After waiting in the middle of the night, the sky finally dawned, and I glanced at Audele, who stubbornly insisted on being by his side, while she was sleeping soundly on the soft and wide sofa, still draped over his robe.

Rafa walked to the window and found that the outside world had been covered in silver overnight, and the goose-feather snow was still falling, as if it had not stopped.

"Fortunately, the vegetables in the greenhouse are basically ripe, otherwise we would have to keep them for ourselves. ”

It was just dawn that day, and a few wisps of smoke in the distance had begun to come out of the chimney, and it turned out that it was already time for breakfast in the cafeteria.

"Your Highness. Siphus, who hurriedly walked in, saw Audrey, who was still asleep, and whispered.

"Did you get notice?" Rafa didn't want to wake Audrey, and led Seaphus outside under the eaves, where the snow covered the courtyard with a thick layer of white velvet.

"I've informed all departments to leave work early this afternoon to observe your experiments, but ......," Sieverus said a little and stopped.

"But what?"

Sieverus bowed slightly, "But... I've heard rumors that Your Highness has saved a witch before, and yesterday's fire was the ...... from that witch."

After a moment of silence, Rafa exhaled a white breath and said leisurely, "Syphus, I remember you were my butler when I was only twelve, right?"

"I didn't expect His Highness to remember when I first came to the Prince's Palace..."Sieverus was a little surprised.

"In my memory, you should be an upright and tolerant person, who has many times stopped me from doing harm to others. ”

"Your Highness......" Sieverus didn't know what Rafa was trying to say, was he praising himself, or was he blaming himself for stopping his good deeds?

He looked at Seapheus, "I don't mean to blame you, but I think you did the right thing." ”

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the compliment. "Sieverus thinks that His Highness should have changed his mind, right? He even criticized his former self, but his change had begun a long time ago.

"Sipheus, I know that you are absolutely loyal to me, so now I am going to tell you a secret that only me, Fili, and Ao Dai know, and now, you are the fourth. ”

Sieverus straightened up, "Your Highness, please speak." ”

"We want to build Icefield City into a 'holy place' where witches can live with normal people. ”

Although this sentence was very short, it set off a huge wave in Sieverus's heart, he thought that he had saved the witch on a whim, but he did not expect that he had a grander plan.

However, after so many years of working for the royal family, he quickly got rid of the shock, although his inherent concept still believed that witches were evil, but from this moment on, he had to forcibly throw these paranoid thoughts out of his mind and re-establish his understanding of witches, because he was loyal to Rafa, not the church, and at this moment, he remembered the loyalty that he should have as a knight more than ten years ago.

Sieverus knelt down on one knee and touched his chest with one hand, "Your Highness, Sipheus will follow him to the death!"

Rafa laughed happily, his right-hand man completely agreed with him, and some things would be much easier to do in the future, "Very good, Knight Sipheus." ”

Rafa then asked Sieverus to summon Cole, Kono, and a group of people related to the caravan to the council chamber.

"Knight Cole, have you counted all the knights who are willing to join the caravan?"

Cole smiled, "Your Highness, the caravan was already arranged when it first returned. ”

"Very good, then, Ao Dai, when will the vegetables in the greenhouse be picked?"

"If you want, you can pick it today. Audele, who was standing behind him, replied.

"Very good, very good... Andrew, are the coal and iron ore ready for export?"

"Your Highness, it is ready, and it has been loaded, a total of five cars. "Andrew, who often goes to the mines, always has a swarthy face.

"Five carts, too little, you must know that minerals are the magic weapon that can temporarily drive the trade of Icefield City, and I heard Sipheus say that this winter seems to be a little early, so the demand for coal should surge, and we need to seize this opportunity." Rafa tapped a finger on the table, and the eyes of the rest were drawn to his throbbing fingers.

"What does Your Highness mean?"

"It's better than this... Reduce the iron ore to three carloads, and add another fifteen carloads of coal. He knows that for a city with resources, exporting resources is the best way to drive trade in a short period of time.

Knight Kono was a little worried, "Your Highness, if this is the case, then there will be very few carriages carrying vegetables. ”

"It's okay, didn't we make a deal with the vegetable merchants, and they'll send a wagon when the time comes. ”

"Your Highness is still thoughtful. ”

"By the way, Sipheus, how are our food reserves?"

Sieverus hurriedly opened a notebook, "Your Highness, we purchased a lot of grain when the caravan came back last time, so although our population has increased now, the grain reserves can still last until the beginning of spring next year." ”

"It's not enough! The wolf cavalry of the northern barbarians has begun to assemble in the Orr Mountains, and in winter, when there is not enough food in the mountains, they will definitely come out of the mountains to forage for food, and the form of the ice field city may be very bad at that time, so we need more food. ”

When it came to the wolf cavalry, everyone who was doing it changed their faces, especially those who had experienced the day when the city wall was blown up, and they all had lingering fears about those giant wolves that were taller than people.

