South Hopland.

Despite the chaos of the previous period, the New Verga Alliance has become more prosperous than it used to be, and after the separation from the Frost Rose, it has also become a place of trade between the two sides, and more ships have come and gone.

The Karitas Chamber of Commerce has gained more seats and benefits within the alliance because it is an advocate of the new alliance, and because of Lorainhill's proposal, the alliance will use more of its income for basic public welfare such as building schools, roads, hospitals, etc.

At first, because of the detailed plan left by Lorain Hill, he basically followed the instructions, but he inevitably encountered some problems in his daily life, and when these problems needed to be solved by himself, he also had to bear his heavy responsibility.

Although the problems of business can be constantly explored and negotiated by themselves, the lack of high-level strength and backbone has made the Karitas Chamber of Commerce slightly less powerful after the departure of Lorain Hill, and the overall strength of the Chamber of Commerce is indeed very strong, but it lacks a person who can control the overall situation and unify it.

Seres is retired in the Southern Isles, although Chelsea is old, but it is not suitable to be a leader, other high-level, the leaders of the three major fleets are away all the year round, and many of the other stewards and workshop executives have also been promoted by Lorain Hill recently, they are all capable people, and they are a little unconvinced by those who are mediocre but old, but they also feel that everyone is similar, why are you standing on my head.

If you really want to discipline this group of talents, only when Lorain Hill is there, can they be convinced.

In this way, on major events, the top management of the Chamber of Commerce had to hold a voting system, and sometimes even asked Chelsea to send a letter to Loren Hill to ask about the final decision.

In the early morning in the harbor, the snow has slowly melted, only a small amount of snow remains on some ropes wrapped around the dock, and one after another sea ships are docked in the harbor, some are unloading, and some are preparing to sail.

At the port, some passengers who are ready to take the boat are lined up, and due to the recent unfairness, they need to verify their identity and register when entering and leaving the port.

"Name?"

In the hut by the harbor, a recorder wearing a warm hat and a pen in his hand, with a stack of forms in front of him, asked, the fire was burning brightly in the room, and there were still many people waiting outside.

"Bard." A young man who was not tall replied that his skin was a little dark, and although he was not very old, he also had a lot of calluses left on his hands after labor, and at first glance he was a person who could endure hardships, although he was ugly.

"Where?" The recorder looked up and asked, on business.

"Ned County of the West Wind." The boy said the somewhat unfamiliar word.

"It's not called the west wind now, it's Clancy, it's a little far to go over there, even if you take a boat to the northern port, you have to pass through the wind-breathed wilderness and some mountains and forests." The recorder asked, suspicious.

"Well, I've got food and money ready." The young man shook off his heavy burden and replied in a simple voice.

"That's not the point I'm talking about, alas, forget it, do you have a certificate of guarantee?"

"Yes." The boy carefully pulled out an envelope from his bosom, and the exquisite envelope seemed to be extremely inconsistent with his shabby clothes.

"Such a baby." The recorder took it and opened it, pulling out the paper, revealing the pattern on it.

"The coat of arms of the Karitas Chamber of Commerce is very powerful, let me see which adult guarantees you........ Luo ..... Miss Lorain Hill. ”

The recorder raised his head in shock, he was here this month to record thousands of people traveling by boat, and it was the first time he had seen this eldest lady's autographed letter of guarantee, this guy looked so poor, how could he have a relationship with that adult?

He was really a little puzzled, but the seal and text on the guarantee letter couldn't be faked, he had worked in the Alliance Guild before, so he naturally knew the truth of this kind of thing very well.

"I can't really see it." He sighed, and then put away his previous casual attitude, concentrated on filling out the form, and then asked Bard if there was anything he needed help with, the north is in chaos now, and it is not safe to go there, do you want to find some big caravans and set off with the team.

Bard said no, he was not worried about his safety, and then took the sign given by the recorder and went to the port to prepare to board the ship.

The port is busy, some ships are unloading, some are loading, some are repairing and inspecting, and some guests are sitting and waiting by the harbor.

The boat that Bard was going to sit on was still loading, and he couldn't board it later, so he found an old pier, wiped off the snow on it, and sat down, anyway, this little moisture didn't wet his thick pants, and he was strong enough not to catch a cold.

"Is it Bard?" At this moment, a voice came from the side, and the boy turned his head to see a young man carrying a long box on his back.

