Chapter 64: Dawn Realm, Arrizo (Congratulations to the second cute master in this book: Instant Rain)
205 years in the sacred calendar. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info This year's harvest snow did not fall according to the previous time. This is not a good sign. If there is not enough heavy snowfall, it will not be able to kill the eggs of hornworms that breed in the soil in the fall.
Hornworms can be a nuisance, although there are all sorts of powerful beasts and even monsters in the Dawn Realm. However, powerful monsters only need to be dealt with properly and can always be killed. Because the more powerful the organism, the smaller its number, it is the nature of the food chain.
Hornworms, on the other hand, are small things that are only about the size of one-half of a thumb, and once they are bred, they are difficult to count. When the horn insect swarm is overwhelming, no strong person can do anything.
Because hornworm swarms don't hurt people, to be precise, they're just vegetarian bugs. But when hundreds of millions or more hornworms act together, there will be no vegetation in their path.
Hornworms do not hurt people, but they will eat the food that humans depend on for survival. Even those powerful monsters are afraid of the scourge of hornworms.
Because hornworms don't just eat food, they eat the leaves of forest trees. This can destroy the entire food chain from the bottom.
So a hornworm that can be easily pinched to death even by a toddler is the most terrifying creature in the world.
If the snow does not fall in abundance, the kingdom will mobilize its entire population to go to the fields to eradicate the eggs. However, this is not necessarily useful, as hornworms also lay eggs in some areas where humans are less active.
Those annoying little bugs, an adult can lay at least 3,000 eggs a year. Super reproduction is the key to the continuation of this little thing.
In addition to eating, it is mating. This sentence is a fitting description of hornworms.
Arrizo tightened her clothes, and although there was no snow, the weather was unusually cold. He was an archer and musketeer, and he had no fields. So he was not as worried about the emergency summoning order that the kingdom might issue, as ordinary peasants were.
But that doesn't mean Arrizo likes the fact that it doesn't snow.
Moondew City is the third largest city in Aurora. 350,000 people live in this area. The asphalt road is the symbol of the city. Compared to the stone slabs or broken brick pavements still used in some other cities, the asphalt pavement is undoubtedly more effective for commuting.
The asphalt road was laid two hundred years ago, not long after the first year of the sacred calendar.
It was a story that Arrizo had already heard, and the Holy Mage had descended on the continent to expel the gods and demons who had once been the power of the human race. Then he led mankind out of dreams and ignorance.
Let humanity understand that the so-called gods and demons have nothing to do with the creation of human life. Humans were not created by these races, they are nothing more than parasites crawling on humans.
It's just a matter of living on human foster care. In the final analysis, the so-called gods and demons, as well as those powerful beings, are just another form of life.
It is essentially the same as a cat or a dog. It's just that they're much more powerful than cats and dogs, and maybe they can be classified as another kind of intelligent monster?Arrizo felt that he didn't know enough from books, and it was difficult for him to draw conclusions about it.
Because as a civilian, Arrizo only attended six years of compulsory education, and the basics were only learned in the sixth grade of primary school. He didn't study the more advanced middle school and university courses.
Only high school and university courses teach important magical knowledge, and if he doesn't want to work as an assembly line worker or a waiter in a factory, he will have to take up arms and become a patrolman.
Fortunately, Arrizo's physical condition is still relatively good, especially in shooting. He played well with bows and arrows and muskets. This made him an archer/musketeer in the realm of Dawn.
"Damn, it's not snowing yet. Arrizo, dressed in a leatherette uniform, tightened the bow and arrow he carried behind his back and the short-barreled musket and a dagger he carried at his waist.
Arrizo is a young man, only twenty-six years old. But this is already his tenth year as a patrolman.
But for various reasons, he is still only an acting squad leader. Hang an agent's front poke in front of any position, and it really doesn't make a fart sound.
Just like Arrizo, his team members were able to listen to him because he was old and took care of his brothers in the ten-man squad. But how much do you respect Arrizo as the acting team leader?
Everyone is willing to do things for Arrizo completely for the sake of his face. Who knew that the leader of the squad suddenly parachuted in that day and deprived Arrizo of his rights, this is all possible.
Arrizo also knows his own family affairs, so in addition to what the team has to do. If something is added above, unless there is a specific request. Otherwise, Arrizo didn't bother to ask his brother to do it, so he just did it himself.
Anyway, there is a little meager overtime pay for overtime, and most of the members of the team in this cold day are reluctant to go out. Arrizo did these things for everyone, and everyone thought of him well. Every once in a while, I brought some sausages and smoked pig's trotters to Arrizo and everyone had a drink or something. Arrizo thinks that's enough.
Just like what Arrizo is doing now, a temporary task assigned by the superior leaders of Moondew City. Rangers are asked to add two check-in points per day.
This equates to an extra two hours of work per day. No one is satisfied with this kind of. So Arrizo simply did it himself, anyway, he was still a bachelor, and his parents died when he was twenty-three.
