End.

Heavy snow enveloped the entire western realm, and the silver-covered Nine Seal City had a unique style.

It's the end of the year, and it's also the coldest days, and people are putting down their work and gathering at home in these days of reminiscing about the past and looking forward to the future.

This tradition has existed for a long time and continues to this day, in the past, most people were farmers, in order to survive all year round and night in the heaven and earth, but in this frosty winter, there is no way to work, coupled with the cold weather, the family stays in their own homes, relying on the wood they usually collect, hard work for a year's crops to survive this cold winter.

Since the development of magic technology, the lives of ordinary people have been greatly improved, and it is no longer the kind of hard life that works at sunrise and rests at sunset, large magic machinery replaces manpower and ploughing cattle, and the extraordinarily cheap magic potions produced by the assembly line greatly increase food production, and magic guide heating devices replace ovens......

A large number of people were freed from agriculture and replaced by other kinds of work that were more light, craftsmen, tailors, merchants, factory workers......

People no longer have to fight to survive, and in the cold winters of the past, they can only hide at home, around the fire, and worry about the food production of the coming year...... Now people can work even in the cold winter, and the large magic heating system brings a new vitality to the city in winter......

Of course, at the end of the year, the most important thing is to go home and reunite with their families, according to tradition.

Mercenary union, mercenary company battalion.

The small martial arts arena was full of snow that no one had cleared, and the girl was wearing thin clothes, and her small hands, which were originally plain, were red from the cold.

However, the girl's body was slightly surrounded by light blue true qi.

"Teacher, yet, aren't you okay......" Su Xiaoxiao was so cold that she couldn't speak a little bit.

"Not yet. Su Qiran stood on the snowdrift on the side, seemingly careless, but in fact he was very serious about sensing the flow of true qi on Su Xiaoxiao's body.

Although Su Xiaoxiao's true qi is water-attributed, and does not have the strong red-hot effect attached to fire-attribute true qi, the basic functions of heat preservation and cold repelling still exist.

Su Xiaoxiao relied on the effect of true qi, only wore a thin clothes, and practiced in this ice and snow for an hour, and now Su Qiran mentioned that Su Xiaoxiao's potential was tapped.

The true qi in Su Xiaoxiao's body has almost been exhausted, and now she doesn't hold on for a while, the stronger her ability to persist in the future in a desperate situation.

Su Qiran also practiced like this at the beginning, although in a strict sense, Su Qiran did not have a teacher, after all, the second sage could not practice, and he could teach him to a limited extent, so Su Qiran practiced with many people, swordsmanship, and physical arts......

"It's so nice to see you so laid-back every time. Mo Xiaoye, dressed in a black robe, walked in. "Satsuki went to the union to submit the task. ”

"On weekdays, when I have time, I also go to help with tasks. Su Qiran spread his hands helplessly. "I have to assist in the little cultivation, and I also have to manage the mercenary group, do you think it will be easy?"

After a few months of development, their one-two-three-four-five mercenary group is also a "medium-sized mercenary group" with nearly a hundred people, and all this is because He Yue and Mo Xiaoye teamed up to kill the beast king of the forest south of the city, and for a while, their small mercenary group became famous.

Although only three of the nearly 100 people recruited later met Su Qiran's criteria for advanced professionals...... One paladin, two warriors.

Every day, Su Qiran handles the trivial matters of various mercenary groups, including the list of dispatchers for each task, the distribution of bounties after completion, the appointment and dismissal of positions, management, and various procedures with the mercenary union......

In short, it's a bunch of big and small troubles.

"Why are you developing such a mercenary group?" Mo Xiaoye couldn't help but ask, in his opinion, Su Qiran was wasting time, not to mention that Su Qiran had only developed to such a point in the past half a year, mercenaries are a fairly free industry, and there are all kinds of people among mercenaries, even if it is a mercenary group established by Su Qiran, those mercenaries cannot be as loyal to Su Qiran as a soldier is to the country.

Although it seems to be thriving now, this is only because the mercenary group has not experienced any setbacks......

"I have some plans, and I'm just getting started. Su Qiran seemed to be confident.

“...... I hope so. Mo Xiaoye helplessly stroked the snow on the railing and leaned on it slightly. "The Xingzhu Empire's envoy has entered the Federation City and is gradually beginning to take over and rectify the Federation in an all-round way. ”

"It's fast, it looks like you're well prepared. ”

Seven months ago, the Xingzhu Empire attacked Cloud City, and all the figures at the level of the Cloud Mist Imperial Family and the Holy See Bishop were escorted to Star Bamboo City.

However, the subsequent development exceeded everyone's expectations, and the Xingzhu Imperial Family announced that all the territories of the original Cloud Mist Empire would be set up as the Cloud Mist Realm, except for the [Cloud Mist King] parachuted into the past by the Star Bamboo Empire and a series of high-level managers, there were few other changes.

In other words, the Cloud Empire is just equivalent to a change of ruler, and the people of the Cloud Empire, the local nobility, the power system, etc., except for the people who died in the war, will not be affected.

The Star Bamboo Empire established the post-war order of the Cloud Empire as quickly as possible, and immediately the army turned its spearhead and pointed at the Western Federation.

A large number of troops were assembled in the western realm, but just when everyone thought that another big war was about to break out, the Federation took the initiative to [surrender] to the Xingzhu Empire.

Immediately after that, the Xingzhu Empire signed an armistice agreement with the orc tribes of the Far North Wasteland......

In the past few months, the situation in the north of the continent has been constantly changing, and the Xingzhu Empire has unified the north as quickly as possible.

Su Qiran stared down at the snow, as if he was thinking about something, while Mo Xiaoye was bored pinching the snowball, and there was an unspeakable silence between the two.

"Gather everyone and let's go to the Land of Chaos. Su Qiran said in a deep voice.

"Huh?" Mo Xiaoye was stunned.

"We can't hesitate any longer, the reunification of the north is already the general trend. Su Qiran turned around and picked up Su Xiaoxiao, who was already a little confused on the martial arts arena, and the white true qi flowed around him. "It's too limited to develop here. ”

"What are you talking about, suddenly going to such a dangerous place as the Land of Chaos, and how can other people ...... together"

Halfway through speaking, Mo Xiaoye was suddenly stunned, he remembered that Su Qiran's recruitment process for the members of the mercenary group was actually very slow, even if he gradually lowered his requirements later, Su Qiran insisted that he interview with the recruited mercenaries in person...... At that time, Mo Xiaoye noticed that Su Qiran would ask those mercenaries a question every time he interviewed......

Most people then choose to give up.

"That's what you ask every time?"

"Hmm. ”