"Now everyone understands, right?" Rafa put down his homemade chopsticks and swallowed the last piece of venison.

"Your Highness is saying... Do you want us to join forces and build two caravans?" Kono asked.

He touched his mouth, "Yes, I originally wanted to build a caravan on the river, but now that it is winter, and the Domo River will freeze soon, this caravan will wait until the beginning of spring next year." ”

"Your Highness, will the two caravans... It's too much, and that's all we can produce—" Sieverus asked cautiously.

"Of course, I'm not just asking you to sell things, but also have an important purpose..."Rafa took a sip of tea, "recruiting talent." ”

Except for Audair and Felihill, everyone looked at each other, they thought that although the idea was good, but when they thought of the remote and desolate appearance of Icefield City, would anyone else really want to come?

"I understand your concerns, but it doesn't matter, although the current advantages of Icefield City are not obvious, but because of my arrival, this place will never become worse than before, what I want you to do is to recruit craftsmen, whether it is masons and blacksmiths or craftsmen, or even just ordinary people, you can promise them that as long as you trick them into coming to Icefield City, I will take care of the rest. ”

Hearing Rafa say the word "deceit", the corners of everyone's mouths couldn't help but twitch.

Perhaps he found it too unappealing, so he added, "Why don't you do this, from now on, anyone in Icefield City who can recruit one person from other places will be rewarded with two silver coins." ”

As expected, Sieverus began to exclaim, "Your Highness, our gold coins ......"

Rafa interrupted him, "Don't worry, I have my plans, as long as there are people, everything is not a problem." ”

Seeing the happy expressions on the faces of the merchants and farmers, he knew that the plan should come to fruition.

Everyone saw that he seemed to have a firm idea of this plan, so they didn't refute it anymore, and after discussing the details, they left to prepare.

Today was a rare time for dinner, and it was rare for Felihir to leave the lab early, but she didn't seem to want to do too much, but was ready to go back to her room to rest.

It's just that Felicille doesn't like to say superfluous things, and Rafa can't find a topic for a while, so the two walk side by side in silence.

In the end, Rafa finally couldn't help but break the silence, "You've been ...... lately"

Felihill didn't look at him, and interrupted him, "There are five hundred and ten pieces of glassware in all, and I have ordered someone to move to the warehouse you mentioned." ”

"Uh... I'm not talking about this, I'm trying to say... How are you doing?"

Philicille glanced at him in surprise, and her indifferent eyes rippled, "I'm fine." ”

"That's good... I see that you often stay up late without resting, which is not good for your health. ”

"Didn't I warn you not to come to my territory at night?" Philicille stopped suddenly, her eyes becoming cold.

Rafa knew that peeping at her secret was taboo, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "I didn't go, it's just that you often don't go back to your room to rest, and you can make so many utensils, anyone will think you're staying up late." ”

"That's right... Sorry, it's your fault. Felihill's face softened slightly, and the two of them continued towards the bedroom, "Leave me alone, just do your own thing." ”

Rafa raised his eyebrows, "You're my wife, although it's only in name, but if I want to leave you alone, it's too heavy, right?"

"Giving the other person enough respect is the state we should maintain. Before they knew it, the two had arrived at the door of the two bedrooms that were close together, and after dropping a word, Felihill was surrounded by a group of personal maids and went to wash.

Rafa had no choice but to wash up and enter the dimly lit room.

It took a while to shake off his illusions about Felihill before he entered a state of settling.

At this time, looking at himself, the whirlpool in the sea of qi was a few points bigger than before, if the spiritual power vortex before was as big as a bowl, then it should be as big as a wellhead now.

"This Star Hidden Decision is really amazing, I didn't even deliberately cultivate, and the entry realm is so huge and quiet," he slowly opened his eyes and looked at his palm after running the Law Decision for a week, "When I reach the second layer of the Star Hidden Decision, I can use some simple spells." ”

As he held his breath for a long time, a bright red fireball appeared in the palm of his hand with a "boom", the golden red flame illuminated the whole room, and the temperature suddenly increased by a few points, and then he moved again, and the fireball turned into an ice-blue water ball, and finally the water ball turned into a light wind, blowing his closed window "whoosh".

"I can't let ordinary people see this, or they'll have to burn me as a heretic. He had no doubt about the level of fear of heresy among the people, and that all magicians in this world were only women, and the sudden emergence of a man who could emit flames would have no less consequences than the birth of demons, and would definitely be defeated by the entire Western Continent.

After thinking to himself for a while, he re-entered the state of concentration and began to consolidate the foundation after reaching the second layer of the Star Hidden Decision.

