The night had fallen, and a fish-belly white appeared on the horizon, and only a few large stars could still be seen in the navy blue sky. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At ten o'clock in the morning, I stretched out of my chair and pulled back the curtains on the attic glass window, the silent night was coming to an end, I put down the magic pen in my hand, the snow in the inkwell had dried up, and after a long night's work, those 'Frost Nova' scrolls were all on the desk, and I was going to put them in a beautiful square box one by one, and when I went to school in the morning, I had to hand them over to Marven.

Now these 'Frost Nova' magic scrolls have been fried in El City to buy three magic crystals, which is already quite a high price, but those noble children are still rushing to buy them, just to be able to accumulate some merits this winter.

There was a slight murmur downstairs, and it must have been Nancy who had begun to prepare breakfast. Although her craft is a bit simple, she can only make shortbread roll cheese with cereal, but the taste is really good. I am more demanding of this dignified and generous and very virtuous beautiful woman, and even though she joins us as a third person, she does not seem to cause us any trouble.

Fanny and Ryan are still very harmonious, Ryan likes to read the newspaper before meals, Fanny will keep nagging me and Tracy during breakfast, and now that there is more Cindy, Tracy and I have shared some of the firepower. Fanny has been encouraging Cindy not to stay at home all the time, to get out and about, or at least to go shopping with Tracy on vacation.

Nancy shared almost all of Fanny's chores, but since she came to our house, I noticed that everything was in order.

When I was chatting with Tracy, I learned from her that the inexplicable sleeping with Nancy in her arms that Ryan was talking about was actually a secret operation planned by Fanny herself and completed with Tracy. In fact, Tracy just mixed some mandala flower juice with Ryant's wine to give him a second spring. And Fanny successfully persuaded Nancy to join this still warm family in such troubled times, after all, their mother and daughter have nowhere to go.

I wondered why Fanny did this, and I asked Tracy secretly, but she just looked at me and said, "Why don't you ask Fanny?"

I was speechless for a moment, how could I be embarrassed to ask Fanny about this kind of thing? Do you want me to tell her directly, "Hey, Fanny, why did you take the initiative to find a little wife for your husband, and a little mother for me and Tracy?"

I just dare to think about it, if I say that, I might be thrown into the snowdrift in the backyard by Fanny and live with Luka the Minotaur for a few days.

But now it seems that the three of Ryant and Fanny and Nancy have handled each other's relationship very well, and each other has a clear division of labor at home, and at dinner, everyone sits at the table, and I can still enjoy the extremely warm scene, but Cindy is a little introverted, and I always feel a little guilty when she looks at me and Tracy.

Although Tracy has emphasized many times that the things of the adults have nothing to do with us, Cindy still stubbornly believes that her mother's actions in this matter have made her a little unable to hold her head up. I think Cindy is a little too sensitive.

I extinguished the kerosene lamp on my desk, turned my head and saw a map of my fiefdom on the wall, with red lines covering all the land with a stone mountain and a lake, and under the circle was written the property of Baron Giggar, Second Class, and the seal of the Council of the City of El with my name stamped.

This map was issued by the Logistics Department of El City, and it wasn't until this scroll was issued that Fanny and Ryan knew that I had been quietly promoted to a first-class knighthood, which can be said to be not an easy task in the Grimm Empire.

However, when Fanny saw this map, her first reaction was not that I had obtained a new title or a larger fiefdom, but that she stared into my eyes and asked me: "Jijia, you must tell us the truth! Tell me what dangerous things you have done, it is impossible for those people in the council hall to promote people to knighthoods for no reason, although our family is not a nobleman, but it is very clear how difficult it is to promote titles among nobles!"

I don't remember how they appeased Fanny at the time, and I felt a little weak in my explanation, but they tried to accept the answer I gave, and my merit was due to the magic scrolls.

At this time, I felt the feelings of Ryan and Fanny, and instead of the joy of my promotion, I was worried about the danger of my achievement.

