Soul of Burning Steel

"Ivan! Amira! Stop playing with your dragons, there is a big deal!"

Starfall 834, November 3rd, Nissier Snow Mountain, College of Winterhold.

Frost butterflies are flying in the bleak north wind, and the weather is getting drier and colder every day, but in the pine forest around the college, there is a pair of brothers and sisters with platinum hair squatting on the ground, laughing and feeding a young dragon in front of them .

Beside the elder brother is a large bucket full of sea fish, while the younger sister is holding a few light blue crystals containing the fluctuations of ice and water magic power. In front of the two, there are about two The meter-long young dragon was gulping down the fish and shrimp thrown by his brother, stopping to chew from time to time, looking at his sister expectantly, waiting for her to throw a spar.

There are many things to pay attention to in feeding young dragons. The first and most important thing is nutrition. In addition to the most basic meat, it is also necessary to supplement some minerals containing magic power from time to time to cultivate the magic casting talent of young dragons. Although magic crystals are expensive, there is no doubt that they are The best choice, and such a small amount of money can be said to be a drizzle for the Makarov brothers and sisters who have completed a lot of tasks recently and can be said to be wealthy.

Hearing the voice of his friend not far away, Ivan and Amira stood up at the same time, turned around and looked, in their eyes, the red-haired girl Karin was trotting over with the dwarf Nick, waving a gun in her hand. Zhang Xinxin notice, it seems that the so-called major event is this.

"What a big deal, Karin..." Amira reluctantly touched the young dragon beside her who was rubbing her calf, and then threw all the crystals in her hand to the other party. A little dissatisfied in the groaning voice, he said: "I am deepening my relationship with Bai Shuang. If you have something to say, speak quickly, don't waste time."

Baishuang is the name of this young dragon, because through the test of the academy instructor, it was found that compared with controlling water elements, the talent of this young dragon is more inclined to create stagnant low temperature, because now it looks like it has wings seal, so it is very popular among girls.

"I think it just likes the magic crystal in your hand, and it doesn't like you." Without hesitation, the red-haired girl didn't talk too much nonsense, and she directly handed over the notice in her hand to Ivan, who is the captain , and then said to the two with a mysterious smile: "You brothers and sisters who are almost isolated from the world will never guess what news is circulating in the academy now!"

Hearing this, neither Amira nor Ivan reacted, because they really haven't paid much attention to the outside world in the past ten days. After all, walking a dragon...It really takes time to build a relationship with a young dragon. It takes hours of slow adaptation just for the young dragons to get used to their breath and physical contact, and there are often repetitions.

"In mid-November, Dean Radcliffe will personally lead the team and lead the top ten elite student teams to the Ural Plains to participate in a trial."

Before the red-haired girl could open her mouth, Ivan quickly scanned all the content on the notice. He frowned and thought about the meaning of the information, and then muttered to himself in a strange way: "The lord leads the team himself, what kind of trial? The mission requires legendary powerhouses to lead the formation? And isn’t the Ural Plain the place where we wiped out demonized beasts half a year ago? What else can be tested in that place..."

While talking, a scene from the past suddenly flashed in the boy's mind - the silver stars arced across the sky, and finally fell to the ground silently, forming a fog covering a range of several kilometers.

Could that be a trial?

"I don't know. Anyway, as the team ranked first in points, we will definitely participate in this trial, so I came here to ask you to plan together. We must not let those 'outsiders' behind us steal our limelight!"

Karin has always spoken so ably and directly. The eyes of this knight's daughter are burning with a flame called fighting spirit. She said with a bit of gritted teeth: "Now there are rumors in the academy. If it weren't for our time advantage, we would The strength is definitely not the opponent of that group of outsiders, and it is absolutely impossible to become the team with the first points!"

Hearing this, the other three also frowned.

The outsiders mentioned by the red-haired girl are more than 30 young people brought back from nowhere by the lord more than half a year ago. In scattered categories such as knights, warriors and rangers.

It was nothing at all, at most, Joshua recruited another batch of students, but what is surprising is that these guys who are not from Moldavian natives are unusually powerful. Except for a few geniuses, Most of the locals have been robbed of the limelight by them. Now the second-ranked team in the academy is a team made up of those outsiders. Their points are just behind the team of Ivan and others, and they may catch up at any time. In other words, if it wasn't for Ivan and the others who did the task three months earlier than these people, they might have surpassed them in points.

"If we hadn't had to take care of the young dragons recently, how could they catch up with us!"

Ivan and Amira are usually quite calm, but they are still young people after all. Hearing such rumors of doubting their own strength, they are naturally full of anger. As the captain, Ivan immediately made a decision: "You are right, This time we really need to plan carefully, we must knock out the limelight of those outsiders!"