"That's... Then I put the grain on the procurement list. Sieverus hurriedly took out a pen and wrote and drew on the paper.

Rafa then asked Siphus to allocate 10,000 gold coins to each of the two caravans, and proposed the purpose of the caravan: buy big!

Rafa told them that the caravan was not going out to make a profit, but only to buy all kinds of necessities, such as oil and salt, and bring back a whole truck of me, cloth for clothes, needless to say, and grain.

He said it was an exaggeration, but it was like saying that when you came back, you had to fill all the wagons, and there could not be an empty cart, whether it was for goods or for recruited workers, in short, you had to pack something.

At the end of the day, when everyone was about to end the meeting, Cole suddenly thought of something.

"Your Highness... Glass products are the bulk of our business, I wonder how you are prepared?"

Rafa slapped his head, "Hey, why did I forget this, the caravan will have to wait a little longer before it can leave." ”

"Your Highness, it seems that Madame has already prepared......" Audrey said cautiously.

Hearing Audele's whisper, he immediately jumped up with joy, "Really?"

"You... Didn't Madame tell you? Madame had already ordered someone to put things in the storage room a few days ago, well... Maybe it's because you're too busy to see it. Audair was a little emotional, these two were obviously husband and wife, but they didn't even tell each other what they did.

"Let's go! ”

The storage room is not far from the council chamber, so Rafa immediately decided to take everyone to see it, to confirm the authenticity and open everyone's eyes by the way, otherwise many of them know that Icefield City is rich in transparent glass, but they have never even seen the glass of their own home.

When he opened the heavy door with his own hands, everyone saw at a glance the neatly arranged wooden boxes in the room.

Opening a box at random, Rafa picked up a random object wrapped in a coarse cloth.

Lifting the coarse cloth, a glass product without the slightest flaw made everyone's eyes shine.

It was a lifelike swan spreading its wings, it seemed to be frozen in the moment of flying, each feather was so delicate, the slender neck was bent just right, and the beautiful shape made everyone present have to sigh at its exquisite workmanship.

"Thirty!" said Rafa suddenly.

"Your Highness, what are you talking about?" Cole wondered.

"This thing will sell for thirty gold coins, and not a single gold coin will be sold!"

Cole smiled, "Subordinates remember. ”

The two talked lightly, but the rest of the people were slightly stunned.

Thirty gold coins!

At this price, you can buy two houses in the affluent city of Corsol!

Although they all admit that this thing should be valuable, the windfall profits are too staggering.

"Looking at your surprised looks, are you still afraid that you won't be able to sell them? Don't worry, those noble lords have far more gold coins in their vaults than you think!"

Rafa glanced at the crowd, then turned his head in delight.

"Fili, I love you!"

With a light kiss on the swan, he put it back into the box, and he now felt like he wasn't in the storage room, but was wrapped in countless gold coins.

Seeing him express his "love" for Felihill with these things, everyone looked at each other a little and smiled knowingly.

After learning that everything was ready, Rafa ordered to set off early the next morning, because the first snow had already arrived, and although the road from Icefield to other cities was not rough, there was always an accident.

Dismissed, and when he returned to the hall, the four girls who had been greeted by the maids were sipping hot tea and pastries.

"Will we be able to eat something so delicious every day in the future?" Shelly was the first to cry out when she saw Rafa come in.

Rafa, who was already in a good mood, immediately smiled when he saw that he had added four more helpers, "Of course, as long as you like to eat, dear miss." ”

"Wow! Sister Lena is telling the truth!"

Looking at the happy Shirley, Rafa glanced at Liana, who was sipping tea, and saw that she had put a lot of thought into "tricking" her sisters into coming to the City Lord's Mansion.

Lena took a sip of hot tea, looked at Rafa and said, "That witch was responsible for yesterday's explosion." ”

"That's right, but it's all right now, and you'll be able to see her soon. ”

Speaking of the Flame Witch, Shirley suddenly remembered something, "Oh, yes! she seemed to be badly injured last time! I need to treat her quickly!"

"So you know how to heal magic!" Rafa was even more pleasantly surprised, as everyone knew how valuable a doctor could be to reduce casualties.

In order to make them aware of their sincerity, and to let the other witches know them, Rafa led them to Philisill's territory and brought them all together.

Felihill, Lilith, Elle, and the white-haired witch who has returned to normal body temperature and is sleeping in bed.

"Great! With you on board, we're going to be even stronger!"

The appearance of the new witch makes both Elle and Lilith very happy, but Felicille remains indifferent.

In order to get the most out of the witches, Rafa inquired about and observed the magic they could use.

Lena, the eldest of the four sisters, the Wind Witch, doesn't have much of an attack, but according to her, she once tore through the walls while on the run.

Katya, the Water Witch, or Ice Witch, has the ability to control water, and she also has the ability to turn water into ice or ice into water, but cannot make water hot.