"It's really you, I almost don't recognize you, I'm Lavoisier, the apprentice of the alchemy workshop near the restaurant where you used to work, and I used to eat there."

"It's you." Bard then remembered that the alchemy apprentice was relatively wealthy, and he ordered white bread every time and ate well.

"You resigned later, I haven't seen you for a long time."

"Well, then I went to work in the brewery for a while."

"Well, alas, a lot has happened lately." Lavoisier sighed before asking.

"Are you going back to your hometown?"

"No, I'm going to my friend's hometown."

"Visiting friends, that's pretty good, too. I can't do it anymore, I don't have any friends, and the teacher is no longer here. ”

"If you don't have friends, just spend time with your family, and it's good to spend more time with them." Bud was a little touched.

"But I don't have any family, I was an orphan when I was a child, and I almost starved to death on the side of the street at that time, if it wasn't for my mentor who saved me, I don't think I would be a person."

At this point, he seemed to open up the conversation and continued to pour out some of his recent emotions.

"The mentor treats us apprentices very well, most of us are from bad families, but the mentor rarely makes us suffer, he says that it is not a good thing to endure hardship, and if you eat too much, you will become inferior."

"Then your mentor is very good."

"Not bad....."

Speaking of this, the young man showed a bitter smile, in order for the final experiment to be successful, the mentor used these apprentices as materials to extract souls to transform the golem, just to improve the golem's efficiency and autonomy.

If it weren't for the fact that the Golem had already been completed when it was his turn, I'm afraid he would have died.

"Actually, the mentor's kindness to us is not pure." He paused for a moment before continuing.

"But let me hate him, I can't hate it, after all, he raised me and let me live."

"Forget it, let him go in the past."

The two chatted briefly, but unfortunately Bard didn't talk much, and after a while they boarded the ship.

Lavoisier watched as the deck of the ship he was about to take opened and walked over.

Approaching the deck, a staff member asked.

"What's on your back?"

"This, this is the alchemy creation that my mentor left me." He thought for a moment before replying.

"Can you open it and take a look?"

"Yes." After saying that, Lavoisier opened the long wooden box, and a golden sword was revealed, and the sword body had exquisite magic patterns that allowed it to fly in the air and was extremely sharp.

"You're a weapon, you can't bring it on board."

The staff shook their heads in refusal and looked at him waryly.

"This is really a treasure left to me by my teacher, and I want to take it with me."

Lavoisier was a little distressed, and then kept pleading, but unfortunately the staff would not allow it, and the two of them were deadlocked on the front deck of the ship.

"What's the matter, so long?" A sharp knife-like sound came from the ship.

"I'm sorry, Lord Geerde, but this passenger wants to bring a weapon on board." The staff replied in a panic.

"I'll see." Gerd pressed his sword, stepped off the ship, looked at Lavoisier and the sword, and spoke for a moment.

"Do you still want to carry this thing?" He seems to have something to say.

"Yes." Looking at the big man of the Helis family, Lavoisier nodded.

"Don't you hate?"

"I hate myself even more for being weak, and I can't do a lot of things."

"The creator of this sword has failed, why are you still going down this path and studying something else?"

"Although the mentor failed, it doesn't mean everything, and I think there is some value in it."

"The Guru is too dependent on external objects, and the Lord who defeated the Guru also made me realize that it is better to concentrate on one thing than to be distracted."

"For example?"

"For example, this sword, the only thing that hurt that adult was this golden sword, if only the sword could be faster, sharper, and tougher."

"Is that your philosophy?"

"Yes, as long as my sword is fast and sharp enough, I can ignore those sideways."

"That's right." Jelder seemed to resonate, and then spoke.

"Let him go up."

"Thank you, sir." Lavoisier thanked him happily and boarded the boat.

After the young man boarded the boat, the staff asked carefully.

"My lord, that sword should be the creation of that Rollna alchemist, and with our current relationship with Frost Rose, shouldn't we pay more attention to letting him board the ship.

"It's okay, that's a poor man." Jelder thought back to the information and things that the guild had found in the alchemy workshop, shook his head, said he didn't have to worry, and boarded the ship.

"Set sail, set sail!"

At the sound of the order, the sails of the entire fleet were raised, along with the yellow and green camellia of the Helis family.

They will sail south, transfer supplies to the southern archipelago, and then follow the ocean current, all the way east, to another distant continent in the east, docking at Longquan Bay, where the pro-dragon kingdom that occupies the entire eastern continent, the Plantagenet Dynasty.