At the same time that Lear walked into Afra's study, Baron André's mansion, hundreds of kilometers away, welcomed an uninvited guest.

The originally lively Baron André's Mansion has now become a hell on earth, and the senior swordsman Yegor walked to the door of the mansion, did not say a word, and killed anyone he saw, from the door to the hall, a full twenty-six people died under his sword.

Yegor was in his early fifties, with a wide forehead and a hooked nose, and at first glance he looked like a kind old man, but at heart he was a murderous swordsman. He fought all the way in, and he didn't even use his fighting spirit, and the crimson blood dripped down the long sword in his hand with a sharp light.

André's family of four and two maids crowded the hall, their faces blank - the rest had either run away or died.

Baron André barely kept his human appearance. His wife tugged at his sleeve. His eldest son, Anderson, is a well-known pervert, except for seducing women, he is not even as good as the second son in other places, and when he was glanced at by Yegor, he was scared to pee his pants and tremble. The second son, Bartlet, was also frightened, but he was thinking about it.

Yegor was also a fiefdom baron, but he had been living in the Grand Duke's mansion and had to serve the Grand Duke. Even if he kills Andre's entire family, and casually says a word to avenge his disciples, no one dares to hold him accountable. No one would offend a high-ranking swordsman or even an archduke for the sake of a mountain baron.

Yegor stomped on the ground, the floor cracked, the whole hall shook, dust fell, and he said expressionlessly: "Tell me, why did you kill my disciple." ”

André sat up straight with difficulty and said, "My lord, that magician only wants to kill a child named Lear, not your disciple. You should know that Boris's death was a complete accident, and I am also a good friend of his. ”

With a grim smile, Yegor said, "Reason tells me that you are right, but I have lost a gifted disciple, and I cannot forgive those who have directly or indirectly harmed him. ”

Andre hurriedly said: "My lord, I still have a magic guide and two pieces of magic equipment at home, and I can give you another 30,000 gold heads." "The total income of his territory is only 20,000 gold heads a year, his magic guide is a family heirloom, and the two pieces of magic equipment are placed here by the magician.

Yegor sneered: "My territory earns 500,000 gold heads a year, will I lack you this little thing?" ”

Baron Andrei's second son suddenly stood up and said, "Dear Lord Yegor, I have a secret to tell you privately, involving a treasure that I promise will be of very, very good interest to you. Don't you think it's strange for an intermediate magician to run here?"

Andre and Anderson looked at Bartlet, especially Anderson, with horror and anger, gritting their teeth, eager to kill this half-brother.

"Follow me. Yegor turned and walked towards the courtyard.

Bartlet, who didn't dare to look at the three family members, clenched his fists and hurried to follow.

"Miscellaneous!" Anderson cursed Bartlet.

In the courtyard, Bartlet whispered a secret about an intermediate magician, and the more Yegor listened, the more frightened he became, and at last he was ecstatic, almost losing his temper.

After Baartley finished saying the secret, he gritted his teeth fiercely and said, "My lord, I have completely surrendered to you, I have no strength or ability, I can't threaten you, I can only rely on you to live." I will not fight with you, for you can kill me with one finger. I only want this baron's title and territory! Please kill the people inside, and leave no one behind!"

Yegor stared at him in the eye for a moment, then suddenly showed an approving smile, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You will be my disciple from now on!"

Bartlet immediately knelt down and bowed to the teacher.

Yegor strode into the hall and killed with his sword, first Andrei and then Anderson. When he was about to kill a maid, the maid fell to her knees and shouted, "Bartlet, my dear, I have your child in my belly." ”

Yegor calmly put away his sword and looked at the new disciple.

Bartlet, however, drew his dress sword, ran to the maid, and stabbed her in the stomach with his sword.

"Puff puff ......"

Bartlet stabbed and scolded: "Little slut, don't think I don't know what you've done, and the devil knows that the seed in your belly is mine, my brother's, or my father's! Damn! Damn! Damn it! If I were a baron, you would have as many sluts as you wanted!"

Yegor looked at the new disciple with satisfaction.

While Baron Anderson's mansion was mired in carnage and blood, Afra's study was full of ambiguity.

