After a brief period of commotion, time is still flowing.

Sometimes I think that man is really a sad animal, born for no reason, and then survived. I don't know why I survived, but I kept living like this. I don't know why I lived, and finally I died without knowing anything.

Many times Saul wishes that he is ordinary, silently watching others become heroes, silently watching others show off their glory, silently watching others laugh, and he just needs to walk through silently.

At the end of the day, it turns out that he is just a person who pretends to be strong.

Thor didn't bother to think about it on the Dark Council's side, after all, this chessboard was theirs. Even if they can't do everything in the end, at least they can start at the key points, and they have no cards to play in their own hands.

He can't even walk away like he used to, and when he thinks about his companions around him, Thor can't afford the price of escaping.

Then forget it and let it be.

Life seems to be back to its usual state.

Staunt and Diller still did not wake up from their slumber of advancement, and Thor began to hurry up and continue to go down the dungeon with Rose every day to enter the trial. Originally, Lorna also wanted to follow to help Thor, but was chased away by Thor on the grounds that he was not allowed to advance.

Aside from not allowing Lorna to run around in the dungeon, Thor wasn't going to arrange anything for Lorna. But she herself was noisy that the other shiitake mushrooms had something to do, and she felt like an idle eater.

Well, I'm quite conscious.

So Lorna was arranged by Thor to go to the Morning Glory Flower Magic Academy in Liberty City, she has the strength of the third order, and also has a natural affinity for the magic ability, which happens to cooperate with Ygrete to teach some magical knowledge together.

Thor doesn't have much say in magic, so it's up to them to decide what they teach and how they teach.

Chrissy admitted that she didn't have much ability, and that her family's main business was only business in the past, and Chrissy said that although she had run a lot of places in the name of the family, she only cared about playing all the way.

In fact, when he first saw Chriss, on the carriage from Grey Curtain to Newtown, Thor already felt it. Chrissy is a shiitake mushroom with a lot of energy, and even the dangerous and arduous journey in the dark wilderness has never stopped her from exploring the world.

People should walk around and feel more about the world in life, and Saul is still very much in favor of this.

But that was in the past, and now that Chrissy has no relatives, she has to take care of her and take responsibility for protecting her.

In the end, Chrissy said that she wanted to open a random flower shop and bookstore in the territory, and Thor expressed strong support.

There is calm in the territory of Liberty City today, and Braun has managed it well in all aspects since he took over. After all, there are many years of experience as a lord put there. I don't dare to say anything about expansion and abundance, but it's okay to just maintain stability.

It's summer, so it's time for Staunt and Diller to wake up, and then pull out the last of the surrounding territories, Simro.

And after that, it's almost time for Liberty City to slow down. The new population needs to be digested is one aspect, and even if you want to fight whoever you want to fight in the future, the conquest distance between the territories will not be counted by days, but by months.

"How's it going?" After a day's work, Thor headed to Hodder's magic lab.

The lab was converted from a large barn in a relatively secluded corner of the territory. It was filled with bottles and jars, all kinds of useful tools and all kinds of strange materials, all gradually added according to Hodder's requirements and habits.

Sometimes Ygrete and Lorna would come together and borrow tools to do their own thing, and Hold would take the opportunity to learn both. It's just that because of their different magical affinities, he can't learn much general magic knowledge.

"It's not good, I don't think there's any research direction at the moment. Hodder replied with a look of frustration.

After this period of life, Hodder has become accustomed to the rhythm of life in this frontier territory.

When the magic lab was first built, Hod was fanatical for a while, but then he became a little depressed. Because he thinks that Thor has provided such a good research platform, but he has not been able to make anything decent, which makes him feel very guilty.

Thor could only reassure him not to worry, just to explore and accumulate experience. Saul is well aware that inventions need inspiration in the absence of mentoring experience, and this kind of thing may not be effective.

"What did you study at the Izheim School of Magic, and I mean what you're good at?" Thor asked, after a moment's thought.