"Tsk, the most important thing is obviously not this, Karin, you will talk nonsense, listen to me!"

At this time, it was the dwarf Nick who had been silent since the beginning. Seeing that everyone was full of fighting spirit, he put his hands on his chest and opened his mouth and said, "I heard, I just heard that the lord is holding a The trial is to accept a few students!"

"Different from the collective cultivation of students in the academy, the lord is planning to accept real disciples this time!" He said loudly with a subwoofer-like voice, and even the needles of the nearby pine trees trembled.

"You big mouth!"

This news indeed stunned the Ivan Amira brother and sister in an instant. Seeing the stunned expressions of the two, Karin on the side gave the dwarf a fierce look. This was originally the information she planned to use as the finale. But Nick said it casually.

"But, something is wrong!" Although Amira was shocked by the news, she did not lose her ability to think. The slender girl felt her feet were a little numb, so she simply sat on the back of the young white dragon who was feasting. On the next day, she frowned and began to think hard: "The lord is indeed very powerful, no, the lord can already be said to be the most powerful group of people in the world, and it must be the luckiest thing to be his disciple, but ..."

"However, Lord Dean, we are warriors. We are all mages, so we can do nothing even if we become his disciples." Ivan took over his sister's words. He supported the tree with one hand, and his face was unexpectedly serious: "And this is not ordinary news—since no one has come out to refute the rumor, it means that it is true in all likelihood!"

"Hey, what do you know?" Karin waved her hand impatiently: "Anyway, no matter what, we have to compete with that group of outsiders. They are all fighters, and they are really likely to become Lord Lords." disciples, even if we try our best, we can't let them win! What's more—"

Speaking of this, the red-haired girl elongated her voice, and she pretended to say: "There is also a very powerful magician beside the lord. Although you may not have noticed it, Miss No. 3 who has been following the lord , it is very likely to be an ultimate-level rune mage! I heard that the guardian magic circle covering the entire main city of Moldavia was written by her. If we take the first place, even the lord will not accept us Be a disciple, but it's not difficult for Miss No. 3 to teach us, right?"

"Yeah, and to be honest, we are just black iron-level mages."

At this time, Nick also nodded and said, the strong dwarf who didn't look like a spellcaster said in a low voice: "If you can become the disciple of a legendary warrior, then it doesn't matter whether you become a mage or not. My goal is just to change my destiny, to become stronger, that's all."

Everything that follows is silent.

Changing fate and wanting to become stronger... What better way to change fate and become stronger than becoming a disciple of a legendary warrior?

The breath called fighting spirit spread in the silence of the four of them.

At this time, in the lord's mansion.

Joshua is talking with Nostradamus through the summoning circle.

At this time, due to the large increase in the magic power density of the communication circle, there will occasionally be some unstable noises. It can be broadcast in real time without any distortion.

The advent of the great magic tide has brought about a leap in all aspects of magic technology. Many technical difficulties that cannot be broken through are easily solved in a high-concentration magic environment. Even in the eastern plains, live magic videos have appeared to broadcast news.

"You actually robbed my students! Joshua, how can any soldier go to the Mage Academy to accept disciples?!"

The soldier looked at the white-haired and angry old mage in the communication circle, and showed a smile. He calmed down, took a sip of the black tea brewed by Yingying, and then said slowly: "Master Nostradamus, Winterhold Academy is no longer a pure mage academy, but a professional academy, not to mention that this matter is not important, and I didn't say that after becoming my disciples, they will not be allowed to study in the academy. If you want to continue teaching sure."

"you!"

Unlike the indifferent Joshua, the old mage on the other side of the communication circle was obviously in a hurry: "If you make such a publicity, the hearts of the entire Winterhold College will be unstable. Who can study spells and find the truth with peace of mind? Decliffe, are you starting to accept students because you have no one to compete with you after becoming a legend?!" When he said this, Nostradamus laughed angrily, he didn't believe that soldiers With such a superficial idea, there must be an unknown plan behind it.

But Warrior Naihe’s idea is so simple. Recalling his previous life, when he was the master of the Budokan, Joshua nodded. He was indeed planning to take one or two disciples to pass the time because he was bored. Nostradamus was so smart , it is not surprising to see that.

But now is not the time to chat in this regard, so he interrupted the old mage's complaint: "Recently, the situation of the empire is a bit difficult."

These words were so crisp and undeniable that Nostradamus frowned and remained silent for a while after hearing it. Not long after, he slowly opened his mouth and said in a serious tone: "Why do you say that?"

"Obvious thing."

Joshua didn't have the habit of keeping secrets, he said directly: "The changes brought about by the Great Demonic Tide are not just about the advancement of magic technology. My territory is just around the Black Forest, so I am very clear about its influence on monsters and monsters. Action—Although the empire is not like the jungles in the far south, large hills and uninhabited dense forests also occupy a large part of the territory. Driven by such a strong magic power, even ordinary forests will turn to the dark. Forest conversion."