When she thought that her ability might only be used to grow vegetables, Rafa proposed the idea of using her ability to build a polar ice wall, which suddenly made her secretly happy.

Cole, the Wood Spirit Witch, can assist in the growth of plants, with her, the future food and vegetables may not have to worry, in order to show more specific ability, she pointed to a small flower planted by Felihill that has been a little withered, after Katya watered it, she put her hand on it, the withered flower actually stood up again, and the withered flower became bright again.

Shirley, the Healing Witch, is the youngest of the four sisters, she looks to be fourteen or fifteen years old, but in fact she is only thirteen years old, and in order to show her abilities, she only needs to experiment with the Flame Witch who is lying in bed and still unconscious.

Lifting the blanket from the witch's abdomen, revealing the scabbed wound, Shirley dangled her hand over hers.

When the soft white light emanated, before anyone could see the effect, the witch who had been unconscious moaned lowly.

The moaning sound was very strange, as if it was because it was comfortable, and when it was heard by the continuous moaning, only Felihill and Rafa felt nothing, and the rest of them seemed to think of something, and their faces became flushed, and although Audair could not see her face with the mask, the red ears betrayed her.

"Huh, why did it get so hot all of a sudden, Elle, what's wrong with you?"

Rafa, who was looking intently at the wound, felt that Elle's body temperature was rising dramatically, and the temperature of the entire room was much higher.

"Ahem... Not... It's nothing. ”

Reminded by Rafa, Elle forcibly controlled her temperature and let the heat in the room go down.

Everyone's eyes fell on the witch's wound again, and something amazing happened, the two amazing blood holes began to squirm rapidly, and they were shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the two scars on the holes actually fell off and fell, revealing the tender skin that was intact and new underneath.

"It's amazing!"

In fact, it wasn't very magical, because Rafa's previous life was a world of cultivating immortals, healing elixirs abounded, and there were many dead people who were saved, so he wasn't much surprised, just to show the normal expression of a "mortal" seeing a miracle, he had to exclaim exaggeratedly.

Shirley then began to treat various wounds on the witch's body, large and small.

After a while, when there was no longer a trace on the witch's body, Shirley breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ahem......"

Shirley was treated thoroughly, and as soon as she put down her hand, the white-haired witch had already begun to cough twice, and her eyelids began to wrinkle slightly, obviously waking up.

"Lilith. ”

"Understood"

In order to prevent the witch from going on a rampage again, Felihill told Lilith to prepare in advance.

But this time the witch didn't seem to react much, and opened her eyes calmly.

"I ...... Isn't she dead yet?" the witch struggled to sit up, the blanket slipping off her body, but she didn't seem to care about her own.

"Of course you're still alive and well, how do you feel?" said Lina, who was the most senior sister in the group, sat down on the edge of the bed and comforted her.

The witch raised her head slightly and looked at her indifferently, "It seems that I ...... Are you saved?"

"We got you back on the street, you've been in a coma for three days, I'm the lord of Icefield City, Rafa. Rafa took a step forward, revealing his identity unabashedly.

The witches were not surprised, and each looked at everyone, "Are you all witches?" ”

Felihill didn't seem to want to dwell on it, so she asked directly, "What's your name?"

"Heda"

The witch obediently answered her question, "Heda" means battle in the Aura language, and using this name as a name obviously proves how difficult it is for her to survive until now.

"Are you the Witch of Fire?" asked Felicille again.

"Yes. ”

"Where are you from?"

"Orr Mountains. ”

"Very well, last question," Philip Hilly paused, "would you like to stay here?"

Speaking of this question, Hedda paused slightly, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes, and then glanced at the witches again, "According to my previous experience, forming a magic group is more likely to be surrounded and suppressed by the church. ”

"That's just because your power is not strong enough, and now we will create a 'power' that is even greater than the Church, and then the Church will be subverted by us, and this will become the birthplace of our power. Felihill raised her voice slightly.

When Felichir said this, Hedda hesitated slightly.

"Dear Madam, the church is not coming to this place of Icefield City, you can stay here for as long as you want. Rafa said with a smile.

"You're the rumored hapless and wasteful prince?" asked Heddah.

"Ahem, it's down there. Without meeting a stranger, Rafa didn't know how bad his reputation was in the outside world.

"I advise you to get out of here, the beasts of the Orr Mountains will come out, and you will not be able to hold this place. Hedda reminded.

"You don't need to worry about these questions, you just need to answer, stay or leave. Felihill tilted her head slightly.

"I chose to stay here until Icefield City was breached by the beasts. ”

"Very well, Miss Heda, I drink to you on behalf of Icefield City. Rafa laughed happily.

"Rafa, I have something to say to them, you can go, and I have prepared what you want, right next door. ”

"Uh... Oh. ”

He also wanted to chat with the witches to enhance his relationship, but he didn't expect Felihill to let him go immediately, and the change was too fast.

However, when he thought that he suddenly had so many witches under his command, he was still happy in his heart.