Afra stood there at a loss, thinking, "What should I do, what should I do, what should I do, what should I do, should I accept his marriage proposal......?" Anyway, he has a high status, money, and strength...... Anything is good anyway, but ...... But it was so sudden, I wasn't ready to ......"

While the girl was still struggling, Lear was slightly stunned and asked, "Afra, what's wrong with you?"

"No, it's nothing...... Afra said, thinking that this guy was teasing people again.

Lear stepped forward and told the private soldiers about the discovery of the high-level swordsman Yegor, and then said, "I'm afraid that he will come to me for trouble, and he may not be able to protect you at that time, so I will give you this pair of magic guides." The black ring releases an 'Intermediate Magic Shield', but the ring is more precious than the one set with the "Elemental Colored Diamond". ”

"This ring is called 'Demon Storage Ring', and its only function is to convert the power of external elemental aura or elemental crystal into magic power, and the storage amount is very small, but it is enough to stimulate ordinary magic guides. However, elemental colored diamonds are particularly valuable, and one tenth of a grain of rice is worth 150,000 gold carats, and is usually used to make more advanced magic conversion devices. The most important thing is that only high-ranking mages who are proficient in alchemy can make the Demon Storage Ring, and there are currently no more than ten high-ranking mages in the entire Starry Sky Continent who are proficient in alchemy. "Any magician who sees this ring will take out the Elemental Colored Diamonds and use them to make other magicians, so the market price of this ring is 150,000 gold carats.

"If you encounter danger, you can put the Elemental Colored Diamond of the Demon Reservoir Ring on the Intermediate Magic Shield Ring, which will naturally activate the magic shield. If the glow of the Ring of Demonic Storage is dim, you can refill it overnight by placing Elemental Crystals close to the Ring. As he spoke, he took out a large handful of elemental crystals from his dimensional bag and placed them on the table, enough to support the release of the Demon Ring hundreds of times.

Afra froze in place, first ashamed, then full of emotion, and even no longer nervous and shy, looking at him blankly, with tears in her eyes.

Lear pretended not to see anything, took Afra's hand, put the two rings on each of her middle fingers, and then held her left and right hands respectively and said, "Look, that's it......"

The Ring of Demon Storage and the Ring of Intermediate Magic Shield shimmered at the same time, and then a light blue shield appeared from Afra's body, repelling Lear.

Lear smiled and said, "From now on, these two rings belong to you." If I die, please keep them with you and prove that there is a man who was willing to give his life to protect the woman he loves. With that, he turned and left.

Leaving the study and closing the door, Lear clenched his fist and waved his arm, and said in his heart, it was a success!

"How could I not know the meaning of the ring! It is to first give her a delusion, and then subvert her delusion, so that she will lose her mind and even feel guilty because of the huge contrast. Take the opportunity to put the ring on her middle finger, activate the magic shield and push me away, forming a scene similar to parting, and finally say a fleshy one, she doesn't want to forget me in the future! Wanting to capture the old is much more useful than pushing and kissing, and the things of the ancestors will never go out of style! Hehe, the ring on the middle finger also has other meanings......

Afra, the little woman who was calculated, was looking at the two rings and crying, and her tears of emotion couldn't stop flowing down, and she kept repeating in her heart: "Lear is so good to me, no one has ever been so good to me except my parents, Lear is so good to me......"

At this time, Afra completely forgot about another Star Continent custom - the ring is worn on the middle finger to indicate engagement or love!

She cried for a long time before she wiped away her tears and stared blankly at the ring, with a sweet smirk on her face. After smirking for a long time, she showed a distressed expression.

According to mainland customs, the ring on the thumb indicates that you are chasing someone, on the index finger you want to be pursued, on the middle finger you mean that you are engaged or in love, on the ring finger you mean that you are married, in some places it also means that you are engaged, and on the little finger you mean divorce. Lear was willing to give me something so valuable, I couldn't help but wear ......."

"I can't wear my little thumb and ring finger, it's not convenient to wear my thumb, and if I wear my index finger, I want others to pursue it, it's too embarrassing, and I can't wear it...... Alas, I can only wear the middle finger, I hope others will not misunderstand. ”

Afra frowned, but the more she looked at them, the more she liked these two beautiful rings. She looked around sneakily, suddenly put the ring set with elemental colored diamonds in front of her mouth, kissed it gently, and then stood up in a panic with a red face and walked out in a panic.

