Chapter 503 502. Selection

  In the center of the garden square in Hailansa City stands a Baroque-style bell tower.

  This clock tower is built on a hard granite rock foundation, and the whole body is made of bluestone. It is the tallest building in the garden square. The four sides of the bell tower are carved with exquisite giant reliefs, each of which tells a glorious history of Hailansa City. It is said that there used to be a dragon lair on the rocky cliff at the southern end of the Pagros Mountains, where a red dragon entrenched and often attacked humans in the southern area of ​​the Pagros Mountains.

  In order to resist the red dragon, the people here built base castles everywhere, and invested a lot of money to install some giant bed crossbows on the arrow towers of these castles, but even this still couldn't stop the intrusion of the red dragon.

Duke Newman summoned the Benar swordsmen and organized three dragon hunting operations successively. Finally, in the last dragon hunting operation, Duke Newman killed the red dragon with the long sword of Quercella in his hand. Officially because of that battle, The southern foothills of Mount Pagolos were completely turned into scorched earth, and the place where they once fought the red dragon has now become a barren land, and the dragon's lair has been burning for hundreds of years, and the area within a hundred miles is covered with There is a thick layer of volcanic ash, which is called the pustule mountain by the Hailanza people.

Standing on the viewing platform of the clock tower, holding on to the railing, looking out at the pale blue mountains outside the city, the slightly cold south wind blows away Hathaway's soft golden hair. The handkerchief was tied into a refreshing ponytail, and the emerald green eyes looked in the direction of Suldak's fingers, trying to cross the five ridges to see clearly which mountain pass Suldak mentioned.

  According to Suldak, as long as you turn over the mountain pass, you can see Wall Village at the edge of the barren land at a glance.

  She and Beatrice stood side by side, and Beatrice looked at Suldak adoringly, without hiding her fiery gaze.

While chatting, Beatrice had already figured out Suldak's family situation. There was not only a wife in his family, but also a son. Thinking of this, Hathaway's mood became a little depressed. I wondered if I was too impulsive during this trip to Hailansa.

Seeing Beatrice's happy face, Hathaway was full of confusion. She couldn't see the way ahead, and she couldn't be as frank and casual as Beatrice. She still had to take care of her family Feeling, she didn't know how to convince her father and get his support.

Then the three of them went to the Temple of the Statue of Liberty in Hailansa City, but this magnificent temple is now completely dilapidated, and many gold-painted reliefs on the surrounding walls are seriously damaged. This temple now has only one guardian The old man, Surdak showed the guard battalion knight badge, and took out ten silver coins to persuade the old man to open the door.

The courtyard of the temple is paved with bluestone slabs, but the gaps in these bluestone slabs are now full of weeds. There is a thick layer of bird droppings on the holy grail-shaped water fountain sculpture in the middle of the courtyard, and there is a thick layer of bird droppings on the top of the petal-shaped sculpture. , There is also a bird's nest.

   Walking into the auditorium, I found that the Statue of Liberty inside had collapsed, and the hand representing freedom fell into a pile of rubble.

   "The situation in the temple in Bena City is better than here, at least there are still a few priests." Hathaway stopped in front of the statue and said.

All the valuable things in the temple have been emptied, and even the benches in the auditorium are only left with a few broken legs. There was originally a silver basin containing holy water in front of the high platform, but the platform Now there is only a dark hole left on the ground, and the silver basin has long been lost.

   "I didn't expect the temple here to be so dilapidated..." Beatrice said standing beside Hathaway.

  The completely deserted Temple of the Statue of Liberty naturally has nothing to visit, so the three of them walked around casually and walked out from inside.

  Before leaving, the old man guarding the door gave Suldak a wretched smile, showing a look of "understanding you".

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, Suldak had been walking around the city with Hathaway and Beatrice for a long time. The three of them randomly found a restaurant on the street of the Magic Tower and went After enjoying a dinner, Suldak decided to end today's trip as a gesture of gratitude to the landlord.

  The magic caravan parked in front of the temporary residence of Hathaway and Beatrice. Suldak refused the invitation to sit in and bid farewell to the two women.