"At present, the army in the empire is shrinking, the number of caravans is decreasing, and factories everywhere are building transport airships with all their strength. They plan to use air transport as the main force. This is obviously an intention to temporarily abandon the increasingly dangerous suburbs, and prepare to use cities as bases for initial purification and elimination, and then gradually Re-connecting the land trade routes, but this has greatly reduced the control of the empire's central government over the local nobles. In addition, there are countless adventurers and professionals who have reached the limit before but have not broken through all over the country. Breaking through one's own realm, these sudden forces are also the source of turmoil."

This is indeed true, the old mage nodded silently.

What the magic tide brought to Mycroft Continent is an all-round sublimation, but this sublimation will also bring turmoil. The rapidly expanding Black Forest and the endless emergence of restless powerhouses are all part of it. You know, there is a saying in the empire: "It is better to be against the nobles than to be enemies with adventurers", because the power of the nobles is in the face, if it is not a life-and-death enmity, they will abide by the rules most of the time, and if they are cautious, it is not impossible to deal with it. The adventurers were originally wandering between life and death, wandering on the edge of illegal areas. They were not good people themselves, and they would often kill the killer in a fit of anger, and then flee to a distant place by themselves.

Even the nobles don't want to deliberately make enemies of adventurers, because the devil knows whether these people or their relatives and friends will suddenly break through to gold or even extreme level in the future because of exploring the ruins or other luck. strong. The decline of many aristocratic families was because they acted too recklessly and offended some young adventurers. As a result, they were suppressed to destruction by them who became stronger decades later.

Today, the Great Demonic Tide has allowed many people who could not break through to break through. This can be said to be an opportunity to benefit all living beings, but these newly emerged strong men have changed the power structure of the entire empire, and have also caused some aristocrats who have greatly increased their strength. Careful thinking, coupled with the weakening of the imperial family's dominance over the region, it is very likely that after the situation stabilizes in a few years, there will be a large number of large and small local emperors in the empire, which will make Israel's suppression over the years fall short.

"It's just an external force. Now Israel must be troubled by internal problems in the royal family."

Joshua pointed out another point, but this is an internal matter of the royal family after all, so he didn't say much: "The return of the second prince Di Moore has undoubtedly made the first prince and his family nervous. , I can also feel the turmoil inside the imperial capital, and the reason why you plan to break through next spring is probably to calm down those people in the empire who should be thinking about it."

After the analysis was over, the soldier was preparing to listen to the old mage's reply, so that he could cooperate with the other party next year and let those local nobles who were about to make trouble settle down a bit—although he was also a local nobleman himself, but the legendary powerhouse had What's more, His Majesty the Emperor and the old mage have always taken good care of him, so he will naturally reciprocate.

But after a long time, Nostradamus kept a shocked expression and did not reply.

Not only that, but Joshua also noticed that the Shenji siblings standing beside him were equally astonished, Ying's mouth opened, and the silver-haired girl's small mouth was now big enough to stuff an egg, and Rin swallowed, his eyes full of ghosts.

Even No. 3, who was floating on the ceiling above the crowd, fell down because he stopped manipulating the magic power. The magic power projection was distorted for a moment when it touched the floor, and then returned to the original shape of the winged girl—this means that the artificial intelligence was in a short period of time. For a period of time, she lost control of her own projection, and her expression was also very subtle, very human.

"Truth comes first...how could you think so much!"

After a while, Nostradamus muttered to himself in an unbelievable tone: "I must be..."

And the sisters and brothers of Shenji also began to whisper: "The master actually thinks so much, is it too boring these days..."

"Yeah, it feels like a completely different person, it's incredible!"

No. 3 also ascended to midair again, she looked at the soldier from a distance, and said faintly: "Joshua, you have changed..."

Ah.

Do you really think that I am a person who only uses hands but does not use brains? This is not something difficult to understand.

Seeing the responses from his friends and weapons, the soldier took a deep breath, shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "Okay, enough joking? I usually don't think about this issue because I don't Need, not that I won’t—speak business!”

"No, Joshua, I already know what you mean."

On the other side of the communication circle, the old mage who teased Joshua slightly touched his beard, and he showed a wise smile again: "That's it, Joshua, thank you for your kindness."

Speaking of this, Nostradamus' eyes were blurred for a moment. He seemed to recall some memories from a long time ago. He sighed slightly, and then said with emotion in an extremely serious tone: "You really didn't have any achievements because of your legendary achievements." What a change."

"Nostradamus."

Hearing the old mage's words, Joshua also laughed, and shook his head faintly: "The world will change, and people's hearts will change."

"But I won't."

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