Far northern part of the Wren Empire, Sadna Province, County Brudley, Sun City.

As the northernmost city of the Empire, Sun City has the longest winter in the entire empire contrary to the meaning of its name, and when the distant imperial capital has just entered the dry and leisurely autumn, Sun City is already covered in snow.

However, under the beautiful silence, there is not the peace and tranquility that winter should have.

"The orcs are coming—"

Somewhere in the territory of Sun City, a bloodstained hunter rushed back to the village, tearing his throat and shouting wildly.

Suddenly, the doors of every house opened, and the villagers who walked out of the house exchanged frightened eyes and expressions with each other, and then quickly turned around and went back to the house, packed up the soft and soft, took care of the elderly, and tried their best to flee to the mountain behind.

For a time, the whole village was in turmoil.

After a while, in the forest in front of the village, a number of tall and strong men rushed out, and when they looked closely, they were all beast warriors with human bodies and beast heads and hideous faces!

"Ou Wu ~~~~" The beast warrior at the front raised a wolf head, roared to the sky, and then waved the thick blade broadsword with a foot nearly two meters long in his hand, pointing in the direction of the village.

Beside him, orc warriors who came out of the forest passed by, whistling and roaring, waving the crude and huge weapons in their hands, charging towards the village like wolves.

Hundreds of orc warriors easily broke through the village's fence to protect the beasts, catching up with the villagers who didn't have time to escape, setting off a bloody storm.

"Don't ...... Don't ......," cried a woman holding a baby in her arms, her legs limp and her knees pleading, only to be cut off in the head by a wolf-headed orc. The werewolf laughed viciously, pulled the crying baby out of the woman's bosom, and bit it down with its eerie fangs......

All the villagers, men, women, and children, who were caught up, suffered the same fate.

In the cold winter, the plains beasts beyond the northern borders of the empire often invade the surrounding human countries, killing and plundering nakedly.

Weak humans are to the strong and fierce beasts, like a lamb to a lion. Humans and orcs will never stop fighting, and both sides are innate enemies for eternity.

On the mountain, the surviving villagers who fled in panic looked back from time to time, everyone's heart was full of horror and coldness, and everyone's eyes shed tears of sadness for their unfortunate relatives and friends. The young and strong men, one by one, gritted their teeth, unable to hold back the angry blood in their chests, but with their strength alone, they could not resist this beast warrior who was born with a strong physique far beyond that of humans.

When the villagers fled to the top of the mountain, they saw a big flag as red as blood under the mountain, hunting in the cold wind, galloping.

"It's the Sun Army!" someone shouted, his tone extremely excited.

The miserable surviving villagers saw the bright and dazzling banner in the snow-white, and when they heard this resounding name, they immediately became excited.

On top of the blood-red flag, there is a black round wheel surrounded by a pattern of raging flames -- "The sky is full of red, the sun is black"! Under the banner, a group of northern men wearing blood-red robes and full of slaughter, holding all kinds of magic staffs, urged the war beasts under their crotches to gallop quickly.

The Guardian Magic Army of Sun City - Sun Army!

At the front of the magician holding the banner of the scorching sun, a young magician with short black hair like a bush of needles and eyes as sharp as a knife, drove the white unicorn war beast under his crotch to the side of the villagers, and asked loudly: "Where is the beast clan!?"

His figure is majestic and iron-clad, like a god descending.

"Right down the hill, our village ......," replied a young girl, tears streaming down her face.

A hint of anger flashed in the young magician's eyes, and he nodded at the girl.

"Mourning...... We're going to kill them all. ”

He withdrew his gaze, and with a clamp of his legs, he urged the war beast under his crotch to gallop away, leaving only a tall back with the badge of the blood-red and black wheel. Dozens of mage subordinates followed him.

The girl watched the young magician leave, and she was stunned for a moment. A villager next to him asked, "Who is that adult?"

"Scorching Sun @ Bright!The second son of Lord Blazing Sun City. ”

......

On the top of the mountain, the placket of the scorching sun was blown by the cold wind, and after seeing the situation under the mountain with a monocular, he raised the purple staff and shouted: "Troops, listen to my orders!"

Then he waved his staff and pointed directly at the hundreds of beasts under the mountain!

"Kill!" The iron-clad northern soldiers did not have the traditional image of a magician at all, and some were just the sky-high evil qi cultivated in the bloody killing.

Dozens of magicians urged the war beasts to rush down from the bottom of the mountain, like a flood rushing, and when they were hundreds of meters away from the beasts under the mountain, they waved their staffs one by one, chanted incantations in their mouths, and cast magic-

"Fallen Gun!"