Due to Xingyin's transformation of his body, although he doesn't look particularly strong now, he estimates that there should be no one person in the entire Icefield City who can be stronger than him.

The night passed quickly, and when he opened his eyes refreshed, the world seemed to suddenly become colorful and complex.

The lines and contours of everything were so clear to his eyes, and his perception became so sharp that he could even hear the faint rustling of Felicille's clothes just a wall away.

This is a feeling that he has never reached, he seems to be able to perceive the existing laws of everything in his eyes, the fine side of everything is displayed in front of his eyes, the colors of the world seem to have been greatly enriched, compared to the world in his eyes now, the world he saw before is simply a monotonous black and white oil painting.

Recovering from the joy of breaking through, he sensed Felihill's footsteps, mimicking her rhythm, and opening the door at the same time as her.

A radiant Rafa looked at Felicille's delicate face, but Felicille seemed to have anticipated his presence, and left for the end of the passage without looking at him.

"Ma'am, would you like to have breakfast together?" Rafa chased after him.

"Not interested. "Felihill was as aloof as ever.

Rafa, who had long expected to be deflated, was not angry, he just looked at her distant back and smiled, in fact, his purpose was just to take a look at her, because after seeing Philicille after the realm was raised, he felt even more that her beauty was so amazing, and her beauty did not show half a flaw because he was able to see through the essence, which really made him deeply impressed.

Just after breakfast, Siphus had already come to report the caravan about it.

It turned out that money is always the greatest motivation for doing good things, and after only one night, the caravan he told was already built.

It was two caravans of a hundred knights and a number of farmers and merchants, dressed as ordinary people, who were carrying the delicate utensils stored in the warehouse onto the wide wagons that had been renovated overnight.

He was afraid that these noble knights would not be willing to be horsemen and guards who were regarded as lowly professions, but the result was that the entire knight order rushed to participate, and after understanding the reason, it turned out that it was because it was too boring to stay in this place all the time, and even had nowhere to spend money, and joining the caravan could not only go to slightly more prosperous towns, but also make a small profit according to the order of the three princes to recruit talents.

After loading a large number of fresh vegetables and utensils from the Philihill workshop, as well as some ironware to be sold by the locals, the caravan of more than three hundred men set out in a mighty manner that morning, and Rafa asked if there was any need to go in such a hurry, but when he heard that the heavy snow might close the road after the winter, he dismissed the idea of delaying the departure.

Standing at the head of the city as the caravan disappeared into the forest at the end of his vision, he began to worry about the lack of manpower in Icefield City again.

The entire Icefield City plus the knights totaled only 800 people, and now there are more than 300 people left at once, and the remaining people who take care of the greenhouse will have to remove more than 200 people, and then remove some old and weak women and children, and there are only more than 200 people who can be mobilized, and among them are the knights in charge of guarding and guarding and the blacksmith who has his own blacksmith shop.

The population is so scarce that you can't do anything you want.

However, although there is a shortage of manpower, he has already thought about the plan, and the first step is to start with the minerals in the mountains to the west, according to Ding Yifan's memory, in order to improve productivity, it is very necessary to create a thing called a "steam engine", and as long as it is related to iron, it must be related to ore.

Just as he was about to order Siphus to begin preparing for the mining of minerals, a puff of smoke from the desolate winter fields to the east caught his attention.

Perhaps it was because he had practiced Star Concealment that his eyesight had improved so much that he could see the situation in the distance clearly before the people around him, Kono and Audrey, had not noticed anything unusual.

It was a group of wolf cavalry on a galloping track, chasing a wounded white horse in front of them, on the white horse was a bloodstained woman, who had nowhere else to go, surrounded by a large blank wasteland, woods and mountain sides were far away from her, and Icefield City was her only lifesaver if she could be rescued.

"Rub!"

The crowd was startled by the sound of Rafa suddenly drawing his sword.

"Order!

Before the crowd could ask anything, he had already given a loud order.

The well-trained knights straightened up as if reflexively and clenched their weapons.

At this time, the smoke and dust in the distance had reached a distance that ordinary people could see, although they still didn't see what the situation was, but according to previous experience, it should be the wolf cavalry attacking, and everyone suddenly became nervous.

While everyone was squinting into the distance, a flash of fire suddenly lit up and went out, and the billowing smoke seemed to suddenly become much smaller.

"Looks pretty good...... But... Should I really save her?"

While most people didn't know exactly what was going on, he could see it clearly.

Her flaxen hair swayed like waves, and her bloodstained face was full of determination and struggle, but it didn't matter, it was a huge fiery red fireball that shot out of her hand, burning the hideous wolf that had leapt behind her to ashes - she was a heretic!