   "Will you write to me?" Beatrice stood at the door and asked Suldak with some reluctance.

  Suldak nodded.

   "Will you come to see me when you come to Bena?" Beatrice asked again.

  Suldak nodded again and said, "Yes."

  Beatrice smiled, but there were dots of light in her eyes. She took a deep breath, not letting tears flow down so easily.

  Suldak rode on Gu Bolai's horse and waved to the two women.

  Then there was a sound of horse hooves, and Suldak's figure quickly disappeared on the long street.

  …

After taking a bath, Beatrice was lying on the big soft bed in a thin nightgown, with a sheepskin diary spread out in front of her, holding a quill pen in her hand, and talking to Hathaway while writing the diary. Said: "Hathaway, what do you think we can do to convince those in the family to let me marry a knight?"

   Facing Beatrice's question, Hathaway said very speechlessly:

"how could I know?"

  She is maintaining her set of hedgehog crystal lion leather armor.

Tight-fitting leather armor needs to be coated with some oil in the spring. If the leather is not maintained for a long time, the leather will harden. Learn to take care of your leather armor.

  Beatrice lay on the bed, propped her chin with one hand, and asked with a tangled face:

   "Hey, Hathaway, if one day I succeed, can we still be best girlfriends?"

Hathaway was slightly taken aback. She seemed to have never thought about this issue. Now that she thought about it, joining Beatrice was really willing to let go of everything. It seemed that there was such a possibility. Feeling restless, he turned around and held Beatrice's round face, put his fair forehead against her forehead, and said to her, "Of course, we will always be best friends."

Beatrice breathed a sigh of relief, her eyes became much brighter, she jumped up and hugged Hathaway like a female leopard, the two rolled on the big bed, Beatrice stared at Hathaway Servi's blue eyes said very seriously: "Then it's settled, no matter in the future, you or me - whichever one of you can get what you want, you must not be angry with the other."

   "I'm not going to marry him again!" Hathaway said against her will, avoiding Beatrice's gaze.

  Hathaway struggled a little with a cold little hand coming in from her neckline, and asked Beatrice:

   "Hey, Beatrice, what are you doing?"

   Beatrice said with a smile: "Let me touch your heart, do you dare to repeat that sentence again!"

   "Don't make trouble..."

   Hathaway pushed Beatrice's hand away, blushing and whispering.

  …

  Leaving that alley, Suerdak scratched his hair vigorously to get some unrealistic thoughts out of his head.

After living in the city of Hailansa for nearly half a year, he has a deeper understanding of this society, for example, there is an invisible but insurmountable wall between nobles and commoners. Although he is a first-class knight, but It also only belongs to civilians who have a little 'privilege'.

  Passing by the Magic Union, Sulda grabbed the reins of the horse, thinking that he was about to leave Hailansa, and that he should visit Scholar Ferdinand before leaving. Thinking of this, he turned over and jumped off the horse, leading the horse to the Magic Tower.

   Handing over the horse to the gate guard and reporting the name of the Ferdinand scholar, Suldak entered the magic union smoothly.

  In Suldak's impression, Ferdinand scholar rarely leaves the magic tower, and he can find it every time he comes here.

This time Suldak visited Scholar Ferdinand. He really stayed in the mage tower, and he seemed to have just completed a magic experiment. He was exchanging some experience during the experiment with several magic apprentices. The apprentice quickly recorded the words of Scholar Ferdinand, showing admiration on his face.

Scholar Ferdinand saw Suldak push the door and walked in. He waved to the magic apprentices around him, indicating that the experience exchange was suspended, and then walked in front of Suldak and greeted him to sit on the sofa in the rest area. sit down.

A female magic apprentice brought up two cups of tea with glistening green light, making Suldak wonder if after drinking this cup of tea, would he turn into a firefly, and a section of intestines in his stomach would emit glistening light? Green light, he smiled at the female magic apprentice, but did not dare to try.

  Scholar Ferdinand did not hesitate, took a sip, and then asked Suldak: "How do you have time to come to me?"