"Ice and Snow Dance!"

"Tornado Blade Array!"

......

Bursts of gorgeous and dazzling magic bombarded the beasts, coldly harvesting their lives. For a while, only the ghosts cried wolf, and the orcs were struck by magic, breaking their hands and feet...... The damage was severe.

The werewolf warriors led by the "Ouwu ~~~~~" wielded broadswords, led the remnants of the orc warriors to the reactionary counter-charge against the magician army, and sprinted in the magic bombardment on the ice and snow, showing fearlessness and tenacity.

However, how could Zhuo Yang and the others let these simple-minded and well-limbed guys get close? They harnessed the war beasts under their crotches, chanting and shouting to each other, spreading out in a certain formation to maneuver around the orc warriors, keeping a safe distance, and constantly unleashing magical attacks from all angles.

Soon after, the orcs were wounded and killed, and their fighting spirit completely collapsed.

Purple lightning thunders, thunderbolts on sunny days!

After Scorching Sun used a blow of "Thor's Hammer" to defeat the werewolf leader led by him, the rest of the surviving orcs turned and retreated, and were chased and killed by the magicians for a while, and finally only a few dozen people were able to escape back into the forest.

"It's settled here, let's go back to the city. The scorching sun pulled the reins and stopped the war beast.

"Yes, my lord, the villagers who have been victimized......"

"It was our army's fault that we didn't have time to rescue. And he took them back to the city and put them in place. ”

The ice and snow are cold, the cold wind is howling, and the scorching sun city wall that has stood for thousands of years is as majestic as a mountain. On the top of the tower of the city wall, a middle-aged man wearing a blood-red robe and carrying the badge of the blood-sky and dark sun with the same scorching sun stood with his hands crossed, looking at the oncoming wind and snow as if it were nothing, like a towering iron tower.

He is Chongyang's father, Lord Lord of Burning Sun City, Burning Sun @ Bright.

"Father. ”

A young magician with clear eyebrows and quite a Sven - Chongyang's eldest brother, Luo Yang @ Bright walked up the stairs to the top of the building and came to the back of the earl.

"Mother told you to go back. ”

"Hmm......" Count Zhiyang replied lightly, but his figure did not move.

Luo Yang looked at his father's silhouette and smiled slightly.

Usually he always taught Zhuoyang's father a stern lesson, but when Zhuoyang led his troops on patrol for the first time, he came to wait in the wind and snow.

Luo Yang stood in the snow with his father, and after being silent for a while, he spoke again: "Chongyang has a letter." ”

"Oh?" said Count Blazing Sun tilted his head.

"I sent a new potion...... My mother just took it and the effect is even better than before. Luo Yang smiled, "The letter also said a great piece of good news. ”

"What's the news?" the Earl of the Burning Sun was intrigued.

"Hehe, just wait for the scorching sun to come back, let's go home and watch it together. Luo Yang sold it and smiled mysteriously.

The Lord's Mansion of Sun City.

In the large living room, a thick fur carpet is laid on the floor, a fireplace with a warm flame burns on the wall, and a soft glow from the ornate chandelier on the ceiling.

On the armchair beside the fireplace sat a middle-aged woman with a graceful and kind face, and at her hand there was a small shelf bed, on which a lovely little girl of about six or seven years old was sleeping.

The kind woman, with a smile on her lips, was reading a few pieces of paper in her hand repeatedly. It seems that every time I read it, I can see the little son who is thousands of miles away.

"Chongyang ......," the woman muttered, "it's wonderful......

Thinking of the bitter suffering of her youngest son in the past six years, Tinaya, as his mother, couldn't help but cry.

Ambition when he first went to Presland, and frustration and despair when he was deemed to have a magic deficiency...... The expressions of her beloved son slowly appeared in front of Tinaya's eyes.

Tinaya was more pleased with what her son had said in the letter than with the new potion.

Magic defects, there is hope for healing!

"Mom's ......"

The little girl on the shelf bed suddenly woke up, got up, rubbed her eyelids with a pair of small hands, and opened her eyes.

"Mom, why are you crying?"

The little girl was bewildered when she saw her mother weeping at the letter.

"No ......" Tinaya gently wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes and smiled gently at the girl, "Xiao Chen, mom didn't cry...... Mom is happy. ”

Tears can also be shed when you are happy? Xiao Chen didn't understand.

At this moment, the butler in a black dress walked into the room and bowed down to announce, "Madam, the master and the young master are back." ”

Tinaya nodded, got up from her chair, and headed to greet her husband and sons.

Soon, in the living room, the Bright family was gathered.