So when I got home, it was empty and boring. It's better to walk around the street, maybe seeing his efforts, maybe the word agent in front of him will be removed. Let him be a real squad leader. In this case, his monthly salary would be raised from ten pounds and fifteen shillings to fourteen pounds and ten shillings.
In this way, you will be able to save enough money to redeem Penny from the Fire Phoenix as soon as possible. Arrizo looked at the dry winter, but it was gloomy without snow. He couldn't help but sigh, firstly for himself and Penny, and secondly, he was really worried that the harvest snow would not fall.
In fact, the snow fell very late in the first two years. This has led to rumors in the Dawn, the main of which is about the Holy Mage.
The Divine Mage expelled the Protoss and the Demon Race back then, and after establishing the Dawn Realm, he carried out a profound transformation of the entire world.
These include tax reform, health care reform, compulsory education, and reform of the process of industrialization and magic. But the Holy Mage told his subjects when the Dawn Realm was thriving that he was leaving.
The Holy Mage had prophesied that he would return here one hundred and fifty years after the Divine Calendar. But unfortunately, in the one hundred and fifty years of the Divine Calendar, the Holy Mage did not return.
This disappointed the long-awaited subjects, including the king. And at that time, all kinds of rumors had already risen.
Whether it is the death of the Holy Mage, or the rumors of the Holy Mage being wiped out by the gods and demons, there are endless rumors. One of the most widely circulated comments is that the Holy Mage is actually a demon god from an exotic land.
He just came to the Dawn Realm to compete for the authority of the gods and demons here. Everything he does is lies and traps. In order to kill all the local gods and demons.
And humanity has just fallen into his trap. Salvation requires the return of the old gods.
Arrizol scoffed at the claim, and if it weren't for the Holy Mage, humanity would still be slaves to the gods of the past.
But there are always fools in this world. This kind of statement has actually become marketable under the transmission of well-intentioned people. Thirty years ago, a Great Purge began.
The cults that had returned to the old gods and demons were swept away by the kingdom, and the heads of the madmen who claimed to be the Pope were hung on the outer walls of the royal city as a warning to the world.
This has calmed the kingdom for many years, but the abnormal harvest snow in recent years has caused this rumor to rear-end again. The reason Arrizo had to work overtime was because there were some idiots in Moondew who were starting a secret assembly.
The top is starting to catch these stupid guys, and they are going to send patrol guards to patrol for more time.
Ari walked on the pavement and looked at the street lamps that lit up as night fell. It was a kerosene lamp, with a total height of about two meters and a half, and was made of black cast iron cans.
There is an oil chamber for storing kerosene inside, and one refueling can be enough for a kerosene street lamp to last for three days. It is lit up every night from 6 p.m. It closes at 6 a.m. It is managed by people from the specialized municipal garden department.
"If only we could catch one or two cult idiots!" Arrizo counted the time at the last patrol check-in point (the time can be seen through the tallest building in the center of the city, the Moondew Bell). Because the building is tall enough to be seen throughout the Moondew City. )。
Arrizo said with some grievances: "Isn't it because I haven't attended a four-year middle school? If you don't learn the basics of magic, it's difficult to be promoted, unless you win the big competition at the end of each year." But how useful is the magic foundation learned in four years of middle school?
"What is really useful depends on the advanced knowledge of magic that I have studied in six years at university. However, there are only a few universities in the entire kingdom that can be admitted, and Wangcheng University can only accept less than 2,000 students a year! The difficulty of the college entrance examination is like crossing a single-plank bridge with thousands of troops. "Arrizo is a little upset.
His bow and musket skills are very good, but at the end of the year, the martial arts Dabi bow and musket only accounted for 30% of the score.
Another 35 percent of the marks are for the written test, and the remaining 35 percent are for melee force.
The written test is okay, although he didn't go to middle school, Arrizo was still able to barely pass. But melee combat is better to forget it. His sword skills are sparse, and he can be used by ordinary people who have not been trained, but when dealing with his peers, he can only say that his martial arts are average, and he is not brilliant at all. It's too difficult to get ahead with martial arts.
Arrizo's eyes sharpened when he thought of this. He couldn't wait to find any cult idiots on the street who could and grab them as his own promotion.
But how difficult it is to find this kind of person, others have been looking for so long and haven't found it, you say that I can find it by the way...... Got it!
Arrizo's eyes suddenly lit up, he now had a very suspicious figure hovering in front of the tavern. He was wearing a well-fitting gray hooded suit, which Arrizo didn't know how to describe, but he somehow thought it was handsome. (If Arrizo also played Assassin's Creed, he should be able to recognize the Assassins.) )
This kind of dress is very different from the rest of the people in the Dawn Realm, could it be a spy among the gods and demons? Without much thought, Arrizo took out his short-barreled musket and stepped forward.
A hand rested on the shoulder of the man in the gray hood, and at the same time pressed the muzzle of the musket against the opponent's waist: "Don't move, turn around!"
The man in the gray hood seemed to hesitate for a moment, and then said in a playful voice: "Ah sir, are you telling me not to move, or are you telling me to turn around?" ”
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