Outside the city of El, thousands of barbarians of the Storm Bear Tribe surround the city, and our inhabitants will do what they can to fend off the murderous barbarians.

So, no matter how late I stayed up to draw the scroll, Fanny put up with it and didn't remind me to go to bed early.

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Just when I was about to meditate before dawn to recover my depleted mana, I suddenly felt like there were fireworks outside the window in the direction of the north city wall, flickering three or two times in the distance, and my heart inexplicably welled up with an uneasy premonition, and at this moment, a loud sound of explosion between heaven and earth came.

My face turned pale at once, and just as dawn approached, the barbarians finally launched their first attack.

I'm worried that the warriors of the Knights of the Guard Battalion on the city wall will all be asleep and have not woken up yet......

As if the whole city was shaking violently, I did not hesitate to put on my thick magic robe, reached out and pushed the attic glass window open, and my body was like a tanuki, I got out of the attic window, stood on the tiles of the roof ridge, and looked far away in the direction of the north city wall.

Standing outside the house, I could already hear the shouting and killing sound like the tide of the sea, and my hands and feet were a little cold at the moment, it turned out that the battle to defend the city had really begun.

All of a sudden, countless people came out of their houses and looked into the distance.

Ruka, the minotaur, excitedly carried his two-handed axe, standing in the open field in the backyard, and he smashed his fist on his chest with some excitement, raising the fighting spirit in his heart. Even the Minotaur Ruka was disturbed by the shouts of killing in the distance, and a fire of war ignited in his heart. He craned his thick neck and asked me aloud, who was standing on the roof, "Jiga, are we going to fight?"

"Come with me to the Academy of Magic in a moment!" I thought for a moment, and said to Ruka the Minotaur.

If the military of El City needs a magician to help defend the city, they will definitely ask the academy for help directly, rather than us running to the north wall like headless flies, it is better to wait for the academy to be organized in an orderly manner, as an auxiliary water magic apprentice, the most important thing I need to do now is to maintain the most abundant mana and wait for the call of the dean.

"Hmm!" Ruka's muscles trembled with excitement.

Ryan came out of the house in a fur coat, stood at the door of the courtyard, looked at the north in silence, he silently lowered his head, gently stroked the Western sword at his waist with his hand, and was speechless for a long time, the hero of twilight also had a time of shortness of breath, although he was in the prime of life, and his physical state did not decline in the slightest, but when his hand touched the hilt of the sword, he was full of hesitation, at this moment his heart was hesitating, although there was infinite war intent in his heart, but the fetters behind him were wrapped around him in this exquisite house。

The gentle eyes are like steel ropes, imprisoning this steely man.

At this moment, I suddenly understood why Fanny would let another woman share the man who belonged to her, it turned out that handcuffs and anklets could not lock a warrior, what could lock him firmly was a gentle woman's heart, a beautiful woman in a gentle veil tent that needed his arm to rely on to continue to live.

Fanny is not such a woman, she is not gentle at all, and the most important thing is that even without Ryente by her side, she can still live well, and she has the ability to support herself. At this time, Fanny, dressed in a single dress, stood in front of the window of the attic behind me, holding her shoulders with her hands, with a bitter smile, quietly looking at Lyant at the gate of the courtyard, her eyes were full of love.

The beautiful Nancy was only wearing a thin nightdress, shivering outside the house, I don't know if it was because the cold weather was almost naked and her face was pale from the cold, or because the barbarians outside the city were frightened by the shouts of the sea tide to kill, her round and jade body was trembling, but she didn't make any sound, she stood barefoot on the snow but didn't feel the coldness on the ground at all, and the hair that didn't have time to pull up was scattered by the wind, covering her face and the misty almond eyes.