Earl Zhiyang read Chongyang's letter in silence, his eyes flashed a little fine, and the corners of his mouth gradually floated with gratification.

"What did the third brother say in the letter?" Zhuoyang, who had just returned from the crusade against the beast clan, secretly asked Brother Luoyang beside him.

Luo Yang was about to speak, and Count Zhiyang stuffed the letter into Zhuoyang's hand.

Zhuo Yang read the letter quickly, suddenly his eyes widened, and he cried out in a lost voice: "The third brother's defect can be cured!?"

The letter said that there was hope. Luo Yang said with a smile, "But with the character of the third brother, what he said is hopeful, and he must be eighty or ninety percent sure." ”

"Hmm......" Earl Zhiyang nodded lightly, his expression solemn, "Luo Yang, how are the city's finances now? There is also the cooperation between the new heart-nourishing potion and the Pharmacist Association to go on the market, I heard you say last time, there has been some progress." ”

"Inventory in town...... It's more nervous, and there is no money left in all aspects. In terms of new heart-nourishing agents...... Originally, the Pharmacists Association had promised the first cooperation payment, but I don't know why, and then they used various excuses to push it again and again. Luo Yang replied truthfully.

"Hmm......" Count Burning Sun was silent for a while. He already knew that it would not be so easy to negotiate with those treacherous and greedy ghosts of the Pharmacist Association. This much-needed money in Chongyang is to be freed up by the family.

"Temporarily suspend the current road repair project in the east of the city, and cancel the budget for the new bridge in the west of the city, plus some taxes that will be collected soon...... Count Zhiyang looked at Luo Yang, "If you make it up like this, how much can you have?"

When Luo Yang heard his father's plan, he immediately closed his eyes, made a nervous and precise calculation in his brain, and after a while, he replied: "About six thousand three hundred amethyst coins." ”

"Too little. ”

Earl Zhiyang frowned slightly, "At least 10,000 should be sent to Chongyang." ”

"Yes...... Then I'll do the math. Luo Yang pursed his lips, nodded, and continued to carry out a series of calculations of financial projects in Lieyang City in his mind, including engineering raw materials, labor remuneration, money bank loans, logistics and transportation, and waste recycling...... Racking your brains, your brows are getting tighter and tighter, and you can free up as much liquidity as possible.

Zhuo Yang looked at the letter paper in his hand on the side, his eyes kept flashing, and then he suddenly spoke: "The equipment of the recruits of the Burning Sun Army can be temporarily relieved. ”

"Huh?" Luo Yang opened his eyes and looked at his second brother in surprise.

Zhuoyang smiled: "Anyway, it's a recruit, it doesn't matter if you don't fight this winter, it's a big deal that I will run a few more times and fight a few more battles." In the words, there is a faint sense of pride.

Earl Zhiyang looked at his second son deeply, and was about to say something, but he heard his wife Tinaya next to him speak: "No." ”

"Mother......" Zhuo Yang said, "It's okay, I can bear these responsibilities, the third brother ......"

"No, I can't. Tinaya shook her head insistically, "Anything can be put down, but the Sun Army can't let go." Instead of slowing down the recruits' equipment, why don't you take those pieces of jewelry in my room......"

"Mother!" Luo Yang and Zhuo Yang heard this, their faces changed, and they shouted in unison.

"Mother's things can't be sold, and I'll figure out the money. Luo Yang said.

"I've said it, let me take on the responsibilities of a new recruit this winter, no problem. Burning Sun shouted.

The two brothers disagreed and almost quarreled. In the end, it was the Earl of the Sun who spoke in a deep voice and stopped them.

"Do as your mother said, and ...... Take it up for auction. Earl Burn Sun paused and said, "Anyway, I haven't seen your mother use it a few times after it has been left for so long." If you want it in the future, you can buy a new one. ”

Tinaya looked at her husband with a smile of relief in her eyes. Luo Yang and Zhuo Yang quieted down, one sighed, and the other scratched his scalp. The two exchanged glances helplessly.

From beginning to end, the youngest daughter Chenyang has been blinking and watching from the side. She couldn't understand much when she was young, but the warm atmosphere of caring for each other in this family had already penetrated deeply into her soul.

This is the Bright family. Chongyang cherished a family that was cherished by both generations.

The family made a careful calculation, and mentioned the thousands of crystal coins demanded by Chongyang to 10,000. With such a large amount of money, it is unassuring to send it.

"Zhuoyang, you go to the imperial capital, send the money to Chongyang, and by the way, take a look at his current situation. ”

"Uh, what about my mission this winter......"

"I'll take my place. ”

"Oh...... Huh, Father, you!?"