Suldak told Scholar Ferdinand that he had participated in the plane war on the Maca plane some time ago, and Scholar Ferdinand said with a dazed face: "No wonder I haven't seen you for a while, Lance That guy seems to have participated in this plane war..."

   "We met a few times in Wojmara City, he was in the Magician Scouting Group." Suldak said.

Scholar Ferdinand seemed to have thought of something, sat up straight and looked towards Suldak, and asked curiously: "By the way, have you used the enhancement scroll I gave you last time? How do you feel?" , Has your physique improved a little?"

Suldak rubbed his nose and said, "Uh... at that time, my horse's leg was broken by chance, and its four legs were broken on the battlefield of the Warsaw plane. I am worried that it will be difficult to recover if it is broken again. So I gave it a…”

  Suddenly, all the sounds in the laboratory seemed to disappear, and Scholar Ferdinand and his magic apprentices stared at Suldak with disbelief.

  Scholar Ferdinand pointed at Suldak, and said sadly: "You actually gave a precious magic strengthening scroll to your war horse?"

   "It turns out that it works well..." Suldak replied honestly.

  Scholar Ferdinand stopped complaining abruptly, and he asked impatiently, "Tell me about the situation."

  Suldak said to the Ferdinand scholar: "The horse is downstairs. Would you like to take a look for yourself? I think its legs have undergone a certain degree of mutation!"

   Before Suldak finished speaking, the Ferdinand scholar stood up and said, "Then what are we waiting for here, take me to see it."

  Scholar Ferdinand took a few magic apprentices and carefully examined the ancient horse for a long time before returning to the Mage Tower with satisfaction.

According to the words of the Ferdinand scholar, this magic strengthening scroll was done very successfully, the only uncontrollable part was the excess magic power in the scroll, which stimulated some kind of benign mutation in the fractured part of the horse's leg, This can fully prove that the design of the magic strengthening scroll is completely feasible...

   Hearing what Scholar Ferdinand said, Suldak also secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, thinking that it was a good thing that the scroll was not used on him.

  The scars on the body are already scary, but if there are countless blood vessels protruding somewhere on the body, that would be the worst.

  Suldak then discussed with Ferdinand scholar some popular knowledge about magicweave clothing.

Scholars Ferdinand told Suldak that the reason why imperial magicians have stagnated in the study of magweave clothing is mainly due to the lack of awareness of life magweave. There are strict requirements. Whether the attributes of the life magic pattern and the warrior's own attributes are consistent is also a crucial item. If the fusion effect of the magic pattern breeding equipment and the subject is poor during the implantation process, it also means that the breeding equipment has failed. .

  Once the implantation fails, it will not only affect the health of the subject, but may even endanger life.

  In addition, the life magic pattern is something that many magicians can't meet.

   There are very few books on the life magic pattern, and only a small number of magic scholars are interested in academic research in this area.

At present, in the books of the Magic Union, there are only some test data on the black magic pattern, but this kind of dark element will erode the body of the subject. Once the implantation process fails, the subject may become crazy, or leave Unrecoverable injuries, so the magic guild prohibits black-striped magic skins from being used as magic-striped clothing. Black-striped magic skins captured from the battlefield can only be used for academic research.

  Suldak originally wanted to tell Scholar Ferdinand that he had successfully implanted a magicweave breeding outfit into an archer.

Hearing what Scholar Ferdinand said, he was a little hesitant. After thinking twice, he still decided not to talk about it for the time being. Moreover, Suldak didn't think it was like what Scholar Ferdinand said about how to obtain the magic pattern of life. so difficult.

  Before he left, Suldak said that he had completed his studies at the Knights Academy in Hailansa City, and that he was about to serve as the sheriff of the barren land outside the Paglos Pass, and went to the barren land...

   Regarding this matter, Scholar Ferdinand didn’t say much, he only said that if you don’t want to stay in the guard camp, you can join the Magic Union…

  When Suldak left the Magic Union, the sky was already full of stars.

  (end of this chapter)