There was a soft "bang", and she forgot to push the door and hit her head on the door.

"It's all Lear's fault!" she shyly pushed open the door with one hand over her forehead and ran to the bedroom.

In the following days, in order to ensure that the fighting spirit was full, Lear only practiced swordsmanship a few times in the morning, and spent the rest of the time practicing swordsmanship - swordsmanship is the foundation of everything, and the higher the swordsmanship, the stronger the swordsmanship, this is an indisputable fact.

The effect of the troll potion has long since disappeared, his height has reached one meter seventy-five, and he is now in the development period, his foundation is so good, and he is nourished by the ancestral sword, and he will be even taller.

However, the power that the sword left in Lear's body was not used up, and he continued to strengthen his body. It has been a month since he came to the mountains, and the amount of fighting energy in his body has already surpassed that of a novice swordsman, reaching the standard of the peak of a junior swordsman, and it takes three or four years to complete the journey that an ordinary swordsman can complete.

In the past few days, while practicing swords, he has practiced in his mind the means of dealing with high-level swordsmen, and finally came to a conclusion that has both joy and sorrow.

"If that high-level swordsman only uses rudimentary magic equipment, he can easily play to death, but if he has high-grade magic equipment or even the best magic equipment worth more than half a million gold carats, I will definitely lose. Juggernaut weapons don't do much, and the Golden Mask hasn't been repaired yet. Even if the golden mask is repaired, it only has a protective function, and as soon as the high-level swordsman runs, I can't catch up with me from exhaustion. ”

"There are no absolutes in the world, and he may not have the best magic equipment. The most important thing is that there is an essential difference between a high-level swordsman and a great swordsman - a high-level swordsman can exert his fighting energy, but he can't use his sword skills while using his body protection fighting energy, which is the biggest reason why I am confident to defeat a high-level swordsman. If the other party is a great sword master, you don't have to think about it, you should run away now. ”

On the third day after giving the ring to Afra, Lear was practicing his sword in the mountains and forests when he noticed a man in his fifties suddenly appear not far away.

The man had a broad forehead, a hooked nose that stood out, and a long sword in his hand. But he was smiling, and he didn't look ready to do anything.

"It's very similar to the description of that private soldier, it must be the high-level swordsman Yegor!"

Just when Lear was considering whether to take the initiative or run away, Yegor smiled and said, "Precise swordsmanship, calm footwork, in terms of swordsmanship alone, you are only one point worse than me." You should know who I am, I will take you as an apprentice, you think about it. ”

Lear showed a look of surprise on the surface, but he chuckled in his heart: "He doesn't look like he's taking in an apprentice, but like a fearless threat!"

Lear smiled and said, "I can't ask for you as a high-ranking swordsman." However, as the Earl of the Homan Empire, I need the consent of an elder when I apprentice. After all, my elder is a high-ranking sword master!"

Yegor snorted lightly: "I sincerely accept you as an apprentice, but you actually use the earl and the superior swordsman to suppress me, do you think I really dare not kill you?"

Lear was calm and said, "You should know that I'm also an apprentice in magic. I've been using the magic checkbook for a long time, and the people of my family have already located it, and they will arrive soon. Once I'm dead and the magic checkbook with my spirit imprinted on it changes, they'll be the first to know. What do you think the Homan royal family will do if one of the fiefdom counts of the Homan Empire dies on the land of Grand Duke Mikhail, and what will the Homan XVII and XIX legions do on the border?"

Yegor laughed: "I didn't believe that you were an earl at all, but now it seems that I believe you when you say that you are a marquis." A guy with a dimensional bag is either a super strong person or a big nobleman. However, you forget one important thing, the location of the magic checkbook is a vague range, and the nearest bank in your Homan Empire is also two thousand kilometers away, so the positioning error will be very large, and it will be spread throughout the Belém Mountains. ”

Lear smiled and said: "Of course, there will be errors, but they will always find this place one by one, and they will always find clues! The most important thing is that the Homan Empire is very interested in the territory of Korus, and there is only one excuse left!"

Suddenly, without warning, Yegor raised his sword and stabbed Lear, his eyes surging with murderous intent like that of a predatory eagle.