"I mainly learn material identification, focusing on material analysis and magic analysis, which is an unpopular direction in the academy, and there are not many people who learn it. Because this ability and combat magic have little to do with it, it only has to do with crafting magic items. ”

"For example, a scroll or some other magic item, I may be able to reverse analyze what materials were used in its production, such as what runes or magic arrays were added, drawing materials and paper carriers. "Qiyin

"But if on the other hand, you prepare all the ingredients needed to make it, and then ask me to make this magic scroll, I can't do it. Maybe it's because I can't finish the drawing of the magic circle, or maybe I don't have enough mana level, etc. ”

"In short, I often encounter some problems that I can't solve personally, so I give up copying other people's results and start trying to do something that I can. Hodder patiently explained to Thor.

Thor crossed his hands and thought about it, this ability still sounded very powerful, although he couldn't think of a specific use for the time being. According to Hodder, it seems that he can take apart a magical item and analyze the materials used to make it, but he can't put it back together.

"Can I use any magic item?" Thor asked suddenly.

"How is that possible, I can't parse too clever magic items. Unless the materials needed to craft the item are within the range of the types of materials I have, such as the common materials in the low-to-mid range. Hodder replied.

"Can you parse this then?" Thor flashed in his hand and pulled out something.

"Candles?" Hodder's eyes were a little suspicious, and Thor had nothing more than a candle in his hand.

"This was left to me by my mentor in the past, and it does look and use the same way as a candle, but I suspect it's a magical item, though I don't know its exact name. Thor explained, handing the candle head to Hodder.

"Do you doubt? What does that do?" Hodder brushed the candle in his hand, not feeling anything unusual.

"When it's ignited, if you relax around it, then you can rely on some intense emotions in your heart and enter a space of consciousness. In that space, you can ...... with yourself Oh, fight your own shadow. ”

"My mentor called this a skill, and it was called 'cohesion'. Saul replied as he recalled.

At that time, his mentor, the nameless old man in Grey Curtain Town, kept this strange candle head for himself. Later, Thor used it a few more times, entering the consciousness space to fight against his own shadow, winning and losing.

It's just that after the shadow is cut off, the demon soul will not appear, and he will return to reality whether he is dead or alive.

Although it will not improve one's strength concretely, it cannot be said that it is useless. For example, you can find out the shortcomings of your skills by fighting against your own shadow, so Thor believes that the role of this candle is to correct your own combat skills.

It's just that there aren't many times left for this candle head, and there is no chance for Thor to do any specific research. Now Thor suddenly remembered this, and just threw this thing to Hodder, which was kind of to help him find something specific to do.

Hodder was stunned by Saul's words, and entered the consciousness space?

"What kind of consciousness space is this...... How do you get in?" asked Hodder, who thought it was amazing.

Thor didn't bother to explain, so he took the candle and lit it on the table, then pressed Hodder into a chair to the side.

"This thing needs to be guided for the first time, come on, you need to relax your body now. Thor began to guide Hord as his mentor had taught him in Greycurtain.

Hodder blinked, then collapsed in his chair, looking like a wreckage with no future.

"And now that you start thinking about it, you need to recall some of the intense emotions in your life. For example, sadness, anger, despair, etc., in short, the more intense the emotion, the better. Thor continued to lead.

Hodder's eyes were closed with a serious face, and gradually the muscles on his face twitched a little from the exertion, and it looked like ...... As if constipated, after a moment he innocently turned his head to look at Thor.

"Sorry, I can't seem to get in. ”

After a pause, Hodder tried to analyze again.

"It's not surprising that my life is very simple, I'm optimistic most of the time, and I don't have any deep emotions that make me haunted, after all, I'm happy like a frog every day. ”

Happy as a frog?The corners of Thor's eyes twitched, well, it seems that you are quite accurate in positioning yourself.

"Anyway, I'll try my best first, and I'll let you know when I analyze the results. In the end, Hodder didn't bother with the effect of the candle and took the matter over.

Leaving Howl's laboratory, Thor returned to the Lord's Mansion, then took his fishing rod and sat down by the pond in his yard.

After the Lord's House was built, Goblinscourt proposed to make a landscape fountain in the courtyard for viewing.

Thor thinks that the fancy thing is of little practical significance, and that it is better to dig a small pond in his yard. After filling it with water, keep some small fish in it in advance, and you can come and fish when you have time.

The pond had been there for a long time, but unfortunately Thor had never had time to be idle, and Igreal and Petty would occasionally run over and throw some fish food into the pond. Now that the fish in the pond have grown up, it is time to catch a few fish and cook some fresh soup for the mushrooms to drink.