If he saved her, wouldn't he be called the devil who sheltered the witch? But if he didn't, would he just watch her being torn apart by the wolves?

As he pondered, the billowing smoke and dust drew closer, and everyone saw the flames from the girl's hand.

"It's a witch!"

"Heresy has appeared!"

"Kill her!"

Everyone screamed, and all of them drew their iron bows and tried to shoot the witch to death.

It seems that compared to the barbarians in the north, the witch is the number one threat in their hearts.

"Stop!"

In the end, good thoughts prevailed over reason, and he decided to save the witch, and he wanted everyone to understand that it was not necessarily the devil who had power.

With his thump, everyone looked at him in amazement.

With a gloomy face, he sheathed his sword and snatched the bow and arrow from the knight's hand.

Knowing that he had a plan, Audair playfully delivered an arrow box full of arrows.

In the astonished gaze of everyone, he pulled the iron bow that few people can pull to the full.

"Whoosh"

The arrows pierced through the air, and everyone's eyes looked into the distance.

The extremely fast arrow had reached the dust and smoke in the blink of an eye, but it did not kill the witch as everyone expected, but shot through the giant wolf that jumped next to her and was about to bite her, and the sharp arrow shot through the giant wolf's head, pierced deep into the ground after piercing the tail, which shows how terrifying the power of this arrow is.

The witch who was saved at the moment of crisis rode her horse and looked towards the city in amazement.

"I hope you're a good witch, or I'll never be able to save you again. With a silent sigh in his heart, Rafa shot a few more arrows, and the giant wolves behind the witch fell to the ground one after another.

However, even if Rafa's attack was so sharp, those giant wolves were still running wildly with red eyes, as if they had decided that they would not die, and finally they even got closer and closer to Icefield City, as if they were about to storm the city.

At this time, the knights are free to shoot, but their strength is far from Rafa, often it takes more than a dozen arrows to shoot the giant wolf, and at this time there are dozens of wolf cavalry under the city wall, if you want to save the witch, then you have to open the city gate, but if you open the city gate, the crazy wolf cavalry will definitely follow through the city gate into the ice city, once the giant wolf begins to wreak havoc in the city, according to the current manpower in the city, the consequences are unimaginable!

"Open... Still won't open?"

Looking at the witch who was getting closer and closer, Rafa, who frowned, was entangled while shooting arrows, he really wanted to save her, but with such a large number of giant wolves entering the city, could he really bear the consequences like that?

He was in the middle of his trouble, but the witch found a solution.

As she approached the walls, the witch leapt from her horse and began to glide rapidly towards the walls.

Seeing that she was about to crash into the heavy wall, a fierce fire burst out around her, and the scorching heat in her face suffocated everyone's breath, and everyone except Rafa took a step back.

"Boom!"

A huge explosion sounded, everyone was shaken, the city walls trembled, and the light of a huge fireball burst out from the side of the city gate, so dazzling that people couldn't open their eyes during the day.

As the light quickly dimmed, everyone was terrified when they looked out of the city walls.

The wolves that Rafa feared were all reduced to ashes in the flames, but that wasn't surprising.

To everyone's amazement, the thick walls of Ice Plains City, a military fortress used to defend against the northern barbarians, were blown up by the witch!

At this time, the walls of Icefield City were no longer complete walls, and a huge gap was forced, but fortunately, the current Icefield City was understaffed, so there were no knights at the head of that section, so no one was injured.

Seeing the witch's powerful power again, everyone felt an inexplicable shock.

However, when the people at the head of the city looked into the city, the witch was lying on the gravel ground in embarrassment, panting, and it seemed that she was no longer too threatening.

Before Rafa could give the order, the fanatical knights hurried to the ground, and surrounded the witch in the middle, who lay on the ground and struggled to get up, but then fell several times, and finally collapsed weakly on the ground, sobbing with tears in her eyes.

Rafa knew that if she said that she wanted to save her in front of everyone now, it would be tantamount to breaking with the Church, and the consequences would be unimaginable for the knights and Icefield City who still believed in the Church.

But at the last moment, he still showed his prestige as a lord, and when the knights were about to kill the witch with their deaths, he ordered her to be tied up first, temporarily detained, and then disposed of.

"That's all I have for now, and then I'll figure it out. ”

After watching the knights lock her away with chains thicker than the witch's arm, Rafa sighed silently.

He would never believe that this girl was a devil, but looking at the jealous and hateful eyes of the knights around him, he couldn't imagine how many women in this world were innocently killed under the name of "heretic".

"Religion is a really harmful thing sometimes. ”