I have to say that this war is extremely cruel to Nancy, so that this woman who lived a comfortable life in the small town of Maas, after losing her family, went through a lot of hardships, fled to El City with her daughter, and entered the city only to find that the hope in her heart is not so beautiful in the face of reality, countless refugees have gathered in El City, in addition to the threat of hunger, there is also the cold brought by the cold wave, which can freeze the homeless homeless into ice sculptures overnight.

Suddenly, in despair, she discovered that there was not enough gold to survive in El City. When there is only one wish left in his heart to live, he is finally taken in by Ryan and Fanny because of the relationship between his daughter Cindy.

In this cruel winter when 'a young girl is not worth as much as a bag of wheat flour', she seems to have resigned herself to her fate, and suddenly discovers that the gentleman-like man Ryant is actually another stop in her life where she can stop and rest, she cherishes it incomparably, on the one hand, she is trying to please Lyant with her gentle body as much as possible, such a gentleman with traditional thoughts, is not exactly what she dreamed of in her girlhood? On the other hand, she wanted to make Fanny feel as little as possible any threat to her, she didn't have the slightest idea of replacing the hostess Fanny, she just wanted to find a harbor in life where she could stay.

So Fanny's persuasion that day was undoubtedly like a drop of honey for Nancy in the desert, when she was still at a loss for her life, even if Fanny had some other careful thoughts in her heart, for Nancy, Fanny's proposal she could not refuse.

Just when Nancy felt that she was about to be frozen by the cold wind, a thick and powerful arm held her fiercely in her arms, she looked up in panic, and suddenly found that Ryan looked down at her with a gentle smile, and said to her: "It's so cold, why come out and run around with so little clothing!"

"......" Nancy suddenly thought of her thin pajamas, as if there was nothing, and suddenly her face was like a ripe prawn, and she hurriedly said, "I'm sorry!"

"What's there to apologize for, let's go, let's go back!" Ryan walked back to the house with Nancy in his arms.

"But, over there...... Is it really okay?" Nancy said worriedly to Ryant as she looked at the northern city wall where the shouts of killing could be heard.

"Haha, if those knights of the Knights of the Guard Battalion were crushed by those barbarian warriors in the first morning, then we might as well take an airship to Sloit City as soon as possible!

My faith in El City comes only from the great magic bed crossbows hidden in the arrow towers and the magical deterrence of Dean Goldfrie, and I don't believe that the great witches of the barbarian tribe would dare to show their faces on the battlefield.

But without the help of the Great Witches, what could these barbarians do to break through the defenses of the city of El?

I looked back to see what Fanny was like in the attic window, but unfortunately she wasn't there anymore, only Tracy squinted and hid behind the curtains, with her messy hair on her head, poking her head out to look outside, and behind her, Cindy was wearing a thin nightgown and a thick coat, and ran over and draped it over Tracy's body, but she herself was freezing and sneezing......

"Jia, what's wrong?" Tracy asked me curiously.

"There is a fight in the direction of Beicheng, and the movement is a bit big, this time those barbarians outside the city are afraid to move something real!" I stepped on the snow on the roof, held on to the eaves of the attic, and slipped in lightly from the ridge, and then said to Tracy: "Don't eat breakfast, I'll go to the academy to have a look, maybe there is the most need for water magicians at this time!"

"Cut, what kind of water mage are you! There is only one water mage in our city of El, and that is Lord Heidi!" Tracy said with a sneer.

Cindy stood in the back, watching me and Tracy argue with envy.

I didn't care what Tracy said, quickly sorted out the magic scrolls on my desk, put my application in my magic beltbag, and rushed out of the room.

Suddenly, like a whirlwind, he rushed back, and when Tracy was stunned, he gave her a hug, and just when Tracy wanted to beat me, he hurriedly pushed her away, and then gave a big hug to Cindy who was at a loss, raised his fist at them, and said confidently: "Waiting for the good news of my victory!"

"Cut, it's like a magic apprentice like you're going to war!" Tracy's mocking words rang in my ears as I rushed down the wooden attic.

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