ruby Ring on his right index finger, and thought about sending Magic Power into the ring. Afterward, sure enough, the Magic Power sealed in his body, under the control of the seal, was provided to the Glowing Ring.

Red light shone from Jier's hand, shrouding Jier himself and his surroundings in an eerie red glow.

"Hmm, it really is Jier, but in such a dark environment, you look rather unsettling!" Yamila muttered.

Jier retorted: "This ring was made by you yourself; the problem should be on your end, right?"

Jumping off Big Nose, which others could not see, Jier threw the Forest Deer on the ground and, taking advantage of the red light on his hand, untied the Rope from the two wild boars that were tightly bound to the Dwarf Soldier Spear.

"How should I feed it to Mimi? Just throw it over, or send it to its hand? Or its mouth?" Jier pointed to the main door of the house; he knew that for a Magic House, the wooden main door of the house could also be treated as a mouth in another sense.

"Ha, I know, you're scared, right? Jier, you're still afraid of Mimi, right? Mimi, did you hear that? Jier is actually afraid of you all along!"

Yamila leaned against the window and said happily and loudly.

"Mi?" Mimi let out a sound of inquiry, and the large hands extending from the window rubbed even more intensely. It clearly wanted to eat, but without an order, it could not take further action, so it had to rub its hands in place quite anxiously, looking impatient.

Jier rolled his eyes, not caring whether Yamila could see: "Stop teasing me. Once dawn breaks, I still have a lot of things to do here. Those villains Mimi wants to eat, I still have to go deal with them today."

Yamila was not in a hurry; she even used a Magic Hand to bring over a teacup and sipped her tea: "You are rarely someone who has objections to the Magic House eating people. Especially since you are so young; many people know that Magic Houses eat people and animals, and they would be very afraid and extremely resistant to approaching them. Not to mention ordinary people, even some apprentices in the same Magic Tower have some who have never dared to approach the teacher's Magic House."

She scoffed, "If they knew a little more, they would realize that even the Spirit of a Magic Tower actually evolved from a Magic Power Hut. The Magic Tower I am in, its Spirit was also once a Spirit that had eaten hundreds or thousands of Humans."

Seeing that Jier nearby didn't seem to change because of her words, and hadn't been scared, she felt it was boring. She reached out and pointed to the open space in front of the gate, saying to Jier, "Just throw the animals you hunted there! Mimi's big hand will send them into its 'stomach'."

Jier tentatively threw the small deer over, and it was caught in mid-air by Mimi with a large white hand; then, it let out an excited cry, opened the house door, and tossed the deer's carcass inside.

Because this deer was too small, it seemed the floor inside the hall just opened and closed slightly to swallow the animal, and before Jier had time to see the peculiar structure inside the Magic Power Hut, the wooden boards closed again.

"Again! Get ready to catch!"

Jier grabbed a larger Forest Deer with both hands, exerted a slight force, and threw the doe, which weighed several dozen kilograms and had a pair of long antlers, over.

This time Mimi caught it in mid-air again; its hands grabbed it accurately, but it seemed to use too much force, or perhaps the doe's body was somewhat fragile, as the big hand squeezed it so hard that it actually burst the Forest Deer's belly.

The Forest Deer's abdominal cavity collapsed, and a large amount of Viscera and semi-digested matter sprayed out from the lower half of the Forest Deer, contaminating a significant patch of ground.

"Eww—" Yamila let out a sound of discomfort and disgust.

Mimi let out a wronged "mi" sound and hurriedly sent the Forest Deer, with Viscera dripping everywhere, into the house's gate.

Jier saw that at the front of the hall near the gate, the floor shifted inward, and amidst the mysterious Magic Power structures was a giant mouth covered in teeth protruding from beneath the floor.

The mouth was connected beneath the floor by scarlet muscles; its outer ring consisted of circles of sharp fangs, while the inner ring, which could barely be seen, consisted of large, sturdy, flat teeth. The former was responsible for tearing apart prey, while the latter was responsible for grinding the prey's body.

As soon as the entire Forest Deer was sent into the mouth, the mouth immediately submerged beneath the floor, and then the sound of the carcass being torn and the sound of grinding rang out.

It sounded extremely terrifying.

But the Magic Power Hut let out a satisfied cry while eating, creating a peculiar sense of contrast.

Yamila saw Jier's wide-eyed expression as he watched the Magic Power Hut eat, and she raised an eyebrow: "Jier, many people have shown expressions of fear after seeing this scene; why aren't you afraid? Are you pretending, or are you truly not afraid?"

Jier wasn't actually concerned about fear; he was simply extremely curious about the scene he was seeing at this moment.

On the outside, it was a wooden house, but in reality, the interior was an extremely advanced mobile base controlled by an artificial intelligent Spirit, composed of Magic Power structures, capable of moving, housing, fighting, and even making snacks and tea to entertain visitors.

Not only that, this thing was not only very advanced, but it also possessed an appearance similar to a Monster, actually capable of swallowing animals and even Humans whole, and it did so in such a primitive and crude way.

This scene, full of contrast, made Jier feel more curiosity than fear.

Of course, although he couldn't beat the Magic Power Hut in front of him, he had no problem running away, and since the two sides were not hostile at this moment, he was not afraid.

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